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It’s written by \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/communication-journalism/josh-kun\">Josh Kun\u003c/a>, an associate professor at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So much of what we try to do in the book is use restaurants as a way to think about the kind of layered histories of Los Angeles,\" Kun says, \"what’s been built over constantly, whose stories have been erased to build new stories on top of those, how every single space that we enter bears the traces of all the spaces that came before it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643254\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"Menu cover from the Golden Pagoda restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-400x628.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-800x1256.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-1440x2261.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-1180x1853.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-960x1508.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu cover from the Golden Pagoda restaurant. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10643259 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-1440x1134.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-960x756.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autographs fill the Golden Pagoda menu. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evan Kleiman, a chef and the host of KCRW’s weekly radio show \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/good-food\">Good Food\u003c/a>, remembers one such restaurant from her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matchbook-Cover-Casa-De-Ibarra-Los-Angeles-CA-Mexican-Food/400970592084?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29981%26meid%3D0c126acd1eb4490aa684a12653694f2a%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D121690843142\">Casa de Ibarra\u003c/a>,\" she recalls. \"And it was the place where I learned how to tuck my leftover food into a flour tortilla and roll it up. One of the waiters there taught me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a hipster taqueria called \u003ca href=\"http://www.diablotaco.com/\">Diablo Urban Taco Fabricator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And before that, when I was a teenager, it was a place called Temple of the Rainbow, where I learned how to make carrot smoothies and bake bread that weighed 20 pounds per loaf,” Kleiman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos from the library’s archives of old LA restaurants line the walls of the exhibit. The photos include fancy French restaurants and taco trucks, and such establishments as Forbidden Palace Chinese Food, Daddy Grants Old Time Pit Barbecue, and Don the Beachcomber’s tiki bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menus are a feast for the eyes. There are about 50 of them housed in glass display cases, and about 200 in the book. They have old-timey letterpress fonts, vintage illustrations, and list offerings like avocado filled with fresh seafood and Thousand Island dressing. They were pulled from the LA Public Library’s collection of 12,000 menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Menus tell a story of a city,\" says John Szabo, the city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. \"And to know LA, you need to know food in LA, and you need to know about dining in LA, and that’s one of the things that our menu collection does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the outset, Kun reached out to chefs to collaborate on the project, including \u003ca href=\"http://kogibbq.com/\">Kogi\u003c/a> founder Roy Choi. The exhibit includes video screens playing interviews with some of those chefs, including Bricia Lopez of Guelaguetza, and Cynthia Hawkins, owner of Hawkins House of Burgers in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not that many places you can eat really good quality food in Watts. I’m just being honest with you,” Hawkins \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/130594078\">says in the video\u003c/a>. “Maybe a good restaurant would come here, but it’s really sad to say that there’s not that many places in Watts that people can eat really good, quality food, and that’s so sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the themes of the project: food inequality. Los Angeles County has more people who lack access to healthy food than \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/ha/reports/LAHealthBrief2011/FoodInsecurity/Food_Insecurity_2015Fs.pdf\">any other county\u003c/a> in the U.S. And as rising rent prices push immigrant families out of some neighborhoods, Kun says new restaurants mark those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a restaurant can open up in a working class neighborhood with $25 appetizers and survive, what does that mean?\" Kun asks. \"It sends a message that, like, hey, it’s OK, come on in, water’s warm, and opens the floodgates in a lot of ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Grand Central Market in downtown LA. It’s a food court where \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/at-grand-central-market-a-new-wave-of-vendors-is-changing-up-an-la-mainstay-5016013\">a lot of upscale places\u003c/a> are opening up, including a juice bar, an oyster bar and a fancy cheese shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I don’t really like to call it gentrified because I don’t think that’s what it is. It’s not coming to a neighborhood that didn’t have this kind of history,” says Micah Wexler, owner of Wexler’s Deli. “Downtown was at one time a very vibrant, celebrated place, and we’re trying to bring it back to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg\" alt=\"Menu cover from the Brown Derby restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-400x522.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-1440x1878.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-1180x1539.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-960x1252.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu cover from the Brown Derby restaurant. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"A Brown Derby menu from September 1953.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-1440x923.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-1180x756.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-960x615.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Brown Derby menu from September 1953. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the book, Kun invited chefs to “remix” old menus and give them a modern spin. Wexler chose the menu for a 1931 banquet to honor Albert Einstein at the Ambassador Hotel, featuring an item called “Chicken Saute Ambassador.” Wexler had to research how such a dish would have been prepared. Turns out, it was served in a white wine cream sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the exhibit there’s also a pile of blank menus on which visitors can describe their version of Los Angeles in a meal. Kun says he knew that given the scope of this project, it would be impossible to represent every story in the history of food in LA. These crowd-sourced menus are his effort to let people of all backgrounds leave their own mark on this story. And it shows that the food of LA continues to evolve, just like the city itself.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles has a rich culinary history, due to the waves of immigrants who settled in Southern California and brought their food traditions with them. The restaurants they opened can tell us a lot about how people use food to shape their own identities of community, culture and class. A new book and exhibit of old LA restaurant menus reveals how the city has evolved, through food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219661319&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219661319'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Library Foundation of Los Angeles is presenting the exhibit, called “\u003ca href=\"http://toliveanddinela.com/\">To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City\u003c/a>,” in the Getty Gallery at the Los Angeles Central Library until Nov. 13. There’s also a new coffee table book of the same name. It’s written by \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/communication-journalism/josh-kun\">Josh Kun\u003c/a>, an associate professor at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So much of what we try to do in the book is use restaurants as a way to think about the kind of layered histories of Los Angeles,\" Kun says, \"what’s been built over constantly, whose stories have been erased to build new stories on top of those, how every single space that we enter bears the traces of all the spaces that came before it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643254\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"Menu cover from the Golden Pagoda restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-400x628.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-800x1256.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-1440x2261.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-1180x1853.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16358_GoldenPagoda_MenuFront-LDLApg159-qut-1_RESIZED-960x1508.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu cover from the Golden Pagoda restaurant. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10643259 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-1440x1134.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16356_GoldenPagoda_MenuInteriorAutographs-LDLA-qut_RESIZED-960x756.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autographs fill the Golden Pagoda menu. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evan Kleiman, a chef and the host of KCRW’s weekly radio show \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/good-food\">Good Food\u003c/a>, remembers one such restaurant from her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matchbook-Cover-Casa-De-Ibarra-Los-Angeles-CA-Mexican-Food/400970592084?