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Volume 11, Number 5 May, 2016 SoCal: Dirty Politics = Dirty Air By Tim Deegan ery quickly, what has been historically clean is on the verge of becoming very dirty. , especially our Los Angeles V region, has just taken two big hits to its environment, both aimed directly at our quality of life. These twin impacts involve air pollution and density pollution and should be of concern to everyone. The air we breathe may now become compromised by less control over emissions. Within days of each other, the long-standing executive directors of the California Costal Commission and the South Coast Air Quality Management District were summarily fired by politically appointed boards. Neither has stated publicly and clearly exactly why such abrupt and radical changes were necessary. Everyone who cares about the potential development of our nearly pristine California coastline and about the air quality we endure should take note. Developers could obtain the power to build along our coast and oil refineries may soon have less stringent controls on the toxic emissions that belch into our air. Beneficiaries of these actions include developers and builders and oil companies, two of the mainstays of the region’s economy. Finding the right balance is the challenge our political leaders face and some are speaking out voraciously, especially about the termination of the Pavley Seat “in Play” air quality board executive director, an issue that most aggressively impacts Los Angeles. Choking on dirty air affects everyone and deserves the public outcry it is receiving. Hopefully, public opinion will intensify, adding pressure on our political leaders to take steps to Taking Oil and Gas Money? reverse this decision. For decades, no matter what other abuses residents have had to endure living in our city, they have been assured that both the air they breathe, and the coastline and beaches they enjoy, were being Don’t Come to Porter Ranch! protected. These protections included being saved from oil rigs spilling Public Officials Lining Pockets into the sea, as happened with the tragic Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969, a precursor to the energizing of the environmental movement, A Special Valley Voice Report and having oil refineries in our South Bay region spewing less toxics into the air, and coastline development almost completely banned. e is a wealthy man thanks to the oil and gas industry, called an oil baron by some, has captured most Troubling, environmentally, is the firing of Executive Director of California’s regulators by his appointments, has family connections to that industry, he is alleged to Barry Wallerstein of the South Coast Air Quality Management have fired oil and gas regulators under pressure from Occidental Petroleum due to their unwillingness to District (SCAQMD), the agency that stewards the air we breathe. expediteH the issuance of drilling permits, has received over $2,000,000 in political money, and used state experts Several political leaders at multiple levels of city, county and state to study the potential for oil development on his own 2700-acre private property (called an “impeachable government have objected to his termination. This includes State offense” by Breitbart News). Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, who announced that he Why have we allowed Governor Jerry Brown to continue this life and death battle, fighting to go “green” (Continued on page 4) on the environment while collecting tons of green from oil and gas interests? Lynn Schenk, a Jerry Brown associate and appointee, also serves on the Sempra Board and sits on the environmental, health, safety, and technology committee. Her stake in the company is worth over $1,000,000. Even Hollywood joined the fray, as Mark Ruffalo and Leonard DiCaprio with the newly formed Health Officials organization HOLLYWOOD UNITED stated “government is supposed to protect the people…but it turned its back and ignored them…the kids are sick. If GOVERNOR BROWN is going to walk around saying he is a climate-change hero, we are going to hold him to his word…but until we start taking our foot out of the past, Out on “Sick Leave” we can’t step into the future.” o where is our leadership? Public officials must stop playing double agents! They cannot serve two masters on either side of the spectrum. This political boat needs rocking – and the public has the right to know. Are they sweet-talking to Who’s in charge? the residents of Porter Ranch, while taking dirty money from the utilities and their lobbyists? Don’t be afraid S Are we in uncharted waters without a captain? to ask! Why do our public officials speak of new legislation, knowing that Brown stands ready to veto any It is now been five and a half months since the alleged date tough new bill supporting the public against his oil and gas interests? of the gas leak. And I am still, as a doctor, unclear on numerous * * * facts. What were we exposed to, how much, and for how long? HENRY STERN FOR SENATE? Are we still being exposed? Having served our area for many years as California State Senator representing the 27th District, Fran Also what is this mysterious gel that have been found not Pavley will be serving out her final term this year. Henry Stern, her Chief Environmental Advisor, now on only outside of homes but inside as well. Should we be personally leave, is one of six candidates running in the June primary for her seat. A Valley Voice investigation reveals cleaning this up and if so, should there be any precautions? Or he is the only candidate to receive contributions from Sempra Energy, the parent company of SoCalGas, and should we allow for the professionals to clean up the gel because their lawyers and lobbyists in Washington D.C., collecting approximately $20,000. it could be hazardous to the residents’ health? Email responses from both Sen Pavely, and Stern, appear later in this article. * * * Official campaign disclosure filings with the California Secretary in of State reveal that in June, 2015, Where is the department of public health? In my opinion, they the Washington D.C. based law firm, Van