Vol. 48 No. 51
April 12, 2018 - April 18, 2018
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Civil Rights Lawyer Mario Williams Rises From Peace Corps To Sue White Supremacists By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service
Mario Williams Delma Jackson’s New Year’s morning started with a shocking photo on her cell phone—an image of a man’s beaten, bloodied, swollen face. He was so badly disfigured; she initially could not tell it was her husband. Her husband, Miguel Jackson, was an inmate at a south Georgia prison, when prison guards beat him with a claw hammer in December of 2011, an attack captured on video. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=19XKFMNntus Horrified, Delma Jackson called the prison for answers. She got none. She wasn’t even sure if her husband was alive or dead. Delma Jackson paged through the Yellow Pages—the thickbook version and the online option—to find a lawyer who would get both justice and answers. Attorney after attorney turned down her case. “No one would touch it,” Delma Jackson said. “I had the photos to show, but no one would help. . . except Mario.” Mario is Mario Williams, an Atlanta-based civil rights attorney who took a winding road to become one of the nation’s foremost legal advocates for those in need. The bulk of his cases focus on civil-rights violations, police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, and wrongful incarcerations. A tall, jovial African-American who likes horror movies and rollercoasters, Mario Williams the legal advocate of last resort for those too poor or too unconnected to attract government agency or big law firm. Now, Williams is preparing to lead an unprecedented $20 million legal campaign to investigate and uncover the ties of political and business leaders to white supremacist groups. He wants to
dig up their secret rivers of money and shame them into cutting off the extremists. Pretty heady stuff for a guy who initially wanted to be an environmental lawyer. Libre by Nexus is where the $20 million war chest is coming from, a Verona, Virginia-based firm that guarantees bail bonds for immigrants, to win their release and to reunite them with their families. The for-profit company, founded by Michael Donovan and Richard Moore in 2012, gives away millions of dollars each year to fund free legal aid. Each of these men were jailed in their college days and remember how hard it can be for prisoners to get a fair shake. Libre by Nexus tagged Williams to be the point man in its probe of white supremacists. ”Mario is fearless in advocating for those without a voice,” said Micheal Donovan, cofounder of Libre by Nexus. “A lot of idealists learn of the (civil rights) abuses and it shocks them so much they can’t do anything. With Mario, he is personally offended and it fuels him to act. He didn’t lose his ideology. And that’s hard to find in an attorney.” Donovan added his company is targeting and funding the suits against “white supremacist organizations that masquerades as militias when they are really reformed hate groups like the KKK.” The goal is to find the funders of these extremist groups “that advocate violence” and sue them into submission. “When they advocate violence, like in the case of Charlottesville,” Donovan said, they must be held accountable.” This fires up Williams. “This is big stuff. Huge,” he said. “I am
excited and proud to be a part of an effort that is looking to make sweeping changes in racial injustices and attitudes.” Williams’s odyssey began in the unlikeliest of places: the poor towns of Central America, where he served in the Peace Corps, teaching environmentalist practices to villages in the 1990s. There he saw the real price paid by the poor and the powerless. Williams, now 46, cites New Orleans and three cities in Texas as his hometowns. He graduated from historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta. Giving up his early career plans to become an environmental attorney, at Morehouse, Williams said he was inspired by his professors and fellow students to consider working in the human rights arena. “Much of the major civil rights events took place right in Atlanta,” he said. “Martin Luther King went to Morehouse. It was in the air.” That led him to the Peace Corps—and the experiences that changed his life. In Honduras and other Latin American countries, Williams spent three years helping to bring clean water to some of the world’s poorest people by putting his hands to work as much as his mind. He helped build many down-flow gravity water systems and effective filtration tanks in the hills of remote villages. The systems produced clean, drinkable water, saving countless lives. “It was a human rights violation that they did not have potable water,” Williams said. “Kids were dying, people were getting sick because of the water. In the U.S., we just turn on the facet and we have water ready to drink. We take it for granted. It’s not like that in many parts of the world.” The plight of the Central Americans’ struck a nerve in Williams. That, he said, is when his desire to be a servant got real. He went to Lewis and Clark and earned his law degree, passed the Georgia state bar exam, and worked in Santiago, Chile for seven years, where helped reshape environmental codes. In Atlanta, he has been named one of the top-rated civil rights attorneys and been selected as one of that city’s “Super Lawyers.” But the “Super Lawyer” will take calls and cases from nearly any one, without ego or formality. Cases like those of Delma Jackson’s husband. “Mario was right on it,” Delma Jackson recalled. “We met him on a Monday. Showed him the photos and gave him the background on my husband and he knew exactly what do, what motions to file. Tuesday, he was down there at the prison. Wednesday, we met with him again. “There have been so many elements to my husband’s case, including being sentenced for 50 years for an armed robbery in 1996 when he was 20 years old. Fifty years. Mario has been there every step of the way. There are a lot of injustices out there. We need more people like
Mario. He’s been so committed, it’s amazing. He’s like family now.” No charges were brought against the prison guards, despite Williams’ best efforts. The case is now in summary judgment as Williams continues to seek justice. “One issue I began to have is ‘How do you sleep at night?’ he said from his desk at his downtown Atlanta law office. “I have seen so much denial of human rights in Central America and, sadly, denial of civil rights of non-white people here in America. It’s simply not right. The abuse of power of (law enforcement, correction officers, etc.) is rampant. So I chose to do for others. Doing this work means something to me, everyday fighting for people’s rights and for justice.” If that sounds a bit Pollyannaish, Williams does not care. For him, it is real. He and his wife, Julie, are partners in the Atlanta law firm Williams Oinonen, LLC, which specializes in civil rights, business and government law, share the same vision. In other words, they fight the fight. “Emotionally, it gives me a sense of completeness,” Williams said. “There is something very rewarding in battling for rights for people, or protecting people’s rights. It means something to me emotionally on a daily basis. It is a real responsibility knowing people rely on me to make systemic changes. And I enjoy it because it means so much.” The satisfaction that comes from winning cases doesn’t last long. After, he won a jury award of $350,000 for the family of Terrance Dean, an imprisoned Georgia black man who was brutally beaten by guards, Williams said he was elated and happy for the family. . . for about an hour. Then, he said, it is “on to the next (case).” An Atlanta attorney connected Williams with Donovan when Donovan’s company, Libre by Nexus, had some legal issues. Williams liked that Nexus liberally finances its own law firm, Nexus Derechos, to tackles human-rights abuses, civil rights violations, prisoners’ rights, police misconduct, internationallaw petitions, among others. Williams now heads the firm, now wearing two hats at two law firms. “I’m a put–your-money-whereyour-mouth-is guy,” Williams said. “(Donovan) is willing to fund justice and human and constitutional rights. He and Richard (Moore, co-founder) really believe in this mission. And when you have the financial resources and support, you can do strong work.” Moore, a Libre by Nexus cofounder, appreciates Williams combative sense of justice: “To walk into a room and meet a client and commit to walk alongside him in his legal journey. . . Mario has a passion and commitment to fix the wrongs of people he doesn’t know. His track record proves it.”
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Killing of Nathanael Pickett II by sheriff deputy raises questions about department Gail Fry Contributor After a $33.5 million judgment against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, many are questioning the manner in which the sheriff is chosen in San Bernardino County and whether it is fostering what is alleged to be a corrupt good ole boys network running amok, administering justice in the streets and killing African-American young men. The circumstances leading to the death of Nathanael Pickett on November 19, 2015 in the streets of Barstow by a sheriff deputy, another shooting of a Hispanic male by the same deputy on January 14, 2018 and another AfricanAmerican man dying at the hands of law enforcement on April 5, 2018 in a Walmart parking lot have residents questioning whether these shootings are a reflection of the leadership and culture within the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. According to court documents obtained by the San Bernardino American News, in the case of Nathanael Pickett II, after hearing testimony and reviewing evidence, a federal jury awarded his family $33.5 million in damages, believed to be the highest damage award ever in response to a police shooting in the country. On November 19, 2015 Nathanael Pickett II was walking across the street to his home at the El Rancho Motel in the City of Barstow when he was allegedly observed by San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputy Kyle Woods. In an interview with a private investigator hired by the Pickett family and a former detective for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Clifton Harris, Harris recalled Woods testified at trial Pickett “looked suspicious because he looked at him 10 times within a 5 to 10 second interval that was enough for him to feel that that was reason and probable cause to stop him.” Harris explained Woods first claimed Pickett then ran away and jumped over a fence allegedly causing Woods to believe Pickett may be trespassing, however, at trial it was revealed Pickett did not run away or jump over a fence. Harris shared he was hired by the family about three months after Pickett’s death and at that time there had been no contact with the family by any governmental agencies except the Riverside Coroner to arrange for claiming the body with the family receiving no answers “regard-
ing the nature of how this occurred.” The only information regarding the circumstances leading to Pickett’s death were what was printed in the newspapers which Harris described as “felonious accounts” that “turned out to be all lies.” “Once I started interviewing witnesses that were present the witnesses gave me a horrifying account of how they were basically treated by the Barstow Police Department and Sheriff’s Department,” Harris revealed explaining several witnesses present during the incident were “told to get the “f” away from here or we will arrest you” when their answers didn’t fit the police and/or sheriff’s department’s narrative of the incident. Harris explained a reasonable person would think “they were trying to cover up something” and “they did not want the truth to come out.” Harris explained it was established “someone moved the body” to a “few feet away from where he actually died” yet it was not clear who moved the body or why. Attorney Robert Conaway, representing Pickett’s father, Nathanael Pickett I, expressed his belief Barstow authorities moved Pickett’s body to “fabricate” an alternative crime scene scenario, chased off witnesses and handled the body in a manner that would destroy evidence that would determine if Pickett could have survived if medical care was promptly and properly provided and whether Pickett was shot while on the ground. “If you look at the video very disturbing what happened to the young man,” Harris opined sharing he interviewed seven to eight witnesses to the incident. Harris explained the primary witness attempted to get the deputy to “leave him alone” explaining Pickett was mentally ill and a “good person” with the deputy ignoring the witness’ concerns while another witness heard the scuffle, opened her door, daw the deputy and Nate on the ground then she heard the shots wherein she slammed the door shut, petrified and afraid to come out. Harris was critical of the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s decision that the killing of Pickett was “justified” after Harris provided numerous video interviews of witnesses at the scene disputing the version of events provided by law enforcement. “The district attorney didn’t (continued on page 3)
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San Bernardino Valley College Celebrates Success of Valley-Bound Commitment Program By Samantha Valencia, Staff Writer Department of Development & Community Relations San Bernardino Valley College
Faun White, Program Officer, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians (left), and Karen Childers, Director of Development and Community Relations, San Bernardino Valley College (Photo: Samantha Valencia). SAN BERNARDINO, California?— The San Bernardino Valley College Foundation hosted its annual Valley-Bound Commitment Luncheon in February 2018 to highlight the continued success of San Bernardino Valley College’s Valley-Bound Commitment Program (Valley-Bound) and the support of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. The award-winning program provides a free first year of college to local high school students. SBVC Director of Development and Community Relations and Executive Director of the SBVC Foundation, Karen Childers, welcomed guests and discussed the premise of the Valley-Bound program. Designed to encourage a smooth transition into college, Valley-Bound covers the first year of costs for students from several local feeder high schools.
