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Port Truckers Strike Expands Dramatically, Concludes with Eight Companies at the Bargaining Table

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

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Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov

and WinWin agreed to enter into talks. The three companies “each respect drivers’ right to choice with regard to unionization,” said Garcetti in a statement. Truckers with Pacer and HRT stayed on strike through mid-morning of Nov. 21 and their companies agreed to ongoing discussions without retaliation.

At issue is the illegal misclassification of truckers, robbing them of millions of dollars every month in the form of wage theft and depriving them of their rights as workers, including the right to organize and be represented by a union.

“This is our fifth strike,” Teamster Vice President Fred Potter, who heads the port division, told Random Lengths as the strike was still in progress. “Drivers at the port and drivers from different companies are coming forward… saying they wanted to participate; they want to

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strike that’s been more than 30 years in the making swept through the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach and related facilities, starting Nov. 13, when truckers misclassified as independent contractors renewed their strike against Total Transportation Services Inc. (TTSI) and Pacific 9 Transportation (Pac 9), which had repeatedly violated the terms of a “cooling off period” negotiated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in July. Although those two companies quickly agreed to return to the bargaining table, the strike continued to spread the following week.

On Nov. 17, the strike spread to three new drayage companies: QTS Inc., LACA Express and WinWin Logistics Inc. The next morning the strike spread further to intermodal rail yards that are serviced by Pacer Cartage and Harbor Rail Transport (HRT). On Nov. 20, QTS, LACA

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A Higher Calling to the Sea Exclusive Interview with Rachel Etherington, CEO of AltaSea

By James Preston Allen, Publisher and Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

million from AltaSea and its sub-tenants, which will be a mix of government, nonprofit and forprofit ventures.

From the very beginning, AltaSea was seen as a critical piece in the economic development of the Los Angeles Waterfront. The only question that remained was: Who is fit enough to tackle the task of pulling together tenant research institutions and corporations beneath AltaSea’s umbrella while raising hundreds of millions of dollars while doing it?

Rachel Etherington, who made her debut as keynote speaker at the San Pedro Chamber’s annual Business Awards & Installation Luncheon in March, emerged as the answer, taking over the helm of AltaSea April 1, after transitioning from her duties as managing director of the Blue Marine Foundation in the United Kingdom.

In a recent interview with Random Lengths, Etherington discussed why she took on such a gargantuan job as AltaSea. Etherington and AltaSea/ to p. 4

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round this time a year ago, outgoing Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Geraldine Knatz presented AltaSea to the Harbor Commission. Her brainchild will take 50 years to realize its full potential.

When she departed the port, she bequeathed a 50-year lease on her dream, pledging a total of $210 million to be matched by a legal minimum of $408 million and a conceptual target of $549

AltaSea Executive Director Rachel Etherington.

Photo by Phillip Cooke.

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Community Announcements:

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Harbor Area HCBF Health Care Program Harbor Community Benefit Foundation is accepting applications for its health care program.

The foundation is looking for innovative project proposals designed mitigate health impacts attributed to the Port of Los Angeles or port-related operations in the adjacent communities of San Pedro and Wilmington. Proposals must benefit the residents of these communities and address diagnosis and treatment, medical supplies, and/ or health education, outreach and access.

Applications are due Dec. 5.

Details: http://tinyurl.com/HCBFHealthcareProg The Pacific Avenue Arts Colony Pac Arts, a new development in San Pedro, will soon begin accepting applications for affordable housing and will be open for occupancy in early 2015.

Pac Arts is a mixed-use development that will provide 49 affordable apartments for artists, including six ground floor live-work spaces. The Department of Cultural Affairs has worked with Meta-Housing to create a true artist colony in San Pedro. Rents start at just $474.

This program is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program.

Details: (310) 802-2622; www.affordableartisthousing.org

On Nov. 14, San Pedro’s cultural assets received 1,800 volunteer hours of tender loving care of 300 travel professionals from as far away as New York City and Australia to work alongside locals as part of Tourism Cares for Los Angeles.

The organization partnered with the L.A. Tourism and Convention Board.

Over the past few years, Tourism Cares has worked in New Orleans, New York City, Sacramento, Peru and other places.

This year is San Pedro and Wilmington’s turn. Volunteers worked on the U.S. Battleship Iowa and merchant marine ship Lane Victory. Some removed invasive plant species and planted native ones at White Point Nature Preserve.

Some waxed the Korean Friendship Bell, while others upgraded the Banning Museum in Wilmington.

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Opportunities to Give

As Americans of conscience, we shake our heads at homelessness, rail against violence both inside and out of our neighborhoods, and decry the damage to our environments. In order for there to be change, citizens have to become the agents of change to change things around. If you’re looking for an opportunity to do your part, below are opportunities to give, whether with your time, money or expertise. Happy Holidays!

Do you need help for Thanksgiving?

Toberman is signing up eligible families for Thanksgiving baskets. You will need to bring in the following to sign up on their Thanksgiving give-way lists: • Proof of Income • Proof of Address • Children’s most recent report cards All documents need to be current within the last 90 days. Sign ups are Monday through Friday 9 to 11 a.m. or 1 to 5 p.m.

Details: (310) 832-1145 ext. 106 Volunteers from Tourism Cares scrubbed and painted the USS Iowa.

Below a crew tackles the White Point Nature Preserve and the Korean Friendship Bell. Photos by Betty Guevarra.

Toberman Toy Drive

Toberman Neighborhood Center is accepting donations of an unwrapped toy (ages infant to 11) or a gift card for older youth ages 12 to 18 to benefit Harbor Area families.

On Dec. 20, Toberman is hosting breakfast with Santa Claus and toy giveaway from 9 to 11:30. Children will be able to take pictures with the jolly St. Nick following a breakfast.

Harbor Interfaith Services Grocery Loyalty

Do you have a membership card at your local grocery store? Designate Harbor Interfaith Services as your charity of choice and your grocery store will donate a percentage of your expenditure to it every time you shop. It’s a completely effortless way to donate.

Register your cards below: To register your Albertsons Preferred Card, enter Harbor Interfaith’s Community Partners ID# 49001010820.

To register your Ralphs Club Card, choose Sign Up and enter Harbor Interfaith’s NPO# 82768.

To register your VONS Club card, go to the eScrip website and enter Harbor Interfaith’s Group ID# 500003260. Here you can also register your Macy's card, ATM and credit cards.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Peace & Unity Parade, Celebration Applications are being accepted for sponsorship, parade participants, vendors, performers and volunteers for the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace & Unity Parade and Celebration on Jan. 17, 2015, near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Anaheim Street in Long Beach.

Community groups and organizations are encouraged to participate. Parade application fee is $85 and vendor fees range from $150 to $350.

Details: (562) 570-6816 Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Park Location: 1950 Lemon Ave., Long Beach

San Pedro and Wilmington Landmarks Receive TLC from Tourism Care

Harbor Interfaith Services Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers from across the country came to San Pedro to help locals clean and maintain the area’s landmarks.

On the days leading up to Thanksgiving, Harbor Interfaith Services will be packaging 350 holiday meal baskets for homeless families and individuals on Nov. 25 and distributing the meals on Nov. 26. at the Adopt a family block party.

The next opportunity is in December in which the service organization will package 350 holiday baskets and toys for homeless families and individuals on Dec. 22 from 1 to 5p.m. Distribution of the holiday meals and toys will take place on Dec. 23.

To participate, please call (310) 831-0603 ext.

229 or email dramirez@harborinterfaith.org.

AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs

Verizon remains committed to its program of inserting a tracking number into its customers’ cell phone transmissions.

By Julia Angwin, ProPublica

Editor’s note: Wired.com reported recently that for the past two years, Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the Web traffic of its wireless customers by inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit. Verizon—one the country’s largest wireless carriers, providing cell phone service for about 123 million subscribers—calls this a Unique Identifier Header, or UIDH. It’s like a short-term serial number that advertisers can use to identify users on the Web and key to the company’s internet advertising program.

Critics call this a reckless misuse of Verizon’s power as an internet service provider—something that could be used as a trump card to obviate established privacy tools such as private browsing sessions or “do not track” features.

Media Ignored

By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Our oceans are acidifying—even if the nightly news hasn’t told you yet.

Campus and faculty from over two dozen colleges and universities join in this ongoing effort, headquartered at Sonoma State University.

Some 260 students and 49 faculty vet thousands of news stories on select criteria: importance, timeliness, quality of sources, and the level of corporate news coverage.

The top 25 finalists are sent to Project Censored’s panel of judges, who then rank the entries, with ocean acidification topping this year’s list.

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As humanity continues to fill the atmosphere with harmful gases, the planet is becoming less hospitable to life as we know it. The vast oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide we have produced, from the industrial revolution through the rise of global capitalism. Earth’s self-sacrifice spared the atmosphere almost 25 percent of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, slowing the onslaught of many severe weather consequences.

Although the news media have increasingly covered the climate weirding of global warming—hurricane superstorms, fierce tornado clusters, overwhelming snowstorms, and record-setting global high temperatures—our ocean’s peril has largely stayed submerged below the biggest news stories.

The rising carbon dioxide in our oceans burns up and deforms the smallest, most abundant food at the bottom of the deep blue food chain.

One vulnerable population is the tiny shelled swimmers known as the sea butterfly. In only a few short decades, the death and deformation of this fragile and translucent species could endanger predators all The sea butterfly is severly threatened by ocean acidification caused by along the oceanic food web, rising carbon dioxide in the ocean. The dire results of ocean acidification due to climate change is largely ignored in the mainstream media. File scientists warn. photo.

This “butterfly effect,” “There are outlets, regular daily papers, who once unleashed, potentially threatens fisheries are independent and they’re out there,” Andy that feed over 1billion people worldwide.

Since ancient times, humans fished the oceans Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, for food. Now, we’re frying ocean life before told us. Too many news outlets are beholden to we even catch it, starving future generations in corporate interests, but Welch of the Seattle Times the process. Largely left out of national news bucked the trend, Roth said, by writing some of coverage, this dire report was brought to light the deepest coverage yet on ocean acidification.

“There are reporters doing the highest quality by a handful of independent-minded journalists: Craig Welch from the Seattle Times, Julia of work, as evidenced by being included in our Whitty of Mother Jones, and Eli Kintisch of list,” Roth said. “But the challenge is reaching as big an audience as [the story] should.”

