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1. Average LA County gas price tops $6 for first time since October 2023
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County topped $6 for the first time since Oct. 8, 2023, Tuesday, increasing 1.1 cents to $6.005.
The average price has increased 40 of the last 41 days, increasing $1.38, including seven-tenths of a cent on Monday. It rose 10 consecutive days, was unchanged March 1 and resumed rising the following day.
The average price is 7.2 cents more than one week ago, $1.31 higher than one month ago and $1.18 greater than one year ago. It is 48.9 cents less than the record $6.49 set on Oct. 5, 2022.
The Orange County average price rose to its highest amount since Oct. 6, 2023, increasing seven-tenths of a cent to $5.93. It has risen 61 of the past 62 days, increasing $1.69, including eight-tenths of a cent on Monday.
2. May Day protests planned in LA following ‘No Kings’ demonstrations
Organizers of recent “No Kings” protests that drew large crowds in downtown Los Angeles — and led to multiple arrests — were planning another round of demonstrations May 1 at MacArthur Park as part of a nationwide “Workers Over Billionaires” day of action.
A coalition of labor and community groups, including the 50501 Movement, is organizing the event as part of what organizers describe as a coordinated show of economic and political protest.
The May Day demonstrations follow protests Saturday in downtown Los Angeles, where authorities reported 74 arrests after some demonstrators threw chunks of concrete at federal officers.
The arrests included 66 adults and eight juveniles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
3. Shucked Shells for Shorelines in SoCal
The environmental group Orange County Coastkeeper has been collecting shucked shells from restaurants to help shore up shorelines.
“We’re going to use all of this oyster shell to build oyster beds at our living shorelines locations,” said Restoration Director Kaysha Kenney.
For example, they have a living shoreline project in Long Beach that has implemented some of the collected shells.
“In the face of climate change and the impacts of climate change, we are seeing a lot of impacts to our shoreline. We see things like coastal erosion is our biggest one. That’s where we’re losing a lot of the shoreline, out back to the ocean,” Kenney explained.
Kaysha Kenney and Matt Sylvester with OC Coastkeeper stand in a field of shells that will be used in various living shoreline projects. (Spectrum News/Jo Kwon)
Your Notes for Tomorrow
Passover begins
NASA Artemis II crewed mission around the moon launches
U.S. Supreme Court considers President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order
25th anniversary of world’s first legal same-sex weddings
Tesla expected to unveil second-generation Roadster vehicle this month
In Case You Missed It
(Spectrum News/Maryssa Rillo)
On Tuesday, California is celebrating Farmworkers Day, formerly known as Cesar Chavez Day. The name change comes after a New York Times report alleged that the civil rights leader sexually abused girls and women.
Chavez was a hero to many, especially in the fieldworker community where he helped secure better wages and better working conditions in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Now, as many push to erase his name from the public eye, others are focused on keeping the movement alive.
As an agricultural county, civil rights leader Cesar Chavez did some of his work advocating for workers’ rights in Ventura County. He was a hero to many fieldworkers, including German Sanchez, a foreman in Ventura County. But after the allegations against Chavez came out, he said that changed.
Jesus Marmolejo, supervisor of King Produce and board member of local nonprofit Friends of Fieldworkers, acknowledged that Chavez was a hero for his work in the 1960s and ’70s helping farmworkers secure better wages and working conditions, but is happy with the name change. He said it’s time to focus on pushing for what workers still deserve.
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