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L.A. Harbor Commissioners vote to move forward with Maersk automation permit request p. 2 Critics call foul on “official” mailers that skirt campaign law p. 5 Summer Festival Guide

p. 9 Eugene Daub refines the foam model of Harry Bridges before taking it to the foundry where a rubber mold is made. Wax is painted inside the mold during the ‘lost wax’ process. Ultimately, bronze is poured into the cavity to create the finished sculpture. Photos courtesy of Eugene Daub.

By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

The Gig Is Up! By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

the bill’s author, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), said after the vote. “This measure would immediately benefit working people who are living on the edge every single day as a result of being misclassified as independent contractors,” Art Pulaski wrote at the Labors’ Edge blog of the California Federation of Labor. Misclassifying workers also harms law-abiding businesses. “The practice of misclassification creates unfair competition for responsible contractors and law-abiding employers who honor their lawful obligations to their employees, yet are forced to compete with other companies that use an illegal business model,” the factsheet for AB-5 explains. Port truckers and gig economy employees would be among the most prominent beneficiaries if the bill becomes law, codifying a test set forth by the California Supreme Court in the May 2018 Dynamex case. But millions [See Gig, p. 16]

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Sketches are Daub’s first step in creating a sculpture.

On May 29, the California Assembly voted 55-11 for Assembly Bill -5, codifying a simple three-part test to prevent companies from misclassifying workers as “independent contractors.” Misclassifying workers has long enabled companies to deprive them of a wide range of labor rights (from minimum wage and overtime protections to unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, employer contributions to Social Security, and the right to organize and bargain collectively), while depriving the government of money to fund such programs. “Big businesses shouldn’t be able to pass their costs on to taxpayers while depriving workers of the labor law protections they are rightfully entitled to,”

[See Hero, p. 17]

AB-5 heads to state Senate after passage by Assembly reverses decades-long erosion of labor rights

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ugene Daub is old friends with Harry Bridges. Even though they never met—Bridges died in 1990, a few years before Daub moved to San Pedro. The artist ended up spending many years becoming intimately familiar with the sharp angular face of this West Coast labor icon. His recently completed bronze statue of Bridges — due to be unveiled July 28 during a noontime ceremony at the new ILWU dispatch hall in Wilmington — is the third likeness of the historic figure that Daub has created. Daub also created the bust of Bridges that is featured at the ILWU memorial on Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro, as well as, the bust that sits in front of Harry Bridges School in Wilmington. What did Bridges do to deserve three bronze memorials? He founded the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He rose to that historic role from working class, immigrant beginnings –not unlike another labor icon, Joe Hill, who lived in San Pedro for less than three years before meeting his demise in Utah in front of firing squad. Alfred Renton Bridges was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1901 to parents with upper-middle class bearings. His father was a successful

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On June 20, the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners voted 3-2 to move forward with automation at Pier 400 at the Port of Los Angeles, denying the appeal by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to rescind Maersk’s permitting request. Councilman Joe Buscaino submitted a request to the Los Angeles City Council to overturn the Harbor Commission’s decision using a 245 charter action to review and possibly over rule the Harbor Commission. If that happens, the issue will be sent back to the Harbor Commissioners for a reconsideration or reversal of their vote. At the June 25 meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 4th District Supervisor Janice Hahn introduced a motion requiring the Los Angeles chief executive office to conduct an economic impact analysis of port automation, including how many jobs will be lost and then to report back in 90 days. In addition, Hahn asked the supervisors to send a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city council expressing support of the ILWU’s efforts to stop job losses. “Maersk responded with a letter stating that no matter what the Los Angeles City Council decides,

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Harbor Area Inclusionary Housing Workshop

Long Beach Development Services invites the public to a community workshop about a recently completed study considered a key step in the development of the proposed inclusionary housing policy. The workshop will include a brief presentation, interactive boards and an opportunity to provide input. Translation service in Spanish, Tagalog, and Khmer will be provided. Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: 562-570-6710; andrew.chang@longbeach.gov. Venue: Roosevelt Elementary School Auditorium, 1574 Linden Ave., Long Beach

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Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton disagreed with the board’s decision that would allow automation. File photo.

they will move forward with automation at POLA. Maersk claims they will use diesel powered equipment if the city council does not approve their permit. The permit will allow the company to build infrastructure for electric equipment.” In January, POLA Executive Director Gene Seroka, issued a coastal development permit to APM Terminals allowing the company to prepare Pier 400 for automation. They included charging stations for electric and battery powered vehicles, a vertical racking system and Wi-Fi antennas. Jaime L. Lee, president of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, said that the coastal development permit the port issued to APM fits into the port’s master plan, a set of policies and guidelines for the Port of Los Angeles. “There is no requirement for a level one CDP to create jobs,” Lee said. “There is also no requirement, or bar, for losing them.” More than 400 members of the ILWU and community members present at the harbor commission meeting loudly protested Lee’s comments and the following 3-2 decision. They stood up and turned their backs to the board while the board made its final vote. “Automation is cancer for workers,” said Ray Familathe, vice president of the ILWU. He said that whenever automation is introduced at ports, job losses were as high as 90 percent. Familathe also said that the union could be losing 500 eight-hour shifts per day. Depending on the shifts that are available, full time union members get first pick, and part time workers known as “casuals”, who are not full members of the union, get the shifts that are left over. Even among full time union members, there are some members that are consistently chosen by the companies that work with the ILWU, who are known as steady men. POLA Commissioner Diane L. Middleton vehemently disagreed with the majority. “Environmental impacts absolutely must include decimation of the workforce,” Middleton said. Middleton argued that using automation would hurt productivity. She also said that this permit did not fit the definition of a level one CDP, as level one CDPs were meant to cause minor changes to the port. Both Middleton and Commissioner Anthony Pirozzi voted to approve the ILWU’s appeal. Commissioner Renwick voted against it even after calling the application “deficient.” Immediately following the meeting, Buscaino stood up in front of the remaining ILWU workers gathered to tell them it was not over, and that he would appeal the board’s decision to City Hall.

The Long Beach HIV/STD Planning Group is participating in a 2nd District Community Health Fair to share strategic goals and get input from the public. In 2017, it was reported that 4,520 Long Beach residents were diagnosed or living with HIV. It was also reported that there were 4,321 cases of chlamydia, 499 cases of syphilis, and 1,690 cases of gonorrhea — the second-highest rates among California cities. Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ lbhealthfair Venue: Bixby Park, 130 Cherry Ave., Long Beach

Veteran’s Empowerment Training Sessions

The menu features a strategy session, a collaborative panel on the transition from military service to civilian employment and networking opportunities. RSVP. Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: 562-570-4035; http://bit.ly/2VYWCXb Venue: American Legion Post 496, 5938 Parkcrest St., Long Beach

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LOS ANGELES — Every Fourth of July, LA Animal Services Centers fill to overflowing capacity with terrified pets. Help is needed to create kennel space by fostering or adopting now to make space for the frightened arrivals. The loud sounds of July 4th fireworks frighten dogs and cats and can cause them to get out of the house or yard. They escape out of fear, and these frightened pets may not find their way home. The lucky ones end up at our city shelters. If they have a current city dog license or a microchip registered with a current address and phone number, they can be reunited with their families. Animals available for adoption or foster have been spayed or neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. Details: http://bit.ly/LAASAdoptables, http://bit.ly/LAASlocator.

Connecting Homeless Youth with Services

Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin just released a comprehensive online map and data tool detailing free local resources to assist lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning homeless youth throughout the region. Homelessness is challenging for everyone, it is particularly difficult for LGBTQ youth. Details: www.lacontroller.org/datastories-and-maps/lgbtq-resource-map

SUPPORTING WATERFRONT JOBS The community and businesses of the San Pedro Harbor Area continue to support the ILWU in the fight to preserve good jobs on the Waterfront. Join us to protest the automation of and the elimination of jobs on Pier 400 today!

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Seven Years a Vision, Now a Skate Park Harbor City skateboarders now have a place of their own By Pratyush Shukila, Editorial Intern

On June 21, Harbor City residents and skaters celebrated the grand opening of their community’s first skatepark alongside Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, representatives from the City Lights Gateway Foundation and members of the CA$H skate team.

many other places were present at the ceremony, ready to ride the rails and kickflip over staircases. Emilio Otero and Armando Micro II, two 20-year-old Harbor City skaters of the CA$H skate team, have been dreaming of a local skate park since they were in the seventh grade. The fight for the skate park was worth it.

