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roject Censored’s co-directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, title their introduction to this year’s edition of State of the Free Press, “A Return to News Normalcy?” drawing a direct parallel between our world today to that of post-World War I America, “When the United States faced another raging pandemic and economic recession,” with other sources of tumult as well: “The United States then had experienced a crackdown on civil liberties and free speech in the form of Espionage and Sedition Acts; racial tensions flared during the Red Summer of 1919 as violence erupted from Chicago to Tulsa; Prohibition was the law of the land; and the first wave of US feminism ended with the passage of the 19th Amendment.” At the time, they noted, “People yearned for a return to ‘normalcy,’ as then–presidential hopeful Warren G. Harding proclaimed.”

But it was not to be. “The desire for simpler times, however, was more a phantom than a reality, as millions of Americans ultimately had to adjust to an ever- and fast-changing world,” including a rapidly changing media landscape — most notably the explosion of radio. And we should expect much the same. Every major change in the media landscape has brought with it the promise of expanded horizons and democratic possibility — the potential for a broader, more inclusive public conversation — only to see [See New Normal, p. 6]

A Veterans Day Story ― Brian Thomas, the man on the bridge p. 3 Civic leaders hail job training partnership with Port of LA p. 5 soundpedro navigating toward new horizons in a post-COVID world p. 11

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A Veterans Day Story —

Brian Thomas, the Man on the Bridge

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

Two days after Veterans Day, the weather was unseasonably warm — reminiscent of summer. I wasn’t planning on doing much besides driving over the Vincent Thomas Bridge to pick up a book. But my trip to Long Beach was stalled. The bridge was closed, reportedly due to a “jumper,” who had climbed up the west tower.

This wouldn’t be the first time this has happened.

At around 10 a.m. I received a text message from one of my longshoreman friends asking, “Why is there no press coverage of this guy on top of the bridge?”

I replied, “Probably because he didn’t jump.

Is he still up there?”

interview with you.”

I laughed, “Really?”

I was flabbergasted, but skeptical. I wondered just what this man’s true intentions were, but was more than willing to help out the Port Police just to get the bridge back open for everyone, not just myself. I was also rather amazed at Cobos’ patience and sincerity with a standoff that by this point had stretched to 36 hours, consuming the resources of the California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department and the Port Police just to negotiate getting Mr. Thomas down from his perch. I wondered if

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this was a normal procedure?

My crew set up its telephoto lens so we’d be able to see him start to descend the large wire cables to solid ground. It seemed to take forever. When he reached the ground, Thomas was put in the bed of a port pickup truck and transported to the Metro Park and Ride adjacent to the Route 47 offramp on Harbor Boulevard with a motorcycle escort. He was then checked for injuries by the fire department’s emergency medical technicians.

Standing there in the parking lot surrounded by police, is this 58-year-old Black man in full Marine dress uniform with a graying beard.

He’s not handcuffed nor wrapped in a straight jacket. He was just casually chatting with the officers. Joking in fact, the officers looked relieved.

I learned this was his third time climbing the bridge. The past two times he climbed the bridge and was detained, he was placed on a 72 hour mental health-hold, then released. This time the Veterans Administration didn’t want to get involved. In fact the police weren’t even going to arrest and book him because he’d just be cited for a misdemeanor trespassing violation and released. According to Cobos, if he were booked into custody he’d be out with the same citation.

“What would be the point?” Cobos said.

The bridge would be back open soon either way.

[See Veteran, p. 5]

I actually wanted to know so I could plan my trip to Long Beach. Well, he was still there. So my next call was to Los Angeles Port Police Captain Dan Cobos.

“It’s a funny thing that you called just now,” Cobos said. “Yes, he’s still up there, and we’re negotiating getting him down. The thing is, we’ve offered him several incentives to come down, but the one thing he’s asking for is to be interviewed by the media and he specifically asked for you!”

“By name?” I replied.

“Yes,” Cobos kind of laughed, thinking I might not take it seriously.

I thought for a moment and considered that I’d never interviewed anyone who wanted to jump off of a bridge.

“Is this guy serious about jumping?” I asked.

“No, he’s a veteran trying to make a statement,” said Cobos, “and he wants it on camera.”

So I rounded up my team and went to see what the drama was all about. I was curious, and this appeared to be an exclusive.

It was past noon when I arrived at the Caltrans parking lot at the south west side of the foot of the bridge. Soon Cobos showed up, too.

“So what’s the deal?” I asked. “ This guy, Brian Thomas, has climbed up on the bridge twice before. He’s an ex-marine and he says he’s been wronged by the Marine Corps.”

“So what does he want?”

“A bucket of hot wings, some Gatorade, a hotel room, a bus ticket back to Peoria, Ill. and an

the assist. The video is packaged up and offered to the three major TV stations in Los Angeles as the Port of LA has been in the news for weeks because of the congestion in the harbors, but no, they’re not interested. And like I told my Longie friend, “If he doesn’t jump they probably won’t be interested in it.”

In the end, he was just another of the lost homeless vets wandering our streets looking for a home. His story differs in details, but not the end result. He climbed the Vincent Thomas Bridge the day after Veterans Day to draw atten-

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Brian Thomas, just after coming down from the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Thomas threatened to jump off the bridge to protest how veterans like himself are treated. Photo by Raphael Richardson

So I interviewed the Marine, Brian Thomas, and listened to his long, sad story of how he was wrongly convicted in a court martial on a theft and minor drug paraphernalia charge. He said he was framed and convicted with false evidence. He explained that over the years, he has attempted to get his name and record cleared multiple times, but no one was willing to help him.

You can view the whole interview here and judge for yourself (https://youtu.be/h_3AOfvvBR0).

Cobos, who is a veteran himself, seems skeptical of his story, but is just relieved that the case ended without further incident and thanked me for

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area Up yo $5,000 Available to Property Owners Who Partner With County

The Los Angeles County Development Authority or LACDA is offering $2,500 to eligible property owners who partner with the county and rent their available units to Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) holders.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has allocated 1,964 EHVs to the LACDA to assist residents most in need, including individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness, at risk of experiencing homelessness, fleeing, or attempting to flee domestic violence or human trafficking, or were recently homeless and for whom providing rental assistance will prevent the family’s homelessness or having high risk of housing instability.

Property owners who have units located in the jurisdictions served by the LACDA, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, or City of Pasadena, are eligible to sign up and receive the following: • Up to $5,000 for a one-time reimbursement for new contract inspection repairs • $2,500 signing bonus for each unit leased to an EHV participant • Reliable monthly payments • Free property listing Details: 626-586-1585 or LACDAincentives@ lacda.org

Deadline Extended For County’s Grant Program For Qualifying Small Businesses The deadline for Qualifying Small Business Tenants or QSBT that have fallen behind on rent to apply for the Small Business Rent Relief Grant Project has been extended to 5 p.m. Nov. 28. The Project will be administered by the Los Angeles County Development Authority. The Small Business Rent Relief Grant Project will provide up to $40,000 to help businesses cover rent that became past due as of March 4, 2020. To be eligible, a QSBT must meet the following criteria: • Have a brick and mortar business located in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County as of June 22, 2019; • Have nine or fewer full-time equivalent employees;

• Be able to demonstrate a gross revenue loss of at least 25% over a 12-month timeframe falling at least in part within the period of Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 Emergency Order that went into effect March 4, 2020.

Details: 626- 210-4500; ndconline.org/lacsbrr/

Threats To Our Coastal Marine Environment

The season of giving is here, and the Department of Public Social Services is encouraging people to consider sponsoring a family as part of the annual holiday Adopt-A-Family Program benefiting low-income families throughout the County of Los Angeles. The deadline to sponsor a family is Dec. 10.

Details: Applications www.lacounty.gov

SPAA Annual Harbor Interfaith Toy Drive

Help make children smile this Christmas. Donate new unwrapped toy at any of SPAAs three [See Announcements, p. 19]

On Nov.19, San Pedro civic leader Joe Gatlin announced a port related job training program in partnership with the Port of Los Angeles. Gatlin, a longtime organizer of Juneteenth celebration in San Pedro and vice president of the San Pedro/ Wilmington chapter of the NAACP, fulfilled a long time desire to build a jobs training program to spread the opportunity of obtaining careers that don’t require a college degree at the Port of Los Angeles.

The timing of the announcement was fully intended to take advantage of the spotlight the port has as a result of the 80 plus ships waiting outside the breakwater to drop off their containers and the Build Back Better bill that President Joe Biden signed.

POLA executive director Gene Seroka spoke with an assortment of educators, civic leaders and CEOs, the majority of whom were from communities of color. Seroka discussed a partnership between them and the port to offer job training during a ferry around the Harbor aboard the Angelina.

Seroka laid out a vision of possibilities and an array of tools that can be deployed to achieve the desired end of opening up port related jobs to disadvantaged Angelenos outside of San Pedro and Wilmington.

“Joe [Gatlin] and I thought we could take advantage of it,” Seroka said, referring to the attention the port is getting as a result of the Build Back Better bill and the cargo ships backed up outside the ports. “Can we sell this port, this community, this Southern Los Angeles enclave, to people who might be interested in coming to work here, coming to invest here, coming to bring Black owned businesses here, whatever the case may be, and more? Because that spotlight is on us, we have a unique chance right now.”

Seroka explained with the education and business folk present on the ferry ride, the best at the port have been assigned to interface with the community members on this jobs training plan, including the port’s deputy executive director of stakeholder engagement, David Libatique, Jessica Bautista, management analyst for the port’s community relations department; and Avin Sharma who is in charge of workforce training and development along with three other volunteer jobs he has at the port. Sharma has worked for the U.S. secretary of labor, Tom Perez, among others in Washington, D.C. “We have Mike Dibernardo, who has been a fixture here in San Pedro for generations,” Seroka said. “These are people that know what’s going on from the port’s perspective; Folks who know what’s going on from community, from business, from education, the blend of these I think it’d be very powerful.”

Seroka noted that the city, through executive order No. 27 from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, has equity and equality built into the city’s hiring system.

