Compton unions signal legal action

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Vol. 94 • No. 32
New
hopes
raised at
Marlton
Square
With demolition of
city-owned property
beginning at beleaguered
Crenshaw District retail
site, some envision a
fresh start after decades
of frustration.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
CRENSHAW DISTRICT —
After much delay, last Thursday
marked the beginning of demolition of city-owned properties in
Marlton Square.
With Rep. Maxine Waters,
Los Angeles City Councilman
Bernard Parks and other officials on hand, a group of about
two dozen people celebrated as
an excavator destroyed one of
a number of blighted buildings
that have plagued the area.
“The community has watched
for nearly two decades, as
Marlton fell into despair and
became an eyesore, attracting a
variety of problems like illegal
dumping, arson and vandalism,”
Parks said. “Today, we can finally turn the page on the problems
of the past [and] begin a new
chapter as we clear the way for
future development.”
Moving forward with the
development of the 20-acre
shopping center on Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard has
been a major priority for local
elected officials, including former Mayor Tom Bradley, who
sought to redevelop the property
— then known as Santa Barbara
Plaza — as far back as 1984, said
Waters. She praised the work of
See MARLTON SQUARE on page A5
Thursday, August 11, 2011
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HER OWN IMAGE
Some may be uneasy about her portrayal of a
stoic maid in “The Help,” but acclaimed actress
Viola Davis “feel[s] the most revolutionary thing
you can do is to humanize the Black woman.”
BY OLU ALEMORU
I
STAFF WRITER
n the much talked-about screen drama “The Help” — which
paints an often harrowing, but ultimately dignified picture of
the lives of Black maids in 1960s Mississippi — there may
be some uneasiness for African-American audiences watching yet another cinematic treatment of the inhumanity visited upon
their forebears during the civil rights era.
Some of that angst was also felt by the film’s star, Viola Davis,
before she signed on to portray the central character of Aibileen
— a lifelong housekeeper who reluctantly agrees to share her true
feelings about Southern racism at a time when doing so could easily be criminalized.
Her hesitance was for good reason: ever since it was announced
that Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel was being adapted for
the screen, a number of Black cultural critics have expressed
Touchstone Pictures displeasure at what they see as a familiar — and condescending
In the film adaptation of the bestseller “The Help,” Viola Davis portrays a domestic servant in — Hollywood trope in its story of a White writer (portrayed by
See DAVIS on page A8
1960s Mississippi who risks everything to share truths about Southern racism.
Compton unions signal legal action
Following controversial
vote to order layoffs,
attorneys for a coalition
of city workers allege
violations of state law
by city officials.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
COMPTON — City officials
violated state laws during budget deliberations that led to the
elimination of municipal jobs,
the absorption of vacant positions and numerous demotions,
according to a letter written
by an attorney representing the
Coalition of Compton Unions.
The purpose of the letter,
addressed to City Attorney
Craig Cornwell and the City
Council, was “to summarize
what the coalition believes to be
the principal legal defects of the
council’s actions, and to demand
that the city of Compton take
immediate action to remedy the
multiple violations of law,” said
Anthony Segall, partner with
the law firm of Rothner, Segall
and Greenstone.
The document details what
the coalition — comprised of
SEIU Local 721, the Compton
Firefighters IAFF Local 2216
and AFSCME Locals 2325 and
3497 — sees as five separate
violations of the law. It also
requests public records, which
Segall said have been previously requested and are relevant to
the coalition’s representational
duties.
According to the letter, the
city violated the Meyers-Milias
Brown Act (MMBA), which
guards against failures to meet
and confer in good faith. “The
city’s conduct, before and at
the July 19 council meeting,
Photo by Leiloni De Gruy
has made a mockery of the bar- Members of the Coalition of Compton Unions protested outside City Hall last month before a budget
See LAWSUIT on page A3 was approved that included a substantial reduction in the municipal workforce.
Looking to succeed her boss, Lacey gives an
opening statement on her campaign for D.A.
N
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ow I’d like to call to
the stand Jackie Lacey,
District Attorney Steve
Cooley’s right-hand woman and
his favored candidate to replace
him, so she can testify as to why
we, the voters, should give any
credence to Cooley’s personal
preference and elect her the next
district attorney for the county of
Los Angeles.
In what was the longest interview I’ve ever had with a political candidate, I sat down with
#PUUPN-JOF
Betty Pleasant
Lacey and asked her 10 questions
which had been rolling around in
my brain for some time. Her
answer to this opening question
pretty much colored everything
else she had to say:
BP: “You and Steve Cooley
seem to have a mutual admiration thing going on. He pulled
you out of obscurity and made
you his ‘director of central operations’ after you supported him
for DA in 2000, and you supported him over Kamala Harris
for attorney general last year.
You are videotaped introducing
Cooley at his premature ‘victory’
party following that election at
which you said: ‘Working for this
man every day makes my heart
glow. You want to please him.’
What is that statement all about?
Are you in love with Cooley?”
See BOTTOM LINE on page A3
Photo by Olu Alemoru
Deputy District Attorney Jackie
Lacey, who is running for the
top job, answered questions at
The Wave offices Aug. 5.
Marlene Brand, who works as a mammographer, will be among
the dozens of volunteers at a health fair this Saturday.
Free South L.A.
health fair aims to
expose racial disparities
Set for Saturday,
event will offer
medical screenings
and information about
inequality that affects
health in AfricanAmerican communities.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
In an effort to address the
chronic shortage of local
healthcare services and galvanize community voices on the
issue, a free health fair with a
strong advocacy component will
be held Saturday in South Los
Angeles.
The Service Employees
International
Union-United
Healthcare Workers West (SEIUUHW) and St. John’s Well
Child & Family Center, located
at 5701 S. Hoover St., have
teamed up to stage the “Back to
School the Healthy Way—South
LA Summer Health Fair” from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event coincides with
National Health Center Week —
Aug. 7-13 — which celebrates
the role of community health
centers in improving the lives of
more than 50 million people in
low-income and minority comSee HEALTH FAIR on page A2
Wearing the pain
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Gerri Dunagan, whose son Tyrelle died while in custody as an inmate at Tehachapi State Prison, displays a tattooed tribute
during an Aug. 5 news conference at which she called for an official investigation into his death.
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Along for the ride with unseen heroes of history
Photos by Gary McCarthy
A replica of a burned Freedom Ride bus is among the exhibits at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum in Culver City, with support from the Legislative Black Caucus and others.
A new exhibit at the
Mayme A. Clayton
Library & Museum
in Culver City pays
tribute to L.A.’s role
in Freedom Rides that
boosted desegregation
efforts.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
The largely unheralded role
of Los Angeles Freedom Riders
during a push to desegregate
the South is the focus of a new
exhibit at the Mayme A. Clayton
Library & Museum in Culver
City.
Entitled “Get on Board:
Stories of the Los Angeles to
Houston Freedom Ride,” it commemorates the 50th anniversary
of the 1961 event, which was
sponsored by the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE).
The
exhibition,
which
has the financial backing of
the California Legislative
Black Caucus, Shrangri-La
Construction and Jensen &
Partners, runs through Oct. 16
at the 4130 Overland Ave. location. On Monday, the museum’s
executive director, Larry Earl
Jr., and cultural arts consultant
Monica M. Scott previewed the
show for a small number of
local journalists.
“Last November we got a call
from the California Legislative
Black Caucus, who invited
us to come and do an exhibition for them,” Earl explained.
“[Initially], we were stumped
for an idea, but we talked about
it and the idea of doing something on the anniversary of the
freedom rides came up.
“Through our research we
discovered there was one freedom ride that left L.A. headed to
Houston, Texas, in order to meet
up with other freedom riders
in Jackson, Mississippi. They
didn’t make it to Jackson, but
their story is just as graphic and
important as the others.
Broken down into four headings — Awakening, Offering,
Exceptionalism and Renewal
— “Get on Board” tells the story
The work of Los Angeles’ delegation of Freedom Riders, who
risked their lives to fight segregation in the South, is highlighted
at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum.
of the student activists, who on
their arrival in Houston were
arrested for unlawful assembly
at Union Station Coffee House.
Each of those sections is
accompanied by a quote — for
instance, these poignant words
from Diane Nash Bevels: “Since
my child will be a Black child,
born in Mississippi, whether I
am in jail or not, he will be born
in prison. I believe that if I go
to jail now it may help hasten
that day when my child and all
Health fair has activist component
on this health fair in order to
expand our outreach and talk
about the importance of access
to good healthcare.”
He added: “We will have doctors, nurses and medical assistants on hand to deliver all kinds
of high-quality services.”
In light of the recent political brinkmanship in Washington
over deficit reduction, Mangia
makes no apology for the stated
political aims. “We have to create a new advocacy infrastructure in South L.A. so patients
who are under- and uninsured
have a voice in the debate,”
he argued. “We’re not going
to stand for … partisan bickering, which essentially hurts our
community’s health and allow a
fringe group of the Republican
Party, essentially the Tea Party,
to set the agenda for the country.”
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munities. Staffed by SEIU and
St. John’s volunteers, the fair
will provide screenings for diabetes and heart problems, physicals, immunizations and nutritional advice.
Children will be offered free
vaccinations for the Tdap —
combined Tetanus, Diptheria
and Pertussis (whooping cough)
shots — booster program, which
students in grades 7 to 12 are
required to obtain before starting school. A host of activities,
including games and giveaways,
will be provided for the younger
attendees.
As for the advocacy component, organizers from The Right
To Health Committee will offer
information on opportunities for
healthcare access.
The backdrop to the fair finds
watchdogs like the Community
Health Councils of Los
Angeles reporting stark disparities in healthcare for AfricanAmericans — such as a 2.5
times greater incidence of infant
mortality than Whites. African-
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more likely to be diagnosed with
HIV and 10 times more likely
to die of breast cancer. In addition, Black men are two times
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According to Dr. David
Carlisle, director of the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and
Development, it is estimated
that 886,000 African-Americans
died between 1991 and 2000 of
diseases that could have been
prevented had “equal healthcare
been available.”
“We have a very close relationship with SEIU and work
closely in many initiatives,”
explained Jim Mangia, St John’s
president and CEO. “We came
to a mutual agreement to put
children will be free, not only on
the day of their birth, but for all
of their lives.”
A collection of black-andwhite photographs, newspaper
clippings, manuscripts and documents — many from the personal collection of the Freedom
Riders — are used to illustrate
the exhibition.
Uniquely, the exhibit also
features replicas of the Union
Station Coffee Shop, the
Houston Jail cell and a civil
rights era voting booth.
But perhaps the most dramatic piece is a replica of a
freedom bus — created by film
designers — that was bombed
on March 20, 1961, when a
group of Freedom Riders from
Washington, D.C., entered
Anniston, Alabama.
“A mob basically attacked
the bus, slashed the tires and
someone threw a bomb inside
while they were still on the
bus,” Scott explained, noting
that many of them wrote their
last will and testaments before
embarking on their journeys.
“[Luckily] they were all able to
Meanwhile, SEIU worker Marlene Brand, who has
worked as a mammographer at
St. Francis Medical Center in
Lynwood, echoed those sentiments.
“I will be volunteering on
Saturday because I grew up in
the community and live and
work here,” she said. “More
than half of our patients at St.
Francis, a good 70 percent, are
on Medicaid and Medicare, or
some kind of public assistance
health program.”
Brand said that without free
events like the fair, South L.A.
residents won’t be able to get
services such as breast screenings and access to medication
for diabetes, heart disease and
hypertension. She added, ominously: “It’s almost like they
want people to die.”
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Labor unions seek an injunction
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gaining process required by the
MMBA,” it said. “For months,
the coalition has been attempting to engage in meaningful
negotiations about the effects of
the proposed layoffs. Starting in
early June, the coalition requested information necessary to the
bargaining process and made a
series of proposals to mitigate
the need for and address the
effects of layoffs.”
The coalition’s most recent
proposal on July 11, it continued, was in the form of a
draft Letter of Agreement and
proposed about $6.7 million in
concessions in exchange for a
freeze on layoffs in the current
fiscal year.
In an interview, AFSCME
Local 3947 president Rose
Downs said that talks between
union representatives and City
Manager Willie Norfleet’s
team did not occur in time for
effective negotiations on how
concessions could prevent layoffs. Instead, she said, official
discussions were few and far
between, and were scheduled at
times that required negotiators
to miss work or use free time.
Additionally, she told The Wave
that once negotiations did commence, Norfleet and his team
seemed determined to order layoffs no matter what concessions
were put on the table.
“The city’s response to the
coalition’s efforts has been a
flat refusal to bargain,” Segall
said. “The city manager ignored
the coalition’s communications,
refused to respond to its information requests and made no
counter-proposals. The events
at the July 19 council meetings were a culmination of the
city’s unlawful refusal to bargain. Instead of engaging in
the meet and confer process as
the MMBA requires, the city
manager merely extracted the
concessions from the coalition’s
July 11 proposal and unilaterally
placed them in a set of written
amendments to the budget dis-
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tributed a few minutes before
the council meeting began. The
audacious lawlessness of this
action no doubt contributed to
the confusion — with serial
votes, reconsiderations and revotes — that plagued the entire
meeting.”
Downs said that the concessions were a package deal, one
that could not be broken up
without a vote and ratification
by union membership. They
were contractual items, she said,
and any changes would have
had to be placed back on the bargaining table before the council
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could legally vote to accept just
some of them.
