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ertain tragedies, such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, become lodged in

the perpetual memory of the nation. However, there are some historical events that often escape the collective memory of Americans, such as the National Chicano Moratorium.

On Aug. 29, 1970, more than 25,000 Chicano anti-war and anti-draft demonstrators from across the country gathered on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War. Law enforcement officers claiming to have been chasing a robbery suspect that ran into the demonstration in Laguna Park (now Ruben Salazar Park) attempted to break up the gathering, herding participants at the park back toward the street.

“The moratorium was a massive attack on the civil rights of our community, which included the deaths of various people, injuries to scores and the arrests of hundreds,” said Juan Gomez-Quiñones, a history professor at the University of California Los Angeles. “The march was peaceful, orderly….There was no reason for police interference with the march and assembly….The police said it was a Chicano riot. The Chicanos said it was a police

riot. When you look at the film and you hear the audio transcripts, what you hear is mayhem being driven by police.”

For Eliseo Montoya, the events of that day are not a lost memory. Montoya and his family went to Laguna Park to see what was going on that day. He said his parents weren’t political. They were just curious about the moratorium. They couldn’t have known that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department was going to turn the peaceful event into a war zone.

“All I can remember is my mom picking me up, my dad, and running, running,” recounted Montoya. “I can’t remember speeches or who it was. I was maybe 7 years old at that time. I was barely going into the first grade.”

Tear gas canisters were dropped from helicopters and demonstrators were chased through the streets by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies and Los Angeles Police Department officers. Four people were killed, 150 were jailed and a number of businesses went up in smoke. Mike Castañon, who was about 10 or 11 years old at the time, was riding his bike to the event when the violence erupted.

“All you’d see was smoke and siren, and people running,” said 56-year-old Mike Castañon. “It was just chaotic.”

Gomez-Quiñones also remembers that day vividly. He and his friends were close to the stage when the officers attacked the large group of people.

“We had to scramble to get out,” Gomez-Quiñones said. “I had to carry a friend’s young child. We had to get out quick.”

Luckily for his friends and him, his godmother’s home was only a block away.

“I was just flabbergasted,” he said. “We did not hear any order of disbursement. The only warning was when people began to shout and pushed us to each other. Like a thunderbolt.”

HistoryThe National Chicano Moratorium was the

pinnacle of opposition to the Vietnam War by Americans of Mexican descent.

“The 5,000 to 10,000 who were actually in the park had a deep experience,” remembered Rosalio Urias Muñoz, one of the co-founders of the National Chicano Moratorium. “The most important driving force was the war and its impact on the community. But our method of organization, our intent was to build it as

part of the overall Chicano movement and to reinforce so that it didn’t become a separate issue competing with the other issues.”

Muñoz and one of his friends, Ramses Noriega, set out to mobilize the Chicano community against the war. Muñoz, a multi-generational Chicano, came from a middle-class, educated family. Both of his parents were teachers. Noriega came from a working-class family of Mexico. They met at the United Mexican-American Students, which became the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, best known as MEChA.

Muñoz, who became the first Chicano student body president at UCLA, was drafted

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Discovery Lecture SeriesOn Oct. 2, AltaSea in

collaboration with the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is hosting the Discovery Lecture Series, “If We Make Their Bed, They Will Lie In It: Restoration of Native Olympia Oysters in Southern California” by Dr. Danielle Zacherl, CSU Fullerton.

The Olympia oyster, ostrea lurida, is the only oyster native to the West Coast of the United States. It has experienced significant population declines due to overharvesting and habitat destruction. This bed-forming species provides complex habitat for other organisms, but there are no remaining natural Olympia oyster beds in Southern California. Dr. Zacherl will discuss a recent study that examined the effectiveness of various restoration techniques on local oyster density in Newport Bay.

Dr. Zacherl is a marine ecologist and professor in the department of biological sciences at CSU Fullerton. Time: 7 p.m. Oct. 2Cost: FreeDetails: lecture@cmaqua.orgVenue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Auditorium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro

Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Update Clean Air Action Plan

Environmental teams from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach will host a joint community workshop on Oct. 14 to gather input on the next update of the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP). Initially adopted in 2006 and updated in 2010, this

historic environmental plan called for aggressive strategies that have proved highly effective in reducing air pollution from port-related sources. The workshop is open to the public.Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 14Venue: Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington.Details: (310) 732-3568,

(562) 283-7715, lee.peterson@polb.com

City of Carson’s Women’s Health Conference and Business Expo

On Oct. 16, Carson City Councilwoman Lula Davis Holmes will host Carson’s Women’s Health Conference and Business Expo. The conference is hosting two sessions of workshops on topics that range from entrepreneurship for women to estate planning, as well as panels on such health issues as cancer, lupus and diabetes prevention. Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 16Cost: $20Details: ci.carson.ca.us/itsallaboutme (310) 346-8968Venue: Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St., Carson

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The San Pedro Waterfront Red Car completed its final trip at the conclusion of the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival on Sept. 27. Neither Supervisor Don Knabe’s nor the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board’s last ditch efforts were enough to save the beloved trolley.

When it was announced in March that the Red Car was going to be shut down, the port cited a $40 million price tag on the low end of cost estimates and $227 million to build out the line to all of the attractions on the waterfront from Wilmington on the north and to Cabrillo Marine Aquarium on the south.

On Sept. 17, Knabe made a motion to direct the CEO of Metro to provide a presentation for discussion in two months addressing what it would take to continue the Red Car on a limited basis and connect it to other Metro transportation lines.

A week later, the Metro wrote to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka requesting that the Red Car continue limited operations until the county could devise a way to keep the trolley running with its financing.

While port staff agreed to meet with the Metro board about the Red Car in the coming weeks, the red trolley is officially dead.

The port frequently refers to its economic imperative of ensuring port operations while being a good friend of the community.

In a July interview with Random Lengths, Seroka noted that “Ports O’ Call isn’t going to do anything for the port, but hopefully it does something for the community and creates businesses that are going to be here.”

Former Red Car ambassador, Bob Bryant, considers this an example of Seroka talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Bryant recounted an episode in which he spoke in front of the Harbor Commission. He said Seroka followed him outside and told him that Harbor Commissioners Anthony Pirozzi and Dave Arian were doing everything they could to keep the Red Car operational in some capacity.

“Look what happened. They shut it down anyway.”

Though there have been discussions about the possibility of including 5,000-unit condos in addition to other development along the waterfront in an effort to draw people to the Los Angeles

Harbor, little has been said about how to facilitate non-commercial transportation in and out of the harbor.

“That’s 10,000 cars,” Bryant said. “Joe [Buscaino] has not spoken up at all.” He calls the councilman’s silence cowardly.

The Red Car’s Final Ride, POLA’s CommitmentBy Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

San Pedro’s Red Car is garaged for now. File photo.

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Los Angeles leaders recently declared a homeless state of emergency, pledging $100 million in aid toward housing assistance, shelters and other services.

The number of homeless people living in LA rose by 12 percent between 2013 and 2015 and now stands at more than 25,000.

The majority of these, about 17,000 people, are classified as “unsheltered” by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. These people live outside on city streets or in cars and recreational vehicles due to a shortage of shelter space.

The increasing size and visibility of the city’s homeless encampments have been a wake up call to neighborhoods that have traditionally seen the issue as a problem for Skid Row. San Pedro, which sits on the southern end of the 110 Freeway next to the Port of Los Angeles, is one of these neighborhoods.

Since 2013, the number of homeless living in the Harbor Area, which is comprised of San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City and Harbor Gateway, has risen to about 1,500 people—a 25 percent increase since 2013. Between 300 and 400 of these people live specifically in San Pedro.

“The key word is ‘noticeable,’” said George Palaziol. “There’s been an increase in the visibility. We had the homeless here [before], they just weren’t visible; they would go and hide.”

Palaziol, who is part of a new San Pedro Homelessness Task Force formed by

Councilman Joe Buscaino, says the sharp rise in his neighborhood’s homeless population is due in large part to the clean-up of nearby Ken Malloy Harbor Park.

“Once they cleared them out [of the park], where do these people have to go?” he said. “San Pedro seems to take the brunt of it because we have all the services.”

Palaziol welcomes the city’s state of emergency declaration.

“I think it’s about time,” he said. “This money is going to be a huge help.”

But where exactly should that money go? Palaziol says he wants funds directed toward existing service providers in San Pedro, but resists the idea of building more shelters in the

neighborhood.“I would definitely like to see that money

go towards building something near San Pedro, not necessarily in San Pedro,” he said. “Another place would be like opening the welcome mat to more homeless people.”

His position is at odds with homeless advocates like Nora Hilda, founder of the group Helping the Homeless in Need San Pedro, who expects to see new facilities built in the neighborhood.

“There will be one [shelter] in San Pedro,” Hilda said. “It’s just a matter of finding the right property and moving everyone on to it.”

She says that sheltering the homeless in unfamiliar neighborhoods is often so isolating that they will return to living on the street in areas where they feel at home.

While no official plans for new homeless shelters or facilities have been announced for San Pedro, Hilda’s comments are in line with recent statements made by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During a recent appearance on the KPCC radio show Airtalk, Garcetti stated his support for a decentralized approach to helping the homeless.

“People want to stay in the communities where they are, even if they’re homeless,” said

Homelessness State of Emergency Gets Optimistic Response in San PedroBy Kevin Walker, Staff Reporter for Neontommy.com at USC’s Annenberg Media Center

[See Emergency, page 5]

Nora Hilda, 33, runs a group that provides food and medicine to San Pedro’s homeless. Photo by Phillip Cooke.