ScienceNOW. Indeed, though Welch’s story was reported in It is also the top story of Project Censored, an annual book and reporting project that features the Seattle Times, a mid-sized daily newspaper, the year’s most underreported news stories, this warning is relevant to the entire world. To striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, understand the impact of ocean acidification, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media Welch asks readers to “imagine every person outlets. The book is set for release in late on earth tossing a hunk of CO2 as heavy as a bowling ball into the sea. That’s what we do to October.

“Information is the currency of democracy,” the oceans every day.”

Computer modeler Isaac Kaplan, at Ralph Nader, the prominent consumer advocate and many-time presidential candidate, wrote the National Oceanic and Atmospheric in his foreword to this year’s Project Censored Administration office in Seattle, told Welch 2015. But with most mass media owned by that his early work predicts significant declines narrow corporate interests, “the general public in sharks, skates and rays, some types of flounder and sole, and Pacific whiting, the most remains uninformed.”

Whereas the mainstream media poke and frequently caught commercial fish off the coast peck at noteworthy events at single points in time, of Washington, Oregon, and California.

Acidification may also harm fisheries in the often devoid of historical context or analysis, Project Censored seeks to clarify understanding farthest corners of the earth: A study by the Arctic of real world issues and focus on what’s Monitoring and Assessment Programme outlines important. Context is key, and many of its “top acidification’s threat to the arctic food chain.

“Decreases in seawater pH of about 0.02 per censored” stories highlight deeply entrenched policy issues that require more explanation than decade have been observed since the late 1960s in the Iceland and Barents Seas,” the study’s authors a simple sound bite can provide.

wrote in the executive summary. And, destroying fisheries means wiping out the livelihoods of the native peoples of the Antarctic.

Acidification can even rewire the brains of fish, Welch’s story demonstrated. Studies found rising CO2 levels cause clown fish to gain athleticism, but have their sense of smell redirected. This transforms them into “dumb jocks,” scientists said, swimming faster and more vigorously straight into the mouths of their

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AT&T says it has stopped its controversial practice of adding a hidden, undeletable tracking number to its mobile customers’ Internet activity.

“It has been phased off our network,” said Emily J. Edmonds, an AT&T spokeswoman.

The move comes after AT&T and Verizon received a slew of critical news coverage for inserting tracking numbers into their subscribers’ Internet activity, even after users opted out.

Recently, ProPublica reported that Twitter’s mobile advertising unit was enabling its clients to use the Verizon identifier. The tracking numbers can be used by sites to build a dossier about a person’s behavior on mobile devices – including which apps they use, what sites they visit and for how long.

The controversial type of tracking is used to monitor users’ behavior on their mobile devices where traditional tracking cookies are not as effective. The way it works is, that a telecommunications carrier inserts a uniquely identifying number into all the Web traffic that transmits from a users’ phone.

AT&T said it used the tracking numbers as part of a test, which it has now completed.

Edmonds said AT&T may still launch a program to sell data collected by its tracking number, but that if and when it does, “customers will be able to opt out of the ad program and not have the numeric code inserted on their device.”

A Verizon spokeswoman says its tracking program is still continuing, but added “as with any program, we’re constantly evaluating.”

Verizon uses the tracking number to identify the users’ behavior and offer advertisers insights about users gleaned from that data. Verizon says the data it sells is not tied to a users’ identity.

“None of the data that is used in the program is personally-identifiable,” the company said when it updated its privacy policy in 2012.

Verizon offers its customers an opportunity to opt out of the program. But opting out doesn’t remove the tracking ID.

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Etherington and AltaSea from p. 1

“I don’t scare that easily,” Etherington said from her seventh floor office in what is now called the Topaz building. From that vantage point, the future of AltaSea’s 35.6 acres site is visible. “Otherwise I would not have come out here.”

Etherington told Random Lengths that lots of people said she was mad for taking on the job.

“I personally never wanted to live a life inhibited by fear,” Etherington said. “I think AltaSea only comes along once in a lifetime and for me, it was the most phenomenal opportunity, that I couldn’t say no.”

Etherington explained that she spent the past eight months listening to and learning from the people of the Los Angeles Harbor while building partnerships with education groups and corporations.

“How often is it an opportunity comes to you and enables you to do something for the life of a community or communities who seem, in the main, really excited about this,” Etherington said.

“We are in discussion with several universities at the moment about hiring and creating new faculties and new disciplines. How often do you find a job with so many benefits?”

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“I was a member of Greenpeace at the age of 13,” Etherington said. “As a teenager railing against everything…I was really aware of the environment as an issue.”

Her parents were products of post-World War II England. The country was recovering from the devastation of German bombing raids and economic collapse. The collective memory of parents foregoing meals so that their children ate was still fresh in her mind, even after two generations.

“My dad was born in ’39, so he grew up during the war,” she said. “And so his mother used to forego eating to enable my dad and his sister to have her rations….The reason I’m saying this is because we grew up in a household where we were really aware of food scarcity…my mom and dad had no money when they were growing up…. Those principles were kind of inbred into me.”

AltaSea is not Etherington’s first rodeo when it comes to leading conservationminded organizations. Before coming to Los Angeles, she was the managing director at Blue Marine Foundation, a subsidiary of the Fauna and Flora International, the oldest and perhaps largest conservation organization in the world.

Etherington joined the nonprofit after a period of deep reflection about the direction of her life, both personal and professional.

“I no longer wanted to feel like I was just selling stuff to people who probably didn’t need it or couldn’t afford it. It didn’t fit with my values terribly,” Etherington explained.

“So, I thought, not only is the environment important to me on [an] ethical basis. I think there are huge business opportunities in it.”

No longer the idealistic teenager railing against environmental villains, Etherington became an executive that saw opportunities to partner with those very same environmental bad actors.

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out of the kindness of your heart give us a few percentage points of your profits so that we can do this,” Etherington said, facetiously. “Yes, you will get lucky occasionally. But my point is [that we have to] frame it in terms of reputational risk and opportunity, operational risk and opportunity, compliance risk and opportunity.

“I’m talking about building a business case for conservation.

I’m building the case for businesses to act as responsible corporate AltaSea CEO, Rachel Etherington next to a screen projection of the future marine science campus. Photo by Philip Cooke citizens across the board.

“My point about the economics of I think that will come later.”

AltaSea to have the biggest impact that it’s going ecosystems and biodiversity, or the business The money Etherington is raising will not to have. So, if you look at a spectrum, AltaSea cases of conservation or whatever one wants only pay for the construction of the 35.6 acres at one end would just be a landlord. Don’t really to call it, bringing the two worlds together on City Dock 1 but also some of the initial care who’s in it. We would just build it. And, as and demonstrating to people, as I said before, operational cost. long as you fulfilled some broad charitable-like that economic growth and environmental “What AltaSea will be doing…we will criteria and you can go in and do your thing. sustainability doesn’t have to be mutually generate solutions to sustainability issues,” That wouldn’t make any sense to me because exclusive.”

Etherington said. “In my view, the most pressing that would mean we have very little control over At the outset, AltaSea’s boosters have touted human issues are health, food security, energy what people do and the impact we have. I don’t the private sector as being the primary source security, etc. and etc. want another organization that pats itself on its of marine science institution funding with little “How we do that, how we have the biggest back, ‘Oh, we’re doing a wonderful job with lots public financing. Etherington, however, suggests impact, I can’t even give you the precise detail of busy people,’ but we’re not doing anything that there’s even a role for public financing in the about it. Because if you were to say to me, ‘what to stop energy prices from rocketing. We’re not future of AltaSea. are your organizational priorities?’ I’d say three doing anything to make sure that people are “What I’m not doing is relying on public money things: 1. Fundraising. I’ll raise lots of money. I getting access to good food and all that kind of to generate phase one,” Etherington explained. would say the figures we’re dealing with aren’t stuff.”

“We would be remiss to not look at that and we easy to come by. I’m not going to walk into Though AltaSea is not fully up and running would be remiss to not start these conversations. someone tomorrow who will sign a check for $133 just yet, the little things they are doing presages But my immediate fundraising targets does not million, but they are realistic and reasonable and how the institution will interact with local include big amounts of public funding.

I’m determined that we’ll get there. So fundraising education groups in the future.

“Although I say that, there are conversations is my No. 1 organizational priority.

“We have allowed within this $217 million that we are having which are going very well, “The second priority, you would imagine, is not only our operational cost, but we’ve which gives a strong indication that we might is getting this built—the permitting, the design, allowed a portion that would enable us to do get smaller, much smaller chunks of public and working with the port processes and making some non-building dependent programs, just as monies.” sure that everyone is working according to a tight we did at Cabrillo with the Discover Lecture She wouldn’t elaborate further on the source timeline. series,” Etherington said. “There are all sorts of these funds.

“And the third organizational priority…is of opportunities and partnerships with existing Etherington is prickly at the suggestion strategic partnerships. Now, that means to enable continued on previous page that AltaSea does not do enough to take local community into account, whether in its fundraising efforts or its planning efforts for the next 20 to 30 years of its existence.

“This is being built with their support and with their impact,” she said. “Now, all of this stuff that we are doing (and the breakfast on Thursday is one of them), is one of the ways that the community can come talk to us and can say, ‘How can we get involved? What can we do?’

“I would love to get to a point where we got the community engaged in fundraising. But I think, quite frankly…the focus is on us to get some big wins before we start asking people to put hands in their pockets.

Etherington made it clear, her first priority is to raise $133 million by January 2017, a benchmark on the road to the $549 million by 2019.

“We have to get some big wins across the line first and I think we owe it to the community to do so. So money and engagement are wonderful, but Pictured is the unveiling of the AltaSea name and logo in late 2013. File photo

Mayor Who Would Be Clerk Election Filing Opens: Dear Wants Job Change

By Lyn Jensen, Carson Reporter

Jim Dear has decided that his next career goal is to become city clerk of Carson. He’s served as mayor for 10 years but is now preparing to run for the other office in the general municipal election happening March 3, 2015. At press time he and incumbent Donesia Gause were the only persons who had taken out papers for city clerk.

Neither has actually filed or been certified to run as of press time.

Filing period opened on Nov. 10 and closes Dec. 8 for four city offices. Besides the city clerk, the treasurer and two council seats will be on the ballot next March.

He said he’s been mayor for 10 years, he’s dissatisfied with Gause and thinks he could do a better job.

The council appointed Gause in February 2012, following the retirement of Helen Kawagoe, who served as the city’s clerk for more than 30 years. At the time the city took the unusual step of interviewing applicants for the appointment.

Dear was absent at a meeting when the council majority—Lula Davis-Holmes, Julie Ruiz-Raber and Mike Gipson—voted to appoint Gause. Dear argues the council passed over a more qualified candidate, assistant city clerk, Wanda Higaki.