Councilman Willie Jones,
who opposed the budget and
dismissal of city employees on
three separate occasions, admitted during a late June meeting
that he had approached Norfleet
and his team with suggestions
that they enlist experts to help
pinpoint cost-saving measures,
including consideration of early
retirement and furloughs. After
his requests were ignored, Jones
said he sought experts on his
own and presented the informaSee LAWSUIT on page A6
Cooley’s right hand makes her case to be elected District Attorney
tity theft three times, her mother
was victimized once, as has several others with whom she is
acquainted.
“All the deputies know how to
handle identity theft cases, but I
believe they should be pushed a
lot more,” she said.
BP: “You lived in Simi Valley
until you decided to run for D.A.
and then you moved into Los
Angeles County in December to
do so. Isn’t that the same kind
of move you D.A. people prosecute other politicians for making? How is your move different
from that of Sen. Rod Wright and
Councilman Richard Alarcon,
whom you indicted, while ignoring
identical moves by Councilman
Bernard Parks and City Attorney
Carmen Trutanich? And what
about the fact that Inglewood’s
Judy Dunlap and Arnold Butler
and former Supervisor Yvonne
Burke [allegedly] never did live
in the district they represented?
Everybody knew it and you people did nothing about it.”
JL: “Every day and every
night, I am sleeping in Los
Angeles County.”
Lacey’s biography lists as her
organizational leadership accomplishments during Cooley’s reign
her “role in helping to establish the Alternative Sentencing
Courts, heading various committees to enhance the enforcement
of laws against graffiti, working with Central Operations to
streamline the prosecution of
all gang cases in Central Los
Angeles, partnering with the Los
Photo by Olu Alemoru
A member of District Attorney Steve Cooley’s executive management team, Jackie Lacey hopes to succeed him.
Angeles Rape Treatment Center
to mandate assault training for
juvenile court prosecutors and
playing a role in establishing the
first Animal Cruelty Prosecution
Program in the D.A.’s office.”
Her bio also states that, as a
member of Cooley’s executive
management team, “her responsibilities include regularly weighing-in on everything from high
profile matters to whether the
office will seek the death penalty
in a particular murder case.”
BP: “That being so, how did
you weigh in on cases that jolted
the Black community, such as the
railroading of Mayor Roosevelt
Dorn? The persecution of 17year-old Jeremy Marks? The
indictment of Sen. Wright? The
trial and acquittal of Inglewood
school board member Trina
Williams? The attempted murder
charge and subsequent trial of
Jasmin Askew and the overreach-
ing imprisonment of her father,
Najee Ali?”
Lacey said the case against
Dorn, an award-winning and highly respected former judge whom
Cooley ultimately removed from
his Inglewood mayorship, “did
not come to a major case briefing
involving me,” and she exhibited
very little knowledge of what the
Dorn matter was all about. She
said she knew nothing about the
heavy-handed prosecution (and
ultimate acquittal) of Askew or
how or why Ali — the Black
community’s most widely known
and omnipresent social activist
— came to spend two years in
prison.
The Marks case, however, is a
different story because that one
was a cause célèbre and ignited international outrage. “We
reviewed, reviewed and reviewed
the Marks case,” Lacey said. “We
listened and the good part of that
story is that we listened very
carefully. That’s how we reached
a fair disposition on that case.”
BP: “How did you weigh in
on the war Cooley waged — and
is still waging — against the
union in your office? What about
that injunction Judge Otis Wright
slapped on Cooley to stop him
from terrorizing union members,
and what about that lawsuit the
union has filed against Cooley
and you?”
Lacey prefers to characterize
the brutal battle over unionization between Cooley and his deputy D.A.s as “growing pains,”
stemming from Cooley’s disagreements with the head of the
Association of Deputy District
Attorneys and the contentious
nature of lawyers. “Our relations
with the union are the best they’ve
ever been now that the union is
affiliated with AFSCME,” Lacey
said. “I think it’s a whole lot better now.”
Nevertheless, the union is suing
Lacey for anti-union activities,
and pending the outcome of a
complicated motion, she may be
removed from the suit as a defendant because she is “the county
of Los Angeles,” or she may be
required to testify as a witness to
it and explain why her testimony
changed from one hearing on the
matter to the next.
And finally, on a personal note,
Lacey has been a prosecutor for
26 years, including two years in
the Santa Monica City Attorney’s
Office. She tried more than 60
felony cases, the last being in the
year 2000. She is married and
has two children. She got her
law degree from USC after earning her bachelor’s at UC Irvine.
Lacey graduated from Dorsey
High School in 1975, grew up in
the Crenshaw District and volunteers one day each week talking to
fifth graders about truancy, gangs,
drugs, and the consequences of
violating the law at Lorena Street
School in Boyle Heights.
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JL: “I am not in love with
him, but I have great admiration for him because he gave
me a chance. You’re right — he
did pull me out of obscurity and
I had no managerial experience
until Cooley promoted me. He
believes everybody deserves a
chance and when he became head
deputy, he gave me the opportunity to prove myself, and my
career took off because of it. I am
grateful to Cooley.”
Given that working for Cooley
everyday makes Lacey’s heart
glow, I inquired as to whether
she has any criticisms about the
way Cooley operates and what
she would do differently if she is
elected to succeed him.
She has no criticisms of Cooley
and for the most part, she plans
to expand on what is already
being implemented. Lacey is an
avid proponent of the county’s
Alternative Sentencing Courts,
which mete out special kinds of
justice to mental health, drugs,
veterans and women’s re-entry
law-breakers in an attempt to
address the underlying causes of
their criminality.
“We only have one judge in
the whole county handling the
alternative sentencing cases and
I want to expand that,” Lacey
said.
She also wants to expand the
D.A. office’s prosecution of
identity theft crimes, which she
sees as a significant and growing
problem in the county. Lacey said
she has been a victim of iden-
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further talks on how
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profit expectations.
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CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas assists students from Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools in the painting of a mural
Aug. 5 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center (MACC). As part of the construction surrounding the
reopening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, the students painted a portion of the 900 foot-long canvas that is currently
a part of the walkway scaffolding.
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Blanket, the youngest son of the late pop star Michael Jackson, stands next to a piece of art drawn by his father Monday at
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Jackson art donated
to children’s hospital
From City News Service
Ten pieces of art drawn and
signed by Michael Jackson were
donated to Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles Monday, with the
late King of Pop’s three children
on hand for the occasion.
The children — Prince, 14,
Paris, 13, and Blanket, 9 —
signed their names to some of
the artwork, next to the name of
their famous father.
“You look at this, it makes
you happy,” Jackson’s sister, La
Toya, said during a ceremony at
the hospital. “They’re whimsical, they’re magical and there’s
just joy and peace. I know that
when you see this and the kids
see it, it will bring some type of
joy to them, and at the same time
I know it will bring joy to my
brother as well.”
She said Jackson would appre-
ciate the artwork being placed
in “a hospital like this that will
help children and people everywhere.”
The artwork was donated from
the private collection of Brett
Livingstone Strong, an artist and
friend of the Jackson family.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
and Jackson’s mother, Katherine,
were also on hand for the event.
Mary Hart, a hospital trustee
who helped arrange the donation with her husband, Burt
Sugarman, hailed the presentation of the artwork, which will be
displayed around the hospital’s
new building.
“To have the Jackson family
here, to show a side of Michael
Jackson here at Children’s
Hospital that the world is totally unfamiliar with is incredibly
exciting,” Hart said.
Accompanied by their aunt LaToya (center), Prince Michael
and Paris Jackson face the media after officially donating their
father’s artwork.
A non-binding agreement
with
developer Anschutz
Entertainment Group to build a
$1.2 billion NFL stadium, a new
city convention hall and two
parking structures on municipal land downtown easily won
the backing Tuesday of the Los
Angeles City Council.
The stadium project includes
the demolition and replacement
of the 40-year-old West Hall
of the Los Angeles Convention
Center. AEG hopes to have the
project adjacent to L.A. Live
and Staples Center completed
by the start of the 2016 football
season.
“This is a significant project
for the future of our city, and
it will bring football back to
Los Angeles,” said Jan Perry,
who chairs a council committee
charged with vetting the stadium
proposal. “But the most important thing is it will create jobs.”
The agreement — which was
approved on a 12-0 vote — “protects the general fund, leverages
private investment to modernize our convention center, and
guarantees that the event center
is built without public funds,”
added Perry, a 2013 mayoral
candidate.
Dozens of labor and business leaders packed the council
chamber and urged the council
to approve the agreement.
Council
members
Tom
LaBonge and Dennis Zine
were absent, and former
Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s
seat remains vacant.
The vote clears the way for
AEG to begin arranging financing to pay for the stadium and
to conclude an ongoing environmental impact report, which
the developer hopes to have
approved by May 2012. It also
allows AEG to advance negotiations with the NFL to bring
a football team or two to Los
Angeles. An announcement is
unlikely until after the Super
Bowl in early 2012.
“I feel like we’ve been handed a vote of confidence,” AEG
President and CEO Tim Leiweke
said. “Today was the best step
we’ve taken to date to bring the
NFL back to L.A., and I think it
sends a very strong message to
the NFL owners.
“In 16 years we’ve never
made it this far down the field,”
he added.
The approval marks a shift
from a conversation about how
the project will be funded to a
debate over the finer points of
the proposal, which could mean
more or less cost to taxpayers.
Those include how the city will
mitigate traffic and whether or
not AEG will share advertising revenue from an estimated
50,000 square feet of new billboard space.
Councilman
Mitchell
Englander also said there has yet
to be any discussion of new public safety personnel costs that
would be required on football
game days.
Under the memorandum of
understanding, AEG would pay
for the football stadium and two
new parking structures. The city
would issue $275 million in taxexempt bonds to pay for the
convention center, which will
be built by AEG and designed
by Populous, an international
design firm.
The bonds would be split.
About 30 percent, or $80 million, would be paid directly by
AEG and backed by L.A. Live
and Staples Center, which AEG
owns. The city could foreclose
on the properties if AEG was
unable to pay the bonds.
The remaining $195 million
in bonds would be paid from the
city’s general fund. The MOU is
structured to use about half of
the new revenues generated by
the project to repay the bond.
Those revenues include rent to
use the city’s land under the
stadium, property taxes paid by
AEG, parking taxes and a onetime construction tax.
City Administrative Officer
Miguel Santana, who helped
negotiate the agreement, has
called the revenue sources consistent and reliable.
Any additional revenue would
go back into the city’s general
fund, which pays for basic city
services like police, libraries
and pothole repairs. A consultant chosen by the city and paid
for by AEG, Conventions Sports
& Leisure, predicted the project
would generate about $210 million in new revenue for the city’s
general fund over 30 years.
The MOU also requires AEG
to build the new convention hall
and parking structures before
it begins construction of the
football stadium. The developer
would also have to pay for any
revenue lost by a decline or
interruption of convention business because of the project.
Leiweke said Philip Anschutz,
who owns a majority stake in
AEG’s parent company, would
have to own a part of the football
team for the project to be financially viable. He cited Staples
Center as a model that works
financially because Anschutz
owns about 30 percent of the
Lakers.
Leiweke said Anschutz and
AEG have been talking to NFL
team owners for two years and
are prepared to buy an entire
team if necessary.
“I believe instead of us pursuing the teams, we’re going to
see a change now,” he said. “If
a team is prepared to move here
as early as next year, we’ll be
ready.”
The proposal would create
about 6,320 permanent jobs
and 14,000 temporary construction jobs over three years, Perry
said.
CSL studied the economic
impacts of the proposal and predicted that more than half of
the jobs would be in the service
industry, including bars and restaurants. Another 385 advertising and 259 transit and ground
transportation jobs would be
permanent.
Perry said new construction
would be covered by a project labor agreement, which will
ensure “we are putting local
people back to work.”
She added that a study of offsite job creation, which could
include hotel workers and restaurant employees, has not yet
been conducted.
The general manager of the
Los Angeles Convention Center,
Pouria Abbassi, has said he
anticipates the project will bring
new conventions, but convention
center business is hamstrung by
a lack of hotel rooms downtown.
The city needs at least 5,000
hotel rooms within one-half mile
of the convention center to make
it competitive with top convention centers in the country, but
there are only about 1,700 rooms
within that range, according to
city officials.
“The skeptic is no longer a
skeptic,” said Councilman Bill
Rosendahl, who had been the
most reserved council member
when it came to supporting the
project.
Rosendahl said he still wants
to hear more discussion of possible revenue sharing from a
new television contract once a
football team arrives.
Council President Eric Garcetti
also asked about the city’s ability to negotiate revenue sharing
if AEG makes more money off
the stadium than predicted. CSL
estimated that AEG would have
a low 6.7 percent rate of return
on its investment.
“If we have reason to believe
that they’re profiting on public land unnecessarily, then certainly we’re going to come back
to you,” said Chief Legislative
Analyst Gerry Miller, who has
been the city’s lead negotiator in
talks with AEG.
Leiweke, however, shut the
idea down and bristled at the
suggestion of re-opening talks
about any type of revenue sharing.
“We have made it very clear
that if (the city) ever wants to
invest with us on the stadium,
we’d be more than happy to
include them in our rate of
return,” he said.