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29981%26meid%3D0c126acd1eb4490aa684a12653694f2a%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D121690843142\">Casa de Ibarra\u003c/a>,\" she recalls. \"And it was the place where I learned how to tuck my leftover food into a flour tortilla and roll it up. One of the waiters there taught me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a hipster taqueria called \u003ca href=\"http://www.diablotaco.com/\">Diablo Urban Taco Fabricator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And before that, when I was a teenager, it was a place called Temple of the Rainbow, where I learned how to make carrot smoothies and bake bread that weighed 20 pounds per loaf,” Kleiman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos from the library’s archives of old LA restaurants line the walls of the exhibit. The photos include fancy French restaurants and taco trucks, and such establishments as Forbidden Palace Chinese Food, Daddy Grants Old Time Pit Barbecue, and Don the Beachcomber’s tiki bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menus are a feast for the eyes. There are about 50 of them housed in glass display cases, and about 200 in the book. They have old-timey letterpress fonts, vintage illustrations, and list offerings like avocado filled with fresh seafood and Thousand Island dressing. They were pulled from the LA Public Library’s collection of 12,000 menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Menus tell a story of a city,\" says John Szabo, the city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. \"And to know LA, you need to know food in LA, and you need to know about dining in LA, and that’s one of the things that our menu collection does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the outset, Kun reached out to chefs to collaborate on the project, including \u003ca href=\"http://kogibbq.com/\">Kogi\u003c/a> founder Roy Choi. The exhibit includes video screens playing interviews with some of those chefs, including Bricia Lopez of Guelaguetza, and Cynthia Hawkins, owner of Hawkins House of Burgers in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not that many places you can eat really good quality food in Watts. I’m just being honest with you,” Hawkins \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/130594078\">says in the video\u003c/a>. “Maybe a good restaurant would come here, but it’s really sad to say that there’s not that many places in Watts that people can eat really good, quality food, and that’s so sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the themes of the project: food inequality. Los Angeles County has more people who lack access to healthy food than \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/ha/reports/LAHealthBrief2011/FoodInsecurity/Food_Insecurity_2015Fs.pdf\">any other county\u003c/a> in the U.S. And as rising rent prices push immigrant families out of some neighborhoods, Kun says new restaurants mark those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a restaurant can open up in a working class neighborhood with $25 appetizers and survive, what does that mean?\" Kun asks. \"It sends a message that, like, hey, it’s OK, come on in, water’s warm, and opens the floodgates in a lot of ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Grand Central Market in downtown LA. It’s a food court where \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/at-grand-central-market-a-new-wave-of-vendors-is-changing-up-an-la-mainstay-5016013\">a lot of upscale places\u003c/a> are opening up, including a juice bar, an oyster bar and a fancy cheese shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I don’t really like to call it gentrified because I don’t think that’s what it is. It’s not coming to a neighborhood that didn’t have this kind of history,” says Micah Wexler, owner of Wexler’s Deli. “Downtown was at one time a very vibrant, celebrated place, and we’re trying to bring it back to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg\" alt=\"Menu cover from the Brown Derby restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-400x522.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-1440x1878.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-1180x1539.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16359_BrownDerby_LuncheonMenu-LDLApg068-qut_RESIZED1-960x1252.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu cover from the Brown Derby restaurant. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10643429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"A Brown Derby menu from September 1953.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-1440x923.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-1180x756.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16360_BrownDerby_17Sep1953-LDLApg021-qut_RESIZED-960x615.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Brown Derby menu from September 1953. \u003ccite>(The Library Foundation of Los Angeles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the book, Kun invited chefs to “remix” old menus and give them a modern spin. Wexler chose the menu for a 1931 banquet to honor Albert Einstein at the Ambassador Hotel, featuring an item called “Chicken Saute Ambassador.” Wexler had to research how such a dish would have been prepared. Turns out, it was served in a white wine cream sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the exhibit there’s also a pile of blank menus on which visitors can describe their version of Los Angeles in a meal. Kun says he knew that given the scope of this project, it would be impossible to represent every story in the history of food in LA. These crowd-sourced menus are his effort to let people of all backgrounds leave their own mark on this story. And it shows that the food of LA continues to evolve, just like the city itself.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On August 11, 1965, in South Los Angeles, the neighborhood of Watts exploded into \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqhfZV-cms\" target=\"_blank\">six days of rioting\u003c/a> fueled by years of police misconduct, diminishing economic opportunity and flat-out racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end, 34 people were dead and dozens of blocks of the community burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's 50th anniversary of the revolt, as many locals prefer to call it, was marked with a solemn remembrance and a joyful celebration at the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WattsSummerFestival\" target=\"_blank\">Watts Summer Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218765683&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event arose from the destruction of 1965 and kicked off the following year with the hope of channeling the community's anger into music, the arts and activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Watkins Memorial Park had its own role during those tumultuous days in the summer of ’65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was here, I was 5-years-old when it happened,” says Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson. She grew up and still lives across from the park on 103rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This park you’re standing in right now was the base for the National Guard, and we couldn’t come out after a certain time because we had a curfew,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the riots, 103rd Street was a vibrant commercial hub. Henderson’s mother had a shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So her store was the only one that didn’t get burned,\" she recalls. \"My dad got shot in the riots. There used to be a grocery store that sits on the corner. And I remember that store exploding while we were standing in the front yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a struggle to keep the annual festival going, Henderson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park could easily accommodate several thousand people, only a few hundred mill around on a picture postcard sunny Southern California afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an older crowd, filled with people who share vivid memories of '65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638058\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1440x920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I got arrested,” Amen Rahh tells the crowd from the festival stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You understand, I was a political prisoner in juvenile hall for 45 days,” says Rahh, a retired black studies professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh also grew up in Watts and as a young man took part in what he prefers to call the rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Rahh how he would he advise his much younger self if he could go back in time. Would he try to persuade that kid to stay inside, to pull his friends away from the violence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d do the same thing,\" he answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had to be done to develop a better-respecting relationship with law enforcement. It just didn’t go far enough to the total criminal justice system,” says Rahh, referring to both past and very recent high-profile police-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh says while the destruction and loss of life 50 years ago was regrettable, it also inspired activism that led to the creation of a community hospital, youth centers, health clinics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was a love and respect for each other after the rebellion,” says Rahh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he adds, “But you got to understand, the Watts that used to be has changed and it’s mostly an immigrant city now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black residents moved out after the riots. Thousands more left in the following decades as gang violence surged and crack cocaine flooded neighborhoods. Affordable housing was built north of L.A. in the Antelope Valley and east in the blue-collar suburbs of the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, there has been some change for the better in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, in 2005, there were 20 murders in Watts. There have been none so far this year. Police foot patrols have increased in troubled parts of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for public projects continues to be plowed into the community, including a new children’s center designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson says the economy has never fully rebounded. There are few retail businesses and just one independently owned non fast-food restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go shopping you got to go outside the area,” says Henderson. “Everywhere around Watts has been built up, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Compton, everywhere has built up around us and we’re still kind of like stagnated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other problems also persist: gang violence, high unemployment and a quiet tension between many black and newer Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedangerman.com/\">Dangerman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A real-life urban superhero,” says the man who calls himself Dangerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed head to toe in a sky blue superhero outfit and matching face mask, actor-comedian Roger Tinsley created Dangerman about 20 years ago to promote literacy, safety and good nutrition among youth in low-income minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much busier than ever because now we have kids every day dying,” says Tinsley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about Black Lives Matter. Well, not only do black lives matter when police are involved but black lives matter in our cities every day,” says Tinsley. “It’s a struggle every day for our young people in this country”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near a playground at the edge of the festival a group of kids gather around a charismatic young poet named \u003ca href=\"http://www.yngrobb.webs.com/\">Robert Williams\u003c/a>. He was born a good 25 years after the Watts riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands the circumstances that sparked the unrest 50 years ago, he has a tough time making sense of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-400x280.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1440x1007.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-960x672.