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For state and city election results see p. 4

15th District FACE-OFF

This has been one of the most expensive city council races in Los Angeles history

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

The council race in District 15 has not been this contested in decades and is the most expensive race ever run here, with the Tim McOsker campaign spending over $900,000 in the primary and another $300,000 in the general election. It’s the independent expenditure campaigns that have completely raised the stakes with some $2 million in hit mailers and a slanderous ad in San Pedro Today. Clearly, the political establishment is nervous about losing this election. And for this race against Danielle Sandoval to be so close with her being outspent by over $2.9 million is, to say the least, remarkable.

With the political establishment of San Pedro joining forces with both corporate outsiders and city hall insiders behind McOsker, one would think that this election would be a slam dunk for the former lobbyist and chief of staff to Mayor James Hahn, but the reality is that with the Rick Caruso campaign spending his millions on outreach to the Latino voters of the city and an extensive get-out-the-vote campaign in Wilmington, this improved Sandoval’s chances of winning as the underdog. The election results were not certain on election night or for days afterward. Sandoval is clearly the underdog in this race but has concentrated her efforts from the beginning on community outreach in the underserved areas of the district, which is what garnered her nearly 30% of the primary vote. As we go to press, the results are McOsker with 65% and Sandoval with 35%, with only 35% of the vote counted. With the mail-in ballots still being tallied, it’s anyone’s bet what the results will be. However, if by some quirk Sandoval were to win, it would be the biggest upset in the history of CD15.

The race has been considerably upsetting as both campaigns have lodged nasty allegations at each other with Sandoval being accused of “wage theft” following an eight-year-old wage claim, and the Sandoval claims that Tim McOsker worked as a lobbyist for TraPac terminal in support

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The last two weeks of any midterm campaign are always frenetic, but this year they were laced with violence, intimidation and threats to democracy itself, with Republicans applying pressure to disrupt the electoral process at multiple points of vulnerability, such as encouraging armed vigilantes to observe dropbox voting in Arizona. Both there and elsewhere a number of top Republican candidates — following Donald Trump’s 2020 example — have refused to commit to accepting the results if they were to lose their races, while more than 1,000 threats to election workers have been recorded and more than 100 election-related lawsuits fill the courts.

Then, on Oct. 28, a man obsessed with rightwing conspiracy theories broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in the middle of the night, shouting, “Where’s Nancy?” echoing the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, and smashing Pelosi’s husband, Paul, on the head with a hammer, sending him to the ICU.

The attacker’s motivation was obvious, both from his shouts of “Where’s Nancy?” and his quicklyuncovered social media history. As the Washington Post reported, the attacker “published hundreds of blog posts in recent months sharing memes in support of fringe commentators and far-right personalities. Many of the posts were filled with screeds against Jews, Black

people, Democrats, the media and transgender people.” Rather than own up to that toxic influence, multiple GOP politicians, operatives and conservative allies doubled down by promoting more of the same factfree conspiracist explanations. A Nov. 5 New York Times story identified 21 Republican elected officials, candidates and other prominent figures who spread misinformation or cast doubt on the attack, including Trump himself and Texas Senator Ted Cruz. It was a vicious cycle, American University professor Brian Hughes told the Times. “The conspiracy theory prompts an act of violence; that act of violence

Tim McOsker and Danielle Sandoval, the two candidates for Council District 15 representative.

Harbor Area

Health Coverage for as Little as $10 per Month

SACRAMENTO — Californians can now sign up for affordable health insurance through Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace, as open enrollment begins for 2023. Two-thirds of the 1.7 million Covered California consumers are eligible for comprehensive health coverage for as little as $10 per month and others can get covered for no cost.

An estimated 1 million Californians are uninsured and eligible for low-cost or no-cost coverage through Covered California or Medi-Cal. Nine out of 10 Californians who sign up receive financial assistance.

Watch a video from Gov. Gavin Newsom here: https://tinyurl.com/2y4ap54u Details: https://www.coveredca.com

African American Scholar Program Now Accepting Applications

The Aquarium of the Pacific is now accepting applications for the program’s third year. The program supports exceptional African American students pursuing fields of study related to the aquarium. Through the award and engagement experience, the aquarium hopes to lower barriers by providing both financial support for academic endeavors, and community support through networking opportunities. This program seeks to provide continued involvement in fields related to the aquarium for deserving African American students to bring diverse minds to solving the issues facing our planet and its inhabitants.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/4kt3earw

It’s Now Cheaper to Replace Your Lawn

One of the most effective ways to cut back on water use is to replace your lawn with droughtresistant plants and landscaping. Now Californians can get more money to do just that thanks to a new law. The legislation exempts local rebates for turf replacement from state income tax, ensuring more dollars can be spent on transforming grass lawns into water-wise yards.

Details: https://saveourwater.com

Volunteers Needed for 2023 Homeless Point In Time Count

The City of Long Beach Health Department is seeking 250 community volunteers to help conduct the 2023 Point in Time or PIT Count, its street count of people experiencing homelessness in Long Beach, taking place on Jan. 26, 2023. The PIT Count is a communitywide effort that provides an opportunity for residents and local businesses to actively contribute and learn about people who are experiencing homelessness and gain an understanding of the resources available to address homelessness in Long Beach. The count is vital in determining the scope of homelessness, defining existing resources available and identifying gaps to better serve these individuals.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/bdzffr68

Long Beach is Updating Noise Element and Wants Your Input

Join the second study session to revisit, review and provide input on the October 2022 draft version of the city’s general plan noise element. The second study session will be held both online and in-person at the Dec. 1 planning commission meeting.

The second study session will feature a presentation of the noise element update study scope and work plan. No formal action will be taken by the Planning Commission at this meeting.

View the Draft General Plan Noise Element: https://tinyurl.com/yaf8ac6w

To learn more, visit the project webpage: https://tinyurl.com/yuz2hh2s

Time: 5 p.m., Dec. 1

Details: https://www.longbeach.gov/lbds/ planning/commission/

Venue: Long Beach Civic Chambers, 411 W. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach

Face-Off in CD15

of automation at the expense of dock worker jobs. Both claims have some basis in fact but are not the real underlying issue in the 15th councilmanic district. It’s actually about who is being represented at city hall.

For the better of 70 years, San Pedro’s business interests and those of the Port of LA have held sway over the sole elected city representative. San Pedro has only one-third of the population of the district but tends to have the heaviest turnout. Due to geography, the 15th councilmanic district is one of the most stable electoral districts of the Los Angeles City Council and the only one to keep its boundaries generally the same since the districts were formed in 1925. Out of the nine council reps during this time, there has never been a Latina and only two other women to get elected here. The district “has long been represented” only by residents of San Pedro, according to the Los Angeles Times, “despite accounting for less than one-third of the district’s population, has enjoyed outside influence as the district’s traditional base of political power.”

The changing demographics may also play a part in electing Sandoval if the Latino vote actually shows up to the polls. Working to her benefit are the millions of dollars that mayoral candidate Rick Caruso, the former Republican now posing as a Democrat, spent on reaching out to Latinos.

Even though Joe Buscaino, the current CD15 representative, likes to tout that San Pedro has the largest population of Italians in Los Angeles, that number even if combined with all the other European nationalities is just one or two percent larger than all those who identify as Latino. It’s something like 44% to 42% with Italians making up only some 5,400 people. Curiously, those of Irish extraction come in second in the district’s demographic share of residents of European heritage. McOsker is Irish and both he and Sandoval are Catholic, which in times gone by might have been a bigger deal than it seems to be today.

So the battle for the 15th seems to hinge on who will be represented best: the insider McOsker who seems to know city hall like the back of his hand, or the insurgent who will be more in line with the growing caucus of progressives, who are the growing portion at LA City Council? The odds-on-favorite under normal circumstances would be the candidate who spends the most money. However, there seems to be considerable pushback from voters who have been deluged by McOsker mailers and who have become outright hostile to the multiple anti-Sandoval mailers.

Attack Ads Draw Response

A report by one canvasser said an older Harbor City woman, “was so fed up with McOsker’s hate mail that she was going to vote for Sandoval because she thought they were picking on her.”

And even Joe Gatlin of the NAACP of San Pedro yanked his endorsement of McOsker after the attack ads came out slandering Anthony Santich, Carmen Trutanich and Dave Gascon.

Voters may have reached the limit on the effectiveness of the standard political mailers consultants send out. What seems to have

made a difference in this and other races in Los Angeles is old-fashioned retail campaigning door-to-door and organizing in the community. With McOsker’s well-funded campaign he has sent out dozens of mailers, aired YouTube ads interrupting every three minutes of video, purchased pop-up ads on social media and sent out weekly Buscaino-like newsletters and yet in the June primary only garnered some 37% of the votes. Sandoval, by comparison, sent out no mailers for the June vote and received 29%; in the runoff she has doubled down on door-to-door canvassing and mailed one counter-attack mailer but just to San Pedro.

