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CSU Students React to Continued Online Courses

By Dayzsha Lino, Editorial Intern

[See Online, p. 5]

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COVID-19 Deaths in USA: 123,000 • Confirmed cases: 2.39 Million • Recovered: 740,000. For local numbers see p. 4

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[See No Grades, p. 5]

While high school students continue distance learning from their homes, many seniors are questioning how changes in grading policy will affect their college admissions.

“If I had to choose between keeping my letter grade or credit/ no credit I would choose my letter grade,” said Myra Santiago, a graduating senior at Cabrillo High School in Long Beach.

Santiago was accepted into California State University, Long Beach and will start her first semester in fall 2020. She has not declared her major but plans to get into the nursing program. Santiago is not too concerned about losing her admission into CSULB but has little understanding of how her credit or no credit may affect her high school transcripts.

“Personally, for hard-working students like Myra I would have preferred that the school district give the option for students to keep their letter grades,” said Diego Castrejón, Myra’s Spanish teacher at Cabrillo High School.

COVID-19 has changed the way many educational institutions are grading students, substituting the point system for methods such as pass or fail, credit, or no credit.

Seniors are the most concerned about how these new methods may impact their college admissions.

The California Department of Education has this to say about the matter on its website: “The decision of whether or not to require graded work from students is a local one. There are a variety of considerations for local educational agencies to weigh as they review their grading policies during the transition to distance learning.

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Months before the 2020 fall semester, students are bracing for what to expect as schools struggle to resume. In May, Caifornia State University Chancellor Timothy White officially announced that most classes at all 23 CSU campuses will be held online — a decision made solely out of caution due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“This crisis has shed a light on how professors are not that tech savvy and that causes a lot of issues in learning for some students because some professors don’t even know how to use Blackboard, or post a video, or use Zoom, or use any other device,” said Robert Rios, a student at California State Dominguez Hills.

At a May 12 CSU Board of Trustees meeting, White said that running classes on campuses as usual would be irresponsible due to the predictions of scientific experts that additional waves of the coronavirus might appear in the

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Harbor Area Lunch at the Library Program Continues

The Los Angeles County Library continues its annual Lunch at the Library program, providing free lunches for teens and children, but shifting to a grab-and-go, no-contact pickup, to allow for physical distancing. Lunches are available from 12 to 1 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, June 16 to Aug. 7, at the Carson Los Angeles County Library.

No lunches are available on July 3.

Details: www.LACountyLibrary.org/SummerLunch Venue: Carson Los Angeles County Library, 151 E. Carson St., Carson

Free Summer Lunch, Snack Program Launches at LA County Parks

The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation has begun the 2020 Free Summer Lunch and Snack Program at 49 locations. LA County Parks will provide “grab and go” lunches and snacks between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, through Aug. 7.

Due to health and safety restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, lunches and snacks will be available for pickup only. Face coverings and physical distancing of six feet are required.

Details: parks.lacounty.gov/summerlunch

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Online Summer Classes Available

Dive into ocean fun and join CMA on Zoom.

The aquarium is offering a variety of summer classes for kids in pre-kindergarten through ninth grade.

Details: www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org

LBPL Virtual Summer Reading Program

The Long Beach Public Library, which remains closed to the public, will launch a virtual version of its popular summer reading program on Facebook.

The library also began offering contactless pick-up service on June 23 through its new [See Announcements, p. 8]

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Harbor Area NCs Fund Vehicles, Later Call for LAPD Defunding

By Hunter Chase, Reporter

In less than one month, the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council donated money to the Los Angeles Police Department and then called to defund it.

At its May 18 meeting, the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council voted 14-3 to donate $5,000 to the Harbor Area Boosters Association Inc. for the purchase of all-terrain vehicles for use by the Harbor Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet, at its June 15 meeting, the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, its board passed a motion 14-0 supporting Los Angeles Council President Nury Martinez’s motion to cut between $100 million and $150 million from the LAPD’s budget.

The May 18 vote to donate money was to replace the Harbor Division’s current ATVs, which are 17 years old. They primarily are used to patrol parks and beaches. LAPD Sgt. Catherine Plows said they are beyond repair. Those ATVs were also purchased with the help of donations by neighborhood councils in the Harbor Area.

The cost of four ATVs is $60,000. Mona Sutton, a representative of the Harbor Area Boosters and board chair of the Harbor Division CommunityPolice Advisory Board said the boosters had

Councilman Joe Buscaino with officers from the LAPD’s Harbor Division. Courtesy of LAPD.

so far raised $36,000 dollars. The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, Harbor City Neighborhood Council and Great Plains each donated $5,000 earlier in the year, Plows said.

The Boosters have already bought one ATV for $15,000 but are waiting for the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners to accept the funds, as it is not currently in session.

On May 19, the day after Coastal SPNC donated $5,000, Councilman Joe Buscaino

introduced a motion to the Los Angeles City Council to allocate $10,000 from the Harbor Division Police Assistance Trust Fund for the purchase of the ATVs. It passed 14-0.

The Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council did not donate money toward the purchase of the ATVs, as was previously reported incorrectly. Ray Regalado, the group’s president, explained that the board had already spent its [See ATVs, p. 13]

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California’s Long Plague May Just Be Starting State and local leadership is much better than most — but that’s not going to be enough

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

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As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides substantially in New York and New Jersey, it’s rising dramatically in red states in the South and Southwest, where governors have long been in denial. As of June 22, the 14-day trend in COVID-19 cases was up 169% in Florida, and up 121% in Texas and Arizona. The increases in those three states alone since June 1 was roughly equivalent to all of the sharp drops in cases from New York and New Jersey that occurred the month before. Oklahoma, which hosted Donald Trump’s disastrous campaign reopening, saw a much more dramatic 261% increase.

Those two ongoing trends have been the most significant pandemic stories over the past month, as attention has been primarily focused on Black Lives Matter protests across the country and around the world.

But there’s another story that’s been missed in all this: The anomalous case of California, where its 14-day trend rose 36% despite an early, robust and sensitively-designed response, and the even more anomalous case of Los Angeles County, where matters are significantly worse.

The county crossed the 3,000 deaths threshold on June 18 with 3,027 recorded. It also passed the 75,000 case threshold two days earlier with 75,172, and has now passed 85,000 as well.

As of June 22, almost 38% of California’s cases had occurred in June.

“We’re not into the second wave,” Gov. Gavin Newsom warned in a press conference.

“We’re not out of the first wave.”

The same day, Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer warned, “This is our third day in the past week when we reported over 2,000 cases during a single day.”

It had only happened once before that.

Public exposure was a growing concern, according to Christina Ghaly, director for Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

“The model suggests that about 1 in 400 Los Angeles County residents are currently infectious,” she said.

That excludes known cases who are hospitalized or self-isolating. With that infection rate, “It’s entirely possible, or even likely, after safer at home orders are paired back, that an average person in an average day may come in vicinity of others who are infectious,” Ghaly said.

But just the week before, both Newsom and Ferrer had seemed cautious and selfconfident. At his June 15 press conference, Newsom cited a broad range of indicators showing relative stability — the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests, hospitalization rate, and intensive care unit patients as well.

He acknowledged that rates weren’t coming down, but sought to normalize what was happening.

“We have a state that is holding strong, in terms of stability in case rates,” he said. “We didn’t experience the great spikes as a number of East Coast states did, and so in consequence, we’re not experiencing a precipitous decline in the number of positive cases, but the stability remains and is holding strong.”