Ness Feldman, LLP, where Stern formerly worked as an attorney, should be addressing those issues and not just asking us as treating hosted a fundraiser for him in D.C. at which time many of its lawyers, including the law firm itself, made physicians to ignore them. It is my understanding that they have contributions to Stern’s campaign. requested the aid of UCLA’s Environmental Medicine Department Van Ness advertises on its own website (www.vnf.com), that it is one of the nation’s largest law firms for to do an analysis on the “mysterious gel.” I understand it takes time, the oil and gas industry, the coal industry, pipeline companies, utilities and nuclear power and energy industries but the community needs to know to what they are being exposed. in their regulatory and legislative affairs. Sempra Energy, Occidental Energy, Gas Processors Association and Also as a treating physician I would like to know, so I might Texas Pipeline associates are some of the clients mentioned. apply appropriate treatments if applicable. And despite the As a regulated utility, SoCalGas is prohibited by law from making political contributions. However, its numerous phone calls I have made, I have received no response parent company Sempra Energy, is not, and has donated over $500,000 to numerous candidates and political despite the fact that I have been requested to investigate an unusual parties in California in the six-month period from Jan 1 to June 15, 2015. death from a rare neurological condition within the community. Included in that list of contributions is a donation of $1,500 to Stern for State Senate. He also received Where’s our leadership? contributions from SoCalGas executives George Minter ($500), Tanya Peaccock ($250), and $1,000 from - J. Nordella M.D., attorney Robert Wyman of Latham & Watkins, who represents SoCalGas in its matters regarding the Porter Medical Director, Porter Ranch Quality Care Ranch gas leak. (Continued on page 8) ç     è ê ù † ≠

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May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 2 Flawed Evidence Used SoCalGas Clean up Plan – Agencies and A Ploy to Destroy Evidence? SoCalGas Misled By Alexandra Nagy, Food & Water Watch n estimated 4,000 residences are still relocated from the Porter Ranch and greater area after the October 23rd gas blowout from the SoCalGas Aliso Canyon gas storage facility. Those relocated are waiting for Public On Aresults from testing to understand what toxins are left in and around their homes from the oily mist and gas that was a constant during the blowout. Weeks ago, SoCalGas decided they wanted to save money on relocation costs and ordered people to choose from one Blackouts from of three housing relocation options, which many found all the options unsatisfactory. The only alternative they had was to unwillingly return home as their hotel reservations were canceled as of noon April 22. At the same time as an estimated 50% of the people were reluctantly returning home, SoCalGas released a new Closure of bulletin that house cleaning would be done, however there is over a week delay before this will start. That means people will be inside their homes (which many believe are contaminated) for a week or more before this program starts. Also the home owner is not privy as to the level of quality, type, depth, nor whether this type of cleaning will remove the type Aliso Canyon of toxins because the test results have not as of yet been released. By Julie Light, Food & Water Watch * * * ood & Water Watch has released a report showing that Matt Pakucko, President and co-founder of Save Porter Ranch responded with: State regulatory agencies and Gas “SoCalGas has finally acknowledged there is a still a problem in Porter Ranch. Again, a for-profit companyis F(SoCalGas) failed to make a case that the Aliso Canyon dictating the wellbeing of our community by forcing us home and providing clean up efforts with no oversight. Our Storage Facility should be reopened to ensure gas reliability community needs a real decontamination plan and SoCalGas needs to pay for it. The residents and scientific community for Southern California. should have a voice in the decontamination process. Every residence in our impacted community should qualify for The study, conducted by Bill Powers, P.E. of Powers home testing and undergo the maximum decontamination process, not just those that are still relocated like SoCalGas Engineering, concludes that two recent reports jointly dictates. Our agencies are failing us again by letting SoCalGas take the lead and determine quality of life issues for our released by the California Public Utilities Commission, the community. We need public process and accountability from the Public Health Department and other agencies to ensure California Energy Commission, The California Independent that all of our homes are restored to a safe and livable condition. ” Systems Operator, the Los Angeles Department of Water “This is just a clever attempt for SoCalGas to “clean up” their image while destroying the evidence of what and Power and SoCalGas on April 5 are based on flawed or contaminants are present in our homes. Each house has a different level of contaminates and we can better understand unsubstantiated data. the long-term health impacts when we have a full analysis of toxins in each home. We don’t understand the impacts of “The Aliso Canyon storage facility is dangerous and the toxins in our homes now and we won’t know the real clean up protocol until we do.” unnecessary to supply natural gas to Southern California,” said Food & Water Watch California Director Adam Scow. “We are disappointed that State agencies published bad data that supports the reopening of the gas field, which only serves to benefit SoCalGas at public expense. Governor Brown and state agencies should keep the facility shut down permanently.” The study finds that: - State agencies used inflated estimates of demand for electricity from gas-powered generators in the LA Basin during summer and winter peak events - Agency reports made incorrect statements about the ability of the Honor Rancho storage field to serve as an effective