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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Join the conversation \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/XFkbU9iGwUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to our YouTube channel\u003c/a> to never miss a new episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first became aware of capoeira at a young age, through Eddy Gordo in the video game \u003cem>Tekken\u003c/em>, and I instantly knew it was for me. Gordo’s maneuvers were like nothing I’d ever seen before, and his movement captivated me. A Black man with locs, wasting these other martial artists with this half-dance, half-fight? Little Nigerian me was in awe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, I finally took a capoeira class at a friend’s invitation and was instantly hooked. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Join the conversation \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/XFkbU9iGwUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to our YouTube channel\u003c/a> to never miss a new episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first became aware of capoeira at a young age, through Eddy Gordo in the video game \u003cem>Tekken\u003c/em>, and I instantly knew it was for me. Gordo’s maneuvers were like nothing I’d ever seen before, and his movement captivated me. A Black man with locs, wasting these other martial artists with this half-dance, half-fight? Little Nigerian me was in awe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, I finally took a capoeira class at a friend’s invitation and was instantly hooked. It felt less like a fitness class, and more like reconnecting with a way of living that I’d become lost from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along my capoeira journey, two major things have stuck out to me. One, I’m usually the only Black girl in a class for an explicitly African-derived art form. And two, I can’t believe capoeira has been so close to me for so long, and that I never knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is practicing a capoeira move similar to breakdancing on a golden field in front of the bay in Berkeley, CA\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/004_KQEDArts_IfCitiesCouldDance_Capoeira_05272022-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinwe Oniah at the César Chávez Park in Berkeley, CA on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often described as a dance-like fight—or a fight-like dance—capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines several elements: dance, martial arts, music, spirituality, history and philosophy. Some elements of breakdancing are said to come from the acrobatic moves found in capoeira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have described capoeira to me as a martial art, and people have described capoeira to me as a dance. I think overall, capoeira changes on the necessity of the person,” says Ricky Lawson II, the Bay Area professor with whom I’ve trained for three years. Better known as Malandro, he’s the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://capoeirabayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filhos de Bimba Escola de Capoeira, Bay Area\u003c/a>. A notable figure with over 20 years as a professor in the local capoeira scene, Malandro is part of a long line of capoeiristas from across the country and Brazil who’ve come to the Bay Area for capoeira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men is standing on a field and is about to play capoeira.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ICCD508A_Roda.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky Lawson II (pictured on the left), better known as Malandro, is the founder of Filhos de Bimba Escola de Capoeira, Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Elie M. Khadra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Capoeira is all over the world, and its story in the United States begins in two places. One is New York. The other is the Bay Area, which became a major hub for capoeira due to the work of Ubirajara Almeida, better known as Mestre Acordeon. From Bahia, Brazil, the birthplace of the art form, he’s widely known to be the first capoeira master to bring capoeira to the States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came here, there was a lot of people that had ideas about capoeira,” said Mestre Acordeon. “I [had] a whole bunch of friends that [were] enchanted with capoeira, because it is the one art that is not only fight—it’s a fight, it’s a dance, it’s music, all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with a white beard and mustache is looking into the camera while playing the berimbau.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Mestre_Acordeon_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ubirajara Almeida, better known as Mestre Acordeon, is widely known to be the first capoeira master to bring capoeira to the United States. \u003ccite>(Shaandiin Tome)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was initially drawn to capoeira’s martial arts and self-defense elements, but it quickly developed into something greater. It was a return to form, a return to self. It surprises me that more Black people haven’t found interest in capoeira. To be clear, it’s a beautiful art form for everyone, no matter one’s age or walk of life. But capoeira is firmly part of Black people’s cultural legacy, and one that continues to thrive centuries after its beginnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a producer for \u003cem>If Cities Could Dance\u003c/em>, I help others tell their stories. But for this episode, I’ve stepped in front of the camera to share my journey in capoeira. Along with Malandro, and featuring music from Mestre Acordeon, we hit some popular places around the East Bay to play capoeira, like Lake Merritt and Linden Park. You’ll even see some of the next generation of young Bay Area capoeira practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kQhQML6mqrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tune back in for a follow-up episode\u003c/a> on Wednesday, Sept. 7, when Malandro and I travel to Bahia to meet one of the original tradition-bearing Bahian families of capoeira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/ICCD_BerkeleyRSVP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join our YouTube Live\u003c/a>, Sept. 14, 2022, 6pm, with Chinwe Oniah, capoeira student and filmmaker, who will answer your questions and share what it was like to direct and produce two If Cities Could Dance episodes on the art form she loves so much.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For more than half a century, People’s Park in Berkeley has been a beacon of community activism. It’s also a place where authorities and the counterculture have done battle again and again. The space, east of Telegraph, has been a contentious plot of land ever since an April 1969 ad in the \u003cem>Berkeley Barb\u003c/em> encouraged people to congregate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley originally bought the 2.8 acre plot in 1967 to construct dorms, but after bulldozing several buildings, the university left the lot vacant. After that ad in the \u003cem>Barb\u003c/em> encouraged the public to take over the space, not only did crowds start gathering there, they quickly dug a pond, began gardening projects and put up a small playground. And thus, People’s Park was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Haste Street plot quickly became a site for local protests, community gatherings and rallies like this anti-war demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-800x628.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1020x801.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-768x603.