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Parks; Christine Essel, CEO
of Community Redevelopment
Agency of Los Angeles;
Kenneth Fearn, Chairman of
the Board of Commissioners
of the Redevelopment Agency;
Douglas Guthrie, General
Manager of the Los Angeles
Housing Department; Richard
Benbow, General Manager
of the LA Community
Development Department; and
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
“I know that it took us a while
to get here today. I was very
disappointed when developer
Capitol Vision Equities defaulted on its loan and then stopped
work on this development,”
Waters said. “The ensuing bankruptcy litigation left the families
who live in this community in
limbo. And it left Buckingham
Place, which would have provided much needed housing for
the elderly, incomplete.”
According to city officials,
the Buckingham Place Senior
Apartments was the only segment of the originally planned
mixed-use development project
that commenced construction.
The anticipated three-building
complex with 180 apartment for
low-income seniors saw the first
of three phases begin, but work
halted when at least three companies forced the property into
involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy after developer Chris
Hammond of Capital Vision
Equities stopped making payments to the hired construction
companies in May 2007.
Currently, the building is over
90 percent complete; appliances, carpeting and cabinets are
installed, but work remains to be
done to the hallways, stairwells
and trash facilities.
The tumultuous history of
Marlton Square dates back to
1984 when Bradley sought to
turn the shopping center around.
Former Los Angeles Lakerturned-real estate entrepreneur
Magic Johnson won the negotiation rights in 1996, but after
spending five years working
through the City of Los Angeles’
planning and entitlement process, lost the battle when the
development deal was given to
Hammond’s firm. However, the
development group was unable
to carry out the project and
defaulted in 2004.
Adding further delay, Capital
Vision’s bank went bankrupt
two years later. According to
city officials, Las Vegas-based
USA Capital had loaned Capital
Vision Equities $36 million to
acquire approximately 50 parcels of land, but when USA
Capital dissolved, it left behind
over $962 million in assets and
more than 6,000 investors.
Unable to move forward
while the properties were tied
up in bankruptcy court, Parks
said he spent half a decade trying to secure funding so that
the Community Redevelopment
Agency of Los Angeles (CRA/
LA) could purchase most of the
remaining buildings.
“If there’s one lesson to take
away from the past decade,
it’s the importance of attaining
site control before undertaking
a project of this magnitude,”
Parks said. “It was unrealistic to
expect a lone developer to negotiate with over 40 property owners and 300 tenants. This clearly
demonstrates the important role
of CRA/LA in assisting and nurturing private investment in our
communities.”
A breakthrough was not
reached until late 2010,
when a settlement agreement
was reached, leaving one
owner, Commercial Mortgage
Managers, in control of roughly
80 percent of the total property,
with nearly 20 percent of the
land in the possession of CRA/
LA.
Having the CRA/LA involved
will speed up redevelopment,
Parks said, because the agency
will omit the need for a new
developer to negotiate with multiple parties and aid the city in
determining what will eventually be built on the site. The
original vision included commercial retail stores, sit-down
restaurants and condominiums.
On Friday morning, shoppers and residents of the area
expressed mixed emotions about
the demolition, saying they are
glad to see a step forward but
are not convinced that developers or city officials will meet the
timeline presented to the public.
“I have lived in this area for
over 30 years when this was the
Santa Barbara Plaza. This used
to be a place that I was proud of.
It seems like every year Marlton
Square has gone down,” said
Tamika Johnson. “If you look,
there are a number of vacant
properties. They do nothing but
bring down our property values
and make those who have to
walk by or drive by feel hopeless. It’s a shame because if
you look at areas like Beverly
Hills, the buildings are kept up
and the streets are clean. The
medians have flowers and grass.
When you live somewhere like
that you feel good about life and
its possibilities. Now look at
Marlton Square, you see noth-
ing like what you would find in
suburban areas. It does nothing
for the [morale] of this community.”
Jeffrey Holmes is delighted
“that they are finally tearing
down some of these buildings.
They look ugly,” he said. “The
paint is peeling, the grass and
weeds are overgrown. There
is nothing pleasant about this
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place. For years I’ve been looking at these empty buildings.”
Still, he wants to know: What’s
next? “They promised for years
that they would rebuild this area
and nothing has happened for
one reason or another,” Holmes
added. “I hope they don’t tear
down these buildings and leave
the [rubble] behind for years
until they find someone to come
in and do something with it. We
deserve better and want better.”
Janet Taylor-Dupri didn’t
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know how to interpret the demolition, she said, adding that “it
seems as though when something is torn down here it takes
years for something to replace
it. Sometimes we get better
than what we had before, and
sometimes we don’t. I think that
newer, more modern buildings
will really help this area and
the community. We have all the
construction going on with the
mall. Why not have something
that is just as nice?”
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Fiscal recovery
must focus on
hard-hit minorities
BY ANGELA GLOVER
BLACKWELL
ast month, the Center
for American Progress
highlighted the stark and
disproportionate impact of the
ongoing jobs crisis on people
of color, with unemployment
among Blacks reaching more
than 16%, compared with more
than 11% for Latinos and more
than 8% for Whites.
Simultaneously, poverty rates
in communities of color remain
at an all-time high, especially among children. More than
one third of today’s AfricanAmerican and Latino youth
under the age of 18 are growing
up in poverty.
When combined with the projected loss of more than a quarter
of $1 trillion in black and Latino
wealth between 2009 and 2012
due to the foreclosure crisis,
what we’re left with is an entire
generation of Americans living
without the security of a decent
living wage, quality education,
affordable health care or home
ownership.
This is a crisis level that calls
for comprehensive strategies
concentrated on creating jobs
now and making smart, sustainable investments that will
stimulate growth and secure our
nation’s economic future.
Yet the Budget Control Act
of 2011, signed into law this
week after a lengthy, divisive
debate in Congress, missed an
important opportunity to address
jobs and unemployment. Instead
it focused on cuts that would
erode funding for critical public
investments and safety-net programs that offer much-needed
support to America’s poor and
working-class families.
The bill specifically failed
to mention two vital programs
that will expire by year’s end:
unemployment insurance and
the 2% payroll holiday tax for
the middle class. According to
the Economic Policy Institute,
failure to make these crucial
extensions could:
• Cost our economy close to 1
million jobs next year
• Lead to $45 billion less in
unemployment assistance for
about 3.8 million unemployed
workers who currently depend
on it, which would result in $70
billion less in a 2012 economy
and an estimated 528,000 fewer
jobs
• Decrease funding substantially for food stamps, Medicare
and Pell Grants, and make a yet
unnamed $900 billion in discretionary cuts to programs that
many low-income people and
communities of color heavily
depend on for affordable access
to healthy food, higher education and health care.
It is deeply disappointing to
see our leaders in Washington
slashing services at the very
moment they should be working tirelessly to maximize job
growth and set the foundation
for long-term economic prosperity, productivity and global
competiveness, especially in
communities hit first and worst
by the recession.
They are making a gamble
with our nation’s future that we
cannot afford.
By 2042, people of color will
be the majority in America;
already the majority of youth
under the age of 2 are of color.
As the country’s demographic
transformation continues accelerating, the framework we use
to shape and develop future
economic policies, particularly
those affecting low-income peo-
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President Obama must insist
on targeted initiatives if communities of color are to benefit
from economic recovery.
ple and people of color, must
also evolve.
Such a shift will lead to just
and fair inclusion, elevating
equity as the nation’s growth
model.
By recognizing the untapped
potential that exists in these
communities we can create targeted economic development
policies at the local, regional and
national levels that will spur job
creation, foster new businesses
and prepare low-income people
and people of color to work in
and grow new industries.
Already, federal programs such
as Youth Build and the Strong
Cities, Strong Communities
Initiative link low-wage workers and small-business owners
in underserved areas to essential
tools and resources that support
meaningful employment, local
innovation and entrepreneurship.
And
the
Promise
Neighborhoods Initiative, for
which the Obama administration has allocated $30 million,
will wrap poor children across
America in education, health
and social supports from the
cradle to college to career, to
ensure that our next generations are equipped to compete
and succeed in the 21st-century
economy.
When it comes to maximizing
job creation, the kinds of investments we make are also crucial. For every dollar invested in
public transit, for example, our
economy gains 31% more jobs
than it would for the construction
of new roads and highways.
We must push for investments
in transportation, infrastructure
and regional economic development that will connect low-wage
workers to jobs and set the foundation for sustained economic
growth and competitiveness.
Such investments include the
establishment of a $30 billion
National Infrastructure Bank,
which would provide loans and
grants to support individual projects and broader activities that
will vastly improve our nation’s
transportation systems.
By intentionally focusing
on equality, we can develop a
robust, inclusive jobs agenda
that will ensure no one gets
left behind. But doing so will
require bold action from decisive leaders, and a committed
and engaged public to push them
toward action that yields measurable, equitable results.
Despite the debt-ceiling agreement’s myriad disappointments,
we still have an opportunity to
build a final budget that includes
equitable solutions and policies
to move our nation forward. We
must seize it now before it’s too
late.
The opinions expressed in this
commentary are solely those
of Angela Grover Blackwell,
who wrote this commentary for
CNN.
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To cool the boiling Tea, Black voters
need to heat up a Hot Chocolate Party
BY GEORGE E. CURRY
t is becoming increasingly
clear that President Obama
and Democrats need pressure from within the party to
force them to stand their ground
against the Tea Party insurrection in Congress. As was evident
in the recent debt ceiling fiasco,
conservative House Republicans
have gravitated even farther to
the right because of pressure
from the Tea Party movement.
Democrats are being towed
along kicking and screaming.
Well, screaming. That’s why
there is an urgent need to form
a Hot Chocolate Party to force
Democrats to start acting like
Democrats.
Democrats control the White
House and the Senate but they
don’t act like the party in control. And that’s because they
rarely control anything, including their own party members.
The public agenda is being
driven by the Tea Party, a small
sect that has become so powerful that its members forced
an embarrassed House Speaker
John Boehner to withdraw his
debt ceiling bill from the floor.
To his credit, Boehner was
smart enough to regroup and
give the Tea Party what it wanted. To their discredit, President
Obama and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid agreed to
give the Tea Party zealots nearly
everything they asked for. In the
end, that still wasn’t enough to
satisfy them.
How did Democrats lose their
way?
President Obama, the titular
head of the party, has usually
adopted sensible public policy
stances on such issues as the
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public option in health care and
letting the Bush tax cuts for the
wealthy expire. In the face of
withering Republican opposition, however, Obama has usually capitulated.
For example, candidate
Obama campaigned for universal health care. At the time, the
U.S. was the only industrialized country in the world that
did not provide universal health
care. Many progressives wanted
a single-payer plan similar to
the one in Canada. With such
a powerful health care lobby
in Washington, there was little
chance of achieving that goal.
So they agreed to go along with
the public option, a government
health insurance agency that
competes with private insurance
companies.
Thanks to a president eager
to strike a deal with the Party
of No, the public option was
removed as an option before
the legislation was passed and
signed into law. This was the
beginning of the end.
Last December, Republicans
pretended to oppose extending
long-term unemployment benefits, a major goal of Democrats.
But the quid pro quo was that
Republicans would go along
with the extension if Obama
would agree to a 2-year extension of all Bush tax cuts. That
was another time I wanted
President Obama to call the
GOP bluff, but apparently fighting is not in his DNA.
With high unemployment in
his native Ohio, Boehner could
not afford to look into the eyes
of jobless voters back home and
tell them unemployment benefits should not be extended. But
a deal was struck giving Obama
the unemployment extension
and allowing Boehner and his
GOP comrades to protect the
super rich.
If the Hot Chocolate Party
were in place, it could have
insisted that the Bush tax cuts
expire, something that would
have cut the federal deficit by
half. It also could have curtailed
the practice of U.S. companies
hiding most of their assets overseas to keep from paying corporate taxes and ending the public
subsidizing vacation homes,
private jets and boats for the
upper class.
As bad as past deals were,
this deficit showdown was
perhaps the worst example of
Democrats being impotent.
An angry Barack Obama
acknowledged how bad the deal
was after Boehner walked out
of their deficit reduction talks
and refused to return his telephone calls.
Listen again to why Obama
was angry: “Essentially, what
we had offered Speaker Boehner
was over a trillion dollars in
cuts to discretionary spending,
both domestic and defense,”
Obama said in a July 22 news
conference. “We then offered
an additional $650 billion in
cuts to entitlement programs
– Medicare, Medicaid, Social
Security.”
Here’s the part that proved
that the president was willing
to give up too much: “We were
offering a deal that called for
as much discretionary savings
as the Gang of Six [a panel
Democratic and Republican
lawmakers]. We were calling
for taxes that were less than
what the Gang of Six had proposed.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid was equally pathetic in
trying to advance his deficit
proposal. He said his bill did not
require any new taxes, something he hoped would satisfy
Republicans. It didn’t.
Enough of these wimpy
Democrats. When challenged
by Republicans, they roll over
early and often. Democrats
roll over so easily that they
should be renamed the Roth
IRA Party.
To let Democrats tell it, they
roll over because they want
what’s best for the country and
avoiding default, for example,
was achieved only because they
were willing to give Tea Party
fanatics what they wanted.
Compromise is now a one-way
street. It’s time to take another
road.
Let’s put the Hot Chocolate
Party in the driver’s seat to
say no to the Party of No. If
they again threaten to drive the
country in a ditch, to borrow a
quote from President Obama,
provide them with the directions. I suspect that once they
realize Democrats won’t keep
giving in to their empty threats,
we will find out that they are not
as crazy as they appear.
Curry, former editor-inchief of Emerge magazine and
the NNPA News Service, is a
keynote speaker, moderator,
and media coach. He can be
reached through his Web site,
www.georgecurry.com You can
also follow him at www.twitter.
com/currygeorge.