In response to the attack mailer and center spread ad in San Pedro Today, lawyers for Carmen A. Trutanich, former LA City Attorney who was disparaged in the ad, have demanded a retraction. A letter dated Nov. 1 said, in part:

On behalf of Mr. Trutanich, I write to demand the immediate retraction and clarification of the misleading, irresponsible and derogatory “Ad,” in

the form of a flyer, paid for, and sent by your organization, Committee on Ethics & Transparency (“Committee”), to residents of Los Angeles City Council District 15, regarding Mr. Trutanich. One side of the flyer, captioned “You Can Tell a Lot About A Person by Their Friends,” contains a picture of Mr. Trutanich, with an arrow leading away from his picture, directing the reader’s attention to written text that

“Carmen ‘Nuch’ Trutanich – the former Los Angeles City Attorney, and Santich’s uncle, faced disciplinary action by the State Bar of California for ethical

Contrary to the clear and deliberate impression created by this statement, Mr. Trutanich has never “faced disciplinary action by the State Bar of California for ethical issues.”

Trutanich has threatened to sue both the fictitious front group and San Pedro Today

In the meantime, just hours before the lunar eclipse of the blood moon, San Pedro was visited by both of the mayoral candidates with Rick Caruso walking up Sixth Street glad-handing merchants and Karen Bass holding a GOTV rally at ILWU Local 63. It would be very strange if all of Caruso’s money actually went to getting Sandoval elected but failed to win him the popular vote citywide.

As of this writing, the results may end up being determined as much by whether the rain deterred voters from going to polls as any other factor.

Again one of the curious dynamics of this race is how an establishment liberal like McOsker has become the conservative in the race pitted against an insurgent Sandoval campaign that has brought progressives and Republicans together in an odd coalition. This has never happened before in CD15.

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Albert Ramirez, who works on CD 15 candidate Danielle Sandoval’s campaign, and Sandoval herself on election night. Photo by Fabiola Esqueda. CD 15 candidate Tim McOsker during the campaign. File photo

Northwest SPNC Holds Town Hall on Safety in Parks

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

On Oct. 27, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council host ed a town hall on public safety in parks in the Harbor Area. The town hall was in response to a shooting at Peck Park on July 24, where a shooter shot several people at a baseball game, killing two and wounding seven.

“Northwest San Pedro Neigh borhood Council wants to work in collaboration with the city, Los Angeles departments and stake holders,” said Melanie Labrecque, chair of the council’s public safety

way to prevent it.”

Labrecque said that nothing could ever definitely prevent such a thing, but she argued that having city staff at the park seven days a week, and having better vetted per mits, would help prevent it.

“One hundred and ninety-nine people, at an event, triggers LAPD response to have security at the park,” Labrecque said. “But if they fudge it and lie and say only 150; and 300 people show, it doesn’t trigger LAPD to be notified.”

Labrecque said there were over

“All of these other departments have to be notified and are part of helping us make decisions on what we permit and how we permit a special event.”

Dedmon said the permitting process does not need to be improved, except that more people need to use permits.

“People need to understand that they need to have a permit,” Dedmon said. “People need to understand they need to come to us and actually let us know what they want to do in our park systems.”

Dedmon said that enforcing the permits is always difficult because of a lack of resources. She said that both the LAPD and park rangers are understaffed in the Harbor Area.

“The more we can do to get more of ficers down in this area, I think the better we will be,” Dedmon said.

Dedmon said that staff at the parks

will call the police if they see events without permits, but only Monday through Saturday, as none of the parks have staff on Sunday. She said that the community should call the police if they witness such events happening on Sunday, or at a park with no staff.

Dedmon said there was staff on duty at Peck Park on July 24, when the shooting took place. They helped peo ple shelter in place, and helped open the facilities for LAPD and SWAT teams.

committee. “The primary goal of this town hall is to keep our com munity safe by putting in place processes that will provide a safe environment for members of the public to enjoy our parks with the knowledge that their safety is para mount.”

To that end, the town hall had representatives from the City of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Los Angeles Park Rangers. They dis cussed the permitting process for events at the park, as well as what to do in a dangerous situation at a park.

“Northwest San Pedro Neigh borhood Council is holding a town hall to look at the incident and see how we, as a community can gain insight at how this incident could have been, to a certain degree, avoided, and how, as a community, we can partner to minimize the chances of this happening again,” said Ray Regalado, president of the council.

However, no one ever really addressed how the incident could have been prevented.

“If the parks are used more by the residents around it, and permits were enforced, you wouldn’t get the bad actors in the park,” Labrecque said in an interview after the town hall. “And I think that’s the easiest

500 people at Peck Park at the day of the shooting, but no police ini tially. There were two events, a baseball game that was permitted, and an informal gathering of car enthusiasts without a permit.

Deanne Dedmon, region super intendent for the pacific region for the City of Los Angeles Depart ment of Recreation and Parks, ex plained that her department over sees 559 parks. None of the parks have dedicated law enforcement, they rely on the LAPD and the park rangers.

“We have to call and ask for enforcement, just like the general public,” Dedmon said.

For bigger events, LAPD will be there for security. Some parks have at least one full-time staff member, and it is their responsibil ity to grant permits for events at their respective parks. For small events, the department wants two weeks’ notice. For larger events, the department asks for three to six months’ notice.

“For more complicated larger events, anything more than just a field permit or a picnic … we do in ternal meetings as well, and meet ings with the permittee, including our department maintenance and our construction staff, with LAPD, with our park rangers, with the fire department, with bureau of street services, with DOT,” Dedmon said.

LAPD on the scene at Peck Park after a shooting occured on July 24. File photo

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The ballyhooed “red wave” was nowhere to be seen on Nov. 8, as control of both houses of Congress remained up for grabs, with Democrats slightly favored to retain control of the Senate, while Republicans take control of the House— either of which could still change.

“The wave has failed to materialize. Control of the House and Senate are still anyone’s guess,” political scientist Julia Azari told Random Lengths News. “Republicans may still end up with a great deal of power if they manage to eke out majorities in either chamber. Or not.”

One major reason for Democrats’ strongerthan-expected showing was clearly the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, which helped drive turnout to unusually high levels for midterm. This was telegraphed by the Aug. 2 vote in deep red Kansas, when an initiative to remove abortion rights protections from the state constitution was defeated by 18%. Similarly on Nov. 8, voters in California, Michigan and Vermont voted to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions, while voters in Kentucky rejected a measure to deny such rights. A murkier anti-abortion measure is trailing in Montana as well.

Locally, in the LA Mayor’s race, Republicanturned-Democrat billionaire developer Rick Caruso holds a narrow lead over Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, while establishment insider Tim McOsker holds a healthy lead over outsider Danielle Sandoval in the race for the 15th Council District. At the county level, Robert Luna has a

double-digit lead over Alex Villanueva in the race for sheriff, while Measure A, which would allow the sheriff to be removed for cause, is winning by 2-1.

Southern California congressional races that could decide control of the House are far from being decided, but Will Rollins, highlighted in our pre-election coverage, leads Republican incumbent Ken Calvert in the 41st district, 56.2-43.8%

Most high-profile candidates promoted by Donald Trump failed to deliver—with J.D. Vance winning the Ohio U.S. Senate seat as a notable exception, but CNN reported election deniers

won secretary of state races in Alabama, Indiana, South Dakota and Wyoming. GOP efforts to scare voters with crime had mixed results. They played a key role in a massive ad blitz that helped defeat Mandela Barnes in his effort to unseat Ron Johnson in the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race, but progressive prosecutor candidates continued making inroads in heartland America, from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Des Moines, Iowa to San Marcos, Texas. The political picture is much more nuanced than pundits would have you believe.

Election Results

As of press time, results subject to change.

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

MEASURE LH — AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING

Position Votes Percent YES 239,715 68.35%

MEASURE SP — PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES PARCEL TAX

Position Votes Percent NO 229,263 65.05%

MEASURE ULA — TAX ON REAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS EXCEEDING $5 MILLION TO FUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS

Position Votes Percent YES 194,144 54.58%

MAYOR

Candidate(s) Votes Percent RICK J. CARUSO (N) 187,093 50.19% KAREN RUTH BASS (N) 185,672 49.81%

CITY ATTORNEY Candidate(s) Votes Percent HYDEE FELDSTEIN SOTO (N) 190,660 59.21%

CONTROLLER Candidate(s) Votes Percent KENNETH MEJIA (N) 198,527 60.58%

CITY COUNCIL, 15TH DISTRICT

Candidate(s) Votes Percent TIM MCOSKER (N) 11,465 67.64% DANIELLE SANDOVAL (N) 5,486 32.36%

CITY OF CARSON

MEASURE R — EXTENDS THE CITY’S UTILITY USERS TAX, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN EMER GENCY SERVICES, PROTECT LOCAL DRINKING WATER; REPAIR STREETS/POTHOLES AND

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass holds a rally at ILWU local 63. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

OTHER GENERAL CITY SERVICES

Position Votes Percent

YES 7,329 80.12%

CITY CLERK

Candidate(s) Votes Percent

KHALEAH BRADSHAW (N) 4,852 55.78%

CITY TREASURER Candidate(s) Votes Percent MONICA COOPER (N) 6,959 79.48%

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, 2ND DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent JIM DEAR (N) 1,425 73.26%