This includes textbooks, transportation, registration fees, school supplies, and more. In addition, Valley-Bound students attend a weeklong summer orientation, meet with an educational counselor regularly, participate in field trips to four-year universities, and fulfill a community service requirement. SBVC President Diana Z. Rodriguez followed Childers. “As a life-long educator, I would like to see education as not a privilege but a basic human right,” said Rodriguez. “This program has launched students into lifelong careers. I can honestly say that Valley-Bound would not have been possible without the support of our friends and family members at the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.” SBVC Dean of Student Equity and Success Carmen Rodriguez then took to the stage. “I want to
Fontana Walmart Honors the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Act of Service Local associates read book on Dr. MLK Jr.'s legacy at Fontana Unified School District as part of national service effort Community/Education News
Valley-Bound Commitment program students and alumni attend the Valley-Bound Commitment Luncheon at San Bernardino Valley College in February 2018 (Photo: LaVar Godoy). tell you why we do this,” said Rodriguez. Rodriguez recounted Valley-Bound alumni and their success stories. She also acknowledged the hard work of the Valley-Bound staff. Following, Valley-Bound alumni Felicia Garibay and Chris Espinosa shared their personal experiences in the program. Garibay graduated from SBVC in 2014, earning associate degrees in biological and physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. Garibay transferred to California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), where she earned a bachelor’s in psychology in 2017. She plans to pursue graduate studies. “I am standing here today thanks to Valley-Bound,” said Garibay. Chris Espinoza will be graduating from University of California, Los Angeles in June 2018. He will
earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in computer science. Espinoza is currently in the process of applying to a graduate program in business administration at CSUSB. He plans to enroll in fall 2018 and will pursue Business Intelligence and Information Technology. “I remember when I started (college), I felt very limited…I feel very privileged to have been a part of the Valley-Bound Commitment Program,” said Espinoza. Program Officer for Education for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Faun White followed, and spoke about San Manuel’s commitment to education. “Wherever you land, always make sure you give back,” said White. Childers closed, thanking all who make Valley-Bound possible.
Fontana Walmart Honors the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Act of Service...continued Walmart’s national effort to honor Dr. King and his legacy. Among several activities planned, fifty Walmart leaders across the country and at least 50 stores nationally are participating in, and encouraging others to engage in, acts of service in their local com-
munities. Along with the acts of service, the Walmart Foundation has awarded nearly $4 million to 12 nonprofit organizations working to help promote access, equity and inclusion among diverse populations.
California’s School Dashboard Is Anything But Helpful By Seth Litt Executive Director, Parent Revolution | Special to California Black Media
Fontana, CA, April 4, 2018 – This April 4th will mark 50 years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his message and values of dignity, equality, justice and service still inspire and motivate millions of people. To honor Dr. King’s legacy and commitment to service, local Walmart leadership and or associates in Fontana, California hosted and participated in a book reading on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy starting at Dorothy Grant Elementary School. “Dr. King’s lessons have stood the test of time and continue to unite our communities, bridge differences and bring us together as a people,” said Walmart Market Manager Jondolon Bush. “We encourage everyone to volunteer in an act of service – no matter how big or small - to honor the legacy of Dr. King this week and beyond.” As part of this event, Walmart
donated 1,000 copies of Brad Meltzer's book I Am Martin Luther King Jr. to students across 10 Fontana USD elementary schools. Students were challenged to think critically about Dr. King's message of equality, service, and leadership, and given an activity to illustrate what they want their positive impact in the community to be. Walmart presented the Fontana USD with a $1,500 donation. “The Fontana Unified School District is proud to partner with Walmart on this day of American history to share with the students of Fontana the values Dr. King preached,” said Fontana USD Superintendent Randal S. Bassett. “We hope that Dr. King’s messages of service, justice, and equality resonate with students today.” Today’s act of service is part of (continued in next 2 columns)
Who wants to know how California public schools are performing? There’s the usual assortment of policymakers, politicians, journalists, researchers and other professionals. But who needs to know? Parents. They’re the ones faced with choosing which school their children will attend – a decision that will have a profound impact on their futures. Just as importantly, clear school information allows parents to know when and how to get involved in their children’s schools. For parents, figuring out how their neighborhood school is doing and how it compares to nearby schools should be simple. After all, Sacramento bureaucrats created a dashboard that’s supposed to help parents understand how schools and districts are performing across a number of measures. But the dashboard, with its complex, color-coded matrix, clearly ignores its most important users: parents. The dashboard doesn’t even let parents compare schools sideby-side, nor does it let them see data on some of the “multiple measures” Sacramento leaders keep touting, including chronic absenteeism and the college and career indicator. While a huge chunk of California parents are Spanish speakers, the dashboard is only available in English. After five years of development, the dashboard shouldn’t have such giant potholes. Officials in Sacramento point to a recent poll that supposedly found parents like the dashboard. What they don’t mention is that the majority of parents surveyed – 57% – don’t agree with the dashboard’s approach to summarizing the overall performance of schools. They believe each school should receive an overall rating, such as a letter grade A-F
or a score on the 0-100 scale. That’s exactly what the dashboard doesn’t do; instead, it assigns multiple, confusing colors to every school. The poll is also not representative of California’s diverse students and families. Fifty three percent of parents surveyed were white. Compare that figure to, say, Los Angeles Unified, where 74% of the students are Latino, or Santa Ana Unified, where 93% of students are Latino. The survey was only conducted in English, even though nearly one in four students in California are English learners. Most importantly, nearly half of those surveyed had never even visited the dashboard website. Meanwhile, bureaucrats have already begun manipulating the dashboard to meet their own needs, rather than the needs of parents. Last year, when too many schools were identified as red (the lowest performing) on the dashboard, the State Board of Education simply voted to lower the standards, which rescued many of those schools from red and moved them up to orange. All parents want honest information about their children’s schools. And while families of every race, religion and income level are willing to wrestle their way through all kinds of systemic obstacles to get a decent education for their children, Sacramento shouldn’t be adding to their struggle. Why, in 2018, are bureaucrats refusing to provide clear information about the state’s schools, putting yet another obstacle in the way of our state’s most underserved families? Though state officials have been tweaking it for years, the dashboard still does not provide an objective, clear and compa(continued in next 2 columns)
California’s School Dashboard Is Anything But Helpful...continued rable measure of quality. That’s one of the reasons California’s plan to meet the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was signed into law by President Obama, was sharply criticized and sent back by the federal Department of Education. Right now Sacramento bureaucrats are deciding if and how to fix the dashboard as they revise their plan and prepare to send it back to Washington, D.C. They should take this opportunity to follow ESSA’s guidelines and include 11th grade academic performance as a standalone item on the dashboard; this would also ensure that California isn’t juggling two separate accountability systems – one for the state, one for the federal government. Too many families in California are already forced to face the reality of a public education system that is failing their children. Parents have a big role to play in their children’s education, but they can’t do it alone. They need those in power to face the same
reality and get to action. But, as long as the dashboard leaves the final word on school quality open to interpretation, it’s too often parents’ word against the powerful bureaucrats When they insist that our schools are doing just fine when they aren’t, it’s bad for neighborhood schools and bad for students. California’s fourth graders who live in poverty rank dead last in the nation in math and 49th in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Their future – and the future of this state – shouldn’t be lost in a color-coded maze. No matter if or when the federal government approves California’s plan to comply with ESSA, the State Board of Education must not give up on making the dashboard work for all parents. A clear, direct, objective and understandable accountability system is possible – and it’s what parents need anddeserve to make informed decisions about their children’s futures.
Early childhood educators learn new ways to spot trauma triggers, build resiliency in preschoolers NNPA/ESSA
A hug may be comforting to many children, but for a child who has experienced trauma, it may not feel safe. That’s an example used by Julie Kurtz, co-director of trauma-informed practices in early childhood education at the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies (CCFS), as she begins a trauma training session. Her audience, preschool teachers and staff of the San Francisco, CAbased Wu Yee Children’s Services at San Francisco’s Women’s Building, listen attentively. Kurtz leads them into a description of how a child’s young brain functions, how young children – regardless of whether they have experienced trauma or not — live in their reptile brain. “What’s the job of the reptile brain?” she asks. “Survival” comes a response. “Yes, it’s fight, flight or freeze,” she says. With guidance from adults, she explains, children’s immature brains develop neurons that build bridges to the rational part of the brain. The rational, executive part of the brain, she continues, is a place of calm, where we can plan, solve problems, and imagine how someone else interacting with us is feeling. But if a child is in a state of terror, explains Kurtz, all bets are off. In that state, a child can’t hear what you’re saying or express herself in words, Kurtz says. “What’s the strategy to calm a reptile brain?” she asks. “It depends on the child…one idea is holding the child,” offers a teacher. ”Reassure the child,” suggests another teacher. “Bring them to the current time,” another chimes in. “You remembered!” says Kurtz. It’s the third session she’s had with these WuYee staff members, which include teachers, coaches
and site managers. In the first session, Kurtz covered an overview of trauma and traumatic stress, and the impact it has on learning and development, including an explanation of the science associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs comes from the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study), groundbreaking research that looked at how 10 types of childhood trauma affect longterm health. They include physical, emotional and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect; living with a family member who’s addicted to alcohol or other substances, or who’s depressed or has other mental illnesses; experiencing parental divorce or separation; having a family member who’s incarcerated, and witnessing a mother being abused. Subsequent ACE surveys include racism, witnessing violence outside the home, bullying, losing a parent to deportation, living in an unsafe neighborhood, and involvement with the foster care system. Other types of childhood adversity can also include being homeless, living in a war zone, being an immigrant, moving many times, witnessing a sibling being abused, witnessing a father or other caregiver or extended family member being abused, involvement with the criminal justice system and attending a school that enforces a zero-tolerance discipline policy. (Learn more about the five parts of ACEs science.) The impetus for the workshops was an awareness that many children in San Francisco, including many served by WuYee, are experiencing trauma and adversity, according to Wu Yee Associate Program Director in Child Development Kimberly Jones. The organization serves 648 children in (continued on page 7 )
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GOVERNMENT/BUSINESS/ADVERTISING
Mitch's Auto Paint Adds to Business with U-Haul Affiliation Business News
IEEP and LA Area Chamber Announces Keynote Line-Up for its Annual Southern California E-commerce and Logistics Summit...continued “This Summit is vital for industry leaders and ecommerce users, which is all of us, in order to acquire critical information needed to capitalize on this region’s prominent role as a global gateway for the goods movement
both domestic and foreign.” To learn more about the Summit and to register, visit www.socalsupplychainsummit.com. To purchase tickets, please click here. Early bird registration closes April 13.