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Don’t burn down your own community. If you love your community then clean it up, stand up for it,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully the generation has changed where a lot of people can understand to take care instead of destroy. Let’s stick together and create something, let’s not just get together and destroy,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the festival stage, \u003ca href=\"http://www.expressyourself.net/\">Charles Wright\u003c/a> and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band tear through songs that made them local legends back in the mid-1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright jumps into the crowd for a sing-along on one of his biggest hits (later sampled by South L.A. rappers N.W.A) “Express Yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638067\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a celebratory moment on an otherwise grim anniversary. One that 50 years on reminds people how much has been accomplished -- and how much more remains to be done.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Watkins Memorial Park had its own role during those tumultuous days in the summer of ’65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was here, I was 5-years-old when it happened,” says Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson. She grew up and still lives across from the park on 103rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This park you’re standing in right now was the base for the National Guard, and we couldn’t come out after a certain time because we had a curfew,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the riots, 103rd Street was a vibrant commercial hub. Henderson’s mother had a shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So her store was the only one that didn’t get burned,\" she recalls. \"My dad got shot in the riots. There used to be a grocery store that sits on the corner. And I remember that store exploding while we were standing in the front yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a struggle to keep the annual festival going, Henderson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park could easily accommodate several thousand people, only a few hundred mill around on a picture postcard sunny Southern California afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an older crowd, filled with people who share vivid memories of '65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638058\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1440x920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I got arrested,” Amen Rahh tells the crowd from the festival stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You understand, I was a political prisoner in juvenile hall for 45 days,” says Rahh, a retired black studies professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh also grew up in Watts and as a young man took part in what he prefers to call the rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Rahh how he would he advise his much younger self if he could go back in time. Would he try to persuade that kid to stay inside, to pull his friends away from the violence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d do the same thing,\" he answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had to be done to develop a better-respecting relationship with law enforcement. It just didn’t go far enough to the total criminal justice system,” says Rahh, referring to both past and very recent high-profile police-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh says while the destruction and loss of life 50 years ago was regrettable, it also inspired activism that led to the creation of a community hospital, youth centers, health clinics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was a love and respect for each other after the rebellion,” says Rahh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he adds, “But you got to understand, the Watts that used to be has changed and it’s mostly an immigrant city now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black residents moved out after the riots. Thousands more left in the following decades as gang violence surged and crack cocaine flooded neighborhoods. Affordable housing was built north of L.A. in the Antelope Valley and east in the blue-collar suburbs of the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, there has been some change for the better in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, in 2005, there were 20 murders in Watts. There have been none so far this year. Police foot patrols have increased in troubled parts of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for public projects continues to be plowed into the community, including a new children’s center designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson says the economy has never fully rebounded. There are few retail businesses and just one independently owned non fast-food restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go shopping you got to go outside the area,” says Henderson. “Everywhere around Watts has been built up, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Compton, everywhere has built up around us and we’re still kind of like stagnated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other problems also persist: gang violence, high unemployment and a quiet tension between many black and newer Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedangerman.com/\">Dangerman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A real-life urban superhero,” says the man who calls himself Dangerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed head to toe in a sky blue superhero outfit and matching face mask, actor-comedian Roger Tinsley created Dangerman about 20 years ago to promote literacy, safety and good nutrition among youth in low-income minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much busier than ever because now we have kids every day dying,” says Tinsley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about Black Lives Matter. Well, not only do black lives matter when police are involved but black lives matter in our cities every day,” says Tinsley. “It’s a struggle every day for our young people in this country”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near a playground at the edge of the festival a group of kids gather around a charismatic young poet named \u003ca href=\"http://www.yngrobb.webs.com/\">Robert Williams\u003c/a>. He was born a good 25 years after the Watts riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands the circumstances that sparked the unrest 50 years ago, he has a tough time making sense of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-400x280.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1440x1007.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-960x672.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Don’t burn down your own community. If you love your community then clean it up, stand up for it,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully the generation has changed where a lot of people can understand to take care instead of destroy. Let’s stick together and create something, let’s not just get together and destroy,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the festival stage, \u003ca href=\"http://www.expressyourself.net/\">Charles Wright\u003c/a> and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band tear through songs that made them local legends back in the mid-1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright jumps into the crowd for a sing-along on one of his biggest hits (later sampled by South L.A. rappers N.W.A) “Express Yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638067\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In Haile Gerima’s 1975 student film \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Himxf4s_qgk\">“Bush Mama,”\u003c/a> the character T.C., played by actor Johnny Weathers, leans up against the bars of his jail cell and speaks directly to the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now ya see this white boy,” says T.C. referring to a white guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To guard niggers is within his blood,” says T.C., fingers wrapped tight around the cell bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His roots is maybe ‘overseer,’ and we still the son of the slave. That’s what I inherited … all of us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" class=\"wp-image-10633182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-800x591.jpg\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-400x296.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-1440x1064.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-1180x872.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-960x710.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Weathers in a scene from from Haile Gerima’s film “Bush Mama” \u003ccite>(Haile Germia / Youtube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Bush Mama” is one of the landmark films to come out of the first wave of black student filmmakers at UCLA, a tightly knit band of experimental, ideological and fiercely independent artists known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/story-la-rebellion\">L.A. Rebellion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d turn the riot-torn streets of Watts and other south L.A. communities into the real-life soundstage for work that bucked the Hollywood system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218278055″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Bush Mama,” a disillusioned Vietnam War veteran, T.C., is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. And life at home is starting to unravel for his pregnant wife Dorothy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film is told through their correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was largely improvisational. Scenes filmed on the streets of Watts were shot without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was guerilla style, from getting the equipment out of UCLA to shooting without permits,” says UCLA Film & Television Archive Director Christopher Horak. “’Bush Mama’ opens with the police arresting the crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima said he and other young black filmmakers at UCLA wanted to make movies depicting African-American life as it really was — a deliberate counterattack to the outlandish jive-talking hyper-violence of ’70s blaxploitation films like “Super Fly” and its countless imitators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We revolted so much. We didn’t want to see, respect any Euro-American cinema, even the good ones,” Gerima told an audience at New York’s New School of Media Studies during a retrospective of his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima says the aim was to elevate, not denigrate African-American life and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Burnett's film "Killer of Sheep" is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early '70s.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10633180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Burnett’s film “Killer of Sheep” is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early ’70s. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the (UCLA) film school, we say if black people did jazz, what do they do in film? And so we were responding in a very critical way, saying these narrative devices that were racist for us,” Gerima says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The integration of UCLA’s film school began in earnest during the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s, spurred on in the violent wake of the 1965 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zV9X-E6gc0\">Watts riots\u003c/a>, or “rebellion” as many people prefer to call the week of civil unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama…And I wanted to see something else.’\u003ccite>Filmmaker Julie Dash\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s really the first generation of minority students at UCLA, and they were not necessarily welcomed,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what distinguished these filmmakers were a mix of radical politics and gritty street style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students as well as professors at UCLA just were not used to seeing that type of content presented in that kind of way,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not seen as normal,” laughs director \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/julie-dash\">Julie Dash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dash, a New York native, arrived in California in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate studies at UCLA. She would go on to make a number of acclaimed films including 1991’s “Daughters of the Dust.” Dash says the filmmakers who made up L.A. Rebellion stood out for other reasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we spent our lives on campus all the time, in sleeping bags, we just worked around the clock,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10634116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles stands in for Uganda in Julie Dash’s 1977 short film “The Diary of an African Nun,” based on a short story by Alice Walker. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Either working on our personal films or someone else’s film, and we just found ourselves living pretty much on campus all the time,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the way more senior student directors like Haile Gerima depicted black Los Angeles was a revelation to Dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was not the place that played in my mind when I thought of California, I thought of palm trees and everything you see on television, that narrative of life,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most celebrated films to emerge from the L.A. Rebellion is Charles Burnett’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXw-8MXhVE\">“Killer of Sheep.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, influenced in part by post-War War II Italian neo-realist films that used war-torn cities as their backdrop, took a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shot in black and white, the story revolves around a slaughterhouse worker named Stan and his family. Their daily struggles unfold in the blue-collar homes, dusty vacant lots and the crooked alleyways of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, who went on to make a number of more commercial films like “The Glass Shield” and “To Sleep with Anger,” was unavailable for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the commentary from the long-awaited DVD release of “Killer of Sheep,” he talks about his time at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were going to make a difference and introduce new narratives about the black experience and we were reacting against all the negative stereotypes that Hollywood continued to produce,” Burnett says. “You know, turn back to our own stories and try to tell them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634102\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Charles Burnett’s 1973 short film “The Horse.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the occasional screening at a library or local theater, the films of L.A. Rebellion would go largely unseen off campus. A lot of the original prints would disappear into attics, garages and in one case, a backyard chicken coop in Compton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we found it in the dirt at the very back of the shed after cleaning out for like a whole day,” laughs UCLA’s Christopher Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, UCLA launched in initiative to track down and restore the film of the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Julie Dash’s first student feature “Illusions,” shot on the UCLA campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the tone for the kind of films Dash would go on to make. Most famously, the critically acclaimed “Daughters of the Dust” — the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to get a major theatrical release and a story Dash was developing while still at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to explore the culture of African-American women that I was not really seeing,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama,” Dash laughs. “And I wanted to see something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonette McKee in Julie Dash’s 1982 student film “Illusions.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite their limited exposure, films and filmmakers from L.A. Rebellion left an indelible mark on future black filmmakers like \u003ca href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/spike-lees-list-of-95-essential-movies.html\">Spike Lee\u003c/a> and John Singleton, both of whom acknowledge the influence of films like “Killer of Sheep” and “Daughters of the Dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best work holds up really well and there were amazing discoveries we made in this whole process,” says Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the films from the L.A. Rebellion era will be included in a 25-DVD box set that will be distributed to schools, libraries and other institutions later this year along with a book published by University of California Press chronicling the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were very meaningful and they continue to be meaningful,” Dash says. “They document a time period and they document very specific voices we had not seen or heard before. That’s why they’re like treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasures that continue to be unearthed, literally dusted off and placed alongside some of the finest films of the era.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d turn the riot-torn streets of Watts and other south L.A. communities into the real-life soundstage for work that bucked the Hollywood system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218278055″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218278055″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Bush Mama,” a disillusioned Vietnam War veteran, T.C., is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. And life at home is starting to unravel for his pregnant wife Dorothy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film is told through their correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was largely improvisational. Scenes filmed on the streets of Watts were shot without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was guerilla style, from getting the equipment out of UCLA to shooting without permits,” says UCLA Film & Television Archive Director Christopher Horak. “’Bush Mama’ opens with the police arresting the crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima said he and other young black filmmakers at UCLA wanted to make movies depicting African-American life as it really was — a deliberate counterattack to the outlandish jive-talking hyper-violence of ’70s blaxploitation films like “Super Fly” and its countless imitators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We revolted so much. We didn’t want to see, respect any Euro-American cinema, even the good ones,” Gerima told an audience at New York’s New School of Media Studies during a retrospective of his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima says the aim was to elevate, not denigrate African-American life and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Burnett's film "Killer of Sheep" is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early '70s.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10633180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Burnett’s film “Killer of Sheep” is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early ’70s. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the (UCLA) film school, we say if black people did jazz, what do they do in film? And so we were responding in a very critical way, saying these narrative devices that were racist for us,” Gerima says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The integration of UCLA’s film school began in earnest during the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s, spurred on in the violent wake of the 1965 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zV9X-E6gc0\">Watts riots\u003c/a>, or “rebellion” as many people prefer to call the week of civil unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama…And I wanted to see something else.’\u003ccite>Filmmaker Julie Dash\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s really the first generation of minority students at UCLA, and they were not necessarily welcomed,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what distinguished these filmmakers were a mix of radical politics and gritty street style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students as well as professors at UCLA just were not used to seeing that type of content presented in that kind of way,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not seen as normal,” laughs director \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/julie-dash\">Julie Dash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dash, a New York native, arrived in California in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate studies at UCLA. She would go on to make a number of acclaimed films including 1991’s “Daughters of the Dust.” Dash says the filmmakers who made up L.A. Rebellion stood out for other reasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we spent our lives on campus all the time, in sleeping bags, we just worked around the clock,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10634116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles stands in for Uganda in Julie Dash’s 1977 short film “The Diary of an African Nun,” based on a short story by Alice Walker. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Either working on our personal films or someone else’s film, and we just found ourselves living pretty much on campus all the time,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the way more senior student directors like Haile Gerima depicted black Los Angeles was a revelation to Dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was not the place that played in my mind when I thought of California, I thought of palm trees and everything you see on television, that narrative of life,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most celebrated films to emerge from the L.A. Rebellion is Charles Burnett’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXw-8MXhVE\">“Killer of Sheep.