Harbor City Neighborhood Council and CA$H skate crew member Emilio Otero holds up a pair of oversized scissors to celebrated the opening of Harbor City’s first skate park. Photo by Steven Guzman

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The 11,000-square-foot skate park includes a transition-style terrain, on which skateboarders travel from the ground to a ramp or other incline to perform stunts. The skate park also has obstacles to satisfy a full spectrum of skaterskill levels. Skaters from Oregon, San Diego and

“I wanted to keep kids off the street [and] to give someone a place to come skate and make friends,” Otero said. “Evening and night time isn’t that safe to skate around here.” “It has been a fight,” Micro said. [See Skate Park, p. 5]

Law Says “Campaign” but Mailers Say “Official” By Lyn Jensen, Carson Reporter

Critics accuse Long Beach City Manager Pat West helping Mayor Robert Garcia execute a targeted political advocacy mailer campaign to pass Measure M on the June 5, 2018 ballot. File photo

What was different about the “Information Guide” was that it listed 18 “key provisions of the charter” that read like a list of evergreen civic issues. Some of the provisions assured readers that the charter prohibited eminent domain, conflicts of interest, nepotism and favoritism, banned marijuana dispensaries and limited the council’s ability to levy taxes. Other recent examples of “official” mailings that provided campaign-like “information” regarding a ballot measure were found in Long Beach before the June 5 primary and Nov. 6 election this past year. In June the city asked voters to consider Measure M, designed to transfer revenue from city-owned utilities into the general fund, which passed, and mailed “information” about it to certain targeted voters. On May 6 this year, the Long Beach Reform Coalition sent a letter complaining about the mailings to Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert, alleging “the misuse of public money for campaign-style political advocacy by local governmental bodies has recently become an increasing and increasingly disturbing public trend.” The coalition’s letter continued, “Specifically, we allege that Long Beach City Manager Pat West disbursed almost $100,000 of city/taxpayer

[Skate Park, from p.4]

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He designs and makes CA$H merchandise — clothes, hats — that produce profits for upgrades around the park. Since they were 13, Otero and Micro have dreamt of a skate park in their hometown but did not know the process until they connected with the City Lights Foundation. Being so young, the skaters struggled to find anyone willing to listen to them. “When I heard Emilio and, you know the CA$H skate crew, I told Scott and Tim, and they got the ball rolling,” said City Lights Foundation member Daniel Marin, one of the first advocates for the skate park. Tim Tucker and Howard Scott Jr., founders of City Lights Gateway Foundation, were the first to understand their vision and help navigate Otero and Micro to the next step. “They’ve helped us; they got us connections; they networked us; they got us on the right path to do the right thing,” Otero said.

Buscaino said as much during his remarks at the grand opening. “Tim and Scott brought the CA$H skate crew to my office and said we want to partner with you to achieve this skate park and I said yes,” he said “What we were looking for was to find these young kids a ‘Local 13,’ something to unite them enough that it doesn’t matter where they were from,’’ said Scott during an interview. Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreations contributed $350,000 for the skate park. An icing on the cake: the cause received $400,000 from an anonymous donor. A blueprint was decided upon –– after much editing and revising –– by the CA$H team. Spohn Ranch Co. constructed the skatepark. “We had no input,” Marin said. “It was all sketched and designed by Emilio and his friends.” Muratsuchi had some kind words for Otero. “Emilio is a walking example of what difference you can make in your community, in your neighborhood, when you get involved,” he said.

money to hire a prominent campaign consultant (Eric Hacopian) and execute a targeted political advocacy mailer campaign in support of Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia’s efforts to pass municipal Long Beach Measure M on the June 5, 2018 ballot.” The complaint was about more than the content of the mailers or that they were produced and mailed at city expense, “While the City clearly skewed the content of these [three] mailers beyond the point of neutral assessment to that of overt campaign-style communication, the most damning evidence of politicization was who the mailers were sent to: They were politically targeted to just a subset of voters, and all three mailers were sent to just that same subset rather than to as many voters as possible within the budget.” The coalition further alleged the city “renewed” the scheme, mailing “two in-all-butname-only campaign mailers trumpeting the

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Voters in the Los Angeles Unified School District, including in Carson, went to the polls on June 4 regarding Measure EE, a property tax initiative to provide more funding for the district. The measure was defeated, following several weeks of intense campaigning, including multiple mailers from a committee, “Yes on EE,” sponsored by labor. In the days before the vote, an undated letter from LAUSD arrived in many prospective voters’ mail, mixed with the “Yes on EE” mailers. Machine-signed by superintendent Austin Beutener, the form letter read in part, “On June 4th, voters residing within the boundaries of Los Angeles Unified will be able to participate in a special election and vote for Measure EE” with a description of the measure. Followed, in underscored type, “However, a full exemption from the cost of Measure EE is available to homeowners age 65+ and certain low-income residents with disabilities.” The letter enclosed a “Senior Exemption Form” with instructions to submit it to the district “on or before July 1, 2019” to be exempted from the cost of Measure EE for the 2019-20 tax year. Since the measure didn’t pass, the district’s mailing amounted to a waste of the money that the district complains they’re short of. California law reads, “It is unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including any state or local appointee, employee, or consultant, to use or permit others to use public resources for a campaign activity.” In addition any campaign expenditures must be reported to the Fair Political Practices Commission. The school district letter’s “vote for” wording resembled campaign literature. A similar example happened in Carson this past year, when a proposed city charter was on the Election Day ballot. Just prior to the election, Carson mailed many residents, at city expense, a glossy four-page “Proposed City Charter Information Guide.” The city had already provided a pamphlet on the proposed city charter, prepared and mailed by the city clerk, which included the date of the election, an application for a “vote by mail” ballot, and the entire text of the proposed city charter.

purported benefits of Measure AAA, BBB, CCC & DDD” on the Nov. 5 ballot. Earlier this year the Fair Political Practices Commission complained that new legislation was needed because district attorneys and the attorney general were not adequately enforcing existing law.

Here Come the Robots

The battle over global trade at the doorsteps of the local economy By James Preston Allen, Publisher

Terminals Pacific even admits that electrification of equipment at this terminal would save 2.2 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, which would be considerable, but the company insist that lowering their labor costs is necessary to compete with east and Gulf coast ports. This seems to be at odds with the consistent reports from the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports of ever-increasing through-puts of containers year over year. POLA’s Executive Director Gene Seroka references reports claiming that cargo volumes will double over the next two decades but does not concede that this has to be done with a diminished workforce. In fact, there’s a direct correlation between cargo volumes and numbers of jobs that no one disputes. However, the efficiencies of automation compared to human-managed cargo handling is disputed. The ILWU claims that the two smaller automated terminals in Los Angeles and Long Beach are significantly slower by as much as 30 percent. Maersk claims its terminal can work 24/7 and doesn’t take lunch breaks or get paid overtime for weekends and holidays. Pier 400 currently operates 16 hours a day through two shifts. Will automation make Maersk’s Pier 400 more competitive? Not if Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton is to be believed. During her remarks at the June 20 special hearing, Middleton argued that comparative cost of leases between automated terminals should be considered. Maersk’s “competitive narrative” is a lot like saying Amazon needs incentives to bring their new headquarters to your city. APM Terminals is the world’s leading shipping company with 15.3 percent of the market but has more market share because of its other holdings. It can invest in both green technology and preserve good union jobs while expanding cargo volumes at the same time. While robotics may end up coming to the Port of Los Angeles in this century one way or the other, we should all be very careful about what this means for the future of work, our relationship to the global economics of the twin ports and just what it means to our local economy and your businesses. In the end, we all need to consider both the benefits and deficits of having this behemoth industrial complex right at our doorstep and what automation would do for the greater goals many have for the future of the harbor communities.

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The stage is set and the battle lines are drawn in the fight over automation at the Port of Los Angeles’ Pier 400. On June 20, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission voted 3 - 2 to deny ILWU Local 13’s appeal of the coastal permit that allows for Maersk to introduce automated electric yard equipment. Automating of the pier would impact some 500 eight-hour shifts at the terminal. Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino immediately called upon the council to veto the decision using its authority under the City Charter in Section 245 regarding board of referred powers. The review is scheduled to be heard on June 28. A veto requires 10 votes. In the meantime, Supervisor Janice Hahn to pass a motion on June 25 to send a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the council “to support the efforts of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to protect local jobs and the local community’s economy.” This motion went on to call for the county’s chief executive office to “conduct an economic analysis of the local community impact of how automation at the Port will result in local job losses and report back in 90 days.” Not to be outdone, Wim Lagaay, chairman of APM Terminals Pacific, the subsidiary of Maersk, fired a shot across the bow of Buscaino’s promised veto, stating that, “APMT has the undisputed right under its lease and it collective bargaining agreement to introduce automated technology … and does not require any permit … or approval to operate automated, driverless equipment at Pier 400.” In fact, according to one report, Maersk has already ordered 27 Polish manufactured top handlers to be delivered by the end of the year with a 100 more on order after that. Clearly, what is at play here is a gambit that uses the Clean Air Initiative to comply with the zero emissions goal by 2030 while lowering Maersk’s labor costs to pay for it, and at the same time divide the environmental justice community and labor unions by pressuring the political representatives to choose between clean air and good jobs. Offering a fake choice is a classic corporate move that has been used historically to divide communities — as if the largest shipping company in the world doesn’t have the capital to invest in both good jobs and green technology. In its own letter to Buscaino, APM

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How Amazon, Boeing Ate Seattle From a livable city to a company town By Linda Averill

When Amazon unleashed its bidding war for a second headquarters, more than 200 cities offered mind-blowing sums of money to lure the e-commerce giant. Crystal City in Virginia “won” at a cost of $23 million in perks, on top of $75 million more from the state. “Loser” Long Island City in New York had offered $3 billion in incentives. But Amazon, which is ferociously anti-union, backed out after being asked to sign a “neutrality” agreement making it possible for its warehouse workers to organize. This was seen as a victory for community members who had militantly organized against Amazon coming to town, arguing that the social costs would be too high. Seattle offers a sobering story about just what those costs are. A city remade. In the 1990s, when Jeff Bezos was founding Amazon from his garage, Seattle was known for things like its great musicians and natural beauty. For the poor, life was hard, but the poverty rate was low compared to other large cities. For many residents, Seattle deserved its reputation as a “most livable city.” Now Seattle is famous for its multiple corporate Goliaths — Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks, etc. And, with growth has come inequality on steroids. Since 2010, rents have spiked 63 percent. Many Seattleites with deep roots have been forced to move, sometimes by being evicted.

