RLn 9-1-22 [Labor Day Issue]

Skatepark Opens After 20-year Struggle

Gen Z Moves to Unionize

There’s no doubt that the labor lead ers who are succeeding in organizing in places where labor has struggled to gain a foothold in recent decades (i.e. Star bucks and Amazon) are different from legacy labor unions. They aren’t like Richard Trumkas, a third-generation labor leader, whose political pedigree included United Mine Workers of Amer ica president John L. Lewis. Or ILWU icon, Harry Bridges, who drew his early inspiration from his time as a merchant seaman, and his uncle Renton Bridges, a Labor Party activist and shipmate who was a member of the Wobblies and participated in the 1917 general strike in Australia. Or even Dave Arian, past president of the ILWU Local 13 and lat er president of the ILWU International. Arian is similar to Trumka in that his labor pedigree included Harry Bridges. Recently, Random Lengths News had the opportunity to interview the lynchpin of this past year’s most sur prising labor victories, which include the Amazon Labor Union’s president Chris Smalls and Starbucks Lakewood store union organizer Tyler Keeling. What is telling about both of these

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City proposes Kobe Bryant memorial at Angels Gate p. 3 The ports’ neglected role in building a stronger economy p. 6 Rethinking who is essential: The labor myth of the farmworker p. State17 Assembly passes bill to help street vendors p. 22

Andy Harris was a young skateboarding photographer when he first showed up at this newspaper, snapping pictures and getting his college degree. Many years later, he’s employed full-time on the docks, as a steady gear-man at Pasha Terminal, married with two kids, and now the OG of the San Pedro Skatepark Association.

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The Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition presents the largest Labor Day event in the western half of the United States on Sept. 5, at Wilmington’s Banning Park. The labor solidar ity parade will march in the streets featuring dozens of unions, labor organizations and schools and rally at Banning Park. The annual Labor Day Parade returns following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Union members, supporters, and their families are all expected and the public is invited to the parade and ral ly from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

43rd Annual Labor Day Parade and Rally

On Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, just short of the 20th anniversary of when he and his comrades, Bob “Yamo” Yamasaki, Gabe Solis, Robbie O’Connell and April Jones kicked off this idea with no money or a clue about how to accomplish it, the Channel Street Skatepark opened. It had resounding support from a very diverse cross-section of supporters, young, old, boys and girls of all colors as the park was officially pronounced “legal.” What follows is the brief accounting of the struggle to open this DIY project by Harris who had the fortune, skill and guts to pull off this project and in the process earn the respect of all who were pulled into his orbit.

Amazon, Starbucks have been successful at keeping unions at bay. Labor leaders Chris Smalls and Tyler Keeling change the equation

Back in 2002, when we first started messing around down here, we had no aspirations of building an 8,000 square foot skatepark on land that wasn’t ours. We simply wanted a spot to skate, out of the sun, and where we wouldn’t get kicked out. Sure, we’d been to Burnside up in Portland (The holy grail of DIY skateparks) and we’d seen the beginnings of Washington Street down in San Diego. So, yeah ... we had some ideas of what was possible, but look, with Harbor Division LAPD a few blocks away, we figured it was [only] a matter of time before our little spot got squashed. In fact, it almost did! In 2003, right after we had graduated from bag-mix to ordering full trucks of ready-mix, we were visited by a bunch of city and port departments, and right while we were trying to finish 10 yards of concrete! It did not look good for our little spot that day, but a phone call was made and Caroline Brady from the office of then Councilwoman Janice Hahn came out and somehow convinced the various departments to back off and let us be. I still think to this day

Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala [See Gen Z, p. 10][See Skatepark, p. 14]

— The Publisher Speech by Andy Harris, CEO of the San Pedro Skatepark Association kateboarders, community members, and Channel Street locals, welcome to the Channel Street Skatepark, legal for the first time in its 20-year existence.Thishas been a long and winding road to get us from our humble beginnings, building concrete bumps and quarter pipes out of bag-mix concrete and chicken wire bought at the local Home Depot, to what you see here today: A thriving community of skateboarders and artists turning this former lot of illegally dumped trash and vagrancy into a place for physical activity and creativity.

Robbie O’Connell and Andy Harris, who co-founded the Channel Street Skatepark, which opened Aug. 21.

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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“I think this is a great idea,” said board mem ber Regina Lumbruno at the meeting. “Some of that stuff on there is straight-up embarrassing. Especially coming into San Pedro, and that’s the first thing you see.”

Since a new council member will be replac ing Councilman Joe Buscaino at the end of the year, Gonzalez-Camarillo said his committee wants to get something in writing before he leaves office. Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council board member Bob Gelfand suggested that Gonzalez-Camarillo should talk to the two candidates currently running to replace Buscai no, and Gonzalez-Camarillo agreed. “Do it before the next city council, because ugly billboards, like many things, usually mean a lot of money moved towards politicians, new or old, and that’s why we’ve had this eyesore ever since I was just a little boy arriving in Pedro,” said San Pedro resident Bill Roberson. Roberson said he saw it when he first came to San Pedro in 1968.

Matthew Quiocho, vice president of the board, said he had spoken with CD15 represen tatives last year, which was when he first heard when the lease was expiring. “But, as we all know, politicians can be rather fickle,” Quiocho said. “Just because they say that they are going to remove it doesn’t mean they are going to, doesn’t mean they have the money, the work crew, the resources actually lined up.” Gonzalez-Camarillo said he spoke with CD15 representatives after the meeting, and they are aware of the board’s request. “They said there’s no intention of extending the contract or renewing,” Gonzalez-Camarillo said.Representatives from Buscaino did not re spond to requests for comment. Gonzalez-Camarillo said the billboard is on city property, which is why CD15 is in charge of the lease.

John Munn, a representative of San Pedro Real Estate Company, represented the previous owner of the land, who sold it to the city in 2016. How ever, Regency Outdoor Advertising, the company that has the lease on the billboard, had a contract with a five-year option to renew. The city inherited this contract, which is why the city could not take it down before. Munn said the city receives part of the revenue from the sign, but only a small amount compared to what the Regency receives. No mat ter how much the profit is from renting the sign, the city merely receives a fee.

Supervisor Hahn to host Gun Buy-Back in Long Beach

LA County Commission on Human Relations Releases Strategic Plan for Public Comment

The billboard at the end of 110 freeway, at the entrance to San Pedro.

City Proposes Memorial Basketball Court to Kobe and Gianna Bryant

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The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations released its proposed strategic plan and

On Aug. 15, Deanna Dedmon of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks gave a presentation at the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council about a proposed Kobe and Gianna Bryant memorial basketball

Announcements:Community Harbor Area

Some San Pedro residents are trying to get rid of the billboard at the end of the 110 freeway. At the Aug. 14 meeting of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, the board voted 10-0, asking that representatives of Council Dis trict 15 provide a statement in writing that the city will not renew the lease on the billboard. The contract ends on Dec. 22, said Javier GonzalezCamarillo, chair of the board’s Planning & Land Use Committee.

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

On Sept 10, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn and the Long Beach Police Department will hold a gun-buyback event at Ramona Park, in North Long Beach. The event gives residents an opportunity to turn guns in, no questions asked, in exchange for gift cards. The firearms are destroyed, eliminating a significant threat to the area. In May, Hahn sponsored a similar event in neighboring Lynwood that took 365 guns off the streets.Aswith the Lynwood event, there are important guidelines to participating in the buy-back that ensure the safety of the public and LBPD officers. Firearms must be brought unloaded in the trunk of a vehicle and are not permitted on any Metro or Long Beach Transit vehicle. Pedestrian walk-ups will not be accepted. Participants can choose from an assortment of gift cards, including gift cards that can be redeemed on Amazon.

Non-functioning firearms: $50 in gift cards; functioning handguns/rifles/shotguns: $100 in gift cards; functioning assault weapons: $200 in gift cards. Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sept. 10 Venue: Ramona Park, 3301 E. 65th St. in North Long Beach

Nonprofit organizations are invited to apply in September for a Port of Long Beach Sponsorship, to fund community events and programs that in turn help inform residents about the port. Community groups may submit sponsorship applications online starting Sept. 1, through 5 p.m. Sept. 30. No late submissions will be accepted. Due to the application review process, applicants need to plan well in advance for their events. Once the application period closes, a 60-day period is needed before the proposed sponsorships can be considered by the Board of Harbor Commissioners for approval.Sponsorships for the September call are generally for events and projects taking place Dec. 1 and later. For the port’s next call, in March 2023, sponsorships are generally for events and projects taking place June 1, 2023, and later. Details: www.polb.com/sponsorship

Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala [See Announcements, p. 12] [See Neighborhood, p. 22]

Port of LB Sponsorship Call Opens Sept. 1

CD15 candidates Danielle Sandoval and Tim McOsker also did not respond to requests for comment.

Neighborhood Council Issues Billboard at End of 110 Fwy; Kobe Bryant Memorial at Angels Gate

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The state ought to be pro-active in supporting the

“California’s clean-air rules and clean-air goals have spawned a series of technologies in industries that in many cases have gone abroad,” Flaming said. But that needn’t continue. “We’re cutting edge now, the state of California, in requiring electric vehicles, or pure hydrogen vehicles, but vehicles with zero emissions,” he said. “We see it at the state-level as being in our interest to make these things, not just acquire

“The biggest issue is how we see the ports, do Beach businesses said they wished they were located somewhere else, and the city sent out people to meet individually with businesses and find out what they could do to be helpful.” The ports could act similarly, “as agents of a stronger national economy,” for example, in technologies tied into climate change.

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“We certainly should be incentivizing these high-value manufacturing activities, which we can do through our tax code. These industries which have provided family-supporting jobs for blue-collar workers are declining pathetically, tragically in the state and we should be reversing those trends,” he said. “It’s not just longshore jobs that support a family, it ought to be a growing manufacturing sector, trucking jobs…

In July Random Lengths News reported on the Economic Roundtable report, “Someone Else’s Ocean,” which critically examined the long-term neglect of the broad public interest in deference to the interests of shipping companies and foreign manufacturers. “The ports are public property, and legally their obligation is to provide benefits for residents of California,” the report’s co-author Daniel Flaming told us at the time. One facet of their report was recommendations to help support increased exports, promote highwage manufacturing both locally and throughout the state and the U.S. more broadly. In late August, we re-interviewed Flaming, specifically focused on this aspect of their concerns.

