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Important Laws on Medical Cannabis and Health Care Enacted in 2016 p. 3 Watts Now Photo Exhibit Shines Light on Environmental Injustice p. 12

Dancing to Fitness at Haley Clark Dance Company

The struggle is real when it comes to finding a diet and exercise regime that you can stick with.

Talk to any physical fitness instructor and their advice for a successful regimen will focus on motivation, accountability, expectation and fun.

Thus, the emergence of dance companies like Haley Jessica Clark’s Dance Co. as centers of fitness.

Haley Clark addresses all of the keys to success by transforming the dance studio into a community space that draws a diverse mix of clientele—from 4 to 55 years old—toward the end goal of health and wellness. And, the individual reasons people sign up are just as diverse.

Clark’s programs include dance classes, weight loss, detox programs and even tutoring for young people. In 2016, Clark will be introducing pole dancing, which can strengthen arms, legs and core muscles.

There are dance classes for developmentally challenged people and people with physical special needs. Clark creates specialized routines for clients with special needs, who have knee problems or other mobility issues.

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the Senate or the U.S. House, will not be successful in dozens of gubernatorial races across the country, unless we generate excitement and momentum and produce a huge voter turnout,” Sanders said to the group, as reported by John Nichols of The Nation.

“With all due respect—and I do not mean to insult anyone here—that turnout, that enthusiasm, will not happen with politics as usual. The people of our country understand that given the collapse of the American middle class, and given the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality we are experiencing, we do not [See Possibilities, page 6]

Dancer and teacher Haley Jessica Clark. Photo by Phillip Cooke.

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for the same old, same old establishment politics and stale inside-the-beltway ideas…. Now is the time for millions of working families to come together, to revitalize American democracy, to end the collapse of the American middle class and to make certain that our children and grandchildren are able to enjoy a quality of life that brings them health, prosperity, security and joy.”

Over the summer, he made his ability to mobilize people a key part of his pitch to the Democratic National Committee meeting.

“In my view, Democrats will not retain the White House, will not regain

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ince Bernie Sanders launched his presidential bid, he’s been crystal clear on a number of key points: America belongs to the people, not a handful of billionaires; and people must organize themselves into a political revolution to reclaim their rightful power.

Politics as usual will not be enough.

“We’re going to build a movement of millions of Americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back,” Sanders pledged in his announcement speech, reflecting his belief that without an energized and engaged electorate, nothing fundamental can be changed. “Now is not the time for thinking small. Now is not the time

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“We offer two different programs,” Clark said. “We have the Seven Day Sweat and Shake program and we actually provide the food for that week, so we give protein shakes and detox teas and the digestion plus the dietary teas depending on the product the client purchased.”

Of course, the primary reason for people signing up is either to lose weight or to firm up sagging muscles. Clark also has a healthy boot camp program, Clark’s Healthy Fit Boot Camp.

Clients are weighed every week, given healthy meal plans and exercise regimens and support guides to help clients reach their goals. Clark and her instructors track clients’ body mass index, weight and food intake.

“I have a couple of clients who have done the program and [lost] five pounds in a week,” Clark said. “So they’re pushing it.”

Clark’s studio also offers cardio training that can be adjusted to emphasize weight training on one end, with weights and resistance bands and cardiovascular fitness at the other. But it all begins with a consultation on diet. She, or one of her instructors, determines how serious a client is about the program.

“It all starts with diet and this question: ‘What

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Haley-Clark Dance Company founder and namesake leading a children’s class. Photo by Phillip Cooke.

are you willing to eliminate from your diet?”’

Clark said. “Before we begin working out, we ask ‘What did you eat today?’”

Clark does not advocate a calorie count, but she and her trainers collect such information

as weight, body water, body fat and body mass index, then provide dietary and workout guides so her clients and their trainers can track their progress.

A lifelong San Pedran, the dance company’s

founder and namesake said she’s been a dancer all of her life. She went to college in the Pacific Northwest at Humboldt State University, majoring in education and dance before returning to San Pedro after she graduated.

Her specialties are in contemporary dance, hip-hop, praise dance jazz and tap. Clark danced with the Demolition Dance crew for three-and-ahalf years at Humboldt.

When she returned, she began teaching praise dance at Mount Sinai Baptist Church in San Pedro. She later joined Jan Kain People’s Yoga, Health & Dance teaching hip-hop dance classes.

Of all the dance styles taught, hip-hop has proven to be the most popular amongst children, which is why Clark offers the class twice per week. But the class is not just so children can have fun. She emphasizes flexibility and technique with the intent of providing them the tools to dance professionally, if they wanted.

“We do plan on performing,” Clark said.

“We’re working on our kids to be performance ready.”

She decided to work for herself. With a clientele comprised of children, adults and folks with special needs.

As a former student at 15th Street Elementary School and Dana Middle School is looking to give back in 2016 by offering demonstration classes.

Clark hosted a successful demonstration class with 100 students at Barton Hill this past year, and is looking to do more in the coming months.

A drop in visit is only $10 and you can register online. Packages range from $35 to $100 per month.

Details: www.hcdancecompany.com Venue: Haley Clark Dance Company, 524 W. 9th St., San Pedro

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Health New Laws Tighten the Reins on Compassionate and Affordable Care

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor Users of medicinal cannabis finally get to breathe a sigh a relief, or at least inhale some THC in peace 2016.

Three laws were enacted in the New Year that provide the regulatory framework to allow cultivators and distributors of medicinal cannabis to operate legally without harassment by law enforcement.

For example, Assembly Bill 243 requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Pesticide Regulation, the State Department of Public Health, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the State Water Resources Control Board to regulate medical marijuana and its cultivation.

The bill also requires various state agencies to mitigate the impact of marijuana cultivation on the environment.

Cities, counties and their local law enforcement agencies now have to coordinate with state agencies to enforce these laws under a statemandated local program.

Those involved in the cultivation and sale of cannabis must apply for a license and regularly renew that license. The fees generated by the license would go into the Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act Fund.

The new law also imposes fines and civil penalties for violations of the Medical Marijuana Regulation

and Safety Act, and would require monies collected as a result of these fines and civil penalties to be deposited into the Medical Cannabis Fines and Penalties Account, which this bill would establish within the fund.

AB 266, among other things, would enact the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act for the licensure and regulation of medical marijuana and would establish within the Department of Consumer Affairs the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the supervision and control of the director of Consumer Affairs. The bill would require the director to administer and enforce the provisions of the act.

This new law requires that the Board of Equalization, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, adopts a system for reporting the movement of commercial cannabis and cannabis products.

The law imposes fines and civil penalties for specified violations of the act. The monies collected will be deposited into the Medical Cannabis Fines and Penalties Account.

Hundreds gathered at Cabrillo Beach to take the first dip of the year in the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean on New Years Day. The 2016 Polar Bear Swim King and Queen are Gary Buss and Lucrecia Jacobson. Photos by Jessie Drezner

the cultivation and transportation of, medical cannabis and can impose specific duties on this department in this regard.

The law requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate the manufacture and testing of medical cannabis.

Counties are now able to impose taxes cannabis-related activity.

This bill would require an applicant for a state license pursuant to provide a signed statement under penalty of perjury, thereby changing the scope of a crime and imposing a [See Laws, page 5]

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What’s most important about this law is that it clearly instructs law enforcement to not to arrest or prosecute compliant cannabis producers.

The law also requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts the mandated cost associated with medical marijuana Senate Bill 643 sets the standards that doctors prescribing medicinal cannabis have to follow. The state medical board is charged with the responsibility of investigating, prosecuting and disciplining offending doctors who repeatedly recommend excessive cannabis to patients or repeatedly recommend cannabis to patients without a good faith examination.

Under the new law, the Bureau of Medical Marijuana now has to require an applicant to furnish a full set of fingerprints for the purposes of conducting criminal history record checks.

The law also prohibits doctors who recommend cannabis to a patient from accepting, soliciting, or offering any form of remuneration from a facility licensed under the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. Violating this prohibition is a misdemeanor.

The law calls for the gubernatorial appointment of a Bureau of Medical Marijuana

Regulation chief with the confirmation of the state senate.

The Department of Consumer Affairs is the authority that will create, issue, renew, discipline, suspend or revoke licenses for the transportation and storage, unrelated to manufacturing, of medical marijuana, and can authorize the department to collect fees for its regulatory activities and impose specific duties on this department in this regard.

The Department of Food and Agriculture will regulate all that pertains to

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Spring Cleaning in January

BOOK REVIEW: Detoxification by Linda Page

By Jeanie Lerche Davis, Reviewed by Dr. Gary D. Vogin, WebMD.com

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Spring cleansing means detoxifying your body Linda Page, a naturopathic doctor, lecturer, and author of the book Detoxification, said.

She says it’s a way to recharge, rejuvenate and renew.

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“Anybody can benefit from a cleansing,” Page maintains. “The body is coming out of what might be called hibernation. It’s a way you can jump-start your body for a more active life, a healthier life.”

There’s no vacuum or mop needed for this personal housekeeping ritual. Instead it involves drinking juice—lots of juice and little else, which pushes everything thing else out of your system.

But purists like Chris Strychacz, a research psychologist at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, believe fasting means water only.

That’s what he’s been doing for at least 25 years during his annual week-long spring fasts.

“There’s a big difference between fasting and dieting,” Strychacz said, emphasizing the contrasting effects upon the body.

Strychacz vividly remembers his first fast, which lasted 17 days.

“It was extraordinary, a mystical experience,” he said.”I felt like I’d figured out why Jesus and Plato and Socrates and Gandhi did it—the clarity of thought, the peacefulness.”

Fasting has a long-standing spiritual tradition.

“Almost every religion has some type of fasting ritual—Lent, Ramadan, Yom Kippur… the Hindus and Buddhists fast, too,” said Dr.

James Dillard, assistant clinical professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He’s author of Alternative Medicine for Dummies.

“There’s definitely a spiritual factor,” Dillard tells WebMD. But he’s skeptical. “Whether [fasting diets] have any physiological benefit, I’m not so sure.”