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s the Pope Catholic?” Newsweek asked in its cover story headline. “Of course he is,” they answered in the much smaller subhead. “You just wouldn’t know it from his press

clips.” But that says more about the national press than it does about Pope Francis.

Yet if the world is flooded with too-facile stories, images, explanations and descriptions, Francis is eager to engage it at all levels and remain seemingly unperturbed by how readily he is misunderstood or misrepresented.

On his flight from Cuba to Washington, when reporters asked about the Newsweek headline and “about comments, mainly from the United States, claiming the pope is a communist,” as the Catholic News Service put it, Francis replied, “I am certain I have never said anything more

than what is in the social doctrine of the church,” adding, “I follow the church and in this, I do not think I am wrong.”

Broadly this is true, though an analysis from Religion News Service did identify two areas in which Francis has advanced church teaching—but not taken a new direction: calling for “global abolition of the death penalty,” and affirming a “right of the environment.”

Providing context, the website of the US Conference of Bishops describes “Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching.”

While several of these have been focused upon narrowly and selectively and construed rigidly in recent decades—most notably, “Life and Dignity of the Human Person,” and the “Call to Family, Community, and Participation”—others have de-

emphasized, if not largely neglected, especially in the public sphere: the “Option for the Poor and Vulnerable,” “The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers,” “Solidarity” and “Care for God’s Creation.”

While an increasingly politicized church hierarchy has contributed to a much narrower view, particularly here in America, the vast majority of what Francis has said and done is simply a matter of restoring a more balanced emphasis.

The church has always advocated for immigrants, for example, and Francis did so again at the White House on Sept. 23, but not in partisan terms. “As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in this country, which was largely built by such families,” he said.

He spoke similarly to Congress the following day. “We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners,” Francis said. “I say this to you as the son of immigrants, knowing that so many of you are also descended from immigrants.”

What’s really set Pope Francis apart is not doctrine, but his pastoral emphasis, reaching out to engage in a spirit of service, which has been so strongly echoed in the enthusiastic welcome he has received—both in the world at large, and here in America with this trip. There also is the fact that he’s the first pope from the global south, where the majority live much like the earliest Christians, when Christianity was the religion of the Roman Empire’s underclass.

Perhaps his first act alerting the world to these aspects of his papacy came just two weeks after it began, when he washed and kissed the feet of

a dozen inmates in a Holy Thursday ritual at a juvenile detention center, including Orthodox and Muslim detainees, as well as two young women, “a remarkable choice given that the rite re-enacts Jesus’ washing of the feet of his male disciples,” as the Associate Press commented. Popes normally perform the ritual at St. John Lateran basilica, washing the feet of 12 priests, representing the 12 disciples. AP added:

[T]he Vatican released a limited video of the ritual, showing Francis washing black feet, white feet, male feet, female feet and even a foot with tattoos. Kneeling on the stone floor as the 12 youngsters sat above him, the 76-year-old Francis poured water from a silver chalice over each foot, dried it with a simple cotton towel and then bent over to kiss each one.

Still, it was a pastoral act, not a signal of changing doctrine. Like the rest of the Catholic hierarchy, Francis has insisted that the subject of women priests is off the table, and his unquestioned orthodoxy on the subject illuminates the real limits and extent of his fresh thinking.

The vast majority of the pope’s trip to America reflected his pastoral orientation. His visit to the overcrowded Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, in particular, underscored his attention to ministering to “the least of these,” while the large public masses embraced the whole body of the church. He began his speech to the inmates by telling them:

I know it is a painful time, not only for

Pope Francis Visits AmericaBy Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.... whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”

—Matthew 25:35-40

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[See Pope, page 6]

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave goodbye to Pope Francis as his motorcade departs Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sept. 22, 2015. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

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Francis further stressed the importance of rehabilitation programs:

It is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities. It is painful when we see people who think that only others need to be cleansed, purified, and do not recognize that their weariness, pain and wounds are also the weariness, pain and wounds of society.

Francis also spoke out to warn against the kinds of mistaken thinking which lead supposedly more elevated people astray.

“We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism,” Francis said in his speech to Congress. “This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind.” He went to add:

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.

When Francis turned to talk about the environment, as many on the religious right feared he would, he significantly undercut their hysteria over his supposed “Marxism.”

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it

sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good,” Francis said, quoting from his encyclical, Laudato Si. “This common good also includes the earth,” he continued, “a central theme of the encyclical which I recently wrote in order to ‘enter into dialogue with all people about our common home.’”

He went on to say, “I am convinced that we can make a difference and I have no doubt that the United States—and this Congress—have an important role to play. Now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a ‘culture of care’ and ‘an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature.’”

In that speech to Congress, Francis employed the uplifting framework of citing four great Americans who “shaped fundamental values which will endure forever in the spirit of the American people”—Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. Day, the radical founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, is a particularly complex and compelling individual for Francis to cite. His orthodoxy in refusing to reconsider women priests stands in stark contrast to the long history of female saints, a history that Francis implicitly seemed to invoke.

“Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the Gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints,” Francis said. Day is now

Garcetti. “We need to give them the services where they are.”Garcetti called for an additional $100 million every

year towards the building of permanent supportive housing, a service that some homeless advocates say is essential to getting people off the street in the long term.

Karen Ceaser, a longtime homelessness advocate in San Pedro and a former caseworker at the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row, says that permanent supportive housing along with a “Housing First” strategy is the city’s best bet if it intends to get a return on its investment.

“Provide housing, then you provide services—right on site,” she said. “It’s way cheaper to do that then have them [the homeless] call emergency services.”

The strategy is being credited for a 15 percent drop in San Jose’s homeless population and a 72 percent decrease in the state of Utah.

James Preston Allen, president of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, expressed support for the emergency declaration, but advised City Hall to listen to its neighborhoods.

In a draft letter to the mayor and city council, he urged them to use “the advice and energies of the seven neighborhood councils who have formed homeless committees” and to “fully consider the consequences of under-funding such an initiative.”

Where exactly Los Angeles will get the $100 million is still unknown, as is how the money will be used. To homeless advocates like Ceaser and Hilda, however, the declaration is a sign that City Hall is finally dealing with the reality of homelessness in Los Angeles.

“You can’t escape it; it’s everywhere,” Ceaser said. “It’s long overdue.”

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Former RLn Reporter Launches Campaign for LBCC TrusteeLONG BEACH—Vivian Malauulu, a journalism professor at Long Beach City College and former contributor to Random Lengths News, announced Sept. 21 her intention to run for the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees to represent West Long Beach in April 2016’s municipal election.

Malauulu, who has been teaching local college, community college and high school students for almost 20 years, has collected more than $30,000 in campaign contributions and an impressive list of formal endorsements, including the full and part-time faculty associations and classified staff at Long Beach City College, the Teamsters union, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Among the individuals endorsing Malauulu are state Sens. Isadore Hall and Tony Mendoza, as well as former state Sen. Betty Karnette,.

Malauulu has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from CSU Northridge; a master’s degree in educational administration from CSU Dominguez Hills; and several teaching credentials. Prior to joining the faculty at Long Beach City College, she spent 20 years with the Los Angeles Unified School District, teaching high school English and theater, coaching girls track and field and serving as an activities director and career adviser.

LBPD Gets Bomb ScareLONG BEACH—A man who came into the Long Beach Police Department East Police Sub-Station, at about 11:15 a.m. on Sept. 23 gave officers a bomb scare.

The man made anti-police comments and placed an object between the handle and the glass of the main entrance. Officers called the Los Angeles County

Bomb squad and evacuated nearby businesses and residential units; traffic in the Los Coyotes Diagonal, from the traffic circle to Clark Avenue was rerouted.

The bomb squad determined the object did not have any explosive materials. The suspect, who police have not identified, was detained for mental evaluation.

Industrial FatalityLONG BEACH—Truck driver William Vasquez-Uz, 26, of Los Angeles was killed on Sept. 16 at about 8:45 a.m. at 700 Pier A Way when he was run over by the trailer he was attempting to disconnect.

Long Beach Port Police arrived to find Vasquez-Uz on the asphalt next to a trailer, which was about 30 feet behind a 2009 Sterling 3-axle tractor. The Long Beach Fire Department also responded and pronounced Vasquez-Uz dead at the scene.

An investigation determined that Vasquez-Uz was the driver of the 2009 Sterling 3-axle tractor, and that he had neglected to set its emergency brake or put the vehicle in park before attempting to unhook the trailer. Consequently, the trailer slowly began to move forward, striking Vasquez-Uz and knocking him to the ground. He was on his cell phone at the time of the accident.

Sept. 16, 1969. He refused induction and they decided he would use that day to mobilize Chicanos around the country, starting in Los Angeles.

The two young men began meeting with several grassroots community organizers such as Cesar Chavez, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, Dolores Huerta and MECha leaders to lend their support in opposition to the war and share ideas. His action against induction hit Chicano, as well as mainstream, media.

There had been several moratoriums throughout the country, but this one was a united display against the Vietnam War. Members of the Brown Berets were among the groups active in the community, setting up and operating health clinics, organizing community watchdog groups in an effort to curtail police brutality, and protesting the high number of Latinos serving and dying in a war they didn’t support. The first demonstration, Dec. 20, 1969, was organized by the Brown Berets in Los Angeles. By March of 1970, the different leaders—comprised of student activist groups, nonprofit organizations, unionists and clergy—decided to organize the National Chicano Moratorium on Aug. 29, 1970.