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor we see the ports as a conveyor belt or the control tower?” Flaming began. “My argument is right now they function substantially as a conveyor belt. Whatever gets unloaded they moved through onto a truck and a railcar and get it out of there, or vice versa on an empty container.” But there’s another way they can be seen: “Ports are transportation networks, they’re at the base of the web of national surface transportation assets.” Another such network is pipeline systems, which highlight another way of thinking: “If you’re transporting natural gas or petroleum or water you have pumping stations, you have valves, you can move stuff this way you can move stuff that way, you can turn it off. You control volumes. And the ports likewise have a set of levers or valves at their disposal they can regulate or give preference in terms of speed, in terms of costs of things moving in and out.” Ports are also revenue-generating departments that can acquire land, build infrastructure, etc. “So I think it begins with whether you see the ports as passive entities or agents with the capability to act in local and national interests,” Flaming said. “Our argument is it’s time to wake up, smell the coffee and become more actively engaged in what moves through rather than just moving things through. So, certainly the fee structure for exports versus imports, or empty containers versus loaded containers — those would be the most obvious,” he said. As an example, Flaming pointed to the Economic Roundtable’s experience working with the City of Long Beach after the collapse of aerospace. “At that point in time 54% of Long them … The state through grants, through tax structure, through state-level land-use regulation, state-level infrastructure regulation could be an active agent in supporting those industries just like the port could be.” In short, it’s not the ports alone, but the ports as active partners that Flaming envisions, along with other governmental entities. At the state legislative level, “Taxes and land-use regulation are probably the biggest issues,” Flaming said. “What we found in the past, was a lot of times growing businesses were not able to get additional land to expand. And so supporting expedited rezoning requests and also site acquisition and site location for growing manufacturing industries — particularly sites that are in proximity to the transportation infrastructure, typically the ports would be ideal — would be valuable both at the state and local level.”

Doing this right, without repeating past mistakes of running roughshod over low-income and minority communities’ basic health and wellbeing will require sensitive collaboration, but can be done better with a coherent over-all vision.

Building a Stronger Economy: The Ports’ Neglected Role

The TraPac Terminal Automation Project was part of $1 billion worth of planned capital improvements, including automatic stacking cranes and fully automated straddle carriers. Right, Daniel Flaming co-authored a report for the Economic Roundtable, entitled “Some one Else’s Ocean,” a critical look at the ports’ negligence toward the broader public good. File photos [See Neglected, p. 24]

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Twain Vol. XLIII : No. 18 Random Lengths News is a publication of Beacon Light Press, LLC Published every two weeks for the Harbor Area communities of San Pedro, RPV, Lomita, Harbor City, Wilmington, Carson and Long Beach.

The demise of Beacon Street and beyond James Preston Allen, Publisher

Racists, Sexists, Insurrectionists

A less biased framing would entail discussing how patterns from Democrats’ worst midterm performances in recent history cannot be used to predict that Republicans will be “favored” in 2022. Today’s tens of millions of Republican vot

The last guy who told us he was a billionaire as he ran for political office will soon end up in jail. Bass will likely come out ahead in the end, but can she or anyone else actually make the bu reaucracy of Los Angeles work for the people?

It wouldn’t be until the early 2000s that there was any serious effort to protect the his toric facades of San Pedro and then the creation of historic preservation zones, one for the busi ness district and the other residential — Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. There are some 20 HPOZs in the city of Los Angeles since the pas sage of the Mills Act in 1972 — a policy change that coincided with the demolition of Beacon Street. The Mills Act legislation grants partici pating cities and counties the authority to enter into contracts with owners of qualified historic of time you probably don’t have a clue unless you pulled a building or conditional use permit to open a certain kind of business. As our friends down at the Channel Street Skatepark learned the hard way, the city is awash in bureaucracy that makes it nearly impossible to plan anything creative unless you have an army of consultants, lawyers, lobbyists and engineers.Thefact of the matter is that Los Angeles doesn’t really have “a plan.” It has hundreds of plans, thousands of studies, and departments and bu reaus each with their own rules and regulations. It’s enough to make your head spin. But how else are we to run a city of 4 million you might ask? Well the best solution is to have a local office for every department of the city in each of the districts’ city halls. In other words, de centralize the power structure.

To base election-season reporting on a “Re publicans favored” talking point in 2022 is about as “balanced” as taking some Republican Party press release and putting it into the mouths of whoever’s deemed worthy enough to mouth election-year analysis on TV.

Every time I hear some talking TV head mouthing, “Republicans are favored to take the House and Senate this election cycle,” I have to resist the temptation to throw something at the TV. This season, that bland dry statistical talking point implies propaganda for a mob of racists, sexists and insurrectionists seizing control of a major branch of American government, and our main stream media is failing to report the whole picture.

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Even though the city is divided into 15 dis tricts of about the same population, there are common traits shared between all of the neighbor hoods — particularly those neighborhoods with housing stock that was built during the boom years between the great wars. Most of their old business districts are of the same vintage as the stock in San Pedro and they have all suffered some of the same socio-economic problems that came with the loss of good middle class jobs and rising property prices. People who are old enough or lucky enough to have purchased property 20, 30 or 50 years ago are now millionaires on paper Not that it would do a lot of good for them. Where are they going to go…Texas?... Idaho?

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When I first arrived in San Pedro, the local chamber of commerce celebrated the demolition of old Beacon Street with a federally-funded ur ban renewal project and the town came out and celebrated with a street party. It would be de cades before the “urban renewal” dream would come to fruition and it still hasn’t fixed the economic decline. Since that time there have been three major attempts to resurrect, recon struct and replace and/or preserve what was once a thriving hub of commerce and jobs. What is left is fundamentally connected to the goods movement industry and slowly many of those jobs are be ing threatened by automation. Back before the Vincent Thom as Bridge was built to connect San Pedro to Ter minal Island, a small army of tuna cannery work ers trudged daily up and down Sixth Street on their way to the ferry building at the foot of the street, as that was the only way to conveniently get to the Starkist Cannery. Before World War II, it was also the way that the Terminal Island kids got to San Pedro High School before their fami lies were shipped off to the internment camps.

The history of the once thriving commerce on Sixth and Seventh streets and Pacific Av enue is still embedded in the terrazzo entrances of some of the old stores. Some of the old store names of this era remain in a few of the historic buildings, but most of it is lost with only a few pictures of the boom years stored in the archives.

To blithely base predictions about what’s go ing to happen in 2022 on numbers from 1994 and 2010 appears to be perhaps a prime example of that old saying about lies and statistics. American politics in 2022 bear little resemblance to Ameri can politics in 1994 or 2010.

By Lyn Jensen, Columnist

However, the idea of LA actually having a “planning department’ is kind of an oxymo ron as there are plans for every part of this city, sometimes two or three overlapping ones, but if you’ve lived here for any length a path to the American Dream. We’ve already seen the beginnings of this rupture following the battle over homelessness at Echo Park and Venice Beach and the uprising at City Hall over the anti-camping ordinance. It kind of all comes down to answering the question, to whom does this city belong... the bil lionaires and corporations or the workers? The No vember election in LA will be pivotal in settling this question. The choice couldn’t be clearer — the billionaire Rick Caruso or the one-time community organizer Rep. Karen Bass.

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The saving grace in the San Pedro Bay com munities is the prevalence of union jobs either at the ports or in city government. Yet only 46% of people in LA own their own homes, and in the Harbor Area I believe it is less, which is below the national average.

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So, getting back to my main point about his toric preservation and the current inebriated rush to tear down the old and build more housing, while losing sight of the jobs being eliminated by automation, what will Los Angeles become if it can’t retain good middle-class jobs and contin ues to build rental apartments with the aesthetic of Soviet worker housing? The unique neighbor hoods of Los Angeles will lose their character, the community fabric will tear and there will be a growing disparity between the haves that own property and those who don’t. Rental housing has become a commodity driven by hedge fund investments, that’s unaffordable, and real estate ownership for the common person is declining as properties who actively participate in the re habilitation, restoration, preservation, and maintenance of their historic properties. A list of districts and resources can be found at the LA City Planning website at https://tinyurl. com/LA-HPOZ-RLn

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“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about—Markit.”

That remains to be seen as the corruption of cor porate money at the city council seems to speak louder than all the votes of the citizens, no matter what neighborhood you live in. The ghosts of old Beacon Street may come back to haunt us in ways we have yet to under stand.

When the talking heads attempt to explain why they so blandly mouth this talking point, they trot out another talking point, about how the party in power typically loses seats during midterm elections. They often drag up 1994 and 2010, the last two times a Republican “red wave” swept over the United States Congress, as if the corporate media is eager to jest at the wounds Democrats suffered those years.

Trump, of course immedi ately went on the attack with all his greatest hits - “unfair” and “witch hunt” “radical left Democrats” “hoax,” “scam” pretending he’s been exonerated for things he absolutely hasn’t been exonerated for, all punctu ated by plenty of unnecessary exclamation points! Trump World followed suit and went on the warpath in all the ways you would expect. Naturally, the online commu nities like r/The_Donald blew their collective stacks with thousands of brave keyboard warriors most of whom have never seen the inside of any thing more dangerous than a 2-hour-old Chipotle burrito amping up the tough text about civil war, getting their guns ready, locking and loading, blah, blah, blah. Of course, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world had to chip in their 2 cents, tak ing the opportunity to …clev erly?…you know…cleverly for her… tweet out “DEFUND

G. Juan Johnson Los Angeles What Right Does the FBI Have to Search Donald Trump’s House?

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The FBI served a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-La go property on Aug. 8.