substitute for Aliso Canyon to guarantee a reliable supply of natural gas - Agency claims that the SoCalGas firm pipeline capacity of 3.8 billion cubic feet per day and design storage send-out rate of 1.8 billion cubic feet per day from Honor Rancho, La Goleta and Playa del Rey cannot be relied on at design flow rates “The public has been betrayed and the legislature should bring in the President of the Public Utilities Commission and other state agencies to explain these misrepresentations under oath,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog. “Taxpayers have a right to know whether Southern California gas authored this report without any real state scrutiny and it was simply published under the state’s seal.” Porter Ranch area residents, who live near the Aliso Canyon facility, say the gas storage facility is unsafe and should be shut down permanently. Some are experiencing symptoms from the gas leak following their return to their homes. The storage facility experienced the worst methane leak in California history in October of last year, which took four months to plug, and has been shut down since January. “Since this disaster, our community has seen how much misinformation and outright lies have come from SoCalGas. We are going on six months of being displaced from our homes, and we urge our elected officials investigate the influence SoCalGas had on the State reports and stand with residents to ensure Aliso Canyon remains closed down,” said Matt Pakucko, President of Save Porter Ranch. “It Can Never be Safe” Shut it Down – All of It! By Alexandra Nagy, Food & Water Watch ore than 14,000 people are still displaced from their homes six months after the SoCalGas blowout at the MAliso Canyon Storage Facility. Although the Division of Oil Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) certified that the gas leak was controlled and capped on February 18, Mohsen Nazemi with South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) testified on February 20 that SS-25 is still off-gassing from the soil surrounding SS-25. Last month, at State regulator’s Aliso Canyon Reliability Workshop, DOGGR official Ken Harris confirmed that SS- 25 is still off-gassing. This off-gassing may be connected to the strong smell of mercaptans, the odorant in gas, experienced by residents in the northern San Fernando Valley. In addition, SoCalGas emailed residents to notify them of an odorant discharge at the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. Residents say that Aliso Canyon can never be made safe and must be shut down permanently. May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 3 Housing Program Extended What are you orter Ranch-area residents displaced by the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak will be able to remain in temporary housing – at Southern California Gas Co. expense - until at least June 7, with a judge ruling there is still uncertainty aboutP the safety of returning to their homes, according to City News Service. breathing in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Wiley Jr. set another hearing on the issue for June 7 to revisit the issue. The ruling was another courtroom loss for SoCalGas, which argued there is no lingering health risk for residents in the Porter Ranch area. The Aliso Canyon at home? leak, which was discovered Oct. 23, was capped on Feb. 18. In March, a different judge ordered that the temporary housing program end, but a state appeals court overturned that decision. Gas Co. attorneys argued then the company was paying about $1.8 million a day to pay for the roughly 2,600 residents still living in temporary housing. Attorneys for Los Angeles County and the city argue that more thorough Think About It! testing is needed to ensure residents will be safe when they return home. Breezeway Air Duct Cleaning can help. SoCal: Dirty Politics = We can provide the quality you need and deserve. Dirty Air (Continued from page 1) government have objected to his termination. This includes State Senate President 626.399.9564 Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, who announced that he will introduce legislation to increase the size of the SCAQMD board, adding three new members: one experienced in 10% OFF Discount for all Porter Ranch and Relocated public health and two as environmental justice members. De Leon also alleged, to the Daily Breeze that, “This hostile takeover, led by (Los Residents. Mention Valley Voice when you call. Angeles County) Supervisor Michael Antonovich, has subverted the will of the people and undone decades of hard work.” Antonovich, is suspected of wanting the board to be friendlier to big business interests, especially the oil refineries that smudge the south coast and belch toxic fumes into the air. Antonovitch, who has been a county supervisor for the past 36 years, may be giving this air quality agency reorganization as a gift to his big business supporters and contributors – folks he may want to call on again when he makes a run for Democratic State Senator Carol Liu’s seat. She has been termed out, as has Antonovitch. He’s announced his intention to extend his career – to become another “revolving door” politico by moving from the county to the state government. www.BreezewayAirDuctCleaning.com That could help explain why a near-octogenarian, instead of retiring to make Email Us: [email protected] room for fresher voices with a true stake in the future, may be creating a “quid pro quo” by helping to engineer a pro-oil business change over at the air quality board. (Responds Within 2 Hours) Other political leaders that objected to the firing of SCAQMD’s Barry Wallerstein include County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who represents portions of the Harbor Area where the majority of the oil refineries are located. Environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, The Coalition for Clean Air, and the Coalition for a Safe Environment have also weighed in with their objections, as has the California Air Resources Board. The Senate Environmental Quality Committee has asked the board to reconsider. Maybe the objective here was to create such foul air that we can’t smell the stink of dirty politics. (Tim Deegan is a long-time resident and community leader in the Miracle Mile.) - CityWatch