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, 4TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent ARLEEN BOCATIJA ROJAS (N) 1,259 65.10%

CITY OF LONG BEACH

MEASURE BB — AMENDS THE CITY CHARTER TO MERGE THE EXISTING WATER, SEWER AND GAS UTILITIES INTO A SINGLE PUBLICLYOWNED UTILITY

Position Votes Percent YES 27,781 66.30%

MEASURE E — AMENDS THE CITY CHARTER TO ESTABLISH A POLICE OVERSIGHT COMMIS SION AND ADD A POLICE OVERSIGHT DIREC

TOR Position Votes Percent YES 24,707 58.98%

MEASURE LBC — AMENDS THE CITY CHAR TER TO REALIGN THE CITY’S PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION DATES WITH THE STATE’S PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION DATES HELD IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS

Position Votes Percent YES 31,519 75.70%

MAYOR Candidate(s) Votes Percent REX RICHARDSON (N) 23,740 55.13%

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, 3RD DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent KRISTINA DUGGAN (N) 4,792 58.92%

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, 5TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent MEGAN KERR (N) 4,387 54.17%

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, 9TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent JONI RICKS-ODDIE (N) 1,695 67.10%

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

MEASURE A — CHARTER AMENDMENT - PRO VIDING AUTHORITY TO REMOVE AN ELECTED SHERIFF FOR CAUSE

Position Votes Percent

YES 656,575 71.43%

MEASURE C — LOS ANGELES COUNTY CANNA BIS BUSINESS TAX MEASURE

Position Votes Percent

YES 551,569 62.03%

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

GOVERNOR

Candidate(s) Votes Percent GAVIN NEWSOM (D) 656,142 67.87%

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Candidate(s) Votes Percent ELENI KOUNALAKIS (D) 634,447 67.26%

SECRETARY OF STATE Candidate(s) Votes Percent SHIRLEY N. WEBER (D) 639,985 67.93% ROB BERNOSKY (R) 302,174 32.07%

CONTROLLER Candidate(s) Votes Percent

MALIA M. COHEN (D) 575,782 61.23%

TREASURER Candidate(s) Votes Percent FIONA MA (D) 627,809 66.98%

ATTORNEY GENERAL Candidate(s) Votes Percent ROB BONTA (D) 630,513 66.79%

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER Candidate(s) Votes Percent RICARDO LARA (D) 629,571 67.98%

STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 3RD DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent TONY VAZQUEZ (D) 607,758 70.68%

U.S. SENATOR - FULL TERM Candidate(s) Votes Percent ALEX PADILLA (D) 667,051 69.28%

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, 36TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent TED W. LIEU (D) 81,697 68.99%

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, 42ND DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent ROBERT GARCIA (D) 37,855 67.84%

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, 44TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN (D) 41,212 72.20%

STATE ASSEMBLY, 65TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent MIKE ANTHONY GIPSON (D) 19,069 66.50%

STATE ASSEMBLY, 66TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent AL MURATSUCHI (D) 44,326 60.65%

STATE ASSEMBLY, 69TH DISTRICT Candidate(s) Votes Percent JOSH LOWENTHAL (D) 25,682 60.78%

Real People, Real News, Really Effective

Carson Councilman Jim Dear and Councilwoman Arleen Rojas celebrate their respective election night victories with former Councilman Elito Santarina. Photo by Harry Bugarin

Two Decades at Central San Pedro

The vision of democracy and neighborhood councils

James Preston Allen, Publisher

As of February 2022, it has been 20 years since the founding of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, which was not the first nor the last one in Councilmanic District 15. Still, this was a milestone. The vision of bring ing government closer to the people was both the aspiration to make it work for the stakeholders and to keep the city whole in response to the session movement back then. The LA City Charter, the municipal constitution if you will, needed to be amended with this change and it was by an overwhelming majority. The pre amble to this section reads:

Sec. 900. Purpose.

To promote more citizen par ticipation in government and make govern ment more responsive to local needs, a city wide system of neighborhood councils, and a Department of Neighborhood Empower ment is created. Neighborhood councils shall include representatives of the many diverse interests in communities and shall have an advisory role on issues of concern to the neighborhood.

This was a nice premise and in the years that followed some 99 neighborhood councils were created across the entire metropolis. This was unique but also presented problems. The intent was to provide community empowerment but it did very little in terms of power sharing. In the City of LA, with some 4 million residents there are only 15 elected council representatives. This equates to something like 250,000 residents to one elected representative. Structurally, cities like Carson, Lomita or even Long Beach have better per capita representation. In LA, this gives immense power to one elected council office and it has often been abused.

The current race for CD 15 between Danielle Sandoval and Tim McOsker is un usual as it is the first time that a neighbor hood council president has run for election. Yes, in other parts of LA, neighborhood council members like Ron Galprin, the out going city controller have been elected, but his example is the exception rather than the rule. The impediments to running for a city council seat are many and not easily navi gated, unlike standing for a seat on a local neighborhood council.

The neighborhood councils were cre ated to offset this imbalance of power, but over the course of the past decade, the city council itself and the Department of Neigh

borhood Empowerment (DONE) have done nearly everything they can to keep the neighbor hood councils sidelined, regulated and (oddly enough) disempowered. They continue to do so. This has been especially true with outgoing councilman Joe Buscaino, who mostly treated the Central San Pedro Neighbor hood Council as a threat and other councils as irrelevant.

For the past 10 years, Central San Pedro Neighborhood Coun cil has been the focal point of this struggle for civic engagement, local democracy and re-empowerment. This struggle has even led to the recent ouster of the former Central San Pedro Neighborhood Coun cil president Lou Caravella, who resigned under pressure, to either leave or be censured and re moved. Yet this has been a learning experience for both the current council and the community about democracy. It’s sometimes messy but it sure beats not having a voice. If you look around the civic landscape of the LA Harbor Area the neighborhood councils are one of the few places where the average citizen can be elected, speak on public matters to a council and have their concerns addressed by local government.

The biggest problem with the LA City gov ernment is that city hall is so distant and the city bureaucracy so complex that getting anything done or even attending a council meeting is a daunting task for the average person. The advent of virtual meetings during the pandemic short ened this distance, but did not increase the access to those technologically challenged or otherwise disadvantaged.

So here we are in November 2022 with lo cal, state and especially national elections that could change the nature of our national political future. The MAGA election deniers, the threats of violence and the tribalism of this national election this year have reverberated even down to local politics as we have reported upon previ ously. These controversies may well bring more voters to the polls than ever before both in Los Angeles and in contested battleground states — democracy is on the ballot. But in some ways it always is. My experience is that most Americans don’t really understand or appreciate democracy. Often they settle for something less that smells a little “democractish”, but letting everyone have a vote is just too damn messy.

Here we have 20 years of democractish neigh borhood councils, with no real power except the voice of the people and not really empowered to make the changes necessary to hold city gov

ernment accountable. Los Angeles still needs to change. Whether that change happens or not will depend on who is elected mayor and city council representative. Los Angeles still might serve as a model for the rest of the nation if we can actually

make this thing called democracy work.

As of the day after the election, McOsker leads Sandoval 15,321 to 8,311 with only 35% of all votes counted, which is a reminder democracy only works if you show up and participate!

The Economic Crisis Isn’t Inflation, It’s Corporate

Greed

Corporate greed is at a 70-year high and oil companies are buying back stock, not lowering prices

By Sen. Bernie Sanders

As we enter the final week of the midterm election, voters are expressing deep concern about the state of the economy and inflation. They should.

Today, we live in an economy in which the billionaires are getting much richer while work ing families fall further behind. Unbelievably, while 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, we now have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of our country — with three multi-billionaires own ing more wealth than the bottom half of Ameri cans. While employers squeeze workers and their unions for cuts to health care and other benefits, the CEOs of major corporations now make nearly 400 times more than their average employees — the largest employer-worker gap in our history.

During this campaign, my Republican col leagues talk a lot about inflation, and they are right to do so. Over the last year, Americans have become sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices for food, gas, health care, prescrip tion drugs, housing and other necessities.

Unfortunately, most Republicans completely ignore the underlying causes of inflation and the few “solutions” they do offer would make a bad situation even worse.

Yes. During this political season it is easy to blame President Joe Biden and Democrats for in flation. But that’s just not accurate.

Let’s be clear. Inflation is not unique to America. It is an international crisis. In the Euro pean Union, inflation is nearly 11%. In Germany, it is 11.6%. In the United Kingdom it is 10.1%. In Ireland, it’s 9.6%. In America, it’s 8.2%, much too high, but lower than it is throughout much of Europe.

The truth is that inflation is, to a significant extent, caused by the ongoing global pandemic, the break in international supply chains and the horrific war in Ukraine. But there is another ma jor reason for inflation that too few people talk about. And that is the unprecedented level of cor porate greed that we are now seeing.

According to a recent study, nearly 54% of

the rise in inflation is directly attributable to the astronomical increase in corporate profit mar gins. In America today, while the working class struggles to put food on the table, fill up their gas tanks and heat their homes, corporate profits are at a 70-year high.

