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There wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in curiosity, as it usually goes with the chosen word of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gaslighting was pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s unveiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13921991\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/1000.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/1000-800x263.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/1000-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/1000-768x253.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-artificial-intelligence-21fa207a1254401197fd1e0d7ecd14cb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deepfakes\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/1ca51cba8bb14a289d678eaa746122d3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dark web\u003c/a>. There were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-north-korea-james-comey-8720fde079e84237b8e6cca4219aafb2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deep states\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/not-real-news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fake news\u003c/a>. And there was a whole lot of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-elections-social-media-technology-4086949d878336f8ea6daa4dee725d94\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">trolling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merriam-Webster’s top definition for gaslighting is the psychological manipulation of a person, usually over an extended period of time, that “causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, the dictionary defines the word thusly: “The act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaslighting is a heinous tool frequently used by abusers in relationships — and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-9f781df5c184eaad8651659eb628857c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by politicians and other newsmakers\u003c/a>. It can happen between romantic partners, within a broader family unit and among friends. It can be a corporate tactic, or a way to mislead the public. There’s also “medical gaslighting,” when a health care professional dismisses a patient’s symptoms or illness as “all in your head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its relatively recent prominence — including “\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-ap-top-news-natalie-maines-ingrid-bergman-217b8d650500e4a4e332cc53158201fb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gaslighter\u003c/a>,” The Chicks’ 2020 album featuring the rousingly angry titular single — the word was brought to life more than 80 years ago with “Gas Light,” a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It birthed two film adaptations in the 1940s. One, George Cukor’s “Gaslight” in 1944, starred Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist and Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton. The two marry after a whirlwind romance and Gregory turns out to be a champion gaslighter. Among other instances, he insists her complaints over the constant dimming of their London townhouse’s gaslights is a figment of her troubled mind. It wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/angela-lansbury-dies-0fd75fe45fe1501d02bd164ff1130d0f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">death of Angela Lansbury\u003c/a> in October drove some interest in lookups of the word, Sokolowski said. She played Nancy Oliver, a young maid hired by Gregory and told not to bother his “high-strung” wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13850633']The term gaslighting was later used by mental health practitioners to clinically describe a form of prolonged coercive control in abusive relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this implication of an intentional deception,” Sokolowski said. “And once one is aware of that deception, it’s not just a straightforward lie, as in, you know, I didn’t eat the cookies in the cookie jar. It’s something that has a little bit more devious quality to it. It has possibly an idea of strategy or a long-term plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based solely on data. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour have not gone, in the words of the chart-topping singer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2021/11/12/1054886542/taylor-swift-all-too-well-10-minute-version-taylors-version-from-the-vault\">all too well\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mixed messages, long wait times and temporary \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/business/ticket-sales-taylor-swift-tour-reignite-fan-frustration-ticketmaster-rcna57164\">outages on the Ticketmaster website\u003c/a> left scores of fans frustrated and empty-handed when the first wave of tickets for the 52-date Eras Tour, scheduled for next year and Swift’s first since 2018, went on sale on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13906513']Ticketmaster rescheduled additional rounds due to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ticketmaster/status/1592579481449168898?s=20&t=aoZMp_rOwRJKG1d-0boJrQ\">what it called\u003c/a> “historically unprecedented demand,” saying “millions” had tried to buy pre-sale tickets and hundreds of thousands had done so successfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, the day before tickets were due to open to the general public, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ticketmaster/status/1593333211769106433?s=20&t=FUhACuptuukloKgaS0D_8A\">it announced\u003c/a> that the sale had been cancelled altogether due to “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frenzy has brought renewed scrutiny to the giant Ticketmaster, which critics have long accused of abusing its market power at the expense of consumers. Would-be concertgoers have complained vocally about recent incidents with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/10/1063237219/olivia-rodrigo-sour-tour-tickets\">near-instant sellouts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ticketmaster-harry-styles-concert\">skyrocketing prices\u003c/a>, and artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/01/arts/pearl-jam-musicians-testify-on-ticketmaster-s-prices.html\">Pearl Jam\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-furious-at-ticketmaster-rails-against-live-nation-merger-97368/\">Bruce Springsteen\u003c/a> have feuded with it over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One common complaint is that there doesn’t seem to be a clear alternative or competitor to Ticketmaster, especially after it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122970946\">merged with concert provider Live Nation\u003c/a> in 2010 (a controversial move that required conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Justice).