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* * * “Neither the President nor the Vice President said that they would be advocating for mere suggestions that the oil and gas industry would be free to violate at their discretion.” “We need mandatory federal regulations for storage facilities like Aliso Canyon. PHMSA should use its existing authority to implement mandatory regulations for the storage of natural gas. If PHMSA does not exercise their authority, I have introduced legislation, the Gas Storage Safety Act, which would direct PHMSA to implement tough federal safety standards for gas storage.” Everyone agrees that the Administration has authority to impose mandatory regulations that are binding on the oil and gas industry. Congressman Sherman’s office has also completed the legal analysis showing that the Administration can adopt immediate temporary binding regulations. Congressman Sherman’s district includes much of the Porter Ranch area of California, where the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history displaced over 7,000 families. Sherman’s home was about as close as any residence to the leak. May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 5 No Other Idols By Pastor Dudley C. Rutherford - Shepherd of the Hills

It seems as though there are warning signs wherever we turn. We see them on food What brings me the most joy? Whose affirmation do I long labels warning us of possible allergens; on traffic signs cautioning us about adverse road for? Perhaps you turn to food, alcohol, drugs, or pornography A conditions; and on most products advising us against improper use. I once saw a sticker for comfort. Maybe you long for the affirmation of a loved one or spend most of your on a windshield visor that read, “Warning: Do not drive with sunshade in place!” Though we money on material things. Whatever you have placed your hope in—whatever consumes are inundated with warnings, the purpose of these warnings is for our protection—even the your thoughts—has probably become your idol. It has replaced God in your heart. ones that seems like common sense. Now that you have determined whether or not you have an idol and have identified In biblical times, God gave His people many warnings through His prophets. God sent what it is, what can you do? You can start by asking the Lord to forgive you and to occupy the prophets because the rulers and people of Israel had been living in sin and disobedience. first place in your life. God will not compete with anything else, for He alone is worthy of They became greedy and indulged in sexual immorality. They worshipped false gods and our devotion, honor, and praise. And when we give Him the rightful place in our heart, committed idolatry, which was a direct violation of the First and Second Commandment: 1.) Psalm 29:11 says, “The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with You shall have no other gods before Me, and 2.) You shall not make a carved image and bow peace.” down to it and worship it. Though God’s messengers mainly warned Israel about idol worship and future God sent each of the prophets in the Old Testament to warn the people of the consequences judgment if they did not repent, the prophets also spoke of a coming Savior who would of their sin. The Lord wanted to protect His people from these consequences—such as pain, rescue His people. This Savior is the Messiah—Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, God’s one sorrow, and invasion from foreign kingdoms—and to restore their relationship with Him. and only Son. God loves us so much that His sent His son to die on the cross for our sins, Despite God’s warnings and compassion, they continued to sin and turn away from Him, which bring us back to Him, and to make us whole (John 3:16). He created us and is more than led to their captivity and enslavement by the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Babylonians. able to provide everything we need. We don’t need to look to the things of this world. But Idol worship may seem like a thing of the past, but it’s still very prevalent today. it’s a choice. We can choose to sin and rebel by looking for satisfaction elsewhere, or we can Did you know that an idol is anything other than God that captures our heart, time, or choose to obey God and worship Him alone. Which choice will you make today? commitment? Our idols today can be our career, money, entertainment, hobbies, sex, or Edited by Shauna Greco relationships. They are the things we believe complete and define us. Yet God wants us to be defined by our love for and devotion to Him. Dudley Rutherford is the author of Walls Fall Down (www.WallsFallDown.com) and So how do you know if you have an idol in your life? Here are some questions you can the senior pastor of Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch, CA. Service times at Shepherd are ask yourself: What do I complain about the most? 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Alan Dershowitz on Bernie Sanders By Alan M. Dershowitz ernie Sanders may not be as anti-Israel as some of his radical supporters but he can no longer be called pro-Israel. The accusations he has repeatedly leveled against Israel in the Bpast few days — that its military response to Hamas rockets and terror tunnels has been “disproportionate” — reflects both abysmal ignorance about the conduct of the Israeli Defense Force and a pervasive bias against the nation state of the Jewish people. Sanders is right, of course, that he is not alone in accusing Israel of using disproportionate force, but he is very bad company when he cites the “countries all over the world” that have directed this chorus of criticism against Israel. Those who most consistently attack the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces are among the worst human rights violators in the world, including countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria. The reality is that Israel has done what other Western democracies — faced with far less direct threats