“We marched right in the middle of the barrio (in this context “barrio,” which literally means “neighborhood,” means “community”),” Muñoz said. “We marched not in downtown LA or the federal building, we marched right through the heart of the community.”

In many of the communities, people taking part in the demonstration had to argue with their school principals, police, parents, priests, who believed going to war was a duty to the country.

As early as 1965, politicians, journalists, students and youths had voiced their unhappiness over the massive number of student deferments granted to white students, allowing them to avoid going to war.

In the fall of 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara began Operation 100,000, which relaxed physical, mental and language proficiency standards for the draft. That enabled the armed services to put more minority and poor youth on the front lines. From October 1966 to December 1971, the Operation 100,000 program brought about 354,000 people to the military.

“It was opening [the military] to more people from the ghettos, from the barrios, from the fields,” Muñoz said. “It hit the minorities and then the very poor whites as well. And they said, ‘Oh, this is giving them job opportunities.’ Later on, they looked at the people who were let in, and it was the same educational, the same low-paying jobs, when they came back, if not worse.”

Muñoz noted that too many were dying, and Chicanos began asking why they were told to give their lives in a place far from home.

“The government was lying about why they were doing this and wouldn’t really talk about what happened,” Muñoz. “And the GIs [who] came back or wouldn’t, and those who came back, many were hooked on drugs or had PTSD…. There was a part of it, ‘It’s not ours to reason why, it’s what to do and die.’ We began to challenge that.”

National Chicano Moratorium Casualties

Ruben Salazar, the news director for the Spanish-language TV station, KMEX, was one

of the four casualties of the National Chicano Moratorium.

Salazar was in East Los Angeles covering the event on Aug. 29, 1970. More than 25,000 people—predominantly Americans of Mexican descent—came to Laguna Park to march and rally. Large contingents of federal, state and local law enforcement showed up, too, and they ultimately launched a violent attack on the demonstrators.

To escape the madness in the street, Salazar sat down with a beer at the Silver Dollar tavern. A deputy fired a tear gas canister through the front door of the bar, striking Salazar in the head, killing him instantly.

The coroner’s inquest ruled the shooting a homicide, but Tom Wilson, the sheriff’s deputy involved, was never charged. Though a 2011 civilian panel concluded there is no evidence that sheriff’s deputies intentionally targeted Salazar or had him under surveillance, many people still believe the homicide was a premeditated assassination.

Salazar served as a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent in 1965, covering the escalation of the Vietnam War. In 1970 he became the KMEX news director, where he investigated allegations that police were planting evidence to implicate Americans of Mexican descent in the July 1970 police shooting of two unarmed Mexicans. Salazar’s statement on Bob Navarro’s KNXT show three months before his death that undercover LAPD detectives had warned him that his investigations were “dangerous in the minds of barrio people,” lends credence to the belief.

The violent end to the peaceful moratorium, the murder of Salazar and the continued opposition to the Vietnam War outraged communities throughout Southern California—including Wilmington, where about 500 people gathered near the 900 block of Avalon Boulevard the evening after the National Chicano Moratorium. Community members reacted to the police presence with rocks and bottles. At least 80 businesses were damaged. The following Monday, at least six fires were set, including an empty house, a vacant commercial building and trash bins in the general vicinity.

“We kept on,” said Muñoz about days after the attack. “We didn’t back down. We didn’t say, ‘Oh, gosh, there was violence,’ We handled that. There was no reason for them to attack. It just proved that our front line was in the barrio. We had to fight discrimination by the police and the political system for what they had done to us in the war. It was a turning point in our attitude….We protested; we fought back; there was an inquest into Ruben Salazar; and there was this whole experience.”

For more than a year, groups continued the fight despite government infiltration, which was a common tactic for handling other groups, such as the Black Panthers.

the impact The events that took place on Aug. 29, 1970

deserve more than a simple mention in history books. There is relevance to events taking place today, Muñoz said.

“It shows that activism—principled activism—that works for unity can have tremendous impact on a local, regional, national and international level, on all those levels,” Muñoz said. “It shows that there is systemic and systematic discrimination in government policies that are…detrimental to our interest.”

Montoya is now a member of the Chicano Brown Berets, a group that emerged from the Brown Berets of the 60s and 70s. He believes that the moratorium still provides the mentality for “our raza (Montoya prefers to use the term raza to describe people of the Americas of indigenous, mixed and Spaniard descent) to know you can talk back,” Montoya said.

Leaders who have emerged from that generation include politicians, judges, professors and union leaders who marched in the moratorium and walked out of the schools.

“If you look at the big lawsuits [against] the LAPD and the sheriff’s, you’ll start finding the names of the attorneys, Roxanne Paz or Luis Carrillo, for example, and others [who] marched in the moratoriums. They were organizing in the Brown Berets, and the MEChAs.…They were monitors during the Chicano moratoriums.”

Participants in the moratoriums also have become leaders in the fight for immigrant rights. The late labor and civil rights leader Humberto Noé “Bert” Carona was one example.

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[See Chicano, page 7]

Left, reporter Ruben Salazar was one of the casual-ties of the violence while covering events on Aug. 29, 1970. Above, law enforcement scrambles on Whittier Blvd. in East LA. File photos.

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800-831-9399 • www.mesothel.comThe Law Offices of Worthington & Caron, P.C.

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Since 1991 we have helped recover over $2.5 billion for our clientsAttorneys John Caron & Roger Worthington

National Mesothelioma Awareness Day—September 26Established by a Congressional resolution in 2010, National Mesothe-lioma Awareness Day is a day to recognize the dangers of asbestos and the courage of thousands of families across the nation affected by this terrible and preventable disease. The day usually passes without much fanfare, just as the plight of the approximately 3,000 Americans diagnosed with mesothelioma every year goes relatively unnoticed by the general public.

This year, we take this opportunity to recognize the grit, determina-tion and fortitude of our many Harbor Area clients whose lives were turned upside down by an asbestos cancer diagnosis. We also take this opportunity to call upon government and industry to adopt more stringent controls to protect workers from asbestos still lurking in ships, plants and buildings—and upon Congress to pass a long-overdue ban of asbestos!

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Much has changed in the 45 years since the National Chicano Moratorium. Latinos have more representation and a greater voice in both academics and politics. The draft is gone.

Despite improvements in the lives of Chicanos, Latinos and other people of color in this country, struggles remain. Black and brown people continue to be the targets of systemic and systematic racism. A disproportionate amount of people of color and poor whites are actively recruited into the military, poor people and people of color often face a lack of job opportunities and high student debt. Additionally, the lack of relevant education for people of color makes them easy targets for discrimination.

“We do want our education; we want more than a paragraph for our history…Chavez is not the only one,” Montoya said. “We’ve got to save our history, we’ve got to save our culture, we’ve got to save our youths, we can’t let them forget. “

Also, racist attitudes in privileged communities, such as those present in

in the process of becoming a saint herself, with the unanimous support of American bishops—in sharp contrast to how she was perceived during her lifetime, and despite the fact Day famously said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.”

After that canonization vote, Larry Purcell, executive director of the Redwood City Catholic Worker House, told Catholic San Francisco, “I am concerned that the canonization process will sanitize her life and will not emphasize how categorically

she opposed the empire of the United States and how the empire is expanded and maintained with massive military might,”

Francis shares much in common with Day, including at least some measure of her pacifist orientation. “Being at the service of dialogue and peace also means being truly determined to minimize and, in the long term, to end the many armed conflicts throughout our world,” he told Congress.

Unfortunately, the majority in Congress seem ill-prepared to listen, despite his tireless efforts to engage with everyone. They seem to have need of Francis, even more than the inmates of Curran-Fromhold.

Pope in the US

the people who support presidential candidate Donald Trump, are still prevalent.

Montoya, who was in Berlin when the Berlin Wall came down, said it’s ironic that the U.S. government cheered the event, but now wants to do that to neighboring counties to the south.

“How can we be so freaking hypocritical to demand a wall be taken down and yet we want to build the biggest wall there is,” Montoya said. “We are looked at as less-than-equal-to…. Here’s a man (referring to Trump who had several deferments during the Vietnam war) who had no huevos (balls) to be in the military.”

Muñoz said the banks and mainstream media are partially to blame for Trump’s popularity.

“Some of them say they don’t like him, but how come he’s in every headline?” he asked rhetorically. “There are probably as many people for Bernie Sanders in the polls, but who’s getting the headlines?”

Yet, Montoya sees a positive

reversion due to Trump’s xenophobic comments.

“A lot of people are starting to get fired up again,” Montoya said. “Thank you Donald Trump…Please keep talking shit, ‘cause it’s riling up my raza.”

The movimiento Chicano (the Chicano Movement) is about more than the moratorium. In fact, being Chicano is more than just being an American of Mexican descent, Montoya said.

“In order to have the privilege to call oneself a Chicano or Chicana requires you to play an active part in the advancement of your raza,” Montoya said. “Get off your nalgas (butt) and stand up and be seen and heard; make your representatives work for you.

Muñoz, who is now active in Latinos For Peace, an antiwar group seeking to cut the military budget, agrees.

“It’s a struggle,” he said. “It’s a democratic and class [and] cultural struggle that you have to keep on renewing and developing.”