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tennessee’s attorney general, a Republican, is opening a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/tennessee-ag-investigating-ticketmaster-after-taylor-swift-ticket-chaos.html\">consumer protection investigation\u003c/a> into the incident and Democratic lawmakers are asking questions about the company’s dominance — not for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketmaster has not responded to NPR’s request for comment, but did \u003ca href=\"https://business.ticketmaster.com/business-solutions/the-taylor-swift-on-sale-explained-2/\">publish a statement\u003c/a> on Thursday called ”The Taylor Swift On Sale Explained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taylor Swift’s tour sale is a perfect example of how the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger harms consumers by creating a near-monopoly,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1592719426486693888?s=20&t=6NMdGIyJyVdkFRiIViR22Q\">tweeted \u003c/a>Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Soon, an estimated 20 million people can begin the process of wiping out their student debt. President Biden’s debt relief plan — its application expected in late October — will provide those earning less than $125,000 with $10,000 of federal student debt relief, or up to $20,000 for those who received a federal Pell Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many artists who pursued master’s degrees to advance their careers, $10,000 won’t even address the interest that’s accrued on their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean anything,” says Oakland writer and musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.madlinesinfo.com/\">Maddy Clifford\u003c/a>. “It’s like crumbs, basically.” Clifford, who received an MFA in poetry from Mills College, currently has over $100,000 in student loan debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford, who took out loans in 2006 and 2010 — when she was 19 and 22 — sees the whole student loan system as predatory. “If I was that age and I went to a bank and tried to get a [personal] loan for that much money, they would have said no.” Now, at 35, she carries a debt that seems impossible to pay down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bay Area artists, especially those who entered graduate school around the 2007–2009 Great Recession, pursuing a master’s degree meant the chance to temporarily exit a dismal job market and, ideally, reemerge two years later with more earning power. Many aspired to teaching jobs in higher education, where an MFA is nearly always required: taking out loans was an investment in their futures as working artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But student debt has delayed those futures. The world of private loan servicers and repayment plans is confusing and demoralizing. And those hoping to take advantage of existing federal debt relief through the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service\">Public Service Loan Forgiveness\u003c/a> (PSLF) program — which promises total cancellation of student debt through the equivalent of 10 years of full-time work in nonprofit or government positions — face notoriously low rates of acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while 45 million Americans (about one in seven) have some amount of student debt, that burden is not shared equally. The student debt crisis disproportionately affects Black women, who graduate with larger amounts of student debt only to encounter a gender and racial wage gap that impacts their earning potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of the student debt crisis has more and more people calling for not just $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt relief, but a cancellation of all student debt — and a complete overhaul of an educational system that has become prohibitively expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"Tall white walls front trees as student walk near green grass\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills’ Oakland campus — now known as Mills College at Northeastern University — through the main gates. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘If I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a society that treats the arts like a hobby, master’s degrees provide artists with a legitimacy they often crave. “I really felt like it was my only option at the time because I just wanted desperately to be taken seriously as an arts professional,” says Clifford of her decision to enroll at Mills. It worked — to a point. After graduating in 2012, she began teaching, eventually working with WritersCorps to teach poetry to incarcerated youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13826589']But for many other MFA recipients, the promise of teaching jobs hasn’t materialized. The rise of “adjunctification” — hiring part-time and lower-paid faculty in lieu of tenured positions — has turned many artists into adjunct commuters who traverse the Bay Area, knitting together a semblance of full-time work at various colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told, art world-wise, if I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA,” says \u003ca href=\"https://steuartpittman.com/\">Steuart Pittman\u003c/a>, who graduated from Mills with an MFA in visual art in 2009. But 13 years later, with the future of Mills’ MFA program uncertain after the college was acquired by Northeastern University, Pittman questions the value of that advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of my friends that were teaching [at Mills] got laid off. It’s like I found out Santa Claus isn’t real,” says Pittman. “Like, my MFA is really just a piece of paper in a lot of ways because Mills is no longer what it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Steuart Pittman, Mills alum']‘I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.’