Page counters that a study of anthropology

gives plenty of evidence. In Chinese medicine, fasting is part of preventive health care. For many ancient cultures, fasting helped people “lighten up” after a long winter, shed the extra winter fat layer that provided warmth.

Our bodies naturally detoxify every day, Page tells WebMD. “Detoxification is a normal body process of eliminating or neutralizing toxins through the colon, liver. If you feel “congested” from too much food—or the wrong kinds of food—you may want to detoxify.”

Similarly, if your energy level is low, if you have been taking many medications that have not been eliminated from your system, a weekend detox may help you feel better. While a “water only” fast is pretty straightforward, Page’s cleansing is a bit more involved.

The diet starts on Friday night with a green salad, but Saturday’s menu shows what’s really in store: Breakfast starts with plenty of vitamin C, then a choice of fruit juices.

“Because of its high water content, fruit will flush you through much quicker,” Page said.

“Green things give energy, but sugars will wash the system easier.You’re going to be drinking something every 90 minutes to two hours, so you won’t feel deprived or hungry. As your body gets lighter and lighter through the weekend, you can feel what’s going on. You’re getting rid of toxins accumulated during the winter. Your body is starting to release fat, those extra pounds.”

Dinner? That’s miso soup with some chopped sea vegetables (like the Japanese nori, used to make sushi) snipped over top. Or you might choose a cup of brown rice with a few chopped vegetables mixed in. Page explains: “Brown rice gives your body plenty of B vitamins, which is a stress reducer. It’s very high fiber, will fill you up, will help you sleep, and will flush you out in the morning.”

She also advocates “cleansing boosters,” including herbal laxatives, colonics, probiotics (that replenish healthy bacteria) and antioxidants.

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Carson Job Fair at the StubHub Center

More than 50 employers and hundreds of job seekers came out to the StubHub Center in Carson for the 2016 Veterans Job Fair on Jan. 3.

The Los Angeles Times, Kia Car Pros, WRM Fiber, Terminix and several law enforcement agencies were among the emplyers. Job fair organizer, Charlotte Brimmer said more than 50 people got jobs on the spot.

Six hundred-eighty veterans and non-veterans attended the fair.

About 47 attendees got a free haircut from Carl Mayer’s Leave No Kids Hair UnCut and many other job seekers received business casual clothing from Dorothy Lee, The Resource Educator.

The event also served as common ground in a divided city with the attendance of various political allies and opponents, from Carson Mayor Albert Robles to City Clerk Jim Dear and former Carson Mayor Daryl Sweeney; Congressional candidate Sen. Isadore Hall and state senate candidate Steven Bradford.

Photos by Phillip Cooke.

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New Laws

state-mandated local program.

This bill would set forth standards for the licensed cultivation of medical cannabis, including, but not limited to, establishing duties relating to the environmental impact of cannabis and cannabis products. The bill would also establish state cultivator license types, as specified.

Affordable Care Act

benefit packages won’t have a discriminatory impact on the chronically ill and that outpatient prescription drug costs remain affordable.

The bill, until at least Jan. 1, 2020, would provide that any form cost sharing for a covered outpatient prescription drug plan for an individual prescription will not exceed $250 for a $30 day supply.

AB37 allows providers to sidestep the socalled “step therapy” rule, under which health insurers can require some patients to fail one therapy protocol before they’re allowed to move on to a more expensive one.

The law’s author, Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (D-Sherman Oaks), has said the costsaving rule can be disastrous to some patients with severe illnesses such as lupus, epilepsy or multiple sclerosis.

“What is most painful in that process is the time lag—sometimes as much as 90 days,” said Nazarian at a legislative hearing this past year.

He said he understood the reasons behind gradual escalation of medications, but that a onesize-fits-all approach to limiting medication may not actually fit anyone.

Senate Bill 125 extends the enrollment period for health insurance by more than a month, starting Nov. 1 and ending on Jan. 31. The law also revises the definition of small employer by lowering the threshold. Employers with 100 employees working in California are also considered “small employers.”

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During the storm season, sandbags are available at all fire stations. The following fire stations have sand: Fire Station 112 444 S. Harbor Bl., San Pedro (310) 548-7542 Fire Station 38 Banning Park, 1331 Eubank St., Wilmington (310) 513-9717

Free Yoga Lessons

Natural Health Chiropractic is giving free yoga lessons—that’s right, yoga: cobblers pose, cat-cow pose, a couple-three warriors poses and downward facing dog—but none of it happens unless you make a reservation.

Time: 5 to 6 p.m. Jan. 11 and 25 Details: (310) 519-8877 Venue: Natural Health Chiropractic, 29050 S. Western Ave., Suite 153, Rancho Palos Verdes

LB Mayor’s State of the City Address

Long Beach residents are encouraged to attend the State of the City Address by Mayor Robert Garcia. RSVP. Time: 5 p.m. Jan. 13 Details: http://tinyurl.com/LBStateofCity Venue: Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

U.S. Chemical Safety Board Hearing

The topic of discussion will be the “near miss” which crippled the ExxonMobil Torrance refinery and spread toxic material on Torrance in February.

Time: 5 to 10 p.m. Jan. 13 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ ChemicalSafetyBoardMeeting Venue: Torrance City Hall, 3130 Torrance Blvd., Torrance

LB Democratic Club Monthly Meeting

Join the Long Beach Democratic Club for a panel discussion on higher education. RSVP. Time: 7 p.m. Jan. 14 Details: Longbeachdemclub@gmail.com Venue: Bixby Knolls IHOP, 700 E. 45th St., Long Beach

Assembly Bill 248, which Assemblyman Roger Hernández (D-West Covina) authored, aims to close a loophole in health insurance coverage.

Large-group health insurers did not need to provide essential health benefits which resulted in some insurers offering narrower, limited-benefit health plans, such as prevention-only plans to large employers with low-wage workers. This new law now requires large plans to provide at least 60 percent minimum value on those plans.

The law does not apply to limited wrap-around coverage, as described in a specified federal regulation, or a policy that provides coverage for Medicare services.

The law also does not apply to certain grandfathered health insurance policies that provide basic health care services without annual or lifetime limits.

AB 339 aims to make sure health insurance

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Relaxation techniques—massage therapy, sauna, aromatherapy baths, deep breathing exercises, walking—help round-out the cleanse.

“Certainly, the human body carries huge loads of petrochemicals,” said Dillard, evaluating Page’s detox diet. “We know people usually die with the full burden of PCBs they’ve ever been exposed to—from fish, animals—stuck in their liver. DDT sticks around, too.”

But can fasting remove these?

“Theoretically, yes,” Dillard said. “When fat is mobilized, anything that is fat-soluble should be mobilized, too—should, that is.”

Although there are no studies of juice fasts or diets, water fasting does have some scientific evidence behind it—“but very scant,” admited Strychacz.

In the book Triumph Over Disease, Dr. Jack Goldstein, outlines his true story in overcoming ulcerative colitis by sticking to strict water fasting and a vegetarian diet.

Goldstein is one of very few people who has tested his own tongue scrapings, urine, feces, even perspiration during a water fast, Strychacz said. “He found that the contents [during a fast] are different than normal—that toxins like DDT do get removed.”

Strychacz would like to conduct a study of fasting’s effects on atherosclerosis. “Look at Dean Ornish’s low-fat diet. He claims not only to arrest but actually reverse atherosclerosis.

That’s huge. I would argue that if a low-fat diet will reverse it, then what about a no-fat diet?”

Some still consider fasting—in any form— to be out there. “When I review diets that are not based on science, the question I ask myself is: Would I feed them to my family? In this case, the answer is a clear no,” said Susan Roberts, chief of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and a professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston.

But the psychological or spiritual effect can’t be discounted, Dillard said. “People love the idea of cleansing, of purification rituals, going to the Ganges, to the spa. It has powerful psychological, religious, spiritual meaning.

That has its own positive effect on health. But we need to separate that from saying this is science or good medicine.”

Juice diets do prevent your body from going into a state called ketosis, he says.

Ketosis means your body has no carbohydrates to burn for energy, so it has to burn stored fat or whatever else is available, he tells WebMD. “There’s nothing wrong with going on a juice fast for a few days,” he says. “But it’s not a great way to lose weight, because you’ll gain it all back—you yo-yo. It’s just like the Atkins diet. The weight you lose is water weight.”

Eating less—that’s definitely known to extend life, Dillard said. “The only reliable way to extend the lifespan of a mammal is under-nutrition without malnutrition. Studies show that if you cut back on 60 percent of the calories mice eat, they will live almost twice as long with much fewer tumors.”

The following guidelines will assist you when Carson is on alert for El Niño type weather and when sandbags are needed by residents.

• If any one day during the week the weather has a forecast of rain of 70 percent or greater, sandbags will be given out between the hours of 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. NOTE: In a major storm event Friday through Sunday, staff will be available to give out sandbags between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

• 10 bags per vehicle or 15 bags if the vehicle can support the weight. Staff will use good judgment i.e., SUV type vehicles or trucks.

• Sandbags should be filled and folded with the flap on top and stacked as such.

• Public Works staff will deliver sandbags to senior citizens and disabled residents who are unable to pick-up sandbags at the Corporate Yard, 2410 E. Dominguez St., Carson.

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A World of Possiblities

need more establishment politics or establishment economics.”

Another way to describe the difference is solidarity-building social democracy—epitomized by the New Deal and the Great Society, as well as Nordic countries like Denmark and Sweden today—versus marketoriented neo-liberalism, embraced

by Republicans and Democrats alike since Reagan’s election, which was epitomized by stagnant or declining wages, North American Free Trade Agreement-style trade deals, and declining union power.

Elites usually treat social democracy with disdain, but when pressured by its broad and powerful appeal, they can reverse themselves and blur the differences between it and neo-liberalism. That is part of the blurring strategy Clinton has adopted in response to Sanders’ unexpectedly strong campaign.

In line with his movementbuilding pledge, as 2016 dawned, Sanders’ campaign announced it had received donations from a record-breaking 2.5 million contributors in the fourth quarter of 2015, raising $33 million and smashing Barack Obama’s previous record of 2.2 million contributors. It was all the more remarkable in light of revelations from the Tyndal Report showing how dramatically Sanders has been ignored by the corporate media.