Today’s media must acknowledge that tens of millions of American voters are racist enough to think Black lives don’t matter, sexist enough to think women should be kept pregnant and bare foot, and deep enough in some right-wing fever swamp to believe, or at least repeat, right-wing propaganda that the 2020 election was “stolen.”

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Community Alert Pier B Rail Facility Project Meeting Set for Sept. 7

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LONG BEACH — The Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility project team will update the public on the status of the Port of Long Beach project during a virtual community meeting Sept. 7. Join this virtual meet ing from a computer, phone and other mobile device. A recording of the meeting will be posted at www.polb.com/ PierB for those unable to par ticipate.The Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility is the cen terpiece of the Port of Long Beach’s rail capital improve ment program. It will shift more cargo to “on-dock rail,” where containers are taken to and from marine terminals by trains. Moving cargo by ondock rail is cleaner and more efficient, as it reduces truck traffic. No cargo trucks would visit the facility. Instead, smaller train segments would be brought to the facility and joined together into a fullsized train.

Time: 10 a.m., Sept. 7 Details: Register at tinyurl.com/Pier-b-rail-facilitywww. ers, by and large, are not voting for the party as it was in 1994 or 2010 when it was toxic enough.

Basically, here are the points: It is felt that to level the playing field for all qualified applicants who wish to run, they need a handout from us (you and me). By leveling the playing field, I mean against those who are millionaires (and can buy an election) and incumbents (who should use their track record, not money for votes). It infuriates me that our money is used in such a frivolous way. If you want to donate to someone, please do or don’t, but do not expect me to contribute to that campaign. I have no idea how much is earmarked for these matching funds, however here are several ideas for better use of that money: l. Gun Control 2. Human Trafficking 3. Pay teachers more 4.S treet cleaning 5. Computers for classrooms 6. Physical education 7. Foster Care (my personal Ipassion)couldgo on and on … Arlene Dickey San Pedro Choosing Lesser Evils

What today’s Republican Party has adopted as a campaign strategy started long before Don ald Trump. He simply poured an entire refinery’s worth of gasoline on a movement the Republicans have been building for decades. Today’s frankly racist and sexist make-excuses-for-insurrection party has been developing at least since Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” which pandered to crude segregationists and cruder racists outraged that Black people were getting voting rights. It became more apparent during the Ronald Rea gan-era cultivation of a conservative blue-collar vote, what back in the 1970s was called the “Ar chie Bunker” vote, after a TV character.

In today’s Republican Party, what was once the lunatic fringe is now the lunatic fabric, and me dia reports blithely predicting tens of millions of Democrats will just roll over for these “favored” Republicans, in district after district and state af ter state, shouldn’t be treated as normal.

I have written a number of letters over the past years. Most of which have been somewhat controversial! And I am sorry to anyone who took offense at those, However, I cannot stay silent on what I learned yesterday. The city of Los Angeles offers matching funds to qualified candidates who wish to run for citywide office. Since I did not understand how this could be true I called a friend of mine whose opinion I respect a lot.

You know, if there is one thing that’s clear, over the last few days since the FBI executed its search warrant and over the next few days and weeks, there have been and will be some things said that just will not age well, and a lot of poli ticians will wish they’d taken a few minutes to breathe before running their mouths. Well, truth be told, if the last few years have taught us any thing, these guys can say what ever they want in the moment and it never seems to stick to them later when hindsight shows how stupid they sounded.

Then came the Donald Trump cult, and a Big Lie to match anything Adolf Hitler and the Na zis disseminated is now a prime weapon of the Republicans’ toxic propaganda — that the 2020 election was somehow “stolen” from Trump, and just about every Republican candidate in Amer ica today is cynical and manipulative enough to campaign on it, promising to “restore” election “integrity” in ways that resemble every dictator ship the world has ever known.

To blithely and blandly base election analysis on the hypothesis that such voters represent a major ity of people who will dutifully vote to determine the course of the country come Election Day, Nov. 8, doesn’t automatically follow.

RE: RLN Aug. 18, 2022: “Which Way LA—Bass or the Billionaire?” by Paul Rosenberg

What a financial waste to mail out election ballots to six million registered voters (county) and get a 30% return. Has either candidate for mayor attended a council meeting in the three years before the start of their campaign? Los Angeles government is at a standstill, spinning its wheels and the Public sees the shell game. This city and its politicians face: government systemic pattern and practice housing discrimination; racist millionaire landlords; the need for criminal penalties for vio lating the tenant anti-harassment ordinance and the home sharing or dinance; racist and unethical prac tices of the planning, zoning, rent control, city clerk, neighborhood empowerment, and code enforce ment departments; anti-diversity gentrification that is ridding this city of the middle, affordable, and low income residents; the need for a moratorium on market rate apart ments; the need for an election nominating process that is strictly online; election and contribution limits capped at $5,000 per can didate; the dollars, unaccountable to the public, spent by the Metro and the Mayor’s Fund; denial of constitutional rights; the need for more training of Police on civil rights and the state Unruh Act; the need for housing that is “full and equal accommodations, advantag es, facilities, privileges or services of every kind” (CC 51); slavery reparations to Black citizens; and a solution for increased traffic and parking congestion. That is what I think about when I realize we face the elec tion of the lessor of two evils for Mayor.

THE FBI!!!” along with an upside-down flag and her usual rant about communism, once again proving she’s never both ered to look up communism in the dictionary. Or picked up a dictionary. You expect all that whenev er anyone sneezes in Trump’s direction. Naturally, never ones to avoid the opportunity to bilk their suckers for a bit more cash, Republicans immediately started fundraising off it. Chris O’Leary, Texas

“Unfortunately, it took me four and a half years to realize that two interviews [out of those 50 applications] were unacceptable,” he said. “Especially when I opened up three build ings and trained hundreds of their employees,” Smalls said. “There’s no way that I shouldn’t opportunity for a consistent income. His dad worked as an independent laborer shoeing horses and his mom worked whatever minimum wage jobs she could get for however long she could keep“Therethem. was not some rich deep history con nected to labor. I come from a very underserved area, very deep in poverty. I come from a place where you live and die,” Keeling said. “I got out because I was lucky I had a couch to crash on af ter I graduated high school. So I got out of town as fast as I could. “But that was not conducive to a successful life in a lot of ways. I, very much, am somebody I am now organizing stores and stuff like that,” KeelingThroughsaid. Starbucks, Keeling said he went back to school for software engineering because that’s a job where he can make a decent income. “I’m a Starbucks worker. I’m working for poverty wages. I don’t have some sort of social safety net,” Keeling said. “My mom’s dead and my dad’s out of my life and my grandparents are gone. Like, I have no social safety net whatso ever.”Keeling has worked at Starbucks since 2016 and he went back to school in a last-ditch effort to find a rope out of poverty.

The nature of work is fun damentally dif ferent past.generationsfromButif there’s a mo ment in labor his tory to which today is akin, it would be the proto-labor movement that sprung up shortly after the Industrial revolution in the 19th century. Despite technological advanc es and corporations tinkering with work culture to eliminate the need for unions, the labor re lationships and working conditions have changed little. The tinkering is notice able in the terms these corpora tions use to refer to their workers. Walmart calls them “associates.” Starbucks calls them “partners.” Amazon refers to them as “team members.” And they do it all to obscure the dividing line be tween employer and employee. These corporations have formed work cul tures around core principles that are designed to make everyone feel they have an equal stake in the success of the corporation, but they don’t. More importantly, corporations hope to make employees feel as if they are able to expect some equitable compensation or reward for their con tribution, whether it’s physical or intellectual or both. The end game, of course, is the corporation hopes to anticipate the worker’s every need and desire so that a worker would not need to seek a union to bargain on their behalf. And for a while, the Walmarts, the Amazons, and the Starbucks of the world have been successful. Until now. In a twist of fate, workers are using the com have been a manager from the qualifications that I had, so it was easy for me to fight and stand up when the time came.”

Keeling and the Coffee Giant Keeling grew up in the town of Apple Valley about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. For context, he grew up in deep poverty. Apple Valley is a place that the rest of California has forgotten about with few jobs and no industries. Many left towns like Apple Valley during the Great Depression in search of jobs in the big cities and never came back, a few others remained. Historically it had been a thoroughfare for Indigenous peoples such as the Shoshon ean, Paiute, Vanyume, Chemehuevi, Serrano and later the Mojave peoples who were at tracted to the water and vegetation around the Mojave River. Spanish missionaries ar rived and set up missions to evangelize the Indigenous people, while cowboys and Mor mons rustled cattle or searched for a place they could be left alone to practice their faith. Keeling said work wasn’t really a thing in his family because there was no viable

nizing my store with my co-workers, with my community, with the people I love that I see every day ... That was my first real step out of poverty because I’m fighting for a union job now.”

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Tyler Keeling, a leader in unionizing Stabrucks, and Chris Smalls, a leader in unionizing Amazon. Illustration by Noel Tinsman-Kongshaug

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young men is that neither of them grew up in a particularly union family nor did they learn the history of union struggles from school. What they are doing is a basic Do It Yourself struggle brought on by the necessity of the times.

Chris Smalls meets with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in July, shortly after speaking to Congress about unionizing Amazon. Photo courtesy of the White House.

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Amazon v. Chris Smalls

Chris Smalls grew up in a single-parent household with his brother Hackensack,in New Jersey. The plight of the work ing masses in a capitalist society was far from his mind as he spent his time playing basketball and football, writing rap songs with his friends, and dreaming of becom ing a hip-hop artist. Smalls’ mother worked as an administrator at a hospital, and according to a report in a Time magazine article, she had once been part of SEIU 1199. He told Time that the union made so little difference in their lives that she “forgot that she was even a part of the rank-and-file at one point.” He added that she hadn’t remembered orga nizing for a contract. “A co-worker reminded her.” Smalls gave hip-hop a shot as a career, but when his ex-wife got pregnant with twins, he set aside his music dreams in favor of a more stable income. After stints at Amazon facilities in New Jersey and Connecticut, Smalls was hired at JFK8 in 2018. He worked as a process assistant, overseeing customer items being picked to be packed and shipped. Smalls said he was happy working for Amazon and was hungry to move up in theHecompany.saidthecareer route from a process assis tant to a salaried manager took two years. Smalls recounted applying to become a manager more than 50 times.