“We at the Harbor Department of Los Angeles want to look like the city of Los Angeles,” Seroka said. “We publish once a month our demographics in education, and of who we are and what we do and everything in between and our goal is to look like this great city every day.”

Except executive directive No. 27 was contingent upon the passage of Prop. 16, the ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to repeal

Dr. Cheyenne Bryant and Joe Gatlin, president and vice president of the San Pedro/Wilmington chapter of the NAACP respectively; Jennifer Gatlin, director of programming and development at Spaulding Gatlin and Associates; Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles executive director; and Noel Gould, member of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, were among those who met to discuss the port’s potential job training program. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

Prop. 209, which effectively banned affirmative action in education and contracting in California.

“You want to sit down and talk? If you have ideas, if you want constructive dialogue, I’m always available,” Seroka said. “Joe talked about contracting and how we do get measured every year on how many businesses we contract with that are female-owned, that are minorityowned, that are Black owned and we cut and slice every way we can to give us [as] many an opportunity as possible.”

Seroka referenced the city’s targeted local hiring program in which it is possible to look at the specific zip codes in need in different communities as a work-around.

“The targeted local hiring program has a re-entry [component]. So folks who may have been incarcerated and want to get back into the mainstream and want to work at whatever level, whatever discipline can have that opportunity as well,” Seroka said.

Throughout his comments, Seroka painted a vision of the possibilities while at the same [Veteran, from p. 3]

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tion to his fight to correct a wrong he believes he had suffered — a grievance perhaps too old to be appealed today, but the grievance persists.

So I pack up and my film crew take off and I head back to downtown San Pedro to wait for the bridge to actually reopen. It’s now around 3 p.m. I’m driving along Centre Street just south of the Port Police station when I catch out of the corner of my eye a tall Black man in a Marine uniform and white cap walking along. I pull up and park on Seventh Street and get out to see.

“It’s got to be the same guy,” I thought. “But why is he wandering around town?”

I checked the liquor store. He wasn’t there. I went inside Godmother’s saloon. He’s not there either. So I ask one of the regulars if a guy in a Marine uniform came in.

“Yeah, I think he’s in the bathroom in the back,” was the reply.

time, tempering expectations by keeping the vision in the realm of ideas instead of concrete action plans.

Seroka went on to call the partnership a framework, “but it takes folks like us to figure out how to best implement real life examples into that frame.”

“Maybe the framework has to be massaged or maybe it has to be looked at from a different lens sometimes,” Seroka said. “And that’s why I say, this is a start and this is what we want to convey.

This is not a one-and-done meeting. You want to visit with me, my door’s always open. It’s not always taking advantage of it, but it’s there for you. I serve the public.”

On the civic side of the conversation was Spaulding Gatlin and Associates, founded by Gatlin and the heirs of the sporting goods titan.

Spaulding Gatlin and Associates will serve to connect disadvantaged communities with the training that will allow them to find well paid jobs at the port. Gatlin first introduced William Mendoza, Spaulding, Gatlin and Associates [See Partnership, p. 10]

So I wait.

And sure enough he comes back bellies up to the bar next to me and he orders a Jack Daniel’s and I order tequila on the rocks. I think this is probably the most hilarious ending to the bridge standoff that I could not have ever imagined. So I posted a short Facebook live interview with him drinking at Godmother’s and I wonder if he’ll ever get back to Peoria and if he’ll ever get the help he needs.

He paid for his own drink and then walked back to the police station to get the hotel room they offered him out in West Covina.

“I have a friend out there,” he says before he leaves.

The bridge opened back up at 3:29 p.m. and I took my trip to Long Beach thinking, “what a curious day this has been. And this could have ended in so many tragic ways.”

I don’t think anyone would believe this if I hadn’t recorded it.

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The League of Women Voters of Palos Verdes Peninsula is hosting “Our Fragile Coastal Marine Environment,” an informative webinar on our marine protected areas. The Zoom webinar will be held at 2 p.m. Dec. 4. Presenters are Emily Parker of Heal the Bay and Linda Chilton from the USC Sea Grant Program. They are co-chairs of the LA Marine Protected Areas Collaborative.

They will address important marine conservation issues facing our fragile ocean and coast and discuss the tools California uses to respond to these threats.

The registration link is posted on the League of Women Voters of Palos Verdes Peninsula Facebook page.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/FragileCoastLWV

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1. Prescription Drug Costs Set to Become a Leading Cause of Death for Elderly Americans

prescription drug prices ought to be informed by accurate information about the grim repercussions of continuing the status quo,” Project Censored noted. “Sadly, the corporate media have failed to provide the public with such information for far too long, and the consequences could turn out to be deadly for millions of seniors.”

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“Soaring prescription drug costs have been widely reported by corporate news outlets,” Project Censored notes, but they’ve utterly ignored the staggering resulting cost in human lives. More than 1.1 million seniors enrolled in Medicare programs could die prematurely in the next decade due to unaffordable prescription drugs, according to a November 2020 study reported on by Kenny Stancil for Common Dreams. “As medicines become increasingly expensive, patients skip doses, ration prescriptions, or quit treatment altogether,” Project Censored explained, a phenomenon known as “cost-related nonadherence,” which will become “a leading cause of death in the U.S., ahead of diabetes, influenza, pneumonia, and kidney disease” by 2030, according to the study by the nonprofit West Health Policy Center and Xcenda, the research arm of AmerisourceBergen, a drug distributor. “[E]ven with Medicare insurance, what seniors pay is linked to a drug’s price,” the study explained, which allowed them “to model how cost-related nonadherence would change under policies that would reduce drug prices, such as Medicare negotiation.” The study focused on five medical conditions that “significantly affect seniors and for which effective pharmaceutical treatments are available,” including three types of heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and type B diabetes.“The good news is that policy changes can curb the power of Big Pharma, resulting in far fewer avoidable deaths,” Stancil reported.

“Medicare negotiation is projected to reduce drug prices and seniors’ cost-sharing, which could prevent nearly 94,000 seniors’ deaths annually and save $475.9 billion,” the study stated as one of its key findings. “As a model for policymakers, the study pointed specifically to the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3),” which passed the House in December 2019, but died in the Senate, Project Censored noted. It’s been reintroduced after Joe Biden “declined to include Medicare negotiation in his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan proposal,” they explained. A May 2021 oped in the Hill, co-authored by Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt), cited the studies figures on preventable deaths and explained its basic framework: H.R. 3 would limit the annual out-ofpocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries to no more than $2,000, and would establish a top negotiated price for drugs at no more than 120 percent of the average of six other wealthy nations….

many of the old patterns of division, exclusion and demonization recur in new ways as well as old, as recent revelations about Facebook vividly remind us.

Project Censored isn’t alone in drawing parallels to a century ago, of course. The pandemic above all has expanded journalistic horizons, as a matter of necessity.

To a lesser extent, the threat to American democracy — part of a worldwide trend of democratic backsliding — has done so as well. But though some have expanded their horizons, many more continue as if little or nothing has fundamentally changed. Dayto-day news stories perpetuate the fantasy that normal has already returned. And in one sense they’re right: The normal patterns of exclusion and suppression that Project Censored has been tracking for over 40 years continue to dominate, with even the latest wrinkles fitting into well-established, if evolving, broad patterns that are depressingly familiar.

These patterns are reflected in Project Censored’s top ten list, with two stories each about labor struggles, racism, threats to health, the environment and free speech. Yes, that’s 12 stories, not 10, because some stories fit into more than one pattern — and some readers will surely find more patterns as well.

Several stories this year deal with topics that have gotten widespread attention — but with aspects that have been virtually, or entirely ignored. The number one story, for example, deals with prescription drug costs, a widely covered story, but with a significant difference in focus: how much those costs translate to in lost lives. The number nine story deals with police violence against people of color, but with a new focus that’s actually quite old: vicious police dog attacks. The number four story deals with climate change, again with a different focus: how heavily-industrialized nations like the U.S. “have effectively colonized the global atmospheric commons for the sake of their own industrial growth.”

The point of Project Censored has never been just to expose significant stories that have been ignored, but rather to expose them as portals to a wider landscape of understanding and action. In that spirit, here is our summary of this year’s top five censored stories.

H.R. 3 would support and protect innovation and new drug development by investing some of the expected savings into the world-class research funded through the NIH.

But this op-ed was a rare exception.“The public’s understanding of the debate surrounding H.R. 3 and other proposed 6 legislation designed to control inflation in

2. Journalists Investigating Financial Crimes Threatened by Global Elites Financial crimes of global elites, involving the flow of dirty money through some of the world’s most powerful banks, have made major headlines in recent years, most notably with the Panama Papers in 2016 and the FinSen Files in 2020. But we’d know a great deal more if not for the flood of threats faced by journalists doing this work — a major story that hasn’t been told in America’s corporate media, despite a detailed report from Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), “Unsafe for Scrutiny,” released in November 2020.

The report was based on a survey of 63 investigative journalists from 41 countries, which found that 71% had experienced threats and/ or harassment while doing their investigations, with a large portion of those (73%) experiencing legal threats as well. Its findings were described

by Spencer Woodman in an article for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

“The report found that legal threats are chief among the types of harassment facing journalists conducting financial investigations, and often seek to exploit a skewed balance of power between often-underfunded reporting enterprises and the legal might of attorneys hired by the world’s wealthiest people and corporations,” Woodman wrote. “Focusing on frivolous cases known as ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation,’ or SLAPPs, the report asserts that such actions ‘can create a similar chilling effect on media freedom to more overt violence or attack.’” Legal threats are often communicated via private letters, “and, if successful in achieving their aim, the public will never know,” the report said.

Physical threats and online harassment were also a grave concern, but they were geographically uneven. “While no journalists surveyed in North America reported physical threats, 60% of respondents working in subSaharan Africa, and 50% of respondents from North Africa and the Middle East region reported threats of physical attack,” Woodman noted.

Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta in October 2017, but he added, “The report asserts that an assassination is often not a starting point for those seeking to silence reporters but instead a crime committed after a pattern of escalating threats, noting that Caruana Galizia had faced numerous legal threats and actions and that her family is still fighting 25 lawsuits over her reporting.”

Project Censored noted Galizia’s murder along with that of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak, adding that “According to FPC’s report, an additional 30 reporters from Brazil, Russia, India, Ukraine, Mexico, and other countries who were researching financial

corruption have been murdered since 2017.”

As for legal threats, “Unlike Canada, Australia, and certain US states, the United Kingdom has not passed anti-SLAPP legislation, making its courts an attractive venue for elites seeking to use the law to bully journalists into silence,” Project Censored noted, citing a May 8, 2021, Guardian column by Nick Cohen which described the UK’s court system as “the censorship capital of the democratic world.”

Cohen in turn cited the case of financial reporter Catherine Belton, author of the 2020 book, Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West. “As Cohen explained, in response, a host of Putin’s superwealthy associates are now bombarding Belton with one lawsuit after another,” Project Censored observed.

The silence about this silencing has been deafening, Project Censored noted. There has been some coverage overseas, but “To date, however, no major commercial newspaper or broadcast outlet in the United States has so much as mentioned the FPC’s report.”

3. Historic Wave of Wildcat Strikes for Workers’ Rights After millions of people were designated ‘essential workers’ when the U.S. went into lockdown in March 2020, thousands of wildcat strikes erupted to challenge dangerous working conditions and chronic low wages, exacerbated by refusal to protect against COVID-19 and cutting or sharply increasing the cost of medical insurance, for those who had it. A further strike surge was driven by “Black and Brown workers using digital technologies to organize collective actions as a way to press some of the demands for racial justice raised by Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protestors,” Project Censored noted. The nation’s fourth busiest port, Charleston, S.C., shut down during George Floyd’s funeral on June 9, for example.

At the labor news website Payday Report, Mike Elk created a continuously updated COVID-19 Strike Wave Interactive Map, which had identified “1,100 wildcat strikes as of March 24, 2021, many of which the corporate media have chosen to ignore,” according to Project Censored, including “more than 600 strikes or work stoppages by workers in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,” in June 2020 alone, according to Elk. “While local and regional newspapers and broadcast news outlets have reported on particular local actions, corporate news coverage has failed to report the strike wave as a wave, at no time connecting the dots of all the individual, seemingly isolated work stoppages and walkouts to create a picture of the overarching trend,” Project Censored reported.

The sole exception where there was national coverage was in August 2020 when highly-paid baseball and basketball pro athletes walked out in violation of their contracts to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake by Wisconsin police.

The coverage ended quickly once they returned [See Projct Censored, p. 16]

Turkey Grab & Go in Carson

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On Nov. 20, hundreds of families collected food boxes at El Fresco Farms, a grocery store in Carson.

The Thanksgiving packages had frozen turkeys and other uncooked food items in their boxes. People either picked up a box in their vehicles via a drive through system or stood in line.

Sponsors for the event included IBEW Local 11, Mayor Pro tem Jim Dear, LA Regional Food Bank, Port of Long Beach, Watson Land Company, E.R.B. FoundationShipper Transport Express and El Fresco Farms.

The flier advertising the event listed Carson’s newest councilmember, Arleen Rojas, as presenting the turkey giveaway.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is conducting a Grab and Go food giveaway over multiple days. Last year, LAUSD gave away 80 million meals and 1.5 million meals in a single day.

The meals had sliced turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans. Meatless meals are

available for students and families who request them in advance.

Dates and Hours of Operation: From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Dec. 20, Dec. 27 and Jan. 3, 2022.

Locations: Banning Senior High School, 1527 Lakme Ave., Wilmington 90744 Curtiss Middle School, 1254 E. Helmick St., Carson Dana Middle School, 1501 S. Cabrillo Ave., San Pedro Narbonne Senior High School, 24300 S. Western Ave., Harbor City 90710 Peary Middle School, 1415 W. Gardena Blvd., Gardena 90247 Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School, 4110 Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles 90810 White Middle School, 22102 S. Figueroa St., Carson 90745

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‘Tis the Season to Pay Attention to this Crisis

Ports are more concerned with commerce than pollution

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

CD15 Councilman Joe Buscaino who was appointed to the AQMD by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

The Earthjustice group has included Buscaino in the “fossil fuel four” who are on the SCAQMD board. He has been called out as one of them for his failure to vote for regulations on our oil refineries and as I’ve discovered, he’s taking campaign contributions from the same industries.

Do note that we have more refineries in this Harbor Area than anywhere else in California. It has been some 20 years since the landmark case against China Shipping and it still hasn’t been fully resolved and the funds completely accounted for. I’m feeling it’s time once again, to join forces to demand action and not platitudes from the ports and the SCAQMD. On Nov. 3, a virtual town hall meeting was held to bring to light the impacts on our communities once again to make people aware, preparing them to act on climate change solutions here and now, not at some future date.

Inflation and pollution connection

Oddly enough, when the conservatives blame the Joe Biden administration for the rising prices of gasoline and the corporate media dutifully reports on the circus that ensues, no one ever questions the inflated prices of the supply chain nor the integrity of the oil companies and whether they are gaming the market. The hysteria surrounding the reporting on rising gas prices by the corporate media presumes the supply and demand function is at work and that consumers­ like “you” don’t understand. This negates anyone from looking closely at the shipping and oil companies or the railroads’ failures to plan while making historic profits from the pandemic surge in consumer spending.

Container cargo counted in 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) went from $1,200 sometime last year to over $20,000 this year. According to one source, the largest shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk earned more in the first quarter of 2021 than it did in all of 2020. I’m sure that the railroad corporations and other shipping lines are doing the same.

In a rare 60 Minutes report from Nov. 14, correspondent Bill Whitaker, says, “You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout—or maybe you should. Millions of dollars’ worth of holiday presents and other goods Americans have ordered are stuck on giant container

ships, waiting for a space to unload at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Call it a case of Freight Expectations.”

Whitaker gets close to the real cause as he interviews Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, a technology company that buys and sells cargo space who responds to a question with, “Yeah, this is inflation first-hand.”

And then he interviews a Chicago importer Bobby Djavaheri, “I call them pirates of the sea.

They’re 100% price gouging and no one’s done anything about it.”

Bill Whitaker asks, “It’s not just market forces?”

Djavaher: “No, no— I really don’t buy it. It’s price-gouging and it’s someone taking advantage.”

The same is quite possibly true with oil cor-

porations which, “Under normal conditions, California refineries produce enough gasoline to meet demand inside the state.” And also “California refineries export gasoline,” According to California Energy Commission. The report goes on to say, “When needed, the state typically imports gasoline via marine shipments, which usually take three to four weeks to deliver. The state’s prices must rise to secure these international imports via marine vessels to cover the additional delivery costs.”

Again, the unregulated shipping costs are to blame and with more shipping comes more air pollution. Not only are you paying at the pump and at the stores this season but also with the air you breathe.

This is the season for our ports to address pollution before profits.

LA has Big Problems

That’s why we need big Ideas — like reimagining city government

By Mike Feuer, Candidate for Los Angeles Mayor Governance in Los Angeles isn’t working.

Homelessness is pervasive. Residents feel unsafe. Neighborhoods feel neglected. Inequality diminishes all of us. Sure, the pandemic intensified these issues. But it didn’t create them. Given the challenges we face and the lack of effective municipal action to address them, some question whether LA is governable at all.

These problems have festered for many reasons, but one is the structure of city government itself. Too few govern too many, making elected leaders less responsive, less diverse, more insular and less accountable than they should be.

It’s time for the first major structural reform

in LA in a generation. It’s time to cut the size of city council districts in half, reduce the length of time members may serve and do so in a costneutral way by cutting their $223,829 salaries by fifty percent. Add an independent redistricting commission that isn’t chosen by the elected officials whose political futures they will determine, and we’d make real progress.

Los Angeles’s government was designed nearly a century ago, when our city was 25% of its current size. That Los Angeles was much more compact and homogenous. Council members represented 50,000 residents. Today, each [See Reimagine, p. 9]

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Until recently, every time you turn around something seems to be in “crisis.” And yet for the past year every report from both ports showed a steady increase in container throughput heralding historic levels of cargo and commerce at the San Pedro Bay ports. Just last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with John Porcari, the White House port envoy to survey the supply chain crisis. They never once noticed, until it was impossible to ignore, that the number of ships waiting outside the breakwater were three or four times as many unloading at berths. And then suddenly after an oil spill, everyone’s worried about getting the kids’ Christmas presents on time!

Nary a word was spoken about the increase in air pollution caused by these cargo ships waiting outside, nor the impacts on the children suffering from asthma while they are waiting for those presents. Yes, profits from the import supply chain trump public health every time. Of course frequent readers of this publication know that we’ve not been silent on this matter and yet over the past 20 years, both ports have been dragging their feet on adopting zero emissions solutions even as they move methodically on automation.

The Port of Los Angeles finally approved a clean truck rate of $10 per container that might be used to incentivize natural gas trucks, and delayed implementation until April 2022. Yet, because of the congestion “crisis,” they acted immediately to place a $100 “dwell fee” on cargo containers that were not picked up quickly. Clearly, this shows that the ports are more concerned about profits for their clients than they are about the health of the surrounding communities. The ports have even delayed the imposition of the dwell fee as just the mention of that charge has motivated the shipping and trucking corporations to move more quickly to unclog the ports by a reported 32% in just nine days. Imagine how fast the shipping companies would react if the $100 fee were a pollution fee?

Clearly the Southern California Air Quality Management District who can regulate these port emissions has been derelict to do so. Rather they have spent the last few years ``negotiating” with the ports, not enforcing meaningful regulations. And when you ask why? You need look no further than our own

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RANDOMLetters Save Walker’s Café

Several weeks ago, Walker’s Café in San Pedro suddenly closed its doors. Concerned about the future of this longtime San Pedro stronghold, I began investigating its history and whether there was any way to ensure its survival. While there is a way for the City Council to save it, without the support of the community and those who have enjoyed the café over the years, I suspect that Walker’s as we know it could be lost.