Through the end of November, ABC World News Tonight devoted 81 minutes to Donald Trump’s campaign, compared to just 20 seconds for Bernie Sanders’.

For all three networks, Sanders garnered less than 10 minutes of coverage, compared to 234 minutes for Trump, even though both had similar levels of support in the polls. Joe Biden, who didn’t even run, got 56 minutes.

Yet, despite his much smaller media platform, Sanders easily managed to get Trump to reverse himself on whether wages— particularly the minimum wage— should be raised (a proposal Trump rejected in the November Fox Business GOP debate), because he understands Trump’s appeal far better than other politicians do.

He also understands how his own politics trumps Trump. Indeed, Sanders has consistently done better against Trump head-to-head than Hillary Clinton, showing his ability to wean voters away from Trump.

“Many of Trump’s supporters are working-class people. And they are angry,” said Sanders on Face The Nation on Dec. 27, 2015.

“They’re angry because they are working longer hours for lower

wages. They’re angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other lowwage countries. They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college or they can’t retire with dignity.

“What Trump has done, with some success, is taken that anger, taken those fears—which are legitimate—and converted them... into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims….That is not the way we are going to address the major problems facing our country. The way we address them is, we bring our people together.

We demand that Congress passes legislation, which creates millions of decent paying jobs, raises the minimum wage, pay equity for women, making college affordable for all.”

At the same time, Sanders noted, Trump “is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage.”

“In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high,” Sanders said. “But he does want to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top three-tenths of 1 percent.”

That’s what raised Trump’s ire, causing him to falsely tweet that it was a lie: “@BernieSanders... said that I feel wages in America are too high. Lie!” In the GOP debate, Trumps exact words were, “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it [the minimum wage] the way it is. [$7.25/hour]” After falsely accusing Sanders of lying about him, Trump made his flip-flop explicit—though he still held out “leaders” such as himself, as the “solution,” tweeting: “Wages in our country are too low, good jobs are too few, and people have lost faith in our leaders. We need smart and strong leadership now!”

Trump’s dogged devotion to “leadership” as a solution is devoid of any specific policy ideas.

It is a typical expression of the confused ideology of right-wing populism, which often tilts in the direction of fascism and stands in stark contrast Sanders’ laying out of detailed specifics. These are often based on existing working models in other countries. If both brands of populism are similar in tapping in speaking to legitimate anger, they could not be more different when it comes to realityorientation—or when it comes to who to blame.

“What he wants to do is

divide our country between Latinos and Americans and Muslims and everybody else,” Sanders said of Trump on Face The Nation. “That’s not the kind of America we need.”

Despite breakout moments like this, there’s no doubt the media blackout has hurt Sanders, whose economic populism is wildly popular with the American people, as opposed to political elites. It’s hurt him especially with regards to minorities, who are particularly in favor of social democratic ideas like raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, free college tuition, expanding Social Security and Medicare-for-all to secure universal health care.

Hip-Hop and Sander’s Reach

No one has suffered more as a result of the economic reality than blacks, Latinos and other minorities, but Sanders’ support among them has lagged up till now, partly because he’s still unknown to them, and partly because minorities experience racial injustice more clearly, urgently and acutely than they do economic injustice. The latter reason leads them to trust their political elites more than whites do, even as those elites have drifted in a more neo-liberal direction over the past 25 years, and become strong Clinton supporters despite the Clinton record of slashing welfare and expanding drug war mass incarceration—moves which Sanders opposed at the time.

Yet, despite a black and Latino political establishment heavily unified around Hillary Clinton, Sanders is gaining increasing support in the hip-hop community, which could potentially help change the direction of the race, when it turns to states where minorities play a major role in the Democratic primaries. The support began emerging several months ago, but has grown more noticeable in December, when Sanders was endorsed by Southern rappers Scarface (known for his early work with the Geto Boys), Bun B previously with the duo UGK, and Killer Mike, who won a Grammy with Outkast and is now in Run the Jewels. Outkast’s Big Boi had earlier expressed support for Sanders, “because he’s with prison reform,” but said he was not endorsing anyone.

Early support emerged in July, when rapper Lil B, who had previously endorsed Hillary Clinton, switched his support in a series of tweets.

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Two Juveniles Arrested for Carjacking in SP

SAN PEDRO — On Jan. 5, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested a juvenile, whose age has not been confirmed, and a 14-year-old boy in connection to an armed vehicle robbery in San Pedro, Lt. John Jenal, a spokesman with the LAPD said.

The arrests were set in motion at about 5:45 a.m. on the 900 block of West 13th Street. Two suspects wearing ski masks approached a man leaving his home and demanded his car keys at gunpoint. The victim, who was unharmed, handed the keys to his gray, Nissan Versa to the suspects.

Undercover police found the two suspects driving the car at 9:35 a.m. near Pacific Avenue and Santa Cruz Street, and when officers in a marked vehicle attempted to stop the car the juvenile suspects tried to escape.

The officers’ pursuit led to the 14-year-old’s home on the 200 block of West 11th Street, where family and the other suspect came out.

The 14-year-old barricaded himself in the home as several officers surrounded the neighborhood.

By one estimate from LAPD there were possibly 100 officers involved including 20 or more SWAT officers, LAPD Harbor Division detectives and patrol officers, Port Police with Los Angeles Fire Department back up.

A crisis team was called and the suspect surrendered at 2:25 p.m.

Police are investigating the possibility that the suspects may have been involved in a similar carjacking at about midnight in Wilmington.

Rappers Killer Mike (pictured above) and Bun B (pictured below) with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. “This is the opportunity and this is time to speak out,” Bun B said on a new podcast called Hip Hop for Bernie Sanders. File photos.

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Hahn Voices Support for Raiders in Carson

CARSON—On Dec. 30, 2015, Rep. Janice Hahn, released a statement calling for NFL owners to bring the Raiders back to Los Angeles from Oakland for the second time. The Raiders returned to Oakland in 1994.

Hahn’s statement came on the same day Oakland officials announced that a deadline set by the league for a stadium financing plan would not be met. However, the league has not submitted a formal plan.

“I urge the NFL owners to vote to move the team back to Los Angeles and into a new stadium in Carson,” Hahn’s statement read.

“Carson is ready to welcome the Raiders with open arms.”

The city recently renamed a street near a proposed stadium “Stadium Way.” The Carson City Council also unanimously approved a building moratorium in December for the property near the site. The Raiders and the San Diego chargers have offered a cost sharing proposal in Carson to build the $1.7 billion stadium.

Local politicians support a stadium because it may foster thousands of jobs and increase tourism.

Inglewood’s former Hollywood Park site also is being considered to house a new stadium for NFL teams.

Garcetti Nominates New Planning Director LOS ANGELES—On Jan. 4, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the nomination of Pasadena Planning Director Vince Bertoni as the new head of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

Bertoni comes to the department with

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year-olds.

The section of economic violence begins by quoting Martin Luther King, and goes on to call for tuition-free public universities, a minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2020, and an investment of “$1 trillion to put 13 million Americans to work” rebuilding America’s infrastructure. The section on legal violence proposes a range of policies for rolling back the failed racially-biased “War on Drugs” and investing in rehabilitation instead.

The section on environmental violence paints a picture that insular white Americans know virtually nothing about: People of color disproportionately experience a daily assault on their health and environment. Communities of color are the hardest hit by air and water pollution from industrial factories, power plants, incinerators, chemical waste and lead contamination from old pipes and paint. At the same time, they lack access to parks, gardens and other recreational green space.

All together, it’s an incredibly powerful, detailed document. But most minority voters probably haven’t even heard about it. Heck, they probably haven’t heard anything about Bernie Sanders at all. This is why the recent buzz of support from rappers could prove so significant.

If they can draw attention to what Sanders stands for, he’s got a great deal to say to them on his own.

“This is the opportunity and this is time to speak out,” said Bun B on the first episode of Hip Hop for Bernie Sanders, a new podcast that begun in December. “That’s what we try and do with hip-hop, to educate, inform, and pass that knowledge on…. With knowledge comes power, the power to stand up, be heard, and make change.

The primary way for young people to stand up, be heard and affect change is to vote…. And, we’re

& I look forward to seeing him expand this,” prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson tweeted.

“We must pursue policies that transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its people of color,” the plan’s introductory statement began. “That starts with addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.”

McKesson later participated in discussions with Sanders and his staff resulting in an expanded version, including the addition of a fifth type of violence to the list: environmental.

Physical violence addresses both violence perpetrated by the state as well as by extremists.

Sanders calls for police demilitarization, investment in community policing with increased civilian oversight and a diversity of the force that reflects the community, as well as a new federal model police training program to reorient the way law enforcement is done.

“With input from a broad segment of the community including activists and leaders from organizations like Black Lives Matter we will reinvent how we police America,” the plan states.

The section on political violence, disenfranchisement, begins: In the shameful days of open segregation, literacy laws and poll taxes were used to suppress minority voting. Today, through other laws and actions—such as requiring voters to show photo identification, discriminatory drawing of congressional districts, restricting same-day registration and early voting and aggressively purging voter rolls—states are taking steps which have a similar effect.

It goes on to propose a variety of specific responses, including renewing and expanding the voting rights act, restoring ex-felons’ voting rights and automatic voter registration for 18-

SAN PEDRO—The man who died after jumping from a cliff at the 800 block of Paseo del Mar on New Year’s Eve has been identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner Department as 40-yearold Rosendo Herrera Jr. 40, The coroner found multiple blunt force injuries and ruled the death to be suicide.

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“As much as I want a woman leading the USA, right now it’s all about Bernie @ BernieSanders @SenSanders…he loves us,” Lil B tweeted on July 15.

Later he added: “I heard Bernie @ BernieSanders @SenSanders marched against segregation in the 60s which was not long ago! I love that brave dude!”

As he explained to CNN in October, finding out about Sanders’ past influenced him (especially in contrast to Hillary Clinton’s youthful support for Barry Goldwater, noted for his vote against the Civil Rights Act), but it was only one step in the process: And when Sanders followed him on Twitter, the rapper’s admiration for the Vermont senator grew because to Lil B, candidates who follow others on social media tells him about who they feel they should be listening to.

