DREAM WORKS AVOIDS ECOLOGIST'S NIGHTMARE.Environmentalists fighting to save Los Angeles' Ballona Wetlands The Ballona Wetlands is located in Southern California, USA adjacent to Marina del Rey and Playa Vista. It is the last significant wetlands area in the Los Angeles basin, and is named for Ballona Creek which runs through the area. can finally watch Saving Private Ryan. For four years, they've been boycotting Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg and his glamorous Dream Works studios which were, until recently, involved in an enormous development project slated for one of the largest remaining natural parcels in the city's metropolitan area ("Dream Jerks," In Brief, May/June 1997). After a coalition of 90 organizations joined to organize pickets, hunger strikes hunger strike, refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or , boycotts, letter-writing campaigns, Town Hall meetings and five lawsuits, Dream Works announced that it would pull out of Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Vista, citing "financial difficulties." While Playa Vista insists that the development will proceed as planned with other tenants, activists are celebrating a major victory. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Marcia Hanscom of the Wetlands Action Network, "Dream Works had served as Playa Vista's anchor tenant, and helped the developers get financial and political support." CONTACT: Wetland Action Network, 29170 Heathercliff Road, Suite 1, Malibu, CA 90265/(310)457-0300. |
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