Manhattan Beach Pier vigil calls for end of detention camps
The Lights for Liberty vigil will take place at the Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach piers on July 12. Image courtesy Lights for Liberty A vigil aimed at ending detention camps at the U.S. border will take place at hundreds of locations throughout the country on July 12, including the Manhattan Beach pier. But the pier’s inclusion in the “Lights for Liberty” came with some fireworks at City Council Tuesday night involving its two most newly elected members. Councilperson Hildy Stern, one of the event’s local organizers, requested a fee waiver for possible costs incurred by the city if, as expected, a few hundred people come to the pier for the vigil. She was supported by Mayor Nancy Hersman, who agendized the item, which was discussed at the very end of Tuesday’s meeting. Stern noted that the pier has been the site of a few other vigils in recent years, including when an African American family was firebombed locally, after two Manhattan Beach residents died in the shootings in Las Vegas last year, and after the bombing of a synagogue in Pittsburgh. She said this gathering would join thousands of people across the globe seeking to address “the inhumane treatment immigrants in…
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