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[Chicano, from page 6]

“some of them say they don’t like him [Donald trump], but how come he’s in every headline?…A lot of people are starting to get fired up again. thank you, Donald trump…Please keep talking shit, ‘cause it’s riling up my raza.”

—Eliseo Montoya

Eliseo Montoya, left, and Mike Castañon, members of the Chicano Brown Berets, clasp hands in front of a mural adjacent to Ruben Salazar Park in East Los Angeles. Photo by Zamná Ávila.

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DisclaiMeR—Nothing in this editorial or the pages of this newspaper should be taken as the official position of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council—to which I was elected President in 2014—nor does it reflect the opinions of any of its board members. The opinions expressed here are solely my own.

ayor Eric Garcetti recently stood on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall flanked by

seven city councilmen to announce a plan to spend $100 million addressing homelessness as a “state of emergency.”

Significantly missing from this line up was Councilman Joe Buscaino of Council District 15, who after hosting his own forum on homelessness just weeks before on Sept. 3, announced the creation of his new “San Pedro Community Homelessness Taskforce.” The forum was a reaction to a very small motion on a Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council agenda that called for “supporting tiny homes” and calling for its own forum on homelessness. Buscaino’s meeting trumped the neighborhood council’s forum date by just 10 days.

Even though the homeless issue is a citywide—even county and nationwide—crisis, Buscaino focuses only on one part of his district: San Pedro, which has only some 376 persons

these select few are not obligated to hold public meetings or to make their proceedings transparent to the public. Moreover, their charge does not include critiquing the city’s existing policy on homelessness. That means it’s unlikely there will be any questioning of the rationale or logic of the law enforcement policy of evicting homeless

encampments. This last issue of forced evictions,

you may recall, is the very crux of why we have so many homeless people visibly encamped in the public domain.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, D.C., the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, made a historic appearance before the U.S. Congress and reminded our national leaders of

something most of us learned as young children: The Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” (Matthew 7:12).

This rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow as we would like to be helped ourselves. In a word, if we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

With these few sage words, Pope Francis reminds us all of the moral imperative of caring for our less-fortunate neighbors without shelter.

It’s advice that good Catholics like Councilman Joe Buscaino and others in our community might heed in relation to Francis’ call, “To enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny.”

These are powerful words that just might guide both the San Pedro Taskforce on Homelessness and the Los Angeles City Council to act swiftly and humanely.

While I do not share Pope Francis’ religion, I do applaud his faith in humanity and his courage to speak that truth in the halls of power and privilege.

Yet even Mayor Garcetti knows the complexity of solving the homeless issue, as he

Donnie Trump is for it. Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

“It” is the idea of finally ending a ridiculous tax loophole written by and for the richest, most pampered elites on Wall Street. An obscurely-titled “carried-interest” tax break allows billionaire hedge fund hucksters to have their massive incomes taxed at a much lower rate than teachers, main street businesses, carpenters and other modest-income people must pay.

This privileged treatment of money shufflers over people who do constructive work in our society adds to America’s widening chasm of inequality. It’s so unfair and unpopular that even Trump and Bush see it has to go. So it’s bye-bye loophole.

Ha, just kidding! Trump can mouth all he wants, but no animal hath such fury as a hedge-funder whose special tax boondoggle is threatened. Trump had barely gotten the

word “unfair” out of his puffy lips before the tax-loophole profiteers deployed battalions of lobbyists, PR flacks, and front-group operatives to defend their precious carried-interest provision. Just one group, with the arcane name of Private Equity Growth Capital Council, rushed a dozen Gucci-clad lobbyists to Capitol Hill to “inform” lawmakers about the virtues of coddling Wall Street elites with tax favors.

Of course, “informing” meant flashing their checkbooks at key members of Congress. After all, even the loudest blast of political talk is cheap—and it’s the silent sound of a pen writing out a campaign check that makes Washington’s world keep spinning in favor of the rich.

Sure enough, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Orrin Hatch, the two lawmakers who head Congress’ tax-writing committees, quickly announced that—the will of the people aside—there would be no repeal of the hedge-fund loophole anytime soon.

How Hedge Fund Billionaires Literally ‘Check’ the People’s WillBy Jim Hightowerwithout shelter, even though there are 1,544

in the entire district. This very narrow focus on the “unintended consequences of the simple act of offering food to the homeless, which may enable an individual to continue a negative spiral of substance abuse and illegal behavior,” shows a deep lack of understanding of both the causes and the cures, even ignoring Garcetti’s call for treating this as a “state of emergency.”

The problem with Buscaino’s approach of outlawing the practice of giving food to the homeless, unless “additional services” are provided, is that it doesn’t address the districtwide problem of providing immediate shelter. The other problem with his approach is that his new panel is made up of political supporters with no background on the issue with exception of Shari Weaver of Harbor Interfaith Shelter.

Like his White Point Landslide taskforce,

told the Congress of Neighborhood Councils at its Sept. 26 conference “there is no one fix to solving this problem.” However, he does express his belief in the moral imperative to act, promising $100 million in the coming year as a down payment.

What I find unacceptable is that in this country, which is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world, has the capacity to put a man on the moon in a decade, is the leader in technological innovation and agriculture, doesn’t

have the money, talent or ideas to solve this most basic human condition.

We lack the political will to do what is morally, legally and now spiritually the right thing to do. What we do have is a bunch of people who want to blame the victim and argue about the nature of the problem. We have a councilman who believes the problem is a law enforcement issue rather than a state of emergency that needs and demands swift and decisive action.

It’s Time to End the Homeless CrisisGarcetti, Buscaino, Pope Francis and the Moral ImperativeBy James Preston allen, Publisher

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The Local Publication You Actually Read October 1 - 14, 2015 RANDOMLetters

Community AlertNotice of Preparation of Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for China Shipping Container Terminal Project

The City of Los Angeles Harbor Department (LAHD) has prepared a Notice of Preparation (NOP) of a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the following project in the Port of Los Angeles: Berths 97-109 [China Shipping] Container Terminal Project. The LAHD has prepared, as part of the NOP, an Environmental Checklist in accordance with current City of Los Angeles Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) of 1970, Article I; the State CEQA Guidelines, Article 7, Sections 15086-15087; and the California Public Resources Code Section 21153.

Availability: The NOP is being circulated for a period of 30 days for public review and comment starting on Sept. 18, 2015 and ending on Oct. 19, 2015. The NOP is available for review at:

•Port of Los Angeles Environmental Management Division, 222 W. 6th Str., Suite 900, San Pedro, CA 90731; • Los Angeles City Library, Central Branch, 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071; • Los Angeles City Library, San Pedro Branch, 931 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, CA 90731; • Los Angeles City Library, Wilmington Branch, 1300 N. Avalon Blvd., Wilmington, CA 90744.

The NOP is also available on the Port’s web site: www.portoflosangeles.org under the Environmental tab. Public Meeting: A scoping meeting will be held on Oct. 7, 2015, at 6 p.m. in the Board Room at the Harbor Department Administration Building, 425 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, CA 90731.

The meeting will be conducted in both English and Spanish.

Letter to POLA City Officials

As a lifelong educator, San Pedro resident and now a school board member representing almost 100,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District Board District 7, I am in support of getting answers to the questions about Rancho LPG that have been raised by Janet Gunter regarding the safety of our community. It is important that companies be held accountable to the surrounding community by providing us with this

information. Sharing information such as routing choices, worst-case scenario models and emergency response plans will better assist us in emergency preparedness and the continued safety of our children. I have also stated numerous times that Rancho LPG needs to be moved to an unpopulated location where it is less likely to endanger our children and their families. Accidents happen, like the recent explosion at the refinery in neighboring Torrance a few months ago. This should never be allowed to happen at the expense of our children because of “grandfathered” land use loopholes. Our children’s safety should be our primary concern. We need transparency and we need it now.

Dr. Richard VladovicLAUSD Board Member

Veterans for a Strong America event on USS IOWA

Apparently, the Pacific Battleship Center’s (PBC) management won’t respond to Random Lengths News’ stories or inquiries on this shameful [Donald Trump presidential campaign] event at the USS Iowa, so my comments address quotes in Daily Breeze articles.

There is no such thing as a “private” event on a historic naval ship museum—and the attempt by PBC’s CEO Jonathan Williams to dismiss this incident is disgusting and unforgivable!

As a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, the PBC has an obligation to the taxpayers who subsidize its operation. A moral duty is further owed the many naval and other military veterans to ensure that the ship is never used to promote events or groups who, while claiming to provide veterans services, instead are unethical fronts for partisan politics and/or vehicles to enrich themselves.

Veterans for a Strong America’s (VSA) profile as an extreme right-wing political group is easily found online. PBC’s excuse that they “can’t investigate everybody.” is not viable in this case, especially if (as they claim) they reviewed VSA’s website, which clearly shows the nature of its activities. A cursory check should have alerted PBC management to dig deeper and demand more credentials from VSA.

As hundreds of thousands of veterans transition back to civilian life, countless nonprofits have sprung up in the wake of Americans’ desire to help. While some of these organizations have indeed been providing genuine services and programs, many do nothing other than cynically play on the sympathy of donors.

It’s a simple matter to verify a nonprofit’s operations. All IRS filings are publicly available, and the fact that VSA never filed a 990 return or provided annual financial statements should have been clear evidence of a serious problem.