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People of color are the majority of those ousted. And of those kicked out for owing $100 or less, female single tenants are the majority. Soaring taxes on homeowners also push residents out. If those leaving find cheaper housing out of town, they often must still work in the city, with hours-long commutes. But ever-greater numbers of people in Seattle’s King County — now more than 12,000 — don’t have a home at all. Once it was shocking to see someone homeless; now people walk by with seeming indifference. Meanwhile, as traffic snarls, neighborhood density skyrockets and green spaces disappear, more construction cranes dot the skyline than in any other U.S. city. South Lake Union, once a district of small businesses and warehouses, is now Amazon’s campus. With 40 buildings and 45,000 employees, Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers combined. To accommodate Amazonia, Seattle has sunk $638 million into new infrastructure. Riding a gravy train. Washington state has one of the country’s most regressive tax codes. It puts the lion’s share of taxes on those less able to pay, with huge loopholes for big tech. And titans like Boeing and Amazon continually use extortion to get even more perks. In 2013 Boeing demanded — and got — a record $8.2 billion in state subsidies by threatening to take production elsewhere. At the

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Progress and Technology

I would like to follow up on my response to your excellent article debunking the myth of technological progress. I am deeply troubled that hardly anybody seems to question our national love affair with high technology. It is apparent to me that technology has not enriched our lives, and that in fact we are considerably worse off because of our addiction to it.

7. It makes toxic waste. Technology has impaired our lives in the following ways:

1. It gives humans too much power, without the concomitant widom to use that power rightly. Specifically, it gives governments and corporations the ability to spy on people who disagree with them. 2. It depersonalizes our lives replacing human contact with mechanical devices.

3. It imposes an artificial or “simulated” view of reality upon the world, substituting artificially devised impressions for the evidence of our senses. 4. It deprives our hands, feet, minds, and bodies of natural exercise.

5. It speeds up the pace of life unnecessarily, depriving us of the natural time to prcess stimuli, thus causing anxiety, insecurity, and frustration. 6. It makes us dependent upon a sophisticated mechanical system which is beyond the scope of most people’s ability to repair or control

[Company Town, from p. 6]

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9. It is ugly and sterile to look at.

10. It can be used in warfare, making wars even more deadly and horrible then they are now. I see no benefit in having “information at our fingertips”. Computers may be useful in banks and very large bureaucracies, and they will be very beneficial in testing new drugs and chemicals, thus obviating the horrid practice of victimizing laboratory animals. To substitute computer simulations for animal testing would indeeed be a boom to animal rights. But that is no reason to impose a computerized way of life upon an entire society. Naomi Anna Greenleaf San Pedro

Letter to My Father

On this Father’s Day I will share a letter I mailed to my father on his 85th birthday: Dear Dad, I am writing to you for two reasons. First, because I want to

Community Alert

LA City Council to Vote on Terminal Automation

Join the ILWU and 15th District City Councilman Joe Buscaino on a motion to halt the 5g Permit for Maersk at Pier 400 and the loss of 400 to 500 union jobs. Public comment will be allowed. Time: 10 a.m. June 28 Details: www.clerk.lacity.org Venue: Los Angeles City Hall, Room 340, 200 N. Spring St,, Los Angeles

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encompassed dissenters and non-Aryans. Seattle is a far cry from Hitler’s Germany. But the city’s billionaire class is trying to mask their economic crimes by demonizing the poor and marginalized. As one example, local TV station KOMO aired a propaganda piece in March called “Seattle is Dying.” It broad-brushed homeless people as crazy, drug-addicted, and dangerous. Absent was discussion of things like poverty, obscene rents, and the role of corporate power in dislocating thousands of residents, especially blacks. Shake off the corporate chokehold! Long Island City showed that a community can stand up against big business bullies. In light of the havoc Amazon has wreaked in Seattle, New York doesn’t look like much of a “loser.” But Seattle doesn’t have to be a loser either. With the “privilege” of living amid wealth comes the opportunity of confronting it. And the Emerald City has a long tradition of rebellion it can draw upon. When labor, community, and activists united to shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization in 1999, the ensuing “Battle of Seattle” inspired upsurges around the globe. Today, the city has a new opportunity to put itself on the map by building solidarity with Amazon employees who are trying to organize for better wages and against wretched workplace practices in warehouses from Minnesota to New York and Spain. Imagine how protests in Seattle could boost their efforts and embolden local organizing! Meanwhile, members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 751 are setting an example of solidarity by supporting their co-workers in South Carolina, where flight techs voted to join the union. But the company refuses to negotiate a first contract and recently fired three of the techs in a thinly veiled retaliatory move. Local 751 initiated a petition calling on Boeing to reinstate them. (See IAM751.org for details.) In the end, it is labor solidarity like this, on a grand and international scale, that can defeat the corporatist mindset and shake loose the inhuman grip of the 1 percent.

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same time, it rammed a concessionary contract down the throat of its blue-collar workforce. Machinists Local 751 fought valiantly but ultimately lost against a coalition that included Boeing bosses and politicians of both the Democratic and Republican parties. After all this, Boeing still moved its headquarters to Chicago, shrunk its workforce, and sent major production to the South. The power this company wields is a huge factor in the 737 Max catastrophe, given that the Federal Aviation Administration allowed it to sign off on parts of its own flight-control software without outside inspection. Amazon, which paid no federal taxes in 2018, also uses bully tactics. Last year, activists tried to levy a “head tax” on businesses making over $20 million per year. An ordinance adopted unanimously by the Seattle City Council would have charged such businesses $275 per employee annually for three years. Its purpose was to fund services for the homeless. The law fired the wrath of Seattle’s biggest corporations, especially Amazon, which threatened to pause construction. The labor movement quickly split, with the building trades and iron worker unions opposing the levy and service workers defending it. Amazon’s intimidation worked. Seattle’s “progressive,” Democratic Party-controlled City Council rescinded the tax in a 7-2 vote, urged on by Mayor Jenny Durkan. Now Seattle’s wealthiest are funding efforts to defeat Kshama Sawant, one of the two council holdouts, in her bid for reelection this year. Propagandized in Seattle. Hanging like smog over Seattle these days is a “corporatist” outlook not unlike what fascists promoted during the 1930s. Corporatism pushes the notion that workers, big business, billionaires, and politicians can unite to create prosperity for all. Unspoken is the scapegoating and disenfranchisement of those considered expendable. In Nazi Germany, that

8. It is expensive.

apologize for being unreceptive to your advice and second, because there are some things I want to say before you pass away from us. I want you to know that no man has ever been blessed with such a loving and understanding father as you. You have taught me what is necessary to adhere to the principles of the faith and at the same time demonstrated what it is to maintain a strong and upstanding character even in the face of extreme adversity. I think about you every day and am preparing myself for the day when you and I will be temporarily separated and you will be permanently reunited with all of our relatives. I remember when we were at one of your birthday parties and somebody suggested that each of us write out on your birthday card a memory of a time that was important to us. One of my memories was when you used to bring us home from Busha’s house (never could spell it right) to the house in Parma Heights and I would fight with Tweety to stop you from driving away because your leaving us would cause me a lot of sadness. Knowing the fact that you may be leaving soon brings back memories of that sadness. You said to me afterwards that when you used to leave us, your heart would ache with sadness. Joe Bialek Cleveland, OH [Read the remainder of this letter on www.randomlengthsnews.com]

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By Melina Paris, Arts and Culture Reporter

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouthwash.

The end result of this commodification of place and identity is the projection of the Angeleno as lacking in cultural and intellectual depth, designed to capture attention for so many minutes or so many seconds before something new happens. There was a time when San Pedro saw San Francisco, its sister port city in the Bay Area, as a model for its own development before outstripping the northerly port city in cargo volumes and political importance. San Francisco’s Pier 39 reached its peak during the 1930s while San Pedro’s peak was arguably reached by the end of World War II. Peacetime, containerization and other improvements in goods movement led to a decline

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o travelling around the world and locals will inquire about your place of origin. How would you answer: San Pedro or L.A.? The name “Los Angeles” will draw global recognition almost wherever you go. That just goes to show the weight of the cultural and economic capital of our city and port. So much so that only the initials of our city need be mentioned for recognition. In San Pedro, commerce and culture parallel each other. Cargo containers and people, both foreign and domestic, have made our town a port of entry for immigrants and their cultural contributions, bringing San Pedro economic value and cultural and artistic expression. We see it in the annual summer festivals celebrating Cambodian, Filipino and Cajun culture. And we see it in events that explore cultures from the Caribbean and the Central and Southern Americas. The Pacific Food & Beverage Museum’s ¡TANGOVINO! An Evening of Dance, Music, Food, Wine & Spirits at the Art Deco Building on Pacific Avenue in San Pedro In both San Francisco and is one example. That occasion will San Pedro, local bars and highlight Argentinian food and dance — a perfect combination on a warm August cafes were as much at the night. heart of the community as In Southern California, it’s not unusual for a summer calendar to be churches and schools. filled with significant cultural events and In both port towns, artist back-to-back big name performances. We would be remiss not to note the colonies thrived. In San impact of the Trump administration’s Pedro, the Los Angeles constant rhetorical and political attacks against immigrants and the skyrocketing Harbor Area bohemians cost of living here. They have dampened lived on the shores of East the enthusiasm usually generated by the summer months, making it feel more like San Pedro (known today a siesta than a time to be living our best as Terminal Island). In life. The downtown Los Angeles summer San Francisco, the Beat concert series at Grand Performances, Generation was shaped by known for bringing together A-list stars mostly free of charge, now just feature the port and its workers at deejay days with a sprinkling of live Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City performance art displays. The July 6 Audacity of Sound is the one saving Lights Bookstore in North grace for the Grand Performances this Beach. year and comes close to the type of culturally immersive event to which Angelenos have become accustomed. You can find more details below on the July 6 event. Angelenos are far too eager to demolish their past in pursuit of its future. Journalist and author Morrow Mayo who wrote the influential 1933 book, Los Angeles, said:

