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After the Settlement Settles…

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After the Settlement Settles…

By Sherry Hernandez, Author and Member of Occupy San Pedro

Originally published in the Feb. 23, 2012 edition of Random Lengths News

Legend has it the Europeans purchased Manhattan for $24 worth of beads and mirrors almost 400 years ago. On Feb. 9, the U.S. Attorney Generals sold out the American people for $26 billion dollars to the banks that have defrauded our American dream.

The terms of the settlement has not yet been officially released. The terms need to be signed off by a judge and the results might not be in effect for more than a year. What this means to the home buyers is that the banks will escalate their foreclosures while they still can. Most of us will not see any relief for quite some time and others have already lost their homes and future revenue. The banks that brought on this massive fraud are getting by with a slap on the wrist. The $26 billion dollars is a paltry sum for causing the American people more than $700 billion in underwater debt.

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Why Haven’t You Paid Your Mortgage?

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Why Haven’t You Paid Your Mortgage?

By Sherry Hernandez, Author and Member of Occupy San Pedro

An Excerpt of the is was originally published in Random Lengths News, Jan. 26, 2012

I sat in the lawyer’s office in the chair across from his massive desk as he asked me “that” question. “Are you behind on your mortgage now?”

“Yes,” I answered.

He raised a disapproving eyebrow as he looked down at the papers on his desk and shuffled them around.

I’m used to this response. People who didn’t buy a home during these years don’t understand.

In the past, these stories had been about lost jobs and poor planning, but today most of the stories involve some dishonesty on behalf of the lenders. And, because lenders have established a reputation over the years of operating with integrity, people have a hard time believing that they are capable of this degree of duplicity.

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Harbor Currents–Family Fun–June 1, 2012

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June 2
National Trails Day
Help repair the trails that thousands of people enjoy each year between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Details: (310) 541-7613; http://www.pvplc.org/_lands/portuguese_bend.asp
Venue: Portuguese Bend Reserve
Location: Park Place Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes (Entrance at Del Cerro Park)

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Buddha is Big at Baramee

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By Gretchen Williams, Lifestyle and Cuisine Writer

“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”— Buddha

Escape the chaos and noise of downtown when stepping into Baramee, the new Thai restaurant at home in the old 6th Street Bistro location. Calm and serenity reign at Baramee, with a frieze of Buddha and his brothers crowning one wall, opposite original aged brick. Quiet music continues the calm feeling. Dining al fresco on the patio, protected by sails overhead, is lovely in the spring and summer.

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Driver Ed turned up the music (continued)

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By Matt Sharar

Pacing the wharf, Ed thought on his current choice of profession. Being stoned, however, he digressed. Digressions were good, as long as he didn’t turn a blind corner into the Lair of His Premonition Demon, as Occula had called it in her reading profile.

Instead Ed thought of the stable of animals the troupe carted with them on tour: horses and goats, and only one lion, as Circus Venus, though the third biggest of the circus companies, fell at the bottom of the totem pole (next to Barnum & Bailey’s and that modern French conglomerate that sold thousand dollar items in an anteroom). (Circus Venus also sold items in an adjoining tent, though nothing breeched the fifty dollar range.) Even further down the evolutionary scale, dwelled Venus’ concession stand, bursting with clouds of cotton candy, which fetched thirteen dollars at the French Fantasmagoria.

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Iowa Fever

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Iowa Fever

Have You Caught it Yet?

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

Update: This story gives attribution to Robert Kent, the president of Pacific Battleship,the line about the Gray Panthers donating a welder.

If you live or work in close proximity to San Pedro, there’s a good chance you have caught the fever… the fever for the USS Iowa that is. The fever has been slowly spreading since 2010, but with the arrival of the 60-year-old battleship and its official opening a month away, the fever is now approaching epidemic proportions.

The fever isn’t a necessarily a bad thing. Anti-war pacifist or not, one of it main side effects of the fever is a hopeful optimism that the USS Iowa’s arrival will mean good things for San Pedro as this town pursues its goal of becoming a tourist destination and place where jobs are plentiful.

“I’m very excited,” President of Jericho Development and San Pedro resident, Alan Johnson said. “It’s going to be a very good for the town… I know a ship like that will bring people from the larger Los Angeles area for years to come.”

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Harbor Interfaith Services Set to Move into New Home

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Executive Director/CEO Tahia Hayslet of Harbor Interfaith Services at the new Family Resource Center

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

Tahia Hayslet, executive director and CEO of Harbor Interfaith Services spoke excitedly about the features of the newly built facility the service organization will be officially moving into on June 10. Comprised of 15,000 square feet that includes the family resource center, a conference room, a computer lab and small playground for toddlers. But Hayslet, is really excited about the extra bathrooms.

“Before, we only had one bathroom for all of us and the clients, so we got to know each other really well,” Hayslet jokingly said.

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Harbor Currents-Announcements for May 31, 2012

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June 2
Youth Employment Preparation Fair
Register online for the Youth Employment Preparation Fair San Pedro, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 2, at the Port of Los Angeles High School.

All students, ages 16 to 25 years old, are welcome. This is not a job fair. Rather, it is an opportunity for youth to learn about how to obtain a job. As part of the day they will have the opportunity to talk one-on-one with employers, some of whom may have job openings.

Participants will have the opportunity to attend workshops on topics such as resume writing, interviewing, getting experience when you don’t have experience, union apprenticeships, college scholarships, and using social media to obtain a job.
Details: www.spyeef.weebly.com
Venue: POLHS
Location: 250 W. 5th St., San Pedro

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POLA Director Receives Conservation Award

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Geraldine Knatz has been named the 2012 recipient of the Blue Frontier Campaign’s Peter Benchley Ocean Award for “Excellence in Solutions.”

The Blue Frontier Campaign is a national marine conservation activist organization working to improve ocean policies in coastal states. The Peter Benchley Award is named in honor of lifetime marine wildlife conservationist Peter Benchley, best known for writing the bestseller novel ‘Jaws’ in 1974.

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Remembering the First Amendment: This far and no farther

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By James Preston Allen, Publisher

It came to me the other day, as I was standing in the middle of a public street at a local farmer’s market. I had to defend my self, my newspaper and the First Amendment from the most exquisite form of censorship: The denial of distribution in public places with the added threat of arrest if I didn’t stop. And, it doesn’t seem to get any easier either.

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