No Joke: Ed Reyes' Vegan Bake Sale to Benefit the LA "River"
If you live in CD1 and wonder why you have awful represenation and crappy City services, here is one of the things that keeps your Clowncilman pre-occupuied.
Councilmember Ed P. Reyes is hosting the City’s First Vegan Bake Sale Thursday, June 25, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Los Angeles City Hall Farmers Market, 200 N. Spring Street, to help raise awareness and funds for the Los Angeles River.
Los Angeles is one of more than 80 cities in eight days internationally holding a vegan bake sale as part of Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale, a fun global event to help people, the animals and the environment.
“The Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale helps brings attention to our planet, especially the L.A. River, because of its environmental implications for the City of Los Angeles,” said Reyes, who chairs the City's Los Angeles River Ad Hoc Committee. “Thursday’s event is also about making educated and compassionate choices about the food we eat. The vegan bake sale will feature favorites like chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes and brownies, as well as diabetic-friendly and gluten-free goods.”
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Los Angeles River Keepers, a Los Angeles Conservation Corps team of students who help clean and green the L.A. River.
"Delicious vegan sweets and the L.A. River Keepers: two things working hard to preserve our environment,” said Hop Hopkins, Los Angeles Conservation Corps Program Manager, a vegan who has been active in food justice programs to aid urban communities.
The Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale is being organized by the Washington D.C.-based, Compassion for Animals.
“When people bite into a mouth-watering vegan cheesecake, cherry cobbler or chocolate chip cookie for their first time, their misperceptions about vegan food may immediately begin to melt away,” said Gary Loewenthal, Director, Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale. “And the positive experience often leads them to learn more about the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a vegan lifestyle.”
Labels: Councilman Ed Reyes, fraud waste and abuse, LA River
Posted by Michael Higby @ 6/24/2009 01:08:00 PM
23 Comments:
*Absolutely no eggs, dairy, honey, gelatin or other animal-based ingredients.
Reyes is trying to fit in with the westside and west valley people as he aims to put more and more dense low0-income housing into their area for his illegals. He went on about this today working it into discussion on a general topic.
Reyes even told Jack O'Connell a couple days ago that if this housing wasn't put into the "areas where it really belongs," that is the westside, west valley and other so far "nice" areas that the kids who are now dropping out of school would keep doing so in greater numbers. HOW that follows to anyone but Ed Reyes and Garcetti is anyone's guess.
He, Cardenas and Garcetti are in the news again today for backing former Ms-13 gang prevention worker Sanchez, who'd been arrested for either extortion or intent to commit murder (whether you believe the Weekly or Times/ AP stories today), who just got busted again for active involvement in gang programs.
You can add them to Janice Hahn. All of whom were going on today about what a great City Attorney Rocky had been, after they'd had nothing good to day about him for the last 8 years. What phonies.
Another story in the news you should feature, Michael: a Superior Court judge rules against Chick's right to do audits on Rocky or any other elected official BUT to his credit Doug McIntyre this morning said we must hold Trutanich's feet to the fire on this issue. It was a key platform he ran on over Jack Weiss who said he supported it but didn't vote to give money to Chick for her lawsuit against Delgadillo believing it shouldn't cost more taxpayer money.
Doug says there's nothing in the ruling to prevent Trutanich from allowing Greuel to do the audit they both want, and Trutanich must do it to show faith with his key promise. If he weasels out Doug says he'll not let him forget it, Michael, let people weigh in on it.
"Homies Unidos" - City of Los Angeles Councilmembers Tony Cardenas and Herb Wesson with Executive Director/Indicted MS-13 gang member, Alex Sanchez, of Homies Unidos, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization.
http://homiesunidos.org/aboutus.html
higby why are you suddenly on the blog so much this week? you've been absent much of the past few months.
Celeste Fremon accuses the FBI and LAPD and US Marshalls of a set-up while others think it's Hector Marroquin all over again, that those guys ARE where they are because they're clever enough to pull the wool over the eyes of do-good libs.
Frankly I can't imagine the FBI and other law enforcement would waste time and money "framing" Sanchez or that they are fooled into thinking that he's just associating with gangsters to get information to help the program.