to their civilians — have done, but they have done so far more carefully, with greater concern for civilians, and to better success. Yet Israel is singled out for unique condemnation as part of a widespread effort to delegitimize, and demonize the nation state of the Jewish people. Sanders has now made statements that lend support to these biased efforts. * * * Reasonable people can disagree with Israel’s occupation and settlement policies — although even critics must acknowledge that Israel offered to end the West Bank occupation and settlements in 2000, 2001, and 2008 as part of a plan to create a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership rejected the 2000 and 2001 offers and failed to respond to the 2008 proposal. Israel did unilaterally end its Gaza occupation and settlements, only to see that area turned into a launching pad for Hamas rockets and tunnels designed to kill Israeli civilians. As Barack Obama said when he was running for president and visited Israeli areas that were most directly impacted by rocket attacks: “If somebody was sending rockets into my house where MONEY MARKET RATE COMPARISON - % APY* my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would That’s Us. $100k expect Israelis to do the same thing.” .70% Israel has now located and neutralized yet another terror tunnel leading from Gaza into Israel that had been built recently, and already extended “tens of meters” underneath the border fence The Tall, and into Israel proper. Its purpose is to kill, kidnap and hold hostage Israeli civilians, including children from those towns located near the tunnel exits. Good- Hamas knows that if they were to deploy their rockets and place the entrances to their terror tunnels in unpopulated areas – as the laws of war require – the Israeli military could attack these military targets without endangering civilians. But Hamas wants Israel to injure and kill Looking its civilians. They deliberately employ what has come to be known by the cruel but accurate term, “the dead baby strategy.” Under this double war crime strategy, the Israeli military is put Rate On to the terrible Hobson’s choice of either allowing its own civilians to be subjected to rocket and tunnel attacks or to destroy those rockets and tunnels by attacking targets that are surrounded by Palestinian civilians, who Hamas effectively uses as human shields. The Right. What would Sanders do if the United State were faced with a comparable dilemma? Would he allow rockets to rain down on American civilians? Would he allow for terror tunnels to ferret Now you don’t have to armed terrorists to kill and kidnap American children? Or would he do what President Obama move your money around urged Israel to do: whatever it takes to stop the rockets and tunnels. to get the best rate in (Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Emeritus Professor at Harvard Law School and the author of Taking the Stand, My Life in the Law.) - The Algemeiner town. Our Money Market rate stacks up as one of .03% th .01% .01% .01% Chatsworth’s 19 Annual… the heftiest around. So, Inc. as of 2/26/16 Services, Research Informa Source: Bank of Chase Citibank Wells Logix say goodbye to short-term America Fargo

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“You can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” - Abraham Lincoln (To be continued. Comments invited – yourvalleyvoice@ hotmail.com) CityWatch Admissionsgate: UC Audit Confirms CA Residents Getting Screwed by Their Own College Ed System By Beth Cone Kramer 015 was the most brutal year ever for Californians hoping to score a spot in the Bruin Class of 2019. Of close to 58,000 who applied, only 9,351 gained admittance to UCLA, which works out2 to an admit rate of about 16 percent. At Berkeley, the acceptance rate hovered around 19 percent. To put things in perspective, UCLA rejected more applicants than Harvard, Princeton, and Yale combined. (To be fair, UCLA gets four to five times more applicants than the three Ivy’s.) On the heels of those slews of late March rejection emails comes a state audit that concluded The University of California has been admitting thousands of out-of-state applicants who had lower GPAs and test scores. California is far from alone in the quest to maximize student dollars. Forty-three of fifty state “flagships” have had decreasing percentages of in-state students within the past decade. Out-of-state applicants bring more money to the public university system but many, including Governor Brown, have questioned whether Californians are getting a fair shot. The 116- page state audit concluded that about 29 percent of non-Californians admitted had GPAs and test scores below the median of residents who reside in the state. Nonresidents pay $38,108 in fees and tuition compared to $13,400 in-state. According to the state’s Master Plan for Higher Education, UC had been directed to admit only those non-resident applicants who at least held the qualifications of the upper half of residents eligible for admission; that threshold changed in 2011. Non-residents only needed to “compare favorably” to their in-state competitors. While the revised practice is helping bring in more funds, the practice is hurting California’s high school grads. The other piece of the puzzle is since 2008, the regents have allowed campuses to keep the bonus tuition money from non- Californians instead of sharing with other campuses. The audit shows that out-of-state enrollment has quadrupled in the past decade, while enrollments of Californians has only grown by 10 percent, despite a 52 percent increase in in-state applications. May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 8 Inmates Running Asylum 9420 De Soto Ave College Students’ Chatsworth, CA 91311 Reserve/Pay Online Bullying of Speakers @ Continues EZStorageonline.com By Andrew Pessin secretive group that documents anti-Israel and antisemitic campus activities released a preliminary report on last month’s disruption of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s Aspeech at State University (SFSU), The Algemeiner has learned. Canary Mission stated that its report sought to “expose the radical leadership” responsible for the disruption, and that it would be “exposing numerous other individuals at the event over the coming days.” The report identifies the first student leader as Linda Ereikat, an International Relations major at SFSU who is also a “prominent member of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS).” Though Ereikat has been attempting to delete her online history since the incident, the report notes, they already have collected a full dossier on her anti-Israel activities. The second student leader is identified as Lubna Morrar, a sociology major and current President of GUPS at SFSU. According to the report, Morrar’s Facebook posts are “rife with violence, libels and praise for terrorism,” although The Algemeiner was unable to locate her Facebook page to confirm as of press time. Canary Mission also has assembled a full dossier on Morrar’s anti-Israel activities. 