“They didn’t like that one, but it was their principle and I used it often,” Smalls said. “I used it before organizing the union, I used it as I was moving up in the company, working in the company. So, for me disagreeing with how they treated us during COVID was one step, and hav ing a backbone and committing to getting to a place where there would be some results that was going to benefit us, that’s the commitment side. Unfortunately, they fired me.”

Tyler Keeling poses with other union members at a Starbucks that they unionized in Lakewood. Photo courtesy of Keeling’s Twitter

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“So coffee shops, in the context of Starbucks ... has very much made itself a place for people to be and there’s this intention to be a place where people in the community can come and just be that isn’t home or work,” Keeling said. His torically in England, anyone of any social class could frequent the coffeehouses, and so they became associated with equality and republican ism. This is the idea behind most American cof fee houses today. Keeling said that he feels as if he’s been baked into the process because there’s such an idea around the idea of community in Starbucks’ mission and values, regardless of the capitalist intent to profit off of it. It’s that sense of com munity that a lot of people have always admired about Starbucks. “I guess there has always been the idea of making sure that your entire community can see and build off that effort,” Keeling said. “Like creating a high tide to raise all ships ... the fight is about making the work better and that’s going to then reflect around the community and make it work better for everybody.” However, today’s young labor leaders are facing an environment that’s more akin to the start of the Industrial Revolution as opposed to the period when labor had reached the apex of its strength from World War II to the 1960s. With Amazon’s dedication to automating every facet of its operations, like others in the goods movement industry, the lesson learned is that workers are still needed. Shippers industrywide have been looking to minimize labor costs via automation while blunting the impact of unions on their bottom lines. Industry leaders thought that by tinkering with their work cultures, by initially providing higher wages, opportunities for advancement, and opportunities for ownership (option to pur chase stocks) they could exclude labor unions from the company’s relationship with its em ployees.Leaders such as Smalls, Keeling and a grow ing number of others are showing otherwise.

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pany’s own core principles to organize and push back. Smalls noted that Amazon has 14 leader ship principles they preach ... at least to manage ment.

“They have it all over their warehouses,” Smalls said. His favorite one was 13: “Have a backbone, disagree, and commit.”

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Smalls said that despite its principles and efforts in tinkering with its culture of work, Amazon has always been disconnected from its workers and always been disconnected from the community. “We prove that theory once we won our elec tion [in Staten Island],” Smalls said.

Keeling noted that Starbucks has always valued and had a focus and a mission on main taining the “third place,” which is defined as that place that is not work or home, but is still a place at which you belong.

Amazon spent $4.3 million opposing the union effort, thinking they were going to win. Smalls suggested that Amazon executives were even celebratory in their overconfidence. Ama zon’s confidence wasn’t misplaced. Of the eight applications for union representation filed with the National Labor Relations Board, five of those filings were closed when the majority of workers voted against joining a union. Over the past year, Starbucks workers have filed 346 applications for union representation. Two-hundred and sixty-six of those applications were closed when the majority of those workers voted against representation.

New Resources to Manage Student Loan Debt

The Department of Consumer and Business Affairs Center for Financial Empowerment has launched a new webpage to help people dealing with student loan debt. Learn more about available resources, including the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, the Federal Student Loan Repayment Pause, and much more. Details: https://tinyurl.com/ycyapa64

Beat the Heat With LA County Parks and Rec Splash Pads

LA County Parks and Recreations Splash Pads are available at 23 parks until Sept. 30, just in time for late summer heat. Bring the family out for some free fun and stay cool this summer. Details: Find a splash pad here: https://tinyurl.com/ LA-splash-pads

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The Department of Public Social Services or DPSS provides funding to community-based organizations that can provide you with services such as shelter, domestic violence support, child and family services, senior services and more. Details: https://tinyurl.com/block-grant

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is inviting members of the public to comment on it. The feedback received will provide the commission with ideas on how to better serve the people and communities of LA County. To review the proposed strategic plan go to: https:// hrc.lacounty.gov/ Details: Submit feedback by Sept. 12 to info@hrc. lacounty.gov

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Strippers at N. Hollywood Topless Bar Apply for Union Representation

One of the biggest contract battles on the ho rizon is the Teamsters UPS contract, which cov ers over 340,000 workers. New incoming reform president Sean O’Brien said a strike against UPS is imminent next year to reverse givebacks of prior years and to get rid of two-tier pay.

“as what union organizations have historically done … The most important lesson of organiz ing is that it is shaped through the same experi ences and worker-led.” Individual workers have pledged $1 million to a strike fund as Starbucks pushes back in city after city. “We are told we are unskilled, but without our labor businesses cease to exist.” Their slogan of the day is “No contract, No coffee.” Random Lengths News has covered the fight to organize Amazon workers, led by Chris

Ohio Unions Rally for Rail Workers Unions in Toledo, Ohio, held a rally on Aug. Marks Labor Movement Growth

“Speaking of the reform slate victory, we took over the most controversial union and this would not have happened without the activism of the rank-and-file,” O’Brien said. “We will fight for no concessions.” With rhetoric and bravado, he said, “we have your back.” Perhaps the most inspiring organizing effort on a national level has been that by Starbucks workers that originated in Buffalo in September 2021 and have now organized more than 160 of the 9,000 locations. United Workers Union barista and central Buf falo leader, Michelle Eisen, spoke of their efforts

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“Rank and file organiz ing, through our Unite All Workers for Democracy caucus, won an imme diate 10% wage increase plus an additional 10% over the life of the contract, pension protection, and most importantly, in the times of high inflation, reinstated cost-of-living allowance (COLA) that raises wag es according to the government inflationary in dex,” Tabb said. Even with these gains, the deal is still well behind actual inflation.

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CHICAGO — Spurred on by an increase in the number of strikes, labor shortages, COVID-19 surges, skyrocketing inflation, failed promises by politicians and a perpetual war economy, 4,000 unionists from across the country and 200 interna tional guests from 25 countries attended the Labor Notes conference in Chicago June 17 to 19. The electrifying victories at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse, JFK8, and the organization of more than 100 Starbucks shops na tionally, have marked a new stage in U.S. labor fights that will change the demographics and power of organized labor. Certainly, here and around the world. Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, opened the Friday night rally by explaining the teachers’ successful fight against school closings, smaller class sizes, nurses in every school, a sanctuary for immigrants and a project for homeless stu dents and their families. They have successfully battled two Democratic mayors to achieve these goals. “Workers are suffering under immigration policies, we are fighting for women’s reproduc tive rights, higher wages, and sick days,’’ Gates said. At the same time, we fight for affordable housing and expand the defense of workers’ rights and human rights.” Nolan Tabb, a member of Unite All Workers for Democracy and UAW Local 281 leading the strike against John Deere, noted that they voted down two prior contracts negotiated by the international be cause they thought a better deal could be had.

Union Organizing is Taking Off All Across the Nation Staff Reports

Unionizing campaigns sweeping workplaces across the country now include a strip club in North Hollywood. On Aug. 11, a majority of 30 dancers employed at the Star Garden Enterprises filed a pe tition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election to be represented at the bargaining table by the Actors’ Equity Association. If the dancers win their election and the results are certified by the National Labor Relations Board, the Star Garden workers would become the only strippers in the United States represented by a union. The bargaining unit would be affili ated with Actors’ Equity, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional ac tors and stage managers employed in live theater. This is a first for Equity, but it’s not the first time strippers have sought union recognition. In 1996, strippers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady or ganized the Exotic Dancers Union in 1996. They were affiliated with the Service Employees In ternational Union until the club closed in 2013. For more information see com/strippers-strike-north-hollywood/https://knock-la.

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We thank you for your dedication, craftsmanship and friendship. April Jones, straight outta Burnside. April came out of nowhere with a plan to make a film about the struggles of the SPSA to get the park permitted. A couple of years later, she’s a member of our board of directors. She’s proven herself to be a true hessian who can get shit done. April has made the last couple years of getting this place legal much easier. Thank you for the organization; the drive; the willingness to wear many hats. Big Rob, Robbie O’Connell. It’s been you and me since day one, OG! Many have come and gone and some leave and return, but me and this dude have stuck to this since October of 2002. Twenty years later and we’re still friends! I speak for everyone when I say thank you for your sarcasm, your frontside rocks, and all the amazing pieces of this park that you designed in your head and made a reality.

Planning andDepartmentLADepartment of Building and Safety, we as an organization would have been lost and the skatepark’s existence put in jeopardy. So, here we are, seven long ass years later with COVID mixed in there for good measure. We’ve completed our tasks, cleared the hurdles and as I said before, we are legal and we are open! So now we gotta get into some thank yous and there are a lot of them: To my family and all the families with loved ones who have worked down here for all these years, thank you for putting up with us! Lots of long hours on the weekends and after-work sessions paid off. We love you! To the Channel Street Familia! There are too many to name here, but I’m talking about all the people who’ve spent hours down here cleaning, maintaining, building and skating the park. This has been a collective effort, and every one of you is part of the reason we are here today. Now to mention a few soldiers… Transitions. The best little Pedro skate shop that’s not in Pedro! Bud and Keisha, you’ve supported all of us for years, decades actually. Your p. [See Street,Channel p. 23]

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that that woman has magical powers. Soon after, a fence was put up between us and the railroad, and we were off to the races. By 2004, we had formed the San Pedro Skatepark Association, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity, and soon after received our first grant from the Tony HawkTheFoundation.yearsfrom 2004 to 2013 were a flurry of building, fundraising and skateboarding. We watched kids grow up down here, going from little groms who couldn’t drop into absolute rippers who could skate anything. At the same time, the San Pedro community watched us grow as well, and the skatepark became an accepted part of town. While there are countless DIY parks in the world these days, I truly believe it is the make-up of this Pedro town that helped this particular park survive. Channel Street and this effort does not happen in Torrance or PV. This town is pretty tight-knit. We’re a union town with a long history of doing things our own way. In that respect, Channel Street is very Pedro. As you may know, however, the next several years were a darker period in our history. The park was closed in 2014 due to a freeway widening project that involved overhead construction. We were told by the port (which owned the land) and Caltrans that we’d be back in business in about a year. This, of course, did not happen. Instead, we found ourselves mired in a sea of bureaucratic red tape that only a port and a city like LA can produce. But the council office, now under the leadership of Joe Buscaino, had our back. The port made it clear that they didn’t want to be in the skatepark business, but they were also willing to part with the property. Thus began the long process of transferring the land within departments of the City of LA. Without the help of some key people affiliated with council district 15 in navigating the generosity is truly appreciated. Yamo, Bill Sargeant and Gabe ... you guys had your hands in a lot of this concrete behind us. We’ve worked, skated, designed shit, laughed and argued decades.for

Skaters gather at the Channel Street Skatepark, which had its grand opening on Aug. 21.