But part of what was stable was an increase in cases, from a seven-day average 4 of 2,635 on June 1 to 2,876 on June 15, with

Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County supervisors Kathryn Barger, Hilda Solis and Janice Hahn. File photo

eight all-time highs in 14 days.

At the same time, the reopening process had advanced significantly, with county health departments setting the pace, subject to state oversight and guidance.

When asked whether the state was prioritizing the economy ahead of health concerns, Newsom pushed back.

“This is not an economic question — it’s a health question, broadly defined,” Newsom said, citing poverty rates, unemployment rates, people lacking access to preventative health care and those suffering with mental health issues.

“There’s a certain point where you have to recognize, you can’t be in a permanent state

where people are locked away for months, and months, and months, and months on end … to see lives and livelihoods completely destroyed, without considering the health impact of those decisions as well,” he said.

Despite an outsized role in contributing to statewide cases and deaths, Los Angeles County’s reopening process has been fairly rapid. On May 29, the health department issued protocols for reopening restaurants for on-site dining, along with hair salons and barbershops. Then on June 12, it provided for the opening of multiple sectors, subject to protocols for infection control and distancing. These included: • Gyms and fitness facilities

• Pro-league arenas without live audiences • Day camps • Museums, galleries, zoos and aquariums • Campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks and outdoor recreation • Music, film and television production • Hotels for leisure travel

The consequences of these last two phases of reopening will only start to register in terms of case rates around June 27 through July 1.

In that same June 15 press conference, Newsom also stressed the strength of the state’s contact tracing program, saying the state aims to reach 10,000 contact tracers by July 1. Ferrer addressed the subject that same day.

“Contact tracing is a confidential and simple process that has been used by public health departments for decades to slow the spread of infectious diseases and avoid outbreaks,” Ferrer said.

“Currently, Public Health has over 1,500 persons working as contact tracers for the COVID-19 response,” a department press release explained. “Public Health interviews persons who have tested positive for COVID-19.... This involves identifying and interviewing every person who has been in close contact with someone who is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 in order to quarantine those exposed (contacts) and monitor them for signs and symptoms of the disease.”

But the inadequacy of contract tracing with such high case rates was highlighted by Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch.

“Countries that have had great success with contact tracing didn’t reopen with 100s or 1,000s of new known cases a day,” Lipsitch tweeted on June 23. “Korea reopened with 5 [cases]/day in 50m[illion] population. Europe reopened around 2 [cases]/100K [population]/day or less.”

In contrast, he noted multi-stage data analysis from New York City showed that “at most (approx) 22% of transmissions could be captured [See Plague, p. 8]

LB High Schools Celebrate Class of 2020 No Grades [Grades, from p. 1]

By Sarai Henriquez, Editorial Intern

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, students have had to face many challenges. For high school, their senior year has not been the most ideal, to say the least.

“I always thought I was going to go back to school,” said James Whitney, a senior at Millikan High School in Long Beach.

He said that at first, he was excited about not going to school anymore. Little did he know how much of an impact the closing of his school would have on his life.

“They told us that we were going to come back in a month, but that never happened, which sucked because it was my senior year,” James said. “Don’t get me wrong, I feel great that I graduated. It just sucks that I couldn’t celebrate with people.”

Students and parents did not know whether or not a graduation ceremony was going to take place. Each day from June 2, parents received senior updates to inform them what was going to happen with the senior class at Millikan.

“At the beginning, we were told by Los Angeles County that we could not have any [Online, from p. 1]

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online learning on March 12, Burkey has been communicating with his students by posting announcements on Blackboard and occasionally hosting classes via Zoom, an online video meeting application. While most things worked fine, there were some minor issues with his computer that disrupted the grading of final projects for his Digital Magazine class. As the university enters the fall semester using the same format, Burkey believes that moving forward, having efficient technology is going to be an ongoing challenge.

“The unfortunate part is that the more we have to rely on technology, there is always going to be some glitch, or some issue of different programs, or something that doesn’t translate as well; and that’s unfortunately a challenge that we’re all going to have to face as [we] rely so much on the technology,” Burkey said.

Thomas Norman, an associate professor of the CSUDH Management and Marketing Department, put out a survey on May 23 that was “designed to measure students’ preference for class scheduling” and to find out which students had accessibility to devices that would allow them to continue the semester in an online format.

When asked about his thoughts on students who lack basic needs such as efficient internet, he said that he and other faculty members have been talking with the information technology department to provide internet in the parking lot for students who want to socially distance themselves.

“We’ve been asking for Wi-Fi in the parking lots so that they can approach the campus safely from the bubble of your car,” Norman said.

He also said that the faculty have been promoting the internet providers that have been offering broadband.

Rios, who is now a senior at CSUDH, said that one of his biggest concerns this semester is finding an internship. Since the coronavirus has changed so much of the workforce, it may be harder to find an internship this year than any other.

“I don’t know how I am going to fare in looking for an internship, which requires me to complete a certain amount of hours,” Rios said.

“And I know many people who I’m friends with and who I’ve met who said they’ve struggled to

complete those hours because they got cut, so now they’re back to square one.”

Some of the results of the survey report that 18% of students used their phones for class 100% of the time, while 70% of students used their laptops 100% of the time for class. It also reports that 38% of students felt that online learning negatively affected their learning while 23% felt that it positively affected their course grades.

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It wasn’t until June 4, that the Long Beach Unified School District gave the okay for the graduation parade. Students and parents received the guidelines and rules for the parade.

“It was really frustrating to receive

parades at all,” said Andrea Itson, the activities director at Millikan High School. “But once the county finally lifted the restrictions and gave us guidelines in late May, from there the superintendent met with the principles and activities directors and gave us the green light to plan the parade.”

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coming months. “[In-person instruction] sadly just isn’t in the cards now,” White said.

The population of more than 500,000 students would have to interact with their professors and peers when students begin their fall semester on Aug. 24.

While most CSU classes this semester will primarily be online, the chancellor is allowing certain areas of instruction such as biology labs, courses for clinical nursing and merchant marine training to be held in-person. They will have safety protocols in place like keeping a distance between participants, limited class sizes and constant sanitization of spaces and equipment.

As one of the largest university systems in the country, White’s decision to cancel inperson classes this fall caught national attention.

However, other universities were already planning to do the same thing.

On April 21, Cal State Fullerton became one of the first universities in the country to announce it would be running classes fully online this fall.

With more than 1.83 million COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is clear that the country is still grappling with the spread of the virus. Despite this, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced on May 21 that all UC schools will be open this fall, but anticipates that most campuses will run under hybrid instruction if each of them met “system-wide thresholds” of COVID-19 testing.

While the chancellor’s decision to keep CSU classes online may seem overreaching to some, many professors believe that it is better to be safe than to risk the endangerment of students and faculty.

“Given the nature of the overall pandemic crisis, I don’t think there’s enough certainty to know, sort of, what’s going to happen in the fall,” said Brant Burkey, a journalism professor at CSUDH. “The CSU system and the chancellor in particular are just making the decision to stick with the online remote learning format out of an abundance of caution.”

Since CSUDH officially converted to

Senior Tyler and his family waits in the graduation parade to get his diploma. Photo by Sarai Henriquez

[Local educational agencies] should weigh their policies with the lens of equity and with the primary goal of first, doing no harm to students.