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May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 9 LOCAL Events Youth Short Film Festival holding a “Protect Your Identity, Shred It” on Saturday, Earlier this year, Councilmember Mitchell Englander May 7, 9:00 am to 12:45 pm at Target, 11133 Balboa Blvd. in launched Making Movies that Matter Youth Short Film Festival Granada Hills. This event is open to community members to involving hundreds of young film makers from elementary, bring all unwanted paper items for on-site mobile shredding. middle, and high school campuses throughout Council District Donations will be accepted to benefit the LA Crime Stoppers 12 and the San Fernando Valley. Community College and Tip Reward Program. For more information, go to www. undergraduate students are also encouraged to submit films. lacrimestoppers.org. The Film Festival will culminate on May 19, with a juried [RE]visit [RE]seda Blvd Art competition and screening at the Valley Performing Arts Center The Reseda Blvd Summer Event series will take place (VPAC) at California State University, Northridge. Details and on the first and third Saturdays of May (May 7, May 21) updates can be found at www.cd12movies.com. If you have any and June 4th from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Planned activities questions, contact Ron Rubine at [email protected]. include interactive experiences, art walk, poetry, dance, Chatsworth Library Book Club music, performing arts, and laser light art. Artists interested The Chatsworth Library Book Club will meet on Wednesday, in participating should contact Shane Ferguson at (818) 378- May 4 at 1:00 PM to discuss Wild: From Lost to Found on the 6810 or email [email protected]. Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. The Library is located at Mental Health Awareness Day 21052 Devonshire Street. (818) 341-4276 El Centro de Amistad (ECDA) is hosting a Mental Health Seated Yoga Awareness Day on Tuesday, May 10 at Los Angeles Mission The Chatsworth Library holds a free seated yoga class College, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. as part of May’s every Wednesday at 10:30 AM. The library is located at 21052 Mental Health Awareness Month. Los Angeles Mission Devonshire Street. Call (818) 341-4276 for more information. College is located at 13356 Eldridge Ave. in Sylmar. For more Porter Ranch Library information, visit www.mentalhealthamerica.net/may. Join the Porter Ranch Library discussion group as they talk HeArts and Crafts Faire about their current book, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy on The Granada Hills Baptist Church is hosting a Hearts and Saturday, May 7, 10:00 am at 11371 Tampa Avenue. For more Crafts Faire on Saturday, May 14th, 10:00 pm to 2:00 pm at information, please call (818) 360-5706. 10949 Zelzah Ave. The event is free and open to the public. Santa Susana Park Hike They hope to provide a space for local artists and craftsmen to The Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park is hosting a share their work with the community. For more information, welcome walk to talk about the historical uses of the park on call (818) 360-2104 or email [email protected]. Saturday, May 7, 9:00 am at the Andora Trail Head, 9955 Boys & Girls Club Andora Ave. in Chatsworth. The difficulty level is moderate Community members are invited to contribute and will take care to avoid hills and go at a slow pace so less approximately 63,000 quarters on Saturday, May 14, 10:00 am agile community members can enjoy the day as well. For more to 5:00 pm that will be laid out for one mile stretching through information, call (818) 784-4849. the Westfield Topanga mall’s lower level, 6600 Topanga Shred It Event Canyon Blvd. in Canoga Park. For more information, call The Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers Program is (818) 610-1054. COPY GIRL Briana N. Haghighi

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May, 2016 For Advertising Rates, Visit www.evalleyvoice.com Page 10 succeed at school and in the workplace. Applications must be turned in by Monday, May 16. For questions about the program and/or to partner with our office on future LOCAL Events cont. community projects, please work with my Legislative Deputy, Semee Park by email at: [email protected] or by calling (213) 473-7012. Beckford Elementary Granada Hills Library Beckkford Elementary is hosting their annual Family Fun Day on Saturday, May The Friends of the Granada Hills Library will host a two-day used book sale on 14, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at 19130 Tulsa St. in Porter Ranch. All community members Friday, May 20, from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM; and Saturday, May 21, from 9:30 AM to are welcome to attend. There will be carnival games, fun crafts, big inflatable bounce- 4:00 PM. The sale will take place in the library’s community room, 10640 Petit Ave. houses, obstacle courses, food trucks, Kona Ice, entertainment, laser tag, and air- The library phone number is 818-368-5687. conditioned Bingo. Admission is free, however activities may require purchase of either a wristband or food/game tickets. For more information and to purchase tickets, call SOLID Pancake Breakfast (818) 360-1924, or visitwww.beckfordelementary.com. Celebrate Armed Forces Day with LAPD Devonshire Division as they host their Annual Open House and SOLID All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, Depot Art Show May 21, 8:00 am to 11:00 am at LAPD Devonshire Station, 10250 Etiwanda Ave. in Chatsworth 19th Annual Depot Art Show will be held on Sunday, May 15th, 10am – Northridge. The pancake breakfast is $9 per person and is free for kids 3 and under. 