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Article: Woody Harrelson: acting on his convictions. (interview with environmental activist and actor)(Interview)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Actor Woody Harrelson isn't one to tread lightly when it comes to environmental issues. Acts of civil disobedience have him awaiting a response from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and facing charges in a Kentucky court. In his 1995 tax return, he withheld money from the IRS and sent them a letter airing his grievances with the government's disregard for the environment in its spending policies and legislation. His concern about deforestation has led him to promote industrial hemp as an alternative fiber source for paper and building materials. With the planting of four French industrial hemp seeds in a Kentucky field, he is challenging the constitutionality of a Kentucky ...
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Article: Actor Woody Harrelson plants hemp seeds to protest ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
June 1, 1996 ;
700+ words
... ... Saturday afternoon. Thus was Woody Harrelson booked in Beattyville Saturday ... McCoy said the next steps in Harrelson's legal fight _ arraignment ... 202-383-6099): 4/2/93 WOODY HARRELSON (c) 1996, Knight-Ridder ...
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