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  • Apple series 'Truth be Told' filming shut down amidst protests

    tlinntlinn
    LPVVendors said:
    From someone who was there:

    1. The area is called Leimert Park Village,  not Leimert Plaza Park.  
    2. This same show & production co displaced 75 homeless people near Downtown LA in December, so this was not their first time displacing the homeless.
    3. The City of LA locked this park two years ago based on a racially restrictive covenant from 1927.  The area is considered the African American cultural center in Los Angeles. Mass gentrification is occurring here. Yet the City opened the park for this white production company to shoot a white produced show. 
    4. The production company’s “security” assaulted the protesters. Two of the protesters had to go to the hospital to be treated for concussions, bruised ribs, concussions & back injuries.
    5. Neither Apple TV nor the production has reached out to the injured protesters.  One of the protesters got the production company contact from the filming notice & called before the protest started. Film LA was also notified of the protest. Film LA has not contacted the injured protesters. 

    Oh no! A white production company and a white-produced show...the horror. How can that even be legal? At least it sounds like the protestors were able to prevent anyone from getting actual work done. Time to find something else to get angry about.
    Beats

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise leaving Silicon Valley, moving to Texas

    tlinntlinn
    razorpit said:
    Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.
    Moronic comment for so many reasons. First, I doubt HPE will be bringing CA State officials with them. Second, CA is a vastly superior place to live in terms of lifestyle and general quality of life. There's a reason why housing on the West Coast continues to appreciate orders of magnitude faster than places like TX. I write this having lived half of my life in Texas and graduating from UT. (If you have to live in TX, Austin is where you want to be.) Living in Houston is like living in an armpit. You couldn't pay me enough. I understand the business decision though. The move probably pencils out nicely for the executives on the top floor who can afford to fly to their second home in CA on the weekends.

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