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MUSIC June 28

The Aristocrats with Travis Larson Band The Aristocrats have released critically acclaimed albums, toured the world, and established themselves as one of the most musically original, irreverent and entertaining instrumental rock-fusion acts around. Time: 8 p.m. June 28 and 29 Cost: $40 Details: www. alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Snapback Long Beach Enjoy throwback hip-hop and R&B classics. Time: 10 p.m. June 28 Cost: $10 Details: www.federalunderground.com/event Venue: The Federal Underground, 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach

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June 29

The Art of Flamenco Dinner Show Cafe Sevilla invites guests to come and enjoy magical Saturday evenings with Spanish and gypsy flamenco dance, a three-course meal and an atmosphere of European elegance and Mediterranean spirit. Time: 7 p.m. June 29 Cost: $59 Details: www.cafesevilla. com Venue: Cafe Sevilla Long Beach, 140 Pine Ave., Long Beach Circus of Sin It’s Femme Fatale Cabaret; it’s film noir stories, it’s contortionists, aerialists, m moving to the backdrops of violins, mandolins, bass guitar and drums. Time: 11 p.m. June 29 Cost: $15 Details: longbeach. harvelles.com Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach Heidi Tann Enjoy a great evening of music with Heidi Tann in an official CD launching and performance party. Time: 7 p.m. June 29 Cost: $35 to $50 Details: www.eventbrite.com Venue: PCH Club, 6285 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach Songs of Stonewall In the summer of 1969, the Stonewall Inn was a haven for individuality and equality. Continued conflict with societal norms led to an uprising that served as a flash point in LGBTQ history, sparking a movement that we have come to know as Pride.

Time: 7:30 p.m. June 29, 2:30 p.m. June 30 Cost: $35 to $50 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ songsofstonewall Venue: CSULB University Theatre, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach Pin Up Revolution Swing back to the 1940s at Long Beach’s swanky underground speakeasy club at The Federal Underground with International Pin Up Darlings, The Satin Dollz in their new show Pin Up Revolution playing the last Saturday of every month. Time: 8 p.m. June 29 Cost: $15 Details: www.federalunderground.com Venue: The Federal Underground, 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach

June 30

The Orchestre Surreal LA’s acclaimed 25-piece Orchestre Surreal blends iconic classic rock songs with classical music favorites and opens them up for jazz improvisation. Time: 4 p.m. June 30 Cost: $20 Details: www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Guru Randhawa Guru Randhawa and Kanika Kapoor perform In concert. Time: 6:30 p.m. June 30 Cost: $49 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ticket mastergururandhawa Venue: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach Live Planned Parenthood Benefit Girl pusher, Wild Wing, Justus Proffit, Whaja Dew plus DJ Emperor Tomato Ketchup will provide the entertainment. Time: 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. June 30 Cost: $10 Details: www.alexsbar.com Venue: Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

July 3

Bear City Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, Bear City brings free comedy and free pizza to Que Sera in Long Beach. Featuring comics that have been seen on Comedy Central, Conan and The Tonight Show, plus surprise guests. Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. July 3 Details: www.eventbrite.com Cost: Free Venue: Que Sera, 1923 E. 7th St., Long Beach

July 6 Clapton Road The No.1 Eric Clapton tribute show in America comes to Alvas. Time: 8 p.m. July 06 Cost: $20 Details: www.alvasshowroom. com

Post your event at: www.randomlengthsnews.com/calendar Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Diana Purim with Eyedentity Continuing the family legacy of mixing Brazilian music with jazz and pop music styles, Eyedentity blends neo-soul, funk, hip-hop and electronic music with deep samba grooves and jazz-steeped improvisation. Time: 7:30 to 10 p.m. July 6 Cost: $20 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ eyedentitymusic Venue: Casa Arjona, 4515 E. Harvey Way, Long Beach These Handsome Devils These Handsome Devils perform all of the great Morrissey and The Smiths hit songs. Time: 9 p.m. July 6 Cost: $20 Details: 562-596-4718 Venue: Gaslamp, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach The Audacity of Sound Joy Art Music This festival showcases Grand Performances joyous love for music from around the world and our own backyard championing Los Angeles’ deep talent pool, featuring jubilant gospel, opera, capoeira, a marching band, boogie woogie piano, food trucks, and a children’s reading room. Time: 3 to 10 p.m. July 6 Cost: Free Details: www.grandperformances. org/AUDACITY-of-SOUND Venue: 350 S. Grand Ave., Ste. A-4 Los Angeles

July 7

Keith McKelley Enjoy one of the most versatile saxophonists today is coming to Harvelle’s Long Beach. Your taste buds and love for sax will never be the same. Time: 3 p.m. July 7 Cost: $15 Details: www.eventbrite.com Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E Broadway, Long Beach Bob Sheppard and Maria Puga Lareo Bob Sheppard, jazz saxophone player and woodwind recording artist and celebrated Argentinean vocalist Maria Puga Lareo, come together on stage to interpret the best of the jazz American dongbook, Brazilian music, and some of their original compositions. Time: 4 p.m. July 7 Cost: $20 Details: alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Music by the Sea The annual outdoor Sunday music series returns to Point Fermin Park through Aug. 4. The first concert features The Garage Doors, Rock the Dead and Revolver. Time: 12 to 5 p.m. July 7 Cost: Free Details: www.spmusicbythesea.

com Venue: Point Fermin Park, 807 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro

July 13

Popfuji 2019 The free summer concert series continues. Time: 1 to 7 p.m. July 13 Cost: Free Details: www.brouwerijwest.com Venue: Brouwerij West, 110 E. 22nd St., San Pedro Rock The Queen Join us for an evening of SoCal's best tribute bands aboard the Queen Mary. Rock out throughout the ship to tribute performances from ARENA, Britain’s Finest, The Cured, The Handsome Devils and The Who Generation. Time: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. July 13 Cost: $35 Details: www.queenmary.com Venue: Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach Yachtley Crew Yachtley Crew are the Titans of Yacht Rock performing favorite '70s soft rock hits. Time: 8 p.m. July 13 Cost: $20 Details: 562-596-4718 Venue: Gaslamp, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach

July 14 Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble Curley Talylor has earned the title of one of the greatest Creole artists to come out of southwest Louisiana. Taylor brings the steaminess of the bayous and the grittiness of New Orleans together in a uniquely infectious, bluesy style of hard-driving, upbeat Nouveau Zydeco. Time: 4 p.m. July 14 Cost: $20 Details: alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

THEATER June 27

The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare By the Sea presents this classic romp of mistaken identity, directed by James Rice. The mayhem begins when two young visitors arrive in the city unaware that their long-lost twins already live there. Time: June 27 and 29; July 5 and Aug. 17 Cost: Free Details: www.shakespearebythe sea.org Venue: Point Fermin Park, 807 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro

June 28 The Dinner Detective Murder Myster Dinner Show Named the best show of its kind across the country, “The Dinner Detective” arrives at the Queen Mary in Long Beach to serve up a tasty whodunit along with a seated four-course dinner.

Time: 7 p.m. June 28 Cost: $159.40 Details: www.thedinnerdetective. com Venue: Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach

June 29

La Cage Aux Folles In this much loved musical that inspired The Birdcage, peer into the living quarters of a famed drag nightclub where two men partnered in love as well as showbiz. Time: Friday, Saturday 8 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday June 29 through Aug. 3 Cost: $10 Details: facebook.com Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

July 3

The Nerd This side-splitting comedy is about a young architect, Willum, whose life was saved by a stranger during the Vietnam War. When his lifesaver comes to visit, everything that can go wrong does. Time: 8 p.m. July 3, 2 p.m. Sunday Cost: $26 to $28 Details: www.shakespeareby thesea.secure.force..com Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro

July 12 Disney’s The Little Mermaid The journey of Disney’s The Little Mermaid begins in a palace in a kingdom beneath the sea, where a beautiful young mermaid named Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Time: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 2 p.m., Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday July 12 through 28 Cost: $20 Details: 562-856-1999; www.musical.org Venue: The Carpenter Centerfor the Performing Arts, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach

July 19 Water By the Spoonful Elliot, a veteran of the Iraq war struggles to find his place in the world. We are also introduced to the members of an addiction chat room just trying to get through the day. Time: Fridays, Saturdays 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. July 19 through Aug. 17 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat This irresistible family musical, follows Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph. After he is sold into slavery by his brothers and imprisoned in Egypt, Joseph discovers his ability to interpret dreams and soon finds himself in front of the hilariously Elvis-like Pharaoh. Time: 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. July 19, 20, 26 and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

July 21, 27 Cost: $22 to $24 Details: 310-781-7171; www.com/josephsdreamcoat Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

July 26

Henry V Henry V, Shakespeare's most patriotic and inspiring play tells of a young King Henry V who seeks to unite his beloved England. Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. July 26, 27 Cost: Free Details: 310-972-7760; www.torranceca.gov Venue: Wilson Park, 2200 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance The Sound of Music One of the world's most beloved musicals, The Sound of Music comes to Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. After more than 50 years, the film version continues to be the most successful movie musical in history, and now you can see the show in a whole new way on stage. Time: 7:30 p.m. July 26, 2 p.m. July 27, 28 Cost: $46 to $60 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