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press time neither had taken out papers.

Gipson to Assembly

Carson must also deal with the departure of Council Member Mike Gipson. He’s expected to resign from the council Dec. 1, the day he’s sworn in as the next assembly member for the 64th district.

After that the council has 60 days to decide whether to appoint someone to serve out his term or hold a special election. Should they choose the latter, the earliest a special election could be held would be in late March, or more likely, sometime in April. Gipson’s seat is next up for election in March 2017.

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Carson Mayor Jim Dear filed the paperwork to run for City Clerk. Photo by Terelle Jerricks

Dear alleges Gause has not remained “neutral” concerning aligning herself with what he calls negative political advocates in the community.

“I consistently remain non-political,” Gause responded by email when asked for comment.

“I advocate for the public so that all have access to City records and able to participate in public hearings.”

Dear also complained Gause spent city money to get a bachelor’s degree that he argues she should have obtained before being hired.

Gause responded, “Several City employees participate in the City of Carson Employee Education Reimbursement program. I participated in the Education Reimbursement program for my last four classes to complete my bachelor of science in business and management.”

If Dear doesn’t win election as clerk, he would continue as mayor. That seat is next up for election in March 2017. If Dear does become clerk, he must resign as mayor and, most likely, a special election to select a new mayor would be

The U.S. Census Bureau announced in its 2013 Service Annual Survey on Nov. 19 that revenue increased in all of the nation’s 11 service sectors for employer firms. Within the utilities sector, natural gas distribution showed a revenue increase of 15.7 percent, from $82.2 billion in 2012 to $95.1 billion in 2013.

The Service Annual Survey provides the most comprehensive national statistics available each year on service industry activity in the United States In 2009, the survey expanded to include data for all service industries, which account for about 55 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.

Highlights from service sectors: Utilities • Private sector utility revenue for 2013 was $541.0 billion, up 5.6 percent from $512.1 billion in 2012.

Transportation and Warehousing • Revenue for transportation and warehousing for 2013 was $815.8 billion, up 4.1 percent from $783.9 billion in 2012.

• Pipeline transportation showed $36.5 billion in revenue for 2013, up 5.7 percent from $34.6 billion in 2012.

Information • Information sector revenue for 2013 was $1.3 trillion, up 3.4 percent from 2012.

• Within the sector, the revenue for software publishers for 2013 was $172.3 billion, up 6.8 percent from $161.3 billion in 2012.

• In 2013, the revenue for wireless telecommunication carriers (except satellite) was $226 billion, up 3.4 percent from $218.5 billion

in 2012.

• Data processing, hosting, and related services revenue for 2013 was $95.5 billion, up 6.4 percent from $89.8 billion in 2012.

• Revenue for Internet publishing and broadcasting and Web search portals for 2013 was $62.5 billion, up 10.3 percent from $56.7 billion in 2012.

Finance and Insurance • Finance and insurance revenue for 2013 was $3.6 trillion, up 2.3 percent from 2012.

• Financial transactions processing, reserve and clearinghouse activities showed $47.6 billion in revenue for 2013, up 12.2 percent from $42.5 billion in 2012.

• Portfolio management had $206 billion in revenue for 2013, up 10.7 percent from $186.0 billion in 2012.

• Investment advice revenue for 2013 was $31.8 billion, up 13.8 percent from $27.9 billion in 2012.

Real Estate and Rental and Leasing • Real estate and rental and leasing had $497.1 billion in revenue for 2013, up 7 percent from Revenue’s Up/ to p. 17

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organizations to enable AltaSea to start helping others having an impact and raising our profile.”

She wouldn’t elaborate further on other local education groups AltaSea is financing, either in part or in-whole.

Though AltaSea may not pursue public financing very aggressively, the institution will pursue partnerships with certain government agencies such as the California Department of Fish and Game and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Etherington readily acknowledges her deficit as an outsider in American political circles, but despite that, she says she has had some “really great discussions with a number of people” closing that gap.

Even if you were born and bred in America, it’s a rabbit hole of working out where you need to get to, who you need to know, where the money is. You need a strategist. You need people with political understanding to get there.”

She said she sees innumerable opportunities with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and hopes that by phase 3 of AltaSea’s progression, they will be able to house a kind of NOAA satellite site on its campus, 15 or 20 years into the future.

held around July.

Two potential candidates have at press time taken out papers for city treasurer. One is the incumbent, Karen Avilla, and the other is Joe Merton.

At least seven persons have taken out papers for council, including perennial candidates Vera Robles DeWitt (a former council member and mayor) and Rita Boggs (a former planning commissioner). No one had filed or been certified at press time.

Council incumbents Davis-Holmes and Elito Santarina are expected to seek re-election.

Santarina would be running for his fourth term and Davis-Holmes for her third. However, at

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strike their company as well. The movement here is growing; drivers are getting confident. They believe they can seek justice.”

The influx of enthusiastic new drivers joining the strike may have prolonged it beyond what organizers had expected.

“Drivers from Harbor Rail Transport met and voted to continue their strike,” Barbara Maynard, of Justice for Port Drivers announced at a Nov. 19 press conference. “Drivers from other companies are meeting right now and deciding on their next steps.” The strike finally ended just as Random Lengths was going to press.

“They are empowered and unafraid because they have seen drivers fired for fighting back and supporting the union, and returned to work. They have seen drivers retaliated against for fighting back, and they have had their rights restored by the NLRB [National Labor Relations Board],” Maynard said. “There is no turning back now.

The drivers have come so far.With the help of the Teamsters, this industry will change.”

The earlier strikes against Green Fleet, Pac9 and TTSI were crucial in building the foundations for the broader strike actions seen this month, both drivers and Teamster officials said.

Ricardo Ceja, a striking driver with LACA Express, told Random Lengths that he was already sharing his dissatisfaction with other LACA drivers when those drivers went out on strike this past summer.

“They hand me out a some literature and that’s when I realized that it was happening all over the place,” Ceja said. “Then I just started talking to people and watching the videos on YouTube and I started talking to more of my coworkers after June and July and August, and then try to get them organized,” eventually hooking up with the Teamsters.

It’s a process being replicated even more rapidly many times over now, as Potter pointed out. “What we’re encouraged by at the picket line is we’re watching drivers who did not participate in the strike are coming in, parking their trucks, putting on a vest, picking up picket signs, and walking with their coworkers,” Potter said. “We have a number of drivers that gotten out of their trucks, even though their company is not one of them struck companies, they’re actually joining the picket line the given their contact information, to our organizers, and saying, ‘We want to be next. We want justice. We’re misclassified and we want to be Teamsters.’”

Green Fleet was also scheduled to be struck, along with Pac9 and TTSI, but they agreed to return to the bargaining table at the last minute, prior to the strikes being called.

The previous Friday, Nov. 7, saw two fired Green Fleet Drivers—Mateo Mares and Amilcar Cardona—returned to work under a federal 10(j) injunction, the first time in history such an action has taken place. The injunction was upheld by a Ninth Circuit panel, which may have influenced Green Fleet’s decision to be more cooperative.

Negotiations with Green Fleet, TTSI and Pac9 were ongoing, so “I’m not at liberty to discuss the details of those discussions,” Potter said. “But we see this is something very positive, a move in the right directions we feel where at a point now where restoring proper employee status—and not the misclassification status—is at hand. We 6 believe we can in the rights for these workers,

Port drivers during weeklong strike. Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov

and moved to actually making these middle-class jobs.”

Ceja understands perfectly what’s at stake, since he once had that kind of trucking job, for eight years before becoming a port driver at LACA Express, where he’s worked for the past year.

“I was doing okay, I was a company driver and was getting paid pretty well,” Ceja said. “I had a salary of $850 working Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and I didn’t have no deductions that all regarding fuel or repairs, or anything like that.”

In fact, he could even work Saturdays “if I wanted to,” and get extra pay.

At the time he lived in Tujunga.

“We had a very beautiful condo,” he said.

“We lived very comfortably. We had a community Jacuzzi and a beautiful pool and a barbecue area, lovely.”

But after working for LACA a while, they couldn’t afford it anymore and ended up moving into one bedroom apartment in Lawndale, which his girlfriend also works to support.

The contrast with his former job could not be more stark.

“We sometimes come in with negative paychecks, very low, way below minimum wage, and we’ve been working extreme hours,” Ceja said, “It’s ridiculous, all the way to 20 hours, getting two, three hours sleep here, one hour sleep there, throughout the day…. We don’t have time for the family, [we] miss all the precious moments.”

Many port drivers have not had a real choice of where to work. But for those who do, Ceja’s example is instructive. In retrospect, he regards it as a matter of ego.

“I thought I was my own boss and all that kind of built my ego,” he said. “When I realized I was just being used and it was a scam, then it was kind of a little bit too late.”

Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that, when you hear Ceja tell his whole story.

Like any non-lawyer, he was confused by the lease document the company required him to sign, and wanted time to get legal advice about

what it actually meant, but the company wouldn’t let him do that.

“They said, ‘No, this is what it is and the truck is going to be yours,’” Ceja said. “They told me they really [would] give it to me after two years—make payments for two years, and then it would be mine. So, I thought it was a good deal and I signed a contract I asked for a copy of it and they never gave me a copy.”

But the result has been that the company charges him for all the repairs they make, and then add those costs to the original loan—in effect, making it impossible to pay off. On top of that, Ceja notes.

“I’ve been paying for diesel every week, between $400 and $600 and they don’t make any deductions for any of that. We don’t have anything with the government. We don’t have Social Security, we don’t qualify for unemployment….

Let me rephrase that, we didn’t qualify before last month after a federal judge ruled in our favor, saying that we are company drivers not independent contractors, but before that we did not qualify for unemployment, disability, or Social Security retirement.”

The involvement of government has been crucial in giving the drivers a boost—but that involvement has only come about in the past few years as a result of labor activists and scholars documenting the actual conditions, which have been ignored for so long.

December 2010, saw the release of “The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America’s Ports,” which brought together three distinct bodies of evidence. First, an integrated overview of the literature describing the industry’s structure and economics, second, an aggregated analysis of 10 earlier surveys of 2,183 workers at seven major ports, and third, an in-depth analysis of the work arrangements of a diverse group of drivers and the firms they work for, based on detailed interviews and employment documents, including contracts, leases and policy manuals.

The report concluded that typical port workers

were misclassified as independent contractors and presented a set of clear-cut reasons why: • Port drivers are subject to strict behavioral controls. Trucking companies determine how, when, where and in what sequence drivers work. They impose truck inspections, drug tests and stringent reporting requirements.