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, influenced in part by post-War War II Italian neo-realist films that used war-torn cities as their backdrop, took a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shot in black and white, the story revolves around a slaughterhouse worker named Stan and his family. Their daily struggles unfold in the blue-collar homes, dusty vacant lots and the crooked alleyways of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, who went on to make a number of more commercial films like “The Glass Shield” and “To Sleep with Anger,” was unavailable for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the commentary from the long-awaited DVD release of “Killer of Sheep,” he talks about his time at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were going to make a difference and introduce new narratives about the black experience and we were reacting against all the negative stereotypes that Hollywood continued to produce,” Burnett says. “You know, turn back to our own stories and try to tell them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634102\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Charles Burnett’s 1973 short film “The Horse.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the occasional screening at a library or local theater, the films of L.A. Rebellion would go largely unseen off campus. A lot of the original prints would disappear into attics, garages and in one case, a backyard chicken coop in Compton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we found it in the dirt at the very back of the shed after cleaning out for like a whole day,” laughs UCLA’s Christopher Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, UCLA launched in initiative to track down and restore the film of the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Julie Dash’s first student feature “Illusions,” shot on the UCLA campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the tone for the kind of films Dash would go on to make. Most famously, the critically acclaimed “Daughters of the Dust” — the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to get a major theatrical release and a story Dash was developing while still at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to explore the culture of African-American women that I was not really seeing,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama,” Dash laughs. “And I wanted to see something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonette McKee in Julie Dash’s 1982 student film “Illusions.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite their limited exposure, films and filmmakers from L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/enforcement-of-new-l-a-minimum-wage-law-will-be-challenging\">Leer en Inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cundían los vítores el mes pasado cuando las autoridades de la ciudad de Los Ángeles aprobaron una ordenanza que impelerá el salario mínimo en la ciudad a los $15 la hora para el año 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el entusiasmo también llega la preocupación – en particular entre los inmigrantes, quienes comprenden la mayoría de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos – referente a precisamente cómo intenta la ciudad hacer cumplir el aumento de sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215847318\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante los meses de audiencias públicas que llevaron a la aprobación final del aumento de sueldo, abundaron las historias de presunto robo salarial. Muchas historias partieron de los inmigrantes, quienes describían a dueños de restaurantes que se quedaban con sus propinas, instalaciones de lavado de autos que pagaban menos de lo acordado y represalias contra los que levantaban la voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nadie quiere un aumento en el costo de la mano de obra salvo que alguien les ponga mano al fuego y se lo obliguen”, dice Tia Koonse, del UCLA Labor Center, co-autora del informe sobre el impacto que surte el robo de salarios en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8dPpR296TLreRoLLNJ196tyYbkRzATj9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De los aproximadamente 700 mil trabajadores que bajo la nueva ordenanza del salario mínimo podrían ver un aumento en su paga, unos 6 de cada 10 no nacieron en los Estados Unidos, según Daniel Fleming, director de la Economic Roundtable, un grupo de investigación de políticas gubernamentales en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores inmigrantes con manejo limitado del inglés o que no conocen las leyes laborales pueden estar en peligro de ser explotados, dicen los defensores, pero los más vulnerables suelen ser los indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es en realidad ilegal pagar menos del salario mínimo”, dice Koonse. “Y hay que pagar a los trabajadores indocumentados, quienes califican para recibir todos y cada uno de los derechos al salario y el horario de los que gozan sus contrapartes documentados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles lleva algunos de los temas de quejas salariales y laborales, pero sólo una fracción de ellas. La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. Seguirá el modelo de la división de implementación de salarios de San Francisco, donde trabajan unos seis investigadores de robo salarial a tiempo completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Ángeles comenzará con cinco investigadores. Koonse replica que esto no es suficiente. Pero que no es un mal comienzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros tenemos como nueve veces el número de trabajadores de bajos ingresos que San Francisco, entonces claramente, con contratar a cinco investigadores no se va a lograr el nivel de implementación al que llega San Francisco”, explica Koonse. “No obstante, es mejor que lo que ocurre a nivel estatal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de Los Ángeles es de ampliar el personal de la oficina de implementación de las leyes salariales y laborales a unos 40 empleados para el año 2020, cuando entra en vigor el salario de $15 la hora. Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. Explica Vallecillo que varios de los trabajadores inmigrantes del grupo no tienen documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunos de nuestros trabajadores indocumentados han estado trabajando allí 10, 15 años, y tenían miedo de unirse al grupo por la represalia de ser despedidos”, dice Vallecillo. “Además, siguen con miedo hasta el día de hoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si la ciudad ya contara con una oficina de implementación de la ley salarial operante, explica, tal vez él y sus colegas no tendrían que haber entablado juicio contra su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con todo, el ganar un juicio contra un empleador que no paga el salario legal no es garantía que los trabajadores reciban el dinero que se les debe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un informe del comisionado estatal de trabajo, sólo un 15 por ciento de las víctimas del robo de salarios que ganan sus casos reciben recompensa. Los juicios pueden demorarse por la presentación de apelaciones. Un negocio podría cerrarse y volver a abrir con otro nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hoy podría llamarse Magic Carwash y mañana llamarse Magic Carwash Inc.,” explica Flor Rodríguez de la organización sin fines de lucro, Clean Carwash Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez cuenta que esto es lo que le ocurrió hace unos años a un grupo de trabajadores de lavado de autos en Los Ángeles. La organización ayudó a estos trabajadores, todos inmigrantes, y con el tiempo llegaron a ganar un juicio de varios miles de dólares por pérdida salarial contra su antiguo empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elaboramos un caso ante el departamento de trabajo, pero no hemos recibido dinero del caso”, comenta Rodríguez. “A los trabajadores que participaron en el caso, el dueño comenzó a darles cada vez menos horas de trabajo. Entonces, la represalia se dio rápidamente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislación propuesta por el Presidente pro Tem del Senado Estatal, Kevin de León (demócrata por Los Ángeles), podría invertir esta tendencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si la legislación se aprueba, los empleadores renegados tendrían que pagar un bono para garantizar el pago de salarios robados o arriesgar que se les imponga embargos a las propiedades y otras sanciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nadie quiere un aumento en el costo de la mano de obra salvo que alguien les ponga mano al fuego y se lo obliguen”, dice Tia Koonse, del UCLA Labor Center, co-autora del informe sobre el impacto que surte el robo de salarios en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De los aproximadamente 700 mil trabajadores que bajo la nueva ordenanza del salario mínimo podrían ver un aumento en su paga, unos 6 de cada 10 no nacieron en los Estados Unidos, según Daniel Fleming, director de la Economic Roundtable, un grupo de investigación de políticas gubernamentales en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores inmigrantes con manejo limitado del inglés o que no conocen las leyes laborales pueden estar en peligro de ser explotados, dicen los defensores, pero los más vulnerables suelen ser los indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es en realidad ilegal pagar menos del salario mínimo”, dice Koonse. “Y hay que pagar a los trabajadores indocumentados, quienes califican para recibir todos y cada uno de los derechos al salario y el horario de los que gozan sus contrapartes documentados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles lleva algunos de los temas de quejas salariales y laborales, pero sólo una fracción de ellas. La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. Seguirá el modelo de la división de implementación de salarios de San Francisco, donde trabajan unos seis investigadores de robo salarial a tiempo completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Ángeles comenzará con cinco investigadores. Koonse replica que esto no es suficiente. Pero que no es un mal comienzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros tenemos como nueve veces el número de trabajadores de bajos ingresos que San Francisco, entonces claramente, con contratar a cinco investigadores no se va a lograr el nivel de implementación al que llega San Francisco”, explica Koonse. “No obstante, es mejor que lo que ocurre a nivel estatal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de Los Ángeles es de ampliar el personal de la oficina de implementación de las leyes salariales y laborales a unos 40 empleados para el año 2020, cuando entra en vigor el salario de $15 la hora. Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. Explica Vallecillo que varios de los trabajadores inmigrantes del grupo no tienen documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunos de nuestros trabajadores indocumentados han estado trabajando allí 10, 15 años, y tenían miedo de unirse al grupo por la represalia de ser despedidos”, dice Vallecillo. “Además, siguen con miedo hasta el día de hoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si la ciudad ya contara con una oficina de implementación de la ley salarial operante, explica, tal vez él y sus colegas no tendrían que haber entablado juicio contra su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con todo, el ganar un juicio contra un empleador que no paga el salario legal no es garantía que los trabajadores reciban el dinero que se les debe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un informe del comisionado estatal de trabajo, sólo un 15 por ciento de las víctimas del robo de salarios que ganan sus casos reciben recompensa. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/la-implementacion-de-la-nueva-ley-del-salario-minimo-en-los-angeles-sera-un-reto\">Read this piece in Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was plenty of cheering last month when Los Angeles leaders signed off on an ordinance that will kick the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the enthusiasm also comes concern -- especially among immigrants, who are the majority of low-wage workers -- over just how the city aims to enforce the pay hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215847318\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The months of public hearings that led to the final passage of the pay increase were rife with stories of alleged wage theft. A lot of them came from immigrants who described restaurateurs pocketing their tips, carwashes that routinely shorted their paychecks and retaliation against those who spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>Nobody wants to increase their labor costs unless someone actually holds them to account for that,” says Tia Koonse of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.ucla.edu/\">UCLA Labor Center\u003c/a>, who co-authored a report on the impact of wage theft in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rvwoe2LcMGQgou0jdZsDa0UFMnWvxN8k\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the estimated 700,000 workers who could eventually see their pay increase under the new minimum wage, about six in 10 are foreign born, according to Daniel Flaming, director of the Economic Roundtable, an L.A. policy research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant workers with limited English or unfamiliar with labor laws can be at risk for exploitation, advocates say, but the undocumented tend to be the most vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s actually unlawful to pay anybody less than minimum wage,” says Koonse. “And undocumented workers must be paid, and are eligible for every single wage-and-hour right that their documented counterparts are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koonse says the current system of wage enforcement, which relies primarily on state oversight, is broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office handles some wage and labor complaints, but just a fraction of them. Most -- more than 80 percent -- are fielded by a small team of investigators and attorneys with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/\">California Labor Commissioner’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610405\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610405\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters — mostly — of a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles to $15 an hour by 2020 regularly packed City Council chambers for a big vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1440x912.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1400x887.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters — mostly — of a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles to $15 an hour by 2020 regularly packed City Council chambers for a big vote. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“L.A. is the wage-theft capital of the country,” says DLSE attorney Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office handles about 5,000 L.A. wage-theft complaints a year, especially in industries that employ high rates of immigrant workers, but often pay those workers below the current minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is just a much bigger city with a greater variety of low-wage industries: garment, janitorial, construction,” says Figueira-McDonough. “A lot of industries that rely on what should be minimum-wage labor but aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When L.A.’s wage hike goes into effect next June, so, too, will a newly created city Division of Wage Enforcement. It will be modeled after San Francisco’s wage enforcement division, where there are a half-dozen full-time wage-theft investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles will start with five. Koonse says that’s not enough. But it’s not a bad start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have like nine times more low-wage workers than San Francisco does, so clearly hiring five investigators is not going to achieve the scale that San Francisco is able to achieve,” says Koonse. “But it’s still better than what’s going on at the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. aims to build out its wage and labor enforcement staff to nearly 40 employees by the year 2020, when the city’s minimum wage reaches $15 an hour. Businesses that fail to comply could face thousands of dollars in fines and lose their operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. is the wage-theft capital of the country.'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many employers worry the tough rules could be exploited by people filing frivolous wage-theft claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see attorneys and advocates who are going to use this enforcement structure that right now looks very ripe for abuse,” says Ruben Gonzalez of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lachamber.com/\">Greater Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee you that businesses which labor wants to organize are all of a sudden going to have a whole slew of wage complaints that may be specious claims,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo says his claims are the real deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s among a group of workers at a big warehousing firm near the Port of Los Angeles suing their employer over alleged wage theft. Vallecillo says several workers in the complaint are undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of our undocumented workers, they’ve been working there for 10, 15 years, and they were afraid to become part of the group because of retaliation of them firing them,” says Vallecillo. “And they’re still scared to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Labor activists celebrate as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signs into law an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 on June 13, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labor activists celebrate as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signs into law an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 on June 13, 2015. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the city already had a wage enforcement office up and running, he says, maybe he and his co-workers wouldn't have had to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But winning a judgment against an employer who fails to pay the legal wage doesn’t guarantee workers will get the money they are owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report from the state labor commissioner, only about 15 percent of wage-theft victims who win their cases actually collect. Judgments can get tied up with appeals. A business could shut down and reopen under a different name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it could be Magic Carwash, but tomorrow it could be Magic Carwash Inc.,” says Flor Rodriguez from the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleancarwashcampaign.org/\">Clean Carwash Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says that is what happened to a group of Los Angeles carwash workers a few years ago. The campaign helped those workers, all of them immigrants, eventually win a judgment for several thousand dollars in lost wages from their former employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did build up a case with the Labor Department, but we have not received money from that,” says Rodriguez. “The workers that did this, the owner started giving them less hours and less hours. So the retaliation started happening really fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd24.senate.ca.gov/files/SB%20588%20Wage%20Theft%20Prevention%20Background%20Sheet_0.pdf\">Proposed legislation\u003c/a> from state Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) could reverse that trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If signed into law, renegade employers would have to pay a bond to ensure payment of stolen wages or risk property liens and other penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>Nobody wants to increase their labor costs unless someone actually holds them to account for that,” says Tia Koonse of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.ucla.edu/\">UCLA Labor Center\u003c/a>, who co-authored a report on the impact of wage theft in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the estimated 700,000 workers who could eventually see their pay increase under the new minimum wage, about six in 10 are foreign born, according to Daniel Flaming, director of the Economic Roundtable, an L.A. policy research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant workers with limited English or unfamiliar with labor laws can be at risk for exploitation, advocates say, but the undocumented tend to be the most vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s actually unlawful to pay anybody less than minimum wage,” says Koonse. “And undocumented workers must be paid, and are eligible for every single wage-and-hour right that their documented counterparts are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koonse says the current system of wage enforcement, which relies primarily on state oversight, is broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office handles some wage and labor complaints, but just a fraction of them. Most -- more than 80 percent -- are fielded by a small team of investigators and attorneys with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/\">California Labor Commissioner’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610405\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610405\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters — mostly — of a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles to $15 an hour by 2020 regularly packed City Council chambers for a big vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1440x912.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1400x887.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters — mostly — of a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles to $15 an hour by 2020 regularly packed City Council chambers for a big vote. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“L.A. is the wage-theft capital of the country,” says DLSE attorney Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office handles about 5,000 L.A. wage-theft complaints a year, especially in industries that employ high rates of immigrant workers, but often pay those workers below the current minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is just a much bigger city with a greater variety of low-wage industries: garment, janitorial, construction,” says Figueira-McDonough. “A lot of industries that rely on what should be minimum-wage labor but aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When L.A.’s wage hike goes into effect next June, so, too, will a newly created city Division of Wage Enforcement. It will be modeled after San Francisco’s wage enforcement division, where there are a half-dozen full-time wage-theft investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles will start with five. Koonse says that’s not enough. But it’s not a bad start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have like nine times more low-wage workers than San Francisco does, so clearly hiring five investigators is not going to achieve the scale that San Francisco is able to achieve,” says Koonse. “But it’s still better than what’s going on at the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. aims to build out its wage and labor enforcement staff to nearly 40 employees by the year 2020, when the city’s minimum wage reaches $15 an hour. Businesses that fail to comply could face thousands of dollars in fines and lose their operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. is the wage-theft capital of the country.'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many employers worry the tough rules could be exploited by people filing frivolous wage-theft claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see attorneys and advocates who are going to use this enforcement structure that right now looks very ripe for abuse,” says Ruben Gonzalez of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lachamber.com/\">Greater Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee you that businesses which labor wants to organize are all of a sudden going to have a whole slew of wage complaints that may be specious claims,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo says his claims are the real deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s among a group of workers at a big warehousing firm near the Port of Los Angeles suing their employer over alleged wage theft. Vallecillo says several workers in the complaint are undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of our undocumented workers, they’ve been working there for 10, 15 years, and they were afraid to become part of the group because of retaliation of them firing them,” says Vallecillo. “And they’re still scared to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Labor activists celebrate as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signs into law an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 on June 13, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labor activists celebrate as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signs into law an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 on June 13, 2015. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the city already had a wage enforcement office up and running, he says, maybe he and his co-workers wouldn't have had to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But winning a judgment against an employer who fails to pay the legal wage doesn’t guarantee workers will get the money they are owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report from the state labor commissioner, only about 15 percent of wage-theft victims who win their cases actually collect. Judgments can get tied up with appeals. A business could shut down and reopen under a different name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it could be Magic Carwash, but tomorrow it could be Magic Carwash Inc.,” says Flor Rodriguez from the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleancarwashcampaign.org/\">Clean Carwash Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says that is what happened to a group of Los Angeles carwash workers a few years ago. The campaign helped those workers, all of them immigrants, eventually win a judgment for several thousand dollars in lost wages from their former employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did build up a case with the Labor Department, but we have not received money from that,” says Rodriguez. “The workers that did this, the owner started giving them less hours and less hours. 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He asked that we use just his first name because he’s undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo stitches together women’s clothing in one of downtown L.A.’s many garment factories. He worries that bosses like the one he works for will shut down or move if forced to pay workers more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo earns a little over the $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage, which means his boss is already breaking the law. Employers in California must pay the higher state minimum of $9 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, the truth is, there’s no hope for us. It wouldn’t help if they were to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour,” says Pablo. “We’re not guaranteed anything. I think that all the factory owners, they’re in union. And there’s no unity among us (workers).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why tougher wage and workplace enforcement is key, says Flor Rodriguez, an organizer at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleancarwashcampaign.org/\">Clean Carwash Campaign\u003c/a>. It’s among a host of nonprofit watchdog groups that’s helping L.A.’s newly created Office of Labor Enforcement reach out to low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And once that happens, I’m confident that workers can then speak up for themselves and be able to do something to make sure the employer complies,” says Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers are already speaking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, carwash worker Fausto Garcia filed a wage theft claim against one of his former employers with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/\">California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a group of us. We built a case with the labor commissioner’s office. And the worker who spoke up the most, the owner told him: ‘Get out or I’ll call immigration on you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The carwash was ordered to pay some $50,000 in back wages to a group of workers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Between Homelands” is a series produced in partnership with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They’re bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cindi Alvitre walks across the parking lot at California State University, Long Beach, she sees the asphalt, the buildings and the rows of cars. But she also sees something else. In her mind’s eye, she sees \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mXuBnmTms\" target=\"_blank\">Puvungna\u003c/a>, the sprawling tribal territory overlooking the Pacific Ocean that was once home to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tongvapeople.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tongva \u003c/a>people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I walk around, I live in two worlds,” says Alvitre. “The other one is a constant conversation with nature and with the ancestors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre’s ancestors were the dominant culture here until the Spanish conquest. In fact, the entire Los Angeles basin and beyond -- from the hills of downtown L.A. to the beaches of Catalina Island -- is the ancestral homeland of the Tongva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Alvitre is one of fewer than 2,000 remaining Tongvan descendants. The tribe is still seeking federal recognition. And in a region that’s been home for millennia, some contemporary Tongva struggle to find their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205685563\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are struggling, Alvitre, 60, is a pillar of cultural strength, helping them to connect with their indigenous roots. She talks about how the Tongva were ocean people, living in huts by the beach, wearing grass skirts and shells, and diving for abalone. And when she needs to reconnect, she goes to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is a comfort zone,” she says. “To sit on a rock, out at the end of the jetty, to go in the water, to watch the seals and the sea lions … [it’s healing] just to be back in the natural world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre traces her sense of connection back to her father. He filled her childhood with stories of the past. On car rides through Southern California, he would point out Tongva burial sites and former villages, or spots where her Indian grandfather once foraged for medicinal plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always told, ‘This is your home. Your ancestors are from this home, and this is where they are buried,’ ” she says, remembering hikes with her dad. “When he walked through there, he would tell us, ‘Shh, don’t talk loud. This is a sacred place.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527442\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how the beach sand and the grassy hills -- and even the land under L.A. high-rises and strip malls -- became embedded with ancestral meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre took this knowledge into her life’s work. She is a professor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/\">American Indian Studies\u003c/a> at Cal State University, Long Beach. And she was the first female chair of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, nearly 30 years ago, her ancestors came to her in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dream, a massive Tongvan warrior emerged from the mounds of the Saddleback Mountains. Beneath the mountains, a lake formed. Native Americans paddled across the lake in wooden canoes while speaking to each other in the Tongva language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the rowers found their cadence, paddling in synchronicity, the warrior’s eyes opened, the mountains parted and the canoes set forth onto the ocean, toward Catalina Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this amazing vision of mountains that I grew up around in Orange County, but here [are] these boats I’ve never seen,” says Alvitre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, she got a call from Jim Noyes of the California Indigenous Maritime Association. He asked if she’d be interested in reviving her tribe’s naval culture by building a \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> -- a traditional Tongvan canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He described the boat in my dreams,” Alvitre says. “I was really blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noyes and Alvitre joined forces then to start the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/marcus-lopez-tiat-restoration-orientation/\" target=\"_blank\">Ti’at Society\u003c/a>. The group built Moomat Ahiko (Tongvan for “Breath of the Ocean”) -– the first and only modern \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10526216 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This spring, after more than two decades of use, Moomat Ahiko underwent repairs. At Cal State, Long Beach -- the former site of the village of Puvungna -- Ti’at Society members met every Sunday to restore the boat. They fixed leaks, gave it a chestnut-colored stain and painted a red ochre around its glittering abalone accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre and her group displayed the new and improved \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"http://web.