If you want to know why you are paying $4, $5, $6 for a gallon of gas, you should know that the profits of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell skyrocketed by 169% so far this year to $125 billion. These four huge oil companies are spending over $73 billion not to reduce gas prices at the pump but to buy back their own stock and increase dividends to their wealthy stockholders.

If you are wondering why you are paying 43% more for an airline ticket this year, you should know that profits are up 186% at Ameri can Airlines and 99% at United Airlines in the third quarter to nearly $1.5 billion. Yes. These are the same companies that received taxpayer assistance of more than $20 billion during the pandemic while cutting 6,400 jobs.

If you are wondering why global food pric es skyrocketed by over 33% last year and are expected to go up another 23% this year, you should know that billionaires in the global food and agri-business industry became $382 billion richer during the pandemic.

If you are wondering why we continue to pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, you should know that Pfizer has increased its profits by 42% so far this year to $26.4 billion.

Even though inflation is an international problem, my Republican colleagues want to blame rising prices on Democratic spending — especially the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021. Well, before you accept that argument, I urge you to remember where we were at that terrible and painful moment in American history.

As the worst pandemic in modern history raged across the country, over 3,000 Americans

RANDOM Letters

Hypocrites in City Goverment

Re: RLN Oct. 12, 2022: “Up dated on Resignation of Nury Mar tinez Oct. 12: Martinez Resigns

LA city government is full of hypocrites. “Hypocritical involves acting in a way that goes against your stated beliefs. If you drive drunk despite the fact that you are the president of Students Against Drunk Driving, you are truly hypo critical. Hypocritical comes from the Greek hypokritikos which means acting a part.” (Source: Google.)

Racism is now center stage

were dying from COVID-19 every single day and millions, including many with inadequate health insurance, were getting sick. Doctors and nurses lacked adequate personal protective equipment and many hospitals, flooded with CO VID-19 patients, were on the verge of collapse.

Further, as a result of the pandemic, in early 2021 the United States was suffering its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Twenty-four million Americans were unem ployed, under-employed or had given up looking for work. Hunger in America was at its highest level in decades. Millions of Americans were in danger of being evicted from their homes. Hun dreds of thousands of small businesses all over the country were on the verge of going bankrupt.

As the chairman of the Budget Committee, I apologize to no one for helping to pass this bill in the Senate — without one Republican vote. At a time of an unprecedented health and economic cri sis caused by the pandemic, the American Rescue Plan did exactly what a democratic government in a civilized society is supposed to do: respond to the needs of people living in fear and desperation.

I apologize to no one that we provided every working class American and their children with a $1,400 direct payment to get them through the economic crisis they were experiencing.

I apologize to no one that we extended unem ployment benefits and provided an extra $300 a week to Americans who had lost their jobs.

I apologize to no one that we expanded the Child Tax Credit that provided $300 a month per child to working families so that parents could raise their kids with a modicum of security.

I apologize to no one that we prevented hos pitals from closing their doors during the pan demic, fed the hungry, prevented evictions and foreclosures and made sure every American could receive a COVID-19 vaccine for free.

While Republicans continue to criticize the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that helped struggling working class families in a time of economic desperation, it is fair to ask what they are proposing to do if they gain control over the House and the Senate? And here’s the answer.

Almost all of them, from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on down, want to pro vide billionaires a tax break worth up to $1.75 trillion by completely repealing the estate tax.

The estate tax only applies to the wealthiest of the wealthy, the top one-tenth of one percent of American families who inherit over $25 mil lion. In other words, 99.9% of Americans would not benefit at all from the repeal of the estate tax.

How would Republicans pay for this $1.75 trillion tax break to billionaires? They would pay for it by making massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This year, the 158-mem ber Republican Study Committee in the House proposed cutting Medicare by $2.8 trillion and Social Security by $729 billion. An increasing

number of Republicans have even threatened to default on our na tion’s debt unless they are able to enact cuts to Social Security and Medicare. How absurd is that?

You combat infla tion by taking on corpo rate greed and passing a windfall profits tax. You combat inflation by tak ing on the power of the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the giant food companies and lowering the out rageously high costs of healthcare, prescription drugs, gas and grocer ies.

As the longest serving independent in congres sional history, I’m not going to tell you that Demo crats are perfect. Far from it. In a Senate evenly divided 50-50, there are at least two Democrats who have made it clear that they are more interest ed in protecting corporate interests than the needs of working-class families. That has got to change.

Right now, more than any time in modern history, we need a Congress that has the courage to take on the wealthy campaign contributors, super-PACs, and lobbyists who work overtime in protecting the interests of billionaires and corpo rate interests. And that is precisely what Demo crats must do if they expand their majority in the House and the Senate.

with government corruption a close second. I guess none of these char latans heard about the Watergate tapes. How many public figures have been caught by a cell phone or open mic? DJ Don Imus comes to mind. Dumb is dumb. To para phrase that famous movie quote about the planes, the beauty and the beast: “Oh, no, it wasn’t the citizen complaints. It was the cell phone that stopped the racists.”

Cries of racism from Angele nos can frequently be heard at city council public sessions. Those who have complained about city government racism, over the years,

must feel in some small way vindi cated. Martinez, Cedillo, and De Leon are not the only city employ ees who should face public rebuke. Neighborhood council employees, Mayor Garcetti and Mike Feuer have publicly been called racist for not responding to racism com plaints, as seen in city clerk pub lished records requests, and other social media. Racists are well en trenched in our local government, but like those pesky insects, hard to eradicate.

Vacuum the roaches. City gov ernment employees who practice racism should be fired. Miles to go. Thank God for cell phones.

G. Juan Johnson Los Angeles

ILWU at LA Rally Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba

By Mark Friedman, Contributor

The head of the LA Hands Off Cuba Committee, Diana Cervantes, called the weekend’s rally “the largest coordinated effort ever on an international scale.” She said, “We know Cuba needs to get the boot of the U.S. government off their necks.” Cervantes chaired the rally alongside the San Diego Cuba Committee’s (We Are One) Angelica Cardona. The protest of 125, the largest ever in LA against the U.S. blockade of Cuba, was at the Westwood Federal Building, Oct. 29. It coincided

with scores of protests in the U.S., Canada and world-wide.

“The Los Angeles Hands-off Cuba Committee has been organizing caravans, public meetings with Carlos Lazo of Puentes de Amor and collecting money for medical aid and food for Cuba,” added Linh Co, a young Vietnamese committee activist. “We have to survive here every day, paying outrageous rents, but the people of Cuba need our continued efforts to end the blockade, force the U.S. to remove Cuba from the list of nations supporting terrorism, and end the 243 Trump/Biden sanctions.”

Floyd Bryan, representing the Southern CA District of the ILWU, reported that the union had passed a resolution against the blockade and gave $10,000 for medical aid to Cuba.

“Recently we hosted a meeting for Cuban Ambassador to the U.S., Lianys Torres. Cuba needs to be off the state terrorism list … they never were terrorists and won’t ever be,” Bryan said.

The ILWU delegation included Mike Vera, business agent for the union’s marine division.

“Along with you, my brothers and sisters, the Inlandboatmen’s Union stands firm in its conviction to support the people of Cuba and denounce the United States policies that bring such devastating harm to the Cuban people,” Vera said. “Recently our Regional Executive Committee passed a couple resolutions to this effect. This resolution addresses the U.S.’ erroneous complaint that the country of Cuba is the sponsor of terrorism.”

Vera, speaking on behalf the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, Southern California

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Safety in Parks

Paul Ulmon, senior lead officer with the LAPD Harbor Division, said that calls to the police are coded based on priority. He said callers should accurately describe what the problem is, and the level of danger, so that the call is coded correctly.

“You have to remember that the dispatch, they aren’t there, they can’t see anything,” Ulmon said. “So, you really have to provide a lot of details to the dispatcher, so they relay that information to both say, our division, harbor division, and security services division.”

Sgt. William Manlove of the LAPD Harbor Division said that whenever a large event is planned, his department will meet with the organizer of the event, as well as parks and recreation, the Council District 15 office, and the park rangers.

“We do a checkdown list, and see exactly how many people are going to show up, what’s

Region, urged President Joe Biden, Congress, and each federal representative in its jurisdiction, to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Vera also urged our congressional delegation to pass legislation that would eliminate aspects of the embargo that have been codified into law; and remove all sanctions against Cuba by the United States.

“We call on the Biden administration to end all U.S. anti-Cuba economic, trade and travel sanctions and to end the U.S. blockade against Cuba,” Vera said.

Link to photos and videos of major speakers. https://photos.app.goo.gl/8LneKxvcTsyWhFaf6

the activity there, is there going to be alcohol involved, what kind of folks are going to be showing up,” Manlove said. “And that’s going to allow us to determine what type of resources, what our response from LAPD is going to be.”

Ulmon said that sometimes if there isn’t enough staffing for officers to be at an event through its entirety, they will drive by a few times.

Manlove said the LAPD will push back a lot on what they allow to happen at events. For instance, the LAPD will sometimes not allow a large event to have alcohol. However, the LAPD cannot prevent an event from happening at all, as the Department of Parks and Recreation makes the decision whether to grant permits to events.