Drivers’ behavior is regularly monitored, evaluated and disciplined.

• Port drivers are financially dependent on trucking companies that unilaterally control the rates that drivers are paid. Drivers work for one trucking company at a time, do not offer services to the general public, and are entirely dependent on that company for work.

Like other low-wage employees, drivers’ only means for increasing their earnings is to work longer hours.

• Port drivers and their companies are tightly tied to each other. Drivers perform the essential (and most often sole) services of the trucking companies they work for. Drivers work for years for the same company; use company signs and permits; represent themselves to others as being from the company; and rarely offer their work independently of the company.

The work done in that report was essentially a blueprint for other labor investigators to follow— particularly those charged with enforcing state and federal labor laws. As a result, in February 2014, a followup report, “Big Rig Overhaul,” was able to report on a wide range of enforcement actions across the country. Of particular importance for local port drivers, it reported that: • Port drivers have filed some 400 complaints with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, DLSE, for wage theft violations related to misclassification.

• Penalties in 19 cases already adjudicated by the DLSE have averaged $66,240 per driver, amounting to $4,266 per driver per month covered by the claim. Claims in pending complaints we have reviewed average a Truckers Movement Grows/ to p. 10

something that can be tolerated in our ports.”

Whatever does happen in the next few weeks, across the harbor or around the bargaining table, one thing seems certain—more and more port truckers are taking notice every day. The pace of change may be uneven, but the direction— toward dignity, justice, and a decent standard of living for all—seems increasingly clear.

“Being in the port, is very stressful, this long hours of waiting and waiting, with the port system the way it is at this time and it’s like we have probably the worst system in the world,”

Ceja said.

He knows that the ports and their partners are working on smoothing things out, “but the way it’s been, just a nightmare. It drains you out all your patience and so there’s a lot of angry drivers out there.”

Fixing the ports and leaving port truckers behind is just not an option any more. It’s been tried for more than 30 years now and it’s repeatedly failed. It’s finally time for justice for all.

Striking port drivers holding letters to the word “Justice.”

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov

little over $127,000 per driver, amounting to $5,072 per driver per month.

• Extrapolating from existing claims made under California state law, we conservatively estimate that port trucking companies operating in California are annually liable for wage and hour violations of $787 to $998 million each year. The true figure probably lies in the middle of this range at around $850 million per year.

Media reports on the strike routinely misidentify worker misclassification as a claim made by workers and the Teamsters, but this record clearly shows that it’s law enforcement agencies

which stand behind the claim now. And, slowly, but surely, the realization is starting to spread through the wider spheres of government.

“Mayor Garcetti has been a champion for the four drivers, calling for people, a peaceful resolution that the companies have to meet with Teamsters to address these issues with the drivers,” Potter said.

But there was still a long way to go, he noted.

“In Long Beach we find the mayor that seems to be silent and siding with the employers on this issue,” Potter said. “So, we’re very proud of the elected officials that stood up these workers and said that misclassification, wage that is not

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Athens of the Pacific Ports O’ Call Waterfront — ‘Developer’s Initial Concept is Not Financially Feasible’ James Preston Allen, Publisher

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Some years ago, I called Los Angeles the “Athens of the Pacific” and I’m sure John Papadakis and a few other Greeks liked this metaphor. With Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent trip to Asia, Los Angeles’ designation as the capital of Pacific Rim trade is only enhanced by the fact that President Barack Obama was there before him, committing this nation to the Pacific Rim market as he negotiated trade deals with China.

Most Angelenos are only vaguely aware that the city is connected to a port, let alone the Port of Los Angeles. Those who are aware, know that some 42 percent of all cargo entering this country comes via the Los Angeles/Long Beach industrial port complex making the twin ports the largest in the nation. Needless to say, they are acutely aware of the ports’ importance to the region and national economy.

As such, nothing connected to these two ports gets done without there being some “economic imperative” or expenditures driven by the mitigation of that imperative. The prime examples of this are the Alameda Corridor, the China Shipping Terminal and the Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement.

If the Ports O’ Call waterfront development were an “infrastructure” to trade and commerce, it would have been built yesterday with bond money paid off sometime tomorrow. But it’s not.

The recently released “Ports O’ Call Redevelopment Financial Analysis” concluded that, “the Developer’s Initial Concept is not financially feasible as a result of the projected Developer subsidy required to support a large scale Themed Attraction anchor.”

However, the Ports O’ Call analysis further concludes that a medium scale themed attraction anchor combined with a retail, dining and entertainment development can be a financially feasible development concept and recommends pursuing this concept with a total built square footage of about 215,000, inclusive of all development components.

The problem is that after the Port of Los Angeles over-spent on developing the automation at the TraPac terminal. The Board of Harbor Commissioners and port staff are both a bit shy of pursuing grandiose plans and are short on capital.

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The phrase “deep pockets but short fingers” comes to mind. Yet, if there were some overarching economic imperative to build such a grand concept, perhaps with other peoples money, it would be built. Grand architecture only comes by way of grand civic enterprise. The examples of this are plentiful in California, starting with the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco built in 1915.

Built as a group of temporary structures, the Palace of Fine Arts survives nearly a century after it was built. Similarly, the buildings in San Diego’s Balboa Park were constructed as part of the CaliforniaPacific International Exposition in the same year and was reused in 1936.

Likewise, our own Los Angeles Coliseum, built for the 1932 Olympics and reused for the 1984 games, is another one of these civic structures that, if not for some overarching imperative, would never have been built but has constantly been in use for the benefit of the people of Los Angeles for more than 80 years.

What I’m hinting at here is that without some greater purpose—some grand enterprise like a Pacific-Rim International Exposition, supported

by Garcetti, attended by Obama or his successor, promoting this port as the capital of Pacific Rim trade—nothing grand will be built.

What I’m saying is that not only is the feasibility study probably accurate for the conditions and investment mentality at present, but that the Los Angeles Waterfront Alliance plan probably isn’t grand enough to change the economic imperative to build it.

Think about it. With all of this attention on Asian trade and tourism and considering the immense pressure our port are under to compete for business, the creation of an international exposition on our waterfront would begin to fulfill POLA’s mission impossible.

Furthermore, if much of this construction were funded by our trading partners and shipping companies along with state and federal government help–ostensively to promote trade– the cost to both the developer and POLA would moderate.

At the same time, creating this kind of international draw might even cause the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to move on its long delayed plan to connect LAX to the San Pedro Cruise terminal. This would then spike Publisher/Executive Editor James Preston Allen james@randomlengthsnews.com Assoc. Publisher/Production Coordinator Suzanne Matsumiya info@graphictouchdesigns.com

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interest in the private sector to develop all of those vacant properties along Harbor Boulevard, even further supporting the feasibility of the Ports O’ Call site. All of this, in the end, supports the other components on the waterfront like Crafted, AltaSea, the USS Iowa and the existing businesses that remain both in the downtown and on the main channel.

Some might call this a grand flight of imagination. Others just might say it’s lunacy.

But in the end, if you want to build something really grand on this waterfront, you have to have a large enough civic vision of why it should be built—an economic imperative so compelling as

to be undeniable.

What we are missing from both the port and LA Waterfront Alliance is a vision big enough to encompass Los Angeles’ future in the sphere of Pacific Rim economics as it relates to this Main Channel site. We should not be satisfied with just being the “door mat” for global economics, nor tolerant of billions of trade dollars passing through these ports without it flowing through the economies of the surrounding region. And yet, all of this needs to be done in a way that is both sustainable to both the people and the environment.

Pentagon Supplies School Districts with Weapons of Mass Destruction Nathalie Bonilla, President of San Pedro High School Peace Club “Due to public outcry, school districts nationwide are debating whether to keep their Pentagon issued assault rifles…”

— Nation of Change Much controversy has risen from the distribution of weapons meant for mass destruction. The American people are becoming more and more frightened and feel threatened because of this.

School districts and law enforcement agencies are now being entitled to weapons that wield immense firepower that ultimately pose a threat against the public’s comfort and safety. Cases such as in Ferguson, Mo. where a policeman shot and killed an unarmed civilian, arouses the questioning of the law enforcement’s responsi-

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bility with much more deadlier weapons such as: grenade launchers, armored vehicles, bayonets and knives, etc. So why should we the people allow such threats manifest themselves within our communities?

The Los Angeles School District has agreed to return the grenade launchers but refuses to relinquish the assault rifles and mine-resistant vehicle it had obtained by the Pentagon. Are assault rifles or tanks really necessary on our school campuses? An environment like that would not only cause more weariness amongst the students but also disillusion.

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Dear Mr. Schaper, Progress is defined in modern societies not by how much wealth that some few are able to amass but by how well the we treat the least of our citizens and how fairly and equitably we are treated by our government. You revelle in the victories of the Republican party gaining control of Congress but as you may recall, it was that leadership that brought us two of our longest wars and then tanked the economy. It has taken this president six years to unwind much of this while the Republican controlled House has stalled every

are taught about the rues of dictatorship in nations such as Russia, Germany, or China.

However, we also learn how dictatorships start. And, that is with the will of the people.

Once a looming sense of fear and power over the people is enabled, the masses are easily subdued. Nazi Germany did this with their Gestapo secret

A mistake was made in the title of Toulouse Engelhardt’s new CD in the Nov. 13 edition of Random Lengths News. The name of the album is “Mind Gardens.” Random Lengths News continues to strive to bring accurate coverage to more than seven communities in the Harbor Area.

Thank you!

I love the Gary Webb stories that have been printed in recent publications of Random Lengths, and I can’t wait for the film to come out; it’s nice to pick up the paper and delve into a factual article that not only informs, but More Letters/ to p. 10

Your article in CityWatch that mentioned Robert’s Rules appeared in the news articles on my parliamentary procedure site (http://www.jimslaughter.com/).

In the event they may be of use for future articles, I wanted to share information on my two recently released books on Robert’s Rules of Order.

The books have a different purpose and different audiences (and the links that follow will take you to reviews of the books).

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Parliamentary Procedure Fast-Track is focused on smaller meetings, such as boards and committees, and provides details on the most used motions, appropriate informal procedures for smaller boards, and general advice for shortening meetings.

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as these arise due to the excess militarization of our police department. However, the underlying question is, what is the government preparing for? Is it protection from foreign emissaries or domestic uprisings?

Therefore, with these openended questions we should rise against the implementation of deadly weapons within our communities. Let us educate the public of what is really going on around them. So then we could unite and protest against the Los Angeles School District to give up its extra assault rifles and ominous MRAP tank.