When I first heard the news, I was heartbroken. It didn’t take me long after first moving to San Pedro to recognize how special Walker’s is. It is a genuine, unpretentious, homey space where people from all walks of life—longshoremen and fishermen, hikers, bikers, e-cyclists, firemen, even soldiers stationed at Fort MacArthur—can come together. Walker’s is truly a place where strangers can talk as friends and neighbors—a rare thing these days.

I was amazed to find that Walker’s has been playing this role in the community for generations, with origins going back to the 1930s, making Walker’s Café one of the oldest restaurants in San Pedro. As I’ve come to learn, people of all ages remember going there as children and its founder, Bessie Mae Petersen, is a beloved

figure. People have told me how she never let anyone go hungry and how that loving spirit lives on in the café. It’s in the murals inside, which were done by a homeless merchant marine who Bessie allowed to stay there for months so he could get back on his feet; it’s in the sense of community anyone can find there, and it’s in the warmth that has been kept alive by those who have served beers and ‘Bessie Burgers’ to customers throughout the many decades since it opened. Losing Walker’s now seems unimaginable to me.

The best way to protect the history, culture and spirit of Walker’s is for it to receive landmark status. This would pave the way for the business to continue to operate as it has been, serving the community and visitors for generations to come. For this to happen, Walker’s will need the support of the community and City Council. Councilman Buscaino has supported landmark status for other locations in the area, and I’ve reached out to his office to see if he can do so again.

For those in the community who want to help save Walker’s, please go to https://www.change. org/p/save-walker-s-cafe and sign the petition or contact Joe Buscaino at councilmember.buscaino@ lacity.org. Finally, for anyone willing to share their precious

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Not a Crime

(Re: At Length Editorial, RLN Nov. 11-24, 2021) It’s a waste of money for the signs, because they won’t enforce it anyway. Two million is a lot of money that could lease portable toilets on city owned/ port owned, county and state vacant land and lots. Instead of tiny homes, they could supply an army’s worth of big tents with bed cots in each tent that could legally meet a bed count in Judge Carter’s eyes for the homeless people who choose not to go into temporary housing.

James Campeau San Pedro

Jobs Act Victory

The new Infrastructure and Jobs Act is a victory for the people of California’s 44th Congressional District because it devotes significant resources to our community, cleaning up Superfund sites, replacing lead pipes, improving mass transit, and expanding broadband access to close the digital divide in low-income and communities of color. It includes money to improve our ports by addressing supply chain issues that are causing backlogs of ships and trucks

Community Alert Pier B Rail Facility Project Meeting Set for Dec. 1 The Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility project team will update the public on the status of the Port of Long Beach project during a virtual community meeting at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 1.

The planned Pier B OnDock Rail Support Facility is the centerpiece of the Port of Long Beach’s $1 billion rail capital improvement program.

It will shift more cargo to “ondock rail,” where containers are taken to and from marine terminals by trains. Moving cargo by on-dock rail is cleaner and more efficient, as it reduces truck traffic.

Register at www.polb.webex.com/webappng/sites/ polb/meeting/rail-facilityprojrct You can join this virtual meeting from a computer, phone and other mobile device. A recording of the meeting will be posted at www.polb. com/PierB for those unable to participate. Requests for translation must be received

by Nov. 29. Call Veronica Quezada at 562-283-7722 for translation or assistance registering for the event.

Details: https://polb.com/ port-info/projects/#pier-b-ondock-support-facility

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communities of color, or the health of our planet behind.

Today we celebrate the historic investments that were signed into law by the President – the largest investments in our nation’s infrastructure since the 1950’s.

This is a big deal. Tomorrow, we get right back to work on delivering for the people. I look forward to delivering on President Biden’s entire agenda and voting for the Build Back Better Act when it comes to the floor.

Rep. Nanette Barragán 44th District, San Pedro

lems. And who needs them, I thought, when we have elections?

While I still hold that view when it comes to members of Congress (whose elections are held every two years, allowing for more frequent turnover if the representative fails), when it comes to local elections my thinking can be summarized in one word: urgency. I don’t see nearly enough of it in City Hall, especially when it comes to the issues that count the most. Eight total years — the same two-term limit that applies to citywide elected officials — are quite enough to make one’s mark. We should reverse the gift of any extra term that council members persuaded the electorate to bestow on them.

An independent redistricting commission is an important element. As we’ve seen at the state level where this model is followed, with independence comes less interest in issues that have little to do with what matters to voters, like where the incumbent might live.

Similar proposals to these have failed because politicians and lobbyists fought to protect their power base and led voters to believe that change would increase the cost of city government. That’s why I propose a revenue-neutral approach that cuts the size of an individual council member’s salary, perks, staff, and discretionary budget. Representatives of more intimate districts will focus their resources on giving taxpayers maximum bang for the buck.

The bottom line is this: We need to increase focus, responsiveness, accountability and diversity in city government. Our current structure is holding us back.

Let’s decrease the size of council districts and bring government closer to the people it serves.

that add to the pollution plaguing our port communities. These long overdue investments will have a positive impact on the lives of people in my district and throughout Los Angeles County.

We have much more to do to fully meet our promise to the American people. Congress still must vote to pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, which makes generational investments in fighting the climate crisis, building affordable housing, expanding home care, and more. We cannot leave workers, seniors, women,

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member represents more than 260,000 — more than the entire populations of Buffalo, Boise or Baton Rouge. Times have changed dramatically and so must City Hall.

The benefits of this restructuring will be immediate and sweeping. By cutting council districts in half, council members will be much closer to the communities they serve and know those communities more intimately. Residents will compete less for their elected representative’s time. This proposal will improve the quality of our lives by empowering neighborhoods and giving them council members who respond rapidly to their concerns over everything from homelessness to public safety to traffic gridlock.

It would be much harder for members to evade accountability to the residents they serve.

Communities of mutual interest will more likely hold together. No more creating ill-formed districts by jamming together Eagle Rock and downtown’s Historic Core, or Westchester and Pacific Palisades. City leadership will likely become much more diverse, as neighborhoods like Koreatown, which have long sought more direct representation, achieve it.

New York has fifty council members. Ask any New Yorker if they would be willing to share a representative with double the number of constituents, pay them twice what they are currently making, add free cars and give them an extra term for good measure. You probably couldn’t print the response in this newspaper.

As for that extra term council members got a few years ago: My initial reaction to term limits was that they intensify short-term decision making and diminish the deep pool of knowledge too often required to tackle tough municipal prob-

memories or photos of Walker’s, please email: savewalkerscafe@ gmail.com Emma Rault San Pedro

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director of operations, who has a background in workforce development.

“The goal is to reintroduce the ports to San Pedro and then as someone who grew up here, I really want to help reintroduce San Pedro to the rest of LA County,” Mendoza said.

Jennifer Gatlin is director of programming and development at Spaulding Gatlin and Associates.

Her background includes managerial and training development, curriculum development and workforce instruction.

She said her role at Spaulding, Gatlin and Associates is to help facilitate and oversee the training programs in partnership with many of the business leaders who were present, which included ACTI founder and president, Ruben Garcia, the president and CEO of the University of West Los Angeles law school, Robert Brown and others.

“We will ensure equity in hiring and equity in hiring means generational equity,” the younger Gatlin said.

She referenced her family’s civic involvement in San Pedro and activism on the waterfront, including the National Labor Relations lawsuit that led to the Phillips-Gatlin agreement that allowed the admission of African Americans and others who were barred from joining the ILWU due to the requirement that applicants be sponsored by existing members.

“Sixty years ago, my grandfather, John Gatlin, was fighting for equity and fighting for fairness on hiring for this port,” she said. “And I’m so proud to be a part of my family’s legacy and following in my father’s footsteps. We’re fighting for this country following in my family’s legacy for supporting this community.”

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She concluded her remarks expressing her excitement and hope in collaborating with the attendees present on this job training initiative.

Dr. Cheyenne Bryant, the president of the San Pedro/Wilmington chapter of the NAACP spoke on the future collaborations of Spaulding Gatlin and Associates and the heads of industry in attendance, including the president and CEO of the University of West Los Angeles who was in attendance. UWLA will be partnering with Spaulding Gatlin and Associates to provide online courses and training for those port related jobs.

“When it comes to online courses and online training a lot of the positions that will be available are going to [require] training and they’re going to be online courses,” Dr. Bryant said. “A lot of folks who are [going to be applying for those] positions are underprivileged and are low income. They don’t have the transportation. They don’t have the time to be sitting in a classroom.”

Bryant discussed the importance of specifically reaching out to the Black community with these jobs training programs.

“We know there’s a lot of disparities in this community and I think what makes it really awesome is that we’re doing this ... predominately for the Black community,” Dr. Bryant said. “The reason why it’s important to say that is because oftentimes we say minority communities, a lot of those jobs and those resources seep between the cracks and crevices to other minorities, which we want to help, but right now we have to be able to help the Black community, which is suffering.”

Everyone left the ferry feeling good about the announcement. The biggest unanswered question was, “When will it begin?”

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n 2013, after a phenomenal 10-year run of transforming Long Beach’s East Village Arts District into an annual, one-night-only indoor/outdoor gallery of multisensory installations, curating collective FLOOD felt the event known as SoundWalk had run its course.

But four years later, FLOOD reimagined/reincarnated SoundWalk for an entirely new space. Drawing almost a thousand people in its June 2017 launch and increasingly more over its two subsequent iterations, a new tradition, soundpedro, took hold on the grounds of Angels Gate Culture Center, the 36 lofty, arts-centered acres that crown the town that gave the event its name.

Of course, for reasons we’ve come to understand too well, soundpedro2020 — as originally intended — was a no-go.

But like all of the most flexible arts organizations during the pandemic, FLOOD quickly pivoted toward the virtual.

“When COVID lockdowns hit, it was kinda like landing on Gilligan’s Island,” says FLOOD’s Marco Schindelmann (who adds a parenthetical here: (FYI, The Minnow pulled out of Long Beach Marina)). “We had a choice: wait for rescue, or build huts.”