[/pullquote]As arts schools struggle financially nationwide, that sentiment is an increasingly common one. Locally, alums of both Mills and the recently shuttered San Francisco Art Institute are recipients of a perverse honor: their student debt will outlast the programs they took out loans to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13916517,news_11914203']Despite the student debt he carries, Pittman doesn’t regret attending graduate school. “I had an amazing run at Mills, an amazing time with truly special people that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life,” he says. “And I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford is less sure about her degree. While the program increased her earning potential, she says the entire structure of MFA programs is catered to those with racial and financial privilege. “It just started to dawn on me that I wasn’t going to be getting the support that a working-class person needs in order to [succeed],” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate school can be very lonely,” Clifford adds. “It’s not always a safe environment for people of color. … So then on top of that, you have this debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg\" alt=\"Factory-looking facade lit from middle, spilling onto darkened sidewalk\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA offers a number of graduate programs, including an MFA in comics and a master’s in interaction design. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The interest is the biggest scam’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the average amount of federal student debt held by U.S. borrowers is $37,667, four of the six people I interviewed for this story have over $100,000 in debt, a result of expensive private schools, large loan amounts and crushing interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emmeine.com/\">Em Meine\u003c/a>, her original principal upon graduating from California College of the Arts was $99,441.33. Eight years later, she owes $115,766.80 (and counting; her interest rate is 7.125%). She has never missed a payment on her income-driven repayment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meine estimates she’s paid somewhere around $30,000 since graduating — but she says it doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the saddest form of funny money,” Meine says. “It’s like this really sad joke. … I can’t imagine \u003ci>not\u003c/i> charging more to a credit card, making a payment towards it every month, and only having [the balance] get bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sandoval, who graduated from CCA in 2011, agrees: “The interest is the biggest scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Addressing this directly, one aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">Biden-Harris administration’s relief plan\u003c/a> proposes to cover unpaid monthly interest for a borrower on an income-driven repayment plan. This way, someone’s debt balance won’t grow as long as they’re making monthly payments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Dave Sandoval, CCA alum']‘I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know.’[/pullquote]Since graduating, Sandoval’s student debt has increased from around $150,000 to almost $200,000. Like Meine, he’s working towards his 10 years of public service loan forgiveness, but his progress was hampered, he says, by a misleading loan servicer. For years, his payments through the private company didn’t count towards the PSLF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t know any better,” he says, pointing out that now, after complaints and lawsuits, there’s much more conversation and visibility around which payments to which loan servicers qualify for PSLF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval says he calls the Department of Education about once a month, waiting on the line for three to five hours to talk about his case. The closer he gets to reaching his 120 payments, the more anxious he is about the entire program, which was created by an act of Congress in 2007 and could cease to exist at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know,” Sandoval says. “And I don’t trust the program from the kind of issues I’ve had with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student loan debt holders demonstrate outside the White House staff entrance on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘This huge weight’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PSLF program, onerous and complicated for even the most organized individual, can also feel like the great white whale of debt relief. In 2018, data showed the Department of Education had rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508381/data-shows-99-of-applicants-for-student-loan-forgiveness-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">99% of PSLF applications\u003c/a>. That number hasn’t improved much since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Strickland, who received a master’s in exhibition and museum studies from SFAI, has been submitting paperwork to the PSLF program since 2016, but only last year did he receive any sort of confirmation from the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like completely sending it off into the void,” he says, imagining a P.O. box “overflowing with the hopes of many, many, many, many, many students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when — \u003ci>if\u003c/i> — he succeeds? “It would feel like this huge weight lifted off me that I’ve been thinking about for over a decade — almost every day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Maddy Clifford, Mills alum']‘The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are.’