For we are a nation that stands united when certain situations contradict our democratic way of life; thus, we should strive to correct any inconsistencies no matter how daunting they may be.

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police who implemented brutal methods of suppression to opposition.

Now reflecting to our situation, what does the distribution of lethal weapons to law enforcement and school officials look like? The government can give arbitrary explanation to their disposition but if we analyzed this situation objectively we can only assume the worst. It is almost as if the government wants to use these weapons in the future to control us. Officials such as Police Chief Rueben Littlejohn claim that such arms will be used for protection of the public and its students. But what exactly do we need protection from? Do we not spend billions of dollars already to keep warfare outside of our nation? Such questions

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What a difference two years make in a nation. Election 2014, oh what a night!

After six years of unmitigated progressive policies under the Obama Administration, the true believers who drank the Kool-Aid are puking it out and voting for life and liberty. The people who knew the truth all along, conservatives like me and Republicans in general, knew the fraudulent Obama Administration would crater under its self-aggrandizing incompetence. President Obama has done worse to his brand than President Bush ever could do the Republican Party. (By the way, more recent reports prove that Hussein had WMD. Ed Kaufman’s props for my editorial were wellreceived!)

Pro-life candidates won decisively. Second Amendment supports pushed back against billionaire campaign dollars.

Farmers, manufacturers, businessmen and women, working people in Main Street shouted “Enough!” and cast out liberal elitist politicians out of office in large numbers. Finally, the black and Asian vote is tilting Republican.

The mainstream media and alternative papers like Random Lengths News keep claiming “So many lies, so little time”, (the refrain which Paul Rosenberg routine resorts to), but the truth remains: Americans want their health care, schools, opportunities, their country back! They won’t be bought, nor let the political process be taken from them. They are tired of the statist status quo of Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, and

Barack Obama.

For the record, progress is not defined by government invasion of health care, forcing kids to go to bad schools, redefining marriage, expanding abortion on demand, grabbing people’s guns, restricting energy exploration, enabling illegal immigration, disparaging our international allies while emboldening our enemies, silencing political dissent, forcing union membership, or disparaging faith and family in the name of a hollow vision of societal perfection.

Progress is a limited government based on constitutional rule, which respects individual liberty and national sovereignty over collective conformity and global equality. Progress is a federal government which protects our rights and secures our borders, then respect all other rights and grants all other responsibilities to the states and the people: all those values that the Constitution mandates.

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effort to bring back sustainable growth and to reinvest in American infrastructure. Obama’s far from being a true progressive but he’s far better than either Bush or his father ever were on a number of levels. If you want to talk about true progressive politics go look at Sen. Bernie Sanders or Rep. Alan Grayson.

Using Obama as a whipping post for progressive politics is like calling George Bush the hero of the Tea Party.

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stirs your mind. Though it’s expository, the story of Gary Webb haunts me in such a way that I feel forced to acknowledge the relevancy that exists in local and personal issues today.

Lately, where public memorialization of peers and freedom of expression in schools are discouraged, where the abilities of teachers and students are being reformed to fit curriculums developed by mysterious organizations, and pressing issues such as the increasingly malicious social culture of youth are being swept under the rug, I look to journalists with admiration for fighting the silence. I especially

appreciate the “muckrakers” or the “a-little-on-thecrazy-side” writers who extend discussions through their works and lend significance to concerns that otherwise would be forgotten; though my opinion (or personal interest) may not align with every article, I am grateful for bold journalists who take on public conflicts and give voice to those too discouraged to speak up. It’s inspiring!

So I hope that in the spirit of Gary Webb, RL and other local newspapers will continue to chronicle the truth with the same sense of perseverance and disregard for formalities. We need to be informed, and we need to discuss the importance of information.

Dana Cameron, SPHS Student San Pedro

A Taco by Any Other Name

By David Johnson, Contributing Reporter “All tacos are created equal, but some tacos are more equal than others,” said best-selling author and journalist Gustavo Arellano in a presentation at the San Pedro Library, Nov. 16. In the discussion and signing of his new book by the same title, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, Arellano condensed the immense history of Mexican food in America from its origins to modern day derivatives. The discussion covered a wide range of topics from

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On Nov. 19 the Teamsters pledge provide free groceries for the drivers while they were on strike.

Secretary of Teamsters Union 848, Eric Tate (not pictured) came out to show his support for the striking truck drivers by coming out to the picket line at Pier J. Photo by Betty Guevara.

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Author and journalist Gustavo Arellano signs a copy of his bestselling book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America at the San Pedro Library. Photo by David Johnson

the origins of Taco Bell to the decline of tortillas in a can. Arellano, who also writes a weekly column in the OC Weekly titled, “¡Ask a Mexican!” shared a recent revelation he had in Texas about Mexican food after questioning Texans’ cooking style. “For me it finally dawned on me. Either it’s all authentic or none of it’s authentic,” Arellano said. For upcoming events and discussions at the library go to http://www.lapl.org/branches/ san-pedro.

By John Farrell, Curtain Call Writer

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sn’t it nice to be able to say “San Pedro’s secondnewest theater company?”

For more than 10 years, Little Fish Theatre on Centre Street was the only action in town: often imaginative, very successful and just a little lonely.

Lonely? They could sell tickets without competition, except for the on-again, off-again productions at the Warner Grand. But ask any theater professional and they’ll tell you that loneliness is over rated. What you gain by having no competition you lose because the theater-going public (you know who you are) just doesn’t have a lot of choices.

Now San Pedro has three theaters in regular production: Little Fish with a regular season every year (and Shakespeare by the Sea in the summer,) the San Pedro Theatre Club bringing its musical productions to Pacific Avenue and Theater Elysium San Pedro Repertory, which operate out of a former doctor’s office on Seventh Street, just an alley away from Little Fish.

San Pedro Rep is not quite the newest show in town: San Pedro Theatre Club opened first. But if it isn’t the youngest, it certainly is the most imaginative. In four production this year it has won critical acclaim from the Daily Breeze, Broadway L.A., and the Huffington Post, and its current production of Aeschylus’ Oedipus, which continues at San Pedro Rep through Dec. 21 is as spectacular and innovative as ever.

TE San Pedro Rep moved to San Pedro this year, after

starting in La Crescenta. Begun by Aaron Ganz, founder and artistic director, the company found in San Pedro the sense of community and an eagerness for theater that makes San Pedro special.

“As we complete TESPR’s first full season in San Pedro, our greatest success has been in developing an aesthetic that our audiences can count on, while ensuring that each show continues to surprise with unique storytelling methods,” Ganz said in a recent email exchange.

“Our audiences have defined themselves as passionate theater goers, interested in moving beyond the gloss of a typical theater experience. The people who come to see our shows know that they are entering into a world where the story happens around them, through them and with them.

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he Shelton Brothers may not be a famous name to everyone, but in the craft beer industry, they are responsible for distributing beer from some of the best breweries in the world.

Every year, they host The Festival, a beer event in which the brewers come together and sample their wares for the public. The Festival is typically hosted on the East Coast, but this year, Brian Mercer of Brouwerij West, soon to be opening next door to Crafted, was able to convince them to have The Festival in San Pedro.

With more than 90 breweries and hundreds of beers available, it was almost a bit overwhelming.

Jester King from Austin, Texas brought their newly released Colour Five, a blueberry sour beer. The beer was a deep blue/purple color and it’s easy to drink. Crooked Stave from Denver, Colo. brought a slew of saisons. Most notable of their beers were their Origins series beers, Raspberry and Blackberry Origins, which are saisons fermented with those fruit. These may have been my favorite of the whole session. They were in good company with Hill Farmstead, Prairie Artisan Ales and Anchorage Brewing Co. South Bay favorites like Monkish Brewing of Torrance and Beachwood BBQ & Brewing of Long Beach had a steady stream of visitors to try their beers. Beachwood’s IPAs, Denver Jackhammer and Amalgamator provided a nice break in between the prominence of saisons and wild ales. San Pedro Brewing Co. and Brouwerij Westre also presented San Pedro, offering visitors a taste of what’s to come.

From across the pond, Belgian stalwarts like Cantillon, Drie Fonteinen and Struise brought some of their most famous beers. Cantillon’s Fou Foune, a lambic ale fermented with apricots, was refreshing and perfect for the day. Drie Fonteinen’s Hommage, which has only been bottled twice, was available for sampling and shined brightly. Struise brought several variations of their Black Damnation imperial stout. I had the Blackberry Albert and Mocha Bomb. Both were very true to their names.

There were a couple of disappointments. I was really looking forward to Arizona Wilderness Brewing’s offerings, but at the time when I visited, they only had two beers available (though several were listed on the website). Also missing from the session was Sint Sixtusabdij, the abbey in Belgium that brews Westvleteren XII, one of the most highly ranked and sought after beers in the world. There was a sign for them, but there was no sign of them.

The food options were fantastic as well.

Everything from banh mi to tacos to The Grilled Cheese Truck and Vella Pizza were available for patrons. Visitors could eat outside in the space between Crafted and Brouwerij West. The food lines were also reasonable and not a problem.

It’s no wonder the Shelton Brothers called it, The Festival, because there really isn’t a better way to describe it. We’ve been spoiled having The Festival in Pedro this year. Here’s to hoping they continue to have it in our own backyard.

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Taking place at the upcoming December First Thursday Art Walk, Michael Stearns Studio 347 will be hosting a ‘NO MINIMUM’ silent auction of the work of artist Victor Krieden. A large inventory of abandoned art will be sold. Original art work, framed, acrylic on canvas ranging in size from 30” x 30” up to 55” x 60”. Original value up to $3000. A preview of the paintings is available beginning Monday, Dec. 1. Please stop

by Michael Stearns Studio 347 between 12 and 6 pm or call (562) 400.0544 for an appointment. Michael Stearns Studio 347 is located at 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro 90731

Runs through January 11, 2015. This year’s exhibit is truly an international event with more than 80 original paintings, never before shown in a national exhibition. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays, 11am 3pm. Not Open During the December Artwalk. 915 S. Pacific Ave. www.nationalwatercolorsociety.org

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Angels Gate Cultural Center’s new executive director, Amy Eriksen.

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ngels Gate Cultural Center has announced the selection of Amy Eriksen as its new executive director. This fills the vacancy created by the departure of the previous Executive Director, Deborah Lewis in March of this year. Amy was chosen from a very competitive field of candidates and throughout the extensive search process she simultaneously served as director of education and interim executive director. The board of directors of the nonprofit organization made a decision to hire from within, which facilitates a smooth transfer of management.