Castrejón explains that the school district informed all teachers that universities will accept the credit/no credit grading system during the stay-at-home lockdown, and it should not affect a student’s admission or application into universities.

“Many students are struggling with online learning,” Castrejón said.

Some prefer to be graded by the credit/no credit grading system, including William Sanales, a senior at Cabrillo High school. Sanales plans to attend Long Beach Community College to pursue a career in human resources.

“It’s difficult to continue my classes online,” Sanales said. “There are many distractions that take you away from doing my school work, which is why I prefer the credit/no credit grading.”

Castrejón sees both sides. He understands that many students are struggling with online learning and mental health during this time of the lockdown but also understands the frustration and confusion of some students who would rather have their letter grade on their high school transcript.

Another area of concern for students is their ACT/SAT exams. Santiago took the SAT in October to improve her SAT score before her college applications in the fall of 2019, but the California State University will temporarily suspend the use of ACT/SAT examinations in determining the admissions for all CSU for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Although Santiago’s SAT score was not used to determine her admission into CSULB she does not regret retaking the exam.

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Trumpism: A Viral Metaphor One nation divided by liberty and justice for some

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

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It has never been more apparent in my lifetime just how interconnected we all are. This is not just because of the novel coronavirus pandemic and its ability to infect all of us regardless of age, race, religion or sex or that we are interdependent on each other to stem the tide of this infectious disease without a cure. Nor is it just because we have become intensely aware of how dependent we are upon essential workers who have previously gone unrecognized. And then even further, as we come to realize that the collective buying power of the working classes, which spends some $13.4 trillion a year is the real engine that makes our economy work, not so much Wall Street. The latter is more of a barometer than a thermometer of economic health.

It should also come as no surprise during all of these crises that a third one arises in the guise of racial injustice in America, leading us to a new awakening of an age old problem. There are echoes of this from the past. During the 1918 influenza pandemic following World War I, there was a fierce racial backlash and racial violence against African Americans perpetrated by forces committed to the entrenchment of white supremacy they have long been accustomed to in a changing world. We see it today in Donald Trump’s attempts to racialize COVID-19 as “Kung Flu” and his attacks on civil liberties and immigrant communities.

It comes to me that Donald J. Trump has risen up just like this virus. His outrageous tweets have become a virulent specter that embody the worst characteristics of this con artist and have infected the world — just like the coronavirus has. Try as we may to inoculate the population with real news, this Trumpian virus has wreaked havoc over the past few years. As with all pandemics humanity has faced, this too will be checked and made less destructive: It’s called “herd immunity.” Herd immunity is what happens when more than 70% of a population has recovered from an infectious disease and created antibodies to it.

As Trump’s poll numbers drop to sub-40 percentile levels in the wake of his Tulsa, Oklahoma campaign rally failure, we might perceive that the punking of his online ticketing for his rally by K-pop activists via TikTok was a kind of political antibody response to his infecting rhetoric.

That his campaign could be sabotaged by the very medium that brought him to unexpected victory in 2016 is its own kind of social justice that may only be relished after

November. It just may be that the fever of this political virus, which is Trumpism, is about to break just like when you sweat out a cold from your system.

Let me be clear here, getting rid of Trump will not cure us of systemic social injustice in America, racism by any other words, but it would be a good start.

Nor will it cure us of the plague of social media disinformation, both of which seem to be endemic to mankind generally. But it will rid us of this self-serving tyrant. He’s the one that even the slaveholding Founding Fathers warned us about and feared.

Yes, America is imperfect and it has rarely lived up to her hallowed creed of Liberty and Justice for all, but still, it is one of few countries where people can take to the streets to redress their grievances, to protest and to move the entire nation in a little less imperfect direction without being massacred.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not dismissing the scourge of police brutality nor the use of federal troops in Lafayette Square and the use of tear gas on peaceful protesters, but rather, I’m saying it could have been far worse this time.

Sure there are moments when our country, against all the odds, seems to get it right, like the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or the status of sanctuary cities in California, but there are many more examples like the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma where some 300 black Americans were killed by white vigilantes and their entire community burned to the ground. There are more examples of violence against people of color that are rarely taught in our history books that keep most white Americans, and even minorities themselves, blind or ignorant to the intolerance that has seeded this country from its beginning.

Racism is endemic to our American fabric and will be harder to cure than COVID-19. It can’t be solved with the passage of new laws, which must be done, or with creating new regulations on or reorganizing police departments, also a necessity.

But as Connie Rice, the famous L.A. civil rights attorney, said recently, police culture must change from that of being warriors to being guardians. I would take her words one step farther that as a nation we must all become guardians of liberty and justice, and not be the police force of the world nor complicit in tyranny and injustice. It starts here in our neighborhoods, in our schools, our streets, our city and state.

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California “Berning” for Ro Khanna to Chair its Delegation to DNC

By Norman Solomon

The Democratic Party is at a crossroads in California, where Bernie Sanders defeated Joe Biden in the presidential primary three months ago, winning more than half of the state’s delegates to the national convention.

In recent days, more than 110 Sanders delegates — just elected in “virtual caucuses” across the state — have signed a statement calling for Rep. Ro Khanna to be the chairman of California’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention in mid-August. Fairness, logic and even party unity all argue for Khanna to chair the delegation.

Noting that “Sanders received appreciably more votes in the California primary than any other candidate,” the statement points out that “Khanna has been a national champion on issues supported by California Democrats — health care for all, national budget priorities based on human needs and opposing [Donald] Trump on huge increases in military spending and endless wars, criminal justice reform, and a path to citizenship for immigrants.”

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Four-fifths of the state’s Bernie delegates elected in congressional districts have already signed it.

“Having our state delegation chaired by one of the Bernie 2020 campaign’s national co- chairs would send an important message of inclusion to disaffected voters across the country,” the statement read. “As state delegation chair, Congressman Khanna would be well-positioned to serve as a voice for authentic unity behind a ticket headed by Biden for the imperative of defeating Trump.”

But whether the powers that be in the Democratic Party are truly interested in such “authentic unity” will be put to a test at a June 28 statewide delegates meeting, where California’s delegation chair is scheduled to be chosen. (I’ll be part of the meeting as a Bernie delegate.)

Rules for that meeting — or even information on who will run it — have not yet been disclosed.

A common steamroller technique at such meetings is for an omnibus package with myriad [See Khanna, p. 7

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I enjoyed your last column [At Length Race & Racism 6/11/20].

The history it contained was timely with our Liberty Hill gathering just weeks away. A few more points regarding the Wobblies/KKK/ Upton Sinclair: • The Klan poured scalding coffee on the legs of a 13-year old girl during its raid on the IWW’s 12th Street headquarters.

• A large contingent of Klan members from San Diego to Bakersfield marched from Front St. [in San Pedro] through downtown and assembled in front of the headquarters to intimidate the Wobblies, strongly advising against another strike in the harbor.

• After his release from jail Upton Sinclair wrote The Singing Jailbirds, a play based on his time in incarceration, mostly at the old one on Beacon and Seventh streets. ​Steve Varalyay Torrance

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Thank You. I have mostly agreed and still do with your words.

I would add racism has existed since the dawn of humans. And it is still exceedingly ignorant. There have been many previous Homo species but now the ‘modern’ world is left with only Homo Sapiens. There is only one race, the Human Race. I say “humans,” get used to it. Get real. Strive to extend humans’ existence beyond the expected 200 years before our extinction.