Wilk legislation requiring community tie for placement of sex offender parolees clears first hurdle State Government News
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Boards of CA’s Most Influential Corporations Lack Women, People of Color Top Companies in Tech, Insurance, Other Key Fields Don’t Come Close to Reflecting State’s Diverse Workforce Business News
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – Top corporations in the California marketplace have boards of directors that consistently fail to even come close to reflecting the diversity of the state’s workforce, according to a new analysis by The Greenlining Institute: Corporate Board Diversity: Major Players Fail to Reflect California’s Labor Force. Greenlining examined the boards of a total of 59 companies that dominate the California market in leading industries, including tech, health, banking and insurance. Key findings of the report, based on 2017 statistics include: Overall, women and people of color remain severely underrepresented on corporate boards. Women made up roughly one quarter of board members, while Latinos held only six percent of board seats. Seven of 59 companies reviewed -- including Facebook, Amazon, Farmers Insurance and
two solar companies -- had zero people of color on their boards (Facebook added its first nonwhite board member in January). Three had zero women. Of companies reviewed, East West Bank had the most racially diverse board, followed closely by Kaiser Permanente, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Hewlett Packard. “Corporate boards play a crucial role, from hiring and firing CEOs to setting corporate culture,” said report coauthor Joe Jackson, Greenlining Institute Diversity and Inclusion manager, “Currently these boards don’t come close to reflecting the diversity of California’s labor force. The ‘glass ceiling’ or ‘good old boys' club’ -- however you want to say it -- still very much exists for women and people of color. Until these boards reflect California, our communities won't have a seat on the table and will continue to be on the menu instead.”
IEEP and LA Area Chamber Announces Keynote Line-Up for its Annual Southern California E-commerce and Logistics Summit Leading Logistics and Supply Chain Experts to Discuss the Future of Logistics, E-Commerce, Supply Chain and Goods Movement Success Business News
POMONA, CA – The Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP) and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to announce the keynote speaker lineup for its 2018 Southern California E-commerce and Logistics Summit presented by UPS. The annual Summit will be held Thursday, April 26, at the Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center in Pomona, CA. The Summit’s extensive speaker line-up includes: President of UPS Package Operations Noel Massie; Amazon Director of Worldwide Public Relations Rebecca Salt; and Colliers International Senior Vice President of Logistics and Supply Chain Gregory Healy. The Summit will also offer three dynamic panel discussions ad-
dressing the following topics: “State of Southern California Supply Chain in 2018,” “Cleaner Future for Goods Movement” and “Freight, Frictions and Future” with speakers from Ontario International Airport, Watson Land Company, Union Pacific, Pacific Mountain Logistics, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, among others. “This year’s Southern California E-commerce and Logistics Summit agenda focuses on the “future” of logistics, ecommerce and the supply chain, and how our region and state need to capitalize on the opportunities at hand that are moving our economy,” says Summit co-host and IEEP President & CEO Paul Granillo. (continued in next 2 columns)
Sacramento - Senator Scott Wilk, R-Antelope Valley, announces Senate Bill 1199 (SB 1199) was unanimously approved Senate Committee on Public Safety. SB 1199 would require, when at all possible, that there be a family or community connection before paroling a sex offender into a community (unless that placement would violate any other law or pose a risk to the victims). "People living in rural and affordable areas of California, like the Victor and Antelope valleys should not bear the brunt of rehousing and rehabilitating California's sex offenders. Unfortunately many of the laws put in place to protect citizens from predators have had the unintended consequence of putting rural communities at a higher risk," said Wilk. "This is not only dangerous for these communities, but it puts a tremendous strain on the availability of the services and supervision needed for the parolee to successfully rehabilitate." SB 1199 would expand current protections against the 'dumping' of sexually violent predators into random communities to include, when reasonably possible, taking family and community ties into consideration when determining where inmates convicted of registrable sex offenses are placed.
This would apply except in cases where such placement would violate any other law or pose a risk to the victim. Jessica's Law prohibits sex offender parolees released from prison on or after Nov. 8, 2006 from residing within 2,000 feet of any school and park where children congregate. The unintended consequences of residence restrictions include transience, homelessness, instability, and other obstacles to community reentry that may actually compromise, rather than promote, public safety. Currently offenders are disproportionally clustered in areas with more compliant and cheaper housing. Such has been the case in affordable and rural areas around the state. "SB 1199 will keep our communities safer and provide the newly paroled offender with the best possible chance of not re-offending," said Wilk. "I am pleased to see this legislation continue through the legislative process." In addition, Senate Bill 1198 (SB 1198), a measure to improve the state's ability to identify and manage high-risk repeat sex offenders, was also heard today and unanimously passed by the Committee. Both SB 1199 and 1198 are headed to the Senate Appropriations Committee for its consideration.
Supervisors seek applicants for Building and Safety Appeals Board SB County News
The Board of Supervisors is seeking individuals to serve on the County Building and Safety Appeals Board. "The mission of this board is important, and I urge anyone who feels they are qualified and who is interested in serving their community to apply," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Lovingood. The Building and Safety Appeals Board is a technical review panel. It is charged with considering matters in which property owners and builders believe the County has incorrectly applied the Building Code during plan review, construction, or to an existing building resulting in that building being declared substandard or unsafe. Applicants for this board should be familiar with construction and the California Building Code. The board has five seats plus three alternate positions. All members - regular and alternate - must have the knowledge, experience and training necessary to review and reach decisions on matters pertaining to building construction and applicable Building Codes, regulations and ordinances. Two members of this board will
also serve as members of the County Physically Disabled Access Appeals Board. This fivemember board, with three alternates, will consider appeals to County decisions as they pertain to disabled access, consider ratifications of certain exemptions to accessibility requirements, and serve as an advisor to the County Building Official on disabled access matters. The Building and Safety Appeals Board will work toward achieving the Countywide Vision, www.sbcounty.gov/vision, by capitalizing on the county's diversity, ensuring a sustainable system of quality community elements, and governing in an open and ethical manner. Members of the board will be appointed by the Board of Supervisors and serve four-year terms. Anyone who believes they are qualified and who is interested in serving on the Building and Safety Appeals Board may apply at http://cms.sbcounty.gov/cob/ Forms/BCCApplication.aspx or in-person at the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 385 N. Arrowhead Ave., Second Floor, in San Bernardino.
Laid off Ashley Furniture factory workers get new skills to re-enter the workforce SB County News
SAN BERNARDINO, CA Twenty-five workers laid off from the Ashley Furniture factory and warehouse in Colton in 2016 learned new job skills at the San Bernardino Community College District and the Chaffey College InTech Center. The culmination of the training was a job fair Tuesday, April 3 organized by the San Bernardino County Workforce Development Department. "When the Ashley Furniture warehouse in Colton closed and outsourced jobs overseas, our community rallied around the displaced workers and promised that we'd have their backs," said Congressman Pete Aguilar,
D-San Bernardino. "Through their hard work and a strong partnership between federal and county government agencies and local community colleges, these former Ashley employees took a big step today toward reclaiming their futures." Aguilar urged the U.S. Department of Labor to provide unemployment funds available under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act. The federal program gives relief to U.S. workers who lose their jobs as a result of foreign trade. "This is an example of the collaborative work necessary to (continued in next 2 columns)
Laid off Ashley Furniture factory workers get new skills to re-enter the workforce...continued train our workforce to meet the needs of the county's economy today and into the future," said San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert A. Lovingood. Senator Connie Leyva, DChino, Assembly member Eloise Gomez Reyes, D-San Bernardino, and the California Employment Development Department also stepped in to support the displaced workers. Through the San Bernardino Community College District and the Chaffey College InTech Center, workers received tuition-free training to gain new job skills. They participated in 200 hours of classroom and handson instruction in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), construction trades, welding, and industrial maintenance electrical and instrumentation (IME&I). Careers in these fields pay an annual median wage of about $46,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Major local employers participated in the April 3rd hiring event to meet their new talent pool, including Arconic, a metal construction company in Fontana; Dollar Tree, Inc.; National Core Renaissance, a non-
profit affordable housing developer in Rancho Cucamonga; South Bay Foundry, Inc., a steel fabricator and distributor in San Bernardino; VForce Staffing Solutions, an employment agency in Fontana; West Coast Industries, a furniture manufacturer in Los Angeles; and United Association Local 398, an HVAC, pipefitters and plumbers labor union based in Pomona. As an incentive to hire, the San Bernardino County Workforce Development Department offered to reimburse employers for half of the money they spent training new employees during the first 600 hours of their new job. "Anyone who has lost a job, regardless of what the circumstances, deserves the educational, advanced training and employment support to get back on their feet," said San Bernardino Community College District Chancellor Bruce Baron. "Today is a testament to our community's strong partnerships to ensure everyone has opportunities to advance in our new economy." To learn more visit www.sbcounty.gov/ workforce, www.sbccd.edu, or www.intechcenter.org
Killing of Nathanael Pickett II by sheriff deputy raises questions about department ...continued from page 1 even give them credibility,” Harris objected explaining additionally there was no physical evidence Pickett hit deputy Woods as originally claimed as the justification for the shooting. Harris explained prior to the shooting, “Woods can be heard screaming on his belt recorder I’m going to shoot you, I’m going to shoot you” voicing “And that’s when the volunteer starts backing up and moving away because he said he doesn’t want to get shot.” A citizen on patrol with the sheriff’s department was present at the scene when the incident occurred. Harris described the handling of Pickett’s body after his death as “desecration of a body” when it was left outside in the elements for hours and then after being picked up by the Riverside Coroner’s Office not refrigerated for several days. “There couldn’t be a funeral because of what happened,” Harris objected explaining Pickett’s body had to be cremated due to its deteriorated condition. On January 14, 2018, Woods shot another person, that person survived; Harris revealed explaining there are few real details “because it has been kept quiet.” Harris described San Bernardino County Deputy Kyle Woods as “a danger to the public” objecting to the fact Woods still works for the department where after his second shooting he was transferred to the academy working at the sheriff’s range. Harris predicted the family of the Hispanic man shot by Woods on January 14, 2018 may file a lawsuit and include a cause of action and damages for negligent retention based on the fact that Woods is still employed by the department in light of the circumstances surrounding the Pickett death. Harris was a detective for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department from 1974 through 1990, explaining while there are men and women in the department that deserve great credit, he sees a “culture within the organization that needs to change and that can only change when the leadership changes.” “There is a good ole boys network that is in place and it is a political good ole boys network that has been in charge of this department for many decades,” Harris opined explaining, “The political arm in this county selects the sheriff for the voters.” “There are certain people that will follow the lead of management and if management has no clear direction for its employees they are kind of left alone to their own devices to fend for themselves and carry out court on the
streets,” Harris explained adding, “In other words they become judge, jury and executioner and then figure it out later that’s why you have a $33.5 million lawsuit.” Harris observed what he viewed as “shootings of innocent if not innocent unnecessary shooting of African-American young men” stemming from “the historic racial relationship that exists between the community and the white privilege that so many feel in their hearts towards the minority race” objecting “it’s absolutely wrong.” “People should be paying attention and not wait until something happens to their family member to take interest in who is leading the sheriff’s department or their local police department,” Harris explained and the AfricanAmerican community needs to take part in demanding change at their local law enforcement. “As long as the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, as long as the citizens condone this, it will keep happening,” Harris concluded. In response to questions from the San Bernardino American News, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department provided their original press release dated November 20, 2015, where the incident leading to the death of Nathanael Pickett II was described as an “assault on a deputy” leading to a deputy involved-shooting in the City of Barstow. The press release further claimed Pickett jumped “a fence into the parking lot of the El Rancho Motel” prompting Woods to question him and during that contact Pickett gave “a false name” and became “uncooperative,” and when Woods attempted to handcuff Pickett, Pickett “tried to run and almost immediately a fight ensued” with Woods and Pickett “on the ground” with Pickett striking Woods “numerous times in the face” while refusing to “comply with repeated verbal commands” causing Woods to fire his weapon “striking the subject,” at which time the “assault ceased” with Woods “transported to a local hospital” where he was “treated for multiple injuries, including broken bones.” On November 3, 2016, San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office found the fatal officer-involved shooting of Nathanael Pickett II on November 19, 2015 in Barstow “justified” according to its press release while providing a link to a video allegedly depicting the altercation and subsequent killing of Nathanael Pickett II, the video can be viewed at: https:// vimeo.com/218822039.