“My commitment is to see Angels Gate expand and grow said in a way that has a meaning to it,” Eriksen said. “We can always come in and add more classes and programming but this place needs a direction. I appreciate that [previous director] Deb gave us a view of that direction and she brought in the staff for the job.”

As previous director of education for three years, Eriksen’s vision for Angels Gate is deeply rooted in education and outreach to schools. The plan for the immediate future is for her to remain in that position.

“I am staying in the director of education role for a few months as we make this transition,” Eriksen said. ”I know that department very well and in order to accomplish our goals it only makes sense for me to stay in that role, with a little help from the staff.”

On the day I visited, the center had a bus full of elementary school children touring the facility, which brought joy to Eriksen.

“My favorite days are school tour days,” Eriksen said.

One of her pet projects is the Artists in Classrooms program. The program provides in-depth instruction in visual and performing arts to students in the K through 12 range.

Professional artists teach through ongoing

classroom residencies. Angels Gate is in 88 elementary classrooms across the Harbor Area with this project. The program focuses on third grade in order to train teachers in Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards.

“Last year, and now this year, we have added a new component called the Model School Program” she said. “We have fostered that program at Taper Avenue Elementary School. Every grade from first to fifth grade gets art in the classroom. My goal is to change our grants in order to have this program in all the Harbor Area schools in the next 5 to 10 years. [At Taper Avenue] First grade gets multiarts, second grade gets dance, third grade gets our visual arts program, fourth grade gets music and fifth grade gets creative writing, so there is a series of learning that is built around the arts. We had students that were in kindergarten [at Taper Ave] and they are now in fourth grade. Within the next two years we will be able to see what kind of impact this program has had on students coming out of elementary school and going into middle school.”

Angels Gate Cultural Center is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the Harbor Area. It is also one of the most hidden art spaces that we have. Eriksen is aware of the great divide that exists between the downtown area and the center at the top of the hill. With the small five person staff at Angels Gate, marketing and public relations are high on the list of goals to improve connection within the community. Eriksen was also quick to point out that many volunteer opportunities exist at the center. Their website lists many volunteer opportunities available for people interested in becoming involved in the arts. Landscapers, office assistants and docents are all needed.

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Studio tours. Situated on the bluffs overlooking the Point Fermin area of San Pedro, Angles Gate Cultural Center has provided studio space to artists living in Los Angeles and Orange County for nearly 30 years. Guided by the mission to unite art, community and culture through creative discovery they offer studio space to artists of all disciplines.

Filmmakers, playwrights, musicians, print makers, photographers and ceramicists all occupy studio spaces in this historic place.

Angels Gates compound has been in existence for more than 80 years. The buildings that house the studios were built by the military with the goal of lasting only five years during World War II. Long after the threat of invasion from across the Pacific has passed, the bunkers are dormant but the buildings continue to be used for artistic and community endeavors.

Eriksen’s resume includes more than 15 years of administration, communications and

programming experience in the arts nonprofit sector throughout the West Coast. She earned a masters in organizational management, and a life-long Long Beach resident, she is a recent graduate of Leadership Long Beach’s 25th Anniversary Silver class.

“I look forward to continuing to serve and partner with our artists, students and the community,” Eriksen says. “I am dedicated to Angels Gate Cultural Center because it provides cultural and artistic expression as a unifying force in our diverse community. We nurture art advocates and create a place for community members to re-imagine the San Pedro and Harbor Region. “ For more information on Angels Gate Cultural Center visit angelsgateart.org.

Harbor Area Restaurants Give a Cooking Hand

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

Preparing Thanksgiving dinner for the whole

Sir Winston’s Restaurant & Lounge

Enjoy a world-class gourmet feast this Thanksgiving at Sir Winston’s. Their awardwinning cuisine features a diverse menu of traditional favorites all masterfully prepared for a meal that you will truly be thankful. But if that weren’t enough, pianist Scott MacDonald will tickle the ivory keys standard tunes for your

Join everybody at Chelsea’s Chowder house for delicious roast turkey and all your Thanksgiving favorites. No trip to Chelsea’s would be complete without trying one of their signature chowders. Make it a Thanksgiving unlike any other.

Details: (562) 499-1685.

Hours: 5p.m.-10p.m.

Prices: $45/$19.95 Child

Promenade Cafe

The Promenade Cafe is casual and fun with a friendly atmosphere. Bring the family for a classic Thanksgiving Day dinner overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Hours: 6:30a.m.-10p.m.

Prices: $40/$19.95 Child Football fans can catch the NFL games at the Observation Bar and Chelsea Chowder House.

The rest of the family can burn off holiday calories by visiting CHILL - where you can go ice skating, ice tubing, or marvel at the incredible Ice Kingdom.

Please Note: The Tea Room will be closed on Thanksgiving. The Midship Marketplace and Observation Bar will be open during their regularly scheduled hours.

Cranking Tunes Cranking Tunes performs, at 10 p.m. Nov. 28, at the San Pedro Brewing Co. Details: (310) 831-5663; www.SanPedroBrewing. com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Co. Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

November 29

Jeff Hamilton Trio The Jeff Hamilton Trio will perform, at 8 p.m. Nov. 29, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Markus Carlton Markus Carlton performs at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 29, at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro. The lifelong musician plays jazz guitar with new material as well as jazz and blues standards.

Details: (310) 832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle. com Venue: The Whale & Ale Location: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro DJ Renaissance DJ Renaissance plays the music, starting at 10 p.m. Nov. 29, at the San Pedro Brewing Co. Cover is $3.

Details: (310) 831-5663; www.SanPedroBrewing. com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Co. Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

November 30

Benny Oke & Sound of Worship Benny Oke & Sound of Worship will perform, at 4 p.m. Nov. 30, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

December 4

Arsenio Rodriguez Project An all-star ensemble of top LA musicians celebrating the memor of one of the most important figures in Cuban music history, starting at 8 p.m. Dec. 4, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro.

Tickets are $20, $25 and $30.

Details: (310) 833-4813; www.GrandVision.org.

Venue: Grand Annex Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

San Pedro

December 6

Cliff Wagner & the Old #7 Bluegrass Holiday An annual tradition featuring hoppin’ bluegrass along with sing-along carols and hot cider will take place, at 8 p.m. Dec. 6, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. Tickets are $20, $25 and $30.

Details: (310) 833-4813; www.GrandVision.org Venue: Grand Annex Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro Something’s Funny at the Warner Grand Check out outstanding comics, at 8 p.m. Dec. 6, at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro.

Cost is $10 and $15.

Details: www.GrandVision.org Venue: Warner Grand Location: 479 W. 6th St., San Pedro

December 11

Lobby Bar Enjoy live music at the Lobby Bar, from 7 to 11 p.m. Dec. 11, at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Details: (310) 265-2800; www.Terranea.com Venue: Terranea Resort Location: 100 Terranea Way Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes

Dec. 19

A Soulful Christmas By the Sea San Pedro at Marina Seafood Restaurant. My Christmas show is with Gospel recording artists The Starlights, 5 Tempting Men (Temptation Revue Band) and San Pedro’s favorites “Rick’s Jamnesia”.Tickets are $25. The show starts at 9 p.m.

Venue: Marina Seafood Restaurant Location: Ports O’Call Village

Community/Family November 28

Farmers Market Attend San Pedro’s Farmers Market, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 28, on 6th Street between Pacific Avenue and Mesa Street Venue: 6th Street Location: Between Pacific Ave. and Mesa St., San Pedro

November 29

Waterfront Market Attend Waterfront Farmers Market, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 29, on Berth 84, at the foot of 6th Street and Harbor Boulevard.

Venue: Berth 84 Location: 6th Street at Harbor Boulevard., San Pedro

December 5

December 5

The Universe Below: Explorations of Life in the Deep Sea Cabrillo Marine Aquarium invites you to meet Dr. Shana Goffredi, professor of Biology at Occidental College, who will be speaking at the Discovery Lecture Series presented by AltaSea and the aquarium, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 5.

Details: ( 310 ) 5 4 8 - 7 5 6 2 ; w w w. cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro

December 6

Tidepool Wonders Explore low tides on the rocky shore, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 6, at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. The area offers a home to a variety of local tidepool animals and seaweeds. Among the organisms are tidepool sculpin, sea urchins, sea hares, hermit crabs, feather-boa kelp and an occasional octopus. An accessible pathway leads to the edge of the tidepools.

Details: ( 310 ) 5 4 8 - 7 5 6 2 ; w w w. cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro

Namhee Han, Rebecca Sjowall Organist Namhee Han will be joined by Rebecca Sjöwall, at 12:15 p.m. Dec. 5, at First Lutheran Church of Torrance. Playing from the heart defines Namhee Han’s approach to music making. Rebecca Sjöwall has been lauded for her dramatic power as an actress with a voice that is “luscious,” “beautifully crisp” and “a powerhouse.”

Details: (310) 316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/ ClassicalCrossroads/BachsLunchtime.htm Venue: First Lutheran Church of Torrance Location: 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance Jimmy Branly, Otmaro Ruiz Quartet Jimmy Branly and the Otmaro Ruiz Quartet will perform, at 8 p.m. Dec. 6, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

December 7

17th Annual Carlos Vega Memorial Birthday Concert The 17th Annual Carlos Vega Memorial Birthday Concert will take place, at 4 p.m. Dec. 7, at Alvas

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The Whale & Ale will be open and promises you won’t have to cook or clean. Just come and enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving feast. They’ll do the hard work for you.

You can enjoy first-class dining aboard the world-famous Queen Mary and celebrate Thanksgiving in style. Reserve your table at Sir Winston’s, Chelsea Chowder House before it’s too late. Otherwise you can walk into the Promenade Cafe (walk ins welcome) for their award winning brunch, before their tables are full.

Thanksgiving dinner is as common as apple pie. But have ever heard of Thanksgiving Brunch?

The Queen Mary Champagne Brunch will take you on a worldwide culinary adventure that features over 50 unique dishes from around the globe. Guests can enjoy the soothing sounds of Katrina Saroyan as they get an early start to their turkey day.

Details: (562) 499-1606 to RSVP Hours: 9a.m-3p.m.

Prices: $65/$19.95 Child

Chelsea Chowder House & Bar

November 28

Meredith Axelrod, Craig Ventresco Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco will perform, at 8 p.m. Nov. 28, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St.,

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family year after year can be a real chore, not to mention irritating when distant relatives you never see show up on your step with their own take-home containers.

Here are a few Harbor Area restaurants Random Lengths recommends to shirk off your workload.

musical entertainment.