[/pullquote]Pittman expressed a similar sentiment about the mental burden. “It’s so many of us that have it, and then we feel guilty and sad and stressed about it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Clifford, being open about her student debt and connecting with others — especially Black women — on the issue has been an energizing force in recent years. In 2020, she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://debtcollective.org/\">Debt Collective\u003c/a>, a union of debtors that grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Among other action items, the group calls for a coordinated student debt strike, writing: “The government doesn’t need our money, but they are counting on our cooperation in our own exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are,” Clifford says. For her, the $10,000 in student debt relief is a sign that even greater reforms are possible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite the student debt he carries, Pittman doesn’t regret attending graduate school. “I had an amazing run at Mills, an amazing time with truly special people that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life,” he says. “And I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford is less sure about her degree. While the program increased her earning potential, she says the entire structure of MFA programs is catered to those with racial and financial privilege. “It just started to dawn on me that I wasn’t going to be getting the support that a working-class person needs in order to [succeed],” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate school can be very lonely,” Clifford adds. “It’s not always a safe environment for people of color. … So then on top of that, you have this debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg\" alt=\"Factory-looking facade lit from middle, spilling onto darkened sidewalk\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA offers a number of graduate programs, including an MFA in comics and a master’s in interaction design. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The interest is the biggest scam’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the average amount of federal student debt held by U.S. borrowers is $37,667, four of the six people I interviewed for this story have over $100,000 in debt, a result of expensive private schools, large loan amounts and crushing interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emmeine.com/\">Em Meine\u003c/a>, her original principal upon graduating from California College of the Arts was $99,441.33. Eight years later, she owes $115,766.80 (and counting; her interest rate is 7.125%). She has never missed a payment on her income-driven repayment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meine estimates she’s paid somewhere around $30,000 since graduating — but she says it doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the saddest form of funny money,” Meine says. “It’s like this really sad joke. … I can’t imagine \u003ci>not\u003c/i> charging more to a credit card, making a payment towards it every month, and only having [the balance] get bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sandoval, who graduated from CCA in 2011, agrees: “The interest is the biggest scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Addressing this directly, one aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">Biden-Harris administration’s relief plan\u003c/a> proposes to cover unpaid monthly interest for a borrower on an income-driven repayment plan. This way, someone’s debt balance won’t grow as long as they’re making monthly payments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since graduating, Sandoval’s student debt has increased from around $150,000 to almost $200,000. Like Meine, he’s working towards his 10 years of public service loan forgiveness, but his progress was hampered, he says, by a misleading loan servicer. For years, his payments through the private company didn’t count towards the PSLF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t know any better,” he says, pointing out that now, after complaints and lawsuits, there’s much more conversation and visibility around which payments to which loan servicers qualify for PSLF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval says he calls the Department of Education about once a month, waiting on the line for three to five hours to talk about his case. The closer he gets to reaching his 120 payments, the more anxious he is about the entire program, which was created by an act of Congress in 2007 and could cease to exist at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know,” Sandoval says. “And I don’t trust the program from the kind of issues I’ve had with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student loan debt holders demonstrate outside the White House staff entrance on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘This huge weight’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PSLF program, onerous and complicated for even the most organized individual, can also feel like the great white whale of debt relief. In 2018, data showed the Department of Education had rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508381/data-shows-99-of-applicants-for-student-loan-forgiveness-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">99% of PSLF applications\u003c/a>. That number hasn’t improved much since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Strickland, who received a master’s in exhibition and museum studies from SFAI, has been submitting paperwork to the PSLF program since 2016, but only last year did he receive any sort of confirmation from the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like completely sending it off into the void,” he says, imagining a P.O. box “overflowing with the hopes of many, many, many, many, many students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when — \u003ci>if\u003c/i> — he succeeds? “It would feel like this huge weight lifted off me that I’ve been thinking about for over a decade — almost every day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pittman expressed a similar sentiment about the mental burden. “It’s so many of us that have it, and then we feel guilty and sad and stressed about it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Clifford, being open about her student debt and connecting with others — especially Black women — on the issue has been an energizing force in recent years. In 2020, she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://debtcollective.org/\">Debt Collective\u003c/a>, a union of debtors that grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Among other action items, the group calls for a coordinated student debt strike, writing: “The government doesn’t need our money, but they are counting on our cooperation in our own exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are,” Clifford says. For her, the $10,000 in student debt relief is a sign that even greater reforms are possible. The next step, Clifford says, is “making a conscious, deliberate choice to say we’re not paying this back because it’s illegitimate, because college should be free, it shouldn’t cost as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though any relief is welcome, this one-time gesture doesn’t prevent future generations from having to take out the same kind of loans to advance their own lives and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While trying