Lil B also defended Sanders regarding a Seattle incident when local Black Lives Matter activists confronted him onstage in early August.

“It might be uncomfortable for him to talk about the issues but he has a leg to stand on,” Lil B told CNN. “I mean, if he was marching for civil rights back then, he was protesting against segregation ... and all the youth, the black youth, should be able to hear him out….I think he handled it very classy.”

The media gave Sanders’ encounter rare high visibility portraying it negatively, but as Lil B saw it, “I think Bernie let them speak and it’s the admirable thing to do.”

In fact, Sanders had already been in dialogue with Black Lives Matter activists. Just after the Seattle confrontation, on such activist, Simone Sanders was appointed his national spokeswoman.

She had been in contact with Sanders for about three weeks at the time. Sanders quickly released a racial justice plan, which drew an immediate positive response.

“The ‘violence’ framing in the initial draft of the Sanders Racial Justice platform is powerful

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No Place Like Home Gun Violence, Homelessness and a New Civil Consciousness

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

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On the very same day that President Barack Obama grew emotional as he made a passionate call for a national “sense of urgency” to limit gun violence nationwide, the California Legislature passed a $2 billion package to “Prevent and Address Homelessness” in communities within the state.

This happened during the same week armed men broke into the desolate headquarters of a federally owned wildlife refuge in Oregon and refusing to leave, “until the government stops its tyranny.”

What a week of contrasts to start off the new year.

I was left asking what took the president so long in taking executive action on gun control; the state legislature to act on homelessness?

And just what does Ammon Bundy and his antigovernment group, Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, really want?

It’s easy to get cranial whiplash following mainstream reporting of events without any sort of historical context. Why should this year start any differently?

The common thread that connects these three events is that they are attempts to redress longterm, one might say chronic, problems that have been with us forever it seems.

America’s long and storied relationship with guns was established more than 200 years ago with the first shot that was fired at Concord, Connecticut marking the beginning of the American colonies uprising against the tyranny of British rule. These colonists, our ancestors, were called “terrorists” as they fought using guerrilla warfare tactics against the regimented lines of the red coats.

We still celebrate our heritage, if not the tradition of resistance against repression in our history, whether it’s the American Revolution, the 1791 Whiskey Rebellion or the War of 1812. Even now, every sporting event begins with a performance of the “Star Spangled Banner.” The line, “The bombs bursting in air…” is not just a patriotic metaphor, it’s a national conviction in opposition to tyranny, whether foreign or domestic.

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I could write this entire column on the American love affair with guns going all the way back to duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (he’s the guy on your $10 bill), in which Hamilton was fatally shot.

The Sandy Hook shooting is what moved Obama to decisively act, without the support of a Republican Congress. The rural uprising in southeast Oregon stands out as the counterpoint to the president’s message. This is a political conundrum that at present seems intractable.

The homeless issue on the other hand seems equally insolvable, yet the grassroots uprising for curing this complicated and chronic epidemic has some new resolve.

Getting our state legislators to act, to pass a $2 billion bond, to do anything at all to deal with a social crisis is astounding at the very least. It does show what can happen when people of good will, social consciousness and political support can accomplish when inspired and motivated.

Yet, the money is just one part of a much bigger problem.

I cannot believe that in a nation that can build the biggest dams to stave off droughts, bend rivers to provide waters to semi-arid regions like Los Angeles, and has the capacity to place a man on the moon, cannot solve homelessness or control the kinds of senseless massacres across this great land.

What I do see as a possible cure to all of this is a new form of “civility” beginning to rise up against the nativist incivility that has from time to time gripped this nation out of fear of “the others”—particularly in the wake of the shootings in San Bernardino.

What I see is a sense of community that embraces people—neighbor to neighbor—across previous boundaries of race, class and religion.

That, at its very core has more to do with a very American creed of life, liberty and justice for all.

This, I believe, is in the very core of our national consciousness and in the end will serve us far better than having a militarized state where everyone has to carry a gun and thousands are left without homes.

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Port of Los Angeles Failure to Abide

Editor’s Note: The following is a blow-byblow deconstruction of the Port of Los Angeles failure to adhere to the China Shipping lawsuit settlement agreement and how by the Natural Resource Council District’s Senior Attorney, David Pettit. The letter was sent to the Los Angeles City Council’s Innovation, Grants, Technology, Commerce and Trade Committee on Dec. 15.

Testimony of David Pettit

Thank you for the opportunity to speak here this afternoon. I am David Pettit, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

We are here because of a failure in governance.

Legally binding promises were made by the Port of Los Angeles but were deliberately broken— for years—to the detriment of the people of Los Angeles. That failure can and must be fixed.

Here is how this happened. In 2002, NRDC filed a lawsuit challenging an expansion project at the China Shipping terminal at the port. The court of appeal issued an injunction stopping construction, and the city came to the settlement table. Two important things came out of the negotiations that followed: a 2004 Stipulated Judgment containing pages of promises by the city and port, and an environmental impact report that was completed in 2008 for the expansion project.

The 2008 EIR contained dozens of mitigation measures that the port agreed to implement on specific timetables.

However, the port never renegotiated its lease with China Shipping to include the terms of the

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2008 EIR. In 2009, the Antonio Villaraigosa administration, on the advice of the City Attorney’s office, made the decision to allow China Shipping, a Chinese state-owned company, to ignore many of the promises made in the 2004 Stipulated Judgment and the 2008 EIR. A copy of a letter reflecting this decision is attached to this testimony as Exhibit “A.” This decision was flatly illegal both as to the Stipulated Judgment and under California law governing the California Environmental Quality Act process.

For years thereafter, up until mid-2015, the port kept its internal decision to give China Shipping a free pass hidden from the public even as the port dithered about how to get the EIR process back on track.

Many internal port meetings were held and spreadsheets prepared identifying the violations, see, e.g., Exhibit “B” hereto, but no action was taken and no one outside of the port was informed. I must emphasize that the port hid this information from the public, despite regular meetings with community members and environmental organizations who regularly inquired and are interested in the status of CEQA mitigation measures at the port.

At some point in 2015, the port decided to go public. There is now a public process under way under CEQA to deal with the violations of the 2008 EIR. The new port executive director, Gene Seroka, has also directed his staff to conduct an audit of CEQA compliance at the nearby TraPac terminal; those results are [See Failure, following page]

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On Ports O’Call

Never ceases to amaze me that you can think that the Ratkovich is such a super company. No—he got the contract because of ties to contributors—yes. Never did it right like other companies yet overlooked by board and you!

They were NOT the best qualified and we both know that.

Look what the other companies have done. Gee, imagine that?

Yeah, [the] Johnson Brothers have such a remarkable building on 13th and Harbor. Doesn’t quite fit.

Joe [Buscaino], we need some truth in this matter. Wake up.

Joyce Hall San Pedro

Waterfront Development Lease

This letter is a follow-up to comments that I made at the Dec. 17, 2015 Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission meeting regarding the forthcoming lease for the Ports of Call site. I spoke specifically about the Port’s Letter of Intent with the Waterfront Alliance.

In POLA’s resolution dated Feb. 12, 2015, it states that “In the next four months the developer will refine their project in alignment with the scope of infrastructure and likely market demand outlined in the financial feasibility analysis.

This will include a public presentation to receive input on the revised site plan and development concept.

There has been no public presentation. In the a cut al letter of intent dated Feb. 18, 2015, just 6 days after the resolution, there is a glaring conflict: it specifically states on Page 1: Whereas, developer has undertaken the development of the comprehensive redevelopment vision

for the Ports Of Call site, conducted extensive public outreach and performed due diligence relating to the current condition and potential redevelopment of the site.

In Exhibit B of the same document, it lists joint developer/Port/ City activities. In particular, it lists engagement with the community stakeholders including community out reach to solicit input an feedback on proposed development plan.

How do you go from stating that the developer is going to make a public presentation within four months to stating that the have already done extensive outreach?

Our request to the Councilman, Mayor and the Harbor Commission is to please demand that POLA staff and the Waterfront Alliance provide adequate detail and a public presentation prior to signing a lease that will be at least 50 years n duration and not afterwards.

Gordon Teuber San Pedro Editor’s note: We still haven’t exhausted the slew of letters to the editor of Random Lengths News sent by students at San Pedro High School—reactions and reflections on RLn’s coverage of the community debate on homelessness, the potential dangers of Rancho LPG, marijuana legalization, to the piece regarding the 50th anniversary of the Watts.

RE: Responsible Marijuana Legalization

Before we start I would like to state that there should be laws regarding marijuana. My name is Katherine and I’m a student at San Pedro High School. Marijuana

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a lisp, or not accepting someone into your crowd because they don’t dress like how you want them to dress. These are all forms of bullying. Look around you; every person has at least one insecurity.

So why do we decide to bash on others then eventually hit the weak spot which is their insecurities?

Why do we bash on them at all?

Everyone wants to fit in, boys and girls strive to reach perfection.

Both want the perfect body and shame their own for not having it. People start making fun of others because maybe they’re too

weird, too plastic, too girly, and too tomboyish, they have different beliefs or maybe they don’t have the body society thinks is ideal.

If we had more tolerance towards each other and opened our eyes to recognize that being different makes each one of us unique. Let’s stop and imagine. Imagine a world where we were all the same. The world would be so boring. Adults, children and teenagers—all of these age ranges bully. We have all been victims of it at one point or another in our lives, and we are all [See Letters, to page 10

On Bullying

Bullying, what a lousy thing.

Don’t you think? But it’s not just physical or verbal anymore, it’s cyber. About 100,000 teens are bullied a day, that’s about 3 million a month. Out of those millions about 4,400 commit suicide a year.

Over 14 percent of high schoolers

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its pocket when the new China Shipping EIR is completed. A full list of the illegally-halted mitigation measures and Stipulated Judgment terms at stake is attached hereto as Exhibit “C.” Fixing the two most significant problems, use of liquefied natural gas rather than diesel trucks and using modern yard equipment will cost many millions of dollars. Again, the large current cost could have been avoided if the port had not decided in 2009 to violate the law.