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-2048x1609.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1920x1508.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators, many making peace signs, during an anti-Vietnam War rally in People’s Park, in front of the President’s house at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Underwood Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A month later, on May 15, work crews arrived, destroyed much of what the community had built and put up an 8-foot chain link fence to keep the public out. Protesters were not shy about sharing their feelings about the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-2048x1408.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1920x1320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: A dismayed-looking hippie attempts to talk to an armored guard at People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, protesters were clashing with Berkeley PD over the park. One man was killed by sheriff\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s deputies. Another was blinded. Then-Governor Ronald Reagan sent in 2,000 National Guard troops. As feelings ran high, violent confrontations filled the streets. So did tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-2048x1379.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1920x1292.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators running from tear gas deployed by police during a protest over People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Bettmann / Getty Images Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a 25-minute walk away in what is now Ohlone Park on Hearst Avenue, work was under way to establish a “\u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/208853\">People’s Park Mobile Annex.\u003c/a>” As had been done at the original site, people planted trees, brought in playground equipment and generally tried to beautify what was then a vacant lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498.jpg\" alt=\"A woman bends down to dig a hole to plant a tree, while a gathered group watches on. One woman stands with her arms outstretched in joy. Another plays a zither.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: A woman plants a tree at the People’s Park Annex. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man plays a guitar as others surround a sign that says People's Park. Two young women and a man sit nearby.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970: The People’s Park Annex survived into the new decade. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite several attempts by authorities to remove the plants and equipment at the Annex, people continued to gather there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd gathers together, some sitting, some standing, most smiling. One woman has her fist in the air.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970: A rally at the ‘People’s Park Annex.’ \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apartments had originally been the intended use for the Hearst Avenue plot. However, in June 1979 — five years after \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/parks-recreation/parks/ohlone-park\">a citizen’s committee concluded\u003c/a> that locals overwhelmingly wanted it to be a public park — the land officially became Ohlone Park. A victory for the people, as well as their dogs — Ohlone bears the distinction of being one of the first off-leash dog parks in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the main People’s Park, as clashes continued in 1969, the National Guard stayed posted in Berkeley for more than two weeks, and a curfew was imposed. Still, protesters fought for their right to access the park. A candlelight vigil was held in Berkeley on June 6, 1969. The protesters had earlier attempted to march to the park itself but were blocked by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing round spectacles smokes a cigarette and holds a lit candle. A young woman who long brown hair, also holding a candle, sits beside him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1536x1033.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-2048x1377.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1920x1291.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Peaceful protesters at the candlelight vigil. \u003ccite>(Garth Eliassen/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the tensions had died down, the university made only sporadic attempts to take the park back. Its attempts to put in a soccer field in 1971 failed, as did an attempt to turn part of it into a parking lot in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>70s, People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park remained an important place to gather and protest. The park also became a place where the houseless and transient could gather and seek shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347270-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men sit on crates and makeshift mattresses, next to two ramshackle tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1972: People squatting in People’s Park. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/ Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347272-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"An unkempt man with tangled chin-length hair and a bushy beard smokes a cigarette while a grey striped cat stands on his shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1979: Proof that Haight Street kids didn’t invent the cat-on-the-shoulder manoeuvre. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>80s, new concerns emerged about the state of the park. It had become a hotspot for drug use, and discussions around how to clean it up began in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, rallies took place in Berkeley to assert the rights of the homeless community to shelter in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347282-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of protesters march along a tree-lined street. Several hold up a large sign that reads 'Park People.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1990: U.C. Berkeley students and others march along Telegraph Avenue towards People’s Park. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1991, there were yet more protests when there was a proposal to put a volleyball court at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172352666-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a pointed paper hat and holding up a sign that reads 'No blood for volleyball' leads a group of young people. Two are shouting into a megaphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1991: Protester David Nadel leads members of the People’s Park Defense Union as they protest outside of the U.C. Berkeley Services Office. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anti-volleyball protests continued for months, even after nets were put up and games were actively happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347269-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"On the left of the image a vigorous volleyball game played by shirtless men in short shorts. On the right, a small group of protesters holds up signs that read 'UC Out' and 'Save the Park.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters objecting to a volleyball game at People’s Park. Some of the protesters were arrested later that day. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Apparently the protesters in the background of this photo later invaded the volleyball court and started building sand castles. Classic Berkeley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, when construction of public bathrooms commenced at the park, there were even protests about that too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-800x1216.jpg\" alt=\"A man with long hair and beard and dark sunglasses stands before a line of trees holding a sign that reads 'Save the Park.