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Austerity and the False Promise of Balanced Budgets

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Sacrificing Democracy for the Bottom Line
James Preston Allen, Publisher

Pundits on the right and left chant balance budget like some religious mantra. In the recent Los Angeles primary elections, Republican candidate Kevin James accused the three leading mayoral Democrats of leading the city to bankruptcy because of a $200 million deficit. And the current mayor and city council have responded to the doomsday forecasts of Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, by asking voters to approve a regressive half-cent sales tax. This, from the man who couldn’t even provide an answer when asked point-blank how much property the City of Los Angeles owned, or how much revenue the land generated!

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Wronging Rights

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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
Graphic Design by Mathew Highland

On March 7, 1965, a young John Lewis, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-lead 600 people in a voting rights march intended to go from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They only got as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they were brutally beaten by a mob of state troopers, county sheriffs and deputies, in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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Community Announcements 2/27/13

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March 1, 2013

Living Treasures Dinner
Honor and hear the stories of some of the oldest folks in town. A special dance presentation and concert will follow. Presented by San Pedro Historic Waterfront PBID. Friday, March 1, 2013, 6:00 pm, includes dinner. Tickets $50 each available online at livingtreasures.brownpapertickets.com or at the Chamber office – 390 W. 7th St.
Details: sanpedro125@gmail.com
Venue: Crowne Plaza LA Harbor Hotel
Location: 601 S. Palos Verdes St. San Pedro

March 2, 2013

E-Waste Drive and Shred Fest
With the rise in identity theft, the Shred Fest is a good opportunity to safely dispose of old personal records and documents., Shredding documents will be taken from 9 am to 12 noon, and e-waste will be collected from 9 am until 2 pm Documents will be destroyed on site.The first five boxes per vehicle are free, and it is only $5 for each additional box.In addition, residents can properly dispose of electronic waste, such as old computers and other electronics, for proper disposal. Proceeds from the donated items will benefit the Expo Arts Center Fund, to support its maintenance and operations.No batteries, fluorescent tubes or household hazardous waste will be accepted.
Details: (562) 570-6685,district8@longbeach.gov.
Venue:Scherer Park, corner of Atlantic and Del Amo
Location:4600 Long Beach Blvd Long Beach, CA 90807

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Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled

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Rosa Parks, the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on the bus sparked the civil rights movement, was enshrined in the US Capitol building today.

The nine foot tall statue depicts the civil rights icon in her most famous posture, sitting. San Pedro sculpture Eugene L. Daub, who along with partner Rob Firmin, created the statue said “Parks raised sitting to a new level, it’s not just sitting, it’s heroic sitting, sitting that changed history.”

President Barack Obama spoke at the unveiling “This morning, we celebrate a seamstress slight in stature but mighty in courage,” the president said. “In a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world.”

Rosa Parks is the first African American woman to be honored with a statue in the Capitol. The Statuary Hall collection includes 100 statues in five locations in the Capitol. Among the others in Statuary Hall itself are William Jennings Bryan and Daniel Webster — and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Parks was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1999.

Rosa Parks Statue Unveiling Video

 

Minimum Wage Law Avoided by Long Beach Hotels

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For the past two months, some Long Beach hotels have found ways to work around a law that requires them to pay a $13 minimum wage to their employees.

With over 64 percent of the vote, Long Beach voters approved of Measure N during the Nov. 6 election.

Measure N guarantees that employees at a hotel of 100 rooms or more will be paid about $2,000 a month for full-time work, receive five paid sick days a year and assures that workers receive 100 percent of guest service charges.The Long Beach Business Journal reports that Measure N adds about $7 million annually into Long Beach’s economy.

In reaction to Measure N, some hotels have closed rooms or reduced workers hours so they no longer meet the qualifications needed for the health benefits.

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Fourteen Arrested in Stock Market Manipulation

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Fourteen people were arrested for their involvement in stock market manipulation schemes that caused over 20,000 investors to lose over $30 million when artificially inflated stock prices collapsed.

The arrests were made Feb. 13 after the grand jury released two indictments which detail large-scale fraud schemes in which the conspirators gained majority control over the stock of publicly traded companies, concealed their control of the stock by using offshore accounts and then fraudulently inflated the prices.

They then traded much of the companies’ stocks through slick marketing campaigns, misleading press releases, payments to stock promoters, and “cross-trading” among co-conspirators that made it appear the stocks were being actively traded.

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Pat Derby, Savior of Elephants, Dies

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Pat Derby, Savior of Elephants, Dies

By LIONEL ROLFE

Pat Derby, founder of Ark2000, a 2000-acre refuge for elephants in the Mother Lode where at least one of the alleged pachyderm victims of the Los Angeles Zoo lived out her last days in happier refuge, has died.

Pat Derby died Friday at 69 from throat cancer, with her long-time companion Ed Stewart at her side.

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Lula for Mayor: Just Don’t Call Her an Underdog

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Lula for Mayor: Just Don’t Call Her an Underdog

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

People may think Lula Davis Holmes is an underdog, but she doesn’t think so.

“I was an underdog five years ago when I ran against the Mayor Pro Tem (Julie Ruiz Raber), and I hadn’t ran a race at all. No weapons formed against me shall prosper,” she said, her rendition of Isaiah 54:17 of the Bible. “We came out victorious. I don’t consider myself an underdog,” she said.

Holmes makes it clear from the beginning that this election isn’t as much about becoming mayor as it is about changing the prevailing order in Carson’s City Hall.

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“M” is for Mayor (Extended Version)

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“M” is for Mayor (Extended Version)
Photo by Terelle Jerricks

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

This year’s mayoral and council race may well just be sideshows to the battle for Measure M, where Carson residents are asked whether they want to return to a rotating mayorship, a la pre-1992, or retain their right to directly elect the mayor. But perhaps the real question is whether residents are ready to turn away from patronage style politics to one that’s geared toward constituent issues and more closely aligned with participatory government.

Despite a council that agrees on most issues, it is the appointment process and the actual running of meetings that’s seen the most explosive divisions on the council.

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Guilty Pleasures at Porky’s

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Guilty Pleasures at Porky’s

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

Porky’s BarBQ in Long Beach is closing permanently Sunday, Jan. 27.

“The demographics changed,” Earl Hellum, proprietor of the popular rib joint, explained. Yelp reviews of patrons who would say they like the food but were bothered by the fact they would be hassled by panhandlers, among other issues led him close the venue.

The upside of the closing is that all of his energy, creative and otherwise, will be focused on the San Pedro branch.

At 47 years of age, Earl is becoming ever more a stickler for authenticity, from the recipes to the décor of the restaurant, which includes Southern Americana art and sensibilities on the walls– indeed, something you’d find in a traditional rib joint in the South. The radio station stays on KJazz, and on some evenings old school blues joints adds an old-timey atmosphere to the place while you’re waiting for your food.

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