By James Preston Allen, Publisher
[See Open Up, p. 10]
A Silent Killer Behind Bars
Activists take to the streets, courts to protect the incarcerated from COVID-19 By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Family members of inmates at Terminal Island prison in San Pedro demonstrate outside the facility Sunday, May 3. Photo by David Rosenfeld/SCNG
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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague and similarly-themed books, made two attention-grabbing comments the first week in May. Appearing on Pacifica’s Democracy Now! on May 6, she warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could last 36 months as a best-case scenario. “36 months is my best-case scenario,” Garrett told host Amy Goodman. “Worst case is that it becomes a new permanent feature on the landscape for generations to come.” Then, on MSNBC’s The Last Word, she warned that we don’t have a national strategy to deal with COVID-19, in part because we’ve lost the distinction between strategy and tactics.
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[See Terminal Island, p. 6]
There’s a strategy for beating COVID-19 but America isn’t following it
Few know it, but San Pedro is home to one of the hottest COVID-19 hotspots in the nation. That’s why a week before Mother’s Day, more than a dozen family members and friends of inmates at the Terminal Island Federal prison picketed outside the facility’s gates, to demand better treatment for their loved ones. Few local residents know that this prison exists right across the main channel from the rest of the town, nor that terminal Island
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Cars and motorcycles jammed Pacific Avenue May 8, the first day the stay-at-home orders were eased. Photo by Chris Villanueva.
SAN PEDRO — At about 6 p.m. May 8, several dozen cars and motorcycles started to gather and cruise along Pacific avenue between 17th Street and 6th Street. It was the very first day that the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home orders were starting to be lifted, allowing flower shops, book and record shops and clothing stores to provide “curbside pickup” like restaurants have been doing since March 19. This however looked like a celebration. But it was a protest. Social distancing and masks were not prevalent. They were greeted by several patrol cars and motor units from the Los Angeles Police Department and at least one California Highway Patrol unit. The street was blocked off between 9th and 11th Streets forcing the lowrider crowds to park at the Bank of America and the AutoZone lots, where the gathering continued without the cruising. The parade of classic cars, souped up Chevys and other hot rods made for a traffic jamb of noise and exhaust that
[See Fighting, p. 16]
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City of Carson COVID-19 Response A message from the Carson City Council “Thank you, Carson residents for wearing your face masks and for your generosity during these most troubling times.� Albert Robles Mayor
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City of Carson, CARSON COVID-19 UPDATES Control Council: In an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 and flatten the curve Future Unlmited Disaster to keep residents safe, City of Carson elected officials unanimously approved partnering with
US Health Fairs, a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non- profit organization to provide free testing to ALL residents who may have been exposed to COVID-19. This includes those who are displaying symptoms and asymptomatic carriers. Those with acute (severe) symptoms such as high fever and shortness of breath will be redirected to a local ER. To schedule an appointment to get tested, please register online at https://ushealthfairs.org/ carson-testing/ or call (310) 952-1719. Resource Center: Residents can call (310) 952-1750 for resources and information. Live operators are standing by Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Meal Delivery: The City of Carson, in partnership with the Lighthouse, Meals on Wheels, and YMCA is providing meals to seniors and homebound residents. Lunch Pick-Up Monday through Friday starting at 11 a.m. until supplies last. Distribution takes place at Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St.
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Carson Essentials To Go: Residents can order groceries safely from their homes over the telephone, and city employees will deliver the package of their choice within 3 to 5 business days. Call (310) 952-1765 Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for more information, or to place your order. Order from four different packages based on family size that cost between $43 and $55. Grab and Go: Los Angeles Unified, in partnership with the Red Cross, will continue to provide nutritious meals to all students who need them during the temporary closure of schools. Our Grab & Go Food Centers are staffed weekdays from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Each child can take home two nutritious meals. Visit https://achieve.lausd.net/resources for more information. (310) 602-4909.
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L.A. County to Launch “Great Plates Delivered” Initiative
LOS ANGELES— Los Angeles County announced its participation in California’s “Great Plates Delivered” initiative. With the support of the Board of Supervisors and in partnership with the LA County Department of Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services and the Office of Emergency Management, LA County will provide three home-delivered meals a day to qualifying adults over 60 who are high-risk as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This will stimulate the restaurant, hospitality and transportation industries. Participants may apply by calling 2-1-1 and meet the eligibility requirements. For a full list of requirements see www.tinyurl.com/yd2y8a3r Restaurants interested in participating in the “Great Plates Delivered” program should fill out an interest form at https://tinyurl.com/ybe4vyjg Details: www.tinyurl.com/Greatplatesinitiative
Grab & Go Lunches
The Boys and Girls Club of LA Harbor has seven “Grab & Go” food distribution sites that operate 12 to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. A lunch and snack will be given to every child on a first come, first serve basis. The child does not need to be present to receive food and all food must be eaten off-site. Details: https://www.bgclaharbor.org/resources.
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Los Angeles County’s most comprehensive resource is a portal which maps six different types of food resources through the county. Details: https://food-resources-lacounty.hub. arcgis.com
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SP Businesses Propose Plan to Use Sidewalks By Hunter Chase, Reporter
Businesses in downtown San Pedro have taken a huge hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, the San Pedro Property Owners Alliance has a plan to help them. The alliance’s economic recovery committee proposed letting businesses use sidewalks and other adjacent areas near the businesses, said committee co-chair Tim McOsker. The alliance approved establishing this as an economic recovery program. “What we would like to do in response to COVID and for recovery is open up the sidewalk, parking areas, street areas, public areas for even more businesses right away in a more streamlined, quicker program that would be temporary,” McOsker said. This would allow businesses to have more usable square footage overnight, McOsker said. Social distancing conditions could still be applied to make it safe. Under this program, restaurants will be able to use their adjacent sidewalks for outdoor dining and retail businesses can use their sidewalks to sell items, McOsker said. Downtown San Pedro already has an outdoor dining program for more than a dozen restaurants. When McOsker pitched the idea to the city, he intended it to be used for both retail and
[See Sidewalk, p. 4]
Curb-side service signs line the sidewalks on 7th Street in downtown San Pedro. File photo
dining, but the city was more resistant to using it for retail. “They pushed back on the retail and said that might be more of a challenge,” McOsker said. “I don’t know why, I don’t think there’s any logic to that.” McOsker said they won’t change the outdoor dining program, but make it bigger, cheaper and
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Workers Return to Jobs with Quarantine Haircuts By Alex Witrago, Editorial Intern
[See Haircut, p. 4]
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With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, it is important to take the time to ensure that we are taking care of our mental health, in addition to our physical health, during this crisis. If you, or someone you know, may need some assistance or support, there are many resources available. Long Beach Resources: The Guidance Center provides mental health services to children and families. If you need help, call 562-595-1159. Services are provided remotely. For the Child provides mental health care and support for vulnerable children and families during this crisis. If you need Child and Adolescent Crisis Team/Urgent Services, call 562-422-8472. For general questions, call 562-422-8472 and leave a message. Additional Resources: LACDMH Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s 24/7 Access Line at 800- 854-7771 is available to provide mental health support,
No matter what irresponsible protestors might want you to believe, haircuts do not trump lives. That said, as non-essential businesses prepare to reopen, you can’t help wondering what hairstyles workers will be sporting back to work. California established its stay-at-home orders in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “When the time came for my haircut, that’s when I realized the barbershop must be closed,” said 26-year-old Anthony Cervantes. “And, sure enough it was.” What came next is something between comical and disastrous. Cervantes went four weeks without a haircut until he had enough. He found some old clippers deep in the drawers of his restroom. The last time Cervantes used his hair clippers was in high school when his mother would cut his hair to save a couple dollars. “I didn’t trust myself, so I had Jaz (his girlfriend) do it,” Cervantes said. “I wanted to maintain the hair style I had and it was going well, until the damn clip fell off and she nicked the top of my head. As soon as it happened, I knew we had to buzz it all off.” While some people choose to take their risk in cutting their hair, others remain loyal to their
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temporary. He said that he has spoken to the city council office, which expressed interest in moving forward with the program. However, the city did not give him any indication it would have the capacity to do it.
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Those eligible for Medi-Cal and Covered California can receive enrollment assistance and information about health care programs from the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services. Both state-operated insurance programs offer access to primary care, emergency treatment and mental health services to all who qualify. Help is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at 562-570-7979. Certified enrollment counselors speak English, Spanish and Khmer. People may also send questions via coveredlb@ longbeach.gov.