3:48 why do you care?
Rumor has the Mayor's Summer Night Lights Program paying $6,000 to "community advocates" to shill for the Mayor's Pet Program.
16 x $6,000 = mucho dinero for gangbangers.
No bail for lawyer accused of helping Mafia member
The Associated Press
Posted: 06/19/2009 04:25:03 PM PDT
Updated: 06/19/2009 04:25:03 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES—A criminal defense lawyer charged with money laundering for the Mexican Mafia has been ordered held without bail in Los Angeles.
A federal magistrate ordered 48-year-old Isaac Guillen to remain in federal custody Friday because he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
Guillen was charged with racketeering, along with 40 alleged gang members and associates, in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Guillen transferred about $27,500 over five years from a gang to his business partner, an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member.
Prosecutors say the two men run a real estate holding corporation, a limo service and a liquor distributorship.
Guillen's defense attorney, William S. Harris, declined comment.
Anti-Gang Leader Arrested in Los Angeles on Racketeering Charges
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PrintShareThisLOS ANGELES — A man who left a ruthless street gang and later helped start the Los Angeles branch of a high-profile nonprofit that rescues kids from gang life was arrested Wednesday as part of a federal crackdown.
Alex Sanchez, 37, who heads Homies Unidos, was taken into custody at his Bellflower home on federal racketeering charges, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Eight other people were arrested.
The indictment names 24 leaders, members and associates of MS-13, part of the Mara Salvatrucha gang affiliated with the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
It alleges crimes that include several murders, conspiracies to commit murder and narcotics offenses, Eimiller said. Several of those named were already in custody.
MS-13 is estimated to have several thousand members across the U.S. as well as throughout Central America and Mexico, and is known for its brutality.
An FBI news release said five of the defendants, not including Sanchez, allegedly conspired to murder a veteran detective with the Los Angeles Police Department's gang unit.
The indictment also alleges members of the gang were responsible for seven murders and eight conspiracies to commit murder since 1995.
This event is being run and funded by other groups and people. The purpose is to raise money for the river. Reyes is probably just going to drop by for half an hour. How is that a distraction? Reyes job is to help the City, including the river. You just look for anything to attack someone. Damned if he does an event, damned if he doesn't.
Yes I want to know what Trutanich is going to do about the audit issue, insist on letting Gruel do it like he campaigned on or take the easy out and say the judge says he doesn't have to? With anything so far being Rocky's mess he has nothing to lose but what about when it's his own mess?
Although when he worked for Rocky as Special Assistant in November 05 he came in and out of the office on behalf of his private criminal clients, getting charges dropped against them and also using his influence to do that in the D A's office. Is that part of the "performance audit" or would he just allow worker's comp stuff that was the immediate dispute?
Frankly from what I've seen so far Trutanich is just a slick smooth talker who knows how to hit the hot buttons of the old people at SLAP, SOHA and rightwing radio. And him and Zine on Harley's at the WeHo gay rights parade was way worse than Zine and Rosendahl alone last year. Trutanich never even supported gay rights until the last minute of his campaign.
I was there and people were laughing AT them not applauding them. But they and Jan Perry all thinking they were so hot WAS the joke.
Those other groups like California Conservation Corps are funded with City (Taxpayers) money. Any money they raise will be far less than the salary they get while wasting time for this event.
Reyes just likes any photo op. He cares more about the river than the people that have to live along the river. They have to live with loud freight train horns blowing day and night and the loud noises of the train wheels on the rails. Why doesn't Reyes care about quality of life for people have live along the river?
I don't get it. Maybe there is nothing in between his ears.
You're pushing your credibility, Higby, when you include the phrase "No Joke" in the same sentence with "Ed Reyes" (or for that matter, most of our under-elected City Council members).
Just watch the city agendas as they fly by the 6-9 months before the beginning of each election cycle. Tons of "sizzle," but not one bit of "steak" (or tofu, in this case) in sight. It's at that point, that the Parke Skeltons, Ace Smiths, and all the other campaign hacks take over the reins of government, become the de facto "policy advisors" to the councilmembers and begin telling them what to propose as local legislation -- so they "look good" when the elections finally hit.