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A performer from soundpedro. Photo courtesy of soundpedro, graphic by Brenda López

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The result was “soundpedro2020schizophonia : Virtual Breakout During the Outbreak,” where FLOOD invited artists “to reimagine their onsite installation into either a virtual experience or as a virtual performance sample.” Ultimately, nearly 150 works — ranging from live-streamed performances to “Earmaginations” (a collection of silent videos that address aurality in one way or another) to sound poetry (think dada) — “sounded out” in one way or another from June 6, through Nov. 27, 2020.

Despite lamenting not being able to hold the onsite event, FLOOD found a silver lining the forced adaptation.

“Here should be everywhere,” Schindelmann reflects, “and company should include everyone. As a result of reaching out for alternative programming during a time when everyone was retreating in, soundpedro maybe came a little closer to keeping company with everyone, everywhere.” soundpedro2021 has generally followed the same formula, though with the addition of nice Artist Curated Events (ACE) ranging from Corona in Verona, Vincenzo Bellini’s Romeo & Juliet opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered as “a mashup of flash manifestos, soundscapes (incorporating Futurist intonarumori), [and] abstracted video-imaginings […] that reenvisions love as a feeling or a deep sound of interconnectedness pervading the universe,” to satellite in-person events such as Caught in a Wormhole, an audiovisual gallery installation featuring a hand-woven sculpture of silver cotton and stripped space blankets that interacted with its surroundings. Intended to “evoke conversations of climate change, the border wall and space travel, […] video projections play upon the weaving, while the harmonics of the droning sound will play about the modified space and the fluttering and rustling weaving.”

The addition of satellite events to soundpedro programming means that people who might not be able to come out to Angels Gate — whether because of COVID, mobility issues, schedule conflict, or any other reason — can still enjoy an in-person soundpedro experience.

As Schindelmann says, “Off-site or satellite events that have the advantage of interacting with local communities and accidental audiences, who might not otherwise attend the Angels Gate onsite event.” soundpedro2021 wraps up this month with the addition of two events. UnS ightly includes both “a juried selection of sound poems, from classic recitation to speecherly encryption” (premiering Nov. 18).

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Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft COPACETIC

Gallery 478

EX•CERPT: OVER 60 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery 478 presents a survey of artistselected works by Ray Carofano from the 1960s to the present.

Inspired and emboldened, like so many of his generation, by the raw documentary imagery of Robert Frank’s Americans and the unflinching images of sub and countercultures by Danny Lyon, Carofano began his photographic odyssey in the early 1960s.

Above, vessels by Phoebe Barnum; right, installation by Lowell Nickel.

Copacetic: “It’s all good.” Michael Stearns Studio presents works

by Lowell Nickel and Phoebe Barnum. Their mixed media works investigate the fashioning of our own human footprint as artifact.

Runs through Dec. 18.

Details: www.michaelstearnsstudio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

Gallery 347

BENEFIT ARTSHOW AND SALE FOR OYHFS

362 W. 6th St. San Pedro 90731 310-935-2886

koryuramen.com Koi Ramen

Palos Verdes Art Center THE WINTER SHOW

The Winter Show is a juried all-media online exhibition hosted by Palos Verdes Art Center open only to all Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) members. Not a member yet? You can join Palos Verdes Art Center at pvartcenter.org. The show was juried by Scarlet Cheng, an arts writer and college adjunct professor. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, and Artillery art magazine, and has been published in ARTnews, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Vogue, and many other publications.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon.- Fri., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat. through Jan. 8, 2022 Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvac.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

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Details: 310-347-7969; www.carofano.com Venue: Gallery 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Time: Dec. 2, 5 to 8 p.m. and Dec. 4 Details: www.meganmickaelphotography.com Venue: Gallery 347, 347 W. 6th St., San Pedro.

ex•cerpt runs Dec. 2 through January, 2022

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Studio 347 is hosting a benefit art show to raise money and awareness for youth nonprofit, Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services. OYHFS provides short-term t h e r a p e u t i c p ro grams and trauma informed care for foster children ranging in age 12 to 21 years. The show at Studio 347 will feature various artists who have donated their work along with ceramic art made by the children from the OYHFS community.

Everything will be for sale Dec. 2 to Dec. 4.

All of the proceeds to OYHFS with the ceramic sales benefitting the youth artists directly.

From gritty street scenes shot on early morning Manhattan Bretagne, France sidewalks to the California deserts of Broken Dreams and Slab Dwellers, his documentaries on the present as past in the deserts of exurban Los Angeles, to riverrun, the polychrome portfolio on the Los Angeles River, his work has evolved according to his intense curiosity. Carofano describes his work, “As often happens, the subject chooses the artist.”

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hen we talk of culture we think of literature, painting or sculpture, but a cuisine is also a form of culture and in the case of Mexican cuisine, it is the only cuisine in the world recognized by UNESCO as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity.

You may wonder what it is about this cuisine that is so unique to receive such distinction. Simply stated, Mexican cuisine changed the way people eat in the world.

In México we used for the first time corn, tomatoes, cacao, vanilla and many other products that are now part of every cuisine and diet. Most remarkably, Mexican cuisine has remained consistent throughout thousands of years. The molcajete we use today to prepare salsas is the same that was used by the Aztecs.

Moctezuma, the Aztec emperor, had a vast network of couriers bringing him goods from all over the country; he had ice from the high mountains, fresh fish from the coasts and so many different kinds of birds that he established his own aviary. Chroniclers describe how every day they prepared over 80 different dishes for him.

This rich culinary diversity was enjoyed also by the population at large, as can be seen in the famous markets or tianguis. Diego Rivera once painted in a mural in the National Palace of Mexico City what he imagined were the great pre-Hispanic markets that offered goods from all over the country. When the Spaniards first saw this, they were amazed because there was nothing comparable in Europe.

The Spaniards arrived in the New World in search of gold. Little did they imagine that the true riches would not be under the ground,

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Mexican Cuisine:

From Cure For World Hunger to Cultural Patrimony of Humanity

By Gregorio Luke, Historian of Mexican and Latin American Art and Culture

Gregorio Luke lectures in front of Diego Rivera’s Sugar Cane. Photo courtesy of GregorioLuke.com

but would grow on it. See this presentation on Luke’s website. It will take you on a culinary journey from the ancient times of the Aztecs and the Mayans, to the colonial period and from

Mexico’s turbulent 19th century to the present.

The basic product upon which the entire cuisine is built is corn, or like we call it, maize.

According to ancient Mexicans, corn was a gift of the Gods. The Mayans believed that man himself was made of corn.

Corn does not grow spontaneously in nature; it requires the hand of people. It took thousands of years to develop the corn that we know today.

From the corn, ancient Mexicans derived all kinds of meals. Absolutely nothing was wasted; even the husks were used as a wrapping device or the cobs as caps for gourds.

Corn was eaten as a liquid in atoles or in a solid form, like the tamales. But there is much more, for example from the hair of the corn,

Mexicans prepare a tea that is an excellent diuretic. Even the fungus that grows on corn (huitlacoche) is eaten as a delicacy.

There are many ways of using corn, but perhaps the most famous is the tortilla. It has been said that tortillas are simultaneously table cloth, napkin, dish, spoon, base and condiment for other foods.

With the tortilla we prepare the delicious taco. It is perfect in its simplicity and beauty.

The taco offers endless culinary possibilities.

As important as the corn is the chile. The chile is the spice of life, but it also has many nutritional values and the highest concentration of vitamins of any food. Chiles are also the best antioxidants that exist.

The chile is the basis for the salsas. And México has some of the best salsas (sauces) of any country. Each salsa adds not only flavor but also texture to the cuisine. Another staple food in México are the frijoles or beans, and there is a great variety of these.

You can appreciate the health value of all these products by realizing that when the Europeans came to the Americas, the people in this continent had none of the sicknesses that were ravaging Europe. One of the reasons that the American Indian population was so decimated is that they had no defenses, because they had never experienced illnesses, such as smallpox, that were introduced by the Europeans.

Another characteristic of Mexican cuisine is its creativity. It offers a new definition of what is edible. For example, there were few animals that were domesticated in ancient México, among them the turkey or guajolote. So Mexicans had to find other sources of protein.

Some of these sources were insects. We think of insects as dirty or inedible. But, these ideas are unfounded: Why would a pig be cleaner than a cricket? Many of these insects, such as the maguey worms, are still eaten today. In the same area where you can have a couple of cows you could grow millions of insects. We could effectively end hunger in the world.

Details: www.gregorioluke.com/lectures

MUSIC Nov. 24

FriendsGiving Celebrate FriendsGiving with Latin Jazz Vinyl with DJ Alejandro, drink specials and giveaways.

Reservations are recommended.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 24 Cost: Free Details: 562-612-0411 Venue: District Wine, 144 Linden Ave., Long Beach,

Nov. 27

Sevilla Long Beach DJ Lezlee Party on Saturday night with DJ Lezlee at Sevilla, a nightclub in downtown Long Beach. For 21 and over. Reservations recommended.

Time: 9:30 p.m. Nov. 27 Cost: Free Details: 562-243-3015 Venue: Sevilla, 140 Pine Ave., Long Beach

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First Fridays at First Presents Mark Herman Mark Herman was named Organist of the Year in 2012 by the American Theater Organ Society and has been featured on American Public Media’s Pipe Dreams programs.

Time: 12:15 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/classical crossroads Venue: Online Handel’s Messiah Light up your holidays with Handel’s Messiah, featuring professional soloists and Musica Angelica. An annual tradition for 14 years, this performance is the perfect way to bring family and friends together.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $40 to $65 Details: www.longbeachcamerata singers.org/event/messiah Venue: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

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Dec. 2

Picturing Mexican America A conversation between UCLA professor of English and Chicana/o Studies Marissa Lopez and special collections manager at the Los Angeles Public Library Ani Boyadijian about Picturing Mexican America, a project that looks back at the history of Mexican Los Angeles to help Angelenos understand the region’s present and undo the systematic erasure of Los Angeles’ rich Mexican past. The project was launched in 2018 by Lopez, who worked with a research team at UCLA Library and Digital Humanities, and with Los Angeles Public Library. The project is developing a mobile app, walking and bicycle tours and an accessible archive of images, stories and videos.