ART

June 27

Tipping Point Inspired by nature and the environment, Turk explores the extinction of birds in North America in this outdoor installation at the museum. Many of the birds have ties to California’s Channel Islands. The interactive installation is open now until March 2020. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 27 through March 2020 Cost: Free Details: 310-510-2414; CatalinaMuseum.org. Venue: Catalina Island Museum, Ada Blanche Wrigley Schreiner Building, 217 Metropole Ave., Catalina

June 28

Edge to Edge Join an interdisciplinary exchange of art and ideas from one cutting edge of Western culture to the other — from the Southern California/Los Angeles basin to Estonia and the Baltics. Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 28 Cost: Free Details: www.veniceica.org Venue: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

June 29 Celebrate Hope Gallery Tour By Anna Wilding Meet photographer Anna Wilding when she leads a tour of her exhibition, Celebrate Hope, and tells the stories behind her photographs of the Barack Obama White House. Time: 1 to 3 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free

Details: 310-541-2479; pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

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OUT LOUD 2019: Queer Futures Join the second annual OUT LOUD festival celebrating the artistic and cultural contributions of the greater LGBTQ+ communities in a dynamic multi-disciplinary showcase of art, poetry, music and dance. Time: 1:30 to 6 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: http://outloudlb.com Venue: Art Theatre Long Beach, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach

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July 6 Kio Griffith: Coral Sea Griffith is a Los Angeles- and Japan-based interdisciplinary artist working with sound and visuals, independent curator, and writer. His conceptual based work includes drawing, painting, sound, video, performance, electronics, language, sculpture and installation. The exhibition runs July 6 to Nov. 6. Time: 5 to 9 p.m. July 6 Cost: Free Details: 310-971-4462; www.pacificbattleship.com Venue: Pacific Battleship Center, 250 S. Harbor Blvd. Berth 87, San Pedro

July 11 South Bay Watercolor Society's Annual Juried Exhibition Attend the South Bay Watercolor Society’s annual exhibit. Awards reception Aug. 25 1 to 4 p.m. Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 11 to Sept 14 Cost: Free Details: 310-831-1099 Venue: National Watercolor Society, 915 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

July 14

POW! WOW! Long Beach 2019 This city-wide event will take place throughout Long Beach and is part of the globally recognized POW! WOW! Worldwide series of street art events. In the past 3 years, Pow! Wow! Long Beach has executed murals in over

July 27 Activism & The Arts: A Life Journey Dan Guerrero speaks of the history and intersection of the Chicano and LGBTQ communities while addressing the importance of solidarity across contemporary cultural currents. A Q&A and panel discussion moderated by Dr. Eduardo Lara follows the storytelling presentation. Time: 3 to 5 p.m. July 27 Cost: $10 to $15 Details: www.molaa.org Venue: Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

FILM

July 11

Grease Each movie night will offer guests an immersive cinematic experience with assorted food trucks themed to the film, full bars and the legendary ship and Long Beach Harbor as backdrops. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. July 11 Cost: Free Details: www.queenmary.com Venue: The Queen Mary Seawalk, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach

DANCE June 28

Dancemark Spring Recital Dancemark Studios, dedicated to education and training in the art of dance for children from 2

to 18. Their annual Spring recital features some of the freshest young dance talent in the southland. Time: 6 p.m. June 28 Cost: $17 to $22 Details: 310-428-6761; www.grandvision.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

June 28

Portraits of Dance The Dance Center presents Portraits of Dance Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. June 28, 29 Cost: $20 Details: 310-781-7171; www.torranceca.gov Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

July 12

A Night in Paradise The City of Torrance Cultural Services Division and Susan Mann present This is Paradise. Enjoy this annual special performance featuring the dance and music of Polynesia. Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. July 12, 14 , 15, 16, 17 and 2 to 4:30 p.m. July13 Cost: $15 Details: 310-781-7171; torranceca.gov Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

July 13

Karin Jensen and Mandala DanceWorks Presented by ECC Center for the Arts In an evening of MiddleEastern dance Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. July 13 Cost: $10 to $21 Details: 310-329-5345; www.elcaminotickets.university tickets.com

Venue: Marsee Auditorium, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

LITERATURE June 29

Filipino American Scholars Philippine Expressions Bookshop presents an afternoon of discussion with authors Grace Talusan with her memoir The Body Papers, Anthony C. Ocampo, Ph.D., author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, Deborah Francisco Douglas, author of debut memoir, Somewhere in the Middle, Belen Loreto Grand, author of Family Matters and Albert Samaha’s discussion on Never Ran, Never Will, which won the New York Society Library's 2019 Hornblower Award. Time: 3 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: 310-514-9139; www.philippinebookshop.com Venue: Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 479 W. 6th St., Suite 105, San Pedro

June 30

Barbara Eknoian and Brian Harman Join Gatsby Books in a presentation by Picture Show Press: East Coast meets West Coast, poetry-style, with Barbara Eknoian and Brian Harman and an open mic. Time: 3 to 5 p.m. June 30 Cost: Free Details: 562-208-5862; www.gatsbybooks.com Venue: Gatsby Books, 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach

FOOD

June 29 Baking the Fruit Decadent Desserts Join Jackie Bruchez for a lesson in how to make fruit the star of your

June 28

Cars & Stripes Forever Cars & Stripes Forever!® kicks off Independence Day weekend, featuring a classic car show, live bands, food trucks, a beer garden, and grand fireworks finale at Harbor Boulevard and the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Time: 5 p.m. June 28 Cost: Free Details: 310-732-3508; www.lawaterfront.org Venue: Port of Los Angeles, 600, N. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

June 29

Tagolilong Teatro Puppet Show A Filipino puppet show will be the closing celebration of Tagolilong: hidden in plain view which shows a sustainable urban habitat on a mountain in LA. A young girl ponders the meaning of life when her ancestor comes down to visit. Her ancestor shares stories of Tongva and Filipino origin relating to the ocean, the moon and the responsibility of human beings to the planet. RSVP. Time: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-8148 Venue: Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery, 479 6th St., Suite 108, San Pedro Fiesta Corazón Del Puerto Enjoy an evening of entertainment, delicious food, and family fun at Wilmington Waterfront Park. This year, the fiesta will feature a night market from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and the movie Ferdinand Time: 8 to 10 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: www.portoflosangeles. org Venue: Wilmington Waterfront Park, 1004 W. C St., Wilmington Butterflies & Bagels Celebrate species of butterfly that live on the Peninsula. Enjoy a family-friendly morning of art projects, storytelling, music easy habitat restoration and butterfly spotting. Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m June 29 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: George F Canyon Nature Center, 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates Outdoor Volunteer Days at Alta Vicente Reserve Have fun and help restore this unique canyon habitat home to many threatened and endangered wildlife species. Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free

Summer Camp at CRAFTED CRAFTED turns seven years old. Celebrate and make tie-dye t-shirts, DIY terrariums, and tons of summer camp crafts through the marketplace. Shop from local artists, eat smores and get your hands dirty. Time: 12 to 8 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: 310-732-1270; www. craftedportla.com Venue: Crafted, 112 E.22nd St., Warehouse 10, San Pedro

June 30 The 25th Street Mosaic Wall Celebrate the completion of the 25th Street Mosaic mural. If you had a part in helping come out to the grand opening of the Wall. Time: 11 a.m. June 30 Cost: Free Venue: 25th St. and Western Ave., San Pedro

July 13 Bridge USA Japanese Summer Festival 2019 It must be summer time when Bridge USA Festival comes to Torrance. The event features cultural performances, exhibits, Japanese food, and booth games for children. For details: www.bridgeusa.com Time: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. July 13, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 14 Cost: $3 to $6 Details: www.torranceca.gov Venue: Torrance Cultural Arts Center. 3330 Civic Center Dr., Torrance Mariachi Divas Enjoy a warm summer evening of free live music in the park, hosted by the Port of Los Angeles. The Grammywinning Mariachi Divas will return to the LA Waterfront for a one-night performance at Wilmington Waterfront Park. The popular all-female band takes the stage at 8:30 p.m., with dance group Sabor de México opening the show at 7 p.m. Time: 7 to 10 p.m. July 13 Cost: Free Details: www.lawaterfront. org Venue: Wilmington Waterfront Park, 1004 W. C St., Wilmington

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40 square miles throughout the city, from South Street to Ocean Boulevard, creating a walkable, bikeable public art experience unlike anything else in the country. Time: 7 a.m. July 21 through 12 p.m. July 28 Cost: Free Details: www.powwowlongbeach. com Location: Long Beach

COMMUNITY

Lomita Photo History Project Celebrate Founder's Day and share the history of Lomita by helping the Los Angeles County Library create an online photo collection. Bring up to ten historic photos, pre-1980, and the library will convert them into high quality digital images. Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: lacountylibrary.org Venue: Lomita Library, 24200 Narbonne Ave., Lomita

EASB 2019 Experimental Artists of the South Bay is a group whose primary purpose is to promote the development of innovative art through demonstration and workshops that encourage experimentation with new methods, materials and techniques. Through Aug. 31. Time: 2 to 5 p.m. July 14 Cost: Free Details: www.canneryrowstudios. com Venue: The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

The Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, Cunard’s luxury ocean liners from the past and present, will stage a royal rendezvous on July 4 to launch an all-new exhibition, The Cunard Story, on July 5 and the Queen Mary’s 85th Jubilee Anniversary on September 2019 On July 5, the Queen Elizabeth will sail south to Mexico, transit the Panama Canal, sail up to New York, and dock in Halifax on July 26 to meet her sister ship Queen Mary 2 in the company’s ancestral home, before continuing onward to Southampton, England. The Cunard Story will be formally dedicated on July 5. Shipboard ceremonies on the Queen Mary will begin at 10 a.m. Cunard’s first female captain and Master of the Queen Elizabeth, Inger Thorhauge will represent Cunard and all the officers, crew and passengers having contributed to the company’s unparalleled history. The Cunard Story will be free to the public from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. After 12 p.m., guests can visit and experience The Cunard Story with the purchase of a ship admission ticket for ages 4 and older. Guests can visit and experience the All-American 4th of July Celebration and Royal Rendezvous with an admission ticket. Time: 3 to 10 p.m. July 4, Royal Rendezvous: 8:30 p.m. Cost: Children ages 2 to 11, $29, adults $49 Details: www.queenmary.com Venue: The Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach,

The Edible Landscape Judy Frankel, aka "The Fruit Tree Lady." is a master gardener, food activist, and writer. She helps Southern Californians plant and cultivate vegetable gardens and fruit trees that ripen throughout the year and maximize food production. Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m. July 20 Cost: Free Details: www.pacificfood.org Venue: Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Details: pvplc.volunteerhub. com Venue: Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes

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Intertwined: Sculptures by Nancy Voegeli-Curran Curran's mixed media abstract forms map visual, psychological and emotional space and refer to our complex and tenuous relationship with the natural world at present and its overall fragility. The exhibit runs July 6 through Aug. 24 Time: 12 to 3 p.m. July 14 artist's reception Cost: Free Details: www.michaelstearns studio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio @ The Loft, 401 S. Mesa Ave., San Pedro

culinary show as she makes an easy no-bake berry cheesecake that's perfect for dinner parties, holidays, and backyard barbecues. Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m. June 29 Cost: Free Details: www.pacificfood.org Venue: Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

alifornia spiny lobsters lack the pincers typical of Maine lobsters and are sweeter than their East Coast counterparts — but Americans are lucky if they ever find them on their dinner plates. “Catching lobsters, for me, is a combination of Christmas morning and Easter egg hunting,” Hank Parfitt says, grinning. Parfitt hails from North Carolina and today he’s fully dressed, from head to toe, in a thick neoprene wetsuit. We are on a scuba diving boat chartered by Ocean Safari at Santa Cruz Island—one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. It is October 1, the first day of recreational spiny lobster season this year. The water temperature is 65 degrees and although the visibility isn’t fantastic underwater, the excitement on the boat is palpable. Many of the attendees have been anticipating the season opener all year. Parfitt caught a three-pounder on the first dive in the morning; he says he hasn’t missed a season in 40 years. Every year, he’ll come out from North Carolina to California just to grab some bugs. “They are a tremendous challenge to find in the water. They are the ultimate escape artist[s],” he says. On that morning dive—my first attempt at the art of lobster hunting—I had spotted one underneath a den staring back at me, waving its long, pointy antennas. Lobsters can’t see clear images or colors; antennae are their main sensory organs. Excited, I threw my hand

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California spiny lobster. File photo

inside the crevice and only managed to touch the antennae before the red creature burrowed itself deep underneath the rock. Immediately, a moray eel poked its head out and I jumped back, conceding defeat. Parfitt shakes his head as I tell him this

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story. “You have to pin the lobsters down. It’s all about persistence,” he says. “I did a taste test with friends one time and the California ones won out,” Parfitt says. “The first bite is slightly chewy. The second one is the most profound—it has a creamy and extremely nutty flavor.” But for most Americans, with the exception of scuba divers like Parfitt, California spiny lobster is a delicious delicacy that won’t end up at the average dinner table. It is estimated that up to 95 percent of all commercially caught lobster is shipped to China. In California they are trucked to Los Angeles, where they are packaged, and flown straight east. In Mexico, that percentage is estimated to be up to 99 percent. “It’s because of the cost,” says Kate Masury, a recent Masters graduate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. “There is such a huge demand for spiny lobster in China and the prices have gone up pretty dramatically each year.” Masury is behind the site Follow Your Fish, which tracks the supply chain behind certain American seafood like the California squid and spiny lobster. According to Masury, seafood buyers in

China initially preferred the Australian spiny lobster. The Chinese, she says, aren’t privy to clawed crustaceans and tend to prefer spiny ones. However, the fisheries in Australia could not keep up with Chinese demand and by the early 2000s, the California lobster started to be transported to China in large numbers to meet sales. In 2009, the California lobster retailed for about $10 per pound. In 2015, that price skyrocketed to close to $30. The increased demand from China has raised prices of the California spiny lobster to the point where most Americans consumers are not willing to pay for it. “I would be very happy to sell all those lobsters to the United States,” says Dave Rudie, the owner of Catalina Offshore Products, one of the largest seafood import and export companies in California. “The problem is that as much as people talk about buying local, they actually buy based on the price.” Rudie estimates that 95 percent of his lobsters are currently shipped to China. He’ll personally deliver some of them to the Los Angeles International Airport, into the hands of a buyer, who will put a box of crustaceans on a freight flight to China. Rudie says demand from Asia started about two decades ago, and demand from China followed 10 years after that. “We talk about the factories overseas and people taking our jobs. But the truth is that Americans want cheaper stuff,” he says. “That means Maine lobsters instead of California ones because Maine lobsters are cheaper.” Even Parfitt, a recreational scuba diver, has observed the increased demand for lobster during his four decades of hunting. “I’ve noticed that there are more traps out by commercial fisheries,” he says. “It’s hard to tell if that’s affecting the lobster population.” The spiny lobster isn’t completely inaccessible to American consumers though. While the bugs can’t be found in most supermarkets or restaurants, they can be directly bought online from buyers like Catalina Offshore Products; there are also a few restaurants and markets, like Mitch’s Seafood and the Tuna Dockside Harbor in San Diego, that make a point of selling homegrown seafood. “Mitch’s Seafood is fantastic,” Masury says. “He sells the lobsters at an affordable price and sometimes he doesn’t even make a profit. That’s how passionate he is about buying local.” [See Lobster, p. 13]

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Back at the boat, my scuba group and I did not manage to catch any lobsters. We had pinned some down underwater but they ended up being too small. It’s not a big deal — there are still many months left in the season. “The minimum size limit for California spiny lobster is three and one-fourth inches, from the horn of the lobster to the rear edge of the body shell,” said Thomas Templar, a scuba instructor at Ocean Safari. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is extremely strict about the regulations. The daily bag limit is seven per person and a license is required. Though we didn’t get any bugs, there are still plenty of other fish in the sea. Andy Rios, the divemaster in my group, spears a handful of calico bass and a large sheephead. We eat the calico raw and he makes the sheephead into a miso soup. Throughout the trip, I pop scallops and uni, freshly cracked open and picked out from the ocean floor, into my mouth like candy. As I’m eating the bounty of fish on the deck of the boat overlooking the sunset, I realize how extraordinary the moment is. Here I am, eating seafood from California that most Californians rarely get the chance to eat. The United States controls more ocean than any other country on earth, yet we import up to 90 percent of our seafood, about half of which is produced via aquaculture. Sheephead and

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calico, like the spiny lobster, can’t be found in the average American supermarket. Most of our best-quality seafood is exported abroad; a third of seafood Americans catch gets sold to foreign countries. This narrative of domestic seafood being shipped to other countries isn’t just limited to spiny lobsters. “As local divers, there’s a value that comes from eating in your own backyard,” says Garrett Lu, a scuba instructor from Ocean Safari. “It’s a way of connecting with the sea and understanding our own ecosystem.”

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in longshore jobs on the waterfront leaving civic leaders to fret over what to do with waterfront infrastructure left behind. San Pedro’s waterfront, anchored by Ports O’ Call Village clung on as a family friendly destination in the region. In San Francisco, a local developer came along with a vision to reboot Pier 39 into a theme park-style community space outfitted with seafood restaurants, souvenir shops and museums. After opening in 1978, it was hailed as a successful experiment that revived San Francisco’s waterfront into a money-making

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tourism hub. The Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Waterfront Alliance are trying to accomplish something similar in San Pedro sometime after 2021. The amenities that will be a part of the Ports O’Call Village’s successor, the San Pedro Public Market, include: • A collection of shipping container kitchens set in a family and dog-friendly outdoor garden with games and a large stage and dance floor • A 6,000-seat waterfront amphitheater concert venue • 600 feet of continuous courtesy slips, bike

and scooter paths, with pedestrian and jogging paths along the Market Walk • Playgrounds and recreation areas waterfront taxis and cruises These amenities are in addition to the water cut that serves as the “town square.” Crafted and Brouwerij West tacked on the end of the waterfront developments will probably see more benefit than San Pedro downtown core. The San Pedro Public Market has also entered into an exclusive negotiation agreement with Nederlander Concerts Los Angeles to explore the possibility of managing the venue.

Nederlander is responsible for bringing acts like Jon Bellion, Weird Al Yankovich; and Coheed and Cambria + Mastodon, George Clinton and Parliament and others to the Greek Theatre, a venue that seats 5,870,development of a in the coming weeks. Retail, outdoor space and walking areas and events are a good start. But the San Pedro Public Market still needs an anchor. The San Pedro arts and culture district in its diversity and historical value is poised to provide an enduring draw to this unique waterfront town.