Last, the port should use this opportunity to create a meaningful plan, with enforceable time lines and five-year reopeners, to eliminate fossilfuel combustion in port operations where and when feasible. For example, for operations that involve transport of cargo containers in a closed loop to nearby railyards, diesel and LNG trucks should be phased out in favor of zero-emissions drayage systems of the type that the port and the South Coast Air Quality Management District are now funding. This change can be done right now for the Southern California International Gateway project, which is in litigation and has not commenced construction. Delivery of containers to more distant locations should be done by the cleanest form of combustion until zero-emission systems are ready for those applications.

I am hopeful that the current administration will deal meaningfully with these problems— problems that it inherited but now needs to fix.

expected in January, 2016. NRDC is committed to making sure that the port does everything possible to try to make up for these past failures, and to make sure that the law is being followed at TraPac and other port-related CEQA projects.

Here is what needs to be done.

First, an audit of compliance with CEQA mitigation measures needs to be conducted for every port CEQA project, and the results should be posted online. There should be quarterly public updates for any mitigation measure that has not been 100 percent complied with. There is no reason to delay this work until the China Shipping EIR has been completed. Moving forward, this auditing process should attach to every port project to ensure accountability and to restore public trust. We suggest that an independent oversight committee be set up to monitor CEQA compliance at the port.

Second, when the TraPac audit has been completed, the port needs to calculate the volume of diesel and other emissions that occurred but should not have, and produce and execute a plan to mitigate those emissions. This will be expensive, but the expense could have been avoided if the port had complied with the law and its own agreements.

Third, the port will need to dig deep into

have thought of committing and 7 percent have actually done so.

Bullying needs to stop. We all know bullying is wrong... So why do we do it? Is it because it makes us look cool? Or because you think it will keep people from bullying you? But that’s not the case is it?

You want to know what really goes through our minds when we bully?

Innocent fun, that’s what we think.

Taking a picture of that one girl sleeping in class and showing it to all your friends laughing; that’s a form of bullying, or laughing at some guy or girl because she has

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is a part of life as a teenager it’s mentioned in songs on TV shows and maybe even someone close to you has had a past with it. It’s an addicting drug that perpetually is blamed for the most crimes.

Saying that we should make laws about marijuana only in the name of our children goes too far, but it’s the way Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom frames the need to make this crucial law. It is funny how that seems to be the only reason. How will this protect the children? What about everyone else?

For someone in the position of Lt. Governor, they should care about public health and safety to which Mr. Newsom predominantly disregards. I know that children are the sore spot in our society but isn’t it adults that are more likely to benefit from the legalization of this drug? Less people are likely to go to jail for minor offences involving marijuana, more people are likely to seek out help for their addiction because the fear of prosecution will be less. But also aren’t adults more likely to be under its influence while driving henceforth becoming a public safety concern. So why is his main argument children when we should be concerned about what might happen with adults?

The epidemic that is marijuana is irrepressible and needs to be regulated. Why is it only in the children’s name that this will be done what about everyone else?

Katherine Eble San PedroStop Bullying

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more than 25 years of planning experience— including a previous stint at the Department of City Planning.

Bertoni has served five years as the Pasadena’s Planning and Community Development director.

During that time, he successfully managed Pasadena’s city planning program through a General Plan update, a comprehensive visioning process that happens just once every 20 years.

Before joining the City of Pasadena, Bertoni served as deputy planning director in Los Angeles, where he oversaw the adoption of 16 historic preservation overlay zones, new guidelines for the Broadway Historic District, a bicycle master plan and a Hollywood community plan.

Bertoni also has held lead planning posts in the cities of Beverly Hills, Santa Clarita and Malibu, and he serves as a member of the California Planning Roundtable.

In his new position, Bertoni will lead the maintenance and execution of Los Angeles’ General Plan—the comprehensive framework guiding development and infrastructural growth across the city. He will play a crucial role in helping to facilitate smart infrastructural growth, while also working to protect the character of Los Angeles’ neighborhoods.

Bertoni succeeds outgoing Planning Director Michael LoGrande, who is leaving the position after more than 18 years of service to the department, including six as its head. During his time there, LoGrande helped successfully approve more than 50,000 residential units in Los Angeles and more than 20 mixed-use projects. He also launched a comprehensive rewrite of the city’s 1946 zoning code.

Bertoni’s nomination for general manager of the Department of City Planning will now move to the Los Angeles City Council for confirmation.

Brown Appoints Harbor Area Resident to the California Advisory Commission on Special Education

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SACRAMENTO—On Jan. 4, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced reappointment of Mariano Sanz to the California Advisory Commission on Special Education. Sanz, 53, has served in that position since 2012. The Long Beach resident has been a school counselor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District since 2001. He served as a school counselor for the Long Beach Unified School District from 1994 to 2001 and for the Paramount Unified School District from 1990 to 1994. Sanz was an elementary school teacher at the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1987 to 1990. He is a member of the Harbor Regional Center Board of Trustees. He earned a master’s of science degree in school counseling from National University and a master of science degree in school psychology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Sanz is a Democrat.

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LB Gets FlyAway Service

LONG BEACH — Traveling to and from LAX got a lot easier for Long Beach residents as of Dec. 30, 2015.

Long Beach Transit began its new FlyAway bus service from Long Beach to LAX. Hourly service will be provided from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily from the Long Beach Transit Hub at First Street and Long Beach Boulevard. The fare is $7 one way, and for every adult fare, two children age five or under can ride for free.

Long Beach has its own airport, but because it is a small airport, travelers sometimes must go to LAX. With traffic and the expense of shuttle services and parking, getting to LAX can be a challenge for some.

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trying to give people the kind of information they need so they can differentiate who they need to vote for.”

Killer Mike spent five hours with Sanders recently in Atlanta. This included an hourlong interview in his barber shop for Rolling Stone magazine.

“You seem to be the only politician who wants a smarter constituency,” Killer Mike observed in the midst of their conversation.

The fact that Sanders had been an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was “amazing,” he said, not because Sanders had done it, but because it was so unknown that even Killer Mike was surprised to have only recently learned of it.

“I’m from the activist community,” he said. “I should know you…

“In every black barber shop, there’s two blacks guys and an honorary white guy. When I was growing up it was Martin Luther King, Jesus—well, black Jesus in my shop—and Jack Kennedy. So, in my shop you are really about to get the heralded position of the white guy. It’s going to Martin, Malcolm, Bernie.”

Killer Mike also gave an impassioned

introduction to Sanders at a campaign rally. He began by referring to Martin Luther King, but not the figure most Americans think of.

“What I’m talking about today is the Martin King post the Washington March,” he said, when King spoke out against the Vietnam War and organized the Poor People’s March.

“I’m talking about a revolutionary,” Killer Mike said. “I am here as a proponent for political revolution that says health care is a right of every citizen. I am here because working class and poor people deserve a chance at economic freedom and yes, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be in poverty.... In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country. I believe it because he, unlike any other candidate, said ‘I would like to restore the Voting Rights Act.’ He, unlike any other candidate said, ‘I wish to end this illegal war on drugs....Unlike any other candidate in my life, he says that education should be free for every citizen.”

Whether rappers like Lil B, Killer Mike and Bun B can do enough to make a difference in bringing minority voters around to Sanders—or at least around to considering him—remains to be seen. But there’s no longer any doubt he’s got plenty to offer them.

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guilty of it. We have a choice: We either partake or choose to stop it. What’s your choice?

Idalis Olivares San Pedro

$15 Minimum Wage

Over half of the United States population lives off either welfare or minimum wage. It’s already strenuous to live off minimum wage but when companies perpetually rob their workers from their hard earned wages is too far. Wage theft is a crisis that needs to be put to an end.

“Poverty is very, very expensive,” said Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti. He is planning to raise minimum wage, but it may not make a difference if wage theft keeps getting more common. There was a groundbreaking report about wage theft in 3 major cities; Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.

It concluded that over a course of a year 2.9 billion dollars has been taken by low-waged workers in theses three cities. This angers me because I live in Los Angeles with two people in my family having an income of minimum wage. Taking money from innocent people is wrong. My family can’t even afford to make me lunch to go to school sometimes, and we don’t eat breakfast just to save food. The companies don’t care about people’s lives, they only care about money.

It’s crucial that people get paid the correct amount or it could change people and families lives. One controversy involved a man named Quintero who claimed his company owed him over 200,000 dollars. “With my deductions, I’m below minimum wage and your vote today to raise the minimum wage won’t help me or my family at all.”

Quintero said. He was just another innocent hardworking fellow until he was a victim of wage theft.

Wage theft is so high that it’s irrepressible, but we need to find a way to stop it.

The movement of raising minimum wage has many followers but apparently some people who are against it. Antonovich, another Los Angeles Board Supervisor opposed all minimum wage increase measures. Antonovich transferred to a shrewd like supervisor, to a notorious and hated supervisor.

Antonovich said “Wage theft is irresponsible and ought to be punished by the full extent of the law…” He had no reason to say that because he didn’t give any reason why he went against it.

People who are losing wages tend to be in poverty or homeless, which can cause another stir of problems. Not only do the city, state, and nation get in debt, but it could also be discrimination in the poor communities, people calling each other bums, hobos, and plenty more horrific insults. Wage theft is making this country seem weak and greedy.

We can’t afford to do wage theft because so many people are doing it already. It’s causing people to lose money, make a bigger pile of debt, and cause discrimination, just for the one or two people to save money. Wage theft is a crime that cannot be detained, unless something is done, raising minimum wage could help, but it’s just one small step that we need to take, and we need to get to another step fast or it’ll be too late.