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-800x1216.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1020x1551.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-768x1168.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1347x2048.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1920x2919.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-scaled.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1992: Al Ventimiglia of Napa did not want the People’s Park to have bathrooms for some reason. He and a dozen of his fellow protesters were later arrested. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>90s, volunteers and city departments had worked together to clear out trash from the park; get grass, plants and trees in better shape; and turn the space into somewhere beautiful again. People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park was a favorite with everyone from lunching office workers to \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Not Bombs\u003c/a> volunteers who regularly showed up to hand out free meals. In 1996, Hip Hop in the Park started, becoming a hugely popular annual event that ran for two decades. More recently, People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park has once again become prominently occupied by a tent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11921415']UC Berkeley has been determined to start work on a $312 million construction project at People’s Park ever since plans were announced all the way back in 2018. The university says the new 16-story building it intends to build would accommodate 1,100 students, as well as 125 very low-income people, many of them currently homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Berkeley named People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park a cultural and historical landmark in 1984. It has been a symbol of Berkeley\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s love affair with activism and revolutionary acts for more than 50 years. If UC Berkeley finally succeeds in building dorms on the site, it will undoubtedly be a great loss to the city and the communities that have been gathering there for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For more than half a century, People’s Park in Berkeley has been a beacon of community activism. It’s also a place where authorities and the counterculture have done battle again and again. The space, east of Telegraph, has been a contentious plot of land ever since an April 1969 ad in the \u003cem>Berkeley Barb\u003c/em> encouraged people to congregate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley originally bought the 2.8 acre plot in 1967 to construct dorms, but after bulldozing several buildings, the university left the lot vacant. After that ad in the \u003cem>Barb\u003c/em> encouraged the public to take over the space, not only did crowds start gathering there, they quickly dug a pond, began gardening projects and put up a small playground. And thus, People’s Park was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Haste Street plot quickly became a site for local protests, community gatherings and rallies like this anti-war demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-800x628.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1020x801.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-768x603.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-2048x1609.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-993795492-1-1920x1508.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators, many making peace signs, during an anti-Vietnam War rally in People’s Park, in front of the President’s house at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Underwood Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A month later, on May 15, work crews arrived, destroyed much of what the community had built and put up an 8-foot chain link fence to keep the public out. Protesters were not shy about sharing their feelings about the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-2048x1408.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202594-1920x1320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: A dismayed-looking hippie attempts to talk to an armored guard at People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, protesters were clashing with Berkeley PD over the park. One man was killed by sheriff\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s deputies. Another was blinded. Then-Governor Ronald Reagan sent in 2,000 National Guard troops. As feelings ran high, violent confrontations filled the streets. So did tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-2048x1379.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-514677964-1920x1292.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators running from tear gas deployed by police during a protest over People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Bettmann / Getty Images Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a 25-minute walk away in what is now Ohlone Park on Hearst Avenue, work was under way to establish a “\u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/208853\">People’s Park Mobile Annex.\u003c/a>” As had been done at the original site, people planted trees, brought in playground equipment and generally tried to beautify what was then a vacant lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498.jpg\" alt=\"A woman bends down to dig a hole to plant a tree, while a gathered group watches on. One woman stands with her arms outstretched in joy. Another plays a zither.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-636202498-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: A woman plants a tree at the People’s Park Annex. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man plays a guitar as others surround a sign that says People's Park. Two young women and a man sit nearby.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224248-1-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970: The People’s Park Annex survived into the new decade. \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite several attempts by authorities to remove the plants and equipment at the Annex, people continued to gather there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd gathers together, some sitting, some standing, most smiling. One woman has her fist in the air.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-639224242-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970: A rally at the ‘People’s Park Annex.’ \u003ccite>(Robert Altman/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apartments had originally been the intended use for the Hearst Avenue plot. However, in June 1979 — five years after \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/parks-recreation/parks/ohlone-park\">a citizen’s committee concluded\u003c/a> that locals overwhelmingly wanted it to be a public park — the land officially became Ohlone Park. A victory for the people, as well as their dogs — Ohlone bears the distinction of being one of the first off-leash dog parks in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the main People’s Park, as clashes continued in 1969, the National Guard stayed posted in Berkeley for more than two weeks, and a curfew was imposed. Still, protesters fought for their right to access the park. A candlelight vigil was held in Berkeley on June 6, 1969. The protesters had earlier attempted to march to the park itself but were blocked by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing round spectacles smokes a cigarette and holds a lit candle. A young woman who long brown hair, also holding a candle, sits beside him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1536x1033.