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[Announcements, from p. 3] resources and referrals. The Department of Mental Health offers many other free resources at, www.dmh.lacounty. gov/covid-19-information to help people address their mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pacific Asian Counseling Services Pacific Asian Counseling Services provides culturally sensitive and language specific services with expertise in the immigrant Asian Pacific Islander populations. During the pandemic, they are offering telehealth and telephone services only. Details: 562-424-1886 Crisis Support and Intervention Text “SHARE” to 741741 to reach a crisis counselor, 24/7, for free, confidential support. Crisis text line counselors are available to connect about anxiety related to the novel coronavirus, isolation, students’ concerns about school, financial stress and other concerns. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline The lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal has announced that the Congressional Art Competition deadline has been extended and artwork will now be accepted electronically. The Congressional Art Competition is open to all high school students in the 47th District. The over-all winner of the competition will be displayed for one year in the U.S. Capitol. Submissions will be accepted until May 25. Details: https://lowenthal.house.gov/services/ art-competition
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barbers, the only people worthy of touching their hair. Take it from Devon Hamilton, owner of Soulful Shears Barbershop in Rancho Palos Verdes. Hamilton has owned his shop for almost 25 years. Since the stay-at-home order, Hamilton has received countless calls from his regular clientele, asking if they can get a haircut in their own homes. But Hamilton, who is facing hardship while continuing to pay rent for his business, would rather play it safe and prevent any exposure of the virus to himself, his community and his loved ones. Hamilton explained that he sees his customers’ perspective as well. Some of them still have work and would like to look presentable but until it’s safe to return to his business, he doesn’t plan on cutting any hair. Hamilton knows of people through social connections and social media that must continue working to provide for their family and financial well-being, but luckily for Hamilton he is able to afford to stay home and remain safe with his family and newborn baby. “I rather play it safe than be sorry and just bite the bullet,” Hamilton said. “But like I said, I am able to do that and some people aren’t able to.” Before the stay-at-home order, Hamilton’s Soulful Shears Barber Shop was fully operational with chairs always filled with returning customers coming in for their weekly haircuts. Business was doing well even though the barber shop was moved to a new location seven years ago. Hamilton also had plans on purchasing a new home; however, due to COVID-19 Hamilton has put his plans on hold. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced
on April 28 the state’s plan to slowly reopen the economy. The plan will be done in separate phases to avoid any rapid spread of the virus. Unfortunately, businesses such as gyms, spas, salons and barber shops will reopen in a much later phase. It seems that some workers will have no choice but to return to work with their quarantine hair style and small businesses like barber shops will have to hold on much longer. No doubt looking like a caveman at work is not worse than illness or death. The only thing we can do is wait, Hamilton said. “I’m not concerned about people not returning to the barber shop, people will always want their haircut,” he said. [Sidewalk, from p. 3]
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“This is not a novel idea,” said Lorena Parker, executive director of the alliance. “Other cities across the nation are doing this.” Board member Eric Eisenberg suggested that San Pedro could even provide the example that other communities in Los Angeles could follow. “We can be that pilot program for opening up the rest of the city, to where we can get a simplified template where any retail store can take over the parking space in front of them,” Eisenberg said. However, the program would only be available to the businesses with physical addresses in San Pedro. Eisenberg argued that the board needed to put its resources forward to show that San Pedro is open for business. This program would provide a visual for residents. People would be able to see retail and food items on sidewalks. “Downtown San Pedro is probably facing the biggest challenge I’ve seen in over 20 years,” Eisenberg said. “I don’t know that something this big has happened before, where we’ve had almost every business close other than a few food and beverage.” Board member Linda Jackson suggested just putting tables out on the sidewalk for the retail stores in the interest of doing something as quickly as possible.
Hamilton has applied for a loan for his business but has yet to receive any aid from the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program, the program that allocates $349 billion for loans to small businesses that are struggling because of COVID-19. Soulful Shears is not the only small business that has yet to receive aid from the government. According to the Los Angeles Development Corp. the protection program loan forgiveness plan had stopped accepting loan applications in mid-April, but as of April 27, 2020 the Paycheck Protection Program has resumed accepting applications. “They need something now,” Jackson said. “These mom and pop places are just suffering so, so much. And they are getting to the point where they don’t know what to do to re-open.” Secretary Warren Gunter said that using sidewalk space will probably be merely a part of a larger economic recovery plan. He believes that within six months to a year, 50 percent of the businesses in Downtown San Pedro will be out of business. “We will have a half-deserted downtown,” Gunter said. Gunter said that the San Pedro Property Owners Alliance will be responsible for rejuvenating the downtown area, including getting residents to support remaining businesses and getting people to start new businesses there. McOsker agreed that the sidewalk program should only be part of what the board will do to respond to the economic situation. He said that the board doesn’t know what the downtown area will look like in six months. The program would need to be done quicker and cheaper than the outdoor dining program if it is going to be effective. The alliance has money to finance the program and lend to local businesses. It would be a forgivable loan if the money is used to re-open and conduct sales. However, if they do not re-open, said businesses would need to repay it. “We’re going to have to actually respond and respond and adapt,” McOsker said.
Long-term Care Facilities Face Challenges with COVID-19 Jordan Darling, Editorial Intern
Karen Punches used to visit her mom and aunt two to three times a week. They would go on walks or go out to lunch, or just spend quality time together at Mom and Dad’s House Cottage, a long-term care facility in Lakewood. Punches’ mother Barbara has advanced Alzheimer’s and has been a member of the community in Lakewood for the past four years. Due to COVID-19 and the new guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rather than going on their habitual outings, Punches now sits outside of the facility on the other side of a glass door while she talks to her aunt Marilyn on the phone. They tried to do this with her mother but Punches said that her mom kept trying to open the glass door to come outside and did not understand why she could not. “Mom is a pretty happy camper. No need to do something that makes her unhappy or stressed,” Punches said. Punches’ contact with her mom is limited to the times she is able to FaceTime with her with the help of caretakers within the facility. She said that being on the phone is hard for her mom with the progression of her Alzheimer’s, but being able to see her daughter’s face helps Barbara with recognition. Punches’ aunt is in the same facility but does not suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia and is
more aware of what is going on and, according to Punches, is having a harder time with social isolation. “My aunt is having a harder time being cooped up,” Punches said. “She is aware of what is happening and she watches the news and knows what is going on [it’s] more stressful and disruptive [for her] life and routine.” Families throughout the United States are experiencing similar stories. The CDC has limited contact in long-term care facilities to protect the residents and limit the spread of COVID-19. Many families are looking for loopholes to spend time with their loved ones without putting them at risk. The CDC recorded that eight out of 10 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States were adults 65 and older. Older adults and those with underlying health risks are the most vulnerable to the virus, and with 400,000 Californians reported to be in licensed long-term health care facilities according to the California Association of Health Facilities, the fight to keep residents safe is challenging. “We never thought we were going to face a challenge like the one we are facing,” said Ivonne Meader, owner and manager of Mom and Dad’s House Cottage based in Long Beach. “We have a different battle than doctors and nurses, our
Ivonne Meader, owner and manager of Mom and Dad’s House Cottage in Lakewood. File photo
battle is to make sure our residents are safe.” Meader works with patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Her staff’s battle is more complicated because of the circumstances and limitations of their residents. “To explain to someone who doesn’t remember what happened 10 minutes ago that
‘your son can’t visit you,’ or ‘you have to sit six feet apart from Mr. Smith,’ [is difficult] and they don’t understand why the staff is wearing masks and all this gear. [We] repeat it [continuously],” Meader said. Under the CDC guidelines, long-term care has to restrict visitors, check residents and caretakers for symptoms and restrict activities for residents in facilities. Meader and her staff regularly check their residents and themselves for symptoms by monitoring their temperature. Facilities are also suffering from a shortage of protective gear including gloves, masks and protective gowns. Meader and her staff have been using face shields that were donated by a local who made them on their 3-D printer, they wear ponchos in place of hospital gowns and they have had to reuse face masks. “[There is] a lack of personal protective equipment and we are struggling to get masks,” Meader said. “We are reusing masks, gowns, and rain ponchos.” The shortage of supplies is being felt by the entire medical community as they are struggling to find equipment, even just antibacterial soap. Meader requests that anyone that can donate to facilities does. You can contact Mom and Dad’s House Cottage through their website https://momanddadshouse. org/contact.
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U.S. Health Fairs Opens Test Site Near Carson City Hall By Joseph Baroud, Reporter
Without a decline present in positive coronavirus testing throughout California, U.S. Health Fairs has partnered with Carson to open a test center behind its City Hall to accommodate residents. The test site opened April 27, and is seeing a Los Angeles County average of 400 people daily throughout the first two weeks of operation. As the coronavirus pandemic has caused the nation to shut down in recent months, we are beginning to see restrictions ease. The numbers haven’t yet begun to decrease so it’s essential for these test centers to remain operational. Even though a site opened the week before on April 21, at UCLA Harbor General, for some, it is a lot of trouble making the trip across town. Carson and its staff decided to take measures into their own hands and work with U.S. Health Fairs, a private provider of medical service. This gives the mayor and other city workers more direct information, which they can use to readily influence and impose on the community to keep them safe. “We haven’t yet seen a decline in positive COVID cases in Southern California, the South Bay or in our City of Carson,” Mayor Albert Robles said. “LA County is coordinating a gradual reopening within parameters established by the
governor and Carson is following their expert advice as we do not have our own public health expert. But when we see an issue of concern, like the delayed testing coming to Carson, we will pursue our own path and resolution, like contracting our own testing location outside the parameters of LA County.” Carson residents can go online to ushealthfairs. com and register for the test. More importantly, the site accepts asymptomatic patients, when other sites require you to show symptoms, which in some cases might be too late. You’re urged to use your proper information because there has been a delay in people receiving their test results. Both false information and technical difficulties have had their fair share of the blame, but U.S. Health Fairs said they were on it. When you arrive a security guard greets you and ensures the person in the car is in compliance. Then, off you go to the back of the car line while you await a vacancy in one of four test tents. When a spot opens, you drive into it. You’re handed a swab and asked to do a nasal swab. Once you’re done, you drop it in a bag that the worker is holding. Then you leave your information which should match the information you used to register. Barring any technical difficulties, you will receive your results in two days.