Nothing more than political whores hiking their skirts up right when the traffic increases on the boulevard.
"Susan Rocha" (above) for all you non-Northeasters is to local activism in CD1 what Red Spot in CD14 was to literacy in the blogosphere.
She's been riding an anti-Reyes train along the riverfront since she was unsuccessful in getting Reyes to have the local catholic church in Cypress Park turn down its bells and music used to draw the predominantly Latino neighborhood to Mass. So damaging has her obsession become with this part of local civic character and color, that it's become all-consuming anti-ALL noise (now it's morphed into train sounds, see her not -- part of the character of this trackside community for a century). Next she'll be ranting against the sounds of her neighbors doorbells when they have visitors.
Ear plugs would be cheaper than becoming a local pariah that EVERYONE (even people who share her disdain for Reyes), runs away from -- but that realization would require having a semi-rational mind.
I guess anonymous was not brave enough to post their name.
And, the church bells are not bells. It is an off key tape recording going off 6 times a day every day of the week.
And, I guess anonymous does not live along the river where the train horns blow night and day or next to the Divine Saviour Catholic Church that wants to blast their tape starting at 7:55 AM.
Noise is noise. I know that anonymous does not live near it. And, Ed Reyes does not give a you know what about it. He says he care about the river but what about the qualify of life for those that have to live along the river?
It is great that Reyes is having a vegan bake sale. Good for him. Hope it raises awareness.
Steve Lopez, at the L.A. Times, apparently agrees that Susan Rocha -- whether posting under her own name, or defending herself anonymously -- is an obsessed nutjob (see link).
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/14/local/me-lopez14
So do all her neighbors, AND, oddly enough, so does her own BROTHER, a local reporter for National Public Radio/KPCC who just shakes his head and walks away whenever her crackpot crusade again the lilting sounds of local color and culture come up in conversation.
I can think of a number of vegans I'd like to BAKE "with a stake of holly through their (oversized) hearts" -- and with apologies to Charles Dickens.
(Big bunch of wet-blanket kill joys!)
GO, MEAT!!!
I speak for those who have no voice:
Save a plant - eat meat!
Veggie Rights Now!
Another poster that is not brave enough to state their name.
Steve Lopez and others do not have respect for others right to peace and quiet in their own home. Or, they may want peace and quiet in their own home but they do not want others to have the same right.
And, you do not know my brother. He is not on KPCC. So, your wrong on all your lies.
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK MORE LIES AND CORRUPTION. THESE POLITICOS HONESTLY THINK THEY CAN FIX GANGS?? THEY ARE THE BIGGEST GANGSTERS AND WE VOTED THERE CORRUPT REARS IN!! QUESTION IS: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?? WRITE A BLOG OR ARE WE GOING TO USE ARE VOICE, MONEY AND BRAINS TO REMOVE THIS GROWING CANCER FROM THIS CITY. THE CHOICE IS OURS! ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE PUNCHED IN THE GUT BY THESE THUGS OR ARE WE GOING TO SET AN EXAMPLE NO ONE WILL FORGET. DO WE HAVE THE GUTS TO FIGHT FOR OURSELVES OR NOT!! RON KAYE IS ONE WHO IS TRYING BUT HE NEEDS YOUR HELP!! THEIR ARE ORGANIZATIONS THEIR WAITING FOR YOU TO ADD YOU VOICE TO THEIRS !! THE TIME IS NOW!!
My name is James Kaufmann, and I direct a group in Western New York called Rochester Soundscape Society. I think combatting unnecessary and excessive noise is a worthy and important cause. Noise can effect health, learning, and quality of life. We have had researchers Arline Bronzaft and Lorraine Maxwell here to share some of the findings on the issue. I encourage people to look at the research that has been done on noise, and I encourage Susan Rocha to keep working to make things better.
With the City's current state Reyes shouldn't spend 30 seconds on this. It is not the City Council's job to provide us with nutritional guidance.
And by the way the LA River is not a river. It's a drainage ditch.
Want to see a river? Go to the Mississippi. Now that's a river!
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