Disney protesters arrested
Rainforest Action Network
BURBANK, Calif.—Four rain forest activists, some dressed as Disney characters, were arrested at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank today after chaining themselves to the front gates and putting up a banner, police said.
The arrests were made at the studio entrance at 500 S. Buena Vista St. about 7 a.m., with all four booked on suspicion of trespassing, Burbank police Sgt. Sean Kelley said.
They were identified as:
Jennifer Binstock, 29, of San Francisco, Christopher Toomey, 52, of Redondo Beach, Blake Hodges, 26, of Irvine, and Alexia Dickason, 27, of Los Angeles.
There was no immediate comment from Disney officials.
Kelley said a banner was put over a Disney sign, and security guards held the activists for police.
The sign, placed just below "Disney'' on the gate, read: "Disney: Destroying Indonesia's Rainforests.''
The protesters, members of the Rainforest Action Network, were unhappy with Disney's use of paper products in children's books that supposedly come from endangered rain forests in Indonesia, according to the RAN website.
Now I’m not trying to hate on Occupy LA, but after looking at news photos of the recent goings on, I couldn’t help but think of the National Organization for Women—and we all know that NOW was never about the liberation and equal rights of Black women.
All that’s to say, if the center of corporate greed for activists involved in Occupy LA is a closed City Hall on the weekend—then we’re obviously battling two different types of corporate greed and collusion.
More than 1,500 people—mostly students and community residents—attended a forum on the USC campus Tuesday night to voice concern about recent actions by law enforcement officials where African Americans feel they were racially profiled.
The forum followed a sit-in at the Tommy Trojan statue Monday by USC students upset about how police shut down two parties early Sunday, and arrested six students.
Talk of a “Finding Nemo” sequel has been flitting about the Web for a while, but Disney/Pixar made it official on Tuesday.
On its Facebook page, the company announced that the follow-up to their 2003 story will arrive in November 2015, with Andrew Stanton returning to direct.
Called “Finding Dory,” the focus will evidently be on one fish in particular: the humorously forgetful Regal Blue Tang named Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres.
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With most wearing purple shirts and some toting signs, the union workers gathered at Century and Airport boulevards and then marched west on Century toward Sepulveda Boulevard, under the close watch of police and media.
Burbank, Calif., The Walt Disney Co. announced today it has reached a $4.05 billion deal to purchase producer/director George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. production house, including rights to the ``Star Wars'' film franchise, which will continue with a seventh movie slated for release in 2015.