“The delay has occurred due to some technical difficulties that U.S. Health Fairs was experiencing early on,” Robles said. “U.S. Health Fairs has identified solutions to the initial issues and is now in the process of making sure everyone is timely notified of their results. Let’s be fair, up until a few weeks ago, LA County was telling everyone the results could take 14 days. And even now LA County still regularly takes longer than anticipated. But both the LA County locations and Carson site are getting better and better every day.” Even people who input accurate information have had to wait about a week, even though the site says results will be ready within a couple of days. The bad thing is, if you’re positive, a week is a long time. But efforts are being made to make the website smoother. “Whenever you introduce something new and as unprecedented as this, there are always unexpected possible challenges,” Robles said. “We experienced a couple of internet issues as people signed up that were on the technical side that have been resolved. As the first week of testing turned into the second week, the process began to run even better. But our residents have been very understanding and appreciative that we succeeded in bringing a testing site to Carson.” Mayor Robles explained that COVID-19 antibody testing will soon be available. Antibody testing determines who is immune to the disease and for what reason. This will give researchers the vital information needed to develop a cure. “Carson and United Health Fairs are both eager to begin antibody testing,” Robles said. “Once logistics matters are vetted, it will be incorporated into our [Food and Drug
Administration] approved nasal swab testing as well. We hope to have this within the next two weeks. And, when we do, Carson will once again be leading the way just like we did with universal testing two weeks.” Anyone who tests positive at the site will be notified as soon as possible with further instructions. They will be told how to treat themselves and prevent spreading the virus amongst their family and community. But the results will go directly to the Los Angeles County Public Health office and Carson officials have no way of knowing who has the virus, which goes against taking the biggest precaution a community can have: to keep others away from infected areas and persons. The law regarding contact tracing and jurisdiction and information irritates the mayor. He understands due legislative processes, but in emergencies, an ordinance like this would do wonders for a town which is still seeing high rates of this virus. With various prior outbreaks and lessons now available to world health organizations, the mayor can’t help but scratch his head when wondering why contact tracing isn’t handled at the most local levels. “Anyone who tests positive is promptly contacted by a U.S. Health Fairs physician and pursuant to law the physician notifies LA County,” Robles said. “The city doesn’t get any specific information regarding the individual to protect their [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] rights - therefore [it’s] impossible for Carson to do [its] own tracing program. Tracing is supposed to be handled through the LA County of Public Health.”
[Terminal Island, from p. 1]
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is considered “East San Pedro” both historically and by federal authorities. So most of the cases reported are attributed to San Pedro infection numbers reported daily by LA County. According to the Bureau of Prisons, more than half of the 1,042 inmates at the federal correctional facility have tested positive for the coronavirus. As of May 10, a total of 693 inmates and 15 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. Seven inmates have recovered from the disease while six inmates have died. It has been reported that the inmates have been locked down in their cells without the ability to make phone calls since the middle of April. Prison officials have said prohibiting phone and internet use was necessary to prevent the spread of the virus. The family members who were demonstrating have said that the prison guards have threatened the inmates with solitary confinement in a special housing unit for asking for help from the outside or refusing to work in the kitchen. “Family members deserve to know the health of their [relatives] inmates at Terminal Island,” Rep. Nanette Barragán said. This is especially true considering COVID-19 is so widespread at the facility. Barragán referenced news reports of families not hearing about the status of inmates until they are very sick. This is not acceptable, the congresswoman said. Barragán noted that while a number of families have reached out to her office, she’s not sure if any of them were among the protesters at the Terminal Island prison on 6 May 2.
One family member called to report that about 60 inmates were recently relocated to a very unsanitary warehouse without heat, hot water or air conditioning, as well as only three showers and three toilets, Barragán said. She reported that the family alleged there was constant leaking due to holes in the ceiling and that animals, such as rats, bats, pigeons, skunks, cockroaches and raccoons have free reign in the facility. Barragán has queried the Bureau of Prisons and the warden for the Terminal Island facility about the conditions in the prison, but the answers have been few and unsatisfying.
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Rep. Nanette Barragán visited Terminal Island Prison May 12 and met with press. File photo
But of the calls that her office received, many were from family members requesting welfare checks on their relatives and reporting they were unable to communicate with inmates via telephone or email and want information. “Many are concerned because they said their inmates are medically vulnerable, with asthma and high blood pressure,” Barragán said. Some family members called Barragán’s office to lobby U.S. Attorney General William Barr to expand the home confinement order to include inmates at Terminal Island. The order to which Barragán was referring was a March 26 memo Barr sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In the memo were a set of guidelines and criteria by which to determine the eligibility of inmates for home confinement, which included: age and vulnerability to COVID-19, security level of the facility holding the inmate, with priority given to inmates in low and minimum security facilities, good behavior, an inmate’s score on the risk assessment test Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs and the presence of a reentry plan among other criteria. Others who have called Barragán’s office called to complain about the conditions in which infected inmates are held.
As problematic as the federal prisons are, the Los Angeles County jails may not be much better. Last month, several vulnerable incarcerated people in Los Angeles County jails along with a coalition of activists called COVID-19 Rapid Response sued Los Angeles County and Sheriff Alex Villanueva about failures to safeguard the health of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The litigants are demanding that the sheriff implement constitutionally mandated procedures to protect prisoners from contracting COVID-19, and to comply with guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Department of Public Health. Activists hope Los Angeles will take actions to mitigate the spread of the virus and release people at high risk for serious illness or death in the event of COVID-19 infection due to age or underlying medical conditions. Rodney Cullors is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that was filed on Friday April 24. The 58-year-old, who was in Men’s Central Jail [See Terminal Island, p. 19]
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Trumpdemic Build a wall to protect the truth By James Preston Allen, Publisher
research program funded by a U.S. Agency for International Development grant. Launched in 2009, the program was described as an early warning pandemic system. The program supported labs in 60 different countries. And, you guessed it, one of those was in Wuhan. Now, there’s a lot of speculation as to the origin of the virus. Did it come from that Wuhan lab or from a wet market or somewhere else? One thing we can be certain of is that without that lab, our Center for Disease Control and Prevention had no access to what was about to emerge. A timeline of Trump’s mistakes could read something like this- some of this courtesy of The New York Times. On Jan. 22, Trump had an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen in Davos, Switzerland. The first American case had been announced the day before, and Kernen asked Trump: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” The president responded: “No, not at all. And, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” On Jan. 24, he tweeted, “It will all work out well.” On Jan. 28, he retweeted a headline from One America News, [an outlet with a history of spreading false conspiracy theories] “Johnson & Johnson to create coronavirus vaccine.” They may have started on this in January but as of May 10 60 Minutes reported they won’t have anything ready until the end of the year at best. On Jan. 30, during a speech in Michigan, he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.” Trump spent the first weeks of February telling Americans that the problem was going away. On Feb. 10, he repeated — in a speech to governors, at a campaign rally and in an interview with Trish Regan of Fox Business, “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” It’s now mid-May and the COVID-19 deaths have reached 80,000 and are rising by the day.
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I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps America should build a wall like Donald J. Trump suggests, just not where he envisions it or for the reason he proposes. He can even have his signature brand on it to remind Americans and all future presidents just what not to do. It shouldn’t be built on the southern border as we have seen that such a wall wouldn’t have been able to keep out the invading COVID-19 pandemic nor the influx of asymptomatic arrivals of foreigners at our international airports. Rather that wall has been a huge distraction over issues better solved in other ways. The wall America needs is a monument on the south lawn of the White House dedicated to the victims and heroes of Trumpdemic 2020. Think, if you will, a wall with more names on it than that of the Vietnam War Memorial and one that honors all of those who have fallen in Trump’s “virus war”— the majority of whom were sacrificed by his ignorance and hubris to save his political campaign, or was it just his self-reflection. At this point it is too early to tell because of all the chaos and disinformation Trump has generated. Still, Americans like war memorials. It will be controversial at first for sure because Trump is still in deep denial. Recently on Fox News he exclaimed, “Don’t blame me!” However, when the truth, not the half truth or the “alternative” truth comes out — as it eventually will — there will be a great realization of exactly what wasn’t done to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. The list of those failures should be memorialized on the top of this solemn wall with the exact quotes of Trump’s denials. As previously reported in our April 16, 2020 issue Pandemic – Trump’s Timeline of Failure there were at least 10 different points in which the Trump administration could have taken protective measures before the onset of the pandemic. The most significant in my mind is that in late October 2019, just before the coronavirus was emerging in Wuhan, China. The Trump administration refused to renew funding for PREDICT, an epidemiological
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Later he criticized CNN and MSNBC for “panicking markets.” He said at a South Carolina rally that “the Democrat policy of open borders” had brought the virus into the country. He lashed out at “Do Nothing Democrat comrades.” He tweeted about “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer,” mocking Schumer for arguing that Trump should be more aggressive in fighting the virus. The next week, Trump would blame a Barack Obama administration regulation for slowing the production of test kits. There was no truth to the charge. Then on Feb. 26, he said: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” On Feb. 27, he predicted: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” On Feb. 29, he said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.” None of which has been done to date and there will probably be no vaccine until after the November election. He has suggested on multiple occasions that the virus was less serious than the flu. “We’re talking about a much smaller range” of deaths than from the flu, he said on March 2. “It’s very mild,” he told Hannity on Fox News on March 4. On March 7 he said, “I’m not concerned at all.” From Oct. 1, 2019 to April 4, 2020, the CDC estimates that 24,000 to 62,000 people died from the regular flu. The CDC does not know the exact number because the flu is not a reportable disease in most parts of the U.S. On March 10, he promised: “It will go away.
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Just stay calm. It will go away.” It has now surpassed every previous flu epidemic in terms of infections and deaths except for the 1918 Spanish Flu. On the night of March 11, Trump gave an Oval Office address meant to express seriousness. He included some valuable advice, like hand washing. But it also contained many of the old patterns of self-congratulation, blameshifting and misinformation. Afterward, his aides corrected three different misstatements. And lastly on April 6 Trump said, “There is conflicting evidence as to whether hydroxychloroquine or hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin, is effective at treating coronavirus symptoms.” The Food and Drug Administration has not certified this drug or the use of disinfectants for internal use, which later he promoted in his live briefings. The manufacturers of these products had to issue immediate public warnings after his comments advising the public that Lysol and chlorine were not for internal use. And to this day, Trump’s misinformation campaign, the conspiracy theories promoted for his defense and the continued lies from his briefings have not stopped. Nor are they likely to stop as the pandemic spreads throughout the homeland in Middle America and the death toll quickly approaches 100,000. And the reason for including this timeline on the memorial wall is so that it acts as a reminder to both protect the truth from the lies of Donald J. Trump and to vaccinate future generations and presidents against the insidious disease of disinformation.