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HEALTH/FITNESS NEWS
Not Just In Flint, Michigan--Bad Air And Bad Water Affects African Americans Disproportionately All Across The Country New coordinated effort aims to force Scott Pruitt, head of the EPA, who ignores how pollution disproportionately impacts communities of color, out of office. Health/Fitness News
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) -- Ten of the nation's largest and most influential environmental groups, including Hip Hop Caucus and Green for All, today launched a coordinated campaign to drive Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt from office, calling him a dire threat to Americans' health and our environment. Communities of color, who already are disproportionately impacted by the effects of exposure to toxic and hazardous substances, bad air quality and bad water, will face heightened threats to their health and environmental safety. Representative Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) tweeted Pruitt must be booted out: "As EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt has undermined climate and public health protections, jeopardized the health of communities of color, and wasted taxpayer $$ on luxury travel. It’s time to #BootPruitt #LetusBreathe" The ‘"Boot Pruitt" campaign issued this statement explaining why Pruitt must go:
Force report, Fumes Across the Fence-Line:
"The time has come. In just over one year, Scott Pruitt has taken dozens of actions to ensure the EPA fails in its mission to protect our health and environment; allowed hundreds of major industrial polluters to dramatically increase the amount of mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxins they can dump into our air and water; turned his back on the dangers from climate change; stamped out science and gagged EPA’s scientists; and wreaked all this damage while spending lavishly on himself, prompting several investigations into ethical breaches.
HHS sponsors its largest exercise for moving patients with highly infectious diseases Health/Fitness News
The largest patient movement exercise in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ history began today to test the nationwide ability to move patients with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers. “Saving lives during crises requires preparation and training,” explained HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Robert Kadlec, M.D. “A tremendous amount of coordination, synchronization, and skill is needed to move patients with highly infectious diseases safely. We have to protect the patients and the healthcare workers caring for those patients. This type of exercise helps ensure that everyone involved is ready for that level of complexity.” Coordinated by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, more than 50 organizations will participate, including the Department of State, Department of Transportation, the Regional Ebola Treatment Centers, local and state health and emergency management agencies, hospitals, airport authorities, and non-government organizations. Throughout the exercise, participants react as if the incident is real. They must take the necessary actions and employ the appropriate resources to manage and protect the patients, the workforce and the environment and safely transport the patients. The exercise focuses on moving seven people acting as patients with Ebola symptoms in different regions of the country. The patients, including one pediatric patient, first present themselves at one of the following healthcare facilities: CHI St. Luke's Health-The Woodlands Hospital in The Woodlands, Texas; Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina; Norman Regional Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma; St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, and St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. At each facility, healthcare workers will collect and ship samples for diagnostic tests to state laboratories, which in turn will practice running the necessary laboratory tests to diagnose the patients with Ebola. As part of the exercise, each patient will receive a positive diagnosis. Using appropriate isolation techniques and personal protective equipment, health care workers then must take steps to have six of the patients transported by air to designated Regional Ebola Treat-
ment Centers. These patients will be placed into mobile biocontainment units for these flights. The pediatric patient will be placed into protective equipment and transported by ground ambulance. The treatment centers that will receive the patients are CedarsSinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California; Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia; Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington; and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. The pediatric patient will be transported to Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus in Houston, Texas. The participating airports are Boise Airport in Boise, Idaho; Charleston International Airport in Charleston, South Carolina; DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Atlanta, Georgia; Ellington Field Airport in Houston, Texas; Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California; Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington; and Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Upon arrival, local emergency responders will transfer the patients to ground ambulances for transportation from the airports to the treatment centers. HHS and the Department of State previously collaborated on exercises to move Americans acting as Ebola patients from West African countries to Ebola treatment centers in the United States. In public health emergencies or disasters, the U.S. government orchestrates the return of Americans to the United States, including Americans who are sick or injured. This exercise runs through April 12. Participants will gather on April 13 to assess the exercise, compare actions across the country, and share best practices for moving patients with highly infectious diseases. HHS works to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans, providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services. Within HHS, ASPR’s mission is to save lives and protect Americans from 21st century health security threats. ASPR leads the nation’s medical and public health preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters and public health emergencies. To learn more about preparedness, response and recovery from the health impacts of disasters, visit the HHS public health and medical emergency website, www.phe.gov.
Mr. Pruitt has unquestionably failed the people he’s meant to protect, and failed the standard of ethical conduct required of a public official. We are standing together and standing up for the millions of children and families being exposed to deadly pollution by Scott Pruitt’s dangerous policies." As EPA chief, Pruitt has ignored how pollution disproportionately impacts communities of color and vulnerable communities that surround power plants and major industrial facilities. According to the recent NAACP-Clean Air Task
"More than 1 million African Americans live within a half mile of existing natural gas facilities and the number is growing every year. As a result, many African American communities face an elevated risk of cancer due to air toxics emissions from natural gas development. The air in many African American communities violates air quality standards for ozone smog. Rates of asthma are relatively high in African American communities." One in six black children has asthma, a rate that is about double the proportion of white children with the disease. The death rate from asthma of AfricanAmericans in the U.S. is higher than people of other races or ethnicities. (Source: www.aafa.org) With his rollback policies, EPA Administrator Pruitt is putting polluters first at the expense of the health of our children. To join the campaign to Boot Pruitt visit us online at www.BootPruitt.com or follow them on Twitter at @BootPruitt.
Black Leadership Needs To Acknowledge That Margaret Sanger, Founder Of Planned Parenthood, Was A White Supremacist And Should Be Denounced
Black Leadership Needs To Acknowledge That Margaret Sanger, Founder Of Planned Parenthood, Was A White Supremacist And Should Be Denounced...continued the most renown racist of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler. No, she didn't wear a hood, and was not ashamed to speak her bigotry openly, locally, and internationally, and is answerable for the death of millions. White America needs to step it up? No, Black Leadership needs to stop 'Bowing to Baal' by cottoning-up to the lie that racism is regulated by one political party while ignoring their JudeoChristian principles, and the God who brought them up out of Egypt. Ms. Okeyo, you quoted Martin Luther King. Did you know, Martin Luther King, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, called "Infanticide," - infant killing - evil? Did you know that? Isn’t it amazing that the Prophet of our generation, the most credible civil rights leader of all time, called evil what Democrats put in their platform, and call good? Don’t you see the incongruity of this, Ms. Okeyo? Margaret Sanger clearly was a White Supremist, and we should expect persons involved in civil rights and racial justice, to denounce and demand Sanger’s removal from the Public Square. If you don’t, because of your refusal, you should be considered frauds and charlatans for pimping the African American community, just as do many of the allied institutions already mentioned above. You clearly have another agenda and it’s not Racial Justice but probably another greedy ploy for more political power at the sake of principle. So, will you stand for
true justice, or will you be like the other political pimps, like Hillary Clinton, who cries about not getting enough of the Black vote, yet received the Margaret Sanger Award given by Planned Parenthood, whose very policies makes them the leading killer of Black People. Aren’t these the same voters she is culpable of killing off? Amazing! Racial Justice can only be achieved when the rule of law and its definition apply to everyone excluding no one, no race, or no party. Watch the following videos: Sanger Nazi Germany - "The Most Merciful Thing a Large Family Does to One of its Infant Members" www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Zl262HQWGis PBS Documentary - "Sanger Clearly Was a White Supremacist" www.pbs.org/video/anti-abortion-crusaders-bbrnh3/ Hillary Clinton -- "Margaret Sanger Award Given by Planned Parenthood" www.youtube.com/ watch?v=w-xvehg9d88
Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. is the founder of www.BlackGenocide.org – a movement designed to reach the Afro-American community with the truth about abortion.
With effective hepatitis C treatment, why is this still such a prickly subject?
By Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr.