“They’re going to approve these events, but it’s a matter of how do we make it safer,” Manlove said.

Ultimately, the meeting ended with a lot of questions answered, but with the most important one — how a shooting like Peck Park could be prevented in the future — still unaddressed.

The San Pedro First Thursday ArtWalk celebrates 25 years this month. The ArtWalk has gone through many changes since its inception and even had to stop during the days of the pandemic; subsequently, the Waterfront Arts District began to host “Armchair ArtWalk” during the time of quarantine and social distancing. It was a way to have discussions online with San Pedro artists on First Thursday, instead of the monthly art walk. The artists, however, kept working.

During each ArtWalk tour, a minimum of three galleries are highlighted and the tour rotates through all the galleries. Gathering at 5:30 p.m. at a designated spot like The Artistry Lounge & Gallery, the tour walks guests to the first gallery. Grimes said it’s important for the gallerists or the artists to talk to the group about their work on display. The guests view and discuss the art and

and Alan Johnson, CEO of Jerico Development, conceived the idea of an art walk. Silber, for instance, was instrumental in connecting the community to performing arts by local theater groups like Little Fish Theatre to the downtown restaurants by combining packages for dinner and show. Johnson and others helped in founding the Historic Waterfront Property Business Improvement District called PBID, which lends marketing and financial support to the downtown business district.

Before the Waterfront Arts District became a nonprofit — when it was the ACE Committee under the aegis of the Community Redevelopment Agency — Grimes was hired by Walter Beaumont, CRA assistant manager, to study other art walks. These events were happening across the country, but San Pedro’s was continue to the next gallery. They usually finish within the hour, so guests have time to visit the rest of the artwalk.

Former arts district board member Pat Carroll, who died in 2020, was the first person to hold art talks in the boardroom gallery at the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce when it still displayed artworks. Carroll’s dedication in this effort served not only the art walk but also the artists, in bolstering their work and its context, as well as educating the community about this unique cultural asset in its own neighborhood. Carroll served on the Board of the Grand Vision Foundation and on the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council. She was involved in the early days with the CRA-funded ACE District and she served as chair of the arts district.

Grimes spoke at length to Random Lengths News about the 25-year milestone and what it means for San Pedro and its future.

“I’m just grateful that almost everybody survived the pandemic,” said Grimes. “Some people [have] passed away … but pretty much all the spaces that had galleries are still there. It’s amazing to me that it’s been going on so long.”

Grimes, referencing the beginning of the ArtWalk, said gallery owner Robin Hinchcliffe along with Andrew Silber, then-owner of The Whale & Ale restaurant in the arts district

one of the first art walks in the region.

Up until that point, artists had been migrating to downtown San Pedro since the ‘90s, attracted by the relatively cheap rents. After a while, San Pedro started gaining a reputation as an arts destination.

In the early 2000s the Arts Culture and Entertainment or ACE District institutionalized the emerging arts scene and made San Pedro an arts destination. The arts district was created through the vision of RLN publisher James Preston Allen and seven years of lobbying with the help of the CRA. It captured some $500,000 of funding for the ACE District before the statewide dissolution of CRAs. The arts district had a diverse board of members, mostly artists, overseeing it with guidance from Beaumont. The goal, Beaumont said, was to provide as many people as possible “to meet the aspirations of … the artists, cultural institutions, the public … but it also needs to meet the goals of the local property owners.”

Gov. Jerry Brown’s dissolution of the CRA effectively ended the majority artistrun board. The founding of the PBID further shifted influence over the art walk away

Top, art patrons gather near Gallery Azul in the Art Deco building at the corner of 8th Street and Pacific Avenue during a recent First Thursday ArtWalk. The San Pedro town square at 6th and Mesa streets. Photos by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

Adventures in Green Tomato Cookery

By Ari LeVaux, Flash In the Pan Columnist

hen you hear “green tomatoes,” does the word “fried” come to mind automatically? Aside from that southern classic of breaded green tomato slices fried golden, few people have any idea of what else to do with hard, unripe tomatoes. Last week at a blustery farmer’s market, there were green tomatoes for sale. But nobody – vendors or customers alike — had the foggiest idea what else to do with them, beyond the obvious.

On that almost-last market of the year, I decided to add green tomatoes to a stew of the most colorful nuggets of produce I could find. Waxy golden potatoes, orange-fleshed squash, fully ripened red Anaheim peppers, and dark green kale. I cooked this farm-grown bounty with wild rice, a deer bone, and locally foraged chanterelles and lobster mushrooms. The fungus gave all of its earthy flavor to the broth. And the slices of green tomato from the pile on the counter did what a squeeze of lemon could otherwise have done — cut through the butter, oil and meat juices and sharpen the flavor.

Most soups or stews could probably benefit from some pieces of in-season, non-fried green tomatoes, so don’t be afraid to chop and throw some in. They won’t bother you, and will probably just melt away, especially if you chop them small enough. And beyond the soup pot, any dish that could stand a squeeze of lemon could probably use a strategically placed green tomato along the way.

A few days later I discovered how to make a green tomato sauce by accident while cooking

cauliflower with bacon. As the bacon browned, I added some green tomato slices to see what would happen. They vanished into a simmering reduction. I added the cauliflower and cooked it in the sauce until it was soft and irresistible.

I will leave you with my recipes for green tomato soup and green tomato sauce. Once you give them a try, hopefully, that pile on the counter won’t look so daunting.

Green Tomato Stew

This soup must be rich and fatty in order for the green tomatoes to do their thing, so don’t skimp on the oil and butter. If you don’t have or want, a meaty bone, use stock in place of water. Serves 8.

12 cups water

1 or 2 soup bones (or replace the water with chicken, beef or veggie stock)

1 cup wild rice

1 pound squash, peeled, seeded and cut into cubes

1 pound of potatoes, cubed

6 tablespoons olive oil

1 large onion, chopped

1 pound mushrooms; wild, domestic, or a mix

4 tablespoons butter

4 sprigs fresh thyme

3 large green tomatoes, cut into wedges

Several leaves of kale pulled off the rib and chopped

3 cloves garlic, chopped

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 teaspoons salt (if using stock instead of water, just add salt to taste)

Optional: roasted chile peppers as a garnish

Add the 12 cups of water or stock to a large pot, along with a soup bone if using. Heat on medium. Add the wild rice and simmer for an hour. Add the potatoes and simmer for another 30 minutes, until the rice is soft and turns inside out.

While the rice cooks preheat the oven to 375. Clean the squash and cut it into cubes. Toss them in two tablespoons of olive oil on a baking pan, and roast until soft and starting to brown, about 40 minutes. Turn off the oven but leave them in to cool slowly until needed.

BIG NICK’S PIZZA

Tradition, variety and fast delivery or takeout—you get it all at Big Nick’s Pizza. The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pas tas and our amazing selec tion of signature pizzas. We are taking all safety pre cautions to protect our din ers and staff. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on new developments. Call for fast delivery or to place a pick up order. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Big Nicks’ Pizza, 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-732-5800, www.bignickspizza.com

BUONO’S AUTHENTIC PIZZERIA

Family owned and operated since 1965, Buo no’s is famous for award-winning brick oven baked pizza. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected fresh ingredients. Now limited dinein and patio service, takeout and delivery. Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Buono’s Pizzeria, corner of 6th and Centre sts., Little Italy San Pedro, 310-547-0655, www.buonospizza.com

HAPPY DINER #1

The Happy Diner #1 in Down town San Pedro isn’t your av erage diner. The selections range from Italian- and Mex ican-influenced entrées to American Continental. Happy Diner chefs are always cre ating something new—take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and veg etables prepared any way you like. Dine in or al fresco or call for takeout. Hours: Mon.-Wed. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #1, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro, 310-241-0917, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DINER #2

Built on the suc cess of Happy Diner #1, Happy Diner #2 offers American favor ites like omelets and burgers, fresh salads, plus pasta and Mexican dishes are served. Order online for delivery or call for pickup. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #2, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-9352933, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DELI

The Happy Deli is a small place with a big menu. Food is made-to-order using the freshest ingredients. Break fast burritos and breakfast sandwiches include a small coffee. For lunch or dinner select from fresh salads, wraps, buffalo wings, cold and hot sandwiches, burg ers and dogs. Order online or call for takeout or delivery. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 am. to 8 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Deli, 530 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 424-364-0319, www.happydel isp.com

PINA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT

Pina’s Mexican Restaurant serves traditonal Mexican food from Michoacan for breakfast through dinner, and is known for specialty enchiladas, burritos, tacos and mariscos served in a comfortable, casual dining atmosphere. Pina’s now has a full bar and outside dining, so come on by for a real margarita! Party trays for any occasion. Hours: Sun.Wed. 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Thurs. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pina’s Mexican Restaurant, 1430 W. 25th St., San Pedro, 310-547-4621, www.pinasmexicanrestaurant.com

SAN PEDRO BREWING COMPANY

A micro brewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-win ning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, BBQ, sandwiches, salads and burgers. Order your growlers, house drafts and cocktails to go (with food purchase)! Open daily 12 to 8 p.m. for indoor or al fresco dining, takeout and delivery.. San Pedro Brewing Com pany, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-831-5663, www.sanpedrobrewing.com

WEST COAST PHILLY’S

Welcome to West Coast Philly’s Chees esteak and Hoagies where authentic Philly cheesesteaks meet the wa terfront in San Pedro. Along with serving the classic cheesesteak, West Coast Philly’s puts its unique twist on its cheesesteaks and hoagies. Also on the menu are subs, burgers, wings and salads. Happy hour from 2 to 6 p.m., Mon.-Thurs. Indoor dining or order online or call for pickup. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. West Coast Philly’s, 1902 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, 424-264-5322, www.westcoast phillys.com

Green tomato stew, with soup bones. Photo by Ari LeVaux

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At this point, they are like candy and hard not to keep eating. Beware. Enjoy.

