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(KPFK News - Southern California) Anaheim's City Council struck a deal with Disneyland.  It's now impossible to collect taxes from its ticket sales, until 2045, after the corporation promised to expand its theme park - the contract legally cannot be overturned, even by general vote.  The city meanwhile has $560 million of public pensions to pay.
Pacifica KPFK reporter Henry Klapper has more on the story. 


Anaheim City Loophole Means No Taxes for Disney

LA Thai community leaders held a retrospective Wednesday, 20 years after the liberation of an LA-area Thai labor slave camp, they identify progress since 1995 but call for much more to be done. 
KPFK Reporter Henry Klapper

Ex-slaves Remind LA, Slavery is Still a Gruesome Reality

California representatives returned to LA celebrating social security's 80th. birthday, though republican spending cuts prompted concerns from politicians like Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-CA.  

Fears of Social Security's Future Overshadow its Anniversary

State senator, Ben Allen, with several California Assembly members propose tax increases generating $900 million annually for the state's transit systems- in the face of an expected $72 billion shortfall CA will face over the next 10 years.    

Politicians Call for Increased Transit Spending

When Lily, the magellanic penguin hatched her way out of her shell on June 5th, she became the 20th penguin of her kind at the Aquarium of the Pacific, their oldest Henry, is 20.  

LA Sees a New Penguin, Lily

(KPFK News - Los Angeles) Thousands of people braved the rain to march through downtown Los Angeles in protest over President Donald Trump's inauguration.
 
About 3,000 to 5,000 people made the trek from LA Live and Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights to City Hall for a United Against Hate rally. 

Pacifica KPFK's Ernesto Arce files this report.

Despite Heavy Rain, LA Activists Inaugurate Resistance to Trump

KPFK Radio Host Ruben Luengas interviews Tatiana Clouthier, who is a spokesperson for Andres Manuel Lopez-Obredor’s campaign to be the next President of Mexico.  
Lopez-Obredor, a left-progressive, is currently well ahead in the polls with less than two months until election day on July 1. 
The interview is conducted in Spanish.

Contragolpe with Ruben Luengas guest Tatiana Cloutheir

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Despite Heavy Rain, LA Activists Inaugurate Resistance to Trump

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