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Margaret Sanger addressing a group of KKK members in the early 1900's Nationwide (BlackNews.com) - Aqunda Okeyo, who while serving as the Communications Chair for the March for Racial Justice, made an incendiary and thoughtprovoking observation when she boldly proclaimed, "If we want to end White Supremacy, White America needs to step it up." I partially agree based on the premise that one believes that White Supremacy is the chief culprit then certainly unbiased White Americans would then become the primary agents designated to initiate change. This equation is also true when it comes to our police departments' crisis with police brutality. There is not a department in the country where existing - and some retired officers - are not unaware of the officers who should not be wearing the uniform. Police know where the cancer is on the force, yet too often, due to their dedication to their fraternal order, they protect malignant officers, remaining silent regarding their abuses. Thus, the issue of police brutality continues at the detriment of good officers and is a grave injustice to the citizens they are called to serve and protect. In similar fashion, such negligence and betrayal of its citizens, whom these institutions were to serve and advance, is clearly seen by the alliances of the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, Rainbow Coalition, National Action Network, and Democrat Party. Each of these muchvaunted organizations need to explain their absolute refusal to denounce White Supremist, Margaret Sanger, for her policies and comments; comments such as "colored people are human weeds and need to be exterminated... reckless breeders... spawning... human beings who never should have been born..." Margaret Sanger, "Pivot of Civilization," referring to immigrants and poor people. Sanger was in her time the leading advocate of the eugenics
movement, specifically of negative eugenics, which promoted the reduction of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with undesired traits or economic conditions. "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, "Women and the New Race" (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923). What was a large family? Any home with more than two children! If my parents had been seduced by Margaret Sanger's ideology, I would not be writing this essay and you might not be reading this if your parents had more than two children as mine did. Then Ms. Okeyo went on to make this comment, "When we conflate white supremacy with white nationalism, extremism becomes the only form of white supremacy which we recognize and are expected to denounce. The young men who paraded through a Virginia town with Tiki Torches and finely pressed khakis were products of white supremacy: white nationalists, alt-right, Nazis, Klansman and the like. You don't have to wear a white hood to be a white supremacist." Wow, I just know I have found a friend in Ms. Okeyo! I’m sure she will join with me in denouncing Margaret Sanger and her policies of sterilization and abortion being perpetrated this very moment against people of color, and others they deem undesirable, by her founding organization, Planned Parenthood. Your own words demand we are expected to denounce "White Supremacy" not only undetectable but certainly its blatant propagation. Surely, Ms. Okeyo, the March for Racial Justice would publicly denounce anyone who was a frequent speaker at Ku Klux Klan rallies and received letters of thanks and commendations from (continued in next 2 columns)
It’s hard to believe that in 2018, with an effective treatment for hepatitis C on the books since late 2013, African Americans—who make up just 12 percent of the population—still account for 25 percent of people living with the virus. Yet this is the reality Gloria Searson, founder of the Coalition on Positive Health Empowerment, battles every day. Black folks are part of the roughly 3.5 million people in this country with HCV. That number is an estimate, Searson tells the audience gathered at Riverside Church on a chilly, cloudy morning in Harlem, New York, on a recent Saturday during the Black Health Matters Summit. “We’ve only confirmed about 50 percent of that number,” she explains. “Most of us were born before they were screening for hep C, which means we didn’t get tested.” We have a cure for this disease, but we do a lousy job of testing for the virus in this country. According to Searson, many locales skip screening people in homeless shelters and prison populations. And black folks are more than twice as likely not to be tested. Even when we are tested, we’re often not referred to hep C specialists. Some of the blame can be placed squarely on access to care barriers. Minorities are less likely to be tested, even when they have known risk factors for HCV. We are less likely to benefit from coverage options through the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion, as we disproportionately live in non-expansion states. Bias and stigma also contribute to limited hep C testing. We know IV drug use increases the risk of contracting HCV. “Most people have been exposed to IV drug use even if they don’t know it,” Searson says. “But we don’t want this to be associated with something that comes from drug use. When we ask you to test, we’re saying, ‘who did you sleep with in the past 6 months?’, and that’s personal; it’s something people don’t want to be
judged by. So what can we do to reduce the 19,000 new infections of hep C in this country each year? Searson offers these suggestions: Start with the three Es: Engage, educate and empower. Expand Medicaid. Restrictive insurance practices limit access to HCV treatment. The ACA would help those states that didn’t expand Medicaid. Institute needle-exchange programs. Substance use is huge in HCV. Yet, there’s no syringe exchange in central Harlem. “If you live in the Bronx, 40 out of 100 will come up positive for hep C. In Harlem, it’s in 4 in 7 black men,” she says. “The data are real: Syringe exchange reduces chances of hep C.” Make the connection. “One in 5 HIV patients are never screened for HCV,” Season says. This is in spite of the fact that up to onethird of folks who test positive for HIV also have a hep C connection. Reduce stigma. “Bring leading thought leaders to meet my folks in my community,” Searson says. COPE, made up of a community of people who have HIV, hep C or were working in the field, has helped doctors stop thinking of hep c patients as “them” and “those people.” Take advantage of opportunities. There’s a shifting demographic among hep C patients. As the opioid epidemic spreads across the country, hep C is “increasingly affecting whites in non-urban areas,” Searson says. “Let’s use this as an opportunity. Instead of seeing addiction as a moral failing, Americans need to be more compassionate.” Effective treatment is a shared responsibility, Searson says. “We know where the majority of people who have hep C are—senior centers, the doctor’s office. Maybe they’re still drinking. Maybe they’re unstable. Our job is not to judge. Our job is to ask how can we help this person.”
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NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20180003296 Date Filed: 3/22/2018 Filing Expires On: 3/22/2023 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): THERA RANCH County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 4363 DUCOR AVE. YUCCA VALLEY, CA 92284 Mailing Address: 2370 E. FINLEY RD. PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg. SISU PALM CANYON DRIVE, LLC :State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: 201605510224 Residence Street Address: 2370 E. FINLEY RD. PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262 This business is/was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Signature/Title of Person Signing: Brenda Theresa Castano, Managing Member BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20180002903 Date Filed: 3/13/2018 Filing Expires On: 3/13/2023 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): KANG’S HOUSE County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 9319 FOOTHILL BLVD. STE. A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 Mailing Address: 9319 FOOTHILL BLVD. STE. A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: KANG BISTRO INC. State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./ Org./Reg. No.: C4097532 Residence Street Address: 9319 FOOTHILL BLVD. STE. A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/19/2018 Signature/Title of Person Signing: Xiao Jun Kang/ President & CEO BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN
THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20180003007 Date Filed: 3/15/2018 Filing Expires On: 3/15/2023 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): CARRETE FURNITURE County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 12803 BENSON AVE. CHINO, CA 91710 Mailing Address: 1910 BUNKER AVE. SOUTH EL MONTE, CA 91733 Name of Individual Registrant: PEDRO CARRETE JR. Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./ Org./Reg.:State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./ Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 12803 BENSON AVE. CHINO, CA 91710 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Signature/Title of Person Signing: Pedro Carrete, Jr./Owner BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20180003272 Date Filed: 3/21/2018 Filing Expires On: 3/21/2023 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): SABER FITNESS RIALTO, LLC County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 2008 N. RIVERSIDE AVE. SUITE A RIALTO, CA 92377 Mailing Address: 9055 ARTESIA BLVD. BELLFLOWER, CA 90706 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: SABER FITNESS RIALTO, LLC State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 9055 ARTESIA BLVD. BELLFLOWER, CA 90706 This business is/was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 2/17/17 Signature/Title of Person Signing: Arvind Pal / Managing Member BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2018.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20180003146 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 3/19/2018 Began Transacting Business: 7/01/2008 Filing Expires On: 3/19/2023 Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company Fictitious Business Name(s): RELIABLE OFFICE FURNITURE SOURCE LLC Business Address: 401 SOUTH SULTANA AVE. ONTARIO, CA 91761 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 401 SOUTH SULTANA AVE. ONTARIO, CA 91761 Registrant(s)Address: RELIABLE OFFICE FURNITURE SOURCE, LLC 401 SOUTH SULTANA AVE. ONTARIO, CA 91761 A1#: 200811910044 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Xochitl Villalon, Managing Member BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20180003177 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 3/20/2018 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 3/20/2023 Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): RELIABLE CLEAN OUTS Business Address: 11611 VILLA STREET ADELANTO, CA 92301 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 11611 VILLA STREET ADELANTO, CA 92301 Registrant(s)Address: NICOLE JOHNSON
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11611 VILLA STREET ADELANTO, CA 92301 Signature/Officer Title: Nicole Johnson/ Owner BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018.
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Victorville, CA 92393 Date: April 2, 2018 Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1806049 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:EDDIE CALDERA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. EDDIE CALDERA to Proposed name:EDDIE EDMUNDO CALDERA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 4/24/18 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 W. THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: March 13, 2018 Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1805449 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MEGHAN NOEL WENZEL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. ELIJAH JOSEPH VILLANEUVE-WILLIAMS to Proposed name: ELIJAH JOSEPH WENZEL THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 4/16/18 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 W. THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT-CIVIL DIVISION A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: March 5, 2018 Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2018.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1803023 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: EDWARD NICK MESA JR. filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. EDWARD NICK MESA JR. to Proposed name: NICHOLAS OLIVER LIEN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 6/04/18 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 W. THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT-CIVIL DIVISION A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2018. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1807705 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: IRMA MARIN TERRIQUEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. IRMA MARIN TERRIQUEZ to Proposed name: IRMA ORTIZ MARIN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 5/14/18 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 W. THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT-CIVIL DIVISION A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL. DEMANDADO): VICTOR F. NOONE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley la corte tiene derecho a reclamar los coutas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. CASE NUMBER: CIVDS 1721424 (Numero del Caso) The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 WEST THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese 118226, Joseph M. Pleasant, 179571, James E. Delaney, 292600, Dana N. Meyers, 272640 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010 760/842-5850 (File No.553064) Date: October 27, 2017 (Fecha) (Secretario)Clerk, by Angeline Garcia Deputy (Adjunto) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2018. SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL. DEMANDADO): ROBBIE CLARK AKA RONEKA BLACK, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-
Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley la corte tiene derecho a reclamar los coutas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. CASE NUMBER: CIVDS 1701476 (Numero del Caso) The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 WEST THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese (Bar# 118226), Joseph M. Pleasant, (Bar #179571), Dana N. Meyers, (Bar #272640) James E. Delaney, (Bar #292600,) Jenny R. Louro #306535 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010 760/842-5850 (File No.551903) Date: June 12, 2017 (Fecha) (Secretario)Clerk, by Eden Staricka, Deputy (Adjunto) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2018. SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL. DEMANDADO): SAMUEL ZEPEDA YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley la corte tiene derecho a reclamar los coutas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que
pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. CASE NUMBER: CIVDS 1720593 (Numero del Caso) The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 WEST THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese 118226, Joseph M. Pleasant, 179571, James E. Delaney, 292600, Dana N. Meyers, 272640 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010 760/842-5850 (File No.553010) Date: October 17, 2017 (Fecha) (Secretario)Clerk, by Samantha Neubauer Deputy (Adjunto) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper March 29, Correction April 5, 12, 19, 2018. SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL. DEMANDADO): MELODIE A. PHILLIPS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley la corte tiene derecho a reclamar los coutas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. CASE NUMBER: CIVDS 1717938 (Numero del Caso) The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 WEST THIRD ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese 118226, Joseph M. Pleasant, 179571, James E. Delaney, 292600, Dana N. Meyers, 272640 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010 760/842-5850 (File No. 552829) Date: September 14, 2017 (Fecha) (Secretario)Clerk, by Nancy Liemsithisak, Deputy (Adjunto) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2018.
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Submission deadline: Mondays by 5 pm Website: SB-American.com BIDS/PROPOSALS NOTICE REQUESTING PROPOSALS 2018-08 1. Purpose of the Procurement and Period of Performance Victor Valley Transit Authority (VVTA) is seeking proposals from responsible and responsive Proposers who can provide the products and services needed to update VVTA’s current Audio-Visual System. The award of the contract will be to the Proposer whose overall score is the highest. The period of performance for this installation and maintenance of the system shall be for three (3) years with two (2) optional 1-year extensions. 2. Obtaining the RFP Document RFP documents may be obtained from VVTA, in person at 17150 Smoke Tree Street, Hesperia, CA 92345-8305 or electronically at www.vvta.org/Proposals. Documents are also available via email request to cplasting@vvta.org. Proposals requested by courier or via USPS mail shall be packaged and sent only at the Proposals’ expense. 3. Proposal Due Date and Submittal Requirements Sealed Proposals must be received by 3:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on Thursday, May 10, 2018. 4. Bonds 4.1 Bid Bond- Each Proposal must be accompanied by a certified or cashier’s check, or by a corporate surety bond. Check or Bid bond shall be in an amount not less than 10% (ten percent) of the amount of the total Proposal. 5. Prevailing Wage Minimum wage rates for this project have been predetermined by the Secretary of Labor. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the prevailing wage rates as determined by the State for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and his subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. In accordance with provisions of Section 1773.2 (amended 1977) of the California Labor Code copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the State Director of Industrial Relations and are available at the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/ DPreWageDetermination.htm. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed. Copies of the prevailing wage rates are on file with VVTA and available upon request. 6. Vendor Registration with the California Department of Industrial Relations California SB 854 Compliance -VVTA will not accept a Proposal from or enter the Contract with a Proposer, without proof that the Proposer and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to perform public work under Labor Code Section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. The Proposal shall enter DIR Registration Number on the Proposal. 7. Validity of Proposals. Proposals and subsequent offers shall be valid for a period of ninety (90) days. An award may be made without further discussion. VVTA reserves the right to withdraw or cancel this RFP at any time without prior notice and VVTA makes no representation that any contract will be awarded to a Proposal responding to this RFP. 8. Pre-Proposal Meeting There will not be a Pre-Proposal meeting, however, the deadline for question is at 5:00 PM (PDT), Friday, April 27, 2018. Prospective bidders are requested to submit questions, in writing, to the Procurement Manager at cplasting@vvta.org. Responses shall be shared with all known prospective proposers by written addenda only. The successful Proposer will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Opportunity Laws and Regulations. Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper April 12, 2018.