Series of violations alleged in lawyer’s missive
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tion to staff; that effort was also
unsuccessful.
Calls to Cornwell and every
member of the City Council
were unreturned. According a
council secretary, local lawmakers are in the midst of their
August blackout period.
However, both Cornwell
and Councilwoman Yvonne
Arceneaux expressed concerns last month that approval
of the layoffs — coupled with
the parsing of concessions and
Norfleet’s presentation of lastminute amendments unseen by
the public — could result in
legal action.
Nonetheless, the council
approved the budget by a 32 vote, with supporters saying
their hands were tied because
the city was approaching a government shutdown. Without
the passage of the budget to
help close the city’s nearly $24
million deficit, City Treasurer
Douglas Sanders could not
legally write checks to pay the
bills. As a result, the city was
considering furloughing virtually all employees except emer-
gency responders or those otherwise vital to operations.
The letter from the coalition’s counsel also contends
that the city violated the Ralph
M. Brown Act, which governs
meetings conducted by local
legislative bodies and requires
that in order for legislative
action to be valid, the body must
post an agenda with each item
of business within at least 72
hours prior to the regular meeting. The City Council’s July 11
agenda included a memorandum on a proposed resolution to
adopt the combined budget for
fiscal year 2011-12 that differed
substantially from the budget
resolution actually presented at
the meeting.
“The secret budget amendments produced by the city
manager and distributed to
some (but apparently not all)
of the council members immediately before the beginning
of the meeting were not part
of the agendized budget item,”
said the letter. “This last-minute
change is precisely the type of
irregular practice prohibited by
the Brown Act. It resulted in
procedural chaos at the meeting
and had the effect of denying
interested members of the public the opportunity to participate
in the proceedings to consider
the new budget proposal.”
In alleging a third violation,
the letter states that layoffs
were approved without regard
to classifications and job families. The coalition claims city
officials overlooked Section
1107 of the city charter, which
requires that all layoffs be governed by seniority in service,
in the reverse order of employment, when the city abolishes a
position or reduces the number
of employees in a given class of
classified service. It also mandates that re-employment or
reinstatement of positions at a
later time must be in the reverse
order of the layoffs.
Because the city’s classification system is out of date,
the layoffs negate the seniority
rules laid out by the charter,
according to Segall, who added
that “we are informed that the
process of assembling the list
was not governed by neutral
civil service principles, but by
the desire to target particular
individuals for layoff, including union officers and activists,
based on unlawful and retaliatory motives.” In a related charge,
the letter states that since at
least 2007 the city has made a
number of temporary or interim
appointments to the Classified
Service for terms that exceed
the city’s appointment authority,
which may violate the charter
and the city’s personnel rules
and regulations.
With layoffs put into effect
August 2, Segall warned the
council that contracting out services provided by laid-off city
employees would violate the
civil service mandate set forth
by the California Constitution
and Article XI of the charter.
At Wave press time on
Wednesday evening, the coalition filed an unfair employment
practice charge with the Public
Employment Relations Board
and is seeking an injunction
to have the budget resolution
declared null and void.
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46 years after uprising in Watts, still
paying a price for inequality’s legacy
BY LYNEVA MOTTLEY
t’s hard to believe that it has
been 46 years since August
11, 1965, the day the Watts
uprising began. I’ll never forget
the fear that I felt watching the
chaos unfold. I was shocked,
but not surprised: you could
feel the anger and frustration
building up during that hot summer. The booming California
economy was providing little
opportunity for people of color.
Public policy was benefiting
the already fortunate and was
leaving behind those who
were already disadvantaged. In
California, as in the rest of the
country, African American and
Latino families were reaching a
boiling point that could not be
contained any longer. Over the
following two years there were
a number of riots in Chicago,
Newark, Detroit and elsewhere.
Today in Watts — and across
California — people are feeling that familiar anger bubbling
up, as the gap between rich and
poor grows ever wider. During
this time it is important that
we recall the lessons from that
turbulent period in our nation’s
past.
Two years after the riots
broke out, President Lyndon
Johnson established The Kerner
Commission to try to understand what happened and what
could be done to prevent further
occurrences.
The resulting document,
known as the Kerner Report,
recommended that people from
all walks of life have more equal
access in four major areas: jobs,
education, housing and services.
Unfortunately, the inequality of
46 years ago is all too familiar
today.
To be sure, there have
been areas of progress. The
Community Reinvestment Act
of 1977 outlawed discriminatory banking practices and redlining. This helped give millions
of minority families like mine
the opportunity to fulfill the
American Dream through homeownership.
I knew something was wrong
a decade ago when my mailbox
began to get filled on a daily
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A UPI photo from 1965 shows the level of destruction wrought by the Watts Riots. Forty-six years
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basis with offers that seemed too
good to be true. The pamphlets
were from realtors, brokers and
lenders that were selling predatory loans. These subprime
loans were designed to be more
expensive products for highrisk borrowers, but turned out
to be a chance for loan sharks to
make a buck by pushing them
on my elderly and minority
neighbors, whether they needed
them or not. One Wells Fargo
loan officer recently testified
publicly to the widespread practice of steering subprime loans,
cynically referred to as “ghetto
loans,” to borrowers with good
credit.
Wall Street securitized these
loans and packaged them as
good investments until the
market’s inevitable collapse.
According to a recent report,
“Homewreckers,” the loss to
homeowners, the property tax
base, and local governments
amounts to at least $650 billion. Meanwhile, bank CEOs
continue to be absurdly compensated, with Chase’s Jamie
Dimon earning $20.7 million
and Wells Fargo’s John Stumpf
earning $17.5 million in 2010.
Of course, African American
and Latino families have not
fared nearly as well. A new
report from the Pew Research
Center finds that median
household wealth in African
American households declined
53% between 2005 and 2009
from $12,124 to $5,677. Wealth
among Latinos fell even more
dramatically during the period,
from $18,359 to $6,325, a 66%
decline.
Many of us feel as frustrated today as we did in 1965.
Yet, as was the case 46 years
ago, there is an opportunity
for elected officials and Wall
Street to address the problems.
Key among them is the growing number of mortgage holders
who now owe more than their
houses are worth. Today, 23%
of homeowners are underwater,
including as many as 35% of
African American homeowners
and 41% of Hispanic homeowners.
It is a problem we can solve
if we have the will to do so. We
can actually fix the foreclosure
crisis in California by writing
down all underwater mortgages (2.1 million in the state)
to market value. This would
pump an annual $19.9 billion
into the state economy and create 295,000 new jobs annually for 30 years. It would save
Californians an average of $790
a month on mortgage payments
and would dramatically reverse
the loss of wealth in minority
communities.
I still believe in the American
Dream. That’s why bank CEOs
and elected officials owe a solution to devastated Black and
Latino families in Watts and
everyone who believe we all
deserve a fair chance to pursue
our dreams.
Mottley, a resident of Watts
for more than 50 years, is acting chair of the Watts chapter
of the Alliance of Californians
for Community Empowerment
(ACCE).
Among African-Americans, HIV
infections remain at epidemic levels
BY JONATHAN MERMIN
SPECIAL TO CNN
T
his week, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention reported the
latest data on HIV in the United
States, and it should give us all
pause: 30 years into the epidemic, about 50,000 Americans
still become infected with the
virus each year.
While that number is far too
high, it has remained fairly
steady for the past several years,
the report found. As more people than ever before are living
with HIV, there are more opportunities to transmit the virus. So
the “steadiness” of new infections indicates that HIV prevention efforts are helping to
avert a resurgence. Given what
we know about HIV prevention efforts from the 1980s until
today, the situation with HIV in
this country could have been far
worse than it already is.
But behind the stable number of new infections lies some
troubling warning signs. If the
number of people living with
HIV continues to grow by tens
of thousands each year, the stability in new infections will be
short-lived.
In fact, the new HIV incidence
data show that infections are
already rising among one specific group of Americans: gay
and bisexual men younger than
30. In this group, there was an
alarming 48% increase among
young African-American gay
and bisexual men. A new generation of men must be reached
urgently so that they can learn
how to protect themselves from
HIV.
Clearly, swift action is also
needed to ensure that similar
increases do not emerge in other
populations. Yet HIV prevention isn’t woven into the fabric
of our lives as it should be and
once was, given that the disease
is still incurable and deadly. In
fact, studies show that less than
half of Americans have ever
been tested for HIV.
In the absence of major new
resources for HIV prevention,
our remaining option is clear:
Get more out of every HIV prevention dollar we have.
We have a clear way forward.
For the first time, we have a
National HIV/AIDS Strategy,
led by the White House. It comprehensively addresses HIV
prevention, treatment and care.
Announced in July 2010, the
strategy directs federal, state
and local efforts toward the
prevention activities that will
have the greatest effect. It puts
top priority on geographic areas
and populations where HIV is
most heavily concentrated and
emphasizes reducing disparities
in HIV that persist among many
groups.
To carry out the plan, we have
more tools available to prevent
HIV than ever. Recent landmark
clinical trials by CDC and others have shown that medicines
used to treat HIV can also help
prevent infection among those
who are HIV-negative. And
another major study showed
that treating HIV-infected individuals early on dramatically
reduces the risk of transmitting
the virus to others, underscoring
the importance of HIV testing,
access to care and the effect it
can have on reducing the number of new infections.
There are many questions to
answer about the real-world use
of these approaches — about
cost, feasibility and acceptability. But that doesn’t mean the
prevention cupboard is bare
until we figure it out. Routine
HIV testing ensures that people
know whether they are infected,
so they can take steps to protect
themselves and their partners.
Condom distribution programs can help reduce HIV
transmission in heavily effected
communities. And, behaviorchange programs can reduce the
frequency of unprotected sex
and drug use among people living with or at risk for HIV.
Our task as a nation is to
find the best combination of
approaches for the populations
at greatest risk and deploy
them on a scale large enough
to achieve greater reductions
in new HIV infections — an
approach the CDC calls “highimpact prevention.”
The CDC recently took major
steps to reach those at greatest risk and bolster prevention
efforts in communities where
they are most needed with its
latest HIV prevention funding
opportunity for state and local
health departments. This effort
is the CDC’s single largest
investment in HIV prevention,
nearly $360 million — almost
half of CDC’s HIV prevention
budget — and aims to ensure
that HIV prevention resources
more closely match the geography of the epidemic. It also provides new guidance on the most
effective prevention strategies.
But success against HIV will
require more than smart use
of financial resources. We also
need to overcome complacency
about the disease, which surveys show is at an all-time high,
since many Americans falsely
believe the scourge of the epidemic is behind us.
Thankfully, however, we are
seeing growing leadership and
momentum behind the response
to HIV in many of the communities that are hardest hit, where
HIV has unfortunately remained
an all too familiar threat. Many
African-American and Latino
leaders, gay organizations, faith
leaders and public officials are
beginning to reprioritize efforts
to respond to HIV, helping to
bring the disease out in the open
where it belongs.
As a nation, we must join
these leaders to remind all
Americans that the epidemic
has not left us and that success
in ending the worst epidemic of
our time will require all of us.
We are at a pivotal point.
With a new national vision
guiding HIV prevention and
more prevention tools at our
disposal than ever before, we
hope to mark the beginning of
new trend: a diminishing number of HIV infections year after
year, and a new era, in which a
steady stream of new infections
for a preventable and deadly
disease is no longer acceptable
or inevitable.
Mermin is the director of
the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Division
of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
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The Soulvine
By Betty Pleasant
IT’S THE CITY’S TURN — The state and congressional redistricting process is nearing an acrimonious conclusion, the county redistricting is moving right along, so now appointments are being made to
the citizens redistricting commission that will revamp administrative
boundaries for the city of Los Angeles. The 21-member commission
is due to be completely established by Aug. 17. Most of the appointers have made their selections and we can only assume that within the
next six days, those who have not made up their minds will have done
so, lest this process start off by lagging behind.
The city of Los Angeles Redistricting Commission is to be composed of three appointees by the mayor; one by the city attorney; one
by the city controller; two by the City Council president, and one
each by the remaining 14 members of the City Council. These are
the appointees to date: Estela Lopez, CD 1; Alejandra Arce, CD 3;
Grover McKean, CD 4; Jose Cornejo, CD 6; Michael Trujillo, CD
7; Robert Kadota, CD 11; Ken Sampson, CD 12; Antonio Sanchez,
CD 14 and Jerry Gaines, CD 15.
Council President Eric Garcetti, who represents CD 13, has
appointed Jackie Dupont-Walker and Robert Ahn, and Controller
Wendy Greuel has appointed Helen B. Kim.
The full commission is scheduled to begin meeting in September
and is expected to complete the redistricting process and report to the
City Council on its work in March, after which the council is required
to adopt a redistricting plan by July 1, 2012. Oh, and somebody must
redraw lines for the Los Angeles Unified School District. I don’t know
who. The fun never stops, does it?
COPS! — The brutal beating death of Kelly Thomas by a swarm of
Fullerton police officers last month has led to a revelation that should
have occurred to us many years ago: that the investigation of possible
crimes by law enforcement should not be conducted by the District
Attorney’s Office, as such a probe would be a conflict of interest. Sure
it would, and it took Thomas’ killing for the obvious and overlooked to
be firmly asserted and hopefully acted upon.
