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Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, JANUARY 17 - JANUARY 23, 2011 VOLUME IV, NO. III
Temple Station Sheriff’s Department Release Three Environmental Protestors on Their Own Recognizance
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MUSD Bans Play – Controversy Continues to Grow About Censorship
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he old saying “The whole world’s a stage” has taken on a whole new life in Monrovia. Even the ACLU is looking into the banning of the play. Arcadia High School Drama Teacher, Steven Volpe, says the decision by Monrovia’s Superintendent of education Linda Wagner to prohibit production of RENT “is Ridiculous”! At 4:50 PM Monrovia High school principal issued the following statement: “As Principal of Monrovia High School, and in response to the controversy Above from left: Cam Stone, Daryl Hannah, Julia Posin, John Qigley and Andrea Bowers react outside the Los Angeles County Temple Station Sheriff’s dept moments after three of the four who were arrested were released. The photo below show actress Daryl Hannah greeting Quigley seconds after he was released. - Photos by Terry Miller
BY TERRY MILLER A very grateful, but tired Julia Posin, 23, was the first woman to emerge from Jail Thursday afternoon at Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple Station. The UCLA Anthropology student, looking cold and hungry was complaining of thirst. Julia said it was a great relief to be out of the jail…”It’s not very nice in there…the food is awful.”… It was the first time this young student was arrested and also her first experience sitting in a tree in an attempt save it from county bulldozers. “It was really scary… not the jail ( although that wasn’t very nice at all…). but the sound of the machines shaking the trees we were sitting in….I thought we were going to fall out” Posin said. Daryl Hannah gave her a hug in the lobby of the Temple Station Sheriff’s department in Temple City after the pa-
perwork was complete for her release. Julia Posin “I don’t have any of my personal belongings, they’re keeping it for evidence,” she said with a confused look on her face. “ I don’t even have my student ID” she added. The next to be released was Andrea Bowers who looked frightened and tired and then, finally, veteran environmentalist John Quigley. All looking a little tired and defeated they were in good spirits. Quigley, who is a fit man of about 50, is no stranger to this form of protest. He once spent 71 days atop an Oak Tree in Santa Clara in a similar effort to the Arcadia protest. He said we were saddened by the outcome as, Daryl Hannah rushed up to hug him seconds after his release. “We missed you up there Daryl!, “ he
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LASD Bomb Squad Called in to Attend to Suspicious Package Outside Bank of America on Foothill
said. Quigley and Hannah spend time together in a similar protest at a Los Angeles Community garden. The fourth tree protestor remained in Jail overnight Thursday due to an outstanding warrant in ad-
dition to the most current charge. He appeared in Alhambra Court Friday morning. Andrea Bowers said that she was really scared for her life and described in vivid detail how the
workers were shaking the tree in which she was sitting. “I thought we were going to fall out.” She added that she was really felt threatened and intimi-
Arcadia Police sealed off a square block on Foothill Blvd Friday morning following a report of a suspicious package found in the parking lot of a branch of Bank of America on Foothill Boulevard. The Arcadia police immediately notified the LA County sheriff’s bomb squad after a report of a backpack being left in the
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