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Trump Holding the Bible

On June 1st President Trump made a mockery of the Bible at the historical St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. Trump held up a Bible, as his message was “We have a great Country, that’s my thoughts.” Trump wanted to look in control and use the full force

5.) Fort Eisenhower 6.) Fort Patton 7.) Fort Marshall 8.) Fort Bradley 9.) Fort Kennedy 10.) Fort Powell Jake Pickering Arcata, Calif.

The Northern California town of Fort Bragg is in desperate need of a name change ASAP! Sure, there will be some relatively minor expenses for residents from the municipal name change, but the cost of keeping the town’s current obnoxiously racist name will be far greater.

First of all, no self-respecting Californian could ever possibly justify or countenance any town or city in the Golden State being named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who was not only a traitor and a slaveowner, but an especially intemperate and incompetent military commander as well. That name is nothing to brag about, Fort Bragg.

Secondly, why would any patriotic American want to set foot in a town named after an

Norman Solomon is co-founder and national director of RootsAction.org. He is a Bernie Sanders delegate from California to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Solomon is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.

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national stature and aid his evident presidential ambitions.

For progressives, however, much more is at stake than political prestige.

Every indication is that only a state delegation chair will be allowed to introduce proposals or amendments to the entire convention. Simply having the option of doing so, on issues like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, could give the state party chair leverage for programs championed by the Bernie 2020 campaign.

That’s exactly the kind of leverage that party power brokers want to prevent from falling into the hands of genuine progressives.

provisions — including decisions made in advance by those in power — to be presented for a single up-or-down vote. Instead, what’s needed is a truly democratic election, with nominations for delegation chair and a ballot enabling each delegate to cast a vote for one of the candidates.

(What a concept.)

Sanders defeated Biden by a margin of 8 percent in the California primary. But hidebound tradition as well as raw political power are arrayed against the Bernie delegates pushing for Khanna to chair the delegation. Traditionally, the Democratic governor would be the chair of the state’s delegation to the national convention, as was the case four years ago with Gov. Jerry Brown. And the current Democrat in the governor’s office, Gavin Newsom, is unlikely to favor giving up this chance to enhance his

town’s name! Here are some non-Confederate, pro-American options for you. Please feel free to choose any one of these as your town’s new name: 1.) Fort Lincoln 2.) Fort Grant 3.) Fort Sherman 4.) Fort Roosevelt

Rename Fort Bragg

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Khanna

anti-American racist traitor to the republic, like Braxton Bragg?

Thankfully, Mendocino County has other equally picturesque communities to visit and spend our money in as tourists.

Too bad, Fort Bragg, but you’re not getting another dime from me until you change your

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Many people are crying out for justice.

I don’t want no peace, I want equal rights, peace and contentment. This was the writing on my protest sign that I held up for at least an hour on Friday afternoon, June 5, 2020, at 6th and Harbor Boulevard.

I rode my bicycle up 7th Street to notice all of the boarded up glass on the different storefronts and art galleries to a bus stop on 7th and Pacific.

I’ve suffered multiple fractures on my ribs because I was assaulted.

Some asshole attacked me from behind. Yet, someone came running to my aid yelling, “My friend said Jesus saved you.”

I want to thank you.

Years ago I was assaulted by an off-duty LA cop. He called all his friends in the police and had me arrested while I was limping my way home so that I could call the police to report that I had been assaulted.

I spent 30 days in jail waiting for a trial. Starbucks and Cox Cable both had video of the incident [assault].

The cops made sure the videotapes didn’t exist. Thank you to the 12 who set me free.

Thank you to phones that record video. This shit’s been going on for a long time, it’s just now being videotaped.

I’m so sad that the march on 6/6/20 was taken over by the politicians and cops.

Post Script: Thank you to everyone I met at Harbor UCLA Hospital. You all are beautiful.

Mark A. Nelson San Pedro

of the Federal Gov. to quash a peaceful protest.

Apparently, Trump had never visited this church before, as he was using it as an opportunity to promote his reelection for political gain. Trump knows that if he does not reach out to his base who voted for him last time around, his base of white evangelicals will trash him in the November election.

People see the Bible in his hand and automatically see him in a different light. The Bible says to love God and your neighbor, which is the opposite message he is sending as he wants the military to dominate the situation in the majority of large cities that have unrest.

If Trump knew the scripture he’d know that Jesus said: “and whenever you pray, do not be like hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in synagogues at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others.”

Trump should also remember that people have the right for peaceful assembly under the 1st Amendment. On June 2, Joe Biden said, “We are in a battle for the soul of our nation.”

We need to come together and there needs to be restraint and solidarity. We do not need rhetoric that continues to fan the flames causing more division. Let us pray for peace. Amen.

John Winkler

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SPHS Restorative Justice Program Teaches Growth and Resilience

By Melina Paris, Editorial Assistant Editor’s Note: This article was originally intended to be a small part of Paul Rosenberg’s larger June 11 cover story, Remaking Justice.

That story discussed defunding and abolition of the police on a national scale. This narrative continues to develop those ideas and what they look like through restorative justice in the local community.

The Center For Justice and Reconciliation defines Restorative Justice as a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior. Through cooperative processes that allow all willing stakeholders to meet, this can lead to transformation of people, relationships and communities. When meeting is impossible, other approaches are available.

San Pedro High School established its Restorative Justice program in 2016. Lauren Toledo was the 2020 graduating club president, the third in the life of the program. John Guldseth, teacher sponsor of the RJ program, as it is called, exchanged email with Random Lengths News to lay out the impact of restorative justice on a high school campus and its effectiveness on a larger society level.

“Whenever I share what RJ is with a student, I ask them, ‘If you do something wrong, say at work or school, and you are in trouble for it, do you want to be punished or restored?’” Guldseth said.

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program, LBPL To-Go, at the following locations: Billie Jean King Main Library, 200 W. Broadway; 562-570-7500 Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave.; 562-570-1047 Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, 1401 E. Anaheim St.; 562-570-1046 Members of San Pedro High School Restorative Justice Circle.

Guldseth said no student has ever expressed a preference for punishment if they were already concerned that they did something wrong. He posited that when people need to correct an attitude or an action, a mentor who believes in them always provides more incentive to do right, and to do good than any law or statute.

At the high school level, the first goal of restorative justice is to build relationships and trust.

People protect each other when they are connected, Guldseth explained. Likewise, people are protected when they view one another with

trust. The meeting circle is a structure that begins this process in schools, organizations, institutions and even prisons, where inmates begin to learn what it means to empathize with others.

“This process moves minds beyond the fixed mindset of victim/victimizer,” he said. “The beauty of RJ is in its simplicity.”

What Happens in RJ

SPHS classroom practices for restorative justice include specific check-in circles once per week to start and finish the week and discuss student led topics.

All teachers send around a talking piece, weekly to share or check-in once for each period.

They will ask an empathy question or conduct SEAD; Stop Everything and Dialogue All School [Plague, from p. 4]

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Practice, among other practices.

Within the first six weeks of school, students have learned the circle process, talking piece, center-piece and how to facilitate opening and closing discussions. They shared their values in the classroom and developed common agreements and values, which they have voted on. And they have chosen up to 10 school-wide values and

with present performance.”