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The Fury of the Virus, the Folly of War
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“Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said on March 23rd. “The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly. Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the world…. The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global cease-fire in all corners of the world. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.” Guterres’ ceasefire plea has yielded some positive results. By April 3, he reported ceasefires in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Libya, Burma/Myanmar, Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. Actual ceasefires are hard to document, as the socalled fog of war clouds attempts to wage peace. “To silence the guns, ‘we must raise the voices for peace,’” he added. Guterres made a vital point: the novel coronavirus is a common enemy, capable, as we have painfully learned, of killing huge numbers, regardless of the flag one flies. As the outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated, even staying aboard a $5 billion nuclear naval vessel offers no protection. And COVID-19’s extreme contagiousness will certainly be on the mind of close to 1,000 West Point cadets, the newest of the U.S. Army’s elite officer corps. They vacated their historic campus in March, when the Army declared a public health emergency. They are now being forced back to campus in June, after President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would be delivering the commencement address at their previously-canceled graduation ceremony.
“The most vulnerable — women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced — pay the highest price,” noted Guterres in his ceasefire plea. Refugees from conflicts across the world are often held in camps that are crowded and lack proper sanitation — a breeding ground for COVID-19. At a sprawling refugee camp on the island of Chios, in Greece, long described as a “hellhole,” occupants recently protested the death of an Iraqi woman there, after she suffered a fever. Camp residents believed the death was due to COVID-19, and that she suffered, as they all do there, from dismal medical treatment. On either side of the U.S./Mexico border, asylum seekers face the threat of infection, either in squalid camps that have sprung up in Mexican border cities as a result of the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, or in immigration jails like the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego — a private prison run by CoreCivic — where prisoners have been pepper sprayed and attacked by guards for demanding access to protective face masks. Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and Lebanon also suffer heightened risks of COVID-19 infection, exacerbated by many decades of systemic impoverishment, poor sanitation and the denial of access to medical care. COVID-19 has prompted a look back at previous pandemics, including the 1918 flu that swept the planet, killing an estimated 50 to 100 million people. It may even have hastened the end of World War I, wiping out thousands of soldiers on both sides. The illness has long been called the “Spanish Flu,” a misnomer, as it almost certainly did not originate in Spain. News
As of March, [as always], I find your newsletter more and more interesting; especially concerning the coronavirus. Its very coincidental that March 9 [full moon], March 13 [Friday the 13th], are parallel with the 2020 census and the presidential election. [The] World Health Organization seems to have convinced us that we need to lower the population by 50% by the end of 2020. Is this a coincidence or a plan? By the way the internet is in a state of Entropy. Susann Gould Lakewood
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Aside from bringing Armed Madhouse home and busting up all institutions, including the USPS, this is the final piece of voter suppression and would kill votes by mail. Despite all criticism of his narcissism, greed and incompetence, this shitler guy has one time-tested talent: Bankruptcy. He has proven his ability to do this on five (5!!!!!) previous occasions. All involve screwing workers.
It was the one skill which I fully expected him to apply to the federal government. He had already created a $4-trillion wealth shift to Wall Street, exponentially increasing the inequality gap. When I returned from India, 10 years ago, I was asked what I saw and learned. I told people (possibly you, too) I saw the future of this country where the middle class is minimal and the gap between rich and poor is extreme. Here we are — India. Keep at it. Tell the world. Gary Pernell Whidbey Island, Wash.
San Pedro Short Changed in Development
I’m pretty sure most residents would like San Pedro really cleaned up, especially in our commercial districts. Perhaps it is because the City of Los Angeles has allowed it to fall into decay for so long to get to the dismal state it is in today. Now, with all the proposed and ongoing building development, there is no coherent overview and/or vision of what our community could really look like, with best possible designs and quality construction that should connect with San Pedro’s rich history.
Compared to many other cities within the Los Angeles area, where you can not only see but also feel the difference in vibrance, care, common sense and quality, San Pedro is once more getting shortchanged with bottom of the barrel looks and cheap construction. Even third world nations have better looking architecture than what we are currently forced to accept. Rigged planning commission approvals, backroom deals, politicians getting reimbursed for influence, and the Port Authority with no real-world vision nor care, it seems we just get whatever they choose at the lowest possible price. We may think this is progress because it’s better than the current blight but it is not. Community input is a thing of the past. You might appreciate listening to an online planning commission hearing for our neighborhood with the recent approval of 1309-1331 S. Pacific Ave. The online version is h e r e : w w w. t i n y u r l . c o m / planningcommissionPacificAve And very soon there will be one for 2111 S. Pacific Ave. that probably will get rubber-stamped as well by downtown Los Angeles Planning Commission members without regards to the people that live here. What can we do to improve this? James Campeau San Pedro
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was censored in the warring countries of France, Britain and Germany, but not in Spain, which became the key source of European pandemic news, hence the name. An outbreak in Kansas led to infection of thousands of U.S. soldiers bound for the war in Europe, which added to the deadly flu’s global spread. Much earlier in World War I, long before the scourge of the flu, a remarkable, albeit shortlived, ceasefire occurred. On Christmas Eve 1914, along the western front, German soldiers sang carols from their trenches and soon British and French troops followed suit. By daybreak, an informal ceasefire had taken hold. Soldiers left their trenches, embracing their enemies in no man’s land, playing pickup soccer games and sharing champagne and cigarettes.
That pandemic, that war and the “Christmas Truce” are distant memories now. Have we learned anything? How we confront the coronavirus as a global community will tell. Guterres concluded his ceasefire call last March 23, when the number of confirmed cases globally was “only” 300,000 — it has since grown to more than 3 million. “End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging our world,” he said. “It starts by stopping the fighting everywhere. Now.”
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caught residents by surprise. The past 60 days have seen such limited traffic on this avenue and even up the freeways that it seemed like another world and not in Los Angeles. Residents along Pacific Avenue complained about the noise and exhaust fumes and police responded by blocking Pacific. This appeared to be an attempt to limit the amount of cruisers and traffic in the area. This did not have the desired effect.
which has the highest number of conservative voters and is one of the few precincts in San Pedro that actually voted for Trump in 2016, people were not convinced of the rightness of this event. Unlike Huntington Beach, in Orange County, the week before where some 1,500 protesters showed up waving flags and demanding “their constitutional rights” to go to the beach or surf, San Pedro doesn’t seem to be under the same impression or interpretation of civil liberties during a pandemic. And it seems that those who regularly grouse about the “illegality” of
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Cars and motorcycles ended up parking up and down Pacific from about 3rd to 12th streets with groups of onlookers gathering in several parking lots. The largest crowd was seen at the Bank of America parking lot where at least 100 people gathered with no social distancing and many not caring to at least wear a face covering. There didn’t appear to be any arrests nor incidents coming out of this cruise night but The Bank of America parking lot on Pacific Avenue was the scene of large there did seem to be an air of gathering of locals on May 8. Above, a small group of demonstrators elation that the lockdown was opposed to beach closures as part of the Safer-At-Home directives partially lifted and that some turned up at Royal Palms beach on May 9. Photos by Chris Villanueva. people had had enough sitting on their couches for the last two months. This Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 orders on Facebook pages like San Pedro Political Sense event ended by 9 or 10 p.m. that evening. had the sense not to show up. Again, no arrests White Point Demonstration were made nor citations given by the handful of LAPD officers who stood guard at the entrance Fizzles The following day, May 9, at the entrance at White Point. Another such demonstration won’t be to Royal Palms Beach at the southern end of Western Avenue a very small group of eight or necessary. Los Angeles County is planning more people who were calling the lockdown on opening some beaches May 15 for passive “unconstitutional” and waving American flags recreation. White Point Nature Preserve was assembled at about noon. This uprising seems open right across the street on this day with to have been organized on a Facebook page that social distancing guidelines. — Chris Villanueva contributed to this report and members mistakenly thought would go viral. supplied photos They were wrong. Even in this part of San Pedro,
LBO’s New Programming Keeps the Music Coming
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n the time of COVID-19, opera has been deemed inessential. Worse yet, given the large number of people required to mount most productions — to say nothing of the audience — it’s downright dangerous. But because deprivation of art is a danger to the soul, the last thing Long Beach Opera wants to do is remain idle. Thus was born Artist Afternoons, a weekday series of live talk and variety shows where members of the extended Long Beach Opera family can not only continue to ply their trade — for both themselves and for opera-lovers locked away from live performance — but potentially expand the connection between opera and the outside world. Artist Afternoons is the brainchild of Jenny Rivera, Long Beach Opera’s new CEO and artistic director. “I came up with the idea as a way to give some artists a chance to be creative and have some paid work during this time where so many are both out of work and feeling depleted creatively, and also to bring joy and inspiration to [people. …], ” she said. “We pride ourselves at Long Beach Opera on creating the intimate connections between artists and audiences at our live performances. It is my belief that even though we are apart, we must continue to find ways to forge these connections, as they are essential to our humanity during times of crisis.” The series began on May 4, with Latin Heat, hosted by fiery soprano Catalina Cuervo from her parents’ house in Medellín, Columbia, where she was visiting when the lockdowns started. Confined away from her stateside home and husband, Cuervo spoke openly about her fear and depression at the onset of the pandemic, including over what it means for the opera world in the foreseeable future. Her own LBO debut, for example — the lead role in Robert Xavier Rogríduez’s Frida, originally slated for late June — has been cancelled. “Every cancellation started breaking my heart and all of a sudden I found myself really struggling to sing,” she related. “Not even a note would come out.” But she feels grateful for and reinvigorated by the Artist Afternoons opportunity. “This might be something simple, but to me it means everything because it gave me back my will to sing, to create, to make music,” she said. [See Curtain Call, p. 13]
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Soprano Catalina Cuervo performed for the Artist Afternoon series from her parents’ home in Columbia where she was visiting when the lockdown started. Her LBO debut in Frida was cancelled due to the pandemic.