Highlights of Summer order to achieve benefit. That’s partly what this exhibition is about. Plans are to travel the exhibition to Mexico following its premiere in the U.S.. Locals Night: Thursday, August 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. during the San Pedro First Thursdays Artist’s reception: July 14 Time: Sundays, 12 to 3 p.m. July 14 and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 21 and July 28 Details: 310-957-7037; www.veniceica.org Venue: VICA, Loft Gallery, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

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Cimafunk at Audacity of Sound ― Cuban-born singer, writer and composer Erik Iglesias, aka Cimafunk steps onto the Grand Performances stage to serve up heaping spoonfuls of heart pounding, sweat inducing global Cubano funk. This young, talented artist and his band are breaking the mold of what most outside of the island have come to expect from Cuban musicians. The name Cimafunk was created from the word “cimarron: or “renegade” — a word which was given to African slaves who rebelled and fled from the plantations in colonial Cuba Gaby Moreno at Audacity of Sound ― Guatemalan-born Gaby Moreno and L.A.’s own La Marisoul (of La Santa Cecilia fame) serve up their renditions of classic songs layered with jazz, rumba, rock, soul, cumbia and other western and Pan-Latin music styles. Time: 3 to 10 p.m. July 6 Cost: Free Details: www.grandperformances.org Venue: Grand Park, 300 S.Grand Ave., Los Angeles

Singer and songwriter Cimafunk, left, and Gaby Moreno of La Marisoul will perform at the Grand Performances’ Audacity of Sound on July 6. File photos

and independent features, documentaries, foreign features, short films, animated shorts and re-released classics. The programs will include a variety of special events and panel discussions featuring directors, producers, writers and actors. CTFF will provide a creative forum for emerging filmmakers. CTFF offers the opportunity for student early-career filmmakers, and seasoned filmmakers to showcase their talents and gain exposure. The festival aims to showcase an international selection of narrative features, documentaries, short films, student films, and animated films from not just Cambodia, but from around the world, bringing stories to Cambodia Town in Long Beach, California. Time: 7 p.m. Sept. 12 through Sept. 15 Cost: Details: http:// cambodiatownfilmfestival.com Venue: Art Theater, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach

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of workers will be affected overall. Nationwide, more than 10 percent of workers rely on some form of the gig economy for most of their income, and more than a quarter participate in some way, according to the Gig Economy Data Hub, a Cornell University/Aspen Institute joint project. Online platforms like Uber, Lyft, Handy and TaskRabbit account for just around one percent for any given month, despite their higher profile. The Dynamex case began in 2002. Dynamex is a courier service that converted its drivers to independent contractors. The decision adopted the “ABC test,” which it noted, “is utilized in other jurisdictions in a variety of contexts to distinguish employees from independent contractors.” Under this standard, a worker is an independent contractor only if: (A) “The worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer,” (B) “The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business,” and (C) “The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business” of the kind they’re hired to perform. Although gig companies like Uber only represent a small part of the problem, they’re at the forefront of well-funded efforts to roll back workers rights, as described in a new report from the National Employment Law Project, Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It. The report describes “a far-reaching, multimillion dollar influence campaign to rewrite worker classification standards for their own benefit — and to workers’ detriment,” with the goal of passing laws that do the exact opposite of AB-5: specifically exempt gig economy companies from labor law jurisdiction — known as “carve-outs”— starting with ridesharing companies in the first round of laws pushed, and expanding outward to eventually encompass much, if not all of the service sector economy, and more—such as construction. “Gig companies are simply using newfangled methods of labor mediation to extract rents from workers, and shift risks and costs onto workers, consumers, and the general public,” the report explains. “This recognition helps to debunk a narrative put forward by gig companies that their ‘innovation economy’ represents an inevitable future of work that must be protected and nurtured exactly as is, at all costs, lest we foil our economic destiny.” Random Lengths spoke with one of the report’s co-authors, Rebecca Smith, who was also a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 report, The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America’s Ports. That document provided the first comprehensive national survey and overview of systemic port trucker misclassification, laying the groundwork for the filing of hundreds of lawsuits that have become a major force in establishing workers’ rights for port truckers after decades of neglect. “A lot of the initial carve-outs—say that Uber and Lyft got—didn’t get a lot of attention because they just applied to transportation network companies,” Smith said. “But what we’re seeing as time goes by is broader and broader carve-outs, that really establish a whole new standard for who is an 16

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is the author of AB-5, a measure that codifies a test to prevent companies from misclassifying workers as “independent contractors.” File photo

employee, and threaten to turn at least 10 percent of the jobs in the country into independent contractors,” she warned. “It’s a huge attack on all those basic rights that our fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers fought for a century ago.” The report explains carve-out policies seek in part to ensure that gig companies bear no responsibility for employer payroll taxes, which can amount to 30 percent of payroll. “On top of those base savings, gig companies may no longer be required to adhere to state wage- and-hour, anti-discrimination and harassment, and health and safety laws; they can further drive down costs by practicing wage theft, pay discrimination, and sacrificing worker safety—all with impunity, since workers will have no grounds for filing claims against those practices.” Despite gig company claims, it’s nothing new. “We have seen this attempt to push costs onto workers in a lot of different industries, like janitorial, security, landscaping, construction, cleaning, home care and delivery, and we’ve seen those for decades,” Smith said. “This is really just a new iteration and it’s in a lot of the same sectors.” Uber has been plagued by so many scandals recently that it’s been moved to the background, for the second round of the campaign. “They put up a different company that is the face of the campaign, and they look for even broader carve-outs,” Smith said. “That was what we have been calling the ‘Handy bills,’ these marketplace platform exemptions,” which would cover all online dispatching companies, not just transportation ones. Since it was founded in 2012, Handy Technologies has recruited tens of thousands of domestic workers and handymen in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. “The company exerts significant control over the work of those providing services through its platform, down to the fees they should charge, when and how they can interact with customers,

and protocols for using the bathroom,” the report explains. “At the same time, the company foists independent contractor agreements on its workers.” It’s not just workers working for a gig economy companies who suffer. Whole sectors may be affected. “If you’re using a platform to lower standards for janitors, for example, the rest of the industry may well follow suit, put janitorial dispatch online and move to that lower or absence of labor standards. And, that’s true across the board,” Smith said. “That’s our big concern with these marketplace platform bills that have passed in several states, that they really encourage any employer that dispatches workers to just take their business online and call their workers, independent contractors.” This year saw a third phase emerge. “The third wave are the ALEC bills that threaten to make all of us into independent contractors, whether we work on- or off-line,” Smith said. “They are written in a way that means an employer could present a take it or leave it contract—with some items that may or may not reflect reality—and rid itself of any obligations to workers.” A prime example of misleading messaging cited in the report is Handy’s lobbying materials that refer to itself as a “modern-day Yellow Pages.” But that’s absurd for a list of reasons Smith ticked off. “The Yellow Pages don’t tell workers what their wages are going to be, and the Yellow Pages don’t fire workers who don’t meet standards, and the Yellow Pages don’t monitor workers and the Yellow Pages don’t tell workers that they can only get customers through the Yellow Pages and no other place, and they can’t take any customer from the Yellow Pages and create a relationship with them,” she said. “So that’s sort of the most misleading thing that they pretend that they’re modern day Yellow Pages, but in fact they set all significant terms and conditions of employment and they fire people who don’t live up to the standards.” The difference is stark. “If you’re really in business for yourself, you get to set your own rates, and you get to negotiate around standards, and you get to build a customer base,” Smith said. “Workers in these jobs don’t get to do any of that.” “[For example] if you’re a Lyft driver and you’re referred someone for a ride, you cannot build a relationship with that person so that

every time they need to go to the airport you take them.” In contrast to the Yellow Pages, port truckers have advanced a very different description for how the system works: they’ve called it “sharecropping on wheels.” “We don’t generally like to use the term ‘sharecropping,’” Smith said. “But I think it’s been really effective in the port trucking campaign. It’s simply putting low-wage workers on their own to fend for themselves, and pretending that that is freedom, and independence and entrepreneurialism.” Port truckers haven’t been alone in their resistance. “There been some really innovative campaigns around the country that have fought back, and established labor standards for workers in the gig economy,” Smith said. One example is the New York City Taxi Workers Alliance, which also organizes Uber and Lyft drivers. It brought to public light the rash of taxi driver suicides, after which, “The city commissioned a study that showed that these workers were by and large, not earning even $15 an hour, that they were spending $8.50 an hour just to stay on the road. And that they were idle for almost half of their time that they had the app on,” she said. “So New York City, as a result of the campaign by organized workers, passed a minimum standard for these workers.” Another set of ideas have advanced around wage and standards boards—one for domestic workers in Seattle and for drivers in Portland. Workers are protected regardless of status. “It doesn’t matter what you want to call them independent contractors or employees,” Smith said. “There is a mechanism that includes workers at the negotiating table on an equal footing with employers to set standards. [Y]ou can think of that as a new form of sectoral bargaining.” AB-5 takes things even farther by abolishing the fiction that workers aren’t workers with the ABC test. “It’s fair to say that all eyes are in California right now, and that if that bill passes in California we will see many, many other ABC bills across the country next year,” Smith said. Bills have already been introduced, but not passed, in Washington and Oregon. Passage in California could open the floodgates. Gonzalez understands how crucial her bill is. “The future of workers is being determined by what we do with this measure in California to end misclassification and demand fairness from large corporations that for too long have gotten away with bending the rules at the expense of workers and taxpayers,” Gonzalez told Random Lengths News. “We feel like there’s a lot of momentum for the bill,” Steve Smith, communications director for the California Labor Federation told Random Lengths News.” I suspect that the bill is going to move through the Senate and go to the governor’s desk. Obviously, there’s a lot of work to do between now and then, but we feel pretty good about where we are.” Part of that work means fighting an onslaught of corporate propaganda. “The companies are acting like no one’s ever heard of the ABC test,” Smith noted. “But in fact it’s been a feature of employment law for decades in over half the states, and about 10 states use it in various forms for the wage and hour laws as well. So it’s nothing new.” But the functional impact of the test has been blunted, both by limited enforcement and by routine lawbreaking, backed up by litigation and forced arbitration agreements. What’s new with AB-5 is the unambiguous centrality it would give to the ABC test and the clarity of protections it would bring for one and all.