Even if Los Angeles County did twice as well, less than half of transmissions would be traced.

And the county remains a significant hotspot. On June 17, the county’s seven-day average death rate accounted for 4.84% of the nationwide total, after a week at over 5%, with just 3.02 percent of the national population. That made our seven-day death rate 60% higher than the national average. And it’s since risen to over 5% once again. It’s outpaced the national average every day since May 19, but exceeded it just once before that.

Our seven-day case rate looks even worse in this comparison: On June 18, it dropped below twice the national average for the first time since George Floyd was murdered on May 29.

In short, while California and Los Angeles County are much more serious in dealing with COVID-19 than Republican governors in Florida, Texas, Arizona and elsewhere, they appear to be calibrating their actions against questionable background assumptions. Being smart compared to Trump or Republican governors following his lead is not being smart enough.

This was evident in Newsom’s June 15 press conference, where he stressed the need for vigilance, and measures like mask-wearing and presented a slide of the case-rate trajectory of 1918-19 pandemic, with its three distinct peaks.

“Let us be cognizant of our past and let us be mindful of our present,” Newsom said. “We

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“ConnectedLB” Launches a Digital Resource Platform

The City of Long Beach’s Technology and Innovation Department, in partnership with the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), EveryoneOn and human-I-T, has launched a centralized online platform for Long Beach residents to access low-cost Internet services, computers and digital literacy resources, called ConnectedLB Platform.

The ConnectedLB Platform allows Long Beach residents to find low-cost Internet services and computers in their local neighborhoods by entering their zip code. Long Beach residents may qualify for low-cost Internet services and computers based on verification of income status and household participation in public benefit programs. The platform is available in both English and Spanish and is expected to run through April 2021 or until further notice.

Details: www.everyoneon.org/find-offers

don’t want to experience a second wave, as they did in 1918, in the fall, and even in the early part of spring, 1919, that third wave, without the kind of preparation that is required of this moment….

The future’s not just something you experience.

It’s not just in front of you, it’s inside of you. It’s our decisions that determine our fate and future.

We have agency. We can manifest the future we want, as long as we’re smart.”

Newsom was showing a clear grasp of history, and what the last comparable respiratory pandemic has to teach us. He was far more reality-oriented than Donald Trump or any of the Republican governors who’ve followed his exhortations and rushed to open without carefully monitoring the pandemic’s response.

But he was not oriented toward the substantial gains that have been made since then—gains that have informed the far more robust responses of countries that didn’t simply aim to flatten the curve, and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, but to crush the curve, so that containment strategies: testing, contact tracing and isolation — could be employed to reduce infections to virtually zero, as Lipsitch noted.

What all this means for Harbor Area residents varies greatly depending on where one lives.

Case rates vary widely across communities, while generally reflecting the racial and wealth disparities seen nationwide, based on geographic distribution. (The county’s racial case data is woefully inadequate with almost half listed as “Other” or “Under Investigation.”) Case rates ranged from zero in unincorporated portions of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Harbor [See Plague, p. 13]

How writers of cop TV shows like S.W.A.T. are wrestling with the genre’s influence on real police officers

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potential consequences of the resulting creation.

“For the officers of tomorrow, what type of examples are we giving them?” Thomas asked.

It would be easy to dismiss fictional TV series as fantasy. Thomas said the cops he spends time with can rattle off a million inaccuracies with how they’re portrayed on TV. Shows like his, he knows, are the reason why some became cops.

Indeed, Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl will tell you that he looks back on his first two years as a police officer and cringes about his unprofessionalism. He said that before joining the force, his only experience with how police officers were supposed to behave was movies.

Even today, Meidl says, a lot of rookies have to be trained to correct their misperceptions of how modern policing should work.

There are no easy answers: Make cops pure heroes and you risk creating “copaganda.” On the other hand, make them roguish anti-heroes — like Vic Mackey on The Shield from S.W.A.T. co-creator Shawn Ryan — and you sell an arguably more dangerous message: You have to break the rules, and maybe an arm or two, to keep the people safe.

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rowing up as a black kid in Kansas City, Kan., TV writer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas had a love-hate relationship with TV cop shows. As fun as they were, something bothered him.

“Watching square-jawed white guys inflict law in an urban setting — a lot of times the people they’d be busting or grabbing or apprehending — it wasn’t unusual for them to look like me or my uncle or my cousin,” Thomas said. “You’re being told that you don’t belong.”

In the weeks following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, an increasing number of TV critics have taken aim at TV procedurals where every week, the good guy cops triumph over the bad guy criminals, winning one for the status quo.

Even on shows with corrupt cops, New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz said, they were often portrayed as a few bad apples tarnishing a noble mission. But now, he says, people are questioning whether the mission was noble to begin with.

“Or was it always just corruption and cronyism as an excuse to crack skulls and get away with it?” Seitz asks.

So today, as nationwide outcry against cops has spread to an outcry against cop shows, Thomas is in a unique position: He runs one of those shows.

He’s the co-creator and showrunner of S.W.A.T., the action-packed reboot of the 1975 police TV series and 2003 movie.

S.W.A.T. isn’t The Wire — it’s not about the rot eating away at our civic institutions. S.W.A.T.’s predominant tone is “all cops are badass,” full of big guns, loud explosions, rippling abs and macho bro-hugs.

Still, when Thomas created the show, he recognized the source of the outrage being expressed today. He reimagined the lead character, S.W.A.T. team leader Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, as a black man who grew up in South Los Angeles.

“The truth is, when I was younger, I got into it with the cops,” Hondo said in the series’ first episode. “I didn’t do nothing wrong but I still ended up with a broken arm and a face down on the pavement.”

On the other hand, by season three, Hondo threatens a criminal by telling him, “I got no problem breaking your other arm.”

For writers like Thomas, it’s a constant balancing act between art, entertainment and the

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S.W.A.T. team leader Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson played by actor Shemar Moore.

Left, the original S.W.A.T. cast.

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he pub is cozy and welcoming, with a massive carved bar and classic beer taps.

Antique art and old country memorabilia line the walls, and deep leather banquettes invite a visit.

Authentic pub dishes like shepherd’s pie and fish and chips head a familiar menu and the aroma of freshly baked soda bread fills the air.

Pub chips are just the thing to accompany the excellent beers on tap or a cool Guinness.

Roasted leg of lamb or beef Wellington, and now traditional roasted turkey make it seem like home. In the United Kingdom the pub is everyone’s second living room, and the longing for home often includes the local.

Historic establishments bring the familiar feelings of a different age back to life with a menu of favorites, like Sunday marinara or wet beef sandwich or beef stew, with a water glass of the local red.

Just walking into a legendary establishment will bring to mind the beloved faces of longgone friends. The encompassing feeling of nostalgia coupled with the love of place gives tremendous meaning to the long-lived family restaurant tradition.

Coffee and blueberry pancakes can be compelling, luring even the late sleeper to the table. For some, the suggestion of huevos rancheros is the key, with house-made salsa.

Salmon Benedict is a morning dish rarely found outside a port town. Beef stroganoff omelette is tempting. Sunshine pouring in the window brings cheer to the day.

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Fantasy Feasting and Dreams of Drinks

By Gretchen Williams, Dining and Cuisine Writer

Our restaurant scene was dearly missed, and we did not realize how vital it is to our daily lives. Yes, we can feed ourselves, barely, but much more is involved in our restaurant lives than the wonderful and varied food. Conversation and social interaction are huge parts of our time in restaurants, and participation in our local culture is important as well.