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ife in San Pedro is changing, as we watch the fruit trees bloom and the jacaranda trees getting ready for their lavender explosion, signaling summer to come. Even how we shop, organize, cook and eat has changed in this time of uncertainty. The restaurant community is determined to survive and thrive in spite of the current state of affairs. San Pedro has cherished its growing international food scene. Cultural and traditional elements combine in delicious ways all over town. Now it is up to the locals to show support for the hard-working people who feed us so well. Consider the culinary adventure of trying a new or different kitchen. Our only restaurant opportunity is for takeout, so the ambiance of home has to substitute for atmosphere. The food has to shine, but also the ordering, the delivery or pickup, the packaging, the plate appeal, the garnish, all matter now. Restaurateurs are learning new ways, and so are we.
Cuisine To Go:
Meals On Heels By Gretchen Williams, Food Writer
Lighthouse Deli 508 W. 39th St. San Pedro 310-548-3354 Omelette & Waffle Shop 1103 S. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-831-3277
Think Café 302 W. 5th St. Suite 105 San Pedro 310-519-3662 Happy Diner 1 617 S. Centre St. San Pedro 310-241-0917 Happy Diner 2 1931 N. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-935-2933
Porthole Deli & Pizza 2223 S. Pacific Ave. 310-548-6809
Fried Chicken
Bird Talk 29505 S. Western Ave. #103 Rancho Palos Verdes 310-935-7757
Mexican Pappy’s curbside pick up.
Seafood
Crazy Fish 28158 S. Western Ave. San Pedro 310-547-9968 Pappy’s 301 W. 6th St. San Pedro 424-224-5444 San Pedro Fish Market 1190 Nagoya Way San Pedro 310-832-4251 The Whale & Ale 327 W. 7th St. San Pedro 310-832-0363
Middle Eastern
Nazalie’s Lebanese Café 1919 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro 310-519-9122
Ramen
Ko-Ryu Ramen 362 W. 6th St. San Pedro 310-935-2886
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Pirozzi’s Italian Deli 1453 W. 8th St. San Pedro 310-548-0000
Raffaello Ristorante 400 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro 310-514-0900 Sorrento’s Pizza House 2428 S. Western Ave. San Pedro 310-832-2820
Breakfast Pacific Diner 3821 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro 310-831-5334
Niko’s 399 W. 6th St. San Pedro 310-241-1400
Sushi
Love Sushi 29221 S. Western Ave. Rancho Palos Verdes 310-832-8808 Sushi Tashiro 29050 S.Western Ave. San Pedro 310-547-4597
Thai
Baramee Thai 354 W. 6th St. San Pedro 310-521-9400 Sirinat Thai 1627 W. 25th St. San Pedro 310-832-5678
Mediterranean
La Siciliana 347 W. 6th St. San Pedro 424-570-0101
Sebastian’s Mediterranean Cuisine 309 W. 7th St. San Pedro 424-264-5322
French
Compagnon 335 W. 7th St. San Pedro 424-342-9840
Italian
Big Nick’s Pizza 1110 N. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-732-5800 Buono’s Pizzeria 222 W. 6th St. San Pedro 310-547-0655 Burratino Pizza 29701 S. Western Ave. #103, Rancho Palos Verdes 310-832-1200 Dominick’s Pizza 28360 S. Western Ave. San Pedro 310-831-0881
Conrad’s Mexican Grille 376 W. 6th St. San Pedro 424-264-5452 Green Onion 145 W. 6th St. San Pedro 310-519-0631 Pronto’s 2420 S. Western Ave. San Pedro 310-832-4471 Puesta Del Sol 1622 S. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-833-9765 Taxco 28152 S. Western Ave, San Pedro 310-547-4554 San Pedro Tacos 114 N. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-832-1406
Sandwiches Busy Bee 2413 S. Walker Ave. San Pedro 310-832-8660 Sandwich Saloon 813 S. Gaffey St. San Pedro 310-548-5322 Fantastic Café 1631 W. 25th St. San Pedro 310-832-4742 West Coast Philly 1902 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro 424-264-5322
Pies
Marie Callender 1030 N. Western Ave. San Pedro 310-832-4559
California Cuisine
Shore Grille 1637 W. 25th St. San Pedro 310-832-7427
Sonny’s Bistro 1420 W. 25th St. San Pedro 310-548-4797
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The Corner Store 1118 W. 37th St. San Pedro 310-832-2424
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Hojas Tea House 222 W. 6th St.#10 San Pedro 310-514-8779 Nuda 407 W. 6th St. San Pedro 323-769-9713
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oy in small things is one of the lessons of this season of confinement. The beauty of spring is joined by the brilliant concept of Happy Hour on Wheels in San Pedro. As long as food is ordered as well, a growler, a bottle of wine or an artfully blended cocktail can give your long day a happy ending. San Pedro’s historic J.Trani’s Ristorante is open for takeout, and spectacular cold smoked swordfish or crispy calamari call for classic cocktails. You can have a crystalline martini, straight up with a twist, sealed to go. Or you could have thin crusted Trani’s signature Margarita pizza following Negroni on the rocks. Chef Dustin Trani is the 4th generation of the original Trani’s Majestic, San Pedro’s most venerable bar and café, established on 7th Street above the original International Longshore and Warehouse Union dispatch hall in 1925. The first menu of roast beef sandwiches, washed down with boilermakers and beer, sufficed until the late ‘30s when Humphrey Bogart’s sailing party came slumming. They ordered cocktails, and the Norwegian ship chandler from next door was summoned to mix the Manhattans. The Majestic’s proud tradition of fine cocktails was born. Make any evening a celebration with a pizza and a pop from J.Trani’s. J.Trani’s Ristorante 584 W. 9th St., San Pedro 310-832-1220
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Here’s to Life During Quarantine:
Happy Hour on Wheels By Gretchen Williams, Food Writer
Get growlers to go at San Pedro Brew Co.
James Brown is the hardest working man in the brewing business, and the San Pedro Brewing Company is the foamy first of Pedro. At home in the historic John T. Gaffey building
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baritone Cedric Berry, both of whom starred in LBO’s world premiere of The Central Park Five, which was recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Additionally, every other Friday will feature LB…Oop, featuring bass-baritone Darrell Acon — also a Central Park Five star — and soprano Joanna Ceja, who appeared in LBO’s original production of Frida in 2017. Of the five shows that make up the programming of Artist Afternoons, Wilkowske’s is the one that will most appeal to people to whom opera is a completely foreign language (you might enjoy Wilkowske or WON’Tkowske even if you detest opera). But each show provides ease of access for the uninitiated, because each relies more on the personality of its host(s) than on the artform they love. “[Aside from] the goal [of] bringing together artists who have a need and a desire to create with those people who have a need and desire to experience and be uplifted by creativity,” says Rivera, “it’s also an opportunity for patrons to see the many talents — in addition to singing and performing — that I know so many opera singers happen to be blessed with.” Artist Afternoons is here to harness that power and to connect opera performers, opera lovers and neophytes in new ways. Live streams can be viewed via Long Beach Opera’s Facebook page at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 6 p.m. every other Friday; past shows are archived at Long Beach Opera Online. The series runs through June 24.