Time: 7 p.m. Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: CAP UCLA Online channel online.cap.ucla.edu Venue: Online

Dec. 3

The Shop Around the Corner, A Live Radio Play Set in a 1930s European perfume shop in Budapest, Hungary, we meet shop clerks Amalia and Georg, who, more often than not, don’t see eye to eye. After both respond to a “lonely hearts” advertisement in the newspaper (the 1930s equivalent of a dating app), they now live for the love letters that they exchange, but the identity of their admirers remains unknown.

Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 3, 4, 10, 11 and 3 p.m. Dec. 5, 12 Cost: $10 to $15 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ tf7tu8cf Venue: El Camino College Center for the Arts, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd.,Torrance

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blue/s reception at the El Segundo Public Library Join a celebratory reception in honor of Jihaari Terry’s “Next gas 100 miles” at El Segundo Public Library on Dec. 1, with curatorial and artistic remarks by Essence Harden and Jihaari Terry.

Time: 6 to 7 p.m. Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: 310-524-2722 Venue: El Segundo Library, 111 W. Mariposa Ave., El Segundo Wabi Sabi Wabi sabi is the Japanese view and philosophy of finding beauty in every aspect of imperfection in nature, and in things that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. This is our celebration of wabi sabi as seen through the eyes of our artists. We invite you to find the beauty in our natural world as we take you on this journey. The exhibition runs Dec. 1, through Jan. 10.

Time: 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 1 reception Cost: Free Details: www.pvld.org Venue: Malaga Cove Library Art Gallery, 2400 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates

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Dec. 4

The ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival December 2021 The El Segundo Museum of Art hosts an international festival inviting filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds to submit short films around a theme. This year, the festival’s topic is blue/s. The 2021 EVAFF will have a hybrid format and it will be first hosted online and then in person at ESMoA. Audiences will be able to view the official selection by registering for a pass starting Dec. 1.

Time: 3 p.m. Dec. 4 in person screening Cost: Free Details: Register at www.esmoa. org Venue: ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo

Dec. 11

Elf Join a fall season of “Twilight Cinema,” a series of free Saturday

night drive-in movie nights at the Pacific Coast Campus of Long Beach City College. Reservations for Twilight Cinema are required and open at 9 a.m. on the Thursday of the week before the event. Spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

One vehicle is permitted per reservation which opens Dec. 2 for Elf. Time: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 Cost: Free Details: polb.com/twilightcinema.

Venue: Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus, 1305 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach

DANCE Dec. 10

Fall Advanced Dance Concert This fall favorite features the choreography of dance faculty members from El Camino College and original works from current ECC choreography students.

Many genres of dance will be represented, including ballet, modern, contemporary, world, jazz and hip-hop.

Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 10, 11 Cost: $10 to $15 Details: www.elcaminotickets. universitytickets.com/dance Venue: Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Dec. 12

San Pedro City Ballet Presents The Nutcracker A timeless holiday classic, featuring professionals and young dancers as well as special cameos by some of your favorite community members.

Time: 7 p.m. Dec. 10, 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 11 and 2 p.m. Dec. 12 Cost: $30 to $40 Details: www.sanpedrocityballet. org/upcoming-events/nutcracker Venue: Warner Grand Theater, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

FOOD Dec. 5

Long Beach International Tamales Festival In collaboration with Roxanne’s Bar & Grill, celebrate Latin American heritage, and join in on a beloved holiday tradition with local communities. This all-day holiday inspired fair features a diverse selection of Latin American cuisine, from regional tamales, Latin inspired dishes, drinks, tequila tastings, and even a best homemade tamales contest. A full line-up of entertainment includes live music, performances, familyfriendly art activities and shopping.

Time: 12 to 8 p.m. Dec. 5 Cost: $20 and up Details: www.lbtamalesfest.com.

Venue: Scottish Rite Events Centre, 855 Elm Ave., Long Beach

Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade Pre-parade events begin at 4 p.m. at Banning’s Landing Community Center in Wilmington. The annual boat parade on the Main Channel has celebrated 50 years of festive light displays.

Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 4 Cost: Free Details: 310-549-8111; www.portoflosangeles.org Venue: 100 E. Water St., Wilmington Guided Nature Walk at George F Canyon with the PV Peninsula Land Conservancy Naturalists will guide you along a trail through the preserve to discover a unique variety of wildlife in their canyon habitat with amazing views of the LA Basin.

Meet on the back patio of the Nature Center and come inside to explore after the hike.

Time: 10:30 a.m. Dec. 4 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: Corner of Palos Verdes Drive North and Palos Verdes Drive East

Dec. 5

Nov. 28

41st Annual Spirit of San Pedro Holiday Parade Welcome the holiday season with the San Pedro tradition. Watch along Pacific Avenue to downtown and up 6th Street.

Time: 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 5 Cost: Free Details: www.sanpedrochamber. com Venue: North on Pacific Avenue from 17th to 6th streets and east on 6th Street to Centre Street

Dec. 1

Children’s Art Workshops in the Garden Angels Gate Cultural Center and Feed & Be Fed are partnering on this new art workshop series for children, ages 5-12, on Saturdays.

All workshops will take place outdoors in The Church Garden. Join artist-teacher Jayn Ghormley, and create art inspired by the outdoors.

Art supplies will be provided.

Ages 5-12. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Time: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 11 Cost: Free Details: www.eventbrite. com/e/childrens-artworkshops-in-the-gardentickets Venue: The Garden Church garden, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro.

Outdoor Holiday Market Find one-of-a-kind artwork made by local artisans. Enjoy food and music in a safe, outdoor setting and shop the aquarium gift shop as well.

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 28 Cost: Free Details: www.friendsofcabrillo aquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro Conversation Starter: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Join PVLD staff for a book discussion of Jason Reynold’s book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. This discussion will take place in person. Due to LA County protocols, masks are required to be worn at all times. Registration is requested but not required.

Come to the meeting having read the book.

Time: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: www.pvld.evanced.info/ conversation-starter/stamped Venue: Peninsula Center Library Purcell Room, 701 Silver Spur Rd., Rolling Hills Estates

Dec. 3

35th Annual Candy Cane Lane Enjoy entertainment, shopping, food, fire trucks, cookie decorating, Santa visits and photos, face painting and carnival games.

Time: 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: Free Location: Weymouth Corners, corner of 8th St. and Weymouth, San Pedro Wilmington Tree Lighting Enjoy a community tree lighting ceremony to kick off the holidays.

Time: 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: Free Details: 310-732-4515 Venue: Wilmington Town Square Park, 105 W. I St., Wilmington

Dec. 4

LAMI Community Sails Gather friends and family to share

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Rancho Los Cerritos After Hours Holiday Tours Visitors can stroll through the decorated house and learn about holiday traditions from the 1840s to the 1930s from costumed interpreters. Warm seasonal beverages and live holiday music will complete the festivities. Suggested donation is $5/person.

Time: 4:30 to 8 p.m. Dec. 12, 19 Cost: Free Details: www.rancholos cerritos.org Venue: Rancho Los Cerritos, Rancho Los Cerritos, 4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach

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Experience 49: blue/s Through site-specific installation, sculpture, photography, painting, collage, and soundscapes, the experience is an exploration of the color, influence, sound and

mood held within blue. Curated by Essence Harden, blue/s features the work of Turiya Adkins, Se Young Au, Kris Chau, June Edmonds, Meg Fransee, Maurice Harris, Micah James, Dane Johnson, Muna Malik, Ambrose Murray, Alicia Piller, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Gabriel Rivera, Jihaari Terry and Nathan Wong.

Time: Now through March 26, 12 to 5 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday Cost: Free Details: www.esmoa.org Venue: ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo

Chicano Moratorium Aftermath: Four Creative Forces On Aug. 29, 1970, demonstrators marched through East Los Angeles in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. Although it ended in conflict and death, it galvanized many who participated, sparking their careers in the arts and community activism. The panelists include Willie Herrón, muralist; Jesse Velo, musician and civil rights analyst; Margarita Cuarón, artist and social activist; and María Eléna Yepes, educator, writer and community activist. It will be moderated by Esperanza Sanchez, associate curator at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.

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in a great afternoon on the water.

LAMIs monthly community sails support educational programs for youth in need.

Time: 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 4 Cost: $25 to $75 Details: 310-833-6055; info@lamitopsail.org Venue: LAMI, Berth 73, Suite 2, San Pedro

El Camino College Studio Jazz Band Directed by David Sills, this dynamic ensemble is dedicated to the performance and preservation of classic, straight-ahead jazz big band music. The ensemble performs arrangements from the great composers, arrangers and bandleaders from the jazz tradition in the style of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Woody Herman and Gil Evans.

Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 6 Cost: $10 Details: www.elcaminotickets. universitytickets.com Venue: Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Dec. 7

Native American Heritage Month Celebrate the culture, contributions and heritage of Native Americans. In celebration, the Los Angeles County Library is sharing weekly Book Talks during November. To view the Book Talks or to learn more about Native American Heritage Month, visit Native American Heritage Month at LA County Library.

Details: www.lacountylibrary.org/ native-american-heritage-month

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Dialogues A culminating art exhibition of SoLA’s 2021 Critical Response program.

The collaborative group of 14 participating artists have worked together meeting monthly on Zoom in supportive and critical interaction. In addition to the critique process itself, instruction and practice writing of personal artist statements enhanced deeper reflection and communication.

Gallery hours Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. now through Nov. 27 Cost: Free Details: www.solacontemporary. org Venue: SoLA Contemporary, 3718 W. Slauson Ave., Los Angeles

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Dan Delgado Sextet with Natalie Gonzalez In the style of Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra, this fresh-faced high-energy band delivers swing classics and music from greats like Herb Alpert, Chuck Mangione, Louis Armstrong and James Brown. There will be a preconcert wine tasting at 7 p.m. with sommelier Mona Harrington.

Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $28 and up Details: www.www.grandvision. secure.force.com/dan-delgadosextet Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

munity orchestra dedicated to the rehearsal and performance of the finest traditional and contemporary orchestral literature. Its membership is comprised of musicians from ECC, and community members with a myriad of occupations and ages. Program will include pieces by Mozart, Fauré, holiday music, Broadway and popular tunes.

Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 7 Cost: $10 Details: www.elcaminotickets. universitytickets.com/symphony Venue: Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

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Top Five Project Censored Stories a few days later.

Wildcat strikes occur when workers simply stop working, often in response to a specific incident, such as employer actions putting lives at risk by skimping on protective gear or attempting to cut workers’ healthcare. The situation was exacerbated by the Donald Trump administration’s failure to issue mandates requiring specific safety measures, as reported

by Michael Sainato at the Guardian.

Examples covered by Elk that Project Censored cited include: • In Santa Rosa, California, 700 healthcare workers went on strike because their hospital lacked sufficient personal protective equipment to keep employees safe, and management warned employees that their insurance fees would be doubled if they wanted continued coverage for their families.

• In St. Joseph, Missouri, 120 sheet metal workers went on strike due to management’s repeated attempts to cut their healthcare benefits during the pandemic.

• In May 2020, workers at 50 McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks, and other fast food establishments throughout Florida staged a day-long strike for higher pay and better protective equipment.

• In April 2021, employees at Chicagoarea Peet’s Coffee & Tea locations staged a coordinated work stoppage along with the Fight for $15 campaign to demand workplace

protections and quarantine pay.

Furthermore, Elk noted that the 600 strikes in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement “is likely a severe underestimation as many non-union Black and Brown workers are now calling out en masse to attend Black Lives Matter protests without it ever being reported in the press or on social media.”

Elk also noted that “[M]any black workers interviewed by Payday Report say that, once again, white labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements…. Instagram automation and similar automation on Facebook and Twitter help to build a huge following for grassroots movements, so something that had no following a month ago can suddenly go viral and reach millions of people within hours or even minutes.”

That threat empowers even solitary individual workers, Tulsa-based Black filmmaker and activist Marq Lewis told Elk: He says he personally knows of multiple examples of black workers in Tulsa approaching their bosses without the support of a union and winning changes in their workplace.

“A lot of people may say this is not a strike, well, you tell that to these workers now who are getting their grievances heard,” Lewis says.

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“Sound poetry commands the ear to listen beyond the hierarchy of language and meaning,” explains Schindelmann, “providing the opportunity for a more personal response,” Then, on Nov. 22, comes Unsuspecting Trees, an ACE performance by a small ensemble that employs an interactive, animated, ad hoc score of both traditional and nontraditional notation. “Rather than using a static score to convey a fixed intent,” explain event curators Severin Behnen and Hunter Ochs, “this work involves a computer-assisted system that enables the conductor to communicate in real time with performers, moving quickly and effortlessly in a virtual 3D environment to various parts of the score during live performance. The images are projected so that the audience, as well as the performers, can observe the score.”

Despite soundpedro2021’s official end date of Nov. 27, all soundpedro virtual events are archived permanently at soundpedro.org.

“Virtual events are not time-restricted and can last longer than anything onsite,”

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says Schindelmann. “They also can be more technology-based. Also, the virtual experience is a private rather than a shared public one, in which people can revisit and explore works on their own time, in greater detail.”

Needless to say, FLOOD hopes for a return to the onsite soundpedro event on June 4, 2022. But in any event, the COVID-catalyzed programming additions to soundpedro will be permanent parts of the event going forward.

We learned from 2020 that our quick pivot, and the infrastructure and programming that resulted, held up and could support expansion,” Schindelmann reports. “Also, the virtual events have been a good introduction for non-local, emerging artists, as well as those ‘sound-experimenting’ artists from other disciplines. Importantly, the addition of virtual events also provides access for artists whose participation might otherwise be restricted. […] Programming an onsite soundpedro will resume when nature allows. Once the onsite event comes back into the mix, soundpedro will have grown and improved in spite of adversity.”

Details: www.sounpedro.org

4. “Climate Debtor” Nations Have “Colonized” the Atmosphere

The United States and other developed countries in the global north are responsible for 92% of all the excess carbon dioxide emissions driving global warming, according to a study in the September issue of The Lancet Planetary Health. The U.S. alone was responsible for 40%, followed by Russia and Germany (8% each), the United Kingdom (7%), and Japan (5%).

The study’s author, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, told Sarah Lazare, of In These Times, that his research began from the premises that “the atmosphere is a common resource” and that “all people should have equal access” to a fair share of it. He calculated each nation’s fair share of a sustainable global carbon budget, based on population, along with an analysis of “territorial emissions from 1850 to 1969, and consumptionbased emissions from 1970 to 2015.” In turn, this

was used to calculate “the extent to which each country has overshot or undershot its fair share,” according to the study. Thus the above list of the largest climate debtors.

The results, he told In These Times, show that “the countries of the Global North have ‘stolen’ a big chunk of the atmospheric fairshares of poorer countries, and on top of that are responsible for the vast majority of excess emissions… [T]hey have effectively colonized the global atmospheric commons for the sake of their own industrial growth.”

In contrast, the study found that “most countries in the Global South were within their boundary fair shares, including India and China (although China will overshoot soon).” The leading climate creditors to date are India (34% of global “undershoots”), China (11%), Bangladesh and Indonesia (5% each) and Nigeria (4%).

“High-income countries must not only reduce emissions to zero more quickly than other countries, but they must also pay down their climate debts,” the study said. “Just as many of these countries have relied on the appropriation of labour and resources from the Global South for their own economic growth, they have also relied on the appropriation of global atmospheric commons, with consequences that harm the Global South disproportionately.”

“Other studies and analyses have pointed to the disproportionate responsibility of the Global North, and wealthy countries, for driving the climate crisis,” Lazare noted. Most dramatically, a 2015 study by Oxfam International “found that the poorest half of the world’s population — roughly 3.5 billion people — are to blame for just 10% of ‘total global emissions [See Censored, p. 17]

Public Art:

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By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor The San Pedro Waterfront Arts District art degradation like this. It is asking for taxlaunched the Murals Fix-It Fund this month deductible donations to the Murals Fix-It Fund. after the Lilyan Fierman Walkway mural was With the funds the arts district will be able to graffitied, twice. When works of public art are respond quickly year-round to repair this damage. marred, it is especially painful to the artist and The Waterfront Arts District said all donations to the community-at-large. Unfortunately, these are welcome, no amount is too small or too big. events happen with frequency in communities The arts district announced an anonymous donor across the country. Not only was the mural has pledged $1000 in matching funds, so making tagged, but the perpetrator returned and used a a donation now will go twice as far. protective coating for the graffiti making it very You can help. See below for donation levels difficult to remove. Anti-graffiti coating prevents and /or monthly payment options graffiti paint from bonding to surfaces. In effect, If you would like to contribute to the the repair of the offending area will be extremely repair of artworks, go to this link: www. challenging to correct because the perpetrator sanpedrowaterfrontartsdistrict/murals-fix-it-fund protected the tagged area like the art itself. #FightBackWithArt Nationally, cleaning graffiti off buildings costs nearly $12 billion dollars annually. Many cities have started anti-graffiti programs but vandalism is still a problem. According to its website, the City of Riverside alone spends more than $1.3 million dollars annually on graffiti abatement. Additional money is spent by other public agencies, utility companies and private property owners to remove graffiti from their properties.

The artist of the Lilyan Fierman Walkway is right now repainting the damaged sections of the mural. San Pedro Waterfront Arts District Luis Sanchez, the painter of the Lilyan Fierman Walkway mural, has initiated a fund to fight which was damaged by graffiti. File photo

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attributed to individual consumption,’ yet they ‘live overwhelmingly in the countries most vulnerable to climate change.’” She reported.

“In contrast, the richest 10% of people in the world are responsible for roughly 50% of global emissions.”

“Corporate news outlets appear to have entirely ignored the findings of Jason Hickel’s Lancet study,” Project Censored noted.

“Although it may be imperative to act “quickly and together” to reduce carbon emissions, as Vice President Harris asserted at the April 2021 climate summit, corporate media have failed to cover Hickel’s cutting-edge research, which demonstrates that the United States and other would-be leaders in addressing climate change are in fact, as the world’s worst climate debtors, disproportionately responsible for climate breakdown.”

5. Microplastics and Toxic Chemicals Increasingly Prevalent in World’s Oceans

According to a pair of scientific studies published in the summer of 2020, microplastic particles and a family of toxic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS have become more widespread in the world’s oceans than previously realized and have begun

to contaminate the global seafood supply. The two problems are related because PFAS — a family of highly stable “forever chemicals” with more than 4,700 known members — can occur as microplastics, they can stick to microplastic particles in water, and are involved in the production of plastics.

In July 2020, a German-American study published in the scholarly journal Environmental Science & Technology revealed that PFAS — which are used in a range of products including carpets, furniture, clothing, food packaging and nonstick coatings — have now been found in the Arctic Ocean.

“This discovery worries scientists,” Project Censored explains, “because it means that PFAS can reach any body of water anywhere in the world and that such chemicals are likely present in our water supply.” This is concerning because, as Daniel Ross reported for Truthout, there are “Known human health impacts ... include certain cancers, liver damage, thyroid problems and increased risk of asthma. As endocrine disruptors, these chemicals have been linked to increased risk of severe COVID-19.”

Ross cited a number of other studies as well, noting that, “Emerging research suggests that one important pathway [for PFAS spreading] is through the air and in rainwater,” and that they had been widely detected in China, the U.S., and elsewhere.