As a simple business matter, this is a blatant example of PBC’s incompetence. VSA should have paid $10 more per guest, or at least $8,500. As the article points out, event fees are an important source of revenue, and any business school sophomore knows enough to verify claims of nonprofit status before extending such a generous discount.

Ultimately this situation points to three fundamental realities at PBC:

1. With no veterans in key senior management positions (other than an apparently ineffectual CIO), PBC wholly lacks sensitivity to the honor and respect owed the ship’s vital place in U.S. naval heritage.

2. None of PBC’s senior managers have nonprofit management experience, as evidenced by the organizations’ leaders total lack of awareness of and adherence to industry ethics, standards, and principles.

3. PBC showed a deplorable sense of public relations and inept management of a publicly valued event venue, compounded by its management’s amateurish level of political and community affairs skill.

As a US Navy veteran, a resident of Los Angeles and a taxpayer, I am appalled.

Patrick salazarFormer vice president of

development and communications for the Pacific Battleship Center

San Pedro

Remarks to the MTA Board Re: the Red Car

A contemplated shortened operation of the San Pedro Waterfront Red Car between Sixth Street and the cruise terminal simply cries out for expansion alongside Knoll Hill along existing track to Pacific Avenue and Front Street, with the maintenance

facility and station on the Southeast corner.

Existing free materials—poles, brackets, copper wire, rails, etc., needing only labor, can be transferred from the line South of Sixth Street. The resulting line will not be so painfully short, will serve recreation on Knoll Hill, neighborhood commuters, and will be headed in the right direction...Eventually on the way to Target/Home Depot along North Gaffey and to Wilmington after Gibson Boulevard is rebuilt. It’s a positive sparkling and exciting opportunity to both save and expand the San

Pedro Waterfront Red Car.James Henry Washington, Jr.,

Long Beach

CorrectionIn the Sept. 3 Letter to the

Editor, I said Northwest San Pedro wasn’t in the 15th District. I was wrong. NWSP is not in Janice Hahn’s 44th Congressional District anymore. They split San Pedro up and put NWSP in Waxman’s old district.

They, whoever they are, took San Pedro’s voting power away. So if Janice ran for Congress again, her main base is gone. We have no say who San Pedro’s congressman

is. We can still vote for Janice for supervisor.

Mike PuliselichSan Pedro

San Pedro Cigar Lounge—Again

The stinky second hand toxic cigar odor was very strong again on 9/21/15. It is two years we have been living with this almost daily dose of cancer-causing substance. We have lived in this building since 2007. We were here when the building at 529 9th St. in San Pedro held the Gas Company, not the cigar fume company. We

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would never have moved here if we knew we would be subjected to toxic cigar emissions four days a week for years. Because cigars contain more tobacco than cigarettes, and because they often burn for much longer, they give off greater amounts of second hand smoke. Now multiply that by 10, 20, 30 people smoking for hours throughout the afternoon and night and we get sick. We were already here [when the cigar business moved in]. Why is the City of Los Angeles continuing to allow this business to be located where there is a direct impact to citizens? Is the City going to

reimburse the building owner for the loss of tenants? Is the City going to pay the current tenants to move, and then pay their rent for the next 10 years? What is the City going to do? It certainly has not stopped the toxic second-hand cigar emissions. The City needs to start the abatement process and not allow toxic businesses to be opened where they impact unsuspecting citizens. This business is a public health nuisance and health hazard. The source of the toxic emissions needs to move to an industrial area where people are not impacted by the poison.

J. OlsenSan Pedro

Thank you for Joe HillThanks for the 09/03/15 cover

on Joe Hill. I was surprised to not see quoted a phrase [used] as a password at many clandestine union meetings in areas where such meetings were illegal.

Question: Where is Joe Hill buried?

Response: Joe Hill is not dead, he lives in the hearts and minds of all who support unions.

el chavezTeamsters Local 399 (ret.)

Culver City

Discrimination within Discrimination

President Barack Obama has done a lot of posturing about race claims when he has sought to give the civil rights agencies more enforcement power? Local

state and federal agencies for the most part are not only serious about eliminating employment and housing discrimination, doing more harm than good, they are also incapable. I have found, particularly in California, that government agencies like the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department [discriminatory at best, corrupt at least] instead do all they can to stop discrimination/housing complaints before they even get to the complaint stage, a clear violation of federal law.

In one Los Angeles case a property owner allegedly hired an Air Force base employee to falsely retaliate and characterize as “terrorists” those tenants

who complained about housing discrimination. If I should become mayor or governor, before even stopping for breakfast, I would sign and order disbanding 99 percent of the government administrative agencies. In their place I would support evening and weekend court hours, hire more judges, make 10 percent of all judges non-attorneys, and open up the courts by eliminating all court filing fees. Let everyone jam their complaints into the court system (“sue for free”) before a jury of peers. I would support lowering property taxes by half a percent and increased tax on cigarettes and alcohol to pay for this government.

It is no surprise that with the rise in claims alleging racism by police, many Americans feel

their only recourse is to take their grievances to the streets. No wonder it is reported that there are “over 2 million instances of discrimination of year, but fewer than one percent are reported.” http://www.civilrights.org/fairhousing/laws/housing-discrimination.html?referrer=https://www.google.com. Federal equal employment opportunity [“EEOC”] complaints can take up to eight months to two years to gen an investigator, and in many cases the end result will be “insufficient evidence.” This is unacceptable in a so-called civilized society.

Geary Juan JohnsonLos Angeles

RANDOMLetters[Letters, from page 9]

Spend a day at the Maritime Museum and discover the history of the harbor, enjoy a front-row view of busy ship traffic and explore all that the Museum and San Pedro have to offer!

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By Gina Ruccione, Restaurant and Cuisine Writer

[See Seafood, page 12]

Organic. Sustainability. Locally grown. Conservation. These concepts come up often when it comes to sourcing and procuring food, and growing awareness of them has raised consumers’ expectations of food purveyors and their ethical responsibilities. However, most of these conversations tend to refer to vegetables or meat. Rarely do I hear anything about the sustainability of seafood..

But that’s going to change Oct 11, when the second annual Seafood Sustainability Expo comes to San Pedro from noon to 5 p.m. at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles. The event features a variety of information booths, cooking demonstrations, seafood sampling and plenty of wine and craft beer, all of it intended to both educate and stimulate.

The Sustainable Seafood Expo is Southern California’s only major sustainable seafood event. It’s hosted by the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and its supporting organization in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, founder of SeafoodWatch.org, which helps consumers choose

seafood that's fished or farmed in ways that have less impact on the environment.It’s particularly appropriate to hold the Sustainable Seafood Expo in San Pedro, where

fishing has been crucial to the local community and its culture for so long. The Expo will give people the opportunity to sample new seafood options, sustainable wines and craft beers while providing practical information about purchasing seafood, whether in a market or a restaurant. Experts and volunteers from the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will be on hand to explain fisheries, habitats and other factors that affect ocean ecosystems.

The event is designed to be informal, yet informative, so people can enjoy seafood and learn about fish farming and harvesting without a long lecture. Seafood sustainability varies from ocean to ocean and even by different seasons and countries. All things should be considered when making seafood choices, and consumers have a vast amount of options available to them.

Much like last year, a centerpiece of the event will be a range of amazing cooking demonstrations, several of which will be conducted by such executive chefs as Christine

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Brown, the former owner of Restaurant Christine in Torrance, Bernard Ibarra of Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes and Pete Lehar of Gladstone’s in Long Beach. Additionally, Hawaiian celebrity Chef Sam Choy, who founded the Poke Festival and Recipe Contest in 1991, will be there to dazzle onlookers.

The Expo will be followed by a new event, the Sustainable Seafood Dinner, a farm-to-table dining experience featuring locally sourced seafood and seasonal fare prepared by Paul Buchanan of Primal Alchemy, who has set himself apart from most Southern California caterers by using sustainable, organic ingredients. Seats are limited and dinner tickets are $150 which includes entry to the expo.

Expo tickets are $30 in advance or $40 at the door. Discounts are available for Friends of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Members. details: www.sustainableseafoodexpo.org(310) 548-7562, ext. 211.

Gina Ruccione has traveled all over Europe and Asia and has lived in almost every nook of Los Angeles County. You can visit her website at www.foodfashionfoolishfornication.com.