to track down someone — anyone — who had achieved public service loan forgiveness, I met artist \u003ca href=\"https://laurenbartone.com/home.html\">Lauren Bartone\u003c/a>, who after years of calling and writing the Department of Education had her remaining $14,000 of student debt canceled in August. “I was so shocked when it finally happened,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was established by Italian American groups to celebrate their heritage and to acknowledge the mistreatment of the immigrant group in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time of reflection, recognition and celebration of the role Native people have played in U.S. history, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1044823626/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-columbus\">as NPR has reported\u003c/a>. One way to mark the day — and to learn about Indigenous history year-round — is to learn which Native lands you live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging an area’s original inhabitants and stewards is a valuable process, albeit a complex one, as the \u003ca href=\"https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/land-acknowledgment#:~:text=Land%20acknowledgment%20is%20a%20traditional,on%20which%20we%20now%20live.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Museum of the American Indian\u003c/a> explains. The museum suggests reaching out to local Indigenous communities for guidance involving formal \u003ca href=\"https://nativegov.org/news/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">land acknowledgements\u003c/a>, which can be offered at the start of public and private gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many places in the Americas have been home to different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties,” the museum says. “Even so, Native Nations, communities, families, and individuals today sustain their sense of belonging to ancestral homelands and protect these connections through Indigenous languages, oral traditions, ceremonies, and other forms of cultural expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This map’s creators want it to convey more than borders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada, is working to facilitate such conversations and document this history including by putting together \u003ca href=\"https://native-land.ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users can click on labels across the Americas and around other parts of the globe — or type a specific city, state or zip code into the search box — to see which Indigenous tribes lived where. You can zoom in or out, as well as choose to apply “settler labels” to see how the map corresponds with contemporary state lines. Clicking on the name of each nation brings up links for related reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map is available on the \u003ca href=\"https://native-land.ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization’s website\u003c/a> and on iOS and Android mobile apps. Native Land Digital also publishes resources to go with the map, including a teacher’s guide and a territory acknowledgement generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit says it aims to improve the relationship of people — both Indigenous and non-Indigenous — with the history and sacredness of the land around them. 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Those range from defining “Indigenous” across time and space to engaging with those communities so they can “represent themselves and their histories on their own terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native Land Digital aims to use at least two valid sources (including oral history, written documents or “maps sketched by people deemed to be reasonable authorities”) when updating the map, and says in cases of conflicting maps it generally errs on the side of being “more expansive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cautions that the map does not represent definitive or legal boundaries of any Indigenous nations, and is a work in progress with many community contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We … encourage people to treat these maps as a starting point and to do their own research in engaging with communities and history themselves,” the group says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The map has already made an impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Native-Land.ca was \u003ca href=\"https://native-land.ca/deprecated-pages/old-about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created in 2015\u003c/a>, and the organization was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the last weeks of his life, Oakland hip-hop artist Stephen Gaines, better known as Zumbi of Zion I, had started a hopeful new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2021, he headlined a concert in Nevada City where eager fans lined up for pictures and autographs. He’d come down with COVID-19 after the show, but with his partner of four years, Millaray Rodriguez Avila, he began recovering. The couple visited the beach and went on hikes, and Gaines regained his appetite, eating second helpings of vegan ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines laid plans to release new music and embark upon a Zion I reunion tour with his longtime musical collaborator, Amp Live. He and Rodriguez Avila prepared to sign a lease on a house in Oakland, where they planned to live with Gaines’ mother, his young three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s middle school-age son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those plans ground to a halt on Aug. 13, 2021, when Gaines was killed during a stay at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. [aside postid='arts_13920004']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day prior, Gaines had called 911 for help during an apparent mental health crisis and checked himself into Alta Bates. His family and their lawyers say he should have walked out of the hospital alive. Instead, they allege, hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards used excessive force and killed him. According to the coroner’s report, three men, including a patient transporter and a security guard, piled on top of Gaines, placing their weight on his arms, legs and upper torso. They held Gaines to the ground for approximately five to 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. Officers noticed that Gaines was unresponsive, rolled him on his back, and then put him in handcuffs before administering CPR. By then it was too late. Gaines was pronounced dead at 5:51 a.m. on Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Millaray Rodriguez Avila']‘I want the truth. What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?’