While the squash cooks, saute the onions and mushrooms in the butter and remaining oil. Add the thyme, and cook on medium heat, stirring as necessary, until the mushrooms are limp and the onions are translucent.

Add the mushrooms and onions to the soup pot, along with soy sauce, kale, garlic, roasted squash chunks, and green tomatoes. Simmer for ten minutes and adjust the seasonings with salt and pepper. Garnish with roasted sweet or spicy peppers.

Green Tomato Sauce

Full of savory zing, this all-purpose sauce is great on meat and vegetables. You will need a heavy-bottomed pan with a tight-fitting lid.

1 green tomato, cored and sliced into about 12 wedges

2 tablespoons olive oil (or two slices of chopped bacon)

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 cubic inch of ginger, peeled and sliced

12-ounces cauliflower florets or another vegetable, or pieces of meat

1 cup of water

1 tablespoon fish sauce

1 tablespoon soy sauce salt and pepper

Fry the green tomatoes in the oil on medium heat. After five minutes add the ginger and garlic. Cook another five minutes, stirring often. Before anything burns, add the cauliflower and the water and put the lid on. Steam should build up under the lid and melt those green tomatoes into a sauce, which will coat the cauliflower, meat, or whatever you have cooking in it. Season with salt and pepper, and serve.

MUSIC

Nov. 11

Rafael Moreira Trio

Rafael brings music from his first solo Album titled Acid Guitar, an original blend of jazz, rock, fu sion and a hint of Brazilian soul plus brand new compositions with the addition of his very own cov ers from ’70s jazz/fusion greats Weather Report and Tony Wil liams as well as rock legends Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 11 Cost: $25 Details: https://tinyurl. com/3yda6vfe Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Twanguero

Grammy-winner known interna tionally for his dynamic Latintwang sound, derived from Span ish guitar, American folk, flamenco and tango, and for his impeccable fingerpicking style.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 11 Cost: $25 to 140 Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/twanguero/ Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Nov.

13

Considering Matthew Shepard

Extending the important conver sation started in its Peace Proj ect performance, Long Beach Camerata Singers will perform a fully-staged version of this con temporary oratorio by Craig Hella Johnson in its entirety. This per formance will also introduce Cam erata’s new professional chamber ensemble, The Catalyst Ensem ble, to the community.

Time: 4:30 p.m., Nov. 13 Cost: $40 to $65 Details: 562-900-2863

Venue: Beverly O’Neill Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

Second Sundays at Two Join an international collaboration of two stellar artists, Canadian pi anist Bernedene Blaha and swiss violinist Laurence Kayaleh. Time: 2 p.m., Nov. 13 Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/classical crossroads/

Venue: Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, 26438 Crehshaw Blvd., Rolling Hills Estates

Nov. 18

Richard Smith

Richard Smith returns to Southern California to show case his diverse virtuosic rep ertoire that spans fingerpick ing, classical, jazz, country, rags to marches to pop.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 18

Cost: $25

Details: https://tinyurl.com/ yc7jbe7z

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Long Beach Symphony

Virtuoso guitarist Enrico Cha pela introduces rock, elec tronica, jazz, and film scores. Award-winning pianist Nata sha Paremski plays Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and the concert’s second half features Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite followed by the famously cannon-filled 1812 Overture.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 19 with a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk Cost: $32 and up Details: 562-436-3203; Long BeachSymphony.org

Venue: Long Beach Terrace Theater, 300 Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

Nov. 20

The United States Air Force Band

The Airmen of Note is the pre mier jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force. Created in 1950, the Airmen of Note has presented its own brand of big band jazz as well as more contemporary forms of jazz to audiences across the United States and around the world.

Time: 3 p.m., Nov. 20

Cost: Free, tickets are required Details: https://tinyurl. com/44du3day

Venue: El Camino College, Mar see Auditorium, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Dec. 3

Scott Henderson Trio Scott Henderson’s work over the years as co-leader of the group Tribal Tech, leader of his own trio and sideman to some of the best jazz artists of their generation, in cluding Joe Zawinul, has elevated him to the front ranks of both jazz and blues.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 3

Cost: $35 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ScottHenderson-trio

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

THEATER Nov. 11

Urinetown

A musical satire of drought, capi talism, bureaucracy and politics, Urinetown imagines a 20-yeardrought and the stress it puts on a large city. With water a scarce commodity, private toilets are out lawed. Public restrooms are con trolled by the Urine Good Com pany. A hero decides he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, and Satur day and 2 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 19

Cost: $14 to $18

Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org

Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Relatively Speaking

Enjoy a popular British farce set in 1965. Playwright Alan Ayck bourn’s play centers around two couples, Ginny and Greg and Philip and Sheila. Greg and Ginny have been seeing one another for about a month. Despite the short courtship, Greg is planning to pro pose to Ginny. But when he finds a pair of shoes beneath her bed that aren’t his, he becomes suspicious.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 3 Cost: $14 to $24

Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org

Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

O’Connor. This is a play based on the dystopian 1949 novel, which is today more relevant than ever.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Friday and Sat urday and 2 p.m., Sundays Nov. 17 to Dec. 3

Cost: $15 to $40 Details: https://tinyurl.com/or well-1984

Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Nov. 18

Gazillion Bubble Show

Audiences are in for an incre dibubble experience at the Gazil lion Bubble Show, now in its 15th year. Expect bubble magic, laserlighting effects, and soapy mas terpieces like bubble tides. Some may even find themselves inside a bubble.

Time: 7 p.m., Nov. 18 and 3 and 7 p.m., Nov. 19 Cost: $30 to $60 Details: www.cerritoscenter.com Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Pla za Drive, Cerritos

ART

Nov. 10

Impermanence: Stories of Rapture and Repair

This group exhibition features the work of Jamil Austin, Ja’net Dan ielo, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Vannia Ib arguen, Pamela K. Johnson, Cody Lusby, Trinh Mai, Elizabeth Mun zon, Elyse Cajefe Pignolet and Katie Stubblefield.

Time: Tuesday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, 12 to 6 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, Saturday, now through April 30

Cost: Free Details: www.artslb.org Venue: Billie Jean King Library, 200 W. Broadway, Long Beach

Nov. 11

CraftNOW Symposium Screening and Artist Talk

lives of local artists who create at Angels Gate Cultural Center. Time: 12 to 4 p.m., Nov. 19 Cost: Free Details: https://angelsgateart.org/ openstudiosday Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

DANCE

Nov. 11

Fall Advanced Dance Concert

This fall favorite features a new work by guest artist JM. Rodri guez as well as faculty members Liz Adamis, Daniel Berney, Jona than Bryant and Valerie Cabag and selected student works. Many genres of dance will be repre sented, including ballet, modern, contemporary, world, jazz and hip-hop. Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 11, 12 Cost: $10 to $15 Details: https://elcaminotickets. universitytickets.com/w/ Venue: El Camino College, Mar see Auditorium, 16700 Cremshaw Blvd., Torrance

FILM

Nov. 12

What is a Western? Easy Rider

This story of two outlaws on mo torcycles traveling from Los Ange les to New Orleans proved to be one of the enduring films of the 1960s counterculture. By combin ing sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll with the Western genre and other icons of Americana, the film tied its hip pie heroes, Wyatt and Billy, to the cowboy tradition — and to Ameri can identity.

Time: 1:30 p.m., Nov. 12 Cost: $6 to $14

Details: https://tinyurl. com/2d8neepn

Venue: The Autry Museum in Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heri tage Way, Los Angeles

Nov. 14

Forest Giants

from 6 to 7 p.m., the film will be screened from 7 to 8:40 p.m., and there will be a panel discussion from 8:40 to 9:15 p.m.

Time: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Nov. 11

Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl. com/8x57d4e6

Venue: Battleship USS Iowa, rear deck, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

COMMUNITY Nov. 11

Carson Veterans Day Celebration

Join a special recognition to vet erans and soldiers serving in wars around the world. Traditional mili tary rites, including a flag-folding ceremony, will be observed. Ad ditionally, new names that were added to the City of Carson’s Veterans’ Wall will be presented during the event. The keynote speaker is retired United States Air Force Officer Shawn Eure. Time: 10 to 12 p.m., Nov. 11 Cost: Free.

Details: For information contact Parks and Recreation Depart ment, 310-847-3570 or Veterans Park, 310-830-9991

Venue: Veterans Park, 22400 Mo neta Ave., Carson Nov.