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alking into Rethinking Essential, an exhibition by Narsiso Martinez, at the Museum of Latin American Art or MOLAA, you see a mesmerizing video of a farmworker projected onto the wall. Laboring in California’s Central Valley picking grapes, the worker is completely covered with long sleeves, a hat, goggles, covering around his ears and neck to protect him from the jutting vines. His hands dive deep, in and out of the plants at a pace on par with machinery. But he is human. Accompanying Latin music augments the astonishing machine-like speed at which he works. We are witnessing skilled human labor, surpassing any potential thought of automation. Rethinking Essential is organized in collaboration with The Long Beach Immigrants Rights Coalition and The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA in San Diego. ICA will host Martinez, and his exhibition in February 2023. In the tradition of social realism, his images reframe power in the hands of the workers. As Labor Day approaches, Martinez spoke about labor in America to Random Lengths News. “I feel like everyday we should celebrate labor day,” said Martinez. “Labor means many kinds of jobs but working in the fields is really risky and fiscally exhausting. It’s clear that not everyone is willing to work in the fields, given the history of farmworkers in the U.S. “From the beginning, the system abused immigrants. They [also] abused the Native Americans, the slaves and during the Bracero programs. The system keeps looking for that community that is unfortunately at a disadvantage — to put it in labels — that [is] fiscally, very difficult and very risky.” Martinez was born in Santa Cruz Papalutla, in Oaxaca, Mexico, a small town of just over 2,000 people. Oaxaca enjoys a rich creative environment both in artistry and food — in terms of the value placed on its purity. Sixteen of Mexico’s total 68 recognized indigenous groups are based in Oaxaca. Some of those groups were never conquered by Spain. Their foods remain untouched by European ingredients. Coming from these environs to America and becoming a farmworker, one may wonder how he was struck by the difference in approach to food culture between these two surroundings. Martinez explained that he grew up in a small town, he didn’t know anything about art until he attended school in the United States. Arriving here at 20 years old, he spoke no English. The way he saw it, he had to go to school and eventually his love for learning grew. In fact, he lights up when talking about his art school experiences. Martinez, who lives in Long Beach, earned an associate of arts from Los Angeles City College. In 2012, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach and received a Master of Fine Arts at the same institution in 2018. His drawings and mixed media installations include portraits and multifigure compositions of farm laborers set against the agricultural landscapes and brand designs of grocery store produce boxes. Martinez noted he was inspired by Vincent van Gogh. “What captivated me the most was the scenes, the subject matter,” said Martinez. “He painted agricultural landscapes, poor people. Those images resonated with me probably because it made me feel nostalgia for my hometown, which I haven’t been [to] for many years.” Martinez decided to attend art school. In order to pay for school, he had to work in the fields. It took him about nine agricultural seasons to finish his undergraduate and graduate programs. About those contrasts in food culture, Martinez said what stands out to him is the conclusion of all his experiences, “that farm workers are always screwed up.” Martinez grew up in the fields in his hometown where his father would take him.

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Narsiso Martinez, the artist behind Rethinking Essential, an exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art in long Beach. Below, Martinez’s portrait series of linocuts. Photos courtesy of MOLAA Martinez, p. 20]

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Greco-Roman Caprese — Enter the Meta-Veg

In Little Italy his time of year it can be a challenge to name a single item of produce that isn’t ripe. The earth has tilted squarely toward peak veg, the gazpacho days of summer when anyone can be a vegetarian with barely an effort. Even the most dedicated carnivore might find themselves satisfied at the end of a meat-free meal and not even realize it. I get that way for a salad I call Greco Roman Caprese. I realize that by going public with such a name, I might never be able to travel freely on the Island of Capri, where the iconic salad of tomato, basil, and mozzarella is supposed to have originated. But I mean it with the utmost respect. My capricious version employs feta cheese instead of mozzarella and adds cucumber, onion, garlic, lemon juice, vinegar and not just basil but parsley and even thyme. So it’s truly a stretch to call this salad Caprese. But when the tomato, basil, and cheese find each other in your mouth, and that distinct flavor combination hits, I don’t know what else we are supposed to call Still,it. the ingredients change it. To me, the most striking part of this salad is how the acids from the tomato juice, vinegar, and lemon all combine. Redundancy is underrated. Adding multiple sources of acid creates a more complex flavor than would a single sour ingredient. The relatively mild-mannered cucumber’s job is to provide an aquatic stage upon which the stronger flavors can play out their drama. Those refreshing chunks serve as a peaceful counterpoint to the swirl of herbs, acids and spicy allium bulbs. The sharp and savory pizzazz of garlic and onion dance on the cheese and tomato while flavoring the acids with their spicy pungency. When I stir it together and the fragrances combine, my whole body feels hungry for this earthy, savory combination, each bite like a

splashy step through a freshly watered garden. The other day I made another batch, and the leftovers were mostly dressing, which I used to season a baked eggplant. First, I sliced the eggplants in half, end-to-end, and cut a little bit off the bottom of each half, so they could sit flat with the cut sides facing up. I placed as many of these halves as I could fit into a deep oven pan. Then, with a short knife, I scored crosshatches on each cut face, so they looked like pieces of graph paper. I topped each half with a sprinkle of salt, a spoonful of minced garlic, and a pour of olive oil, then drenched everything in the leftover Greco-Roman dressing. After baking

One bunch of thyme, leaves only 3(optional)lbs.—or more— tomatoes (preferably a mix), cut into chunks about an inch on a side 1 pound sheep feta, cut into ½-inch or so cubes In a bowl, combine the onion, garlic, lemon juice, vinegar, salt and olive oil. Set this dressing aside while you prep the vegetables and cheese. Add the cucumbers to a large bowl, followed by the tomatoes, parsley, basil leaves and feta. Add the dressing and lightly toss, lifting from the bottom. We don’t want to crumble the feta, crush the tomatoes or mangle the herbs. Serve immediately, and when the chunks are gone, save the dressing. You can use it as a marinade or a sauce for baked eggplant or zucchini. Or drink it, like the Greco-Roman elixir it is.

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for two hours at 350 degrees, I let the eggplant cool. The next day, I shoveled my next batch of salad atop the room-temperature eggplant. And once again, I entered the meta-veg.

Remember, while vegetables are the star of this salad, it depends on the creamy, salty feta to pull the whole thing together. Don’t skimp on the cheese. Serves 4 1 medium onion, minced finely 3 pressed garlic cloves 2 lemons worth 8-10 tablespoons 1 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons balsamic 3 tablespoons white or red wine vinegar 2 teaspoons salt 2 lb cucumber— I preferred it peeled— sliced into roughly half-inch chunks or Oneroundslarge bunch of parsley, leaves pulled from the stalks One large bunch of basil, leaves pulled from the stalks

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When he got to CSULB, Martinez couldn’t pay for school on his own anymore. His siblings were working in Washington state and they suggested that Martinez work in the fields. They would provide shelter and food. All he had to do was work and save his paychecks. In the beginning, it was just about the money and working. When he went to art school for his graduate program, he realized he was part of a community, this group of people who were struggling to keep a balance — just as Martinez was in trying to pay for school. “We were facing the same issues,” he said, “like mistreatment, longer hours in the fields, back breaking work.”

Legal Tender

“I think it’s important to acknowledge our contributions to the economy, [what] farmworkers or immigrants bring to the United States,” Martinez said. Martinez’s mural Legal Tender (ink, charcoal, gouache, gold leaf and collage on produce boxes) at 23 feet, spans the length of Martinez the gallery wall. He said the pattern that he borrowed from the dollar bill is important. You see the four corners with the number one. And the center figure on the bill is changed from a male to a female, to stress the importance of the contribution of women, who he noted throughout history have been oppressed and stripped of their opportunities. He worked with most of the people represented in the mural, or met them after he stopped working in the fields. His grandfather is also depicted donning a cowboy hat. He came to the U.S. in the 1960s, to work in the Bracero program in cotton and tomato fields. Martinez also immortalized a more recent immigrant who used to come work in the fields, but died. “During one of the seasons when he came to work, he was lost at the border,” Martinez said. “His family looked for him for about a year. When they cross the border, through the mountains and the desert, a lot of people just don’t make it.” Martinez pointed to his gold graduation tassel in the mural’s top center, from his graduation cap.

“I wanted to include it to point out education,” he said. “Education is important if you want to demand better pay and better working conditions and respect. It’s important for the people working in the fields to understand that if they can’t go to school and get an education, the future generations need to at least try.

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“Everything that we planted there was for our consumption,” he said. “That difference between growing food for our own consumption versus working in the fields for big corporations, that’s where American agribusiness uses not only big machines but also different chemicals to grow produce.” He said it seems like a continuous pattern, including throughout other countries in Latin America and Europe, when people say farm work is unskilled work, which is a myth, and that’s why farmworkers must be paid the least amount of money. Farmworkers have to work as fast as possible because many work by contract.

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“Like we’re here, but we’re not here.” he said. “The system wants us here for the hard work we do but really it doesn’t want to give us all the benefits that any other worker can have. So we become ghosts. [This] obviously overlaps with the collage made from the brands of different labels from different produce companies.”