The Whale & Ale is open again and welcoming guests to San Pedro’s favorite pub, serving its pub favorites, as well as flavorful curries with chicken or shrimp or veggies, or portobello mushroom burger, sure to appeal to The Whale & Ale restaurateur, Andrew Silber. Photo by Chris Villanueva. the vegetarian set. into the modern age, cold-smoking local The Whale & Ale is proud of its pub burger, swordfish for a spectacular appetizer, handmade with choice beef and best ordered with rolling pasta for delicate spinach or butternut a side of splendid house-made horseradish. squash ravioli and grilling ahi tuna to perfect Served with lovely English chips, this burger is rare. Filippo’s bronze portrait in the entry a strong competitor for the best burger in Los shows the affectionate rubs of the nose for luck.

Angeles.

Dustin’s great-grandfather would be very proud Equally deserving of praise is the house of his family’s tradition, carried on for almost a salad, crispy greens with mushrooms, chopped century. walnuts and bleu cheese crumbles, tossed with J.Trani’s Ristorante is at 584 W. 9th St., house-made creamy salad dressing.

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The Whale & Ale is at 327 W. 7th St., San Details: 310-832-1220.

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially if you are trying to catch up with J. Trani’s Ristorante is the historic legacy all the happenings in downtown. Think Café is of the Majestic Café, started in 1925 by Chef at the cutting edge of downtown, offering terrific Dustin Trani’s great-grandfather Filippo Trani. coffee, as well as sublime blueberry pancakes, Hailing from the island of Ischia, the Trani great omelets and salmon benedict. Think Café family continues the tradition of home-style Italian food with the original marinara sauce and has long been the popular place to meet on 5th Street, with a charming garden patio for outdoor meatballs, crisp crust pizza and the legendary dining already established. roast beef sandwich.

Think Café is at 302 W. 5th St., Suite 105, Chef Dustin Trani has brought the menu San Pedro.

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Relief from Lockdown Fatigue is Here

Three months of safer-at-home lockdowns has made us appreciate the simple things in our lives. Restaurant dining was a daily part of our lives, until it wasn’t. Returning to active social lives, including restaurants, will take time.

Becoming comfortable in restaurants again will take the ongoing efforts of restaurateurs to assure the public of safety while dining, along with making the ambiance attractive and inviting.

Servers will wear masks and protective shields, most tableware will be disposable and social distancing considerations will cut the number of seats by 40%. Plexiglass partitions may become the norm.

Reservations may be required even for breakfast. The bar scene has yet to be defined in Los Angeles County, with the needs of social distancing hindering the efforts of the bars, breweries and wineries to reopen as before.

The coming changes to restaurants and bars will require fine tuning, with adjustments being made by both restaurateurs and patrons.

Everyone entering will be required to wear masks, and go along with the regulations imposed by the county in order to dine in.

Dreams of the end seat at the bar with a cold one or a cozy spot out under the stars with a nice bottle of wine are finally coming true.

The lavender blasts of jacaranda blossoms all over town herald the coming of summer, and the opening of restaurants and bars, with some restrictions.

Los Angeles County is easing the lockdown on hospitality and restaurants, though our dining and drinking experiences may look and feel different. Fresh air is the key to success in adhering to the new safety criteria.

Outdoor and sidewalk dining will be encouraged in all neighborhoods. Downtown San Pedro is getting the sidewalk café scene it has always wanted and needed, blessed by a Mediterranean climate and splendid kitchens on every block.

New parts of the restaurant community hail from Sicily (La Siciliana on 6th Street) Oaxaca (Conrad’s Mexican Grill on 6th Street) and France (Compagnon Wine Bistro on 7th Street), joining an international lineup of San Pedro favorites, like Buono’s Pizzeria in Little Italy or Baramee Thai on 6th Street. New opportunities to try international cuisines are a marvelous side effect of the COVID-19 safer-at-home guidelines.

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Cop Shows As villainous as Mackey was, Seitz said that, “There’s still the sense that the police are the last line of defense against anarchy … where they make it clear that the only way to stop this child molester is to let Mackey do his worst illegally to this dude.”

Back in 2008, Ed Burns, former Baltimore police officer and the co-creator of The Wire, told police critic Radley Balko that films like 1972’s The French Connection shifted the way that narcotic officers actually behaved.

“They put out the idea of this guy who cracks heads, especially in that scene where they went and they shook the bar down,” Burns said. “That became iconic and that is the way the cops were afterward.”

S.W.A.T. features plenty of plotlines dealing with heavy

issues: cop corruption, police reform, immigration policy, LGBTQ rights, police suicide and — in particular — the relationship between police and the black community.

But there are also plenty of moments like the second season’s climax: A white supremacist terrorist is speeding through a parking lot in a semi-truck packed with explosives when Hondo slams into the side in the team’s heavily armored mine-resistant ambush protected troop carrier. The semi-truck explodes. The mine-resistant ambush protected troop carrier is barely singed.

It’s practically a commercial for the power and necessity of the controversial police vehicle.

Balko’s book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, tracks the original 1970s S.W.A.T. series as a key moment in the spread of military-style heavy police equipment from urban cities like Los Angeles into the suburbs, where he says they were sometimes used to bully protesters.

Expect that to change in the next season, as they go deeper

into cultural issues like these.

Throughout the show’s run, Thomas says, S.W.A.T.’s writers have been constantly aware about the risks of glorifying “big guns and gun violence.” He says they constantly look at ways to have their heroes take down bad guys through nonlethal means.

But there’s the rub: The job of a good police officer is to deescalate tensions — but the imperative of a TV writer is often to escalate them. That’s particularly true when you’re writing a broad action series for a big network like CBS. So to Thomas, highlighting the very real flaws with police culture on a TV show isn’t about lecturing or moralizing. It’s not about showing cops as pure heroes or pure villains. It’s often more powerful, he argues, to let viewers come to their own conclusions.

A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander, a weekly paper based in Spokane, Wash.

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In an abundance of caution, Studio 345, which shows the works of Pat Woolley and Gloria D. Lee will be closed for First Thursdays until further notice. 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro.

Details: 310-545-0832 or 310-374-8055; artsail@roadrunner.com or www.patwoolleyart.com.

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Founding board member of the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, Pat Carroll died in her sleep on June 21.

Known as “Pedro Pat” around town, she was a passionate supporter of the arts and generously gave back by volunteering with many organizations from Habitat for Humanity, Grand Vision Foundation, the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District and most recently, the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council.

She is remembered for her many contributions, including her more than 10 years as a guide for the First Thursday Art Walk tours.

Information regarding funeral arrangements are forthcoming.

In the meantime, Carroll’s friends in the arts community are setting up a memorial fund in her name via the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District.

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uncertainties every day,” said Ivette Whitney, James’ mother. “One day they send an email saying one thing, the next day they would say something completely different.”

Nevertheless, students, parents and faculty found a way to celebrate the occasion, while being careful about their health and the health of others.

On June 11, Millikan High School celebrated its graduating seniors with a graduation parade.

“For Millikan, this was where the real fun began,” said Andrea Itson. “We decided to keep the music upbeat, and really throw a celebration parade. I approached teachers about a week before the parade to ask for their participation … they did not hesitate to jump on board, bringing the best energy.”