5pm at the charming Chatsworth Metrolink Station, 10040 Old Depot Plaza Road. The All other activities during the event are free and open to the public. There will be show will display a variety of original art works created by Valley artists: paintings, military displays, LAPD displays, games, and more. For more information, call (818) ceramics, fabric arts, photography, jewelry & more. There will be live music, a children’s 925-8335 or visit www.soliddevonshire.org. art booth, and the People’s Choice Favorite Artist Award decided by the community in attendance. Free admission. (818) 772-1639, www.chatsworthfineartscouncil.com. Citrus Sunday Councilman Mitchell Englander’s office, Neighborhood Councils of District 12, E12 Summer Leadership Program Valley Interfaith Council & Food Forward invite you to participate in Citrus Sunday, Councilmember Mitchell Englander is proud to commence the fourth class of May 22, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm by picking oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruit from the E12 Excellence in Public Service high school leadership development program your trees and dropping them off to your local Neighborhood Council location. 100% of to train and cultivate the next generation of young leaders in our community. This your donations will be delivered to local food pantries. For more information, please call interdisciplinary program will teach students how to navigate the network of public (818)882-1212 or email [email protected]. To register your fruit trees for Citrus agencies, facilitate collaborative coalition building, and master interpersonal skills to Sunday or any time of year, call (818) 530-4125 or go to www.foodforward.org. Free Movie Matinee On Thursday, May 26, at 1:30 PM a free showing of “Suffragette” will be held in the Chatsworth Library Community Room, 21052 Devonshire Street. The movie Why the Left Hates is sponsored by the Friends of the Chatsworth Library. Light refreshments will be available. Go to chatsworthfriends.org or call (818) 341-4276 for more information. Western Civilization “A Night to Remember” Valley Jewish Community Center (VJCC) invites the entire community to their By Dennis Prager 2nd Annual Casino Night on June 4th at Braemar Country Club. The evening begins at 6:30, with Casino Games, Silent Auction, Raffle, Dinner and lots of fun. Tickets are ust last month, Stanford University students voted on a campus resolution that would have on sale now, please call for reservations 818-360-2211 or go online at valleyjcc.org. their college require a course on Western civilization, as it did until the 1980s. J Stanford students rejected the proposal 1,992 to 347. A columnist at the Stanford Daily “We Can Help” explained why: Teaching Western civilization means “upholding white supremacy, capitalism Valley JCC is offering three classes beginning in May to help prevent acquiring and colonialism, and all other oppressive systems that flow from Western civilizations.” diabetes. Valley JCC is a Center The vote — and the column — encapsulated the left’s view: In Europe, Latin America for Disease Control CDC - “recognized” agency presenting and America, it loathes Western civilization. Deadline for Non-Profits Wherever there is conflict between the West — identified as white, capitalist or of this “We Can Help” special European roots — and the non-West, the left portrays the West as the villain. program for you. For more Please submit very brief local events, space is I am referring to the left, not to liberals. The latter generally respects Western civilization. information, please call (818) limited, by the 20th, for the following month. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, frequently spoke of defending “Christian 360-2211 or email Cheri (our Send word document to yourvalleyvoice@ civilization.” Today, the left would likely revile any Westerner who used such language as LifeStyle Coach) at cheri@ hotmail.com. No faxes, phone calls or mail. xenophobic, racist, and fascist. valleyjcc.org. It dismisses virtually all Western achievements, but regards criticism of anything non- Rachel Reiter, Local Events Coordinator Western as racist, chauvinistic, imperialist, colonialist, xenophobic, etc. That is why the left is so protective of Islam. America’s left-wing president, Barack Obama, will not use, and does not seem to allow the government to use, the words “Islamic terrorism.” And, criticism of Islam is labeled “Islamophobic,” thereby morally equating any such criticism with racism. It is not that the left is sympathetic to Islam, for it has contempt for all religions. It is that many Muslims loathe the West, and the enemies of my enemy (the West) must be protected. That is why the left loathes Israel. If the left actually cared about human rights, women’s rights, gay rights, or freedom of speech, religion and press, it would be wildly pro-Israel. But Israel, in the left’s view, is white, European and colonialist, or in other words, Western. And the Palestinians are non-Western. * * * So, the Big Question is, why? Why is the left hostile toward Western civilization? After decades of considering this question, I have concluded the answer is this: standards. The left hates standards — moral standards, artistic standards, cultural standards. The West is built on all three, and it has excelled in all three. Why does the left hate standards? It hates standards because when there are standards, there is judgment. And leftists don’t want to be judged. Thus, Michelangelo is no better than any contemporary artist, and Rembrandt is no greater than any non-Western artist. So, too, street graffiti — which is essentially the defacing of public and