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-2048x1377.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-170427738-1920x1291.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Peaceful protesters at the candlelight vigil. \u003ccite>(Garth Eliassen/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the tensions had died down, the university made only sporadic attempts to take the park back. Its attempts to put in a soccer field in 1971 failed, as did an attempt to turn part of it into a parking lot in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>70s, People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park remained an important place to gather and protest. The park also became a place where the houseless and transient could gather and seek shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347270-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men sit on crates and makeshift mattresses, next to two ramshackle tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1972: People squatting in People’s Park. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/ Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347272-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"An unkempt man with tangled chin-length hair and a bushy beard smokes a cigarette while a grey striped cat stands on his shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1979: Proof that Haight Street kids didn’t invent the cat-on-the-shoulder manoeuvre. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>80s, new concerns emerged about the state of the park. It had become a hotspot for drug use, and discussions around how to clean it up began in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, rallies took place in Berkeley to assert the rights of the homeless community to shelter in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347282-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of protesters march along a tree-lined street. Several hold up a large sign that reads 'Park People.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1990: U.C. Berkeley students and others march along Telegraph Avenue towards People’s Park. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1991, there were yet more protests when there was a proposal to put a volleyball court at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172352666-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a pointed paper hat and holding up a sign that reads 'No blood for volleyball' leads a group of young people. Two are shouting into a megaphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1991: Protester David Nadel leads members of the People’s Park Defense Union as they protest outside of the U.C. Berkeley Services Office. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anti-volleyball protests continued for months, even after nets were put up and games were actively happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347269-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"On the left of the image a vigorous volleyball game played by shirtless men in short shorts. On the right, a small group of protesters holds up signs that read 'UC Out' and 'Save the Park.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters objecting to a volleyball game at People’s Park. Some of the protesters were arrested later that day. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Apparently the protesters in the background of this photo later invaded the volleyball court and started building sand castles. Classic Berkeley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, when construction of public bathrooms commenced at the park, there were even protests about that too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-800x1216.jpg\" alt=\"A man with long hair and beard and dark sunglasses stands before a line of trees holding a sign that reads 'Save the Park.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-800x1216.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1020x1551.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-768x1168.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1347x2048.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-1920x2919.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-1172347266-scaled.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1992: Al Ventimiglia of Napa did not want the People’s Park to have bathrooms for some reason. He and a dozen of his fellow protesters were later arrested. \u003ccite>(MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>90s, volunteers and city departments had worked together to clear out trash from the park; get grass, plants and trees in better shape; and turn the space into somewhere beautiful again. People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park was a favorite with everyone from lunching office workers to \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Not Bombs\u003c/a> volunteers who regularly showed up to hand out free meals. In 1996, Hip Hop in the Park started, becoming a hugely popular annual event that ran for two decades. More recently, People\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s Park has once again become prominently occupied by a tent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>UC Berkeley has been determined to start work on a $312 million construction project at People’s Park ever since plans were announced all the way back in 2018. The university says the new 16-story building it intends to build would accommodate 1,100 students, as well as 125 very low-income people, many of them currently homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>¡Hella Hungry! is a column about Bay Area foodmakers, exploring the region’s culinary cultures through the mouth of a first-generation local.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/deliramaofficial/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Delirama\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—a new, independently-owned deli in North Berkeley—won’t officially open its doors until Monday, August 8, the place is already poppin’ with pastrami.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because it’s owned by Cash Caris and Anahita Cann, the innovative couple who delivered popular Oakland pop-ups \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pyrospastrami/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pyro’s Pastrami\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/psychedelic_pizza_/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychedelic Pizza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Both ventures earned an underground reputation for their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yonU4-77Pgg\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">unique, pastrami-loaded offerings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—pastrami pizza, pastrami bagels, pastrami cream cheese and even pastrami tacos. The pop-ups birthed a religious following of pastrami worshippers who have since been anticipating Delirama’s debut.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I stopped by to chat with Caris at the funky, retro-inspired Solano Avenue restaurant, we kept getting interrupted by hopeful patrons who thought the deli was open. One listened intently as Caris described the initial menu before promising to return for lunch on opening day, saving notes on her phone’s calendar. Another gentleman just kept peering in longingly from the street. Between the two of them, I’d never seen so much eagerness to consume pastrami.