The lifestyle of the farmworkers and the lifestyle of the ranch owners was very different. He saw both sides and obviously, he said, there was a disadvantage. He decided to investigate further. He became friends with more farmworkers, his coworkers. “We hung out, I saw where they lived and listened to their stories, really,” Martinez said. That’s when he decided to portray these struggles, “the differences of lifestyles.” He recalled seeing beautiful paintings on cardboard during his undergraduate program, where he was told the cardboard served as the skin of the subjects. One of Martinez’s professors from Cal State Long Beach made a cardboard painting he exhibited that served as inspiration for him. That started the artist on his journey with cardboard. Martinez began to paint on it and do sketches and studies. He did a drawing of the banana man on a banana box. (Martinez’s current Banana Man piece, exhibited widely, shows a life-sized, partially transparent man, standing before a backdrop of more than a dozen flattened Dole banana boxes, banana in hand). He elaborated, “Because we were seeing that we [farmworkers] were represented at the business and at the same time the wealthy [were also represented]. We had that conversation on not only, thematically, the difference of lifestyles, but the disadvantages of the farmworkers versus the business [owners]. We’re also talking about technicality at a different level, the juxtaposition of [produce] labels and charcoal drawings and mark makings and everything clicked. Then I started doing multiple portraits on multiple boxes. I started to assemble boxes and created more complicated conversations. Then I assembled sculptures [by] stacking [produce] boxes with stuff around them.” His portrait series of linocuts are ghost prints. In them Martinez played with the idea of ghost prints because many of the farm workers don’t have documents.

“We have the courage when we are prepared,” Martinez said. “[Education] represents the past, the present and the future. I want education to be the future. I want people to better themselves.”

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ArtLab — Art & Marine Science Workshop Join the Marine Mammal educa tion team and Angels Gate artist, Taylor Griffith, to learn about pol lution and create an art project. Griffith will lead a workshop to create small “lure” sculptures out of plastic pulled from the ocean. Each “lure” will be used in a com munity sculpture called “Long Lines.” Supplies will be provided. All ages welcome. AGCC practic es all COVID-19 safety protocols on-site. Time: 1 to 3 p.m., Sept. 3 Cost: Free Details: gels-Gate-art-labhttps://tinyurl.com/An Venue: Marine Mammal Care Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro George F. Canyon Guided Nature Preserve Walk You will be guided by a trained naturalist to discover a unique va riety of wildlife in their canyon hab itat with amazing views of the LA Basin. Meet outside on the back deck of the George F. Canyon Na ture Center. No RSVP is required. Time: 10:30 a.m.. Sept. 3 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org/calendar/ Venue: GFC Nature Center, 7305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Sept.Pedro16

Time: Sept. 4 and 5 Cost: Free Details: com/ShorelineVillagehttps://www.facebook.

Outdoor Volunteer Day at Alta Vicente Reserve Help restore habitat on the 22acre restoration site to create a home for rare cactus wrens and gnatcatchers with beautiful views of Catalina Island. Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 3 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.volunteer hub.com/ Venue: Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos VerdesSept. 5

and Tea, 402 W. 7th St, at 5:30 p.m. and start walking at 6 p.m. Time: 6 to 9 p.m., Sept. 1 Cost: Free Details: district.comsanpedrowaterfrontarts

Time: 10 a.m. Sept. 5 Cost: Free Details: reccenter/banninghttps://www.laparks.org/ Venue: Banning Park, 1331 Eu bank Ave.,Sept.Wilmington10

Venue: Abalone Cove Re serve, 5970 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 24 Cost: $28 and up Details: event/pretzel-logic/www.grandvision.org/

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Valley Song A young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wis dom to let go of the past. The first post-apartheid play by one of the greatest playwrights in South Africa, Valley Song is a poignant and hope-filled coming-of-age story that transcends politics. Join a post-show talkback with the cast Sept. 4. Time: 8 p.m., Thursday to Satur day and 2 p.m. Sunday Aug. 24 to Sept. 11 Cost: $37 to $55 Details: org/2022-seasonhttps://ictlongbeach.

The Drowning Girls

The Drowning Girls is a fantasy play and a social critique based on the serial killer George Joseph Smith and the case known as the Brides in the Bath Murders, which took place in England from 1912 to 1914 before he was arrested, tried and executed in 1915. Time: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 26 to Sept. 24 Cost: $18 to $30 Details: www.thegaragetheatre. org Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Sept.Beach24

Time: 6 p.m., Sept. 23, 24 Cost: $20 to $47 Details: https://tinyurl.com/kala koa Venue: George Nakano Theater, 3330 Civic Center Dr., Torrance Sept. 24

Venue: Downtown San Pedro, 6th and 7th streets

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Sept.Pedro4

With a vocal style like Milk Car ton Kids and Iron & Wine, Smith’s guitar, voice, and string quartet ar rangements are rooted in the still ness and internal quietude of his spirituality. Time: 4 p.m., Sept. 18 Cost: $25 and up Details: event/paul-deiss-smith-ii/www.grandvision.org/ Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St. San PedroSept. 23

Venue: CCKCAM, 1250 Bellflow er Blvd., Long Beach Miyoshi Barosh: The End The End is an exhibition that con templates expression during the most profound conclusion one can consider: the end of one’s own life. The exhibition runs Sept. 6 to Dec. 22. Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/Miyoshi-Barosh562-985-5761; Venue: CCKCAM, 1250 Bellflow er Blvd., LongSept.Beach10

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Venue: Museum of Latin Ameri can Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach At Full Volume II: Joyce Weiss in Brilliant Color At Full Volume II features a selec tion of paintings by Joyce Weiss, late Angels Gate Studio artist. Weiss’ brilliant use of color com bined with gestural forms at large scale created bold visions on can vas. The exhibition runs through Oct. 1. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday to Saturday Cost: Free Details: ii/gallery/joyce-weiss-at-full-volume-https://angelsgateart.org/

The Los Angeles-based group Incendio performs original “world guitar” compositions, featuring incredible guitar-playing across a variety of genres: Latin, Middle Eastern and Celtic grooves.

Seaside Concerts at Shoreline Village

Freedom To Discriminate Author Gene Slater discusses his book, Freedom to Discriminate, in which he uncovers realtors’ defini tive role in segregating America. Slater reveals how realtors sys tematically created and justified residential segregation. Time: 5:30 p.m., Sept. 8 Cost: Free Details: Register at, https://tinyurl. com/4z7bj2df Venue: Live via Zoom COMMUNITY Sept. 1

Rethinking Essential Artist Narsiso Martinez uses his firsthand experience as a farm worker in his work to reference the inequities in the current labor system, and is a contemporary it eration of social realism, critiquing power structures and conditions of the undocumented working class. Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednes day through Sunday Cost: $10 to $15 Details: sentialnarsiso-martinez-rethinking-eshttps://molaa.org/2022-

Sounds Join a public art reception featur ing the South Bay Strummers. Time: 2 to 5 p.m., Sept. 10 Cost: Free Details: www.elcamino.edu310-660-3010; Venue: El Camino College Art Gallery, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance LITERATURE Sept. 8

This festival presents two of the hottest ukulele talents on the plan et. Brittni Paiva is a multi awardwinning instrumentalist and threetime Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner. Andrew Molina’s electrify ing performances have captivated audiences globally.

Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 10 Cost: $25 Details: com/eventshttps://alvasshowroom.

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Looking for a leadership opportu nity and love the outdoors? Join this training to learn skills to help protect and maintain natural areas for people and local wildlife to en joy. You must be 16 years or older and have a willingness to lead groups of volunteers. Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 10 Cost: Free Details: pvplc.org/calendar/ Venue: White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, SanSept.Pedro 17 Volunteer Day Join the Palos Verdes Pen insula Land Conservancy to volunteer at the newest resto ration site at Abalone Cove on a breathtaking coastal reserve helping eradicate invasive weeds to protect native spe cies. Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 17 Cost: Free Details: Sign up at plc.volunteerhub.com/.https://pv

A celebration of African American floriculture through workshops, music, fashion and more. During the day, two Wellness x Flowers programs featuring gentle yoga, guided meditations and floral ar ranging. At night, the garden will be transformed for a 21-and-over ticketed event. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m., Sept. 10 Cost: $15, daytime and $45 to $55, evening (free for members) Details: https://tinyurl.com/musicand-flowers

Pretzel Logic This 11-piece band delivers a Steely Dan tribute. Hear Do It Again, Reelin’ in the Years, Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, Hey Nineteen and more.

Join the First Thursday guided Art Walk tour. Gather at Sirens Java versitytickets.com/ Venue: El Camino College, Cam pus Theatre, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance The Hooten Hallers Missouri’s The Hooten Hallers celebrate the release of their new album Back in Business Again! Time: 9 p.m., Sept. 16 Cost: $10 Details: https://tinyurl.com/Hoo tin-Hallers Venue: Harvelle’s, 206 E. Broad way, Long Sept.Beach 17 Water Music Long Beach Join Musica Angelica for their first concert of their 30th season featuring performances by artistin-residence YuEun Gemma Kim, director Martin Haselböck, and concertmaster Cynthia Roberts. Time: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 17 Cost: $58 to $80 Details: Music-LBhttps://tinyurl.com/WaterVenue: Beverly O’Neill Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach Bunny Brunel Internationally acclaimed Bunny Brunel has toured the world with the likes of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jar reau, Stevie Wonder and more. Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 17 Cost: $35 Details: https://alvasshowroom. com/events Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Sept.Pedro,18

Fortnight 2022 Five concerts will be held in the access tunnel to Battery Leary at Angels Gate Cultural Center, through Oct. 24, featuring the Keith Jones Collective on Sept. 9. The rest of the lineup includes James Preston Allen, Sept. 23 and Chuck Alvarez, Oct. 14. CO VID-19 safety protocols (mask wearing and contact tracing) will be enforced. Time: 7 to 9:30 p.m., Sept. 9 Cost: $20 Details: jones-collectivehttps://tinyurl.com/Keith-

Venue: 1201 Palo Verde Ave., Long BeachSept. 11 Steven Frieze on Succulents Traveling north from Cape Town to Springbok in a South African area known as Namaqualand, Frieze will speak about a variety of dif ferent succulents he discovered that were captivating in spite of the fact that South Africa has been in drought conditions for several years. Time: 1 p.m., Sept. 11 Cost: Free admission for SCCSS members and their guests Details: southcoastcss.org Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos VerdesSept.Peninsula10

On Sept. 4, the Pedro Reis Band (pop/rock/R&B) will play. On Sept. 5, 8tease (‘80s rock) will perform. Concerts are at the boardwalk theater. For discounted parking, make sure to validate your park ing ticket at one of the shops or restaurants.