Whenever a cop or a sheriff’s deputy kills or hurts a person — or
does anything questionable, for that matter — it is the D.A.’s office
which determines whether the law enforcement official did anything
wrong. But, in response of the multiple cop killing of the homeless
and mentally ill Thomas, Hector Villagra, executive director of the
ACLU of Southern California, decried the Orange County D.A.’s usual
investigation, and stated: “Because the District Attorney’s Office relies
on the testimony of police officers to convict suspected criminals, having the same agency investigate officers for possibly breaking the law
presents a conflict of interest.” Of course it does! Whether it’s a good
cop or a bad cop, it’s still a conflict of interest and we all know how
the D.A. — when it comes to the general public --- hates a conflict of
interest. Think of the number of people of all ages in the Southland
who have been killed by cops during your lifetime. Now think of the
number of cops who have been charged with a crime for having done
so. You can’t think of any, can you? That doesn’t seem right, does it?
Villagra hit the nail squarely on the head, and he added in a subsequent interview, “You should have to take [the investigation] to
another level of government because the public needs to have real confidence that the investigation is being done objectively.” I’m going to
send the ACLU some money.
And here in Los Angeles, 10 LAPD officers filed a lawsuit against
the police department in Superior Court last week alleging they’re
being penalized for not meeting their traffic ticket quotas!! Traffic
ticket quotas are illegal under state law!! I’m going to talk to their
attorneys, and Chief Charlie Beck, you need to talk to us.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE — The members of Paradise Baptist
Church are on the warpath against their pastor, the Rev. A.D. Iverson,
over the church’ s finances that are so seriously strained that Iverson
has felt the need to fire the church entire five-person staff make other
cuts, but has done nothing to reduce his $16,000-a-month salary.
The members have requested and/or demanded meetings with
Iverson to deal with their financial concerns and he has ignored them.
The members took their problems to the District Attorney’s Office,
which referred them to a police investigator who is already handling
the financial shenanigans occurring in two other Black churches. The
officer added Paradise to his caseload.
The members will meet Sunday in the church to plan further action
whether Iverson is present or not, and, lest a 2nd Baptist Church-type
incident arises, the police department has been apprised of the meeting and is said to be prepared to ensure that an orderly gathering takes
place.
THIS AND THAT — The residents and allies of Watts will hold a
media event Thursday at 1 p.m. to reflect upon the 46th anniversary
of the Watts Riots and to announce a job creation proposal. The event
will be held at the Watts Towers, 1727 E. 107th St., and will feature
speakers who will recall where they were and how they felt when the
riots broke out, relate how far we’ve come since that day and speculate
as to where we need to go. Forty-six years, huh?!
The lawsuit of Mitrice Richardson’s parents against the county of
Los Angeles for the Sheriff Department’s negligence in her death goes
to court Friday. A mandatory settlement hearing will begin at 8:30
a.m. in Superior Court, with a 9:30 a.m. summary judgement hearing
scheduled, at which the judge will determine whether the evidence of
negligence is sufficient for the matter to go to trial.
AND FINALLY — I’m going to be away for a while. I don’t know
for how long, but, like MacArthur, I shall return. I am going to have
eye surgery Monday because — in the redundancy of my people — I
am blind and I cannot see. Specifically, my right eye doesn’t work at
all and my left eye is nothing to write home about. I’ll be back as soon
as I can see how to get here. In the meantime, Fight on!!
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: AMEL LARRIEUX
‘It has to come from a
place of love and kindness’
with the level of fame and the
things that I do or do not have. I
am glad that I can make a living
doing what I love, but still go
into Target and go shopping.
Blisslife Records
Amel Larriuex, who rose to fame as a member of Groove Theory,
does not rule out a reunion of the 1990s group.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
W
ith the 24th Annual
Long Beach Jazz
Festival set to kick off
Aug. 12, singer Amel Larrieux
is in New York revving up her
voice for Saturday’s performance. The sultry songstress
and songwriter, who embarked
upon a solo career in 1999, will
present work both old and new
— offering selections that will
remind the audience of her days
with the 1990s hit R&B group
Groove Theory, and delivering
new music in the form of songs
off her forthcoming album “Ice
Cream Every Day,” which she
says will be released early next
year. In an interview Larrieux
spoke to The Wave about the
festival, her new album, persistent rumors about the possible
rebirth of Groove Theory and
lessons learned after more than
a decade in the music industry.
How have you been preparing for your performance at
the festival?
I am having a couple of days
of rehearsal for the festival that
is coming up. It’s great. I love
rehearsing. It’s a time to have
fun and be free. ... I will get
there the day before. I prepare
by doing yoga and meditation. I
vocalize and do funny sounding
things that sound weird to the
average person.
What are your hopes and
feelings about performing at
the jazz festival?
To put it bluntly, I want
to give people their money’s
worth. I am a person who loves
to hear good music, and I want
to have a good time when I go. I
want to be able to enjoy myself
and sing along. I want the performer who I am watching to
look like they love what they
are doing, so I try to give that.
... I’m going to do new stuff
from the album — or new to
whoever hasn’t come to any of
my shows in the last six months
or who doesn’t go on YouTube
and watch me. [Laughing] The
new stuff ends up there pretty
quick. The new songs that I am
doing haven’t been released yet.
… I know what resonates with
the public, so I always try to do
the songs that I know people
want to hear.
What inspired you to begin
singing and songwriting?
I’m not really sure. I feel like
it’s one of those mysteries. A lot
of artists might talk about how
they just end up doing the thing
they do. They don’t really know
how they do it or why they do it.
To this day, I am lucky that I can
write a song. I always think I am
not going to write another song,
then ideas pop into my head. I
don’t remember when it was, a
point where I was writing and
singing and that was going to
be my thing, but I do know that
I had a pretty defining moment
in high school. As a freshman I
went to a performing arts high
school in Philadelphia, where
I sung in a choir with about
100 kids who were super talented and had amazing, strong
voices. It resonated with me,
that feeling of the vibration of
their voices and singing with
them, feeling and hearing music
around me. I’ve continued to be
involved with music and have
had it as a part of my life since
that time. But I didn’t set out to
be a star. I got lucky and things
fell into my lap.
A number of artists talk
about their struggles in the
music industry, did you ever
waver or think to yourself, “I
don’t want to be a part of this
anymore?”
No, because I think it’s the
only thing I can do. [Laughing]
It’s not always easy. If you have
any insecurities or self-esteem
issues, it’s not a natural or normal thing to be watched and
judged. When you write your
own songs and you sing them,
you really bare your soul and
put yourself on the line. But I
feel like this comes so naturally
to me, that I feel like I’m cheating because this is the thing
that I do and I love it. I’ve been
doing it since I was little. It feels
second nature to me. There are
times when I am tired and don’t
want to sing, but then I will get
on stage and I start singing, the
audience interacts and the band
and the music feels so right that
I forget that I have a fever of
102. I’m so lucky I can do this
for a living.
How do you deal with rejection and the music industry trying to mold you into what they
believe is a successful artist?
Luckily that stopped happening years ago for me because
I’ve been in the industry for so
long and also because I pretty
much set a precedent about who
I am and what I will and wont
do. I didn’t waiver from that.
Now I am at the point where
there really is no question about
it. Since I am an independent
artist — I am on a label that is
run by my husband — I don’t
have to worry about that at all.
But, it took time. Everything for
me is all about seasoning and
time. I could say I am lucky, but
I’ve been around a while and
I’ve continued to do what I do. I
haven’t gone into another field.
This is all I do besides being
a mom and a wife. ... I think
people have accepted that this
is who I am and I don’t have a
lot of conflict in that area any
more.
You rose to fame in the mid1990s. How would you say the
music industry has changed
since then?
The fact that the Internet is
so important to the sale of your
music and just the instant gratification when it comes to wanting
a song right now. You don’t have
to buy a full album, you can just
buy one single. YouTube allows
so many people to get exposed
to the public, so that the public
feels that they have more of a
say in who gets to be a star or
who gets to have notoriety. It
has taken some of the leverage
away from major labels and
even the quote-unquote stars. It
has sort of leveled the playing
field a little bit. Every generation will tell you “this changed
and that changed” [or] “when I
was doing music this is how it
was,” but I understand that there
is an evolution. The industry is
always changing and is always
different. There is always something to look back on and say,
“Well, that was better.” But I
don’t look backward or forward. I look to the moment, to
the now.
Groove Theory was on a
high, with the group’s debut
album certified gold and singles on the R&B charts. What
caused you to embark upon a
solo career?
Natural progression. My time
was done with that and I was
ready to move on.
Do you regret that decision?
No. I am so happy with how
my career has gone. I wouldn’t
have it any other way. I am glad
There have been rumors
that Groove Theory is working
on another album. Talk to me
about that.
It’s always possible. We did
a few gigs last year in Tokyo
before the horrible tsunami. We
have no problem performing
together, that is super easy. It’s
all about timing and getting each
other to buckle down. I’m in the
mixing stages of my new album
and we are on different coasts.
It’s always hard, but we’ve been
friends since around ‘92 and it
was Bryce Wilson who actually
introduced me to my husband so
they’ve been friends longer than
we have. It’s always possible. It
is just a matter of timing. You
never know. I will never say
never. It could happen.
Artists never know how
their music will be received by
audiences, what are your feelings about releasing this next
album?
I never talk about my next
album. I am so excited about
this album. I feel this is the
most complete body of work
I’ve done and the most cohesive
in my mind. It’s more coming
from a personal level. ... I feel
like I finally came into my own
with this. It’s very true to who
I am and reflective of where I
am in my 38 years of living,
where I am in my writing and in
my voice. ... It’s always a crap
shoot. You never know how it
will be received. This is one
of the most unnatural things I
have known in my life — to
make something, put something
out and then have to hope that
people like it too. But, I love
it. That’s why I take my time to
put stuff out. I won’t put something out that I don’t feel really
good about. I would be a slave
to everybody else if I did what
they wanted me to. I don’t think
I would be happy and it would
probably reflect in my music. ...
I tour as much as I can because
that’s where I get most of my
seasoning — on the road. I stay
out there regardless of whether I
have a new album out or not.
Give us a snapshot about
what we can expect to hear on
the new album.
It’s up[beat]. I am very influenced, and so is my producer
[and husband] Laru, by so many
genres of music that we will
never do an album that sounds
like one thing. But it’s — for a
lack of a better word — soulful,
from a deep place within. It’s
also very up and emotes a lot of
up emotions. It reflects what I’m
reaching for in my life, which is
a place of enlightenment. ...
Even in the slower songs, there
is kind of a reaching.
You’ve done some humanitarian work over the years and
have helped raised proceeds
for the Enough Project, which
seeks to protect and empower the Republic of Congo’s
women who have been raped
or abused. Tell me about that.
I kind of feel likes it’s a sham
that I am doing what I do and
that I am not doing more to help
the world, so I will jump at any
opportunity to do charity work
or any giving back. When I was
little I wanted to work for the
Peace Corp. It is so rewarding.
The last thing I was involved in
was recording a song that they
used of mine for the Enough
Project...Because I had been
following what was going on
and the person that started that
organization had written a number of books, when I got to be
involved it was one of the highlights in my career. It softens
you and it makes you remember
that it’s not just you, that you
are not doing music just for you.
It makes you realize that you
are part of a world community
and that there are people out
there who need you. When you
do these things, it has to come
from a place of love and kindness.
New Line Cinema
Tony Todd, who has more than 150 film credits to his name, is a
fixture in the “Final Destination” horror franchise.
Death becomes him
“Final Destination”
veteran Tony Todd
returns for the fifth
installment in the
franchise — but you
still can’t ask about the
origins of his character.
BY STACEY K. BORAGE
SPECIAL TO THE WAVE
W
ith “Final Destination
5” set to be released in
theaters Friday, fans
of the series will instantly recognize actor Tony Todd as one
of the few constants in the hit
horror franchise.
He returns in the role of
Bludworth — the mysterious
coroner who, due to unexplained
knowledge in his possession,
helps once-unsuspecting victims
navigate the merciless terrain
laid out by Death.
“I think he’s not what he
seems to be,” Todd said in an
interview last week. “It’s interesting because everyone I talk
to has a different sense of who
he is.”
Since there has never been
a concrete explanation on the
Bludworth-Death connection,
Todd had to rely on his own
instincts to develop the character. In an attempt to gain added
insight, he spoke with writer
Jeff Reddick and producer Craig
Perry — to no avail.
“I made some very specific
human choices because you
can’t play a billboard, you have
to be human, you have to be
grounded,” he said. “So trust
me, if it’s ever revealed, it’ll be a
shock and no one will ever [see
it coming].”
His history with the franchise
seems to have earned him a
measure of respect among colleagues. Actress Emma Bell
said Todd is a “legend” in the
“Final Destination” universe;
cast member Nicholas D’Agosto
agrees, saying his presence adds
an element of fear to the scene.
“When Tony came on set,
it was sort of like the movie
became real,” D’Agosto said.
“We’d be in the middle of a shoot
and you sort of forget what’s
going on until Tony walks in and
it’s like, ‘Wait a second — we’re
all going to die.’”
Todd is no stranger to the horror industry; he’s best known
for roles in “Night of the Living
Dead” and “Candyman.” With
more than 150 film credits to
his name, he says making horror flicks is all fun and games
— until he is forced to submit to
airport security.
“They know they recognize
you from somewhere but they
can’t place it. They say, ‘Isn’t
that guy who tried to bomb San
Francisco?’ So they take me
into a room and they strip me
down. I kid you not, [this happened] just yesterday,” he said,
laughing. “They say, ‘I’m really
sorry, but I like your work.’ I
feel so violated.”