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realtor. At age 16 he went to sea as a merchant seaman and joined the Australian sailors’ union. He took the name Harry from an uncle, who was a socialist and an adventurer. Bridges was a Wobbly for a short time during the International Workers of the World’s

The Harry Bridges sculpture in progress. The final bronze statue will be installed at the ILWU dispatch hall in Wilmington later this month. Photo courtesy of Eugene Daub.

early years. He didn’t stay a Wobbly, but he was profoundly influenced by it and it affected how the West Coast division of the International Longshore Association was transformed into the ILWU. Bridges’ time with the Wobblies coincide with the emergence of the idea that, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” The current motto used by the ILWU was a chant of the Industrial Workers of the World when they were arrested

Eugene Daub has spent his career creating replicas of American heroes. Most famously he created the statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks that sits in the U.S. Capitol building. He also designed and created a bust of the first openly gay person elected to public office, Harvey Milk, who was tragically martyred during his first year in office as a San Francisco supervisor. Milk’s bust sits proudly in the main hall at San Francisco City Hall. Daub is known for capturing the profound humanity of his subjects. Rosa Parks’ face reflects her quiet determination to remain seated on the bus. Harvey Milk’s toothy smile mirrors the inner joy of bursting open the closet doors that confined the gay community. The figure of Harry Bridges passionately leans forward, pointing his fellow longshoremen towards the battle for unionization of the West Coast ports. Memorializing such powerful historical figures requires a long process that begins with paper and pencil. “First I make a series of 10 or 15 rough sketches,” said Daub. “Then I can take those sketches to the client to see if they like it.” His next step is to create a metal armature and build around the steel support with clay. Each detail of the subject is carefully sculpted in the clay that will eventually become the bronze statue. This process produces a small sized maquette, which is the model for the larger sculpture. The creation of the maquette enables the sculptor and the client to visualize how the three-dimensional sculpture will look. At this point, digital technology enters into the process. “I take the maquette to a digital printing service,” said Daub. “They scan the entire threedimensional model and they will replicate the miniature into a foam 3-D model at whatever size I ask. The Harry Bridges model went from 24 inches to 6 foot, 4 inches.” Daub then takes the foam model to his studio for small refinements before taking the whole piece to the foundry to create a rubber mold. Wax is painted inside the mold during the ‘lost wax’ process. Ultimately the bronze is poured into the cavity to create the finished sculpture. The foundry process itself usually takes 10 to 12 weeks.

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choice, thousands of longshoremen joined the new ILA local. At the time Bridges was a member of a circle of longshore workers that came to be known as the “Albion Hall Group.” It attracted members from a variety of backgrounds: Communists, Wobblies, sailors and other maritime workers, including the Maritime Workers Industrial Union (MWIU)— a union that aimed to build revolutionary industry-wide alternative to the ILA. Bridges was sympathetic to the ideas of MWIU in 1933, but he chose to join the new ILA local. When the local held elections, Bridges and fellow members of the Albion Hall group made up a majority of the executive board and held two of the three business agents positions. The Albion Hall Group stressed the self-help tactics of syndicalism, urging workers to organize by taking part in strikes and slowdowns, rather than depending on governmental assistance under the NIRA. It also campaigned for membership participation in the new ILA local, which had not bothered to hold any membership meetings. Finally, the group started laying the groundwork for organizing on a coastwide basis, meeting with activists from Portland, Oregon and

A merchant seaman from Australia, Harry Bridges joined the Industrial Workers of the World In 1921 and participated in an unsuccessful nationwide seamen’s strike. Bridges left the Wobblies shortly afterward with doubts about the organization, even though his experiences in the union influenced his beliefs on militant unionism, and the power of rank-andfile involvement. Bridges left the sea for longshore work in San Francisco in 1922. The shipowners had created a company union after the International Longshoremen’s Association local in San Francisco was destroyed by a strike it lost in 1919. Bridges resisted joining that union, finding casual work on the docks as a “pirate.” After he joined the San Francisco local of the ILA and participated in a Labor Day parade in 1924, he was blacklisted for several years. The International Longshoremen’s Association renewed its efforts to reestablish itself on the West Coast, chartering a new local in San Francisco in 1933. With the passage that year of the National Industrial Recovery Act, which contained some encouraging but unenforceable provisions declaring that workers had the right to organize unions of their own

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019107251 The following person is doing business as:(1) J. Duran Construction Inc. 1426 S. Centre St., San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: J. Duran Construction Inc., 1426 S. Centre St., San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 11/2018 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

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1 Beyond zealous 6 Household appliance, for short 9 ___ Life (Tupac tattoo) 13 Deft 15 In the past 16 She played Talisa on “Game of Thrones” 17 Sketch a habanero? 19 Runaway win 20 Midweek time for floods? 22 N.L. East team 23 Kyoto cash 24 Like some change 25 Aquatic barrier 27 His record for patents was surpassed by a Japanese inventor in 2003 31 Masi of “Heroes” 32 Obsolete PC operating system 34 Language spoken in “Avatar” 35 Tajikistan, once (abbr.) 36 Intersection where pet feet meet? 40 See 33-Down 43 British subcompact 44 Triatomic form of oxygen 48 Suffix for prop or meth 49 Gary Numan lyric after “It’s the only way to live”

be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Karin Lopez, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 23, 2019. 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 where it 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 the 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: 05/16/19, 05/31/19, 06/14/19, 06/28/19

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52 Beat easily 53 Model plane material 55 Had some hummus 57 Skin care brand 58 Tweety’s guide to business planning? 63 “Beloved” novelist Morrison 64 Cuts through a small fish? 66 Satirical HBO interviewer, once 67 Bar brew, briefly 68 Like some coffee 69 Coffee alternatives 70 “30 Rock” star Tina 71 “Enchanting”-sounding book in the Septimus Heap series

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22 Sleeve tattoo spot 26 Dandy sort 28 Only country name in the NATO phonetic alphabet 29 Wayne Shorter’s instrument 30 Egg, for openers 33 Only named character in “Green Eggs and [40-Across]” 37 “All I Do Is ___” 38 Ref. book set 39 “The Genius” of the Wu-Tang Clan 40 Ecological abode 41 1921 Literature Nobelist France 42 Somehow, first lady after Michelle 45 “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer 46 “On to the ___” (2009 Jay-Z song) 47 Dreyer’s ice cream partner 50 Tattered threads 51 Cherry leftovers 54 Tosses down 56 Casts forth 59 “Clueless” catchphrase 60 Neck region 61 Out of the office 62 “My Fair Lady” professor, to Eliza 65 Chicago-based cable superstation

[Bridges, from p. 17]

Harry Bridges Seattle, Washington and organizing a federation of all of the different unions that represented maritime workers. Under Bridges’ leadership, the group organized a successful 5-day strike in October 1933 to force Matson Navigation Company to reinstate four longshoremen it had fired for wearing International Longshoremen’s Association buttons on the job. Longshoremen at other ports threatened to refuse to handle Matson cargo unless the company rehired the four men. Early in 1934, Bridges and the Albion Hall group and militants in other ports began planning a coast-wide strike. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration tried to head off the strike by appointing a mediation board to oversee negotiations, but neither side accepted its proposed compromise. Bridges was elected chairman of the strike committee. The strike began on May 9. While the elected local officers were the nominal leaders of the strike at its outset, Bridges led the planning of the strike along with his friend Sam Kagel. They recruited rank-and-file opposition to the two proposed contracts that the leadership negotiated and the membership rejected during

the strike, and the dealings with other unions during related events. A four-day San Francisco general strike took place after “Bloody Thursday” on July 5, when police aided the Waterfront Employers Association in trucking cargo from the pierheads to the warehouses through the union’s picket line. Scores of strikers were beaten or wounded by gunfire during the battle. During a coordinated raid on the union mess hall at the corner of Steuart and Mission, San Francisco Police shot and killed Howard Sperry, a striking sailor, and Nick Counderakis (AKA Nick Bordoise), a member of the cook’s union and a strike sympathizer who helped out at the mess hall. Scores of other men were wounded by police gunfire as well, including a number of bystanders, as the ensuing battle quickly spilled into the nearby downtown area. Bridges became the chief spokesperson for the union in negotiations after workers rejected the second agreement negotiated by the old leadership in June. Bridges did not control the strike: over his strong objections, the ILA membership voted to accept arbitration to end the strike. Similarly, in 1935 Bridges’ opposition did not stop the ILA leadership from extending the union’s contract with the employers, rather than striking in solidarity with the seamen.

DBA FILINGS [from p. 18]

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019154269 The following person is doing business as:(1) Integrity Hoops Academy, 2629 S. Dolphin, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Heather Quella, 2629 S. Dolphin, 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/. HEATHER QUELLA, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 5, 2019. 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 where it 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 the 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: 06/13/19, 06/27/19, 07/11/19, 07/25/19

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019122215 The following person is doing business as:(1) Gaffey Diner, 247 N Gaffey St., San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Jose de Jesus Castaneda, 727 W. 167th St., Gardena, CA 90247. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: May 2019 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/. Jose de Jesus Castaneda, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 9, 2019. 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 where it 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 the 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: 05/16/19, 05/31/19, 06/14/19,

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