private property, and thus serves to undermine civilization — is “art.” Melody-free, harmony-free, atonal sounds are just as good as Beethoven’s music. And Western classical music is no better than the music of any non-Western civilization. Guatemalan poets are every bit as worthy of study as Shakespeare. Why such antagonism? Because if some art is really better than other art, your art may be judged inferior. The narcissism of left-wing thought does not allow for anyone to be better than you artistically or in any other way. Therefore, all art and artists must be equal. * * * In the moral realm, the same rejection of standards exists. Thus, the left loathed President Ronald Reagan for labeling the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” because that would mean America was morally superior to the Soviet Union. And such a judgment was unacceptable. The whole left-wing moral vocabulary is a rejection of Western moral standards: “tolerance,” “inclusion,” “anti-discrimination” (by definition, standards discriminate), “non-judgmental,” and even “income inequality,” which deems some peoples’ work more valuable than others. Every civilization had slavery. But only thanks to Judeo-Christian civilization was slavery abolished there, and eventually elsewhere. Nevertheless, to speak about any moral superiority of Western or Judeo-Christian civilization is completely unacceptable, thanks to the left’s stranglehold on education and most media. In this regard, the protection of Islam by the left is so thorough that one cannot even say such obvious truths such as that the status of women has been far superior in the Judeo- Christian West than in the Islamic world. And finally, we come to the left’s loathing of the religions of Western civilization — the Judeo-Christian religions, which have clear standards of right and wrong. Bible-based religions affirm a morally judging God. For the left, that is anathema. For the left, the only judging allowed is leftists’ judging of others. No one judges the left — neither man nor God.

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*Offer applies only to single-receipt qualifying purchases. Ashley HomeStore does not require a down payment, however, sales tax and delivery charges are due at time of purchase if the purchase is made with your Ashley Advantage™ Credit Card. No interest will be charged on promo purchase and equal monthly payments are required equal to initial promo purchase amount divided equally by the number of months in promo period until promo is paid in full. The equal monthly payment will be rounded to the next highest whole dollar and may be higher than the minimum payment that would be required if the purchase was a non-promotional purchase. Regular account terms apply to non-promotional purchases. For new accounts: Purchase APR is 29.99%; Minimum Interest Charge is $2. Existing cardholders should see their credit card agreement for their applicable terms. Promotional purchases of merchandise will be charged to account when merchandise is delivered. Subject to credit approval. ‡Monthly payment shown is equal to the purchase price, excluding taxes and delivery, divided by the number of months in the promo period, rounded to the next highest whole dollar, and only applies to the selected financing option shown. If you make your payments by the due date each month, the monthly payment shown should allow you to pay off this purchase within the promo period if this balance is the only balance on your account during the promo period. If you have other balances on your account, this monthly payment will be added to the minimum payment applicable to those balances. ††Ashley Furniture does not require a down payment, however, sales tax and delivery charges are due at time of purchase if the purchase is made with your Ashley Advantage™ Credit Card. Offer applies only to single-receipt qualifying purchases. No interest will be charged on the promo purchase if you pay the promo purchase amount in full within 6 or 18 Months. If you do not, interest will be assessed on the promo purchase from the purchase date. Regular account terms apply to non-promotional purchases and, after promotion ends, to promotional balance. For new accounts: Purchase APR is 29.99%; Minimum Interest Charge is $2. Existing cardholders should see their credit card agreement for their applicable terms. Subject to credit approval. §Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments required. See store for details. ‡‡Previous purchases excluded. Cannot be combined with any other promotion or discount. Discount offers exclude Tempur-Pedic®, Stearns & Foster®, Sealy Optimum™ and Sealy Posturepedic Hybrid™ mattress sets, floor models, clearance items, sales tax, furniture protection plans, warranty, delivery fee, Manager’s Special pricing, Advertised Special pricing, and 14 Piece Packages and cannot be combined with financing specials. Effective 12/30/15, all mattress and box springs are subject to an $11 per unit CA recycling fee. SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. Stoneledge Furniture LLC. many times has multiple offers, promotions, discounts and financing specials occurring at the same time; these are allowed to only be used either/or and not both or combined with each other. Although every precaution is taken, errors in price and/or specification may occur in print. We reserve the right to correct any such errors. Picture may not represent item exactly as shown, advertised items may not be on display at all locations. Some restrictions may apply. Available only at participating locations. †DURABLEND® upholstery products feature a seating area made up of a combination of Polyurethane and/or PVC, Polycotton, and at least 17% Leather Shavings with a skillfully matched combination of Polycotton and Polyurethane and/or PVC everywhere else. **Leather Match upholstery features top-grain leather in the seating areas and skillfully matched vinyl everywhere else. Ashley HomeStores are independently owned and operated. ©2016 Ashley HomeStores, Ltd. Promotional Start Date: May 10, 2016. Expires: May 30, 2016.

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