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LIFESTYLE NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/RELIGION Witness For Justice #888
Harry And Meghan Don’t Have To Invite Politicians To Their Wedding
Alleluia is Our Cry Michael J. Readinger President and CEO, UCC Council for Health & Human Service Ministries
Gregory Katz, Associated Press
Righteous Brothers, Gary Puckett Set For April 28, San Bernardino Show Events/Entertainment News
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle LONDON (AP) — It will be friends and family, rather than politicians and world leaders, at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s wedding. Kensington Palace says “it has been decided that an official list of political leaders — both U.K. and international — is not required” for the wedding. That means U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May are not among 600 people invited to the May 19 ceremony at Windsor
Castle’s St. George’s Chapel. Many politicians and world leaders attended the much larger wedding of Harry’s older brother Prince William and Kate Middleton. Unlike William, Harry is not likely one day to occupy the throne. A person with knowledge of the guest list who spoke on condition of anonymity says former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle also are not invited.
Matthew Knowles Believes His Granddaughter Blue Ivy Will Be A Star Entertainment News
Mathew Knowles is absolutely captured by his 6-year-old granddaughter Blue Ivy. So much that he believes that she’ll be a star just like her mom Beyoncé and dad Jay-Z. In an interview with Us Weekly, Knowles gushed all about his granddaughter saying, “Blue Ivy is a star. She is just a star. She reminds me a lot of Beyoncé and Solange when they were that age.” If Blue Ivy wanted to become a singer/rapper like her aunt and parents, Knowles also known as Papa G to his grandchildren would be all for it as long as it’s what she wants. “I would support anything and everything. I only have one criteria: Is that your passion? Is that the thing that excites you when you go to bed at night and you can’t wait until the next day,” expressed Knowles. “If it is your passion, then you have a huge chance of being successful. It can’t be what I want or what your mother and father want. It needs
to be what you want to do. So if that was [her] passion, absolutely, I would be all for it.” From a young age, Knowles said his daughters knew their passion and what they wanted to do. Both he and Tina Knowles helped push the girls in the directions of their passions. “I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age. Then, we surrounded them with the tools that they needed, likewise to a number of parents,” explained Knowles. “That’s what parenting is all about. At a very young age, they knew that they wanted to be in the music industry and to perform. That’s what they’ve done, starting at 4, 5 years old.” He’s still crazy about their careers and knows that his daughters will continue to grow in their music. “I would think Beyoncé will be the greatest female artist of all time,” said Knowles. “Solange will be one of the greatest entertainers of all time.”
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The Righteous Brothers, widely considered one of the greatest duos in music history, will be joined by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap for a special night of definitive classic hits at “The Legends of Blue-Eyed Soul and Rock ‘N’ Roll” concert Saturday, April 28, at the historic California Theater of the Performing Arts in San Bernardino. Today’s Righteous Brothers are headed by co-founder Bill Medley and Bucky Heard, who replaced founding co-member Bobby Hatfield, who died in 2003. On tour away from their regular schedule at Harrah’s Las Vegas, the group returns to Southern California, where Medley and Hatfield originally formed The Paramours in Orange County in 1962. That pairing became the Righteous Brothers in 1964 and led to performances opening for both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on their first U.S. tours, as well as a contract with legendary music producer Phil Spector. It was Spector who coined the term “blue eyed soul” in describing the Righteous Brothers’ soulful style. As the only white vocal group recording on Spector’s label, the Righteous Brothers’ unmistakable sound was distinct from any of his other artists. Gary Puckett and The Union Gap brought a similar depth and emotion to the music scene later in the 1960s. The blockbuster concert is presented by Affordable Music Productions. Tickets are currently available by calling 1-888-7184253 or online at www.affordablemusicproductions.com.
There are no service fees for tickets. The show begins at 7 p.m. Both groups parlayed their style to skyrocket up the Billboard charts during the 1960s and ’70s. The Righteous Brothers’ signature hit, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” remains the most-played song in radio history. With a string of No. 1 classics, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers topped the charts over four decades with “Soul and Inspiration,” “Unchained Melody,” “Rock and Roll Heaven” and Medley’s Grammywinning “Dirty Dancing” theme song, “The Time of My Life,” which he recorded with Jennifer Warnes. Medley remains one of the most iconic figures in American music history, while Hatfield’s successor, Heard, is a distinctly popular and versatile performer in his own right. Gary Puckett and The Union Gap earned six consecutive gold records and sold more records in 1968 than any other recording act, including The Beatles. Puckett also is one of the few artists whose first five recordings achieved gold status. The group’s first hit single, “Woman Woman,” was followed by gold records in “Young Girl,” “Lady Willpower” “Over You,” “Don’t Give in to Him” and “This Girl is a Woman Now.” One of those songs, “Young Girl,” reached the top of the UK charts twice – originally in 1968 and again when it was re-released six years later. The California Theater of the Performing Arts is located at 562 W. 4th St. in San Bernardino. For more information, contact Don Goethals at (951) 317-2155 or affordablemusicproductions@aol.com.
Gallup: Weekly Catholic church attendance in decadelong decline
“We are an Easter people. And Alleluia is our cry.” - St. Augustine Life is so beautiful. The glories of every sunrise, every sunset, every full moon, every starlit sky. The joy of all those children, neighbors, the Earth, our pets, our friends, the sense of accomplishment or congratulations for a job well done, that A on that test. And, life is so hard. So, so much to do. There are bills to pay, schedules to keep, prayers to say, work and chores to do, places to go, school, church, family matters, friends, our pets, our children, our neighbors, our earth. Life: So hard and so beautiful. One must treasure all these things, as the beauty cannot be appreciated without the hard work. The hard work’s reward is the joy and beauty we see and experience every day. Life: Not to be squandered or wasted. Each moment of the hard stuff and the beautiful stuff is a treasure. The cumulative experience of all these things is how we will be remembered when we are gone. Life: So precarious. Accidents, crime, poor health, unsafe living conditions, risk and adventure, carelessness, mistakes, violence, temptation, lack of housing, food, health care. So many ways for things to go wrong and for life to be replaced by death. And, despite all our knowledge and all the resources we have in this great country, we are not helping ourselves. We continue to allow the ravages of gun violence and the opioid crisis to take our loved ones. Mass shootings and over doses are becoming the norm. Our collective desensitization to these human- borne tragedies is the hallmark by which this generation will be remembered if we do not begin to make some changes today. Thoughts and prayers are not enough.
“Why Don’t You Practice What You Preach?” By: Lou Yeboah
By Daniel Uria
Lou Yeboah
A woman holds a Crucifix as the choir sings at the Way of the Cross event on March 30 in New York City. A Gallup study found that Catholic church attendance in the United States has been on a steady decline in the last decade. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
April 9 (UPI) -- Weekly church attendance among Catholics in the United States has been on a steep and steady decline over the past decade, Gallup data released Monday indicate. Gallup's data found an average of 39 percent of Catholics reported attending church within the past seven days between 2014 and 2017, compared with 45 percent from 2005 to 2008. Within the same period of time, weekly church attendance among Protestants -- defined by Gallup as people who identify as Christian, Protestant or any specific Protestant faith -- remained relatively unchanged, declining by about 1 point to 45 percent. The largest decrease in weekly church attendance among Catholics occurred between the 1950s and 1970s when it fell from nearly 75 percent to less than 50 percent. Following this decline, which was driven primarily by younger Catholics, 49 percent of Catholics older than 60 reported attending church weekly between 2014 to 2017. "In particular, older Catholics have become less likely to report attending church in the past seven days -- so that now, for the
first time, a majority of Catholics in no generational group attend weekly," Gallup said. Young people -- between the ages of 21 and 29 -- remain the least likely to attend church weekly in either group at 25 percent among Catholics and 36 percent among Protestants. The 21 to 29 age group was also the least likely to report an affiliation with any religion, with 33 percent identifying with no religion and 14 percent selecting "other." Despite the decrease in weekly attendance most respondents reported attending church at least semi-regularly with majorities of most age groups stating they attend church once a week, every week or once a month. The youngest age group among both Protestants and Catholics was the one exception, as the majority specified they seldom or never attended church. The data for the survey was compiled from multiple Gallup surveys conducted near the middle of each decade beginning in 1955. During the surveys Catholic sample sizes ranged from 1,188 to 4,295 and Protestant sample sizes from 2,649 to 11,656.
As you read this, it will have been a week since roughly one million people marched across the country to increase awareness and prompt action to stop gun violence. Perhaps this mobilization, which was led by the youth of America, will motivate our legislators to act with courage and conviction. This is not about violating second amendment rights, it is about saving lives - and it is about time! To keep the momentum going, please reach out to your elected officials now. It’s not just gun violence that is killing us. There are more cases of drug overdoses in the USA than gun deaths. At the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries, we have begun the process of researching and writing a resolution for the 32nd General Synod that will address the opioid crisis and drug overdoses in this country. You are invited to assist with the process and cosponsor the resolution. Email chhsmpublic@chhsm.org if you would like to shape the language around this initiative. It is about time we stop killing ourselves with guns and drugs. It is also about time we stop killing ourselves through domestic violence, LGBTQ violence, human trafficking, poor self- care and all the other ways that we abuse the gift of life that God has granted us. It is also time to focus on mental health issues, depression and suicide and all the other social justice issues that are affecting our society negatively. We have been blessed by the action of our youth in response to gun violence. Now, let’s use that energy to keep the movement going and to allow it to progress to other important issues. Easter is the time of year we think about Resurrection and when we remember to say Alleluja. So, there is hope and there is time and it is about time. Alleluja!