Compagnon Wine Bistro is the très chic French café and wine bar that San Pedro has longed for. This welcome addition to the international cuisine scene in downtown is offering its fabulous menu to go. Enjoy a romantic evening with a chilled bottle of rosé de Provençe to enhance the coq au vin or Côtes du Rhone syrah with beef bourguignon. The three-course prix fixe menu is an exceptional deal for $29. The tough part is choosing from a delightful selection of dishes. First course offers a choice of classic French onion soup, the chef’s soup du jour or a spring mix salad. As the season progresses, the greens will be provided by organic Green Girl Farms in San Pedro. Ratatouille lasagne is the splendid vegetarian dish that everyone will want, savory and brimming with the flavors of the south of France. Traditional coq au vin or beef bourguignon speak of the old country, with generations of mama simmering and seasoning. Shrimp pasta is a great choice, with white wine and garlic making a fine sauce. Magnificent prime rib is well worth the $4 up charge. Beautiful fresh strawberry shortcake or unctuous chocolate mousse crown a royal feast. Compagnon Wine Bistro 335 W. 7th St., San Pedro 424-342-9840
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Her joy in song was obvious in her completely unaffected performances, which she performed to backing tracks (basically opera karaoke by a singer with the necessary chops). There was a drollness in the complete informality of her set-up (she noted this was something of a test run and subsequent episodes will be more polished), including a precious stretch during her closer (Yo soy María from Ástor Piazzolla’s tango opera María de Buenos Aires) where she self-consciously waited through an instrumental passage until the vocal came back around. Baritone Andy Wilkowske, whose Wilkowske or WON’Tkowske fills the Tuesday slot, came out of the gate May 5 with a show programmed so thoroughly that it perfectly fits the current trend of late-night talk shows done by their hosts at home. A fairly seamless mixture of live and pre-recorded portions, segments included an interview with opera director Crystal Manich (with whom in a COVID19less world he would be in Virginia working on André Previn’s operatic adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire), acoustic covers of The Smiths’ Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run (the latter with adorable cameos by his two children as they sporadically danced into frame from either side), 90 seconds of dad jokes (played to his expressionless, sunglasses-clad daughter), mixed drink of the day (a Boulevardier) and a tour of the Force-Star Hotel, an outdoor diorama composed of Star Wars figures and the logic of childhood. Wednesdays are being held down by Covi Cabin Productions with Suzan Hanson, a sensational soprano who’s appeared in over 30 LBO productions, while the Thursday slot belongs to Cedric & Ash in the House, featuring gregarious tenor Ashley Faatoalia and bass-
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an Pedro artist Anne Olsen-Daub usually works on many creative projects at once. She blames it on her short attention span, but to look at her art pieces, it’s evident they emerge as a call and response between idea and creation. Because of coronavirus and the efforts to comply with protection and social distancing measures, Anne has responded by looking into ways to design face masks. She has already designed some and the manifestation of her initial impulse has emerged as something functional with an added bit of fashion for fun. “If it were not for the need for people to protect themselves and others from the spread of COVID-19, I wouldn’t have ever done this,” Anne said. Coming from a fashion background, Anne designs intuitively. She attended Otis College of Art and Design with a focus on fine art and fashion. Later, she worked in the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District for about four years before moving on to work at Mattel, where in
Artist Anne Olsen-Daub’s Recent Obsessions Beauty in the time of coronavirus Melina Paris, Arts and Culture Writer part, she designed high-end fashion for Barbie. Working at Mattel was a great opportunity for her until it was just time for her to move on around 2002. She has been freelancing, making and selling her own art since that time. With her studio set up to accommodate her numerous creations, she has three separate workstations: painting and sculpture, jewelry and sewing, now one for masks. She goes from one area to the next as materials call to her, telling her it’s time to make something. “My cabinet is filled with a variety of beautiful vintage and quality fabrics I’ve collected for years,” Anne said. “[It’s] pretty simple pattern making but [the masks] do take
masks and we might find ourselves having five or six of them for different occasions.” In this new state with personal protective equipment we reside in, thoughts stir in Anne’s mind as she plans and as the public adjusts to this new, every-day accessory. She imagines there will be masks to go with your blouse, or shorts to match your mask. And as we wear these protective fashion pieces, it’s other features, such as our eyes and hair that will stand out. They are utilitarian with a tiny twist in Anne’s choice of fabric that makes them unique, “the next new trend on the runway,” she said.
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Recently, Anne has been creating cardboard relief sculptures — a technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. She was inspired when a friend of hers brought her unstretched canvas paint frames. She doesn’t stretch canvas and wondered what she could do to the frames without having to rely on
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some time to sew.” She uses what she has on hand for her masks, mostly cotton and silk fabrics. Both are washable and breathable. The face coverings she has designed are quite beautiful. Some feature delicate paisley and floral topstitching accented by long luxurious ties. Others pop in dynamic color lines that seem to move in patterns collaboratively yet individually, completed with a braided tie. All are draped with elegant folds. The masks make a statement. There is one very special detail. Anne said a crystal teardrop hand sewn under the eye on some of her masks is telling for our times, as she referenced a music icon. “Oh, such a sad sad state we’re in, [from Stranger In A Strange Land, by Leon Russell].” Anne’s masks are made to wear and a few are just for art’s sake. “I wanted to do them in a new and arty way and to [have] a story or an interesting way to make masks for the future, like a Mad Max world with objects like hinges and all sorts of crazy things on them,” Anne said. “It’s like working on an assembly line of one,” she quipped. The masks are special — not standard — and they evolve as she makes them. She realized face coverings are a necessity and unfortunately will remain one. Initially, it was hard for the public to purchase them and what was available was kind of ugly. With a bunch of fabric and a sewing machine, she got to work. After posting her creations on Instagram to positive response, she began making masks for whomever wanted one. “But it’s going to be cooler with much more interesting ways to go in the future with this,” Anne said. “It’s not like I do a drawing and then I make that drawing. I look for the materials that I have around and I see what inspires me to evolve a mask into more of something else … but still that. We are going to have to be wearing
somebody else for help before she started. She is a recycler, there are so many materials that don’t cost a fortune, so she salvaged some cardboard. She made sculptures from the material, which hang on the wall like a picture. She added surprising details on them like screws she had laying about that look like rivets. Part fantasy, part contemporary, Anne’s relief sculptures combine an industrial and artistic aesthetic. But her main creation is handcrafted jewelry, which is loosely based on archetypes: elemental, slight obsession, tribal modern and faceted light. She manipulates objects into unique, timeless art in the form of oversize statement necklaces, assemblage pieces displayed under a glass dome, custom made and other opulent pieces. Where the masks require a completely different kind of world working with textile, all her creations are intuitive. She has to tell herself sometimes that she can’t make everything — she just sees beauty in older, quality made things. Her love for these treasures compels her to go out looking for them. With creativity unleashed, she is left only to the bounds of her imagination. Details: www.anneolsendaub.com, www. instagram.com/anne_olsen_daub
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Rapper Deuce Banga Tells His Story Through Music By Velia Salazar and Jessica Olvera, Editorial Interns
help from 2econd, a Los Angeles based rapper. Banga convinced him to record several tracks for the promotional effort. Banga heard the first two songs and simply said: two is all we need. Since he has gone through gun violence, he recommends that others talk about it in order to cope. “You need to vent about it, you can’t just keep it in,” said Banga. “I know my problem, personally, I try to keep it in and it does not help at all. That’s why I try my best to express it through my music because it is a lot to go through at a young age.” Although his friends and family support him, the only person that is helping him with his
career is his manager. “I really don’t have anyone helping me,” said Banga. “It’s just my manager and me.” With his self-promotion, he is currently at 6,000 pre-sales and hopes that his music will impact youngsters like himself in communities who have faced similar violence in their lives to focus on what they’re passionate about and push through obstacles. His music can be found through his Soundcloud account. Banga still uses the support from his community in his hometown of Delaware and the legacy that Hussle has left behind to help heal from his past experiences of violence and to pay tribute to those who have fallen victim to it. “I’m trying to tell a story through my music but also give a voice to others who have lived a similar life like mine,” Banga said. “I want it to be something to relate to and become a good impact so that others can see that there are positive outcomes they can choose from instead of turning to negativity.”
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I’m definitely going to be able to reach her,” Banga said. Banga doesn’t know London personally, but he knows some artists that have connections to her so once he achieves his goal; he’ll be able to give the money to her. He knows that getting more exposure as an artist means being able to budget. Banga wasn’t happy with just his friends and family listening to his music, he wanted more people to listen to his music. He was prepared to fail but his gut was telling him that he would win. He had
On May 13, more than 20 emergency vehicles launched Operation Thank You Long Beach at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and proceeded west along Long Beach Boulevard towards Dignity Health – St. Mary Medical Center. Hospital staff and physicians at both medical center’s greeted the first responders as they paraded through the campus in recognition of National Hospital Week. Dozens of emergency personnel, from Long Beach Fire Department, Long Beach Police Department, Signal Hill Police Department and Cal State University Police participated in the parade, including multiple fire engines, police cruisers and a motor brigade in honor of healthcare workers serving on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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errick Fuller, aka Deuce Banga, was only five years old when his stepfather was shot in front of him. Fuller was sitting in the backseat when he was killed. As the young boy fled the scene, the killer named him “Deuce,” a name that would mark his path as a rapper. Fuller, now known as Deuce Banga was born in Wilmington, Del. When he was 11 years old, his cousin, Jordan Ellerbe, was shot and killed at the age of 16 in a drive-by shooting. “There was one song that was about my cousin, and that stuck out to me because I was actually young when the situation happened,” said Banga. “There was true stuff in that song that I experienced. And the other song, it just stuck out to me because everybody liked it. It had the most publicity out of all my tracks. It was Case Closed and onetwentythree.” Following the shooting, Fuller said that his hometown experienced a rise of gun violence amongst young teens and the fear of shootings in the gang wars escalated. “It’s crazy in my hometown,” Fuller said. “I had situations where I was on a bus and then there was a whole shootout.” When Banga was 13, he was very excited for his voice to be heard, so he self-promoted the song through word of mouth and managed to get 3,000 SoundCloud streams. It was not easy since he did not get any help or promotion from anyone. Deuce Banga, who is now 16-years-old, currently resides in Huntington Park and is heavily influenced by the rapper Nipsey Hussle. Besides being a rapper, Hussle was an entrepreneur and a community activist. He was shot outside his Marathon Clothing store on March 31, 2019. Banga raps about his own traumatic experiences in his songs and believes that if his cousin had never been killed, he would not have started to write and begun his passion for rapping. “Gun violence still plays a pretty big part in my life and I try to distance myself and focus on music,” Banga said. “I had to learn how to maneuver right and as I got older, I tried to explain all of this in my music.” His lyrics, which Banga understands can come across as violent, pose a deeper meaning to express his past trauma and the environment he was raised in. With the tragic passing of Hussle and growing up with his music, Banga decided that he wanted to follow in his footsteps by creating music that explained the realism of gun violence and to inspire others. “Nipsey was a big influence in my life,” Fuller said. “He always stood out because he was real and he wasn’t all about violence but helping people and his community.” Banga aspires to be like Hussle one day. Banga’s very first studio track was a tribute to his late cousin titled, onetwentythree. Banga came across an article of how Nipsey once sold 1,000 CDs for $100 dollars each and even had Jay-Z, another rapper, buy 100 copies. The article that he read inspired him to form a plan for the year 2020. Banga is donating $100,000 of the proceeds to a charity of Lauren London’s (Nipsey’s wife) choosing, and $100,000 will go towards opening an immediate start-up business in Nipsey’s neighborhood. The remaining proceeds will stay with him and be used for his rap career. He is currently halfway to his goal. He hopes with this article, it’ll get him even more exposure from a well-known artist. “I know if I get that much publicity, then
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Karina Banales Named Deputy City Manager of Rancho Palos Verdes
RANCHO PALOS VERDES — On May 8, Palos Verdes Peninsula city administrator Karina Banales was officially named Deputy City Manager of Rancho Palos Verdes. Bañales was called upon to serve in numerous key roles in Palos Verdes Estates, leading the Human Resources Department and filling in as the city clerk. Prior to joining Palos Verdes Estates as an administrative analyst in 2015, Bañales worked in human resources positions in the City of San Gabriel, Riverside County and the City of South San Francisco. Banales, who is a member of the International City/County Management Association and the Municipal Management Association of Southern California, has served as assistant to the city manager of Palos Verdes Estates since 2018. She will now replace former Deputy City Manager Gabriella Yap, who resigned in December 2019 to become deputy city manager of Beverly Hills. Banales will begin her duties as Deputy City Manager of Rancho Palos Verdes on June 1.