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CgU6I1ZPy5I/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the kind of gravity Delirama has. In just a few days, they’ll start serving their constellation of quirky, homestyle pastrami goodies like “the OG Sandwich”—beef pastrami (or a vegan version made with celery root) on rye, with Thousand Island dressing, gruyere cheese and coleslaw. The opening menu also includes a Hawaiian- and childhood-inspired “POG Juice” and fresh-baked bagels and bialys (a “cousin” of the bagel with an indentation in the middle that Delirama fills with caramelized onions and pastrami bits).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During my visit, Caris told me about the magic that goes into making pastrami—a laborious process that takes an average of 30 days—and his journey into the food industry over 15 years ago. He also hopped into the kitchen to make me one of his favorite dishes, the Reuben.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Pastrami] really is like a spiritual experience,” he told me while grilling fresh slices of meat to heavenly perfection. After one bite, I agreed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"pastrami being cooked on the grill in Delirama's kitchen, with slices of bread being toasted nearby\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “spiritual experience” being prepared by chef Cash Caris. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">********\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KQED: It seems like you’ve had a long love affair with pastrami. When did that begin?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Laughs) We’ve definitely had a long affair. The first pastrami I remember eating as a kid was from those 10-cent packs at Lucky’s. You could get thin cured meats for real cheap. My grandma would always get one pack of pastrami and I would fry it in a pan. Then, when I worked at Togo’s later on, when I was probably like 16, I saw pastrami again. I ate pastrami there every day for free. It was completely different from what I knew. I just got interested and started tinkering at home with it. I never made it in a restaurant, though, because it’s very time-consuming. When I got older, I did a cross country trip with Anahita. I started to think about different types of cuisines I could do for a food pop-up. I thought about doing tacos, American food, fresh Italian pasta, burgers. I can make it all. But the one thing I realized that I had the strongest connection to was pastrami. I could live without any of the others, but I would never want to live without pastrami, rye bread and mustard. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s your connection to the Bay Area, and how does your food reflect that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was born and raised in the South Bay; I’ve spent the largest portion of my life in San Jose. I love it, but it’s not a place for pastrami right now, unfortunately. That time is nearing though. It’s something I want to do—open more Deliramas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far as pastrami fitting into the food scene, the Bay is so food-centric, but pastrami itself doesn’t exist much here. The fact that it’s not here as much as I want it to be, that’s what gave us our purpose. The Bay needs pastrami. We are putting in the time and love to provide it. Certain communities already know about pastrami, but we want to spread it. Doing this with craft and originality, that’s what it deserves. I’ll never use injection or anything in the meat to speed up the process. It is owed the time and energy that it takes. It’s not easily done. To make 2,000 pounds of it and flip it and constantly check it and watch the temperatures. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, to be honest, but also the most rewarding. We want to integrate our California roots with the deli style of the East Coast.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s the most popular item that you’re bringing to your menu?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OG [sandwich]. That’s the original, in California, in terms of pastrami. We use rye bread, Thousand Island dressing, coleslaw and gruyere cheese on pastrami. We also add “Dad’s mustard”—our house mustard. So many people have really gravitated towards it [at Pyro’s]. We’re giving them a peek into the [pastrami making] process and what goes into it. We’re not just ripping open a pack and steaming it and slicing it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I heard that you’re also planning to do pastrami tacos. I’m very intrigued.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have you had a Crunchy Taco Supreme at Taco Bell? It’s sort of like that, but not exactly. We take parts of the pastrami, those little bits and pieces that don’t go into the sandwich, and we cook it— adding aromatics and spices, lettuce, sour cream and shredded sharp cheddar. Nostalgia catches people’s eyes, so that’s why I mention Taco Bell. It also taps into my roots [as a Mexican American]. My family is from SoCal and the Bay, but my great great grandparents were from Mexico on my mom’s side. The tacos taste incredible, but we won’t add that to the menu until September. People have always been asking me to do tacos, so I think they’ll be popular.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"a row of pastrami-topped bialys (a type of bagel) on a rack displayed for customers inside Delirama\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly baked bialys with pastrami await at Delirama. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I recently kicked it with the \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916044/sucka-free-soul-the-vegan-hood-chefs-honor-southern-heritage-with-a-frisco-twist\">\u003cb>Vegan Hood Chefs\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>; I’m sure they’d be hyped to see your vegan options. Can you tell us how your vegan pastrami is made?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to live in Portland and was vegan. When we thought of Delirama, we knew we needed to have vegan options—at least 50% vegan and vegetarian on the menu—for the sake of the planet, the people. I didn’t want to use any soy or texturized protein. I wanted it all to be 100% plant-based and non-refined. Our vegan pastrami is made from celery root. It’s definitely a versatile root that is overlooked. We take the root, we brine it, smoke it, steam it. It’s chilled, then sliced super, super thin. It’s cooked al dente. We brine it again. It has this really great umami, smoky, salty savoriness. It makes for an amazing reuben sandwich. We throw it on our vegan rye, and our vegan Thousand Island sauce, get that all nice and melty with vegan cheese; it’s delicious. You feel good after it. A seitan is pure gluten and sodium. It’s like bread on bread. But this is fresh. You can never replace the meat fully, but it’s a delicious option and opens up the pastrami experience to people who wouldn’t expect to get something substantial at a deli. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where are your favorite delis in the Bay?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A really well-done deli that comes to mind is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oksdeli.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ok’s Deli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They do everything from scratch and have extremely talented people working there. That’s up and coming for sure. It’s off Telegraph. They started as a pop-up as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.picnicrotisserie.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picnic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It isn’t a deli though. It’s a woman-owned rotisserie. They make pastrami, too. They serve it on a baguette with coleslaw. Their pastrami is underrated. They have some of the best pastrami in the Bay. I don’t think people know about it, to be honest. They don’t blast it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, we like the pastrami sandwich at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelittleredwindow.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Red Window\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For nostalgia, we go to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://molinaridelisf.com/41085\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Molinari\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for sandwiches. We’re also going to check out the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sandwich_saint/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saint Sandwich\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shop next. We haven’t been yet, but we keep hearing great things about it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’ve operated successful pop-ups and now you’re about to open your first brick-and-mortar deli in a few days. How does it feel?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13913592,arts_13916044,arts_13914585']It’s emotional. We’re days away from opening and it almost doesn’t feel real. It’s here though, it’s gonna happen, but it’s still hard to believe. There have been a lot of roadblocks. We tried for a while to get a brick-and-mortar. We [previously] had another spot locked down, and it was ripped from underneath us. It was a local spot. We were paying back our [loans] and everything looked set, but it got sabotaged. If we didn’t find a new spot within 5 months, we wouldn’t have been able to survive. We had used up most of our capital. It was a scary feeling. To be here now is amazing. I’m confident in what we can do, and I have pure intentions with this brand and vision. It all happened for a reason. It was a blessing in disguise because we’re sitting here now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What early experiences have shaped your connection to the local food industry?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was a teenager, I raised some money to go to the SF Academy of Arts for Motion Picture and Television Production. But I needed a job. I didn’t have much experience, but I found a weird posting about an Israeli caterer in Santa Clara. It was a strange place with a dark, dingy kitchen. The couple running it didn’t speak English. But it smelled good. I was introduced to foods I’ve never seen before. Different spices and aromas. It took me by surprise. They hired me on the spot. I just washed dishes at first. I was young and without experience; I had to earn everything. Two months into it, the owner’s wife came over. She pointed at two bags of onions that needed to be chopped. That’s how I got into the kitchen, and I just stayed there. I eventually moved to an assistant on the hot line and kept moving up. We only communicated with body language the entire time. It was bonding, but not much guidance was given. Then I had to make a choice one day: Do I stay in the kitchen or keep making films? I was barely scraping by, but I just couldn’t stop thinking about the kitchen. So I went all in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13917129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a tray of sliced pastrami in the kitchen of Delirama, waiting to be used for sandwiches, pizzas, and more\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1136-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/deliramaofficial/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Delirama\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1746 Solano Ave, Berkeley) opens on Monday, August 8. Service will begin at 7 am until 3 pm (or until sold out). They will open every Mon., Thu. & Fri. 7 am–3 pm and Sat. & Sun. 9 am–5 pm (or until sold out).\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the kind of gravity Delirama has. In just a few days, they’ll start serving their constellation of quirky, homestyle pastrami goodies like “the OG Sandwich”—beef pastrami (or a vegan version made with celery root) on rye, with Thousand Island dressing, gruyere cheese and coleslaw. The opening menu also includes a Hawaiian- and childhood-inspired “POG Juice” and fresh-baked bagels and bialys (a “cousin” of the bagel with an indentation in the middle that Delirama fills with caramelized onions and pastrami bits).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During my visit, Caris told me about the magic that goes into making pastrami—a laborious process that takes an average of 30 days—and his journey into the food industry over 15 years ago. He also hopped into the kitchen to make me one of his favorite dishes, the Reuben.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Pastrami] really is like a spiritual experience,” he told me while grilling fresh slices of meat to heavenly perfection. After one bite, I agreed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"pastrami being cooked on the grill in Delirama's kitchen, with slices of bread being toasted nearby\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1150-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “spiritual experience” being prepared by chef Cash Caris. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">********\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KQED: It seems like you’ve had a long love affair with pastrami. When did that begin?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Laughs) We’ve definitely had a long affair. The first pastrami I remember eating as a kid was from those 10-cent packs at Lucky’s. You could get thin cured meats for real cheap. My grandma would always get one pack of pastrami and I would fry it in a pan. Then, when I worked at Togo’s later on, when I was probably like 16, I saw pastrami again. I ate pastrami there every day for free. It was completely different from what I knew. I just got interested and started tinkering at home with it. I never made it in a restaurant, though, because it’s very time-consuming. When I got older, I did a cross country trip with Anahita. I started to think about different types of cuisines I could do for a food pop-up. I thought about doing tacos, American food, fresh Italian pasta, burgers. I can make it all. But the one thing I realized that I had the strongest connection to was pastrami. I could live without any of the others, but I would never want to live without pastrami, rye bread and mustard. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s your connection to the Bay Area, and how does your food reflect that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was born and raised in the South Bay; I’ve spent the largest portion of my life in San Jose. I love it, but it’s not a place for pastrami right now, unfortunately. That time is nearing though. It’s something I want to do—open more Deliramas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far as pastrami fitting into the food scene, the Bay is so food-centric, but pastrami itself doesn’t exist much here. The fact that it’s not here as much as I want it to be, that’s what gave us our purpose. The Bay needs pastrami. We are putting in the time and love to provide it. Certain communities already know about pastrami, but we want to spread it. Doing this with craft and originality, that’s what it deserves. I’ll never use injection or anything in the meat to speed up the process. It is owed the time and energy that it takes. It’s not easily done. To make 2,000 pounds of it and flip it and constantly check it and watch the temperatures. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, to be honest, but also the most rewarding. We want to integrate our California roots with the deli style of the East Coast.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s the most popular item that you’re bringing to your menu?