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/american_indian_services/pow_wow/\">45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Annual Cal State Puvugna Pow Wow\u003c/a> in March. Moomat Ahiko was a focal point amid the singers, drum circles and throngs of dancers dressed in the regalia of many tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next destination for Moomat Ahiko is the ocean. Members of the Ti’at Society plan to return the boat to the water in a ceremony this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony will allow more Tongva to connect with the ocean -- and with their heritage. For Alvitre, that connection is so key to her identity that Moomat Ahiko is tattooed on her arm. Through immersing herself in Tongvan maritime culture, she’s unlocked a passion that feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life,” says Alvitre. “This is the language I feel comfortable speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He asked if she’d be interested in reviving her tribe’s naval culture by building a \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> -- a traditional Tongvan canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He described the boat in my dreams,” Alvitre says. “I was really blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noyes and Alvitre joined forces then to start the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/marcus-lopez-tiat-restoration-orientation/\" target=\"_blank\">Ti’at Society\u003c/a>. 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At Cal State, Long Beach -- the former site of the village of Puvungna -- Ti’at Society members met every Sunday to restore the boat. They fixed leaks, gave it a chestnut-colored stain and painted a red ochre around its glittering abalone accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre and her group displayed the new and improved \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"http://web.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/american_indian_services/pow_wow/\">45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Annual Cal State Puvugna Pow Wow\u003c/a> in March. Moomat Ahiko was a focal point amid the singers, drum circles and throngs of dancers dressed in the regalia of many tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next destination for Moomat Ahiko is the ocean. Members of the Ti’at Society plan to return the boat to the water in a ceremony this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony will allow more Tongva to connect with the ocean -- and with their heritage. For Alvitre, that connection is so key to her identity that Moomat Ahiko is tattooed on her arm. Through immersing herself in Tongvan maritime culture, she’s unlocked a passion that feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life,” says Alvitre. “This is the language I feel comfortable speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Between Homelands” is a series produced in partnership with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They’re bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All immigrants to this country face uncertainty, but most can rely on having an embassy or consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurdish people, however, have no recognized nation of their own. They come from ethnic homelands without defined borders. What they call Kurdistan is split up among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, no embassy exists for them in the United States or anywhere else. In Los Angeles, Kurds are scattered across the vast Southland, in Westwood, the San Fernando Valley, Central Los Angeles and Pasadena. There’s no Kurdish equivalent of L.A.’s Koreatown or Little Ethiopia. Here, as in the Middle East, they are dispersed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204598149″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Luqman Barwari, a restaurant owner and Kurdish Iraqi immigrant, is trying to change that. Two years ago he created Niroj Kurdish Cuisine in Agoura Hills, after leaving a decades-long career in biotech. The restaurant is an unofficial embassy, one aimed at keeping his culture alive and the local Kurdish people united.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we feel like we’re not fully rooted in the system, or in the culture, or in the soil, because we were not born here,” says Barwari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant owner and chef Luqman Barwari on Kurdish New Year at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine. \" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-1440x902.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-1180x739.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-960x602.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restaurant owner and chef Luqman Barwari on Kurdish New Year at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Niroj, in some ways, feels like home. When visitors open the front door on the restaurant’s livelier evenings, they are transported by strains of live Kurdish music and the aromas of Barwari’s complex, home-style dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one such night, master tembûr (fretted, steel-stringed lute) musician Raman Osman, from Syria’s Kurdish region, serenades tables packed with Kurds and non-Kurds. Some of the patrons cannot help but start a line dance that twists through the tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari greets friends and guests while darting in and out of the closed kitchen to watch over his \u003ci>kubbeh \u003c/i>soup, a Kurdish-Israeli dish. He makes it with semolina, beef or lamb dumplings, and organic vegetables, including beets, okra, chard and chickpeas. For dessert, he serves fried goat cheese drizzled with honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1440x925.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-960x617.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food, music and camaraderie make Niroj Kurdish Cuisine a place of unity, an unofficial embassy presided over by Barwari, its unofficial ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some nights Barwari cannot forget about relentless conflicts and suffering in Kurdistan. Painful news from home and fading childhood memories draw his mind and heart back to his homeland in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari was born in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. He came to the United States in the 1970s as a teenager, when his family fled political violence. His childhood village was later destroyed in Iraq’s al-Anfal campaign, known as the Kurdish genocide. Now, some of Barwari’s relatives in Iraq are members of the Kurdish \u003ci>peshmerga\u003c/i>, fighting the Islamic State (ISIS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he planned a party to celebrate the liberation of the northern Syrian town of Kobane from ISIS, he saw the horrible news on Facebook. His cousin was killed while fighting ISIS near Mosul, Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart sunk when I saw his picture,” Barwari says. “I couldn’t believe it. How do you celebrate when people are still being killed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-400x248.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1440x891.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-960x594.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As ongoing hostilities threaten Kurdish people and their heritage at home, Niroj invigorates a piece of Kurdistan in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari says “the memories stay alive” when his restaurant brings people together to eat \u003ci>kubbeh\u003c/i> soup and listen to Kurdish music. And that motivates him to have a place like Niroj — a place where Kurds can celebrate their culture.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For many drivers at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.irwindalespeedway.com/index.php\">drag strip\u003c/a> in Irwindale, California, it was those tiny toy cars they had as kids that got them hooked on racing. Steve Osoinio says it was just something that has always been part of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been into cars since I was little,” he explains. “I always had a fantasy of going fast. My dad had muscle cars growing up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osoinio offers to let me ride shotgun as he goes down the track for the first time. He’s nervous, he says, and so am I. The crew working on the track waves us forward, and Osoinio inches up to the starting line. All eyes are on the lights, known as the \"Christmas tree.” The lights turn and Osoinio floors the pedal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10517183\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Irwindale Speedway's closure will mark the end of an era for a region where drag racing really took off. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10517183\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Races-continue-into-the-evening-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irwindale Speedway's closure will mark the end of an era for a region where drag racing really took off. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The whole thing takes just a matter of seconds, but Angelenos have been queuing up to burn rubber on this San Gabriel Valley strip since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Thursday, drivers line up to race, filling the air with the smell of burning rubber. But the track’s days are numbered. Los Angeles County’s last drag strip looks set to close after the Irwindale City Council recently approved plans to demolish the one-eighth mile track, along with an oval track used for NASCAR racing, to make way for a new shopping mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track’s closure will mark the end of an era for in the region where drag racing really took off. The National Hot Rod Association was founded in California in 1951 and still has its headquarters just a few miles from Irwindale. At its peak in 1960 there were four drag strips running in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204597974\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it started,” says Bob Beck, the drag strip’s announcer. \"This is the area that the enthusiasts and the visionaries came from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck has spent most of his life involved in the racing world. He even takes his work home with him, hosting race nights on a slot car track he’s built in an upstairs room of his home. 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They’re sitting in a bright red 2013 Mustang GT with “She Devil” emblazoned on the side. They’re about to race an almost identical model car. Jochimsen’s car is a little newer, “so that’s my advantage” she laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochimsen and Saenz say they’re determined to get as much mileage as they can out of the track, but they still can’t believe it’s closing. Jochimsen says she came to the track because she had too many speeding tickets on the road, and if the track closes down “it would just suck for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also waiting in line is Stan Chersky. He’s brought his blue ’55 Chevy to the track. Like many here, he says he’s concerned that if the track closes, more people will take part in illegal street racing. 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