2 Members of Alliance for Survival Staff Arrested on Hotel Property

Police arrested two staff members of the Alliance for Survival, an anti-nuclear war organization, for trespassing after they stationed themselves near the front doors of the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel Friday afternoon and began handing out leaflets.

Both staff members--Richard Hamel, 26, of Santa Ana and Jacqueline Robinson, 68, of Brea--were released on their own recognizance.

Marion Pack, executive director of the organization, said the purpose of the arrests was to bring into court the issue of whether protesters have a right to circulate leaflets on the hotel property.

The hotel is scheduled to be the site of this year’s Wincon Conference on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and Alliance for Survival plans to stage protests again this year, Pack said.