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Savy Choices for Seafood lovers

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BIg nIck’s pIzzaTradition, variety and fast delivery; you get it all at Big Nick’s Pizza. The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and of course, our amazing selection of signature pizzas, each piled high with the freshest toppings. Like

wings or greens? We also offer an excellent selection of appetizers, salads, beer and wine. Call for fast delivery. Hours: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Big nick’s Pizza • 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 732-5800 • www.facebook.com/BigNicks

Buono’s authentIc pIzzerIaA S a n P e d r o landmark for over 40 years, famous for except ional a w a r d - w i n n i n g pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and

sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected ingredients that are prepared fresh. You can dine-in or take-out. Delivery and catering are also provided. Additionally, there are two locations in Long Beach. Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. • Buono’s Pizzeria • 1432 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 547-0655 • www.buonospizza.com

happy dInerThe Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. If you pay attention to its special menu on blackboards, it’s almost a certainty you’re going to find something new each week. The cuisine runs the gamut of Italian and Mexican to

American continental. The Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new. They believe that if an item is good, its reputation will get around by word of mouth. You can even find items normally found at curbside lunch trucks. You can take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables, prepared any way you like. Try their chicken enchiladas soup made from scratch. Happy Diner • (310) 241-0917 • 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro

nazelIe’s leBanese caFeNazelie’s Lebanese Cafe is a favorite of the neighborhood for the terrific kabobs, b e e f o r c h i c ke n

shawarma, lamb dishes and falafel. Nazelie’s chicken and rice soup with lemon is like a warm embrace—it takes chicken soup to a whole new level. Nazelie uses a recipe handed down in her family for generations, starting with homemade chicken broth, and adding a refreshing touch of lemon for taste and nutrients. Nazelie’s Lebanese Café, 1919 S. Pacific Avenue, San Pedro. (310) 519-1919

nIko’s pIzzerIaOne of downtown San Pedro’s signature restaurants features a full Italian menu, h u g e s e l e c t i o n of p izzas, Greek

specialties and a beer and wine bar featuring a wide selection of beers on tap and by the bottle. Watch sporting events on plasma TV screens throughout the restaurant. Delivery service to all of San Pedro, Port locations and hotels. 399 W. 6th St., San Pedro (at the corner of Mesa and 6th sts.) • (310) 241-1400

phIlIe B’s on sIXthOwner Phil ie Buscemi welcomes you to Philie B’s on Sixth, where New York–style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza by-the-slice are the specialties. Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and fresh salads are also served. Try the “white pizza” with

smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano cheeses topped with torn fresh basil. Extended hours accommodate San Pedro’s unique lifestyle and work schedules. Catering and fast, free local delivery ($15 min.) available. Philie B’s On Sixth • 347 W. 6th Street, San Pedro (310) 514-2500 www.philiebsonsixth.com

SAN PeDrO BreWiNG COMPANyA mic robrewer y and American gr i l l , SPBC features handcraf ted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-from-

scratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. Wi-Fi bar connected for Web surfing and email—bring your laptop. Live music on Saturdays. Hours: From 11:30 a.m., daily. San Pedro Brewing Company • 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 831-5663 • www.sanpedrobrewing.com

sonny’s BIstro and thInk caFéSonny and Carly Ramirez are the husband and wife team behind Sonny’s Bistro and Think Café. They operate both establishments: Sonny works in the kitchens and Carly attends the front of the house.

The hands-on attention to detail makes their restaurants so successful, in both quality of food and service. Sonny’s Bistro’s lunch and dinner menus feature dishes made from locally sourced and hand–selected meats, seafood and seasonal vegetables. Try the $10 lunch menu served Mon.

through Friday. Think Café serves breakfast in addition to lunch and dinner with fresh egg dishes, omelettes and griddlecakes. Both restaurants have a fine selection of wines and beers that complement the dishes. Sonny’s Bistro • 1420 W. 25th St., San Pedro. Hours: Mon-Fri, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat and Sun. from 4 p.m. • (310) 548-4797. Think Café • 302 W. 5th St., San Pedro • Hours: Mon-Sat. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.- 2 p.m. • (310) 519-3662.

THe WHALe & ALeSan Pedro’s Brit ish g a s t ro p u b o f fe r s comfortable dining in an oak–paneled setting, featuring English fish &

chips, roast prime rib, sea bass, rack of lamb, beef Wellington, meat pies, salmon, swordfish & vegetarian dishes. Open for lunch & dinner, 7days/wk; great selection of wines; 14 British tap ales, & full bar. Frequent live music. First Thursdays live band & special fixed price menu. Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m.-midnight Sat. & Sun. 1-10 p.m. Bar open late. The Whale & Ale • 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-0363 • www.whaleandale.com

strIpe caFéStripe Café Executive Chef Brett Hickey’s focus is on plant-based fare, wi th farm-to-table option h i g h l i g h t i n g h i s conscious cuisine.

The quality food is fresh, organic and natural. Everything is made in-house and brings the seasons in, while having good prices. Hickey’s menu is full of delightful surprises: salmon smoked each day, Nutella latte, lavender-infused olive oil cake topped with lemon curd, and daily fresh soups. The café is open for lunch, but pop-up dinners have already become highly anticipated special events. Reservations for October 8, 9, 10 dinners being taken now. Stripe Café • 5504 Crestridge road, rancho Palos Verdes • Mon-Sat 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., • (310) 541.2479

Include Your Restaurant in the Dining Guide In Print & Online • (310) 519-1442

Waterfront DiningBOArDWALk GriLL

Casual waterfront dining at its finest! Famous for slabs of Chicago-style baby back ribs, fish-n-chips, rich clam chowder, cold beer on tap and wine.

Full lunch menu also includes salads, sandwiches and burgers. Indoor and outdoor patio dining available. Proudly pouring Starbucks coffee. Open 7 days a week. Free Parking. Boardwalk Grill • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 519-7551

POrTS O’ CALL WATerFrONT DiNiNGS ince 1961 they ’ ve e x t e n d e d a h e a r t y welcome to visitors from every corner of the globe. Delight in an awe-inspiring view of the dynamic L.A. Harbor while enjoying

exquisite coastal California cuisine and varietals. Relax in the plank bar or outdoor patio for the best happy hour on the waterfront. With the award-winning Sunday champagne brunch, receive the first Spirit Cruises harbor cruise of the day free. Open 7 days, lunch and dinner. Free Parking. Ports O’Call Waterfront Dining • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 76, San Pedro • (310) 833-3553 www.Portsocalldining.com

spIrIt cruIsesAn instant par ty ! Complete with all you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor slips by. Their three yachts and

seasoned staff provide an exquisite excursion every time, and all-inclusive pricing makes party planning easy! Dinner cruise features a three course meal, full bar, unlimited cocktails and starlight dancing. Offering the ultimate excursion for any occasion. Free parking. Spirit Cruises • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 548-8080, (562) 495-5884 • www.spiritmarine.com

This summer has been a scorcher, but Sept. 26 was hottest when Grammy winning Herman Olivera sang to the driving rhythms of Conjunto Costazul during an evening of New York salsa on the closing night of the Summer Music Series at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) in Long Beach.

Olivera and Conjunto Costazul put on an energetic show in front of a full house of on-stop salsa dancers of all ages

Conjunto Costazul’s four trombones and powerful drumming made for a big sound. Special guest Artie Webb on flute added even more flavor to the music.

“There is an incredible energy out there with the full moon tonight,” Olivera said during a break in the show. “The public is having a great time and the band is propelled to new heights.

Olivera calls music a “stimulant.”“You leave your house with a thousand

problems and you come to a show, you want to forget your problems and so do I,” Olivera said. “I go to a musical high and I’m up there with the moon. I’m very honored to be here again closing the series as I did last year. I thank Mr. Guido Herrera and MOLAA.”

Olivera has been trekking to Southern California since 1981 and says he’s seen a lot of growth in the salsa scene.

“There’s always a lot of dancing and activity out here; it’s public news that LA is into salsa. The whole state of California is happening, from San Francisco to San Diego. It’s like what New York used to be in the 70s and I lived that,” Olivera said.

Over the years, Olivera has worked with the likes of Johnny Pacheco, Ray Barretto, Bobby Rodriguez and La Compañia and The Machito Orchestra. He performs with Eddie Palmieri’s Orchestra and is featured on five of Palmieri’s CDs, including Masterpiece/Obra Maestra with the late, great Tito Puente, which earned two Grammys.

Olivera makes the music extraordinary by keeping to the original New York salsa style. It’s organic music that originated on the streets and in the clubs of New York from the late 1960’s through the early 1980’s. Singers of that era drew their lyrics from their often-raw feelings about what was happening in the streets, their lives and times and emotions.

As music tends to do, salsa has changed over the years, taking a turn toward pop-oriented romanticism, salsa romantica. But Olivera says he has put a “grasp” on the genre.

“I’ve maintained a certain musical structure from the 1970s,” Olivera said. “I haven’t been too commercial. I continued that legacy of the music of the 70s which is the era I grew up in.”

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generation.“I seem to be one of the only ones in this

lane,” Olivera said. “Most of my counterparts have gone to the commercial side. There’s a market for that, but when you are the root it’s very important. When you kill the root, you kill the tree.

“People are gyrating to this music. I’ve been very lucky to take this music globally, where some of my counterparts have a very small public. People want real music–you cannot fake it out, man–and they want to hear real music with real lyrics. This is dance music.”

Salsa has indeed gone global. It’s thriving

in Central and South America, where it was struggling 30 years ago, and has a presence in some unexpected places, such as Australia.

Olivera’s most recent solo release is La voz Del Caribe, (The voice of the Caribbean) which was nominated for a Latin Grammy.

“It’s on the radio and it’s been accepted very well from salsa lovers all over the world,” Olivera said. “It’s like going back to the 70s with some fresh lyrics. People seem to love it.”

Olivera also just finished a new album with Palmieri called Mi Luz Mayor that’s set for release in February 2016, although some singles went on sale of Sep. 26.details: www.molaa.org www.kxlu.com

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te San Pedro repilluminates Joan of arc

By Stephanie Serna, RLn Contributing Writer

As I arrived at the entrance to Theatrum Elysium San Pedro Repertory, where I was finally about to experience for myself the “powerfully moving” production of, I suddenly had a doubt.

“Is this the theater?” I inquired as I stood in a back alley watching two young men set up a snack table inside a concrete courtyard surrounded by a locked wrought-iron gate. A small dog appeared and ran to greet me through a slat in the gate .

