Obama to Conduct Fundraisers in Beverly Hills Monday

"The American motion picture and television industry is a growing industry and continues to create thousands of jobs all across the country," principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said during a briefing Thursday.

Additional details regarding the speech will be announced early next week, Earnest said.

The firm is headed by Jeffrey Katzenberg, a longtime Obama supporter. Obama had a private dinner with Katzenberg in August during his most recent trip to Southern California.

The trip will be Obama's 16th to the Los Angeles area since taking office. All but three of his trips have included political fundraisers. He has made 10 trips to the area solely for fundraising.

Obama is scheduled to arrive in Southern California Monday afternoon following a visit to the San Francisco area where he will speak in support of overhauling the nation's immigration laws and conduct a fundraiser.

Obama will conduct fundraisers Monday at the Beverly Hills-area homes of Basketball Hall of Fame member Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Saban Capital Group Chairman Haim Saban benefiting efforts to elect more Democrats to the House, according to the website politicalpartytime.org, which tracks political fundraisers across the country.

A coalition of environmental and progressive groups plan to conduct a march in Beverly Hills against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade agreement, in connection with the fundraisers. The partnership includes the United States, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Peru and Chile. Opponents of the partnership claim it will undermine food and environmental protections in the United States.

The protest is reportedly planned by individuals connected to No War with Syria Coalition and Occupy Venice Beach. Grassroots activists, concerned citizens and members of civil society organizations will listen on Monday to speakers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Organic Consumers Association, Citizens Trade Coalition, Health Care for All and the Communications Workers of America and then march towards the site of the fundraisers.

On Tuesday, Obama is scheduled to conduct a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Hancock Park home of Marta Kauffman, a co- creator of the 1994-2004 NBC comedy "Friends," the website reported.

Obama canceled a planed visit to Los Angeles in early September, saying he wanted to remain in Washington, D.C., to focus on a congressional resolution on Syria. He was to have conducted a Democratic National Committee fundraiser and speak at the AFL-CIO convention during that trip.