Anakin Paez San Pedro

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the Life and Legacy of John Trudell

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John Trudell, a Santee Dakota activist, say was that good, it was that needed. artist, actor and poet, whose life was Trudell was born in Omaha on Feb. 15, dedicated to indigenous human rights, land 1946. His father was Santee, his mother was and language issues, died Dec. 8 after a of Mexican Indian heritage and he lived on the lengthy bout with cancer. He was 69. Trudell Santee Reservation in northern Nebraska. His helped ignite a spoken-word movement that life was influenced early by forces ranging from is a continuation of Native American oral the death of his mother when he was just six traditions. His family announced his death in years old to the arrival of rock ’n’ roll music, a press release that included some of his past when he was about nine, to his teenaged messages to Indian country, among them: “I disaffection for school, which led to his enlistment want people to remember me as they re- in the Navy for a four-year stint that began member me.” when he got out of high school in 1963. Soon Everybody seemed to have a personal after he got out of the Navy, Trudell married relationship with Trudell, including people Fenicia “Lou” Ordonez in 1968 in California. who’d only met him once — and sometimes He briefly attended college, intending to people who’d never met him at all. Many in become a radio broadcaster. that latter category acquired the shared-yetEverything changed when Trudell was special feeling that Trudell knew their story among the Native American students and from his songs, poetry and movies. organizers who invaded the abandoned federal While poetry editor at Akwesasne Notes, prison on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 1969. CitI reviewed ing the 1868 Trudell’s first ...he had found a voice and had tapped Treaty of Fort poetry chapbook, Laramie, which into the collective consciousness.

Living in Reality: stated that any Songs Called Poems (1982). It was a simple abandoned federal property reverted to Inchapbook produced straight from “Indian dian Nations ownership, the group occupied country,” on Franklin Avenue, in Minneapolis. Alcatraz until June 11, 1970.

My review basically advised readers not Those nearly seven months became an to worry that Trudell’s work didn’t sound like incubator for the nascent Native American “modern” poetry because he had found a rights movement, including the American voice and had tapped into the collective Indian Movement, AIM, in Minneapolis. The consciousness. No matter how well Living in occupiers became known as “Indians of All Reality sold, Trudell’s voice would be big, [see Trudell, from page 14] listened to and embraced. What he had to

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and took photos of these blighted sites as part tal condition,” Watkins said. “But then there is of curriculum-based assignments. a social condition that would say, because they The Human Rights Housing Collective and behave the way they do, they deserve to be two professors from Dominguez, Vivian Price subjected to yet another system of suppressive and Jorge Cabrera, were also involved in the heinous kinds of condition. documentation. Cabrera worked with the stu“But the community may, in fact, be underdents, going around Watts, collecting informa- informed or unaware of the real consequences tion about environmental injustice. to the exposure of big industries.” The bottom Monika Shankar, with Physicians for Social line is, “Your child isn’t safe.”

Responsibility, got involved with this project Watkins notes the ongoing threat of the “hywhen the physicians group started documenting per toxic” site right next to Jordan Downs that’s the environmental conditions early this year. undergoing a $700-million state required clean “Jordan Downs has been collecting pictures up is in the midst of an open air clean up. for many years because they feel the contami“Early in the morning, kids are walking nation needs to be documented,” Shankar said. to school, their mothers are right there next to “Part of the goal is to capture narratives, but them,” he said. there is also a goal for our own accountability, “They are out there leaning against the to be able to document what is happening on fence waiting for the light to change. Workthe Jordan Downs site in terms of remediation ers out there driving the tractors and trucks are so that the main agencies involved at this site walking around in this (dust), they don’t have can be held accountable and do what they are any protective gear on, no masks, and they’re

By Melina Paris, Contributing Writer supposed to be doing. Nothing says it like a just working. We don’t understand and the community [is] not being informed of it.”

How our environment affects us is not Housing is a Human Right, and Physicians for photo does.”

These groups also plan to start testing with Watkins researched through the cancer regalways holistically understood. There are Social Responsibility and produced by local an independent group of organizations that take istry if Watts has any illness clusters and diseconomic, social and environmental factors residents, youth, faculty and students.

One of the photographs on display was a the information to compare to what they are be- covered it’s almost impossible to find. often not in our control. Watts Now is a photo From an illness standpoint it looks at Watts narrative series that dea ls intimately with the lake with weathered warning signs and devoid ing told publicly.

Running through the city are not just one as being relatively healthy. But six miles away physical surroundings of that community and of life. The picture was of the lake at Willowaffecting change within it. The exhibit is part of brook Recreation Park. Before the park was or two of each, but multiple rail lines, oil lines, in Los Angeles council District 9, there’s the pipelines, air hazardous South Los Angeles Wetlands Park. the VisionLA.‘15 Climate Action Arts Festival, renamed after Laker Watts Labor Community Action Committee president, traffic cor- Watkins noted that Watts is 20 miles away and great, Tim Watkins, at the Watts Up photo exhibition. which ran concurrently with the Paris climate basketball ridors, high- in the same council district as San Pedro, in Magic Johnson, be- Photo by Melina Paris. talks in December. ways, and free- District 15, but has not gotten nearly the attenLike the environment it examines, Watts fore signs were posted ways. Southern tion it’s southern neighbor has on environmenNow is very local. It was created by the Watts warning of high levels Pacific, Union tal justice issues.

Labor Community Action Committee, Cali- of toxins in the soil Pacific, Santa Watkins says Watts is not represented agenfornia State University Dominguez Hills, LA and water, local resiFe Lines, and cy education level or the political level. He dents use to fish at the Metrorail are wonders where the advocacy is. lake. all there. Un“Sometimes these narratives are hijacked Other photos derneath the by agencies or politicians, folks who have more showed the multi-colrailways are power in the community,” Shankar added. “But ored soils and gravel oil pipelines. the stories of those who are more disadvanforming heaps along railroad tracks bordering houses and schools, Some were put in a few years back, others date taged due to social circumstances or economic evidence of illegal dumping. To the naked eye back to the turn of the past century when 90 mil- circumstances, they have a voice as well. And the subtle brown hues of the soils may be hard lion barrels per year of oil was being pumped we want to elevate that voice.

“It was wonderful to see the kids in the to notice but the camera lens presented it clear- through Watts to the Harbor with ships waiting class, the way ly. Poisons of arsenic and boron keep the weeds off shore.

Watkins looked they had anafrom growing along the tracks, but the wind lyzed the condiand rain spread these contaminants. People also at the impacts of tions around use the tracks as short-cuts, taking residue with this convergence.

He saw the effects them and the them as they walk. same day talkA homeless encampment is pictured along of the convergence ing about gang an empty storm drain, with litter strewn every- when he started taking soil samples and violence around where. them…. They Timothy Watkins, the president of the Watts researching the effects of 50 years of are making those Labor Community Action Committee said the observations and exhibit sheds light on the toxicity that Watts is lead in the environment. He noted that realizing the enexposed to daily.

Historic photograph of Watts Towers vironment has ‘It may be one of the unhealthiest places in while all communithe city, in the state or in the nation,” Watkins ties are exposed to contaminants, Watts was ex- contributed to violent behavior or inability to learn and concentrate. We provide that little said. “In Watts there is a greater convergence posed to many more contaminant levels.

“If you just look at a minimal amount of connection but they are very aware of what of transportation modes — may be greater than lead poisoning due to consistent long-term ex- is happening in their neighborhoods in a very anywhere else I can think of.”

Watkins’ father, Ted, founded Watts Labor posure, you’re looking at symptoms that are sharp way.”

The exhibit runs through Jan 31. A closing Community Action Committee 50 years ago to identical, in many cases, to what we see our most uncivil and worst behaving kids in the reception will take place Jan 29. improve the quality of life in Watts, — the same Details: http://tinyurl.com/VisionLA15Watts year as the Watts revolt took place. Because of community,” Watkins said.

Watkins believes the result of this environthis milestone, Cal State University Dominguez mental injustice are high levels of mental health Hills wanted to get involved with this exhibit.

Law and social justice students from the issues, low birth weights, high infant mortality university Cal State University of Dominguez along with anger, violence and destruction.

“They’ve been subjected to the environmenHills and students from Jordan High surveyed 12 Photo entitled, Shattered Past, at the Watts at the Watts Up photo exhibition. Courtesy of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee

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Flash in the Pan:

Noodle Theory

By Ari LeVaux, Contributing Columnist

scene is solid, thanks to a large Air Force base to which soldiers returned, with new wives in tow, from the Vietnam war. The wives in turn brought over their families. The rice noodles have been flowing, floating and frying-ever since.

It was in these eateries that I became acquainted with the dual nature of the rice noodle.

Noodles are served in many different ways in Vietnamese restaurants, not all of them crispy and chewy. Today’s dish could simply be categorized as stir-fried

or pan-fried noodles, but that would put it in questionable company.

I don’t want noodles that have only been stirred in a pan with other stuff.

Or worse still: stirred soggy noodles. I want noodles that dance with the sauce and make me notice them as they party in my mouth, not merely a passive, personality-free delivery system for sauce. I want noodles with the backbone to also show their vulnerable side.

After trying pho ap chao bo for the first time I obsessed with these noodles, laboring to reproduce them in the kitchen over the course of many attempts, until I finally succeeded. When it occurred to me, belatedly, that I could simply search online for the recipe, I felt vindicated to realize that I had basically nailed it — at least the most important step, the only step that matters. The step that, when mastered, will allow you to substitute crispy rice noodles into virtually any noodle dish, and it will be improved.

Begin by cooking the noodles in plenty of boiling water until al-dente, AKA almost done. Then drain them and rinse off the excess starch in running cold water in the colander, and let them

drain again.

Then, fry the noodles in a flat frying pan on low heat in enough oil to completely cover the bottom of a pan. It can take 10 to 15 minutes to achieve the desired crispiness and accompanying shade of light brown. If you don’t have the patience to keep the heat low, the noodles will burn.

On low heat the noodles will fry into a disk-shaped mass. When you suspect the bottom has crisped, lift up one edge with a spatula and peek.

If you see a skin of crisp, and the noodles move as a single unit rather than a tangle of independent entities, flip that noodle disk like a pancake.

When the other side is similarly fried, let the disk cool to the point where you can cut it into strips, each of

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I’ve often pondered why noodles are so yummy. Yet if some of the answers were not so integral to the recipe of the day: pho ap chao bow. I would caution against pondering this too deeply.

It’s like wondering why the sky is blue.