Fighting For Our Lives “Anybody’s who’s ever been in the military knows the difference between strategy and tactics. Most people in sports know the difference between strategy and tactics,” Garrett told host Lawrence O’Donnell. “But somehow when it comes to national policy, we’ve completely eliminated that distinction,” she said, and almost all our attention was focused on tactics.
They haven’t fully beaten COVID-19. Antiviral drugs, vaccines and other medical breakthroughs are very much still needed. But they’ve made waiting for those breakthroughs far more bearable, with only a handful of new cases a day, sometimes none at all. When flare ups do occur — as just happened in South Korea — they have the capacity to respond, and limit the spread. Things are different in the U.S. Whether it’s angry protesters storming state capitals over lockdown orders or earnest public health experts advocating, “Test! Test! Test! Test!” they have one thing in common, Garrett noted. “These are all just tactics. They are not, ‘What is your longterm strategy? What is your strategic goal?’” But lockdowns and testing are just two of
that are almost there” includes three whose outbreaks have been most notorious: Iran, Italy and Spain.
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But the U.S. is one of 30 “countries that need to take action” in the third tier. Some have yet to reach their peak; others, like the U.S., U.K. and Sweden, appear to have peaked, but remain on a high plateau, which, as a Stat News headline warned, “portends more spread.” Of course, there’s considerable variation within the U.S. But only 5 U.S. states are in the top tier — Idaho, Montana and Vermont are the only ones in the continental U.S. None of the rest are in a truly safe position to end their lockdown phase, even as dozens are beginning to. Some, like California, may have “flattened the curve,” so that their healthcare systems aren’t overwhelmed, but they haven’t “crushed the curve,” so that it’s possible to test, trace and
Civilian Oversight Panel Issues Subpoena to Sheriff Villanueva
LOS ANGELES — The Civilian Oversight Commission for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department hosted a virtual meeting May 7. The commission unanimously voted to approve the issuance of a subpoena, ordering Sheriff Villanueva to attend the next meeting of the oversight body. After failing to attend or send personnel for the third consecutive meeting, the Civilian Oversight Commission utilized its newly granted subpoena power for the first time, by ordering the inspector general to issue a subpoena to Villanueva and his representatives to attend the May 21, meeting of the commission. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors granted the Civilian Oversight Commission the authority to subpoena LASD personnel and documents in the furtherance of the commission’s work. Details: www.tinyurl.com/ybxwl33q
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LOS ANGELES — Continuing to tackle COVID-19related consumer scams and price gouging via their Joint Coronavirus Task Force, City Attorney Mike Feuer and County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced May 4, that they are bringing action against Applied BioSciences Corp, its president, Chris Bridges and founder and Chairman Scott Stevens, for unlawfully advertising and selling an inhome COVID-19 antibody blood test that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Applied BioSciences is a Beverly Hills corporation that allegedly claims “is focused on the development and commercialization of novel, science-driven, synthetic cannabinoid therapeutics / biopharmaceuticals that target the endocannabinoid system to treat a wide-range of diseases.” The investigation by Lacey and Feuer revealed that the defendants allegedly marketed their antibody test to “homes, schools, hospitals, law enforcement, military and public servants,” and claimed the tests could diagnose COVID-19 with “96.3% accuracy” in just “15 minutes” from a single finger prick of blood. Applied BioSciences allegedly marketed this test on their website and allegedly advertised and sold the kits for $35 each. Community members are encouraged to report to instances of COVID-19-related scams or price gouging at 213-978-8070 or www.lacityattorney.org/covid19.
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Both comments hold germs of truth, but there actually is a successful strategy for dealing with COVID-19 in the short term, until medical treatments are developed, and there’s a 4-pronged strategy on the medical treatments from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Getting a vaccine is just one part of that strategy. What’s more, there’s even an existing (if badly underfunded) forward-looking strategy to seek out and fight zoonotic viruses like COVID-19 in the wild animals where they originate. The problem is, Donald Trump’s disastrously incoherent response has continually undermined the short-term strategy, thus placing too much weight on the medical treatment strategy in a too short time-frame. With just over 4 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. has almost a third of the COVID-19 deaths. A very conservative estimate of the costs of Trump’s mismanagement — only capturing excess deaths from a one-week delay in implementing containment guidelines — runs to 60 percent of the U.S. total, now displayed over Times Square as the “Trump Death Clock.” It was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who told Goodman, “Donald Trump is the epitome of what it looks like when you no longer have a democratic process at work.” So, we need a political strategy as well, to overcome the deadly situation we’re in.
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The successful short-term strategy is shown by the results of 20 countries identified by Endcoronavirus.org, (a project of the New England Complex Systems Institute), which have survived and crushed the initial wave of infection, and instituted additional measures to quickly identify and isolate new cases as they occur. Almost all — like Australia, Austria, China, Iceland, New Zealand and South Korea — show declines in their case rates as sharp as the preceding rises.
The Trump Death Clock created by film maker Eugene Jarecki keeps watch over Time Square in New York City. File photo
nine measures identified in the Endcoronavirus strategy, the first of which, “Get Everyone on Board,” clearly can’t be done nationally with Trump in the White House, pushing as hard as possible to “reopen” the economy, even as a majority of Republican think it’s not safe. “All levels/aspects of government, communities, companies, individuals have to go all out to stop this disease, even small ‘leaks’ can sink the ship,” they explain. Thus, the need for a practical anti-virus strategy underscores the need for a political strategy as well. “The lockdown can be completed within five weeks because the exponential decline can be as fast as the exponential growth,” they also explain. That’s a function of how the disease works — but it crucially depends on a holistic strategy that starts with getting everyone on board, and includes other measures like travel restrictions (with quarantines), isolating identified cases, wearing masks in shared spaces, keeping essential services safe and supporting medical care (hospitals and workers), as well as testing methods to help guide everything else. Although it’s less clearly articulated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has roughly the same strategy, only parts of which have been made public, as the Trump administration continues to suppress it. The most successful countries show this can be done. But not with a leader like Trump constantly pushing to reopen, repeatedly ignoring, contradicting and undermining his own public health advisors. “Reopening too early runs the risk of triggering exponential growth again,” Endcoronavirus warns. “This might erase all of the benefits gained from the lockdown so far.” Even when the ideal isn’t realized, a great deal can be done. A middle tier of 21 “countries
isolate new cases, and thus prevent the recurrence of exponential spread. Indeed, they’ve categorized California as a third tier state that needs to take action, rather than a mid-tier state that’s “getting there,” but that’s probably due to increased testing, as our deaths peaked at 115 on April 23. Since then, tests per day have risen by more than 20,000, while positive results increased by only 76 as of May 9. In contrast, some states clearly have growing problems, including Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, where meat-packing plants have become high-profile hotspots, even as Trump has used the Defense Production Act to force plants to reopen — an action he refused to take to produce needed medical supplies. But this only backed up policies that GOP governors had initiated. A recent ProPublica story reported that public health officials in Grand Island, Nebraska, wanted the JBS meatpacking plant there to close for two weeks starting the first week in April, and to have a solid screening program in place before reopening. But Nebraska Governor Gov. Pete Ricketts rejected any action. “Cases in the city of 50,000 people have skyrocketed from a few dozen when local health officials first reported their concerns to more than 1,200 this week as the virus spread to workers, their families and the community,” ProPublica reported. There had been just 210 cases statewide on April 1, and just 4 deaths. There were 641 new cases on May 9 alone, with a statewide death toll of 96, and many more surely to come. “In Grand Island and other cities with packing plants, workers are literally making the decision between providing for their family and staying alive,” Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb told Random Lengths. [See Fighting, p. 17]
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“Instead of putting workers first, Gov. Ricketts has decided to hide the numbers — the public and the workers do not get to see the exact number of cases at each workplace anymore.” While Trump has joined forces with GOP governors like Ricketts, he’s gone right to the edge of advocating forceful overthrow of Democratic governors, simply for following his own CDC-developed guidelines. In a White House briefing on April 16, Trump announced his “Opening Up America Plan,” which laid out criteria for phased reopening of states or regions. The first criteria was a downward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses and COVID-like cases reported within a 14-day period. No state met that criteria, as Trump admitted at the time. But the very next day, in response to a Fox News segment on protests against Democratic governors in three states, Trump tweeted his enthusiastic support for the protesters: “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” then, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” followed by, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”
Front Line Workers Protest Outside Trump National Golf Club in PV By Mark Friedman, Labor Columnist
Workers on the front lines battling the coronavirus protested at Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes this past week. These essential workers, like so many in groceries, warehouses and meatpacking plants demanded federal financial relief from the federal government as they continued in their jobs. Nurses, health care workers, sheriff’s deputies and a group of city and Los Angeles County workers demanded that the president and administration provide federal financial relief to keep local public sector employees from being out of work. LA County said it expects a $1.3 billion loss for fiscal year 2019-2020 and an additional $2.3 billion for fiscal year 2020-2021, according to a Service Employees International Union news release. “I’m here today because I see the suffering in the halls and family members are not allowed to see their loved ones and they’re dying alone. This is something that we never saw before, in all my years, 20 years of nursing, cancer doesn’t even kill you that fast,” Theresa Monroe, Registered Nurse, LAC+USC Medical Center, told Patch.