[/pullquote]That morning, Rodriguez Avila got a call from the hospital director. The partner she had been building a life with was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of collapsed,” she says now, over a year later. “I lost myself, where I was. I thought it was a movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the truth,” Rodriguez Avila continues. “What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and friends who knew Gaines for decades describe him as a kind, gentle soul — a loving parent, partner and friend. They remember him as a health-conscious meditation practitioner who aspired to be his best self and encouraged people to be kinder to each other. That message was audible in his music, which often dealt with themes of societal injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me love,” says Rodriguez Avila. “In our relationship, the beautiful thing is that love, that passion that we had for each other, it was around us, too. It was with our kids. It was with our friends. Everywhere we [went], we projected and received back love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember him as somebody who always spread love and spread light, and somebody who was an innovator, extremely creative, original,” says friend and fellow hip-hop artist Dustin Sharpe. “Almost like a God-sent prophet because he always spoke wisdom. He always looked at the positive side of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people close to Gaines say he didn’t have a history of mental illness. He dealt with normal life stressors from parenthood and his career as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that he brought himself to the hospital, I knew that something was up, that he must have been going through something,” says longtime friend and musical collaborator The Grouch. “People can reach a point of struggle, and whatever happens in that hospital, the hospital is the professionals, and they should be trained to take care of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations outline safe techniques for restraining patients in hospitals. “They specifically call out in the federal regulations that there cannot be positional asphyxiation,” Grossman says. “Most importantly, the regulations require that medical aid be given while restraints are being applied. These regulations were written with a history of understanding that mental health situations often result in restraints being used, and trying to correct bad practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, every bad practice happened,” Grossman continues. “For the five to 10 minutes that he was being restrained with three men lying on his back, there was not one ounce of medical care offered to save this man’s life. That is ugly beyond belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='left' citation='Deuce Eclipse']‘The bottom line for me is he should still be here.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Gaines are frustrated law enforcement hasn’t named any suspects. “What are the names of these people who laid on him for five to 10 minutes thinking that was right, whether he was having an episode or not?” says Gina Madrid, a friend and fellow hip-hop artist. “Because you’re not going to kill our brother like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to be held accountable,” says hip-hop artist Deuce Eclipse, who had been close with Gaines since the two were in high school. “The bottom line for me is he should still be here. There’s no reason I can find in my mind, my heart, my spirit and my soul why he would be killed in the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police, Alta Bates or its security company, Allied Universal, did not respond to requests for comment as of press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi (back right) backstage with his friend Deuce Eclipse (front right) in 2018. The two had been close since high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deuce Eclipse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Loved ones call for accountability for hospital security guards and staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the eyes of his partner and friends, Gaines’ death is another example of authority figures treating the life of a Black person as disposable. For Rodriguez Avila, the loss was shocking, but it also felt disturbingly familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happened before in this country. It’s happened in California. It’s happened in the Bay Area before,” she says. “And there’s so many families, mothers, brothers, sisters that are waiting for answers for other brown, Latino and Black people that have been killed by use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, what happened to Gaines is indicative of abuse and racism in the medical and criminal justice systems. “I think that there needs to be a magnifying glass put on the hospitals and how they function,” says The Grouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the private security companies that hospitals hire. Allied Universal is a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate that operates in 90 countries and employs 800,000. Liv Styler, a friend of Gaines and an independent journalist, points out that \u003ca href=\"https://livmuthafknstyler.medium.com/misuse-of-force-is-an-under-reported-epidemic-in-private-security-and-may-have-played-a-role-in-the-646f2627375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">security guards receive significantly less use-of-force training than police officers\u003c/a>. Unlike police, security guards have no public oversight. They aren’t compelled to disclose information by public records laws, which makes it possible to hide misconduct. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/07/10/california-has-no-clear-use-of-force-standard-for-security-guards-regulators-say-that-leaves-their-hands-tied/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another death at the hands of Allied Universal security guards\u003c/a> in 2019 prompted a new California law that will \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/10/28/new-california-law-requires-use-of-force-training-for-security-guards-prompted-by-capradio-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create use-of-force standards\u003c/a> for the industry in 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11907746']“We need the same type of pressure that happened with police officers to happen with private security,” Styler says. “I think the fact that no one even really considers it an issue is huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into Gaines’ death lasted for over a year, the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau has said, because of delays in obtaining the toxicology report. Meanwhile, the delay in the district attorney’s decision on whether or not to file charges is “becoming detrimental to the case, and also just to the emotions and the sentiment of those who are close to him as we try to process this,” says musician and longtime friend Kev Choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gaines’ friends and family fear there could be further obstacles. O’Malley, the Alameda County District Attorney, will retire when her term ends at the beginning of 2023. A spokesperson for the D.A. told KQED on Oct. 7 that there is currently no timeline for a decision in Gaines’ case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been 14 months,” says Rodriguez Avila. “What is gonna happen to the review of the case she says that she’s doing? I want to know the result of the review … I want her to [file] charges before she leaves office, before the elections in November next month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m learning for the first time how to go day-by-day without my love. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. Officers noticed that Gaines was unresponsive, rolled him on his back, and then put him in handcuffs before administering CPR. By then it was too late. Gaines was pronounced dead at 5:51 a.m. on Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That morning, Rodriguez Avila got a call from the hospital director. The partner she had been building a life with was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of collapsed,” she says now, over a year later. “I lost myself, where I was. I thought it was a movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the truth,” Rodriguez Avila continues. “What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and friends who knew Gaines for decades describe him as a kind, gentle soul — a loving parent, partner and friend. They remember him as a health-conscious meditation practitioner who aspired to be his best self and encouraged people to be kinder to each other. That message was audible in his music, which often dealt with themes of societal injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me love,” says Rodriguez Avila. “In our relationship, the beautiful thing is that love, that passion that we had for each other, it was around us, too. It was with our kids. It was with our friends. Everywhere we [went], we projected and received back love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember him as somebody who always spread love and spread light, and somebody who was an innovator, extremely creative, original,” says friend and fellow hip-hop artist Dustin Sharpe. “Almost like a God-sent prophet because he always spoke wisdom. He always looked at the positive side of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people close to Gaines say he didn’t have a history of mental illness. He dealt with normal life stressors from parenthood and his career as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that he brought himself to the hospital, I knew that something was up, that he must have been going through something,” says longtime friend and musical collaborator The Grouch. “People can reach a point of struggle, and whatever happens in that hospital, the hospital is the professionals, and they should be trained to take care of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations outline safe techniques for restraining patients in hospitals. “They specifically call out in the federal regulations that there cannot be positional asphyxiation,” Grossman says. “Most importantly, the regulations require that medical aid be given while restraints are being applied. These regulations were written with a history of understanding that mental health situations often result in restraints being used, and trying to correct bad practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, every bad practice happened,” Grossman continues. “For the five to 10 minutes that he was being restrained with three men lying on his back, there was not one ounce of medical care offered to save this man’s life. That is ugly beyond belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declared the Black Panther Party the “greatest threat” to national security in 1969, Ericka Huggins was waking at dawn with fellow Party members to prepare free breakfasts for local children. When the political organization was founded in 1966 to challenge police violence, racism and poverty, the government and media were quick to classify the group as violent and aggressive. That portrayal ignored the Party’s survival programs that provided clothing, medical services and other resources to their Black, brown and Indigenous communities — programs often led by women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11873838,arts_13867337\"]More than 50 years later, Huggins and photojournalist Stephen Shames — who was a 19-year-old UC Berkeley student when he got involved with the BPP — aim to bring those women into the light with the release of the photo book \u003cem>Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party\u003c/em>, out Oct. 10 (ACC Art Books)\u003cem>.