12

Community Ofrenda

Join Cafe Chapin for this special cultural celebration, open to the public of all ages. The venue is showcasing a new monthly group art exhibit of original artworks. The public is invited to come and add an image or object to the Commu nity Ofrenda/Altar to honor their loved ones. Meet the artists, dine and talk about art.

Time: 5 p.m. Nov. 12. to 9 p.m. Nov. 25

Cost: Free Details: 562-756-3428 Venue: Cafe Chapin, 1436-A Cherry Ave., Long Beach

West Harbor Sip, Savor and Set Sail

Set sail on a Saturday festival of fun when you join West Harbor to celebrate all that is coming to the LA Waterfront. The day will in clude: food from a variety of West Harbor tenants and San Pedro fa vorites; beer garden, harbor cruis es, performers and entertainment, live art and kids activities.

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Nov. 12 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/sipand-sale

Venue: West Harbor Promenade, 600 Sampson Way, San Pedro

Cost: Free admission for SCCSS members and their guests

Details: southcoastcss.org

Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula

Nov. 16

Peck Park Trail Hike

Join a guided two-mile fitness hike at an easy/moderate pace in Peck Park Canyon in San Pedro, a little-known canyon that pro vides a connection to nature and an escape from the city. The route is good for beginners or anyone who wants to notch their steps in a leafy natural setting and learn more about plans to revitalize this hidden gem. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle. Meet at the lower parking lot/Peck Park Canyon sign.

Time: 9 a.m., Nov.16

Cost: Free Details: https://www.nwsanpedro. org/post/peck-park-trail-hikesnov-16-25-dec-21

Venue: Peck Park, 560 N. West ern Ave., San Pedro

Nov. 19

Skincare in the Ancient World

In this hands-on workshop you will create your own skincare products using simple ingredients that the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans would have used. Regis tration required and limited to 16 participants.

Time: 10 a.m., Nov. 19

Cost: Free Details: 310-371-2075; www.Library.TorranceCA.Gov Venue: Henderson Library, 4805 Emerald St., Torrance

Nov. 26

Holiday Bazaar

The second annual Holiday Ba zaar is back in action on Nov. 26. Come out to shop, eat, drink and be merry. The event will have 30plus bands and artists and food and beer.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Nov. 26 Cost: Free Details: 424-264-5557; https://www.thesardinepedro.com Venue: The Sardine, 1101 S. Pa cific Ave., San Pedro

Nov. 27

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

Outdoor Holiday Market

Celebrate and support local, in dependent artisans, enjoy food and music and shop for a cause. Hosted by the Friends of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nov. 27

Cost: Free

Details: https://www.cabrillomari neaquarium.org

Love’s Labour’s Lost: A

Puppet Play With People

The king of Navarre and his complement have sworn a threeyear pledge to abandon all of life’s pleasures for study and selfimprovement. As fate would have it, the princess of France arrives shortly after with her ladies in tow, causing the king’s crew to battle with their oath.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 11 to 19, Thurs day, Friday, Saturday, Dec. 1 to 17 Cost: $18 to $30 Details: 866-811-4111; www.thegaragetheatre.org

Venue: The Garage Theatre: 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach Nov. 17

George Orwell’s 1984

The House of Bards Theatre Company presents the autho rized stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 directed by Renee

Join a special screening of HOME as part of Philadelphia’s Craft MONTH, organized by CraftNOW. Following the screening is a con versation and Q&A with featured artists from Philadelphia. Time: 11:15 a.m., Nov. 11 Cost: Free Details: RSVP https://www.craft nowphila.org/symposium/ Venue: Online

Nov. 19

Craig Keith Antrim Selected Works

This exhibition features works by the late Craig Keith Antrim (19422022) painter, teacher and San Pedro resident. The exhibition will be on view until Dec. 30. Time: 4 to 7 p.m., Nov. 19

Cost: Free

Details: http://www.spacedistrict. org/a/gallery478

Venue: Transvagran + Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Open Studios Day

Open Studios Day is a family event that provides the public a glimpse into the process, art, and

California is a special place: home to giant sequoias, the earth’s larg est living things. Bathed in coastal mists, lush redwood forests reach skyward, claiming title as the world’s tallest trees. Stories from the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest make a different claim. The search for forest giants brings you to spectacular landscapes and unique, exotic environments.

Time: 3 and 7:30 p.m., Nov. 14 Cost: $14 to $16

Details: https://tinyurl.com/forestgiants

Venue: El Camino College, Mar see Auditorium, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Nov. 11

Causeway On Battleship Iowa

Join on Veterans Day for a film screening followed by a panel of experts to discuss issues raised in the film Causeway starring Jenni fer Lawrence as a soldier return ing from Afghanistan with TBI and PTSD. The film is a quiet portrait of how relationships foster recov ery. There will be a meet and greet

Autumn Festival: A Celebration of Asian Culture

The festival highlights the tra ditions and cultures of Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines through a weekend of learning opportunities that celebrate the rich diversity of Asian and Asian American cultures. The festival will feature traditional craft dem onstrations, music, dance, cultural arts exhibits and storytelling.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 12, 13

Cost: Free with admission

Details: www.aquariumofpacific. org/visit/tickets

Venue: Aquarium Of The Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach Nov. 13

Kelly Griffin

Kelly, a succulent plant hybridizer, propagator and avid plant explor er, will share the flora and fauna he found over two trips to the Ye meni island, Socotra. He found the plants are under pretty severe stress, mostly from “progress” and increased farming. Kelly will share and discuss plants from Mainland Yemen, too.

Time: 1 p.m., Nov. 13

Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

Dec. 4

2nd Annual Long Beach International Tamales Festival

This all-day holiday inspired fair features tamales from different regions of Latin America, Latin-in spired dishes, drinks, tequila tast ings, live music, art workshops for kids, performances, best home made tamales contest, shopping and more. KCRW DJ Raul Cam pos kicks off the event as emcee and interlude music curator.

Time: Dec. 4

Cost: $25 to $65

Details: https://tinyurl.com/tama les-fest-LB

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

from the artists in favor of the Chamber of Commerce and property owners. The PBID never really fulfilled its promise to fund the arts district to the level that it promised when the ACE district was formed.

One of the early goals of the ACE Committee was to set in place policies that would prevent the pricing out of artists from San Pedro’s downtown core as it had happened in other arts locales that had been gentrified. That’s one goal that has yet to be realized.

Still, the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District continued to check items on its checklist to make downtown San Pedro an arts destination, which includes being designated by the California Arts Council as one of 14 California Cultural Districts in 2017.

The way an arts district engages a community is determined, in part, by its size. San Pedro’s arts district caters to a small but densely populated, diverse, urban-suburban “neighborhood” of Los Angeles. With that, the Waterfront Arts District responds to this small but diverse town ethos in similar spirit, with multiple, varied cultural offerings for the community that take place on a more intimate level.

Artists and more recent galleries like Menduina Schneider have long pushed for an arts center as an anchor in downtown San Pedro. They thought they had that when the Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts in San Pedro opened in 2015. The combined facilities located in the historic district of San Pedro was supposed to provide undergraduate students with instruction, internships and a cultural connection to the already existing creative

corridor downtown. Perhaps more importantly it was supposed to be a keystone for the arts and economy in San Pedro.

The Marymount’s financial troubles ultimately doomed that plan before it was eventually shut down in 2022. With all the new housing developments being built downtown, combining the arts district events with an art center would create a dynamic draw to San Pedro as an arts destination.

Local artists who have been a part of the arts district since the beginning such as Ron Linden and Ray and Arnée Carofano have pushed to prioritize maintaining low to moderate income housing designated as live-work spaces and implement zoning changes where property owners of large buildings could convert them into large live-work spaces.

There have been many fights over whether the ArtWalk resembled a flea market with food trucks and kiddy rides rather than a place where serious art can be found. Those arguments largely disappeared when the ACE Committee became a nonprofit.

The ArtWalk has a family-friendly vibe to it, which is great for some people. But what the artists have asked for is to have more input and more support of their work.

The way to do that is to enlist the artists in the future survival and flourishing of the arts district. This would solidify the foundation of the district as a major LA arts destination — all while keeping the artists here.

To read the rest of this story, visit: https:// tinyurl.com/san-pedro-artwalk-25years

TransVagrant + GALLERY 478

CRAIG KEITH ANTRIM

(Sept. 6, 1942- Sept. 15, 2022)

Selected Works

November 19 – December 30, 2022

Orbits, 2012, acrylic, charcoal on canvas, 30” X 30”

Antrim wedded spirituality with the sensual in his work. Spiritual iconography appears, evolves, disappears, and reappears in a variety of reductive abstract guises – paint often revealing embedded forms, symbols, and fragments evocative of mandalas.

Craig Keith Antrim: Selected Works will open with a public reception Saturday, Nov. 19 from 4 to 7 p.m. and runs through Dec. 30.

Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro.

For additional information please contact Ron Linden, 310-600-4873.

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Julia Frances Scoville

Julia Frances Scoville, nee Tokar, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Oct. 24, 2021 in Modesto, California, just eight days before her 100th birthday. Sto lat!