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OG [sandwich]. That’s the original, in California, in terms of pastrami. We use rye bread, Thousand Island dressing, coleslaw and gruyere cheese on pastrami. We also add “Dad’s mustard”—our house mustard. So many people have really gravitated towards it [at Pyro’s]. We’re giving them a peek into the [pastrami making] process and what goes into it. We’re not just ripping open a pack and steaming it and slicing it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I heard that you’re also planning to do pastrami tacos. I’m very intrigued.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have you had a Crunchy Taco Supreme at Taco Bell? It’s sort of like that, but not exactly. We take parts of the pastrami, those little bits and pieces that don’t go into the sandwich, and we cook it— adding aromatics and spices, lettuce, sour cream and shredded sharp cheddar. Nostalgia catches people’s eyes, so that’s why I mention Taco Bell. It also taps into my roots [as a Mexican American]. My family is from SoCal and the Bay, but my great great grandparents were from Mexico on my mom’s side. The tacos taste incredible, but we won’t add that to the menu until September. People have always been asking me to do tacos, so I think they’ll be popular.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"a row of pastrami-topped bialys (a type of bagel) on a rack displayed for customers inside Delirama\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/IMG_1090-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly baked bialys with pastrami await at Delirama. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I recently kicked it with the \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916044/sucka-free-soul-the-vegan-hood-chefs-honor-southern-heritage-with-a-frisco-twist\">\u003cb>Vegan Hood Chefs\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>; I’m sure they’d be hyped to see your vegan options. Can you tell us how your vegan pastrami is made?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to live in Portland and was vegan. When we thought of Delirama, we knew we needed to have vegan options—at least 50% vegan and vegetarian on the menu—for the sake of the planet, the people. I didn’t want to use any soy or texturized protein. I wanted it all to be 100% plant-based and non-refined. Our vegan pastrami is made from celery root. It’s definitely a versatile root that is overlooked. We take the root, we brine it, smoke it, steam it. It’s chilled, then sliced super, super thin. It’s cooked al dente. We brine it again. It has this really great umami, smoky, salty savoriness. It makes for an amazing reuben sandwich. We throw it on our vegan rye, and our vegan Thousand Island sauce, get that all nice and melty with vegan cheese; it’s delicious. You feel good after it. A seitan is pure gluten and sodium. It’s like bread on bread. But this is fresh. You can never replace the meat fully, but it’s a delicious option and opens up the pastrami experience to people who wouldn’t expect to get something substantial at a deli. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where are your favorite delis in the Bay?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A really well-done deli that comes to mind is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oksdeli.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ok’s Deli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They do everything from scratch and have extremely talented people working there. That’s up and coming for sure. It’s off Telegraph. They started as a pop-up as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.picnicrotisserie.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picnic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It isn’t a deli though. It’s a woman-owned rotisserie. They make pastrami, too. They serve it on a baguette with coleslaw. Their pastrami is underrated. They have some of the best pastrami in the Bay. I don’t think people know about it, to be honest. They don’t blast it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, we like the pastrami sandwich at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelittleredwindow.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Red Window\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For nostalgia, we go to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://molinaridelisf.com/41085\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Molinari\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for sandwiches. We’re also going to check out the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sandwich_saint/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saint Sandwich\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shop next. We haven’t been yet, but we keep hearing great things about it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’ve operated successful pop-ups and now you’re about to open your first brick-and-mortar deli in a few days. How does it feel?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Not only was Vivian the first Black woman to ever major in anthropology at the university, she was also one of the first two women to earn a master’s degree there. (The other was Belinda Davison Mabson.) Vivian’s master’s thesis, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3807566&view=1up&seq=1\">Types and Distribution of Negro Folklore in America\u003c/a>,” successfully argued that many American children’s classics were, in fact, stories that originated in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In America alone,” she wrote, “stories that the Negro brought over from Africa with him have either been preserved in their native forms, worked entirely over … or are altered in order to suit the surroundings.” She earned High Honors for her research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was while working toward her master’s degree that Vivian founded the first Black sorority at Berkeley, modeling the Kappa chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority after the one founded at Howard University in 1913. Like the original, the Kappa chapter was dedicated to both “academic excellence and social service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian acted as the sorority’s first president. By that time, Vivian understood implicitly the power garnered from working in organized groups. Throughout her academic life, she had been a member of the Phillis Wheatley Club — part of the California State Association for Colored Women, of which Vivian would be elected president in 1941.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Vivian graduated in 1922, she embraced a life of activism, public service and leadership full-time. She and her new husband, Leon F. Marsh, lived in Berkeley, and their home on Grant Street quickly became a crucial hub for community organizers and political groups. Vivian was involved with so many, it’s genuinely hard to keep track of them all. 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In 1948, she and her sister Bessie founded the Patroness Club — a group of women who acted as mother figures to female pledges who were far from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1931, while serving as secretary for the Northern Board of the California Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, Vivian fought hard to stop a racist bill that would have segregated children in recreational areas. The proposed law was written in response to a battle in Los Angeles to integrate public pools. Letters co-written by Vivian were reproduced in full in The Oakland Tribune as part of Delilah Beasley’s “Activities Among Negroes” column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One letter to Frederick M. 