You hypocrite! The Bible teaches us that it is vital to our witness of the Gospel to live what we preach, or we will bring reproach on the Word of God! You ought to know that God takes seriously the call to practice what we preach! Instead of just talking the talk, why won’t you walk the walk! Pretending to be something that you are not! Saying one thing and then doing the opposite. Acting one way in a certain setting and then acting another way in a different setting! I tell you, before you practice preaching, you had better practice what you preach. We are the body of Christ for the world and our integrity of faith is on the line. Therefore, it is very important that as Christians, we follow the example of Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter where we are or who we are with. The words we speak and the things we do should always reflect our faith. But naw, you are good at telling other people what they should do and how they should live, but you fail to follow your own instructions. No wonder Jesus told the crowds and his disciples to do what the Pharisees and the scribes teach them to do, “but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach” [Matthew 23:3]. I want you to know that nothing kills credibility faster than not practicing what is preached. But this is nothing new. A long time ago, in the nation of Israel, the priests of the old covenant
were under the same obligation, to practice what they preached. When they failed to live up to the message they were teaching, God sent the prophet Malachi to “remind” them. “You have turned aside from the way and have caused many to falter by your instruction” [Malachi 2:8]. They were not practicing what they preached, and God was watching. He warned them to return to their faith, lest He should turn their blessing into a curse! It is a very strong message. Not only to priest, preachers, deacons, teachers and their families; it applies to every Christian alike. Listen, Christ as the master teacher taught his disciples not only by Word but by example [John 13:15]. He demonstrated by His living how we should live before our heavenly Father. To understand the importance of learning to practice what you preach, British-born American writer Edgar A. Guest wrote: “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day, I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way. The eye’s a better pupil and more willing that the ear; Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear; and the best of all preachers are the men who live their creeds, for to see the good in action is what everybody needs. I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done. I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run. And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true; but I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do. For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give, but there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.” Practice what you preach! “We are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.” [Matthew 5:14]. “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says! [James 1:22]
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Inland Empire 18th Annual Pastors Breakfast, & Cooperative Economic Empowerment Movement By John Coleman
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Minister Al Hollingsworth and his wife. SAN BERNARDINO, CA Bayless Conley, Pastor of Cottonwood Church of Los Alamitos, CA served as Keynote Speaker for
the 18th Annual I E Pastors Breakfast , at the National Show Event Center, April 7, 2018. Former Assembly Member,
Washington Supreme Court Is First in Nation to Adopt Rule to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias in Jury Selection New Rule Addresses Failings of U.S. Supreme Court Decision Local/National News
SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court on April 5 became the first court in the nation to adopt a court rule aimed at eliminating both implicit and intentional racial bias in jury selection. General Rule 37 will take effect at the end of April and will apply to all jury trials, civil and criminal, throughout the state. The rule will expand the prohibition against using race based peremptory challenges during jury selection. Not only is intentional race discrimination outlawed, but also challenges based on “implicit, institutional, and unconscious” race and ethnic biases will now be rejected. “For decades in Washington state, many people of color have been blocked from participating fully in our democracy as jurors for reasons unrelated to their ability to serve,” said ACLU-WA senior staff attorney Nancy Talner. “This groundbreaking rule for jury selection will reduce the damage done by racial and ethnic bias to the integrity of our judicial system and to communities of color.” During jury selection, each side can use peremptory challenges or strikes to exclude particular jurors without giving a reason. Since a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision (in Batson v. Kentucky), these challenges can be objected to if the other side suspects that the motive for the exclusion is intentional racial discrimination. With the new rule, these objections to peremptory challenges will no longer be restricted to instances of purposeful discrimination but can also be used if an “objective observer” could view race or ethnicity as a factor in use of the peremptory strike. The rule specifies that an objective observer is someone “aware that implicit, institutional, and unconscious biases, in addition to purposeful discrimination, have resulted in the unfair exclusion of potential jurors in Washington state.” Full text of the rule is available at https://www.courts.wa.gov/content/publicUpload/ Supreme%20Court%20Orders/ GR37.pdf. Since the 1986 decision in Batson, peremptory strikes, when challenged on the basis of race discrimination, are often defended with reasons that historically have been associated with racial bias. These reasons include having prior contact with law enforcement officers, expressing a
belief that law enforcement engages in racial profiling, having a close relationship with people who have been stopped, arrested, or convicted of a crime, living in a high-crime neighborhood, receiving state benefits, and not being a native English speaker. Demeanor-based justifications for exclusion are also invalid absent corroboration, because, as ACLU-WA Cooperating Attorney Lila Silverstein explains, “such justifications are often borne of implicit biases and have historically been used to exclude potential jurors of color. The new rule directly confronts this problem.” “The court has recognized that the fair and impartial administration of justice requires changing the conversation about racial and ethnic bias in our courtrooms. It has expressly acknowledged the insidious role of implicit and structural bias, and reasons previously considered as acceptable for excluding a juror will now be rejected for their association with bias,” said the ACLU-WA’s Nancy Talner. Jeffery Robinson, deputy legal director for the ACLU, added, “By acknowledging the harms done to communities of color, the court has taken a giant step toward building trust in the legal system.” Adoption of the rule builds on the court’s leadership in sponsoring a symposium about jury diversity in Washington state in May 2017. At the symposium, an African American woman who had been excluded from serving on a jury explained how distressing the experience had been (see https://www.tvw.org/watch/ ?eventID=2017051090). Her moving testimony conveyed the devastating effects of racial bias in jury selection on communities of color. The rule was originally drafted several years ago by ACLU attorneys Robinson, Talner, and La Rond Baker, along with cooperating attorneys Salvador Mungia, Silverstein, Jim Lobsenz, and David Zuckerman. Support for the rule grew, and several organizations earlier this year served on a working group at the request of the court to fine-tune the language, with key contributions from working-group participants Sara Ainsworth and Taki Flevaris. (continued in next column)
Former Assembly Member, Cheryl Brown, Board of Supervisors Member, Josie Gonzales, & City of Fontana Mayor, Acquanetta Warren Photos by John Coleman <jcoleman.media@gmail.com> Cheryl Brown, Board of Supervisors Member, Josie Gonzales, & City of Fontana Mayor, Acquanetta Warren were among a number of dignitaries on stage to receive the "18th Annual Pastors Prayer Breakfast 'Spirit of Excellence Award'". Pastor Devo & Mrs Donna Martin served as Master of Ceremonies. The following are the awardees: Minister Al Hollingsworth, accompanied by Mrs Hollingsworth, received special Recognition & Commendation Kiana Webb, in the absence of her father, Reggie Webb leader of the McDonalds Corporation-Black McDonalds Franchise Owners Association, who was out of State on business, re-
Washington Supreme Court Is First in Nation to Adopt Rule to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias in Jury Selection...continued Working group members were the ACLU, the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legal Voice, the Loren Miller Bar Association, the Latino/a Bar Association of Washington, and the Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law. Their united efforts were critical to the passage of this historic rule. For the text of General Rule 37, see: https://www.courts.wa.gov/ content/publicUpload/ Supreme%20Court%20Orders/ GR37.pdf ACLU of Washington https://www.aclu-wa.org This press release is available here: https://www.aclu.org/news/ washington-supreme-court-firstnation-adopt-rule-reduce-implicit-racial-bias-jury-selection
They get younger every day Local /National News
It appears that politics is no longer a game for the old, the wise and the sage, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. Take Ethan Sonneborn who would be governor of Vermont one day soon, if he has his way. The 13-year-old eighth grader from Bristol, VT has put his hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination for the highest elected position in that state. There are no age restrictions for candidates in that state, but Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos there may be in the future. Does the kid have a chance? Conor Casey, the state’s Democratic Party Executive Director, says that having to go to school while on the campaign trail is the biggest challenge the boy faces. And then there is the fact that he’s too young to have a drivers’ license.
ported on the progress of the 'Inland Empire Cooperative Economic Empowerment Movement', (CEEM), a Black community business-ownership movement in the I E. She invited Black churches to learn more about CEEM at CEEM-IE.com. The Pastors Prayer Breakfast was a large & well attended event that included churches & congregations from surrounding counties, & travel of over 100 miles for some. The Ecclesia Church 'Worship Team opened the program. Keynote Speaker, Pastor Conley, empathised unity despite difference in his remarks . He ended by inviting the attendees to come together with people seated nearby, in 'prayer circles'..
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San Bernardino Superior Court Celebrates Collaborative Justice Court Month Local News SAN BERNARDINO, CA—In celebration of National Drug Court Month, the Superior Court of San Bernardino County will host its 8th Annual Collaborative Justice Court Month celebration on Friday, May 18, 2018, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the San Bernardino Justice Center, Jury Room, located at 247 W. Third Street, San Bernardino. Collaborative justice courts, also known as problem-solving courts, promote accountability by combining judicial supervision with rigorously monitored rehabilitation services and treatment in lieu of detention. In San Bernardino County, the Superior Court is one part of the team which includes representatives from communitybased providers, the District Attorney’s Office, Public Defender’s Office, Probation Department, Sheriff’s Department and Department of Behavior Health. This multidisciplinary, non-adversarial team approach provides participants with a system of support through a range of incentives and sanctions aimed
at promoting and targeting longterm, sustainable, positive change. National Drug Court Month is coordinated by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. California currently has more than 420 collaborative justice courts, with San Bernardino having four court types: Drug-Adult, Drug-Juvenile Delinquency, Mental Health-Adult, and Veterans Treatment Court. The celebration will begin with opening remarks from Presiding Judge John P. Vander Feer, followed by a presentation made by Commissioner Ronald J. Gilbert to honor participants from the County Probation Department, District Attorney and Public Defender offices. Community partners and the public are encouraged to attend and hear about effective strategies aimed at reducing recidivism and the personal success stories of past participants. For any additional questions, please contact the Court Executive Office at 909-708-8747.
Equal Pay Day Statement from National Black Worker Center Project National News
Raleigh, NC (4/10/18)National Black Worker Center Project (NBWCP) Executive Director, Tanya Wallace-Gobern released the following statement in observation of Equal Pay Day: “Equal Pay Day marks a day of reflection on the economic injustices caused by racist and gender-biased wage gaps in the United States. By far, African American women have been hurt most by this systemic inequity that adds to a multi-dimensional job crisis that includes unemployment and low-wage work. “It is unacceptable that Black women working full time in the U.S. are paid just 63 cents for every dollar paid to their white, non-Hispanic male counter
parts. “Pay discrimination against Black women, in addition to being locked in a cycle of lower paying jobs, is another way to shut Black women out of upward economic mobility. This type of discrimination feeds the mischaracterization of Black women workers as outside the mainstream, lazy and indifferent, and unpolished in the workplace without recognizing our contributions. “On this Equal Pay Day, we must demand equal pay for equal work for Black women or face the risk of our peers falling further behind in an already racialized system. Black women cannot afford to fall further behind. The time for equal pay is now.”