Julia was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania to Michael and Mary Tokarczyk of Jaslo, Poland. The second of five children in a Polish community, she did not speak English until she enrolled in school. As a teenager during the Great Depression, Julia got jobs as a maid in wealthier households. One of her employers encouraged her to further her education and allowed access to their library. This opened her mind to the world, to compassion for others, to peace, and to greater good.

Education/Career

Never afraid to learn, at the onset of World War II, Julia studied metallurgy and chemistry to work as a quality control specialist at a munition plant in Elgin, Illinois. There she saw a newsreel for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, a federal program to train nurses during wartime. Julia was hooked. She attended Saint Anthony Hospital School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado with room and

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to be disavowed, and it can only be disavowed by more conspiracy theories, which prompts more violence.”

On Oct. 30, Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, joined the disinformation frenzy, promoting a false narrative (claiming Pelosi met his attacker at a gay bar) from known misinformation site, The Santa Monica Observer, which once claimed that Hillary Clinton had been killed on 9/11 and replaced by a body double.

Others, like Donald Trump Jr., made jokes.

“The response on the right to the attack on Paul Pelosi should ring alarm bells,” Dr. Joanne Freeman, author of two books on early American political violence, said on Twitter. “By laughing at it, they are not only normalizing such violence. They are welcoming it. It’s entertaining to them. It plays well. It’s miles beyond ‘stand back and stand by.’ It’s approval.”

The attempted attack on Nancy Pelosi highlights a much broader problem: threats to members of Congress have increased 10-fold since Trump took office (from 900 cases in 2016 to 9,625 in 2021), far exceeding the capacity of Capitol police to protect them. But Pelosi is also unique. For more than a decade, she has been the focus of otherizing — often demonizing — Republican attacks, portrayed as a shadowy sinister figure in a way that no male speaker has ever been treated. In 2010, Republicans launched a “Fire Pelosi’’ project, which included lurid images of her engulfed in Hades-style flames, and just last year GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked that “it will be hard not to hit” Pelosi with the speaker’s gavel if he becomes the next speaker. This year, through Oct. 24, they spent substantially more money attacking Pelosi ($36.9 million) than they have talking about immigration ($27.2 million). So, the GOP stampede to lie or joke about the attack should not be surprising to anyone.

The response was far different the last time a House leader was seriously threatened, when GOP whip Steve Scalise was shot during practice for the Congressional baseball game in 2017.

“Tonight we’re all team Scalise,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper, in a joint interview with then-Speaker Paul Ryan during the baseball game

board, books and supplies, three uniforms and a stipend all provided. The experience instilled in her the value and need for public health. She completed her training in 1947, moved to New York City and earned a B.S. degree from Hunter College and her R.N. license. She started her career in New York’s Bellevue Hospital before moving to Los Angeles where she became a visiting nurse on the Westside. Julia finished her R.N. career at LA County’s USC Medical Center. All along Julia took classes in Spanish, computers, and sailing/navigation to broaden her experiences and learn new skills. In LA she trained nurses at County hospital and taught Sunday School at First Unitarian Church.

Family

Julia’s cherished daughter Diane was born in NY in 1949. In 1958 she met labor activist Francis Scoville at church where they were wed. Their two children Carrie and Eric were born shortly thereafter and dedicated to the First Unitarian Church. The Scovilles lived in the Echo Park Neighborhood of LA where they made lifelong

itself. “What we’re trying to do is tone down the rhetoric, lead by example,” Ryan said, “we can disagree with one another, we can have different ideas, without being vitriolic.” But today’s GOP is nothing like what it was just five years ago. It’s now deeply invested in demonizing its perceived enemies — from political leaders like Pelosi down to ordinary poll workers, who’ve quit in droves under threats of violence since the 2020 election.

Maricopa County is also ground zero in the latest form of voter suppression: the appearance of vigilante “poll-watchers,” dressed in body armor, sometimes even armed, which has resulted in 18 criminal complaints as of Nov. 4, along with a restraining order from a federal court, and a stern warning from the county’s Board of Supervisors chair, Bill Gates, and County Recorder, Stephen Richer — both Republicans

The idea of monitoring drop boxes developed on rightwing social media, but leading the way is an organization, Clean Elections USA, which has more than 4,500 people across the country to collect evidence for True the Vote, the organization that created the 2000 Mules movie which claimed there was widespread “ballot harvesting” at drop boxes in the 2020 election, but without a shred of hard evidence, according to an Oct. 27 report from Votebeat Arizona

This new project appears to be an attempt to gather the evidence missing from their first try,” Votebeat reported, and to share that evidence with local sheriffs through an organization founded by Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, which says it aims to “provide local Sheriffs with the training, resources and tools to have realtime eyes on voting in their county.

Drop boxes played a crucial role enabling people to vote safely during the peak of the pandemic in 2020, giving voters an easier way to vote than ever before. The fact that Republicans have pushed back against them so hard typifies their efforts to suppress the vote. It’s well-understood that higher turnout — especially among younger voters — will favor the Democrats. What’s less understood is how effective Republican’s efforts of voter suppression and election subversion will be — and what new forms they will take, depending on the final outcome of this week’s elections.

friendships with their neighbors.

Social Justice/Activism

Both Julia and Francis were active in social causes, labor and anti-war protests. In New York, Julia served as secretary to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In LA, she volunteered tirelessly for electoral campaigns, from John Kennedy, to Shirley Chisolm, to George McGovern and Bernie Sanders. She assisted HUD with housing discrimination in Glendale, Burbank and Torrance. She was a feminist, attending consciousness-raising groups in the early 1970s and refusing to do housework after a long day of nursing. She joined the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) supporting female candidates for office.

Sailing

After her retirement, the Scovilles purchased the Huckleberry Frog, fulfilling Julia’s lifelong dream of sailing. They lived aboard the boat for the next fifteen years in the Sacramento Delta, Wilmington, and the Long Beach Marina. Julia encouraged women sailors to get out of the galley and take the helm. She obtained her U.S. Coast Guard Captain’s license and trained an allwoman crew, becoming the first ever to enter the prestigious Newport to Ensenada race. She joined the Westward Cruising Club in Wilmington and regularly raced to/from Catalina Island winning a locker full of trophies for the club.

Travel

A world traveler, Julia started as a young woman with a trip to Puerto Rico. Just after arriving in LA, she immediately learned how to drive, got a drivers license and drove with her daughter Diane and a friend through Mexico. She was a fearless adventurer and loved meeting people. In the 1990s she spent six months in the South Pacific crewing aboard a sailboat with her friend, then traveling independently throughout the region. She visited every continent except Antarctica. Julia was a 50year member of the Sierra Club. She loved nature, wildlife, and the outdoors.

Giving Back

Julia loved young people for whom she always had kind words and encouragement. She especially loved children and they loved

her. She always had a toy, a game, a story, and a Polaroid photo. She bought toys for children she knew, for those she didn’t know, and for those not yet born. In 1996, Julia traveled to Iraq when it was under sanctions to bring teddy bears and medical supplies for the kids. Her love and care for the world’s children drew her to Global Gifts benefiting the United Nations Children’s Fund. She volunteered for years at its Long Beach and San Pedro locations.

In Long Beach, Julia joined the Grey Panthers, ultimately serving as president for two terms. She believed in their principles of activism around peace, Medicare for All, and saving and expanding Social Security.

Under her leadership, the Grey Panthers grew in membership and influence in Long Beach. She served on the Grey Panthers national board, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Congress of California Seniors.

When Julia and Francis approached their 80s, they moved off the boat and into an apartment in San Pedro. In 2001, the invasion of Afghanistan began. Julia and Francis joined the Long Beach Area Peace Network’s weekly anti-war vigil on Second Street. Soon they became founding members of San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice which established a weekly peace vigil at First and Gaffey streets that continued until the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

In 2004, Julia and Francis blockaded the Gaffey Street Vons store in support of the striking UFCW grocery workers. They were arrested and taken to Los Angeles Police Department Harbor Station. The protesters were dubbed the “San Pedro Nine” and honored by the ACLU and the Harry Bridges Institute.

Julia was elected to the board of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council in 2005, serving one term.

Her time was short due to the difference between her activist nature and the nature of governance. But her instincts were right, the participatory governance model is the future for democracy.

She continued living in San Pedro with her daughter Carrie, traveling, protesting, marching and advocating until her 99th birthday when she joined Joseph and Joan Tokar at Bethel

Retirement Home in Modesto.

We love Julia deeply and her contribution to the world is great. She is preceded by her parents Mary and Michael Tokar(czyk), her sister Louise German (Tokar), her brothers John and Joseph Tokar, and her husband Francis LeRoy Scoville. She is survived by her sister Polly Nelson (Tokar); her children Diane, Carrie and Eric; Leslie Hobson (Scoville) and her children Braden and Reed Johnston; Bonnie Castillo and her daughter Manae Ross; and numerous nieces, nephews and grandchildren.

Do widzenia, Julia, fair winds and following seas.

In lieu of flowers please send contributions in her memory to San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice, Long Beach Gray Panthers, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, UNICEF, or your favorite organization.

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