Carmen Trutanich
Carmen Trutanich (born August 12, 1951) is an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 2009 to 2013.
Commemorative Event for Joseph Ileto and the North Valley Jewish Community Center Victims
August 10, 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the attack on the North Valley Jewish Community Center on Rinaldi Street and the slaying of U.S. postal worker Joseph Ileto by Buford O. Furrow Jr., a white supremacist that occurred on August 10, 1999.
10th Annual Commemorative Event
WHAT: The plan for this year’s event is to hold a press conference on the actual day of the shooting, August 10th. We will open the remembrance with prayers in memory of Joseph Ileto and then hear from the Ileto family and victims of the NVJCC as they reflect on the past 10 years. Public officials have also been invited to speak and share their thoughts with the families. After the press conference, their will be a discussion around hate crimes in our community lead by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations. This will give the audience an opportunity to see how far we have come and where we need to go.
11:30 – 1:00pm Discussion on hate crimes in our community (lead by Marshall Wong from the Los Angeles County HRC).
WHERE: Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Community Room, 1145 Wilshire Blvd., 1st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017.
Featured Speakers
- The Ileto Family
- Joshua Stepakoff
- Mindy Finkelstein
- Bill Bender, North Valley Jewish Community Center
- Congresswoman Judy Chu, California's 32nd district
- Assemblymember Mike Eng, 49th California State Assembly District
- Assemblymember Warren Furutani, 55th California State Assembly District
- Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
- Robin Toma, Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations[1]
Supporting "Occupy" and Mario Brito
The following memo was transcribed in Daily Kos, December 22, 2011, by Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism activist Clay Claiborne. It was from Los Angeles City Council member Richard Alarcon, supporting Occupy Los Angeles, and Communist Party USA member Mario Brito.[2]
- From: Councilmember Richard Alarcon
- To: Hon. Carmen Trutanich, City Attorney
- Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department
- Tony Royster, General Manager, General Services Department
- CC: Mario Brito, "Occupy Los Angeles"
- Date: Friday, September 30th, 2011
- Re: Providing Occupy LA Event - Tomorrow Saturday, Oct. 1st at City Hall- with Reasonable Accommodations to Peacefully Exercise 1st Amendment Rights
- I'm writing to urge you to provide a reasonable accommodation to "Occupy Los Angeles" in order to both protect the City's interests and to allow this group to peacefully exercise it's First Amendment rights.
- It will benefit neither the City nor "Occupy Los Angeles" if peaceful protesters are arrested at or near City Hall tomorrow night...It would be unwise for our City to be overly aggressive and change the story from what it is--a protest against financial institutions--into a story about the City being inhospitable to peaceful demonstrations of civil rights.
- I recommend that "Occupy Los Angeles" demonstrators be allowed to sleep near City Hall tomorrow night...
- CC: Mario Brito, "Occupy Los Angeles"Ten years ago he was organizing meat packing employees in Ventura County. More recently he is a Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council member and endorsed the call of Latinos for Peace. Early on he got involved in building Occupy Los Angeles and it became the focus of his work. After the encampment began he slept there almost every night.