It’s a good question, but the answer something about light waves and stuff, simply isn’t as satisfying Alas, if we wish to enjoy true noodle bliss in our own homes and not depend on pros in restaurant kitchens to take us there blindfolded, we must go there ourselves because not all noodles—or the dishes made from them— take us to the textural places that rice noodles can. And, let’s face it, noodles are all about texture.

Nobody eats them for the flavor.

Rice noodles are gods among noodles, thanks to their forgiving yet robust chewiness. But another important quality of these starchy strands is their readiness to trade in their softness for crispiness.

Or, most importantly, their capacity to be both chewy and crispy at the same time, like an electron that is both particle and wave. The crispy and soft parts interact differently with the sauce, adding diver-

sity and complexity to the dish.

To d a y ’s dish, pho ap chao bo, appeared on my radar when I was a restaurant critic in Albuquerque, N.M. Some might consider this assignment to be more about enchiladas and chicharrones and green chile cheeseburgers than noodles.

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of his wife Tina, their children Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, Eli Changing Sun, unborn son Josiah Hawk and Tina’s mother Leah Hicks-Manning, in a suspicious fire in their parents’ house in February 1979 at the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada.

Trudell burned an American flag in protest on the steps of the FBI building in Washington, D.C., within 24 hours of the house fire.

His family was known to have local enemies in law enforcement, but they could not prove it was arson even after the private investigator he hired said that the official version was

Tribes.” They issued the manifesto, We Hold the Rock and eventually the book, Alcatraz is Not an Island.

Trudell’s profile grew during this period, too. He applied his broadcasting education to Radio Free Alcatraz. (A clip from the program is featured in a 2005 documentary about Trudell, who during this era attracted national attention as a leading Native American spokesman.) Trudell always emphasized that the invasion and occupation of Alcatraz was not a stunt to draw attention to moral and ethical issues, but a valid legal issue.

While his prominence in the movement grew into 1971, that year also marked the end of Trudell’s marriage as well as the negotiations over ownership of Alcatraz, where the group planned an Indian Center.

But the movement was here to stay. In 1972, the beating of Raymond Yellow Thunder inspired a national cross-country caraTina Manning Trudell was a Paiute-Shoshone van called “The Trail water rights activist and wife of John Trudell of Broken Treaties” that ended with the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in practically impossible.

The period that followed brought most Washington, D.C. people to identify with the poet, artist and In 1973, Trudell became the national thinker called John Trudell. It is interesting to spokesman for AIM, a position that he held note that some dubbed him an ex-activist but until 1979. That put him front-and-center when the scattering of activists after the that is one of those labels he criticized. He Bureau of Indian Affairs takeover led to AIM would go on to influence another generation actions at the Custer County Courthouse, of activists and ordinary people. Many artfollowed by the Liberation/Occupation of ists now use the phrase “Art Saved Me,” and Wounded Knee village by AIM and the Oglala it had to be something like that for Trudell, because after the tragedy he was compelled Sioux Civil Rights Organization.

These days we come up with descriptions to write poetry. He said it just came to him, to define voices like Trudell’s: empowering, like Tina was talking to him and he was just authentic, intelligent, inspirational, neces- “following the lines.”

“I didn’t sary.

But even know what “He is extremely eloquent, Trudell didn’t reality was… think we therefore extremely dangerous.” t h e n t hese should call our music and poetry “political or protest.” lines came into my head and something He argued that those were labels issued by said don’t stop writing. I started to write my those in control. He called them cultural re- lines, they’re called poems but in reality they are lines for me to hold onto, my hanging-on alities and artistic statements: “We are speaking our truth, bringing our lines, it was real to me, it was a parting gift energy. Music is its own energy, it’s good and from Tina. Whatever happens just follow the positive in strengthening our communities.” writing and I might be able to find some kind The FBI agreed. The documentary, Trudell, of center. Whatever my future is … to see

by Heather Rae (2005), an FBI memo early how long I get to participate … she gave me on read, “He is extremely eloquent, there- the lines to follow … so I won’t fall completely … that feeling of falling apart, it doesn’t go fore extremely dangerous.”

The 17,000-page dossier the FBI com- away.” – John Trudell, from the 2005 Heathpiled on Trudell is one of the longest in its er Rae documentary, Trudell.

He issued the chapbook, Living in Reality history. Trudell said in the documentary, Incident at Oglala, “All I did was talk, and they in 1982. That same year he began recording his poetry to traditional Native music by talkcracked down hard just for that.”

Trudell was referring to a pivotal and ing his friend Quiltman into backing him on [see Trudell, on page 15] cataclysmic moment in his life: the deaths

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ENTERTAINMENT Jan. 7

Madman’s Paradise

In a world of film noir soul, twisted tales are told by the City of Angels’ fallen angel, Toledo.

Time: 9 p.m.

Cost: $10 to $20 Details: http://longbeach.harvelles.com Venue: Harvelle’s, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

Jan. 8

Bijan Jazz Trio

In a special return performance, 18-year-old New York pianist Bijan Taghavi presents a project involving a mix of traditional jazz and ethnic idioms via standards, original compositions and arrangements of classics.

Time: 8 p.m.

Cost: $15 Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

David Kaplan, Rachel Lee Priday

That’s Kaplin on piano and Priday with the violin. They’ve come all the way from New York to play their luscious music in Torrance.

Expect exquisite.

Time: 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

Cost: Free Venue: First Lutheran Church and School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance

Tom Bellizia

Tom Bellizia will perform at the Seaside Lounge in The Admiral Risty Restaurant in Palos Verdes.

Time: 6 to 10 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: (310) 377-0050; www.AdmiralRisty.com Venue: Seaside Lounge, 31250 Palos Verdes Drive West, Rancho Palos Verdes

Rob Klopfenstein

From his seat at the piano Klopenstein just keeps pulling more show-biz out of his personal well of talent and his special guest artists, presenting an evening of all-around entertainment at The Whale & Ale British Restaurant and Gastropub.

Time: 7 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: (310)832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle.com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Jan. 9

Tommy Peltier

Peltier’s first solo album on acoustic guitar could be described as freaky, folk-adelic jazz.

Time: 8 p.m.

Cost: $10 Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Jan. 10

Encore Saxophone Quartet

The Encore Saxophone Quartet is among Los Angeles’ premier performing ensembles. Formed in 1984 by internationally renowned saxophonist Douglas Masek, the quartet’s extensive repertoire spans original compositions and arrangements that bridge styles from the classical to modern jazz.

Time: 4 p.m.

Cost: $20 Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Jan. 16

John York

John York is a singer, composer and instrumentalist well known as a former member of the Byrds with Roger McGuinn, Clarence White and Gene Parsons. Betcha didn’t know that. He is performing solo or with his own band, The Jangle Brothers with guitarist Billy Darnell and bassist Chad Watson.

Time: 8 p.m.

Cost: $20 Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Jan. 17

Frank Potenza

That’s professor Frank Potenza to you.

When he’s not performing -- and sometimes when he is--Potenza chairs the USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar Department. He is responsible for the department’s offerings in jazz guitar pedagogy and jazz guitar arranging and improvisation and is the director of trio ensembles and the wire choir ensemble.

Time: 4 p.m.

Cost: $20 Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

COMMUNITY Jan. 8

Downtown SP Farmer’s Market

Enjoy fresh fruits, vegetables, crafts and food stalls.

Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cost: Free Details:www.localharvestfarmersmarkets.com Venue: 6th Street between Pacific Avenue and Mesa Street

Jan. 9

Iowa Curator Tour

Take an in-depth look at the USS Iowa. This four-and-a-half-hour tour includes a short film on the tow of Iowa from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Time: 7 p.m.

Cost: $99

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drum and vocals. In 1983, he released Song of the Trees his debut album, Tribal Voice, on his own Peace Listen as the trees sing Company label. His relationship with Jackson Their songs Browne led him to other supporters like Kris In the wind lyrics and melodies Kristofferson, Bonnie For the spirit senses Raitt, Indigo Girls, John Fogerty, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. LegendSongs of laughter and life ary Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis came up to him Timeless things in timeless places in 1986 and said, “I can Do not be afraid to be strong turn your poems into songs.” They recorded Do not be afraid to love three albums during this But always remember time. AKA Graffiti Man was released in 1986, dubbed the best album Always remember of the year by Bob Dylan, followed by But This Isn’t Love wisely El Salvador and Heart The love of being Jump Bouquet, both in 1987.

Free of possession In 1988, Jesse Ed The love of being Davis died due to heroin addiction. Trudell was Beyond desire stunned. However, he The love of being was able to connect with other performers who kept him out there on stage, like Midnight Oil’s From Diesel and Dust tour and Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD tour.

That era is known for the breakthrough of contemporary Native music, yet its main performers, musicians. AKA Graffiti Man from 1992 was Buddy Red Bow, Jim Pepper and Jesse Ed remixed as a best of compilation in 1992 to Davis all died at the height of their popular- critical acclaim, as was Johnny Damas & Me ity, due to ailments such as alcoholism and in 1994, which continued the positive recepdrug addiction. Trudell, however, followed tion. Trudell embarked on another pivotal more along the path of Floyd Red Crow West- period when he started up his Bad Dog tourerman, who walked on in 2007 after a slow ing band in 1999. He always said he wanted deterioration of health. to bring Bad Dog everywhere with him from Trudell’s spoken word and music catalog then on, but most times people were happy is formidable. The title track of Fables and just to hear him speak. He and the band proOther Realities (1991) jumps at the listen- duced Blue Indians that year winning NAMer from the speaker and screen thanks to MY awards; 1999 also brought international Trudell’s urgent, rhythmed delivery, a style attention with Stickman: Poems, Lyrics, he would use in future songs and videos. Talks edited by Paola Igliori. Further success It actually prefigures NDN rap and hip-hop in 2001 came with Bone Days, which was beats. The album kicked off a good collab- produced by actress Angelina Jolie. Trudell oration period with Mark Shark and other and Bad Dog would release Madness and

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446-9261; www.PacificBattleship.com Venue: USS Iowa, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

Jan. 10

South Coast Cactus & Succulent Society

Hiding in Plain Sight: a New Cactus Species from the California Desert by Michelle CloudHughes.

