Beauty and the (oil) beast

Some people can get more attention than others... and when they use that for good reasons, the world can become a better place to live in... a lot better.

Chicago-born actress Daryl Hannah (famous for "Blade Runner", "Splash!" and "Kill Bill", among others) was hoping to meet Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, while adding her voice to a campaign demanding redress for the inhabitants of Ecuador’s Amazon region, which has been blighted by 30 years of oil exploration by Texaco.



Tomorrow, she will attend the opening of a photographic exhibition in Quito, in which the ravages of the past and present are chronicled. She will be accompanied by Q’orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s retelling of the settlement of the Americas, The New World.

This all was not a first for Daryl Hannah. Last year, she climbed a tree and joined Joan Baez in a protest regarding the commercialization of a piece of farm land in Los Angeles.

Thank you for bringing attention to this subject, Ms Hannah.