“Yes,” the dog owner replied. “Doors open soon–at 7:30.”

Ten minutes later I was part of a small audience awaiting entrance. Nine cast members escorted us to be seated on set dressed boxes that were arranged in tiered platforms.

Before us sat a young woman hunched on the floor in a pool of diffused light against an exposed brick wall.

“This is becoming intriguing,” I thought… What happened next was what Laura Linda Bradley, Joan of Arc’s choreographer described as, “an experience that shoots you like a roller coaster from the beginning and doesn’t really let you go.”

You would never want to read while on an exciting ride. So, too, written references in the play’s program would have taken the audience out of the moment as participants and landed them on the outer floor as mere observers.

That was Director Aaron Ganz’s reasoning. He chose not to include the song list or scene references in the program.

“I didn’t want people to focus on the literal or to be constantly referring to their program,” Ganz said. “This piece requires you to stay connected.”

Ganz chose to place much of the play in the jail cell, after Joan (played by Paris Langle) confesses and no one hears from her. It is a time when nothing was written historically. And it was after those three days she recants her confession.

“It left me permission as an artist to wonder what happened to her during those three days when she was left alone hearing the echoes of her confession, said Ganz. “That such a high person of faith is left at such a level of emptiness was such a beautiful level of the unknown.”

What is known is the outcome – Joan gets burned at the stake and “never cries in pain but softly utters God’s words.”

The execution of the beautiful unknown is what this play is about. It was the seamless weaving of artistic elements that made its beauty shine. Two of the golden threads in the play’s tapestry are music and choreography.

Ganz chose much of the richly familiar, yet obscurely arranged music recordings, while Bradley choreographed the passionate movement. Although classically trained, it was after she studied with Mia Michaels that Bradley fell in love with contemporary dance. She describes it as, “… full body expression. It’s such a deeper level of performing than just steps. It is storytelling with the body.”

Surprisingly, many of the repertory’s actors have had very little dance training, except for Langle who has an extensive ballet background. Bradley attributes the performers’ powerful fluidity of movement to their fearless artistry.

“We pushed the dancers to their limits and had them doing crazy lifts and fully exploring and playing in the space.”

I would describe their movement as the dynamic momentum of the well-crafted roller coaster.

Ganz, who does not like to carry the title of “playwright” but rather play “conceiver,” also elected to have Joan speak only French.

“When you don’t have to understand the words perfectly, you have to start listening in a different way – and what are you listening to?” he said.

Ganz likened it to watching a foreign film or opera when you stop waiting for words to find you and “look into the eyes to find the river of human connection between.”

“When we don’t understand the words, we start to access the truest parts of the moment,” he said.

Ganz says he loves his audience just the way they are – French speaking or not – and believes they will disappear into theatrical faith.

“I want them to be listening into Joan’s eyes and into her soul,” He says. “The French is very acceptable because Paris is Joan in the moment.”

If ever I imagined a Joan of Arc in all her strength and vulnerability – driven by the glory of otherworldly inspiration and retracted by the pain of human doubt and fear – she was indeed

embodied by Langle in this production. It wasn’t because she looked the part,

seemingly 14 years old although 27, small framed but strong and moving with force. Rather it was the connection she made with us as the audience when she looked into our eyes as though we were God – looking to us for comfort, yet questioning.

“I felt like I was born to play this part,” Langle told me. Her connections to Joan did seem a bit uncanny. She grew up a missionary child, traveling the world. She first visited Paris when she was six months old and returned nine times. She grew up speaking French.

When she was 12 years old (about Joan’s “chosen” age), her mother had her extensively study Joan of Arc in homeschooling. She became deeply invested in Joan’s faith and sacrifice. It impacted her and carried her through adulthood.

“For some reason she is in my soul.”And soul is what Langle and the repertory give

their audience – truthfully and passionately.Joan of Arc runs until Oct. 11.

details: www.sanpedrorep.org (424) 264-5747

OCT. 2Changui Majadero with Martha Gonzalez of QuetzalExperience the authentic sounds of Cuba with Los Angeles's Changüí Majadero. The band's founder, Gabriel Garcia, presides over this high-energy evening of changüí and son cubano music with his classic three-string Cubano guitar.Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $20 to $30 details: www.grandvision.orgVenue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCT. 3Jonathan rowden GroupFor the past few years saxophonist and composer Jonathan Rowden has been capturing the attention of the jazz world. He says his music is stylistically “a summation of all the sounds and experiences we've had in many genres including classical, jazz, rock, electronic and world music.” Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $20details: (310) 519-1314, www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Totally Awesome 80sThis is a party show that features everything people love and miss from the 80's. Impersonators give the performance of a generation as they bring back iconic musical stars in their prime.Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $30details: www.grandvision.orgVenue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

American Monster Burlesque and Blues ShowThis amazingly fun burlesque and blues show guarantees a jaw-dropping good time for anyone 21 years and older. There’s a two-drink minimum.Time: 9 p.m.Cost: $15 to $20Place: Harvelle’s, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beachdetails: (562) 239-3700; longbeach.harvelles.com

Leftover Cuties The Leftover Cuties have a timeless, jazz-tinged sound that combines sultry vocals, pop-perfect songwriting and seasoned musicianship. Their first album, Places to Go, won raves from critics.Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $15 to $30 details: www.grandvision.orgVenue: The Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St., San Pedro

OCT. 4Apres Un reve (After A Dream)Jazz pianist Josh Nelson joins jazz singer songwriter Kathleen Grace and classical soprano Lillian Sengpiehl for their collaboration, Apres Un Reve. Friends and kindred musical spirits for many years, Grace, Nelson and Sengpiehl have toured the world as band leaders. Now they have joined forces to explore their love of duo performance across the many genres and performance styles they love. Time: 4 p.m.Cost: $20details: (310) 519-1314, www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

The Dirty Little SecretsA combination of random standup comedians and burlesque by the Dirty Little Secrets will sizzle you up. Time: 8:30 p.m. Cost: $10details: longbeach.harvelles.comVenue: Harvelles, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

OCT. 6Dirty Little SecretsHarvelle’s is the sexiest venue under the streets of Long Beach. A true speakeasy. A real devil’s den, combining comedy and burlesque by Dirty Little Secrets. The best comedians in the world come here to work on their comedy every Tuesday.

The Events is 21 and over. There’s a two-drink minimum.Time: 8:30 p.m. Cost: $10details: longbeach.harvelles.comVenue: Harvelle’s, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

oct. 7The Black NoiseThis band's R&B sound is an arresting, mold-breaking force of music, a group of up-and-comers who have already performed at venues from the Airliner to the Roxy to the House of Blues. For 21 and over. There’s a two-drink minimum.Time: 8 p.m. Cost: $5details: http://longbeach.harvelles.comVenue: Harvelle’s, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

OCT. 10BonfireTribute band to AC/DC. The event is 21 and over. Two-drink minimum.Time: 8 p.m. Cost: $5details: longbeach.harvelles.comVenue: Harvelle’s, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

OCT. 17Little Joe y La Familia & The TopicsFive-time Grammy winner Little Joe celebrates his 75th birthday. Time: 6p.m.Cost: $45 to $75details: www.grandvision.orgVenue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

ADAAWeA blend of West African roots, Latin grooves, Gospel harmonies and American funk adds up to a show of energetic world-fusion.Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $15 to $30details: www.grandvision.orgVenue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

LBSP Halloween Symphony Spooktacular!It’s a night of Halloween musical treats and a few tricks that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Join the Long Beach Symphony POPS. Orchestra for an evening of haunting melodies that will include the works of John Williams, Bernard Hermann, James Horner and some other scary surprises. Time: 8 p.m.Cost: $30 to $168 per ticketdetails: www.lbso.org/Venue: Long Beach Convention Center,300 E. Ocean Blvd, Long Beach

OCT. 2OktoberfestBe a part of Southern California’s longest-running Oktober festival with live band Happy Franconians. Bring your own stein (glass or easily shattered material not permitted). The event is 21 and over only. Free parking.Time: 6 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. through Oct. 31Cost: $12 to $60details: www.alpinevillagecenter.comVenue: The Alpine Village, 833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance

OCT. 3Carson Jazz FestivalEnjoy great music, food and vendor booths and free admission. This year’s headliner is the super group, Lakeside. Also featured are Tizer, featuring Eric Marienthal; Sophisticated Gents featuring Sure Will; Richard 88 Fingers Turner Jr.; The Sax Man Rick Parma; and Jazz in Pink. Times: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 24Cost: Freedetails: ci.carson.ca.usVenue: Anderson Park, 19101 Wilmington Ave., Carson

OCT. 4embracing Cuba: with Byron MotleyAward-winning photographer Byron Motley has traveled to Cuba many times over the past

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By Viktor T. Kerney, Guest Columnist

Historical films are usually fascinating and inspirational to watch. In recent years, we’ve seen Selma and Lincoln. These films covered significant moments in our history. It was only a matter of time until a film that captured the birth of the gay rights movement hit the screens. Stonewall was supposed to be that film. Not only did it hit the screens, it crashed and burned everything around it.

Stonewall tells it’s story through the eyes of Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine), a young white male from the Midwest. After Danny is caught in a sexual incident with another student, his father kicks him out of his home. With nowhere to go, Danny moves to New York City, in hopes of getting into Columbia University. Danny is thrown into a world beset by prostitution, fluid sexuality and the very harsh realities that would spark the actual Stonewall riots. In the midst of his new surroundings, Danny befriends a street-wise hustler name Ray, who develops serious feelings for him. Danny is also introduced to other, more-forgettable characters in the film.

Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz had the opportunity to show us the life and trials of the LGBT community during that era, but they botched the job with Stonewall. In fact, the film’s problems are the only thing that make it interesting.

The positives? It was nice that LGBT youth were represented in the film Stonewall, especially in the final scene. The film’s accurate depiction of the diversity of Stonewall Inn’s Greenwich Village neighborhood was interesting.

Ray (Jonny Beauchamp) was fascinating to watch. Through his character, you understood what was at stake and it conveyed the risks and challenges of being your authentic self during an oppressive time. While some of his lines were cumbersome, it was a pleasure to follow his story. If given to a better production team, Ray could’ve been the main character of Stonewall.

The big negatives? The "Danny" character is not a real person from the Stonewall riots. He was created to be the guide throughout the film. He's the ultimate trope: white, starry-eyed and the undeserving hero. Danny's presence in the film was painted with broad strokes, giving him no real personality or a reason to root for him. If anything, Danny was created to make the story safe and relatable for white viewers. That choice Stonewall failed to deliver.

The LGBT youth involved in the original riots would have provided plenty of material for Emmerich to use. Their stories could have given us a film to believe in. But Emmerich and Baitz felt that planting a white knight in the heart of this tale would sell the story. They were wrong. Making Danny the lead cheapened this film and removed the historic presence needed to make Stonewall shine.

The script is full of clichés and the dialogue resembles the teen dramas you see on the CW. Scenes are shot through dark filters that make you think you're watching scenes from a Batman movie.

During the final riot scene, the showdown feels forced and contrived. Seeing Danny throw the first brick just didn't feel right. His experiences on Christopher Street were short-lived compared to those who were living there for most of their lives. Why should Danny get the honor of starting the movement, when he's just a visitor?

Unlike Selma, this film didn't portray the birth of a movement well. What Stonewall accomplished was telling a fictional story from a fictional character's point of view. Roland Emmerich had the chance to create an enduring film about equality and justice. Instead, he did created what he knows best, a disaster movie.

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decade after falling in love with exploring its vistas, its people and its spirit. Forgoing political imagery, Motley highlights the many ways in which Cubans retain and nourish their zest for life, despite the scarcity of so many things. Time: 2 p.m.to 4 p.m. Oct. 4Cost: Freedetails: www.molaa.orgVenue: MOLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

OCT. 9Buen Provecho: Día de los MuertosChef Luis Navarro, from Lola’s, presents a Day of the Dead feast that features traditional ingredients and dishes like pan de muerto. A small tasting and beverage are included.Time: 7p.m. to 9p.m. Oct. 9Cost: $40 to $30 for membersdetails: www.molaa.orgVenue: MOLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

OCT. 114th Annual Buscaino Block Party and Spaghetti DinnerJoin Councilman Joe Buscaino and people from the communities of the 15th council district.Time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 11Cost: Freedetails: (310) 732-4515Venue: Weymouth Corners, between Weymouth and Averil, San Pedro

OCT. 17Country Western FairA family event includes music and dance performances, food and craft vendors, a petting zoo, carnival rides, games, raffles, a boxing exhibition, car show and horse show. Times: 12p.m. to 5p.m. Oct. 17Cost: Freedetails: (310) 549-3962Venue: Dominguez Park, 21330 Santa Fe Ave., Carson

OCT. 2reclaiming Friendship ParkIn filmmaker Daniel Holland’s latest feature, businessman Chip Panoptic shows up at a former employee's home with a strange plan. After losing his job, his best friend and moving from Detroit to California, Chip decides to help a group of antisocial apartment-dwellers rediscover their sense of community and the value of old-school friendship. This is a dramatic comedy about a man struggling to redeem himself by recapturing the spirit of his lost best friend.Times: 6 p.m. Oct. 2Cost: $4 to $6details: www.grandvision.org, WGT.Tix.com for advance tixVenue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Henry iV, Part iOften considered Shakespeare’s most perfectly crafted play, the story follows Prince Hal through his early years as a cut-purse and companion to the drunken Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare’s greatest comic creation. There’s a talk with the cast and director on Oct. 18.Times: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 24Cost: $27details: www.littlefishtheatre.orgVenue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S. Centre St, San Pedro

Joan of Arc at Theatre elysium San PedroArtistic director Aaron Ganz turns to Joan of Arc for Theatre Elysium San Pedro’s latest original adventure, weaving acting, dance, visual art and music into a special telling of the young French girl chosen by God to lead an army and pay the ultimate price for her bravery and sacrifice.Time: 7:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays through Oct. 11.Cost: $25details: www.sanpedrorep.orgVenue: Theatre Elysium San Pedro Rep., 311 W. 7th St., San Pedro

OCT. 4The edwards TwinsGet set for an energetic performance of mimicry and music as the Edwards Twins meticulously morph into dozens of your favorite celebrities.Time: 2 p.m. Oct. 4Cost: $38

details: (562) 985-7000

Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach

Private eyesSteven Dietz’ 1996 dark comedy tells a tale of adultery among a group of theater people in an ever-dissolving sequence of plays within plays within plays. Time: 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 4 through 22 Cost: $27details: (310) 512-6030Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 Centre St., San Pedro

OCT. 9SP international Film FestivalCinephiles, clear your calendars. The San Pedro International Film Festival 2015 launches on Oct. 9. A Ballerina's Tale is a documentary that follows the journey of Misty Copeland from San Pedro to New York. Seating is limited to 250 seats.Time: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 9 through 11Cost: $60 to $95details: www.spiffest.orgVenue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCT. 11Latino Americans: Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980)In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans, frustrated by persistent discrimination and poverty, found a new way forward through social action and the building of a new Chicano identity. Latino Americans is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who for 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. Join guest lecturer Karen Davalos, assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University for a screening and scholar-led discussion.Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.Cost: Freedetails: www.molaa.orgVenue: MOLAA, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach

OCT. 14Sondheim on SondheimAn intimate portrait of famed composer Stephen Sondheim (creator of such Tony Award-winning musicals as Company, Sweeney Todd, Follies, Into the Woods and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) in his own words and music. Time: 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 14 to Nov. 8Cost: $34 to $54details: ictlongbeach.orgVenue: International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach

OCT. 16LA Waterfront Movie Night: The Book of LifeEnjoy an evening with the family on the LA Waterfront at the free showing of The Book of Life at either the downtown San Pedro Harbor or Wilmington’s Waterfront Park. Parking is free at both sites.Time: 6:30 p.m.Cost: Freedetails: www.portofosangeles.org Venue: Downtown Harbor, 504 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro; Wilmington Waterfront Park, 1004 W. C St., Wilmington

iconic MugshotsThe concept of justified law-breaking is considered through the mug shots that captured iconic actors, musicians, artists and activists during the booking process. The artists exhibiting their work are Mark Metzner, Alan R Papaleo, Reidar Schopp, Steven Amado, Cora Ramirez-Vasquez, Ray Vasquez, and Harmony Azul Vasquez. An artist reception is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 19Time: Through Oct. 24Cost: Freedetails: tinyurl.com/GalleryAzulMugshotsVenue: Gallery Azul, 520 W 8th St, San Pedro

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T his year ’s annual San Pedro International Film Festival scored a real coup in being one of the first to screen Nelson George’s Misty Copeland documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale.

Described as a cinema verité, A Ballerina’s Tale covers the period when American Ballet Theatre offered Copeland the lead role in Igor Stravinsky's Firebird at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 2013.

Though her performance was widely praised, Copeland revealed afterwards she had performed while in a great deal of pain. George captured footage of this difficult period when Copeland learned she had six fractures in her left shin. Without corrective surgery the shin might one day break.

Judging from the trailers on the film’s website, the documentary captures a lot of the work and drama behind the scenes that goes into pulling off a successful performance as well as a taste of the real life struggles Copeland had to endure before she was named a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre.

The film climaxes with Copeland’s 2014 Swan Lake performance as the lead soloist where mentors such as Lauren Anderson, the first African-American principal dancer with the Houston Ballet, and Raven Wilkinson of the Ballet of Monte Cristo in the 1950s, greeted her on the stage with flowers

Copeland has not been shy about talking of the loneliness of her journey through the world of classical ballet and how inhospitable it can be toward women of color and curvier bodies. But this film, with its pedigree of directors, producers and editors, does what Copeland can’t with words alone: inspire girls of all shapes, sizes and walks of life that they can belong in classical ballet.

The film is showing in select theatres across six states. In Southern California, it’s only playing in one theater in Pasadena, one in Los Angeles, one in San Diego and one in Encino—not forgetting to

mention the 250 lucky people with tickets to the SPIFF festival.

A Ballerina’s Tale is actually but one of five documentaries featured at the festival. including: Rooted In Peace, another worth seeing is kind of cinematic memoir for Greg Reitman as he explores ways to find personal and ecological peace, while ending the cycle of violence. Reitman interviews internationally renowned figures such as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love, and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, media mogul Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, green architect William McDonough, neuroscientist Dan Siegel and many others.

The three-day festival includes tour de force feature films, film shorts, and animated films. The festival will also celebrate filmmakers by having day dedicated to films produced by women ,followed by a panel discussion. Time: 16 p.m. to10 p.m. Oct. 9 through 11Cost: $60 to $95details: www.spiffest.orgVenue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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