Rachel Flowers Rachel Flowers first gained notice for her solo covers of Keith Em erson while she was still in high school. Since that time she has gained international recognition for her original compositions and her live performances.

MUSIC Sept. 3

ECC Music Faculty Showcase Kevin Blickfeldt, Polli ChambersSalazar, Joanna Medawar Nachef and more will be performing at the faculty showcase. The show will feature works ranging from Bach to the Beatles. Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 16 Cost: $10 to $21 Details: www.elcaminotickets.uni

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, Battery Leary-Merriam, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Sept.Pedro10

From 15 years with Saturday Night Live, to nearly a decade in the U.S. Senate, to now host of one of the nation’s top political and public-affairs podcasts, Al Franken brings comedy and in sight to important issues facing the country. The evening includes a Q&A, as Franken discusses his far-ranging career in comedy and public service. Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 24 Cost: $75 Details: https://tinyurl.com/alfranken Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach ARTS Sept. 1 First Thursday ArtWalk

Jazz at Feed and Be Fed Farm On First Thursday, Rebecca Lynn and the Magic Planet jazz band play at Feed and be Fed Farm Sit, have some popcorn, and enjoy the music in the garden. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sept. 1 Cost: Free Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro Sept. 3

Conquer The Bridge 13 Join this year’s 5.3 mile run-walk on Labor Day 2022. The last year and a half has been an incred ible challenge in so many ways. Events like Conquer The Bridge and so many others have disap peared. It is time to join with your family and friends and to once again Conquer The Bridge. Park above Harbor Boulevard between 5th and 7th streets, or in the Ports O’ Call lots. Time: 7 a.m., Sept. 5 Cost: $55 or on race day $65 Details: https://conquerthebridge. com/ Venue: Vincent Thomas Bridge Labor Day Parade and Rally Join the 43rd annual parade and barbeque at Banning Park. The family-friendly event features a parade up Avalon Boulevard with marching bands and color guard. Later enjoy a variety of perfor mances by The Topics, James Preston Allen and Kids Zone area featuring The Bob Baker Mari onette Co. Plus, Tyler Keeling, Starbucks worker and organizer will be giving one of the keynote speeches.

Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St. San Pedro Blues For All Every last Saturday of the month the best local blues talent per forms. Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 24 Cost: Free Details: 562-762-8317 Venue: Cesar Chavez Park, 401 Golden Ave., Long Beach THEATER Sept. 1

Venue: International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach

Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 3 Cost: $ 20 Details: com/eventshttps://alvasshowroom.

Venue: Shoreline Village, 401 Shoreline Village Dr., Long Beach Sept. 9

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro Sept. 6 Hurry Slowly Hurry Slowly traces the museum’s growth around steadfast themes, echoes shifting influences that have driven its evolution, and em braces progressive notions of how museums might grow. This exhibi tion recognizes the important work of founding director Constance W. Glenn. The exhibition runs through Dec. 22 Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/hurry-slowly562-985-4111;

Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula Ranchos Walk Take a stroll through history and follow a high ridge trail that links Rancho Los Alamitos and Rancho Los Cerritos. The 9.4-mile scenic walking route will start near the entrance to Rancho Los Alamitos and then connect to the Califor nia State University, Long Beach campus. Only service dogs will be permitted. Time: 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 10 Cost: Free Details: choswalkwww.longbeach.gov/ran

The basketball court at Angels Gate Park, where the city has proposed a Kobe Bryant memorial. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

Brandon Payette, a staff attorney from Public Counsel, said that the state should welcome vendors into the formal economy, instead of treating them like a nuisance. He said that a panel of vendor experts has guided the content and strategy of the bill. “This panel of vendor experts has been meeting weekly for months, examining California’s laws from top-to-bottom,” Payette said. Payette said the bill will recognize street vendors with their own category in the state’s food laws. “For the first time, California will enact a set of food laws that sidewalk vendors were included in the process harassed, and has seen the police and health department throw away vendors’ food when they don’t have permits. She has since been displaced from selling in Southgate, as she was told by the police to leave. Marcel Douglas, a Jamaican street food vendor from Los Angeles, said she loves serving food, but the difficulty in securing a permit takes a toll on her, and of writing,” Payette said. “Laws that contemplate vendors means laws whose goals is to bring vendors in, not to keep them out.”

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By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter makes her want to stop. “The pressure to obtain this is astronomical,” Douglas said. “I’m doing an event next week, and for me to do that event I have to obtain a oneday pass. It’s $184. And each time I do an event, it’s $184.” She said if she does an event that lasts several days, she can spend half of what she is making on just the health permits. , from p. 3] p. 24]

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Se Habla Español Lic. #748434 court at Angels Gate Park. Kobe and Gianna died in a helicopter crash in 2020. A nonprofit in their memory, the Mamba Mamacita Sports Foun dation, came to the city with the idea of theDedmonmemorial.said the idea was in its initial stages, and she merely wanted to get board members’ opinions. It will turn the basketball court purple and gold, and put Kobe and Gianna’s numbers, 24 and 2, on both sides of the court. The court’s surface, which is currently concrete, would be changed to a polyurethane plastic. In addition, the department will change the backboards, so that they have the department’s new logo, and the logo for Mamba Mamacita Sports Foun dation. “It’s a wonderful idea,” said San Pedro resident Celia Gonzales. “But that’s already a popular, very popu lar area with very, very limited park ing, and this would of course be very attractive to a lot more people.” Gonzales asked if the city will add more parking. As the project was in its draft stage, Dedmon did not have an answer. Board member Richard Watson expressed approval of the project, both the facilities upgrade and the memorial aspect. “I would encourage Mamba Mamacita and the parks to consider some off-court amenities, perhaps a bench or two, some shade cover,” Watson said. “People out there, play ing basketball, in a hot day, would enjoy a chance to rotate in and out and have a little shade. I don’t think there’s any such thing up thereBoardnow.”member Bob Gelfand expressed concerns with the idea, referring to the sexual assault al legations against Kobe from 2003. “Not everybody worships at the shrine of Kobe Bryant,” Gel fand said. “There is a pretty seri ous misconduct argument in his past. There was a pretty salacious trial, as I recall. And I’m wonder ing if the city wants to become in volved in ancestor worship in this particular way.” He also brought up the seren ity of the area, which is right next to the Korean Friendship bell, and asked if the court’s new surface would be quieter or louder. Dedmon said she does not know.

On Aug. 14, the California State Assembly voted 47-0 to pass Senate bill 297, which is designed to make it easier for street vendors to operate in the state. Next, the bill will go to the Senate for a recurrence vote, and then to the governor for his signature.

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A rally outside the state’s capitol for Senate bill 297, organized by state Sen. Len Gonzalez. Photo courtesy of Sen. Gonzalez’s Twitter

“It’s possible they may have an objection to it,” Gould said. “Or they may be A-OK with it. But because it’s in the coastal zone, it’s going to be im portant to get their input and take what they say to heart.”

Board member Noel Gould said he would reach out to the Coastal Commission to see if it would allow the logos for the foundation and the department on the backboards, as the commission bans advertising in the coastal zone.

Alicia Olmedo, a street vendor who has sold food for 40 years, was recently told it is illegal to operate in Southgate. She tried to get her permit from the health department, and was sent to different offices, never getting enough information to help her. Olmedo said she has witnessed other vendors being Assembly Passes Bill to Help Street Vendors

“It’s going to make a huge impact, because the Department of Public Health has made it close to impossible,” said activist Edin Amorado. “They had only approved a tamale cart, which is super expensive to begin with. And they don’t even have an agreement as far as how they can make it legal for a corn-man to have his cart approved. So, this is definitely going to update and streamline the retail food code.” California state Sen. Len Gonzales held a rally on the steps of the state capital building the morning before the vote, urging the Assembly to pass the bill. “What we want to do is ensure that we are doing away with the outdated and harmful barriers that impede vendors from continuing to do what they do every day, which is feed our community,” Gonzalez said. “And supporting the wonderful food vendors means supporting a racially diverse community, as I mentioned. California can provide greater support to microentrepreneurs by eliminating the criminal penalties and instead building more trust in our communities.”

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The Los Angeles Pilot Service provides safe, reliable and efficient pilotage and marine services. Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Pilots have safely com pleted more than 55,000 vessel movements and are amongst the besttrained pilots in the maritime industry. Around 2019, Vans contacted us and asked about the status of the skatepark. Since Ronnie is a Vans rider, they had heard about our struggles to re-open and they wanted to help. This phone call from Chopper Dave led to Vans becoming a major financial backer of the SPSA, allowing us to pay for necessary permits from the city, repairs to the park, and all of the steel for the new guard railings that line the decks of the bowls. Thank you to Steve Van Doren, Chris Nieratko, and Chopper not only for the fundage, but for your friendship and guidance over the years. To Spohn Ranch Skateparks: Vans paid for the steel, but you got us the guys to fabricate and install all those guard rails, a task bigger than any other over the last year. Kaleb, Kevin and Charlie, you guys grinded, cut, and welded for months! Thank you for seeing the beauty in this project. You are part of the family now. A few months back, Dickies hit us up. They wanted to help the effort out too. So we got together, crunched some numbers, and figured out our operating costs for a year. That includes things like trash service, porta potty rentals, liability insurance, and overall maintenance of the park. JoeFace and Dickies came through on the fundage. It’s fitting that a company known for work pants helped us with some “nuts and bolts” kind of funding. Matt Timmers, Jeff Browning, and Sean Marisich, architects and structural engineers. Thanks for the plans! Going way back, thank you to DVS for the 100 yards of concrete you donated through a family member’s concrete company. Thank you to Daewon and Gabe Clement for helping make this happen. We built the entire sunny side with thatTomud!the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council: Thank you for your supportneverendingandfortheartgrantyou gave us! This site is andgetgoingonlytobetterbetter.