Early childhood educators learn new ways to spot trauma triggers, build resiliency in preschoolers...continued from page 2 12 locations across the city, according to its 2015/2016 annual report. Some teachers reported having difficulty managing challenging behaviors among somof the children, and wanted to learn new skills to better help them. A deeper look into the histories of those children revealed that many were living in communities heavily affected by violence and trauma. “A highly anxious child, a child that’s hard to calm down may have been up all night listening to gunshots,” says Jones, as an example of what a child in their preschool might be facing. Among the takeaways from Kurtz’s earlier training was that staff learned more about trauma caused by domestic violence, intergenerational trauma, and historical sources of trauma, such as “the impact of racism, its lingering effect in how it impacts people,” Jones says. Another adverse childhood experience that was clearly affecting some of the children they serve is homelessness. Three percent of the 648 families who have children in the organization’s preschool are homeless, according to the most recent annual report, a figure that Jones says may not accurately reflect the actual toll. Some families who have lost housing may have moved in with relatives, “but there’s lot of shame with that, so it’s underreported,” she says. To help children ensnared in such turmoil, Kurtz reviews some strategies about how to defuse a child who has been triggered into “fight, flight or freeze” mode. In the midst of a trigger, she explains, the world is dangerous, the child sees you “as a lion or a monster.” They can’t see you or hear you. Words don’t work. “How do they express themselves?” she queries. “They cry.” “They shake,” says another teacher. “They hit.” If they’re hitting, Kurtz says, “It is a sign they need to expel energy.” Then Kurtz pivots to some ways
to pull the preschoolers back to safety. It’s all about bringing them into the present moment. The teachers call out strategies to draw the child from the time warp of trauma to a designated safe space in the room: Have them throw a ball inside a box or crumple up paper and throw it in the trash. Kurtz ticks off other calming activities: Have them walk with you in nature, run, cry, squeeze Play Dough, color. To be able to lead a child away from a moment of terror, however, Kurtz reminds the teachers, is easier and more effective if the adults are actively managing stress in their own lives. In the second training session, Kurtz helped guide WuYee staff through exercises to recognize their own experiences with trauma and what triggers stress for them. Those participating were asked to identify what activities rejuvenate them, and were taught how to shift “self-talk” — the internal chatter that we all have in our heads in reaction to the world outside — from negative to affirming and kind. The tools provided in the selfcare session really struck a chord for Merced Rocha, a lead teacher at Wu Yee’s New Generation Center in Visitation Valley. “I lost my daughter to cancer 5 years ago,” says Rocha. She says she would give 100 percent in the classroom, “but when I’d go home, I’d shut down. The training helped me acknowledge my own emotions, and think about how I feel and take care of myself before I go to work.” That self-care plan included walking around a nearby lake, an activity she had stopped altogether when her daughter died. After reviewing the previous sessions, Kurtz walks participants through a series of exercises to help them develop plans tailored to the needs of children who have experienced trauma. A handout asks them to identify what triggers a child, where the trigger occurs and how to interact with the child based on whether she’s in fight, flight or freeze mode.
To highlight how expressing feelings may feel dangerous for a triggered child, for example, Kurtz recounted to the WuYee staff how she knew instinctively as a child that to stay safe and keep her brothers safe, they couldn’t show any emotions. ACEs science, she says in subsequent emails, “was foundational in my personal transformation.” It also sparked her interest in sharing what she learned with others. “When you heal yourself,” notes Kurtz, “you want to share the hope for others and carry a torch as a change agent.” (Got Your ACE Score?) Kurtz and her coworkers at WestEd have trained preschool teachers and other groups working with children from infants to 8-years-old all over California, including in Bay Area counties and Sacramento, Tehama, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. What’s included in trainings varies based on need, as does the cost, which Kurtz stresses they strive to make affordable and cost-effective. The Packard Foundation funded trainings that her group provided in Oakland. Following the training — which included around 65 WuYee staff members, including lead teachers, managers, mental health consultants and coaches — Jones says they’ll survey the participants to see what they’ve learned and figure out the next steps. The bottom line for much of the trauma training is finding ways for children to feel safe. It’s an endeavor, counsels Kurtz, that will likely take time. “If a child pushes me away, I have to show that I’m safe, and won’t reject him. Over time, it will build resiliency: ‘There’s an adult who makes me feel safe’ (the child will think). But,” she says, ”it won’t happen quickly.” If you’re interested in learning more about how individuals and communities are integrating trauma-informed and resiliencebuilding practices based on ACEs science, consider joining our companion social network, ACEs Connection.
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MLK50: FIFTY YEARS AFTER KERNER AND KING, RACISM STILL MATTERS
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By Derrick Johnson (President and CEO, National NAACP) “Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” –Report by the Kerner Commission, 1968
Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, says that today, many of America’s Black communities bear the sustained scars of physical and economic injuries. Fifty years ago, the nation was rocked by the brutal and public assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Eerily echoing the title of King’s final book “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, his murder sent a powerful shock wave through the soul of America resulting in urban rebellions springing up in over 100 cities and placing the nation at a political and social crossroads. As cities burned with rage at King’s murder, most of America had already dismissed and forgotten the damning and prophetic report published only a month earlier by the presidential commission chaired by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. Officially called the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the Kerner Commission identified systemic racism and poverty as the causes of the major Black rebellions in both Newark and Detroit the previous summer. The report warned that America was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal”
Federal investigators associated with the FBI and the Mueller investigation have raided the offices of President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and seized communications between Cohen and his clients. USA TODAY
and offered concrete suggestions for confronting immediately this “deepening racial division.” However, the Kerner Report’s recommendations for reconciliation and progress were never heeded; in fact, they were actively disregarded. Despite commissioning the report, President Lyndon B. Johnson went out of his way to suppress the spread of its findings. The consequences have been severe: “Whereas the Kerner Commission called for ‘massive and sustained’ investment in economic, employment and education initiatives, over the last 50 years America has pursued ‘massive and sustained’ incarceration framed as ‘law and order,’ while the ‘war on drugs’ has failed,” says a new book, “Healing Our Divided Society,” co-edited by former Sen. Fred Harris, the sole surviving member of the Kerner Commission. Today, many of America’s Black communities bear the sustained scars of physical and economic injuries. Even in Baltimore, the headquartered home of the NAACP, communities are still reeling from the police-custody death of Freddie Gray. The deaths of Black Americans like Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, and, most recently, Stephon Clark—shot eight times by police in his own backyard—remind us we are still
not seen as full-citizens by many in our nation. In our recent Economic Inclusion Reports on Baltimore, Charlotte and St. Louis—three cities impacted by protests and revolts linked to police violence and misconduct—the NAACP noted “similarities between the past economic realities of African Americans during Reconstruction and legalized racism and the current economic realities more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery and promise of freedom.” Our reports expose that African Americans are “still living in highly segregated communities and school districts, comprising the lowest median household income, highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate, and ongoing barriers to the creation of small businesses.” For example, the mid-2000 housing crisis caused by Wall Street excesses led to trillions of dollars in bailouts and the decimation of major portions of African American wealth—wrapped up in their foreclosed homes. This recession removed huge swaths of intergenerational wealth and many families have yet to recover. As the leader of the oldest and largest civil rights organization, I recognize the temporal connection between America’s past and present identities. Our country
has let the pestilent wound caused by a continuing legacy of racism fester. This chronic condition is aggravated by the oftensilent progressives who still cannot grasp the stark emotional reality of what partial freedom feels like to a full human being. In his commencement address to Oberlin College in 1965, King said, “We must face the honest fact that we still have a long, long way to go before the problem of racial injustice is solved.” Half a century after Kerner’s report and King’s assassination, our government continues to perpetuate an unacceptable level of systemic and structural racism, which permeates our communities and fuels our protest. As we remember King and Kerner, we will not do so in solemn reflection, but instead with resolve. We commit to making the social and political healing America has continued to defer become a reality. The progress for which NAACP members fight rings in harmony with the Kerner Commission’s unapologetic condemnation of White America’s failure to make democracy real for all of us. Derrick Johnson is the president and CEO of the NAACP, America’s largest civil rights organization. Follow him on Twitter @DerrickNAACP.
The news that the FBI raided the offices of President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen Monday caused many people to wonder how such a raid could be justified given the protections afforded under attorney-client privilege. "If by raiding the office of @realDonaldTrump's attorney, the @fbi violated Trump's attorney-client privilege, this is about to get really ugly," tweeted conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Right-wing commentator Kurt Schlichter said "federal agents are stealing and reading communications between an attorney and his client" and radio host Buck Sexton said, "Attorney client privilege is apparently meaningless in this era of get Trump at all costs." But former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman said the way the FBI handled the raid actually showed the seriousness with which the Department of Justice treats material that might be protected by attorney-client privilege. "It’s very unusual for the Department of Justice to permit prosecutors to raid an attorney’s office and that’s because you want to be careful not to get privileged material," said Litman, who teaches at the UCLA School of
Law and continues to practice at the law firm Constantine Cannon. The only way the prosecution would be permitted to examine any material that might otherwise fall under the attorney-client umbrella is if it is determined to be part of a crime jointly undertaken by the attorney and the client. But for the privilege to be nullified, Litman said the taint team would have to get the approval of the court to present the material to the prosecution. Another reason raids on attorney's offices are rare is that they can easily come back to haunt the prosecution. "If you go to the attorney’s office and you look at attorney-client privileged material by mistake, you’re in a world of hurt," Litman said. "You’re going to get disqualified from the whole matter and the whole prosecution could go down the tubes." And if the potentially privileged material is challenged, the burden of proof is on the prosecutors to show that they made "zero use of privileged material" and their investigation was not in any way influenced by it. "Then, if you lose that fight, it's quite possible that anybody who's seen that document is off the case," Litman said. "So, you’re playing with fire."
New Ad Campaign Exposes Billionaires’ Agenda to Divert Money from Neighborhood Public Schools and Spend Millions in California Elections Kids Not Profits coalition calls on voters to support equity, accountability and transparency for all schools; Legislation set for hearings this week Educational News
SACRAMENTO – Today, Kids Not Profits, a coalition of educators, parents and civil rights, labor and community groups, launched a new round of radio ads as part of an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and expose a group of out-of-state billionaires and their coordinated education agenda. This agenda is two-pronged, both working to divert money out of neighborhood public schools and into their corporate charter schools, as well as impacting legislators and legislation that allows them to continue to operate charter schools without the accountability and transparency of traditional public schools. The ads start as lawmakers in Sacramento are set to begin hearing proposed measures that would ensure equal access, accountability and transparency in all California schools. Part of the Betsy DeVos donor network, these billionaires have spent tens of millions of dollars, contributing directly to state and local candidates, and funding independent expenditure committees to bring their narrow education agenda to California. The billionaires highlighted on KidsNotProfits.com have spent more than $36 million dollars to influence races across California since 2016. The independent expenditure committees include those controlled by EdVoice and the California Charter Schools Association Advocates. These billionaires are in lock step with President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and their plans to defund and privatize public schools. The Walton Family Foundation, of which both Jim Walton and Alice Walton are actively involved with, has given millions of dollars to committees associated with DeVos. “Californians need to be aware of the dangers and the big money these billionaires are spending to push their education agenda on us and to use students for their own profit,” said Eric
Heins, president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association. “Educators, parents and civil rights activists will continue to push for accountability and transparency of these privately-run charter schools so that every child has the same access and protections. We want to ensure taxpayer dollars are being spent on students and not lost to waste, fraud and abuse as proven by recent headlines and reports.” Kids Not Profits is supporting three bills this legislative cycle which are being discussed by lawmakers beginning this week. Kids Not Profits is asking voters to contact lawmakers and urge them to support these bills: AB 276 requires all charter schools to be transparent and accountable to parents and to disclose how they spend taxpayer money, including budgets and contracts. It prohibits charter school board members and their families from profiting from their schools and requires charter schools to comply with California’s open meetings, open records and conflict of interest laws. AB 1871 helps ensure that charter schools – as part of our system of public education – provides fair access to school meals to all students, regardless of socio-economic status. More than 340,000 low-income students attend California charter schools. Unlike all other low-income public-school students, they are not protected by the existing state law that grants students in need access to school meals. SB 1362 improves student access to charter schools while providing more local control to communities. The bill requires charter school petitions to describe how they will serve a balance of pupils receiving special education, reflective of the general population residing within the school district. Kids Not Profits launched in 2016. For more information about Kids Not Profits, visit www.KidsNotProfits.com.