•••
With a new cast and director
on board for the latest installment in the horror franchise,
“Final Destination 5” is adding
more than 3D effects in its bid
to lure audiences to its story of a
group of people trying — mostly in vain — to beat Death at its
own game.
“The beauty of this [movie]
is it’s the first time where the
characters can actually change
the outcome of the events,” said
director Steven Quale. “If you
kill someone else, then you can
get their life — whereas, before,
all the characters are waiting to
die as the movie goes. There’s no
conflict or tension or drama.”
Although
each
“Final
Destination” sequel has arrived
on screen with a slight variation on the concept — the first
sequel, for example, dealt with
the ripple effect of death by
indirectly connecting a new
set of characters to the original
ones — Quale’s main concern
at the helm was avoiding what
he called plotline “fatigue.” To
that end, he watched all four
previous movies back-to-back,
and put himself in a fan’s shoes
to determine what resonated and
what didn’t.
“I felt [the fourth movie]
wasn’t up to the level of some
of the earlier ‘FD’ movies, and
there were three things I said I
was going to do with this movie
[when I came on board],” said
Quale. “One, we’ve got to visually raise the bar and make it
stunning with 3D; two, we have
to inject the humor into it; and
the third part was we have to
really concentrate on the casting.”
While this may be Quale’s
feature directorial debut, he’s
no stranger to a movie set or
3D productions: he’s been assistant director to James Cameron
on several movies, including “Avatar,” “Titanic” and
“Terminator 2.”
“We were fortunate enough
that Steve had done ‘Avatar’
and was James Cameron’s righthand man,” said actor Courtney
B. Vance, who plays one of the
survivors of a suspension bridge
collapse. Added cast member
PJ Byrne, who plays a slimy
and dishonest character in the
movie: “One thing you have to
consider is that in theater you
have to have big movements,
just like in tennis, because people are 300 feet in front of you.
And when you do TV or movies,
it’s like ping-pong and its closer
to your face. But when you’re
doing 3D, it’s a little tighter. If
a hair is off, [the camera] can’t
focus properly.”
While Quale and crew worked
to create a fresh story, audiences can also expect tie-ins
to the original movie as well.
As the director sees it, it’s as if
the franchise is showing appreciation to its fans for sticking
by the concept and allowing the
creative forces to “figure it out
and do it right,” he said, teasing
at the notion of yet another FD
in the works.
“There are other stories,” said
Quale. “There are other things
that we could do with this franchise that we’ve been talking
about. We’ve had such a great
time making this one, and the
response has been so positive; it
only fuels your creativity.”
Creativity is one motivation,
but in Hollywood, profit is also
a driving force. By that measure,
“Final Destination” may have
not yet reached its peak: The
fourth installment grossed $66
million — which, according to
the Internet Movie Database,
makes it the most successful of
the franchise.
“We all worked extremely
hard to make the fourth film,
and it didn’t turn out exactly like
we had hoped, no movie ever
does,” said Quale. “But it was
successful enough that it gave us
the opportunity to re-address the
balance with this one.”
VIOLA DAVIS ON ‘THE HELP’
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Emma Stone) who helps liberate
the spirit of mistreated domestic
servants by enlisting their help
to write a book about their experiences.
Davis, who scored a 2009
Academy Award nomination for
her work in “Doubt,” understood
that the story would be viewed
through that lens — and that
she could be the target of some
wrath by those who find roles
like Aibileen to be demeaning.
“There was a lot of negotiation on my part … I asked
myself, ‘Do I want to play a
character that could be viewed
as so subservient?’ But behind
the nodding … the pain, I think
she was ultimately a liberated
woman,” she explained during a
recent question-and-answer session with entertainment journalists. “She was able to break out
of all that to pursue a goal and a
dream to speak out. That’s really
interesting when you have someone risking their lives, because
not a lot of people do that. They
might risk their paycheck or a
couple of hours of their time
— but risking your life, I think
that’s pretty courageous.”
Indeed, courage is a recurring
theme in the movie. Whether in
the story of Aibileen (whose life
is torn apart by a single, cruelly
dismissive act of racism) or the
dauntless Minny (portrayed by
Octavia Spencer, she exacts a
particularly distasteful form of
revenge on one of her tormentors), the film leaves no question
about the fortitude it took for
generations of Black domestic
workers to not only work long
hours cooking and cleaning for
White families paying less than
minimum wage, but to also care
deeply for the children in those
families — often at the expense
of their own offspring.
It was this complexity that
drew the Julliard-trained Davis
— a master of the slow onscreen
burn — to the part. Nuances
aside, the versatile performer
still bristles at the pressures faced
by Black actors, who are often
expected to pass on roles that
cultural gatekeepers don’t view
are sufficiently uplifting. The
winner of a 2010 Tony Award
for the role of Rose Maxson in
a revival of August Wilson’s
“Fences,” Davis first won widespread attention for her role as a
crack-addicted mother in Denzel
Washington’s 2002 directorial
debut, “Antwone Fisher.” She
also won raves for playing a
serial killer on the NBC series
“Law & Order: Criminal Intent,”
but not everyone has been happy
with her choices.
“I’ve had backlash playing a
serial killer … Anthony Hopkins
didn’t, but I did,” said Davis,
who was raised in Central Falls,
Rhode Island. “I feel the most
revolutionary thing you can do is
to humanize the Black woman. I
don’t believe that if Jodie Foster,
Meryl Streep or any of the fabulous Caucasian actresses were
sitting in front of you right now
anyone would ask them why
they did that role.”
She added: “They would just
look at the role … the complexities of it. Listen, Jodie [Foster]
got an Oscar for ‘The Accused’
where she’s in a bar and is raped
by several men. Meryl played a
character who may or may not
have murdered a child she says
was killed by a dingo — and
people say that was the most
extraordinary role she’s been
given. But me, as an actress, I
can’t be certain things.”
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GENERAL
Olympic gold medalist Rafer
Johnson returns to his alma
mater, UCLA, as a special assistant to athletic director Dan
Guerrero.
Johnson will work primarily in
the areas of alumni outreach,
student development and representing the athletic department
at alumni and donor functions.
“Rafer represents all that is
great about UCLA athletics,”
Guerrero said. “During his days
at UCLA, he was an outstanding
scholar, president of the student
body and a two-sport performer
in track and field and basketball.
He is an Olympic champion and
has spent most of his adult life
in the service of others, as illustrated by his commitment to the
Special Olympics. It is a thrill to
have Rafer on our staff.”
Johnson held the world record
in the decathlon and won a
silver medal in the event during
the 1956 Olympics while attending UCLA. In 1960, he earned
a gold medal in the decathlon
at the 1960 Olympic Games
by defeating Bruin teammate
C.K. Yang in a memorable finish
in Rome. Johnson earned the
Sullivan Award as nation’s top
amateur athlete that year.
TRACK
Cal State L.A.’s Justina
Sadauskaite has been named
to the United States Track
and Field and Cross Country
Coaches Association’s Division
II All-Academic team.
To qualify, a grade point average above 3.25 and an NCAA
automatic or provisional qualifying mark as an individual or as
part of a relay team in either the
indoor or outdoor track and field
seasons is required.
Sadauskaite had a provisional
qualifying mark of 2:13.95 in the
800 during the outdoor season.
She also had a provisional qualifying time of 2:15.05 in indoor
track.
She was also academic AllAmerican in cross country.
TENNIS
Cal State L.A. alumnus
and tennis legend Billie Jean
King has been inducted into
the Southern California Tennis
Association Hall of Fame.
King, who attended Cal State
L.A. from 1961-64, won a record
39 Grand Slam titles during her
playing career and was responsible for establishing the Women’s
Tennis Association, World Team
Tennis and the Women’s Sports
Foundation.
BASKETBALL
Kaila Turner, a guard out of
Pasadena’s Maranatha High
School, has signed to play basketball at Cal State L.A.
The second-team All-CIF selection averaged 19 points and 7.9
rebounds per game as a senior.
“Kaila is a rising basketball
player,” Cal State L.A. coach
Janell Jones said. “She is an
extremely hard worker and competitor. Her drive to be successful will guide her to a productive
career.”
BASKETBALL
Mayum Jenkins, a transfer
from Youngstown State, has
signed with Cal State L.A.’s
women’s basketball program.
The Monrovia High School
grad played in 58 games, starting 16, during her two seasons
at Youngstown State. The guard
averaged 3.8 points and 2.9
rebounds per game as a freshman and 3.7 points and 2.5
rebounds as a sophomore. Last
season she was second in the
Horizon League in steals with
62, the fifth best total for a
sophomore in program history.
“Maryum is a great competitor who has a knack for grabbing
rebounds and loose balls,” Cal
State L.A. coach Janell Jones
said. “She has a great feel
for the game and loves to get
after it on the defensive end of
the floor. She will bring instant
toughness to our team.”
WATER POLO
The Whittier College trio of
Xenia Castillo (El Rancho High
School), Mattie Winkler and
Katrina Thoreson have earned
honorable mention on the
Association of Collegiate Water
Polo Coaches All-American
team.
Castillo, a senior attacker, had
29 goals, 20 assists, 113 drawn
ejections and 38 steals.
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Trayvon Robinson
around the bases.
All it took for Trayvon Robinson to get rid of the nervousness
that comes from one making his
big league debut was to make the
catch of a lifetime.
Even more calming influences
would come for the product of
Crenshaw High School and the
Los Angeles RBI program, who
was playing his first weekend in
the Major Leagues.
Just a week after being involved
in a three-team, multi-player deal
at the trading deadline that sent
the Dodgers farmhand first to the
sprints Boston Red Sox, then to the Seattle Mariners, Robinson debuted
in left field for the Mariners Friday against the Angels in Anaheim.
There’s nothing like getting
your first base hit off a potential
Cy Young Award winner, as he
did with an opposite field single
off the Angels’ Jered Weaver.
But it was ‘the catch,’ the No.
1 play on Sports Center that
night, that really caught the eye
of everybody and helped make
the rest of the weekend easier for
the 23-year-old left fielder.
“I was nervous,” Robinson admitted of his debut. “But I kind
of settled down after the catch.”
He added he’s never made a
better one in his life.
In the seventh inning, Torii
Hunter drove a ball down the
left field line that seemed destined to be a two-run home run.
Robinson, shading Hunter to the
gap, raced hard towards the corner. Just as he neared the fence,
he leaped, partly falling into the
stands before backhanding the
ball.
After showing the umpire he
had caught the ball, he turned and
retrieved his cap that had fallen
into the stands from a fan.
Weaver struck him out looking
in his first time up, but Robinson
came back with a single to left
the next at bat.
“I was just trying to stay on the
ball because he has pinpoint control,” Robinson said of the Angels’ ace. “I just wanted to make
sure I hit a strike.”
That baseball, he said, will go
to his mother, who supported
him all through his rise to the big
leagues.
A day later, the switch hitter
got another big league “first”
when he launched an oppositefield home run off Tyler Chatwood in the seventh inning of a
5-1 Mariners’ victory.
While rounding second, Robinson stopped, not sure if the ball
had bounced over or cleared the
fence on the fly.
See TRAYVON on page A12
Utes look
locally
for grid
talent
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Photo by Genevieve Ross
Los Angeles RBI pitcher and MVP Megan Reiner, right, celebrates with teammates after defeating Santo Domingo RBI, 3-0 in
the RBI World Series softball championship Sunday at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium at the University of Minnesota.
L.A. repeats as RBI champ
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Megan Reiner pitched a threehitter with nine strikeouts to lead
Los Angeles to a 3-0 victory over
Santo Domingo Sunday in the
championship game to give L.A.
its second consecutive Reviving
Baseball in Inner Cities World
Series softball title.
L.A., which went undefeated
during the tournament at the University of Minnesota, joins Atlanta as the only RBI programs to
win consecutive titles. Atlanta’s
string went from 2001-07.
As winner of the title, L.A.
was awarded the Dolly Vardens
Trophy, named for an all-black
women’s team formed in Philadelphia in 1867.
Reiner, from Marshall High
School, walked only one batter in
the performance that earned her
championship game MVP honors. At the plate, she was 1-for-3
with a run scored.
Shortstop Loren Williams, a
Crenshaw grad, went 2-for-3
with two stolen bases and Westchester product Shanel Tolbert
drove in a run.
L.A. scored one run in the bottom of the second and two in the
sixth off Santo Domingo pitcher
Rosauris Perez, who allowed
three hits.
L.A. went 9-0, outscoring the
See RBI on page A12 A Santo Domingo player slides into second during the RBI World Series final.
UCLA’s Jones is on Hendricks watch list
Wave Staff
UCLA’s Datone Jones is
among the list of 35 preseason
candidates for the Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year
Award.
The junior out of Compton
High School missed all of last
season after suffering a foot injury in fall camp. He was also on
the 2010 preseason watch list after a solid 2009 season in which
he started all 13 games. He was
third on the team with 4.0 sacks
and tied for 22nd in the Pac-10
and fourth on the team with 11.0
tackles for loss.
Juniors Wes Horton and Nick
Perry of USC are also on the list.
Horton recorded 29 tackles,
including 5.5 for loss, and four
sacks a year ago. He started six
games a year ago, then missed
spring drills while rehabbing a
foot injury.
Perry had 25 tackles, including 7.5 for loss, and four sacks
in 2010.