Parents or anyone who had a senior student at Millikan decorated their cars; the seniors wore their caps and gowns, and the whole Millikan staff cheered as the name of each senior was announced through the drive-thru stage.

“I loved how the Millikan staff and teachers put the ceremony together,” said Ivette Whitney.

“When we drove into the school … seeing all the teachers and the effort they put in to be there, to yell, to scream. They were there at 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. until the last car drove by.”

The celebration continued on that day and for the first time in history, Long Beach Unified School District had a virtual graduation ceremony for all of its high schools.

The virtual ceremony had guest speakers from the school board and the city, including Mayor

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Robert Garcia, who congratulated the class of 2020. Class presidents and class valedictorians made their speeches along with the principles from each high school.

“As the class of 2020, everyone will always know that you had to finish your senior year in a really challenging way and situation,” said Mayor Garcia in the virtual ceremony. “It only makes your accomplishment that much more impressive. Now, if you got through this there’s nothing you can’t do.”

He continued on saying that the class of 2020 didn’t graduate in a traditional way, but no one will ever take away their education and that they should be proud no matter what.

Now comes the time that every parent has to face and that is letting go. No matter what journey students choose, whether it is going off to college out of state or community college or not even going to college, this new chapter will be different for both students and parents.

“I have contradicting emotions,” Ivette Whitney said. “I am very proud and excited and I know that he is ready to go out there to take on the world, but sad at the same time because I do have to let go and let my son be independent.”

Once September comes around James Whitney will be on his way to boot camp where his journey as a U.S. Marine will start and he couldn’t be more thrilled.

“When you’re in elementary school you always think I’m going to be a teacher or an astronaut or a firefighter,” James said. “I was like I am going into the military, it was an honor thing on my part, I am going to serve my country because I can and I want to.”

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Making Amends

agreements, displaying them throughout the campus.

Teachers and administrators instruct students in restorative questions and how to make amends.

Guldseth described how these practices look in the classroom as students draw a question and use a talking piece to discuss the idea or topic. If someone wants to pass, they can. Anyone sharing does not need to make eye contact with others in the group [an object on which the students can focus their attention, is placed in the middle of the circle].

Students who do not usually talk with groups of people know they won’t be interrupted and that they own that time with the talking piece.

“Many different reactions begin to emerge,” Guldseth said. “Some students will express an alternate opinion, or they will reinforce an idea shared. But the unique aspect of a circle is that [during the] past four years, no student has ever felt disrespected for what they shared. Very often, the opposite is expressed, that they had never shared before and it felt good.”

For Guldseth, restorative justice is not a means to universal consensus about ideas, but a process that supports students understanding each other. The sense of community is a first step in the many other positive aspects of collaborative effort.

Imagining New Ways to Structure Our System

In the past four years, SPHS has seen a reduction in suspensions. It allows students to express an apology when they are alone [with the person they have hurt] and a moderator.

Moderators are able to play a supportive role to both while they share and attempt to build a bridge or meaningful basis for a common understanding. It’s not about who was wrong or right, but about how both can feel connected, functional, respected and part of

the community.

“In terms of public policy, imagine how we would change and grow as a society if there were a process for making amends instead of serving time,” Guldseth said. “Both parties can heal where there is understanding and a willingness to grow. As a society, we need to grow beyond cause and effect, action/reaction.”

Guldseth believes in justice that is restorative because young people who are growing up with it as an option in school respond with real deference, empathy and leadership ability that is not often seen in society.

“When confronted with hurt, their attitude is not, ‘They got what they deserved!’ Instead they are asking, ‘Can we give someone what they need?’” Guldseth said. “How can we move beyond this pain for the benefit of both? We do not ignore the hurt, but with the restorative justice mindset, the hurt can transform to understanding and resolve, to growth and resilience for both parties.”

In Conclusion

The three big ideas of restorative justice are: to repair: crime causes harm and justice requires repairing that harm; to encounter: this calls on the parties involved to decide together how to best facilitate their encounter and lastly, transformation: this can cause fundamental changes in people, relationships and communities.

The foundational principles of restorative justice have been summarized as follows: • Crime causes harm and justice should focus on repairing that harm.

• The people most affected by the crime should be able to participate in its resolution.

• The responsibility of the government is to maintain order and of the community to build peace.

Details: www.-Center-For-Justice-andReconciliation

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ATV Funding

neighborhood purpose grant money before the Harbor Area Boosters asked.

As previously mentioned, the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council approved a motion to cut the LAPD’s budget. Similarly, on June 16, the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council voted 7-2 with one abstention to ask for a $150 million reduction in the LAPD’s budget.

Treasurer Linda Nutile and Board Member Linda Alexander voted no, and Vice President Lisa DeNiscia abstained.

When asked if he regretted donating money for the ATVs, Coastal SPNC President Doug Epperhart said he never looks back, and that it’s done.

He noted that the debate over the ATV donation prompted many people to point out the LAPD’s large budget and wonder why it wasn’t enough to pay for the vehicles.

“My confusion is that the neighborhood council gets something like $39,000 for their yearly budget and LAPD has the largest budget in the city,” said Coastal SPNC member Noel Gould during the May 18 meeting. “I’m wondering when LAPD has such a large budget for vehicles, and the neighborhood council has such a small budget for the things that we do, why is it the LAPD is coming to neighborhood councils for what amounts to something like 15% of our budget?”

Plows said that the Harbor Division uses vehicles that are close to being scrapped.

“We do not have the ability to continue to buy motor vehicles,” Plows said. “It never ends up in our annual budget.”

Harbor Division does not receive new vehicles unless its vehicles crash or are too old

Coastal SPNC board member Erika Hernandez at the May 18 meeting.

Hernandez asked what the officers on ATVs would be policing.

Plows said the officers on ATVs will issue tickets for loitering, drinking in public, illegally parked vehicles, and also deal with cases of open containers, narcotics and domestic violence.

The Harbor Area Boosters asked the Coastal SPNC for $5,000 in February, but the board did not approve the expenditure. One of the reasons was that some board members were concerned the ATVs would be used elsewhere.

Plows asserted that the ATVs are assigned to the Harbor Division, and will not be used by other divisions.

“In the entire 15 years I’ve been here, our vehicles have never left our division, other than to be repaired,” Plows said. “They would serve no purpose anywhere else.”

Sutton asked why a large group of stakeholders were needed to convince the Coastal SPNC to donate $5,000 when referring to the group of stakeholders who asked for the Coastal SPNC to donate the money in February.

Sutton said that one stakeholder was frustrated by the council’s indecision and wrote a check for $5,000 for the ATVs. The ATVs are the will of the community, Sutton said. She said that the residents of the Harbor Area want law and order and a safe neighborhood.

Central SPNC Treasurer Linda Nutile encouraged Coastal SPNC to pay for the ATVs at their May 18 meeting, since the previously funded ATVs lasted for 17 years.

Central SPNC President Carrie Scoville declined to comment on this story. Harbor City Neighborhood Council President Danielle Sandoval could not be reached for comment on this story.

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Gateway and 103 per 100,000 in Rolling Hills as of June 21, to 2265 in La Rambla, the ninth highest rate of any community in Los Angeles County. Castaic had the highest rate countywide at 6366. There were 22 communities with no cases at all, including the City of Avalon.