\u003c/em> The book’s national tour kicks off with a half-dozen events in the Bay Area Oct. 9–13, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marcusbooks.com/event/comrade-sisters-women-black-panther-party-book-launch\">including an Oct. 9 talk with renowned activist Angela Davis\u003c/a>, who wrote the book’s foreword, at Marcus Books in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dialogue between past and present, \u003cem>Comrade Sisters\u003c/em> juxtaposes more than 100 black-and-white images from the late 1960s with contemporary conversations, featuring interviews with 50 women who were Party members. While women made up over 60% of the Party, their presence remained largely understated in the public eye — until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of five African-American people, some in lab coats, standing outside doing a blood draw on one of them, an older woman\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-1-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Panther Adrienne Humphrey conducting sickle cell anemia testing during Bobby Seale’s campaign for mayor of Oakland in 1973. \u003ccite>(Stephen Shames)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shames’ behind-the-scenes photos document the women of the Black Panther Party in their most vulnerable, powerful, disheartened and joyous moments. In one, a young girl holds up a Black Panther newspaper in a bus terminal, eyes hopeful, as men in uniform carry on walking behind her. In others, women are seen teaching, moving boxes of food, leading marches and smiling for the camera, their dynamism fully on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that young girls and their moms and grandmas — and men also — look at the pictures and they’re really inspired to see what a group of women was able to accomplish back then, and to not get discouraged,” says Shames. “That, you know, they can do it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of the book’s release and tour, Huggins says she looks forward to being in solidarity with old friends and strangers alike — all connected through a broader history and common fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-2048x1380.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Comrade-Sisters-Event-Option-3-1-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Panther children in a classroom with their teacher, Evon Carter, widow of Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter, at the Intercommunal Youth Institute, the Black Panther school in Oakland, in 1972. \u003ccite>(Stephen Shames)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that sisterhood doesn’t necessarily have just to do with the biology of it. It is the connection. We are the family we choose,” says Huggins. “That’s what’s in the underpinning of the word ‘comrade’: a sister or a brother, a people connected in struggle. And what is that struggle? To take something away from people? No — to give agency to people so that they can reclaim their own inner power and the power within their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back on the Black Panthers’ work, says Huggins, “I see why [it was] threatening to people who hold the wealth and the power in a place. But we were not intending to threaten. 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Attendance is free; \u003ca href=\"https://www.marcusbooks.com/event/comrade-sisters-women-black-panther-party-book-launch\">more details here\u003c/a>. A schedule of other events can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/gtenn3uer2tcd9e/CS%20Events%20FINAL.doc?dl=0\">downloaded here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal charges may still be filed for the death of popular Bay Area hip-hop artist Stephen Gaines, best known as Baba Zumbi of the duo Zion I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines died at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley on Aug. 13, 2021, after being held down by three hospital security guards and handcuffed by Berkeley Police officers while unconscious. Berkeley Police investigated the case as a homicide, but did not announce suspects or make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/30/exclusive-zion-i-rapper-zumbis-death-ruled-a-homicide-but-no-criminal-charges-will-be-filed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported last week that the Alameda Country District Attorney’s office had declined to pursue criminal charges despite the death being ruled a homicide. But Wednesday, after meeting with District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, Gaines’ mother, Carolyn Gaines, and her lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, released a statement that the D.A. still could bring criminal charges. [aside postID='arts_13901531']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has been finalized on criminal charges related to my son’s death,” Carolyn Gaines said in a statement. “I feel assured and confident that this case is not over and criminal charges remain likely. I am holding steadfast that the institutions responsible for my son’s death will be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same statement, Grossman echoed the possibility of criminal charges. “I spoke directly with Nancy O’Malley today and a final decision has not been made,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office confirmed this development. “We are looking at potential new information. That’s all we can say at this time,” a spokesperson for the district attorney told KQED on Wednesday. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Liv Styler, friend']‘If [Zumbi] was having a mental health episode, crisis, whatever, he should still be alive.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances surrounding Zumbi’s death have been shrouded in secrecy. Over the past year, KQED repeatedly requested interviews with the Berkeley Police Department and the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau and did not receive a response, even after Berkeley Police concluded their investigation in August 2022. BPD also denied KQED’s public records request for officer body camera footage from the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slowness of the investigation and lack of transparency has frustrated Zumbi’s loved ones. “I’m infuriated. 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The report noted that Gaines checked himself in during a mental health crisis during which he experienced suicidal ideation, and was diagnosed with COVID-related pneumonia. According to staff and investigators, prior to his death, Gaines woke up before a CT scan, chased hospital staff through the halls and put a pregnant security guard in a “choke hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But family and friends of Zumbi question what happened in those last moments. Those who knew him describe Zumbi as a spiritual practitioner, loving father and kind, supportive friend. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Carolyn Gaines']‘I am holding steadfast that the institutions responsible for my son’s death will be held accountable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a really great human. They took a really, really, really amazing person from a lot of people,” said Zumbi’s longtime friend Liv Styler, who added that she didn’t know him to have serious mental health issues. 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