Details:(56) 499-1657 to RSVP Hours: 12p.m.-7p.m.

Prices: $68/$19.95 Child Parking: $7 with restaurant validation for up to three hours of parking

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December 6

Handmade in South Bay Holiday Boutique Check out the handmade-only crafts from Harbor Area artisans, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 6, at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.

The event will include a DJ, raffle baskets for charity, demonstrations and an artists’ alley.

Venue: CRAFTED at the Port of Los Angeles Location: 112 E. 22nd St., San Pedro A Civil War/Victorian Christmas Be part of a joint celebration, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7, at the Banning Museum in Wilmington. The event will include Santa Claus, trolley ride, crafts, food and tours.

Details: (310) 548-2005, www.thebanningmuseum. org Venue: Banning Museum Location: 401 E. M St., Wilmington

December 7

The Living Landscapes of Terranea Walk Take a one-hour hike exploring the lush history of plants around the resort and why they were chosen for the property, starting at 10 a.m. Dec. 7, at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Details: (310) 265-2851; www.Terranea.com Venue: Terranea Resort Location: 100 Terranea Way Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes

Across Generations Across Generations, a fine art painting exhibit, is on display, through Dec. 19, at Parkhurst Galleries Inc. in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 547-3158 Venue: Parkhurst Galleries Inc. Location: 439 W. 6th St. San Pedro

Literary L.A. Check out a readers salute to Lionel Rolfe’s book, Literary L.A., at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11, at Warszawa Loft in Santa Monica.

Details: (323) 762-6073 Venue: Warszawa Loft Location: 1414 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica Independent And Free.

December 4

Eugene Daub: Sculpture/Drawings/Photos Eugene Daub: Sculpture/Drawings/Photos continues on exhibit, through Dec. 4, at the Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery in Wilmington.

Details: (310) 233-4411, (310) 600-4873 Venue: Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery Location: 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington

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Holiday Spirit of San Pedro Enjoy the 34th annual Holiday Spirit of San Pedro Parade, from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 7, in downtown along Pacific Avenue to 6th and Palos Verdes Streets.

Details: (310) 832-7272; www.SanPedroChamber. com Venue: Downtown San Pedro Location: Along Pacific Avenue to 6th and Palos Verdes Streets

Open Mic Nite Mike Rivero emcees an all talent music, poetry and comedy, from 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 11, at Off The Vine in San Pedro.

Venue: Off The Vine Location: 491 W. 6th St. #103, San Pedro

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December 13

Bus Stop Experience the Bus Stop, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, with 2 p.m. shows Nov. 20 and Dec. 7, through Dec. 13, at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro. Set in 1955, a bluster winter storm has hit the Midwest, and a busload of travelers from Kansas City must stop and spend the night at a diner outside of Topeka, Kan. Two young lover play out their courtship and discover that part of the journey is not knowing where you are headed.

Tickets start at $20.

Details: (310) 512-6030; www.littlefishtheatre. org Venue: Little Fish Theatre Location: 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro

Theater/Film December 6

Arms and the Man Long Beach Playhouse presents a production of George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m.

Sundays, through Dec. 6. The classic “antiromantic” comedy features Hallie Mayer, Sarah Genevieve Green, Charlotte Williams, Michael J. Knowles, Doyle Smiens, Mitchell Nunn and Alex Bennet. George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man takes place at the close of the Serbo-Bulgarian war in 1885. Raina, a young Bulgarian woman idealizes her fiancé Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of the war. As the Serbian army retreats, a voluntary Swiss soldier, Bluntschli seeks shelter by climbing through Raina’s bedroom window and begging for her to hide him. Bluntschli’s gentle nature and unique ammunition (he carries chocolates instead of bullets) contrasts sharply with Raina’s romantic notions of war and heroism, yet she finds herself attracted to him, and assists him in his escape.

Shortly thereafter, Sergius returns from the war and Raina begins to find his attitude more pompous and irritating. Her thoughts return again and again to her “chocolate cream soldier,” and when Bluntschli reappears, she finds herself torn between her romantic ideals and the surprise of real love. Tickets are $24 for adults, $21 for seniors and $14 for students.

Details: (562) 494-1014 option 1; www.lbplayhouse. org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse Location: 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

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Thru January 11

The 94th International Watercolor Exhibit The 94th International Watercolor Exhibit runs through January 11, 2015, at the National Watercolor Society Gallery in San Pedro. This event is a juried exhibition of today’s top international and national watercolor artists. This year’s exhibit has more than 80 original paintings, never before shown in a national exhibition.

Details: www.nationalwatercolorsociety.wildapricot. org Venue: NWS Gallery Location: 915 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Artist callout

For the 2015 exhibition year, Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) will focus on understanding the story of people who have served or are serving in the military. These stories are complex and rich. Through these exhibitions we hope visitors will gain a better understanding of the veteran’s experience and how it impacts our communities.

To coincide with this exhibition, AGCC is seeking Southern California artists whose artwork addresses issues that impact the veteran community, the veteran experience, and /or America’s current or past military conflicts.

Deadline: Dec. 15, 2014 Requirements: Digital images of work(s) dimensions of work, medium(s) used, date work was completed or will be completed, narrative bio (200 words or less) Statement about work (700 words or less). Email all requirements to submit@angelsgateart.org.

What sets RLn apart from the rest?

San Pedro Theater They know they will experience powerful stories told in innovative ways, at the highest levels of creativity and performance. The audiences that we are building are composed of adventuresome appreciators of theater, people who want their shared human experience to push boundaries in unexpected ways, something that stays with them long after the performance ends.”

That’s certainly true of Oedipus, which takes the classic Greek tragedy and transforms it to not only an incense-filled courtyard, but also a modern night club. And that is just the latest of several original works. “Our spring production, Wouldn’t It Be Lovely, was the highest selling show to date, and we were able to sell over 1000 tickets in our first season, unheard of in our previous location,” Ganz said.

“Our audience members have extended to the downtown San Pedro area, and sponsorship aside, the business community in downtown San Pedro has included some of our most loyal theater supporters.”

Oedipus, the fourth play presented by TE San Pedro Rep (they began with Hamlet by Shakespeare, then presented Wouldn’t It be Lovely, Ganz’s fusion of Shaw’s Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady and then The Lady of Shallot, based on the famous Tennyson poem) is as exciting as any they have done.

“Oedipus has long served as a warning against hubris and rashness,” said the play’s director David Mancini.

“It was initially written as a protest play, I think people overlook that when discussing it. It’s so easy to get lost in academic adoration of it, but it has a very real message about authoritarian rule, overconfident leadership and our responsibility to not turn our leaders into heroes or gods.

“A week after an election where our country is celebrating our new leadership and what they will be able to do while blaming the losers for not immediately solving all of the country’s problems, I’d say that the deification of leadership is still an issue in society.

“One of the things that Aristotle enjoyed about Oedipus was its adherence to the unities of time, place and action. None of that has changed. ...(I)n the course of the evening you will see the fall of a king. The differences come with the audience and their relationship to the action. This production considers them citizens of Thebes and members of the Chorus. They are implicit in the action of the play.

To take that sense one step further, during the latest San Pedro First Thursday we had our supporters and community members make works of art that will be featured on the walls of certain

rooms during the performance. Those that came to the theater to play that night are not only implicit, but helped create the world that will bring Oedipus to his downfall.

The hope is to take the audience out of the role of knowledgeable spectator and allow them to experience the story immersed as the chorus, wishing against the facts that are given through the evening so that maybe Oedipus will not be subject to the punishment he himself imposes.”

There are extensive plans for next year.

“The repertory company is expanding its slate of productions from three performances to five full productions for the upcoming season,” Ganz said, “including a spring rep cycle that will feature the same cast in two rotating shows – the Olympics of acting and theatrical production. Our first show will be Much Ado About Nothing (by Shakespeare.)” Ganz will direct that play.

“It will be a joyful celebration of our new cast, company and season. The spring rep cycle (otherwise known as the ‘Celebration Series’) revives Theatrum Elysium’s most acclaimed and innovative productions from our La Crescenta location, re imagining them in our San Pedro home. This spring Celebration Series will feature The Underpants, adapted by Steve Martin, in rep with The Vanek Trilogy, by Vaclav Havel.

“Following in the footsteps of The Lady of Shalott, our 2015 summer flagship production is the next bold, all original piece ... a truly epic story, Joan of Arc.” Ganz will also direct that work. “Our season goes out on top with Three Sisters, one of Anton Chekhov’s most enduring works,” Ganz said.

And TE San Pedro Rep has latched onto the celebration of Thursday in San Pedro, with a vengeance. “‘First Thursdays’ will offer community set build days, where our San Pedro friends can join our cast and crew in bringing each show to life, on a technical level,” Ganz said. The third Thursday of every month is now “Thirst Thursday” and TE San Pedro Rep will be holding an open-mic night, a theatrical cabaret for performance artists. And on other select Thursdays there will be film screenings in the theater’s back yard with members of TE San Pedro Rep cast and crew.

Ganz is most excited by another aspect of TE San Pedro Rep: “There is nothing we anticipate more in 2015, however, than the full launch of the Acting Matrix Conservatory (AMC), TE San Pedro Rep’s comprehensive training wing,” Ganz said. “Starting on January 6th, the AMC will offer drop-in workshops every Tuesday night from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in voice, movement and scene-study technique. This July, the AMC will also be launching an immersive one-month acting intensive, which will be re-offered in the fall.

“In 2014, we welcomed over 50 theatrical practitioners into our community, and we are entering into 2015 with our most talented, professional and innovative team yet!”

John Farrell’s review of Oedipus can be found in our Curtain Call online feature.

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Project Censored’s Stories You Never Read

2. TOP 10 US AID RECIPIENTS PRACTICE TORTURE

6. THE “DEEP STATE” OF PLUTOCRATIC CONTROL Israel, one of the largest recipeints of U.S. foreign aid, detained Palestinian youth in outdoor holding pens outside a transition facility in Ramla. File photo.

torturing children suspected of minor crimes.

“During our visit, held during a fierce storm that hit the state, attorneys met detainees who described to them a shocking picture: in the middle of the night dozens of detainees were transferred to the external iron cages built outside the IPS transition facility in Ramla,” the PDO wrote, according to The Independent.

The next top recipients of US foreign aid were Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. All countries were accused of torture by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, or otherwise abused more than 1,000 refugees from 2012 to 2013, Human Rights Watch found. The Kenyan government received $564 million from the United States in 2013-14.