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Over the course of four days, hundreds of workshops and panels took place, marking a rise in the militancy of young workers who com prised the overwhelming majority in attendance. There were hundreds of rank-and-file workers, committee people, and shop stewards represent ing scores of industries and cities. This was in marked contrast to the AFL-CIO convention which rejected the participation of workers from Starbucks and Amazon who had asked to Manyattend.workshops discussed the need for politi cal campaigns, other than just voting, to be com bined with on-the-job demands and specifically trade union issues. For example, a panel of rankand-file General Motors workers in Mexico who’d recently overthrown a corrupt pro-company lead ership as well as the delegation from Puerto Rico whose workshop discussed the crippling impact of the debt burden and the collapse of social services (closing of scores of hospitals and schools over the past decade) in this U.S. colony, being forced to service a debt that is untenable. “If this bill is passed, that will take me out of financial hardship, and will help me to grow my business,” Douglas said.

“There’s a lot of street vendors who sell in dangerous streets because they are pretty much not being harassed by DPH or police,” Amorado said. “They’ll be able to basically choose safer places to sell.”

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Douglas said the bill would have a lasting impact on vendors and their families.

Smalls, since its inception. Smalls was fired for fighting for safety on the job and without the backing of an international union. With rallies, democratic organization and training of worker activists, they succeeded. In 20 years of exis tence, Amazon has managed to stay union-free until now. Since the victory at JFK8 in April, but a loss at a nearby smaller warehouse of primarily parttime workers, Amazon has filed 25 National La bor Relations Board complaints against the Ama zon Labor Union. In response to this, Smalls said “This is a call to action. It is the most important court hearing happening in the country. We need everybody to attend court hearings by Zoom. We need all of you, brothers and sisters, to be there for us. If we win a contract, guess how many other workers will be inspired to join the union. Help us get one first. It will have a domino effect. It’s a hot labor summer, no matter what industry, we are all in this together.” Ending the program was Sen. Bernie Sand ers, who applauded the crowd in remarking “You are in the forefront of trying to transform this country. There is more concentration of owner ship than at any point in the history of this land, more corporate greed and super PACs that feed both political parties. Musk and Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 42% of the population.”

“That was a time when we saw these enormous manufacturing facilities just dispersed to the four winds, things that been filled with billions of dollars in defense subsidies, very sophisticated manufacturing facilities.”

“A lot of this is recognizing strengths and building on them. In the manufacturing sector, moving goods is a big deal. These high-value manufactured products, many of them are heavy, you move them by truck, you move them by ship. And recognizing strengths in these industries — looking at what is growing and looking at what was high-value jobs and looking at what aligns with national priorities, and building on those things, you can be both judicious and proactive in supporting industries that have a national and stateThereinterest.”arepotentials not just involving clean, renewable energy, but also in climate change adaptations.“Climate change is having a lot of impacts. We have a lot of biomass in the state that is material for these horrific wildfires that are simply uncontrollable. There are biochar technologies where you create heat out of biomass with minimum carbon release and you generate electricity with that heat and use the biochar for agriculture. So, in terms of reducing the fuel load on the floors of our forests, that would be a possibility,” he said. In addition, “We have a lot to do around water — water reclamation, water repurposing. Waters a scarce commodity,” he went on to say. “So there is a lot of manufacturing required to create these new systems. For example, filtration systems — filtration systems, either seawater or wastewater from homes and businesses so it can be reused.”Wrapping up, Flaming said, “I think the biggest thing is the mindset. Government agencies are always a challenge to walk and chew gum at the same time, to do two things rather than just one thing. And so ports do have a responsibility to move goods, but they also have a responsibility to act proactively for their communities, for the public that owns them … We’ve got to engage in complexity. We have to both move goods efficiently and we have to pay attention to prioritizing how we do that.” In short, “I think that’s a mindset that requires a new set of skills to think about industries that can be export strong, and to engage them, and talk with them and make judicious decisions about how to be intelligently supportive, and value the change in the economy that we need to move towards in the future, as well as this immediate task of moving a container off the ship today.”

Amorado pointed out that a bill that was introduced in the Senate in February that would further criminalize street vending, Senate bill 1290, had died.

“A few of them adapted completely on their own, like Hughes electronics which spun off Dish TV, satellite TV and commercial satellite activity,” Flaming said. “But more of that could’ve happened with judicious public sector support. For example, aerospace products that had commercial applications around aircraft, like ceramic brake and advanced engine systems for aircraft that had the potential for commercialization. We identified some of those and there was never any pick up on the public sector side. So, you don’t want to leave the money on the stump and run. You don’t want to be dumb.” Again, that shouldn’t mean picking individual winners and losers.

24 202214,-1SeptemberLaborDayEdition growth of living wage jobs.” While a lot of people could benefit, there isn’t necessarily a comprehensive organization of political will and political action to bring the need change. Or is there? “Well, I think it’s a prolabor state. California is one of the strongest pro-labor states there is,” Flaming said. “Government in general tends to be pretty laissez-faire about any kind of industrial policy,” though “the federal government mandate around clean energy is a change of direction, but we need a bit more courage at the state and local level,” he said. It’s wise not to micromanage, picking specific winners and losers, “But if you look at broad sectors and broad issues, and say ‘this is in our vital interest. It’s in our vital interest to have good blue-collar jobs in clean energy, for example, it’s vital for the state. And so the state will be an agent to act on behalf of facilitating growth of industries that provide these jobs,” then “It’s particularly effective to do it at an industry level, rather than a business level.” In short, “If it’s a collection of 100 businesses in an industry or 1,000, you’re not putting all your eggs in one basket. You’re putting your eggs in 1,000 baskets. You get the industry to grow, not the particular squeaky wheel business that happens to come knocking on your door.” Another historical example the Economic Roundtable was engaged with was “the national work around defense conversion after the collapse of aerospace,” Flaming recalled.

“The support we have been getting for SB 972 will provide economic growth for families to build generational wealth,” Douglas said. p. 13] 22]

Assemblyman Isaac Bryan said that while street vending is no longer criminalized (it was decriminalized in 2020), there are a bunch of bureaucratic barriers that make it harder for vendors to Amoradosurvive.saidthis law will also keep vendors safer than they were previously.

He pointed out that “during the pandemic, when working people paid the price and 5,000 nurses died to protect us, 200 billionaires increased their wealth by $2 trillion. During the pandemic, 338,000 people died unnecessarily because we do not have Medicare for all. But today we are seeing workers take on the billionaires.”

“I was confused, because it seemed like it was an oxymoron when it passed the Senate, that a good bill that would benefit street vendors passed, but also a bad one that would criminalize them even more,” Amorado said.

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Ninety-three percent of United Teachers of Los Angeles voted in favor of boycotting the extra accel eration days Los Angeles Unified added to the cal endar this school year. On the first of these accelerat ed days, scheduled to take place on Oct. 19, the union will instead hold a rally. The union’s vote came two weeks after UTLA filed a complaint against the district regarding its decision to add the four optional acceleration days and extend the school year by one week, which it said the district did without bargaining with the union and without input from families, faculty and staff. School board members voted to add four accel eration days and three extra professional devel opment days in April in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning. Superinten dent Alberto Carvalho shared recently that last school year’s statewide test results, which have not yet been released, will show significant gaps in achievement.Theadded days will cost the district $122 mil lion. While the profes sional development days occurred before the start of the school year, the ac celeration days are set to take place on Wednesdays throughout the school year.The LAUSD is cur rently in negotiations with UTLA over a new contract. Negotiations re sumed this month after the union’s summer hiatus. p. 13]

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This past April, Cris So gliuzzo of the Inland Boat man’s Union won an AntiSLAPP lawsuit against their employer Centerline Logistics, which owns the subsidiary, Westoil Ma rineStrategicServices. lawsuits against public participa tion are damaging law suits that are used to chill free speech and healthy debate by targeting those who communicate with their government or speak out on issues of public interest. Lawsuits such as these are used to silence and harass critics by forc ing them to spend money to defend against them. In the case of Center line Logistics, the Seattlebased corporation accused Westoil Marine Services employee Sogliuzzo and the IBU of making mali cious and untrue state ments during the public comment period of a Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission meeting in October of 2021. At the time, Sogliuzzo drew attention to 10 pend ing National Labor Rela tions Board cases against the company, and a longrunning hours and wages class action Centerlinelawsuit.claimed that at the October meeting the commission was ad dressing a permit renewal. The allegation was untrue.

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Centerline also accused Sogliuzzo and the union of disseminating a hand bill claiming that Westoil employees had their work stolen from them and the company was trying to avoid pension obliga tion. The court found that Westoil Marine Services had not proven that Sog liuzzo and the union were behind the production or distribution of a handbill disparaging the company’s wage and labor practices. This past July, the court ordered Centerline Logis tics to pay the IBU’s and Sogliuzzo’s attorneys fees. On Aug. 22, Centerline Logistics filed an appeal.

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20 demanding a fair con tract for railroad workers who have gone almost three years without a con tract or a pay increase. The ongoing dispute with America’s largest freight rail companies has spurred action from the Joe Biden administration, which last week released recommen dations to help resolve the bargaining impasse. Rep. Tim Ryan, the pro-labor candidate run ning for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, spoke about his union roots and called on union members to vote this election year for can didates who have a record of helping working people get ahead. He was joined at the rally by Rep. Marcy Kaptur and other unionendorsedTransportationcandidates.Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Greg Regan also spoke about the labor movement’s in creasing power and popu larity at the rally. “Unions have the high est favorability ratings in decades. People are wak ing up. They’re recogniz ing they have power in their jobs.”

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