Come share Cloud-Hughes’ excitement as she describes how a “chucky cholla,” found in nearby San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial Counties, is determined to be a distinct new species.

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: (310) 316-0058; southcoastcss.org Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula

Jan. 15

Breakfast at the Chamber

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Is your business ready for 2016? Review new business regulations. RSVP Time: 9 a.m.

Cost: Free Details: (310) 832-7272 Venue: San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, 390 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Jan. 16

Top Hats & Tiaras

Participate in the 2016 pet parade, Top Hats & Tiaras in San Pedro’s downtown harbor.

Time: 9 to 10 a.m.

Cost: Free Details: www.portoflosangeles.org Venue: Downtown harbor, San Pedro Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium for Underwater Parks Day. By attending this free event, you can learn about Marine Protected Areas in Southern California that went into effect on January 1, 2012.

Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org.

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

Salt Marsh Open House

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Warner Grand Theatre 85th Anniversary Birthday Party

The San Pedro Chamber of Commerce and Grand Vision present the Warner Grand’s 85th Birthday Party. Bring your good cheer and community pride.

Time: 5 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: encoreentertainers.org/tickets Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Jan. 24

Sandy Banks

The Friends of San Pedro Library present Sandy Banks, a CNN, PBS, and NPR commentator and celebrated speaker and former columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She will discuss topics including- the future of print journalism and the Los Angeles Times.

Time: 2 p.m.

Cost: $15 Details: www.friendsspl.org Venue: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

THEATER Jan. 8

Tales from the Playhouse

Eighty-seven years of Playhouse history told by those who were there. In 1929 hundreds of people gathered at the city’s Wayside Colony with the goal of creating a civic theater for the city, the term Community Theatre hadn’t been coined yet. Eighty-seven years later, their vision is still going strong.

Time: 8 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 Cost: $20 Details: lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Underwater Parks Day

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Step out into nature and discover the hidden world of the Salinas de San Pedro Salt Marsh.

Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium educators and Coastal Park Naturalists as they help uncover the world of mud and water that is our local wetland.

Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 17 Cost: Free Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org.

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

Jan. 9

Her Story

QFilms presents an exclusive screening of the groundbreaking transgender-themed dramedy, Her Story. Chronicling the loves and lives of lesbian and transgender women as they explore the intersections between desire and identity, Her Story presents a diversity of women’s lives and experiences grossly underrepresented within the mainstream media.

Time: 12:30 p.m. Jan. 9 Cost: $12 Details: www.centerlb.org Venue: Art Theatre, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach

Mary Poppins, The Musical

Come see your favorite Disney classic film come to life on the Warner Grand stage.

Featuring audience favorites such as Step in Time, A Spoonful of Sugar and Let’s Go Fly a Kite, this show will delight audiences of all ages.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Jan 9, 15 and 16, and 2 p.m.

Jan 10 and 17 Cost: $34 Details: encoreentertainers.org/tickets Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Jan. 10

Norma

The Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation presents Norma. Perhaps once a generation, a soprano comes along who can do full justice to one of the opera’s most dazzling and demanding roles.

Time: 2 p.m. Jan. 10 Cost: $17.50 Details: (310) 781-7171; www.TorranceArts.org Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

Jan. 14

Winter Dance Show

North High Dance Department presents Winter Dance Show. Enjoy an evening of dance by North High School students.

Time: 7 p.m. Jan. 14 and 15 Cost: $5 and $10 Details: (310) 938-7033 Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

Jan. 15

Those Sketchy People

Digested Disney is a high-speed, audience interactive, improvisational, sketch parody of all the Disney animated films performed by two fanatics in 90 minutes. It contains sudden drops of references and lots of twists and turns of phrase and is not recommended for those terrified of happiness.

Time: Jan. 15 through 17, 22 and 23 Cost: $10 Details: lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

ARTS Jan. 7 Neshkinukat! Reception Meaning “One who has relatives” in the Luiseno language, or “We are all related” in the Lakota way of speaking, this exhibition is a seed, a step towards bringing Native peoples together in community, to feel pride in the elder artist/storytellers, and also to help the larger community appreciate the beauty and power in these stories and absorb the wisdom they contain. Neshkinukat! Opens on First Thursday, with a reception for the artists.

Time: 6-8PM Cost: Free Venue: PacArts, 303 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro.

Presented by Engage.

Jan. 30

Warschaw/Winter II

TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery present Warschaw/Winter II, a tightly disconnected group sampling culled from a curious case study of area artists including Craig Antrim, Merwin Belin, Arnée Carofano, Ray Carofano, Katy Crowe, Christopher Hernandez, Nate Jones, Hyung Mo Lee, Ron Linden, Marsha Mack, William Mahan, Jay McCafferty, Elizabeth Medina, Zac Roach, Regine Rode, Yong Sin, Gary Szymanski, Marie Thibeault, Ted Twine and HK Zamani.

Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturday through Jan. 30 Cost: Free Details: (310) 600-4873 Venue: TransVagrant, 600 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

[Noodle, from page 13] which is like a meta-noodle composed of individual strands. The exterior of this meta-noodle is pure crisp, while the inside is chewy like gum.

Toss the cut noodle pieces into your sauce, briefly stir them and serve.

So that’s the gist. Now, here is an example of how to incorporate those crispy/chewy noodles into an actual recipe.

While the noodles slowly get their crisp on in one pan, the sauce is prepared in another-also slowly, at least in my kitchen. While stir-fry is typically a high-heat, fast and furious affair, I prefer a different route.

First, add the proteins. Beef is traditionally used in this dish. Tofu works too. If you are lucky enough to have some venison in the freezer, that works great too.

Slice the meat thinly and lay the pieces into the oil, on low-medium heat, and let the exterior of the meat build a patient brown while excess water is released. Do not stir.

While the proteins brown, add the veggies that can stand a little extra cooking, like carrots and onions. They can just sit on top of the proteins for now, gently steaming. Don’t stir.

While that’s happening, cut more vegetables, like celery, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli. You want to time it so these veggies are perfectly cooked to your satisfaction by the time the noodles have been stirred in. But at this point, nothing has been stirred. The proteins remain at the bottom covered with layers of veggies, quietly steaming.

Now, add chopped ginger and garlic to the top of the pile, along with your sauce components. I like a Chinesestyle mix of oyster sauce, fish sauce, rice cooking wine and hoisin sauce.

For a half-pound of dry rice noodles go with 2 tablespoons oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 2 tablespoon hoisin sauce, and 1 tablespoon rice wine.

Now you can stir it.

Wait a minute for the garlic to cook, then add your crispy-chewy noodles and gently stir them into the sauce.

Note how even in this soupy sauce, the noodles won’t get soggy. Now you’re ready to apply the principle behind the dual nature of the rice noodle to other dishes.

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JT – DNA (Descendant Now Ancestor), 2001, is all spoken word, no music. It represents his more popular speeches and themes. He repeats some of those themes, and adds newer Bad Dog lyrics, in his most recent, Through the Dust, 2014, which features the ambient beats of Swiss producer, Kwest. There’s also the rare CD and vinyl, John Trudell & Bad Dog – Live à Fip, a live album recorded in Paris in 2005 that now sells from $70. In 1992, he also released Children of the Earth: Child’s Voice. Trudell was partnered with Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie’s mother, as she dealt with cancer, which she succumbed to in 2007. Marcheline and Angelina also executive produced the 2005 documentary with Heather Rae as well.Children of the Earth: Child’s Voice was released in 1992.

Trudell’s movie career also created a new generation of fans with feature films like Thunderheart, a 1992 Hollywood thriller by director Michael Apted, who also swung a documentary film into the deal, Incident at Oglala, produced and narrated by Robert Redford. He was also in the 1998 seminal Native-made film, Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. His great line in the film is, “It’s a good day to be indigenous,” in which he is again back to NDN radio roots as DJ Randy Peone of K-REZ. He was also in the Steven Seagal thriller, On Deadly Ground, and played Coyote in Hallmark’s made for TV movie, Dreamkeeper. Incident at Oglala and Trudell were important projects that helped to develop Redford’s Sundance Institute’s Native American Program, as overseen by Bird Runningwater.

Controversy occurred in 2004, when Trudell testified at the trial of AIM members, Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of Anna Mae PictouAquash. Trudell was boycotted by Native students in Vancouver, British Columbia, and criticized by AIM hardliners. Trudell said it was a confidential matter involving Looking Cloud relieving his conscience and Trudell only talked about it after it was revealed in media accounts.

In constant demand as a speaker, presenter or commentator, he and his fans preferred to post speeches and videos on his website, Facebook or YouTube. His lengthy illness became generally known, and one may assume, he was involved

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He was very private about his family life and had managers screening all of his business and social media.

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Amanda Vallejo, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2015. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

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DBA/legal filings from previous page law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015288975 The following person is doing business as: 1. RADD, 2. Radd Auto Parts 3. R.A.D.D. 4. R.A.D.D. Auto Parts, 5. R.A.D.D. Sales 6. Radd Sales, 7. Rafael Alex Desi Distribution 9. Rafael and Desi Discount Auto Parts, 10. Rafael and Desi Distributors, 22108 S. Vermont, Suite 107, Torrance, Ca 9502. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Rafael Ruvalcaba, 664 1/2 21st Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Rafael Ruvalcaba, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Dec. 1, 2015. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920.

A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal,

state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 201532443 The following person is doing business as: Lenchner Glass Company, 7708 Chimineas Avenue, Reseda, Ca 91335, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Lenchner Steven Elliot, 7708 Chimineas Avenue, Reseda, Ca 91335. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 12/02/2010. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Lenchner Steven Elliot, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Dec. 29, 2015. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920.

A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015319103 The following person is doing business as: Leeward Bay Marina, 611 Henry Ford Avenue, #1, Wilmington, Ca 90744, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Leeward Bay Marina Inc., 1001 Casiano Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049, Registered in California, LWB Marina, Inc. 1145 S. W. Sunset Drive, Corvallis, OR 97332, Registered in California. This Business is conducted by corporationsl. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 12/15/1995. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Robert Perel, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Dec. 21, 2015. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

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