Grocery Unions Demand Kroger Cease Plans to End Hero Pay, Safety Measures
As grocery stores (like Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc) achieve record profits while coronavirus continues to spread, United Food and Commerical Workers locals, representing 100,000 of these essential heroes across the West urge Kroger to maintain “hero pay” and address safety concerns Kroger-owned grocery stores (Ralphs and
Food 4 Less), across the West notified essential grocery workers that starting May 17, the company will cut the $2.00 an hour bonus called “Hero Pay.” “We’ve been working long hours, under enormous stress and risk of becoming infected and bringing it back home to our families. We come to work, committed to do our job and serve our communities. For Kroger to put an expiration on our hero pay for our sacrifices is insulting,” said Janelle Alva, a cashier at Food 4 Less. “We’re demanding Kroger acknowledge the dedication to their work,” said Andrea Zinder, president of UFCW Local 324. UFCW local unions call on the public to support these #essentialheroes in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. They are asking Kroger to maintain hero pay, improve store safety practices and provide testing to all employees.
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Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, a detainee in San Diego, became the first to die of COVID-19 while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. His death occurred just one day after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a US District judge’s ruling to decrease the population at California’s Adelanto ICE processing facility, one of the largest immigrant detention facilities in the country, to a level that would allow the remaining detainees to maintain a social distance of six feet from one another.
People Demand Rent Forgiveness
Rent strikes are spreading in Los Angeles and across the country as economic desperation compounded by the pandemic further worsens
the housing crisis and radicalizes tenants. Membership in the LA Tenants Union has more than doubled since the start of the crisis, and most of their now 8000 members participated in a citywide rent strike on May 1. These strikes are estimated to be the largest since the 1930s. According to one estimate, the federal government could expand existing housing subsidy programs to cover all qualified lowincome renters and those newly eligible due to the pandemic for just $100 billion a year, a mere fraction of the trillions handed out by Congress to large corporations in the series of bailout bills passed already, or the $10,000 per second earned by Amazon shareholders and executives.
Workers Suffer, Big Oil Gains
As millions of Americans are waiting for relief, the fossil fuel industry has pushed its way to the front of the line and Trump rolled out the red carpet. The administration has set up a $500 million dollar fund for big oil relief. We the people need to tell Congress to divest that money to the people that need it. This week, Sen. Merkley and Rep. Barragán introduced the “Resources for Workforce Investments, Not Drilling” Act or ReWIND Act. They want to ensure that any funds used are invested in people and not polluters. The REWIND Act would: • Keep the oil, gas, and coal industry from getting access to stimulus money through the Federal Reserve or Treasury. • Ban the Department of the Interior from loosening any oil, gas or coal regulations during the state of emergency. • Extend all comment periods and ban new non-COVID-19 rulemaking processes, both until at least 30 days past the end of the state of emergency.
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“Trump incited insurrection,” Mary McCord, a former acting U.S. assistant attorney general for national security wrote in response. “The president undercut his own guidance by calling for criminal acts against the governors for not opening fast enough.” The Michigan protests — cosponsored by a group partly funded by the family of Trump’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos — featured chants of “Lock her up!” directed at Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer. Other wealthy funders behind the reopen protests included Robert Mercer and the Koch brothers, through a web of organizations described by former justice department official Lisa Graves in the New York Times. “America is now facing three calamities,” she wrote: “a deadly contagion, a capricious president and a well-funded right-wing infrastructure willing to devalue human life in pursuit of its political agenda.” The contagion can be contained. Twenty countries have shown that it’s possible, as have five U.S. states. Therapies are being developed, even if a vaccine doesn’t arrive as soon as hoped for. The real challenge is Trump and the forces supporting him, the focus of Part 2, in our next issue.
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DBA FILINGS Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2020065867 The following person is doing business as: (1) Defining Moments Video, (2) Beach Villa Organic Dry Cleaner, Inc., 1110 W 9th Street, San Pedro CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Mark J Doddy, 1110 W 9th Street, San Pedro CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Mark J Doddy, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 20, 2018. 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 it to expire
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.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: 04/02/2020, 04/16/2020, 04/30/2020, 05/14/2020
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2020058175 The following person is doing business as: Coastline Coatings, 1279 W 24th Street #1, San Pedro CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Dimitrios Tsikiniadopoulos, 1279 W 24th Street #1, San Pedro CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 1/2004. I declare that all
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2020065869 The following person is doing business as: Rudy’s Construction, 1279 W 24th Street #1, San Pedro CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Dimitrios Tsikiniadopoulos, 1279 W 24th Street #1, San Pedro CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 1/2004. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Dimitrios Tsikiniadopoulos, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 9, 2018. 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 it to expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement
28 “All Songs Considered” broadcaster 29 “Heads” side of a coin 31 List of options 33 Frigid ending? 34 “Bad” cholesterol letters (I have trouble remembering which is which) 36 “Tell ___ About It” (Billy Joel hit) 39 Deck member 40 Code for Arizona’s Sky Harbor Airport 41 News program created by Cenk Uygur, for short 43 Dir. from Denver to Chicago 44 Pirate’s sword 45 “Look at the facts!” 46 “Julie & Julia” director Nora 47 Singer-songwriter Conor 49 Word after “I before E” 52 Tractor manufacturer John 53 Finless fish 54 “Sticks and Bones” playwright David 56 Sketch show with Bob and Doug McKenzie 58 Shows approval 59 Door sign 60 Art ___ (style from 100 years ago) 63 Went on the ballot 64 Engine additive brand
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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.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: 04/16/2020, 04/30/2020, 05/14/2020, 05/30/20
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[Terminal Island, from p. 6]
COVID-19 Infections High at Terminal Island at the time the suit was drafted, suffers from hypertension, heart problems, spinal damage requiring use of a wheelchair, bipolar disorder and manic depression. Plaintiff Jessica Haviland is a 39-year-old woman who was in the custody of Century Regional Detention Facility and had been exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 and was not tested. Other plaintiffs are in similar situations. In the complaint, the coalition cited epidemiological research that “during pandemics, jail facilities become ‘ticking time bombs’ as ‘many people are crowded together, often suffering from diseases that weaken their immune systems, form potential breeding grounds and reservoirs for diseases.” The lawsuit goes on to say that although the California Department of Public Health issued a guidance about novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, for California prisons recommending the provision of sanitization supplies for prisoners to clean their cells and masks to symptomatic prisoners, increased cleaning of common spaces and social distancing of six feet; these measures have not prevented the virus from spreading in California prisons. As of April 23, a total of 149 prisoners and at least 105 staff in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities tested positive. News media reported that in April in the California prison system, within the course of just more than a week, the number of prisoners testing positive for COVID-19 grew by 700% and the number of staff testing positive nearly tripled.
Funny Numbers and Nagging Questions
The Bureau of Prisons says it has begun daily
An aerial view of the prison on Terminal Island shows the temporary barracks that house COVID-19 positive inmates away from the general population. File photo
testing and testing of asymptomatic inmates at its prisons in order to keep up with the rapidly evolving nature of the public health crisis. As a result, it said its data reflects an increase in the number of COVID-19 positive tests. As of last count, there are 51 Bureau of Prison facilities and 22 residential reentry centers with confirmed active cases of the coronavirus. By the bureau’s count, the Lompoc, Calif. Facility, with 842 inmates and 11 staff members testing positive for the virus, had the highest rate of infection out of all the federal prisons in the United States, but the Terminal Island facility is one of the deadliest, tied for second with Butner Medium Security Prison in Butner, N.C., and Oakdale Prison in Oakdale, La. The prison with
the most COVID-19 deaths thus far is Elkton Prison in Lisbon, Ohio. But a scroll down the list shows the number of infections quickly dwindling from three digit numbers to the single digits after 17 prisons or residential reentry centers out of more than 80 bureau facilities. Some of these places are in counties with the highest per capita infection rates in the country. Yazoo City, Miss. has one inmate and five staff members infected with COVID-19. Aliceville FCI in Aliceville, Alaska has seven infected inmates and no infected staff members. Brooklyn MDC in Brooklyn, N.Y. has no infected inmates but 17 infected staff members, six inmates recovered from COVID-19 and 20
staff members recovered from the virus. In each of these cases, the per capita infection rate in their respective counties exceeds the national average. Three weeks after Attorney Gen. William Barr’s memo, the bureau’s results are modest: the number of people allowed to serve the rest of their sentences in home confinement went up by only 1,027 under the new guidance set out by the attorney general. This is about half of 1 percent of the more than 174,000 people in the bureau’s custody at the start of the month, according to data obtained from the bureau and Congress. One of those was President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. He was released early from federal prison and moved to home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism outlet about criminal justice, reported last month that in one recent court filing, prosecutors unsuccessfully opposed the release of a man from Oakdale prison, in Louisiana, arguing in part that the bureau was taking sufficient care of prisoners there — even after the virus had killed five men. In a separate case, a judge labeled the Bureau of Prisons’ process “Kafkaesque,” and said it prevented many releases. Critics, including groups advocating for mass releases to reduce prison outbreak of the virus, have called the implementation of Barr’s memo confusing and chaotic. Update: As of May 13, there are 140 inmates and 15 staff members who are infected. There have been seven inmate deaths and no staff deaths. Five-hundred-and-sixty-two inmates and no staff have recovered from COVID-19, a day after Rep. Barragan visited Terminal Island prison.
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