“PFASs are probably detectable in ‘all major water supplies’ in the U.S.,” according to an Environmental Working Group study, Ross reported. “What’s more, over 200 million Americans could be drinking water containing PFAS above a level EWG scientists believe is safe, according to the organization’s most recent findings.”

The second study, in August 2020, also published in Environmental Science & Technology, came from researchers at the QUEX Institute, a partnership between the University of Exeter and the University of Queensland. They looked for and found microplastics (pieces of plastic, less than five millimeters in length — about the size of a sesame seed) in five seafood products sold in Australian markets: crabs, oysters, prawns, squid, and sardines — which had the highest concentration. According to the study’s lead author, as reported by Robby Berman in Medical News Today, a seafood eater with an average serving “could be exposed to … up to 30 mg of plastic when eating sardines,” about as much as a grain of rice. “We do not fully understand the risks to human health of ingesting plastic, but this new method [they used for detecting selected plastics] will make it easier for us to find out,” another co-author said.

“Roughly 17% of the protein humans consume worldwide is seafood,” Berman noted. “The findings, therefore, suggest people who regularly

eat seafood are also regularly eating plastic.”

Aside from the Guardian, “no major news outlet has paid attention to the topic of microplastics in seafood,” Project Censored noted, referring to an October 2020 story by Graham Readfearn, reporting on a new Australian study indicating that at least 14 million tons of microplastics are likely sitting on the ocean floor — “more than 30 times as much plastic at the bottom of the world’s ocean than there is floating at the surface.” However, the study’s co-author, Dr. Denise Hardesty, “said the amount of plastic on the ocean floor was relatively small compared to all the plastics being released, suggesting the deep-sea sediments were not currently a major resting place for plastics,” Readfearn reported.

“Leaders from more than 70 countries signed a voluntary pledge in September to reverse biodiversity loss which included a goal to stop plastic entering the ocean by 2050,” he noted, but major countries including the United States, Brazil, China, Russia, India, and Australia had not signed on.

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1 Traffic issues 7 Partner of the “five W’s” 10 Former host of “The Tonight Show” Jack 14 Part of AOC 15 Moses Malone’s league, once 16 Nearly 5,000 square yards 17 Role in an Oregon capital production of “The Odd Couple”?

19 Ball-___ hammer 20 The rite words at the rite time?

21 Kunis who voices Meg Griffin 22 English makeup YouTuberturned-actress Burr 23 They may be put on 25 Brady in charge of every round piece of sporting equipment?

28 Escape the egg 30 “Back to main menu” key 31 Regret 32 “Certainement!”

34 Early August sign 35 “J’adore” perfumier 36 Footwear merch for “Wuthering Heights” fans?

41 “Sometimes you feel like ___ ...”

42 Nutri-Grain grain 43 Thanksgiving day, on a sched.

44 Denver summer hrs.

45 College, slangily, abroad 46 Shoestring tip

50 Find lead singer Day at the right Time?

55 Prefix with decimal 56 FDR biographer Joseph 57 Quechua speaker 59 Diesel that isn’t measured by the gallon 60 Bert who sang “If I Only Had the Nerve” 61 20th U.S. president picking a side in the “war of the currents”?

64 “___ Blue Moon” (Marie Osmond song) 65 Sushi fish 66 “Annie Get Your Gun” protagonist 67 Mountain ___ (some Taco Bell orders) 68 Authority in a Twitch chat 69 Doesn’t look forward to

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1 President Bartlet on “The West Wing” 2 French-Canadian region 3 Jeppson’s ___ (Chicago-based wormwood liqueur) 4 Benefit from 5 Liqueur producer James, whose drink is used in a “cup” cocktail popular during Wimbledon 6 Actress Vergara 7 Permissible, in Islam 8 “Help me, ___-Wan Kenobi.

You’re my only hope” 9 Lose hair, in a way 10 Pontifical

11 Without a middle, geometrically 12 Concerned query 13 People changing their branding, say 18 “Oh, bloody ___!”

22 “No Scrubs” group 24 Rapper Travis who had a signature McDonald’s meal 26 Dog food ingredient, maybe 27 “___ Place to Land” (Janae Marks book) 29 “What the ...?”

33 Prefix meaning “image” 34 On fire 35 Bakery need 36 Side at some delis 37 Cartilaginous layer between vertebrae and disks 38 Place to see cars indoors 39 Bear’s den 40 “Grease” band ___ Na Na 45 Play caller 47 Bottom of a parking garage, perhaps 48 Voted off the island?

49 Old Radio Shack home computers 51 Pamplona participants 52 Unbending 53 Words before tie, bind, or knot 54 Atlantic food fish 58 Remotely 61 Three Gorges, for one 62 Comedian Margaret 63 Barinholtz announced to work on the Mel Brooks series “History of the World, Part II”

DBA FILINGS & LEGAL NOTICES 10/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. James B. Wasti, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 27, 2021.. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.Effectively January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 11/11/2021, 11/23/2021, 12/02/2021, 12/09/2021

11/23/2021, 12/02/2021, 12/09/2021

11/23/2021, 12/02/2021, 12/09/2021

11/23/2021, 12/02/2021, 12/09/2021

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021250026 The following person is doing business as: ALSOP’S LOCK AND KEY, 849 W. Pacific Coast Highway #114, Wilmington, CA 90744 County of Los Angeles. Registered owners: Frank Carl Fisher, 849 W. Pacific Coast Highway #114, Wilmington, CA 90744. This Business is conducted by an individual. The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 10/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. Frank Carl Fisher, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2021.. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.Effectively January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 1 1/24/2021, 12/02/2021, 12/16/2021, 12/23/31

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California will hold two public hearings to receive public input and testimony regarding proposed re-alignment of the electoral districts for election to the Board (director divisions). The Board will consider plans based on the 2020 Census, presented by the District’s demographic consultant, as well as additional plans that the public may present.

The first public hearing will be held on December 8, 2021.

This public hearing will take place as part of a special Board of Directors meetings, which begins at 6:00 p.m.

All of the public hearings are open to the public and will be held via teleconference pursuant to Assembly Bill 361. The date and time of the second meeting will be noticed at a future time.

Please view the agendas on the WRD’s website for information about how to participate: www.wrd.org.

The Board anticipates acting at the close of the second public hearing in January to select a preferred director division plan for final adoption by the Board.

For more information on the District’s redistricting process, please contact Angelina Mancillas at (562) 921-5521.

DBAs $ 155

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310-519-1442 Remember to renew your DBA every 5 years

Harbor Area [Announcements, from p. 5] designated drop off locations beginning Nov. 24 Drop off Friday thru Sunday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. the San Pedro Art Association Crafted Gallery, Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Buena Park Farmers market, or SPAA’s booth at the Melrose Trading Post.

Details: 310-831-2428

Upgrade to a Real ID for Free

The Department of Motor Vehicles is offering eligible Californians a free Real ID upgrade for a limited time for anyone who received a driver’s license or identification card during the pandemic. If you renewed your license or ID card between March 2020 and July 2021 you are eligible.

You have until Dec. 31, 2021 to get a free Real ID. A Real ID is not required; however, if you wish to continue to use your driver’s license or identification card to board domestic flights within the U.S. or enter secure federal facilities, you will need a Real ID by the new May 3, 2023 deadline.

Details: www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/identification-cards/ real-id

Join the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count

Between Jan. 25 to Jan. 27, 2022, thousands of community members across greater Los Angeles will be counting their neighbors experiencing homelessness.

The Count, which is mandated by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, helps paint a picture of the progress, trends and shifts in the fight to end homelessness. Help make this Count possible by volunteering in your community.

The LA Homeless Count is the biggest in the nation and can only be made possible by volunteers. Ensure that community members experiencing homelessness get counted.

Details: www.theycountwillyou.org.

All Adults Are Eligible for a COVID-19 Booster

The Long Beach Health Department is now offering COVID-19 vaccine boosters to everyone 18 and older.

Vaccines are continuing to save lives and they remain the best defense against a possible COVID-19 surge over the winter.

To ensure everyone is able to access vaccines, Long Beach has clinics open six days a week across the city. To receive a booster, all you need is to have gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least two months ago or finished your two-dose Moderna or Pfizer vaccination series at least six months ago.

COVID-19 boosters are available at the following city-run vaccine sites: • Houghton Park (6301 N. Myrtle Ave.) from 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays (closed 12/1) • CSULB (1250 Bellflower Blvd., near the bookstore) from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays (closed 11/22, 11/24 and 12/1) • LBCC Pacific Coast Campus (Orange Avenue at Pacific Coast Highway) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Mondays through Saturdays and 4 to 7 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays (12/1 morning clinic closed) • LBCC Veterans Stadium (5000 E. Lew Davis St.) Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m. (12/1 3 to 6 p.m.)

• Main Health Building (2525 Grand Ave.) from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. on Fridays • Cabrillo High School (2001 Santa Fe Ave.) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays Details: myturn.ca.gov or 562-570-4636.

November 25 - December 15, 2021

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021231132 The following person is doing business as: SOLAR SIGMA SYSTEMS, 1828 Amelia St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Kaine Nicholas,1828 Amelia St., San Pedro, Ca 90731.This Business is conducted by an individual. The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 01/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. Kaine Nicholas, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 22, 2021.. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.Effectively January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement

must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 11/11/2021,

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021245974 The following person is doing business as: ZUZU’S PETALS, ZUZU’S PETALS CAFE, 801 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, Ca 90802. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Jesse Franco, 1446 Sepulveda Street, San Pedro, CA 90732. Evangelos Papadakis, 1446 Sepulveda Street, San Pedro, CA 90732.

This Business is conducted by partners. The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ Jesse Franco, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 27, 2021.. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires

at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.Effectively January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 11/11/2021,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021239045 The following person is doing business as: ENGINEER MAKERS PROJECT, 830 W 29th St. Apt D, San Pedro.

Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Shurhonda Olawuyi, 830 W 29th St. Apt D, San Pedro. This Business is conducted by an individual. The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 01/2021.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars

($1,000)). S/. Shurhonda Olawuyi, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 27, 2021.. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920.

A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

Effectively January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 11/11/2021,

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