The award in its 10th season is
named in honor of college football’s first three-time first-team
All-American. As a defensive
end at Miami, Hendricks used his
agility, height and reach to block
passes and kicks, force interceptions and pressure quarterbacks
and running backs.
He roamed the front line, read
plays and blitzed on impulse,
completely transforming the way
the defensive end position was
played. His 15-year professional
career saw him play 215 consecutive games, play for four Super
Bowl winners and make eight
Pro Bowls. He was inducted
into the College and Pro Football
Halls of Fame.
New Husky leader
Keith Price, the Compton native and St. John Bosco High
product, is the first starting quarterback on a regular basis other
than Jake Locker at Washington
since 2007.
The redshirt sophomore did
get one start, however, last season against Oregon when Locker was hurt. Locker, the eighth
overall pick in the NFL draft, is
now in training camp with the
Tennessee Titans.
Price is downplaying the significance of a new face at the
position.
“I just play. I don’t think too
much about it,” Price said. “I’m
just playing football. That’s it.
“You know, Jake’s a hard
worker, and just watching him
being around here he was always
making the team better. Now I
have to run the show, which was
different for me. But it was fun.
You accept new roles every year,
and I accept the role. I’m ready.”
The move to the Pac-12 has
had a huge impact already for the
Utah football program.
Utes coach Kyle Whittingham referred to “a big spike in
recruiting” once it was learned
the school would be joining the
conference.
“Within 12 days of the announcement, we had seven verbal commitments,” he said at
Pac-12 football media day.
Utah has developed a reputation in recent years as a BCS
buster while playing in the
Mountain West Conference.
Whittingham noted that fact.
“Week in and week out, you
have to bring your “A” game,”
he said of the move to the Pac-12.
“We did fairly well going against
BCS schools the last eight years
on a sporadic basis.
“We’ve got to be ready now,
but I feel we’ve recruited well
the last few years. I think we’ve
got the players and that the roster
is pretty solid.”
The Utes have done it in the
past by recruiting extensively in
California. This year is no exception.
Among Whittingham’s incoming recruits is East L.A. College
and L.A. Wilson High School
product Anthony Denham, a JC
All-American wide receiver who
goes 6-foot-4, 231 pounds.
However, Denham, expected
to contend for a starting spot, is
out indefinitely with a hamstring
injury. His status is uncertain for
the Sept. 1 opener against Montana State. The Utes then face
USC at the Coliseum Sept. 10.
Another recruit with local connections is John White, a JC AllAmerican tailback out of L.A
Harbor College.
Already in the program is
Reggie Dunn, a former Verbum
Dei High and Compton College
standout who is projected to start
at a wide receiver spot and be
one of the conference’s top kick
return specialists.
A year ago, Dunn, a junior with
4.32 speed in the 40, caught four
passes for 70 yards as a backup
receiver (he started two games),
but was more dangerous returning kickoffs, averaging 29.6
yards on 12 returns, including
a 100-yard runback for a touchdown against Iowa State.
The starting quarterback for
the Utes is another Californian,
Jordan Wynn out of Oceanside.
Even the coaching staff has
California ties since Whittingham hired Norm Chow, who had
stints at USC and UCLA, as offensive coordinator. Assistant
Tim Davis was offensive line
coach at USC from 2002-04.
“We brought Norm Chow in
to install more of a pro-style attack,” Whittingham said. “Jordan
Wynn is more suited to that because that’s what he did in high
school.”
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locations:
For document pick up: Universal Reprographics
(District’s reprographics service) at any of the following Three (3) locations:
1) Universal Reprographics Incorporated, Los
Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles,
California 90057 Tel: 213-365-7750.
2) West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900.
3) Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242.
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link.
To view in person: Harris and Associates, 855
N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029,
Telephone: (323) 953-4000 ext 3087.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense,
for document delivery and additional sets by
contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the
above-stated locations.
A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be
conducted on August 17, 2011 commencing
promptly at 9:00 a.m. at the Faculty and Staff
Center, Los Angeles City College, 855 North
Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029.
Attendance at the Pre-Bid Conference is required
as a condition of bidding, unless the Bidder is a
“Local, Small or Emerging Business”, as defined in
the District’s Policy on Local, Small and Emerging
Businesses, Board Rule 7103.17 (a copy of which
is available for review on the District’s Website),
and Bidder submits an affidavit as required by said
Board Rule. Sign language services are available
for the Pre-Bid Conference upon written request
received by Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017 or by Fax at
213-996-2534 at least three (3) business days
prior to the day of the Pre-Bid Conference.
The Bidder to whom a contract for the Work is
awarded by the District shall be required to furnish
Performance and Payment Bonds as provided in
the Instructions to Bidders.
awarded by the District is required to hold at the
time of submitting its Bid and Award a contracting
license of the following classification(s):
B - General Contractor
In addition, Bidder is required to hold, or designate in its Designation of Subcontractors a
Subcontractor that holds, the certification(s)
required by Applicable Laws to perform the following work: ASB and Hazmat Certification
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.7, this
Project will not be subject to the District’s
approved Labor Compliance Program, initially
approved July 19, 2004. For questions or assistance concerning the Labor Compliance Program,
Veronica Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
The District hasentered into a Project Labor
Agreement that is applicable to this Project. For
questions or assistance concerning the Project
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
awarded by the District shall comply with the
provisions of the California Labor Code, as well
as the District’s Project Labor Agreement (if
applicable) and the District’s Labor Compliance
Program (if applicable, including, without limitation, the obligation to pay the general prevailing
rates of wages in the locality in which the Work
is to be performed in accordance with, without
limitation, Sections 1773.1, 1774, 1775 and 1776
of the California Labor Code and the obligation
to comply with Section 1777.5 of the California
Labor Code governing employment of apprentices. Copies of the prevailing rates of per diem
wages are on file at the District’s principal office
at 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA
90017, and are available to any interested party
on request.
Substitution of securities for any moneys withheld by District to ensure performance under any
contract awarded by the District for the Work shall
be permitted as required by Section 22300 of the
California Public Contract Code.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond
Program. For further information regarding enrollment eligibility and program services contact
Paulette Williams, Merriweather & Williams, at
213-258-3000.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them as set forth in Article
1 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Questions shall be directed to:
Denise Briggs
Build-LACCD Sustainable Building Program
Managers
E-mail: denise.briggs@build-laccd.org or via
Phone: (213) 996-2247 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see www.build-laccd.
org (Contracting and Bidding Site)
8/11/11
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BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH LACCD
embarked on an extensive building program
funded by Proposition A/AA to address muchneeded campus improvements for educational
and support facilities for its nine community colleges. For future bidding opportunities
please visit the website www.build-laccd.org
under “Contracting and Bidding Site” then
click “Construction Look-Ahead”:
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
College: District Wide
Project Name: Master Agreement for Purchase of
Live Plants and Supplies
Project Number: 40J.J55.05
Bid Number: 101
sealed bids for the following:
This is a competitive bid for the purchase by the
Los Angeles Community College District of the
following Live Plants and Supplies, for its colleges throughout the Los Angeles area. The items
to be procured are broken down for the purposes
of bidding into one (1) Bid Category and consist of
Live Plants and Supplies.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with the
Instructions to Bidders using the forms included in
the Bidding Documents. All Bids must be received
at Build LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 810,
Los Angeles, California 90017, by either hand
delivery or mail, no later than September 9, 2011
@ 2:00 PM to be thereafter on said date and at
said location publicly opened and read aloud.
The Bidder assumes full and sole responsibility
for timely receipt of its Bid, the Bid Security and
any other documents required to be submitted
with the Bid.
Bidding Documents including Instruction to
Bidders and other documents, if any, will be available to Bidders on and after August 4, 2011, at
the following locations:
Incorporated, Los Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire
Blvd Los Angeles, California 90057 Tel: 213-3657750 , West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Ponitius
Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900,
Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242.
To order or view online: http://build-laccd.
For advertising information
There will be a mandatory Phone Pre-Bid
Conference August 18 @1:00 PM Information
for conference line will be included in the Bid
Documents.
Paul Spear
Sustainable Building Program Managers
paul.spear@build-laccd.org
[Contractors interested in obtaining information
on upcoming LACCD projects; see build-laccd.org
(Contracting and Bidding Site)]
8/11/11
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Project Name: Master Agreement for Purchase
of Lockers
Bid Number: 104
following Lockers, for its colleges throughout
the Los Angeles area. The items to be procured
are broken down for the purposes of bidding into
one (1) Bid Category and consist of Phenolic
Lockers, Weapons Lockers, and Services.
with the Bid.
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242.
213- 996-2249
Conference August 16, 2011 @ 10:00 AM
Information for conference line will be included in
the Bid Documents.
Paul Spear
8/11/11
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Project Name: Master Agreement for Purchase of
Apple Computer Equipment
Bid Number: 103
following Apple Computer Equipment, for its
colleges throughout the Los Angeles area. The
items to be procured are broken down for the
purposes of bidding into one (1) Bid Category
and consist of Desktop Computers, Laptop
Computers, Tablet Computers, Computer
Peripherals/Apple, Software Programs and
Additional Services.
with the Bid.
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242.
213- 996-2249
LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
/
sealed bids for the following public works project
(“Work”):
Work consists of the following scope: There are 62
mature trees of various types located on the site of
the new MAPA building that need to be excavated,
boxed and removed for offsite transplantation prior
to construction. According to LAVC’s EIR, these
trees may not be disturbed during the nesting season (February 1 - September 1). Hence, the trees
must be removed prior to February 1st. 2012 The
Campus desires to award each tree separately to
the lowest, responsible bidder(s) who can transplant them to an appropriate offsite location prior
to the site being cleared for the construction of the
MAPA building.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with
the Instructions to Bidders and other Bidding
Documents. Bids must be received, by either hand
delivery or mail, at BuildLACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, no
later than the Bid Closing Deadline of 9:00 a.m.
on September 1, 2011, to be thereafter on said
date and at said location publicly opened and read
aloud. The Bidder assumes full and sole responsibility for timely receipt of its Bid.
Bidding Documents will be available to Bidders
on and after August 8, 2011, at the following
locations:
(District’s reprographics service) at any of the following Three (3) locations:
1) Universal Reprographics Incorporated, Los
Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles,
California 90057 Tel: 213-365-7750
2) West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900
3) Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
To view in person: Yang Management, 5800 Fulton
Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401, Telephone: (818)
756-0959.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense,
for document delivery and additional sets by
contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the
above-stated locations.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on August, 15’th, 2011, commencing
promptly at 10:00 a.m. at Yang Management,
5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401,
Telephone: (818) 756-0959. Attendance at the
Pre-Bid Conference is required as a condition
of bidding, unless the Bidder is a “Local, Small
or Emerging Business”, as defined in the District’s
Policy on Local, Small and Emerging Businesses,
Board Rule 7103.17 (a copy of which is available
for review on the District’s Website), and Bidder
submits an affidavit as required by said Board
Rule. Sign language services are available for the
Pre-Bid Conference upon written request received
by Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810,
Los Angeles, CA 90017 or by Fax at 213-9962534 at least three (3) business days prior to the
day of the Pre-Bid Conference.
awarded by the District shall be required to furnish
Performance and Payment Bonds as provided in
the Instructions to Bidders.
awarded by the District is required to hold at the
time of submitting its Bid and Award a contracting
license of the following classification(s):
D-49 Tree Service or C-27 Landscaping
Contractor.
In addition, Bidder is required to hold, or designate in its Designation of Subcontractors a
Subcontractor that holds, the certification(s)
required by Applicable Laws to perform the following work: N/A.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.7, this
Project Will not be subject to the District’s
approved Labor Compliance Program, initially
approved July 19, 2004. For questions or assistance concerning the Labor Compliance Program,
Veronica Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017..
The District Hasentered into a Project Labor
Agreement that is applicable to this Project. For
questions or assistance concerning the Project
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
awarded by the District shall comply with the
provisions of the California Labor Code, as well
as the District’s Project Labor Agreement (if
applicable) and the District’s Labor Compliance
Program (if applicable, including, without limitation, the obligation to pay the general prevailing
rates of wages in the locality in which the Work
is to be performed in accordance with, without
limitation, Sections 1773.1, 1774, 1775 and 1776
of the California Labor Code and the obligation
to comply with Section 1777.5 of the California
Labor Code governing employment of apprentices. Copies of the prevailing rates of per diem
wages are on file at the District’s principal office
at 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA
90017, and are available to any interested party
on request.
Substitution of securities for any moneys withheld by District to ensure performance under any
contract awarded by the District for the Work shall
be permitted as required by Section 22300 of the
California Public Contract Code.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond
Program. For further information regarding enrollment eligibility and program services contact
Paulette Williams, Merriweather & Williams, at
213-258-3000.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them as set forth in Article
1 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Daniel Robb
Build-LACCD Sustainable Building Program
Managers
E-mail: daniel.robb@build-laccd.org or via
Phone: (213) 996-2589 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
on upcoming LACCD projects; see www.buildlaccd.org (Contracting and Bidding Site)]
8/11/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
(RFP #7555)
2011 CONTINUUM OF CARE
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
invites proposals from qualified organizations
interested in providing supportive services with
assisted housing through the Section 8 Continuum
of Care Homeless Assistance Programs. Copy of
the RFP may be obtained beginning August 1,
2011 via http://www.hacla.org/ps/ or call (213)
252-5405 or 252-1832. Proposals will be accepted
at 2600 Wilshire Blvd., #3100, Los Angeles, CA
90057, until 2:00 P.M. August 26, 2011.