The rate was 1379 in San Pedro (including the Terminal Island federal prison), 816 in Wilmington, 613 in Carson, 495 in Harbor City, 440 in Harbor Gateway, 355 in Palos Verdes Estates, 318 in Lomita, 285 in Rancho Palos Verdes, and 222 in Rolling Hills Estates.

La Rambla, San Pedro and Wilmington were all above the national rate, which was 677 on June 20.

Recent case rate increases also varied widely. In the four weeks from May 31 to June 20, there was no change in Rolling Hills, while the rate in La Rambla increased 370%. Wilmington increased 65%, Harbor City 42%, Carson 40%, Harbor Gateway and Rolling Hills Estates 29%, Lomita and Rancho Palos Verdes 27%, San Pedro 18%, Palos Verdes Estates 14%.

In the next two weeks, we’ll begin to see the impacts of the latest reopening waves.

“The number of cases will increase as the number of people are out of their homes,” Ghaly said. “It’s going to be very important to watch how this increase in cases translates into our daily hospitalizations over the next few weeks.”

Let’s hope we don’t look back at where we are now and call it “the good old days.”

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to be re-serviced, Plows said. Senior lead officers have had to advocate for more vehicles.

“I’m inclined to vote for supporting this, I do want to go on record as saying that I am absolutely flabbergasted to hear that LAPD doesn’t think that the ATVs are important enough to spend any of their own budget on it,” Gould said.

Gould pointed out that even if the seven neighborhood councils in the area covered by Harbor Division gave $5,000 each, the Harbor Area Boosters would still be short of its goal of $60,000.

Plows said she has been reaching out to other sources as well.

Sutton said that it is a shame that the City of Los Angeles does not see San Pedro and the Harbor Area as worthy of funding and that despite the Harbor Area’s parks and coastline areas, the city does not want to provide funding.

The city focuses more funding on Venice Beach, Sutton said. Sutton said it has been the practice of the LAPD to send four officers from Harbor Division to patrol Venice Beach during the summer. Sutton said this did not occur the past two summers, but that it took two years of her advocating for it to stop.

“Here’s the problem with a city the size of Los Angeles … if you go to Sylmar, they will tell you ‘we don’t have enough police, they’re underfunded,’” Epperhart said. “If you go to East LA, if you go to Atwater Village, if you go to Mt. Washington … they’re all going to say the same thing, ‘We don’t have enough cops.’”

Epperhart said this is not necessarily because of knowledge of the city budget or the way that policing works, but instead based on anecdotal evidence, such as a phone being stolen from a car and the cops not showing up.

“I find it very problematic to increase funding for the policing of communities especially depending on … who is receiving citations,” said

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TER MARLEY, 880 W. 18TH ST, SAN PEDRO, CA 90731 County of LOS ANGELES Registered owner(s): FRED C. ALLEN, 880 W. 18TH ST, SAN PEDRO, CA 90731. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on 09/2014.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/FRED C. ALLEN, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 05/19/2020.

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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

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This business is conducted by a General Partnership. T he registrant(s) started doing business on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/PATRICK BRADLEY, Partner. This state-

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ment was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 05/26/2020. 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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. 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: 06/11/2020, 06/25/2020, 07/09/2020, 07/23/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2020084095 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DOT COM LOU, 555 CALIFORNIA AVE, NEEDLES, CA 92363, County

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: OCEAN BLVD COASTAL BIKE TRAIL CONNECTOR LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S3009 Bid Deadline:

be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued.

August 4, 2020, at 5 p.m.

Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted.

For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at www.polb.com/business/ business-opportunities.

Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted.

Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, Harbor Development Permit

Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.

Bid Opening:

Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.

Contract Documents Available:

Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click HTTonrespective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.

Pre-Bid Meeting:

None

Project Contact Person:

Sailendra Bandatmakur, Sailendra. bandatmakur@polb.com

NIB -1 Contract Documents.

Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website.

Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to

Applications and other Port forms are available at www. polb.com/business/permits.

NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions. All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than

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NIB - 7 Contractor Performed Work.

The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 30% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.

“Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental

NIB -9 P r e v a i l i n g Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720.

The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract.

The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed.

The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/ DPreWageDetermination. htm and on file at the City, available upon request.

Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

NIB -10 Project Labor Agreement. This project is subject to the requirements of a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), included as Appendix AA. The Contractor and all tier subcontractors must sign a Letter of Assent before commencement of construction and be bound by each and every provision of the PLA, including, but not limited to: payment of prevailing wages; payment of fringe benefit contributions to union trust funds on behalf of workers; use of union hiring halls as a source for workers; follow alternating referral procedures if employing Core Workers.

Per the Department of Industrial Relations, projects covered by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) are exempt from the requirement to submit electronic CPRs directly to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. In lieu, the Contractor and all Subcontractors will be required to submit electronic or hardcopies of CPRs and labor compliance documentation to the Port of Long Beach.

NIB -11 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals.

With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the nonspecified item is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP).

Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

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NIB -13 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in

an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price.

All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

NIB -14 Conditional Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity.

The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability.

Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

NIB -17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010.

In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.”

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 24 day of February, 2020.

Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@polb.com.

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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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. 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: 06/11/2020, 06/25/2020,

NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Substantial Completion of Work within 549 calendar days and Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within 639 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed”

This Contract involves federal funds and, therefore, the Contractor’s Bid will not be invalidated by the failure to be licensed at the time of the Bid Deadline, but the Contractor must be properly licensed at the time of the award of the Contract. Failure to possess such license may render the Bid non-responsive and bar the award of the Contract to that non-responsive Bidder.

NIB -8 DBE. This project is subject to Caltrans Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program based on U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 49 CFR, Part 26 requirements. The DBE participation goal for this project is seven percent (7%).

POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the DBE participation goal. Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting LAPM Exhibit 15G: Construction Contract DBE Commitment form included in the Bid Proposal Package.

If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Port’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Liaison Officer (DBELO) is available to provide information on the DBE program requirements.

Please contact the DBELO at (562) 283-7595 or sashi. muralidharan@polb.com.

for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

of LOS ANGELES, Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 857, Needles, CA 92363. Registered owner(s): LOUIE BLANCHARD, P.O. BOX 857, Needles, CA 92363. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on 01/2004. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ LOUIE BLANCHARD, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 05/18/2020.

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920,

NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work.

The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Constructing a new bicycle/pedestrian bridge, converting and existing vehicle lane into a two-way bicycle lane, providing surficial treatments and betterment features, including but not limited to: mobilization/ demobilization, concrete, electrical, traffic signage, signals, striping, markings, CIDH piles, MSE walls, drainage, environmental protection, and other work as required. See Section 01 11 00, Summary of Work in the Technical Specifications.

NIB -6 Contractor’s License.

The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A”, California Contractor’s License to construct this project.

In addition, the Bidder or subcontractor(s) shall hold a current and valid Class “C-8”, California Contractor’s License to perform the following work: cast-in-place concrete barriers, Caltrans Type 60M; curved, cast-in-place concrete bridges.

costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this project shall also be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.

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NIB -3 Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit. There will not be a pre-bid meeting or site visit for this project. Site images are provided with the documents for reference.

Any site photographs, videos, or maps included in the Contract Documents do not constitute a complete visual depiction of the site and should neither be considered nor are warranted as such.

The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches construction depicted on record reference documents. It shall be the Bidder’s responsibility to identify existing conditions.

issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions.

FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

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