When the U.S. funds a highway or other project that it’s proud of, it plants a huge sign proclaiming “your tax dollars at work.” When the US funds torturers, the corporate media bury the story, or worse, don’t report it at all.

3. TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, A SECRET DEAL TO HELP CORPORATIONS

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is like the Stop Online Piracy Act on steroids, yet few have heard of it, let alone enough people to start an Internet campaign to topple it. Despite details revealed

by Wikileaks, the nascent agreement has been largely ignored by the corporate media.

Even the world’s elite are out of the loop: Only three officials in each of the 12 signatory countries have access to this developing trade agreement that potentially impacts more than 800 million people.

The agreement touches on intellectual property rights and the regulation of private enterprise between nations, and is open to negotiation and viewing by 600 “corporate advisors” from big oil, pharmaceutical, to entertainment companies.

Meanwhile, more than 150 House Democrats signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to halt his efforts to fast-track negotiations and to allow Congress the ability to weigh in now on an agreement only the White House has seen.

Many criticized the secrecy surrounding the

TPP, arguing the real world consequences may be grave. Doctors Without Borders wrote, “If harmful provisions in the U.S. proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement are not removed before it is finalized, this trade deal will have a real cost in human lives.”

4. CORPORATE INTERNET PROVIDERS THREATEN NET NEUTRALITY

This entry demonstrates the nuance in Project Censored’s media critique. Verizon v. FCC may weaken Internet regulation, which Electronic Frontier Foundation and other digital freedom advocates allege would create a two-tiered Internet system. Under the FCC’s proposed new rules, corporate behemoths such as Comcast or Verizon could charge entities to use faster bandwidth, which advocates say would create financial barriers to free speech and encourage censorship.

Project Censored alleges corporate outlets such as The New York Times and Forbes “tend to highlight the business aspects of the case, skimming over vital particulars affecting the public and the Internet’s future.”

Yet this is a case where corporate media were circumvented by power of the viral web. John Oliver, comedian and host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, recently gave a stirring 13-minute treatise on the importance of stopping the FCC’s new rules, resulting in a flood of comments to the FCC defending a more open Internet. The particulars of net neutrality have since been thoroughly reported in the corporate media.

But, as Project Censored notes, mass media coverage only came after the FCC’s rule change was proposed, giving activists little time to right any wrongs. It’s a subtle but important distinction.

5. BANKERS REMAIN ON WALL STREET DESPITE MAJOR CRIMES

Bankers responsible for rigging municipal bonds and bilking billions of dollars from American cities have largely escaped criminal charges. Every day in the U.S., low-level drug dealers get more prison time than these scheming bankers who, while working for GE Capital, allegedly skimmed money from public schools,

What’s frightening about the puppeteers who pull the strings of our national government is not how hidden they are, but how hidden they are not.

From defense contractors to multinational corporations, a wealthy elite using an estimated $32 trillion in tax-exempt offshore havens are the masters of our publicly elected officials. In an essay written for Moyer and Company by Mike Lofgren, a congressional staffer of 28 years, focused on national security, this cabal of wealthy interests comprise our nation’s “Deep State.”

As Lofgren writes for Moyers, “The Deep State is the big story of our time. It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism, the financialization and deindustrialization of the American economy, the rise of a plutocratic social structure and political dysfunction.”

7. FBI DISMISSES PLOT AGAINST OCCUPY

Nationally, law enforcement worked in the background to monitor and suppress the Occupy Wall Street movement, a story the Project Censored/ to p. 19

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Revenue’s Up

$464.6 billion in 2012.

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services • Professional, scientific, and technical services revenue for 2013 was $1.5 trillion, up 2 percent from 2012.

Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services • Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services had revenue of $745.2 billion for 2013, up 4 percent from $716.9 billion in 2012.

Educational Services • Educational services revenue for 2013 was $56.9 billion, up 3.8 percent from $54.8 billion in 2012.

Health Care and Social Assistance • Health care and social assistance revenue for 2013 was $2.2 trillion, up 2.7 percent from 2012.

Arts, Entertainment and Recreation • The arts, entertainment and recreation sector had revenue of $222.2 billion for 2013, up 4.7 percent from $212.2 billion in 2012.

Details: http://www.census.gov/services/ sas/sastechdoc.html

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Sexual abuse, children kept in cages, extrajudicial murder. While these sound like horrors the United States would stand against, the reverse is true: This country is funding these practices.

The United States is a signatory of the United Nations’ Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, but the top 10 international recipients of U.S. foreign assistance in 2014 all practice torture, according to human rights groups, as reported by Daniel Wickham of online outlet Left Foot Forward.

Israel received over $3 billion in U.S. aid for fiscal year 2013-14, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Israel was criticized by the country’s own Public Defender’s Office for

hospitals, libraries, and nursing homes, according to Rolling Stone.

Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg, and Peter Grimm were dubbed a part of the “modern American mafia,” by the magazine’s Matt Taibbi, one of the few journalists to consistently cover their trial. Meanwhile, disturbingly uninformed cable media “journalists” defended the bankers, saying they shouldn’t be prosecuted for “failure,” as if cheating vulnerable Americans were a bad business deal.

Over the course of decades, the nation’s bankers transformed into the modern mafioso.

Unfortunately, our modern media changed as well, and are no longer equipped to tackle systemic, complex stories.

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predators.

These Frankenstein fish were found to be five times more likely to die in the natural world.

What a fitting metaphor for humanity, as our outsized consumption propels us towards an equally dangerous fate.

“It’s not as dramatic as say, an asteroid is hitting us from outer space,” Roth said of this slowly unfolding disaster, which is likely why such a looming threat to our food chain escapes much mainstream news coverage.

Journalism tends to be more “action focused,” Roth said, looking to define conflict in everything it sees. A recently top-featured story on CNN focused on President Barack Obama’s “awkward coffee cup salute” to a Marine, which ranks only slightly below around-the-clock coverage of the president’s ugly tan suit as a low point in mainstream media’s focus on the trivial.

As Nader noted, “’important stories’ are often viewed as dull by reporters and therefore unworthy of coverage.” But mainstream media do cover some serious topics with weight, as it did in the wake of the police officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. So what’s the deciding factor?

As Roth tells it, corporate news focuses on “drama, and the most dramatic action is of course violence.”

But the changes caused by ocean acidification are gradual. Sea butterflies are among the most abundant creatures in our oceans, and are increasingly born with shells that look like cauliflower or sandpaper, making this and similar species more susceptible to infection and predators.

“Ocean acidification is changing the chemistry of the world’s water faster than ever before, and faster than the world’s leading scientists predicted,” Welch said, but it’s not getting the attention is deserves. “Combined nationwide spending on acidification research for eight federal agencies, including grants to university scientists by the National Science Foundation, totals about $30 million a year—less than the annual budget for the coastal Washington city of Hoquiam, population 10,000.”

Our oceans may slowly cook our food chain into new forms with potentially catastrophic consequences. Certainly 20 years from now, when communities around the world lose their main source of sustenance, the news will catch on. But will the problem make the front page tomorrow, while there’s still time to act?

Probably not, and that’s why we have Project Censored and its annual list:

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DBA/LEGAL FILINGS Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014296978 The following person is doing business as: Paradise Tinting, 24325 Crenshaw Blvd., Suite 109, Torrance, CA 90505, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Ronald Engel, 1051 Golden Rose 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:1-6-10. 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/. Ronald Engel, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2014. 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).

Original filing: 10/30/14, 11/14/14, 11/28/14,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014327879 The following person is doing business as: Hair Force 1 Staffing, 884 W. 12th Street., San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Jeanna Ynfante, 884 W. 12th 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/. Jeanna Ynfante, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2014. 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. 2014326508 The following person is doing business as: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc., 1204 N. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc., 1204 N. Gaffey Street, San

Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: Jan 1, 2002.

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/. John Malinofsky, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920.

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014327878 The following person is doing business as: The Mak Look, 302 W. 5th

Street Suite 303, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: The Mak Look, 302 W. 5th Street Suite 303, 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: 11/10/2014. 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/. Elise Young, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2014. 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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mainstream press has shown little interest in covering.

A document obtained in FOIA request by David Lindorff of Who, What WHY from the FBI office in Houston, Texas revealed an alleged assassination plot targeting a Occupy group, which the FBI allegedly did not warn the movement about.

Lindorff confirmed the document’s veracity with the FBI. When contacted by Lindorff, Houston Police were uninterested, and seemingly (according to Lindorff), uninformed.

Law enforcement’s allseeing eyes broadened through the national rise of “fusion centers” over the past decade, hubs through which state agencies exchange tracking data on groups exercising free speech. And as we share, “like,” and “check-in” online with ever-more frequency, that data becomes more robust by the day.

8. IGNORING EXTREME WEATHER CONNECTION TO GLOBAL WARMING

In what can only be responded to with a resounding “duh” news analyses have found mainstream media frequently report on severe weather changes without referring to global warming as the context or cause, even as a question.

Unlike many journalists, ordinary people often recognize the threat of our warming planet. Just as this story on Project Censored went to press, over 400,000 protested in the People’s Climate March in New York City alone, while simultaneous protests erupted across the globe, calling for government, corporate, and media leaders to address the problem.

9. US MEDIA HYPOCRISY IN COVERING UKRAINE CRISIS

The United States’ battle with Russia over Ukraine’s independence is actually an energy pipeline squabble, a narrative lost by mainstream media coverage, Project Censored alleges.

As The Guardian UK’s Nafeez Ahmed reported, a recent U.S. State Departmentsponsored report noted “Ukraine’s strategic location between the main energy producers (Russia and the Caspian Sea area) and consumers in the Eurasian region, its large transit network, and its available underground gas storage capacities,” highlighting its economic importance to the US and its allies.

10. WHO SUPPRESSES REPORT ON IRAQ IMPACTS

The United States’ legacy in Iraq possibly goes beyond death to a living nightmare of cancer and birth defects, due to the military’s use of depleted uranium weapons, a World Health Organization study found. Iraq is poisoned.

Much of the report’s contents were leaked to the BBC during its creation. But the release of the report, completed in 2012

by WHO, has stalled. Critics allege the United States is deliberately blocking its release, masking a damning Middle East legacy rivaling the horrors of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

But Iraq will never forget the US intervention, as mothers cradle babies bearing scars obtained in the womb, the continuing gifts of our invasion.

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014295900 The following person is doing business as:(1.) Carinas Flowers and Gift, 700 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Zoila Murillo, 700 S. Pacific Ave, 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/. Ronald Engel, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 16, 2014. 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

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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).

Original filing: 11/14/14, 11/28/14, 12//11/14,

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