8/4, 8/11/11
WWA-2147368#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
INVITATION FOR BIDS
(IFB) 7790
RANGES
invites your firm to submit a bid to sell ranges to
the Authority.
Conference August 16, 2011 @ 11:00 AM
Information for conference line will be included in
the Bid Documents.
Copies of the IFB may be downloaded at www.
hacla.org/ncg. Bids will be accepted at 2600
Wilshire Blvd., #3100 Los Angeles, CA 90057 until
1:30 P.M., local time August 26, 2011.
INVITATION FOR BIDS
(IFB) 7792
REFRIGERATORS
Paul Spear
8/11/11
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$124,000.00 BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH
LACCD
embarked on an extensive Sustainable
Building Program to address much-needed
campus improvements for educational and
support facilities for its nine community colleges. For future bidding opportunities please
visit the website www.build-laccd.org under
“Contracting and Bidding Site” then click
call
(323)
invites your firm to submit a bid to sell refrigerators
to the Authority.
Copies of the IFB may be downloaded at www.
hacla.org/ncg. Bids will be accepted at 2600
Wilshire Blvd., #3100 Los Angeles, CA 90057 until
2:30 P.M., local time August 26, 2011.
8/4, 8/11/11
WWA-2147102#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
INVITATION FOR BIDS
(IFB) No. 1711
THE RE-ROOFING OF SIXTY (60) BUILDINGS
AT RANCHO SAN PEDRO HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT 275 W. 1ST
STREET, SAN PEDRO, CA 90731.
invites vendors to submit firm fixed price bids for
the re-roofing of sixty (60) buildings for Rancho
San Pedro housing development located at 275
W. 1st Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. Copies of
the IFB may be downloaded from the internet at
www.hacla.org/cgs. Bids will be accepted at 2600
Wilshire Blvd., #3100, Los Angeles, CA 90057
until 2:00 p.m. (local time), August 24, 2011.
8/4, 8/11/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
CITATION FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL
CUSTODY AND CONTROL
(ABANDONMENT RE: ADOPTION)
CASE NO. J-236288
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
IN THE MATTER OF MALEE CLARISA
SANCHEZ;
A Minor.
A Person who shall be declared free from the
custody and control of her parents.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
To Father, JORGE HERRERA, AKA GORGE
HERRERA, AKA GORGE HERNANDEZ
HERRERA and to all persons claiming to be the
father or mother of said minor person above
named.
By order of this Court you are hereby cited
and advised that you may appear before the
Judge Presiding in Department J-6 of the Juvenile
Division of the above-entitled court located at 860
East Gilbert Street, San Bernardino, California
92415-0955 of the above-entitled court on
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. of that day,
then and there to show cause, if any you have,
why said person should not be declared free from
the control of her parents according to the petition
on file herein.
If the Court finds that the interest of the minor
requires her protection, the Court shall appoint
counsel to represent the minor. Such counsel shall
be appointed whether or not the minor is able to
afford counsel. If you appear without counsel
and are unable to afford counsel, the Court shall
appoint counsel for you if you request appointed
counsel.
The purpose of this action, to free the minor from
the custody of her parent(s), is to permit the adoption of said minor to a suitable adopting parent.
The Court may continue these proceedings, not to
exceed thirty (30) days, as necessary to appoint
counsel and enable counsel to become familiar
with these proceedings.
Given under my hand and seal of the Superior
Court of the County of San Bernardino, State of
California, this 8th; day of July, 2011.
COUNTY CLERK
By Rosa Cervantes, Deputy
7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11/11
WWA-2139725#
CENTRAL NEWS WAVE
PUBLIC NOTICE
The waiting list for the Lomita Manor public housing program will close effective August 11, 2011
at 8:00 a.m. Due to the amount of applicants currently on the waiting list, the average wait time is
excessive; therefore the waiting list will be closed.
If you have family or know someone who has not
placed their name on the Lomita Manor waiting list
and they wish to do so, please have them register
online at www.hacola.org Interested persons may
also call (323) 838-5074 or (800) 731-4663.
The waiting list will reopen in the future and a
public notice will be issued at that time.
7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11/11
WWA-2134608#
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PROBATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
EDDIE RUTH LEE
CASE NO. BP129533
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the WILL or
estate, or both of EDDIE RUTH LEE.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has
been filed by ANTHONY L. HILL in the
Superior Court of California, County of
LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE
requests that ANTHONY L. HILL be
appointed as personal representative to
administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of Estates Act
. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without
obtaining court approval. Before taking
certain very important actions, however,
the personal representative will be required
to give notice to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or consented to
the proposed action.) The independent
administration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause
why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held
in this court as follows: 08/10/11 at 8:30AM
in Dept. 9 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS
ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the
petition, you should appear at the hearing
and state your objections or file written
objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or
by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file
your claim with the court and mail a copy
to the personal representative appointed
by the court within four months from the
date of first issuance of letters as provided
in Probate Code section 9100. The time
for filing claims will not expire before four
months from the hearing date noticed
above.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by
the court. If you are a person interested
in the estate, you may file with the court a
Request for Special Notice (form DE-154)
of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of
estate assets or of any petition or account
as provided in Probate Code Section 1250.
A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
In Pro Per Petitioner
ANTHONY L. HILL
10000 PALOMA STREET
LOS ANGELES CA 90002
7/28, 8/4, 8/11/11
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PUBLIC AUCTION/
SALES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
US STORAGE CENTERS
820 INDUSTRIAL AVE
INGLEWOOD, CA 90302
(310) 677-2544
In accordance with the provisions of the California
Self-Storage Facility Act, Section 21700, et seq.
of the Business and Professions Code of the
State of California the undersigned will be sold
at public auction on AUG 23, 2011 at 11:00am
General household goods, tools, office & business
equipment, electronics, instruments, appliances,
furniture, sporting goods, apparel, collectibles
& antiques, and / or miscellaneous items stored
at 820 Industrial Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90302,
County of Los Angeles, by the following persons;
EMOGENE JACKSON, CHRISTOPHER LEE
MENTEER, ANTHONY USHER a.k.a. ANTHONY
THOMAS USHER, , RODERICK BROOKS,
BEVERLY JOHNSON, TANYKA ALEXANDER
a.k.a. TANYKA NICOLE STOKES ALEXANDER,
SHANA SHERE SLAUGHTER, SAMMIE
PINKNEY ,a.k.a. SAM PINKNEY a.k.a. SAMMIE L.
PINKNEY JR.,DAVID CARLOS PEREZ, JUSTIN
REID a.k.a. JUSTIN DANA REID, LYDIA MARIE
MURRAY-CHOTRONNAPAD,THERON PAIGE
CHRISTOPHER, TANICIA LETICIA RODRIGUEZ,
WILLIAM HUMBERTO CONTRERAS, CLIVE O.
PHILLIP a.k.a. CLIVE PHILLIP OTTLEY, DIANA
EVANS, CYNTHIA MARSHALL, DAWN CHERI
FARRELL, LYZETTA LYNN SUMMERVILLE,
JOHN DELANO INGRAM, DEJONE CYIARK,
DONNIE HAYES HILL, REBECCA ANN
DEARWATKINS , Larwence L. Williams a.k.a.
Larwence L. Williams Jr. a.k.a. Lawrence Williams
L. Jr, ANNETTE CHRISTINE VASQUEZ, .
Property is sold on an “AS IS BASIS”. There is a
refundable $40 cleaning deposit on all units. Sale
is subject to cancellation. Auctioneer is: American
Auctioneers Dan Dotson & Associates,
California State Bond #FS863-20-14, (800) 8387653.
8/4, 8/11/11
WWA-2150016#
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A12
Lozano awarded scholarship
Wave Staff
Cerritos College softball
standout Jessica Lozano has
been awarded a scholarship in
the name of former Falcon coach
Nancy Kelly.
The scholarship, which began
in 2003, goes towards purchasing
books and supplies after transferring to a four-year university.
Lozano will be attending Cumberland University, an NAIA
school located 30 miles east of
Nashville, Tenn.
The recipient must have played
two years of softball at Cerritos,
as well as submitted a personal
statement, and transcripts and a
letter of recommendation from at
least one of their professors.
Lozano, the South Coast Conference pitcher of the year after
going 30-8 with a 2.46 ERA for a
Falcon team that reached the Super Regionals, was not expecting
to be the recipient.
“I was really surprised and
happy when coach Kelly contacted me to let me know I would
be getting the scholarship,” the
graduate of Banning High School
said. “I knew that the scholarship was available, but I never
thought I would get it. Kodee
Murray (current coach) gave the
sophomores a flier with all of the
requirements and I went ahead
Los Angeles pitcher Megan Reiner delivers a pitch during the RBI World Series final.
and did everything it asked.”
She will now be playing for a
Cumberland program that was
31-27 overall and 17-15 in the
Trans South Conference.
“I had been getting recruited
by Cumberland (along with
outfielders Natalie Garcia and
Aina I’aulualo) through most of
the season and they decided to
come out to see me pitch at the
Super Regional,” Lozano said.
“I knew coach (Heather) Stanfill
was watching me pitch and was
really depressed because of my
back injury. I wanted to do so
well and was afraid she might
not be interested if I didn’t do
well. She didn’t know about my
back injury until after the first
game, but I guess she liked how
I battled through it and didn’t let
it keep me from doing what I had
to do.”
As a freshman at Cerritos, Lozano was 6-4 with two saves and
a 2.08 ERA as the number two
pitcher behind ace Hillary PerezAshley, who would go 33-2 and
be named the state’s pitcher of
the year for a second consecutive
season.
She overcame a nagging back
injury in the postseason during
the Super Regionals to lead the
Falcons through four games before being eliminated.
“I knew what I was capable
of doing and just waited for my
turn,” Lozano said. “I came to
Cerritos because it has a reputation of being a very good program
and I knew that if I continued to
work hard, that time would come
for me. I’m really happy I decided to come to Cerritos because
it was such a great experience. I
didn’t get to go where I wanted
to after high school (Cal State
Northridge), but I wouldn’t trade
coming to Cerritos.”
She went 29-3 as a senior at
Banning, earning All-City honors.
Lozano, a biology major, is
looking forward to the four-year
college experience that awaits
her.
“I’ve always been dependent
on my parents and now this will
be my first experience away from
them,” she said. “I’m excited to
experience the dorm life, which
not everyone gets to do, and look
forward to the opportunity to become more independent.
“My parents are helping me
with the move and then it’s up to
me to be on my own and do what
I’ve always wanted to do. This is
a great opportunity for me, and
receiving the scholarship really
helps make things a little easier
with everything that’s going on.
But I’m excited for the opportunity.”
Reiner pitches shutout in final Trayvon makes highlight-reel grab
RBI continued from page A9
opposition 71-5, during the tournament.
The roster included Westchester’s Leesa Harris, Arianna
Smith, Tolbert, Breea Jamerson,
Monica Cartwright and Anasia
Stinson.
The softball championship airs
on the MLB Network and MLB.
com, the official web site of Major League Baseball, at 9 a.m.
August 21.
The baseball portion of the RBI
World Series began Wednesday.
The junior and senior championship games are scheduled for
Aug. 14 at Target Field, home of
the Minnesota Twins.
National champ
Carson High School shortstop
Darian Tautalafua helped the
Southern California Athletics
win the Premier Girls Fastpitch
National Championship over the
weekend, hitting a tiebreaking
three-run homer in the semifinals
and driving in a game-tying run
in the final.
The senior-to-be at Carson hit
a tie-breaking three-run home
run in the semifinals and drove
in the game-tying run in the title
game.
The Long Beach State commit has now won four national
championships — at the 12-andunder level, two last summer at
the 16-and-under level (ASA and
Premier) and the current title.
This spring she led Carson to
the first City Section title in program history by hitting 15 homers. Her 35 career round-trippers
are a school record.
Tautalafua enjoyed a banner
season, in which she won Marine
League MVP, All-Wave Newspapers and All-City honors. Carson catcher Brittany Moeai, the
Wave Newspapers Player of the
Year the past two seasons, helped
the Orange County Bat Busters
place third.
Moeai, also a senior-to-be, has
committed to UCLA.
TRAYVON continued from page A9
“I thought maybe it was a
ground-rule double,” Robinson,
who continued his tour around
the bases after umpire Jerry
Meals signalled it was a homer,
said.
“He said he thought it might
have bounced over,” Seattle
manager Eric Wedge said with a
chuckle. “He had his head down
and running and that’s good.
Those are all good things. He’ll
know in time when he hits it out
of the ballpark. We won’t have
to worry about that.”
Wedge liked what he saw
from his young prospect.
“He’s been impressive here,”
Wedge said. “He’s really made
an immediate impact on our
club. He has some weapons.”
As for his overall impressions
of the weekend, Robinson said,
“When I first got here, I was
really nervous. After the first
game, I realized it was the same
game, just a lot more people
watching. That’s what a lot of
the players told me.”
He admitted to being shocked
at the news that the Dodgers
had traded him.
At Albuquerque, he had 26
home runs for the Dodgers’ Triple-A franchise, leading many
to believe he was going to be
called up to the big club in Sep-
tember.
“I was disappointed, sad because I wanted to play in front
of my mother,” he said.
Robinson, a 10th-round pick
in 2005 of the Dodgers out of
Crenshaw, is looking forward to
making more of an impression
the final two months of the season for the Mariners.
“I just want to keep playing
hard and learn, to keep asking
questions of the older players,”
he said.

Compton unions signal legal action

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