OC Voice

The OC Voice was the first to break the story of alleged police harassment under the ordinance and the possibility that a lawsuit would be filed by the ACLU on behalf of the day laborers in October, 2007. This is the fifth of five parts in video. This segment shows the musical overture to the press conference announcing the lawsuit led by the Mexican folk band El Centro.

This segment of “Day Laborers vs. Costa Mesa” shows the English version of the press conference held on Feb. 2, 2010 in front of Costa Mesa’s city hall to announce a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others on behalf of day laborers whose First Amendment rights were allegedly violated by enforcement of a city ordinance.

Day laborers in Costa Mesa are suing the city to repeal its anti-solicitation ordinance which they say has led to First Amendment violations and harassment by police.

Part II of a three part video response by Costa Mesa Chief of Police Christopher Shawkey to issues related to a lawsuit filed against the city on behalf of day laborers to stop enforcement of a city ordinance that they say violates their First Amendment rights.

Costa Mesa day laborers sue the city over alleged violations of their First Amendment rights and Chief of Police Christopher Shawkey responds. First of a five-part video report.

Riding a bicycle can be fantastic in Huntington Beach. The city has all the right ingredients for a pleasant ride….lovely weather, wide roads, and almost exclusively flat terrain. Plus the recent economic downturn has illustrated the advantages of changing to a means of local transportation that is convenient, healthy, and low-cost, in other words, cycling.

Poseidon Resources Inc. told elected officials and taxpayers that if its energy intensive and costly desalination projects were approved in Carlsbad and Huntington Beach, California that there would be no cost or risk to taxpayers. But they will directly benefit from a $350 million subsidy with much more likely to come.

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City council and company claims to the contrary, Poseidon Resources Inc.’s desalination projects have little to do with free-market karma and the entire desalination industry was built on over $1 billion in tax subsidies–and more is on the way.