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In 1938, the \u003cem>California Eagle\u003c/em> newspaper reported on a lecture-reception Vivian was hosting: “Her appearance in Los Angeles is expected to draw throngs and ovations similar to that received in the South,” it wrote, “especially at Fisk University where [writer and civil rights activist] James Weldon Johnson gave up his scheduled appearance in order that students might hear her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931436']\u003cem>The Eagle\u003c/em> quoted Vivian as saying, “If we keep constantly demanding of our senators that they vote for it, the [Wagner-Van Nuys-Gavagan anti-lynching] bill will be passed. Many of them are coming up for reelection and women’s auxiliaries should know those who supported the measure and use their vote accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-lynching bill ultimately failed to pass after four senators from Texas, Georgia and Florida filibustered for 30 days straight to block it. 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At one stage, Vivian wrote to every chamber of commerce across California and requested assistance in finding NYO workers positions in the private sector. Her idea was greeted with flagrantly racist response letters. She later noted “The writers do not know they are writing to a Negro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advent of World War II did nothing to slow Vivian down. She took it upon herself to be a unit commander of the Women’s Ambulance and Defense Corps of America. The women were trained in first aid, ambulance driving, nursing, rescue work, radio operations and infantry drills. They also sold war bonds and visited veterans in the hospital. By 1944, Vivian was so revered, she was invited to christen a Navy cargo ship (the SS Ocean Telegraph) in Oakland before it took its maiden voyage. She was elected vice-president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1945, and quickly formed smaller councils in Oakland, Richmond, Fresno and Sacramento to aid in the organization’s civil rights work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, Vivian tackled social issues on both the political and personal fronts. An active member of the Republican party, she sat on the Alameda County Republican Central Committee and the State Republican Legislative Council. She also provided her home as a space where Senator Joseph R. Knowland could connect with members of the public. But she was known to offer advice on racial issues to Democrats too, including State Senator Nicholas C. Petris. Later in the decade, Berkeley’s city council appointed her to their Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13889944']In the 1950s and ’60s, Vivian worked with her husband to establish fraternal organizations. She helped establish nine lodges, each of which provided scholarship grants to students, and donations of money, food and clothing to members of the community in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian would go on to live her whole life in the house on Grant Street. She and Leon raised two sons there — Roy Curtin Osborne and Leon F. Marsh Jr., who grew up to be a well-respected firefighter in Berkeley. She stayed in the home even after Leon Jr. died in 1956 and Leon Sr. passed in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian made it to age 88. She suffered a stroke in 1986 while at a convention, and passed away soon after. The marks she made on the community were not quickly forgotten, however. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1960s, as Berkeley became a hotbed of anti-war and “hippie” countercultural thinking, Oakland was cooking up something with a slightly different flavor: the Black Panther Party, most famous for its revolutionary politics, which also offered a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2016/2/16/11002842/free-breakfast-schools-black-panthers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free breakfast program for local youth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erika Hazel, a Berkeley-born and Vallejo-raised vegan advocate, is inspired by these traditions when she thinks about food and health awareness in 2022. As a K-12 school therapist in Oakland, adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco and vegan food blogger, Hazel—better known as “The Bizerkeley Vegan”—has set out to ensure food and health education remain accessible for those who have systemically been excluded from the conversation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Demystifying veganism is key to our future,” says Hazel, noting that she wasn’t exposed to the vegan lifestyle at all growing up in Vallejo. She initially became interested in veganism for her personal health, noting a history of cancer in her family that she hoped to reduce with a plant-based diet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Big meat factory farming is bad for our environment. We’re a meat-dependent society and it’s not good for us, especially for folks of color. My school is predominantly Black and Latinx, and seeing what they eat, it’s adding to the bigger equation of unhealthy habits.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hazel’s work is in line with a long legacy of food justice in the Bay Area. Aside from the Black Panther Party’s efforts, the Edible Schoolyard project brought gardening and food justice concepts to Berkeley middle-schoolers in a program that has since been replicated in New York and elsewhere. Nowadays, this lineage has continued with the recent efforts of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://vegnews.com/2021/7/berkeley-first-city-vegan-meals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">local orgs fighting for Berkeley to become the first city in the country to commit to vegan options\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915892\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Hazel, who is the founder of the Bizerkeley Food Festival, stands in front of her festival's banner while smiling\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Hazel shines at the first annual Bizerkeley Food Festival she organized in 2021 \u003ccite>(Jeffrey Litman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this light, you can’t dismiss the ongoing journey of a homegrown proponent like Hazel, who shares her love for being vegan beyond her family’s dinner table. For her, the revolution doesn’t begin with what happens in Washington D.C.; it begins with what happens in our bodies, and the foods we choose to eat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since fully committing to veganism in 2016, The Bizerkeley Vegan has been getting to the plant of the matter by sharing her knowledge about vegan lifestyles with the public. Her biggest feat? Organizing the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitberkeley.com/events/the-bizerkeley-food-festival-2021/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bizerkeley Food Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2021—Berkeley’s first and only vegan food festival.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally slated to debut in May 2020, Hazel was forced to pause her plans until the following year, when she received sponsorship from Berkeley to launch the city’s first-ever vegan fest to a crowd of over 1,000 attendees in the parking lot of Sports Basement. The event featured local vegan vendors, family activities, and educational resources for community members of all ages. Now in its second year, Hazel looks forward to expanding its radius to include more vendors in order to benefit more folks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the success she’s now seeing wasn’t cooked up overnight—and it wasn’t a solo effort, either, thanks to her family and community members who have “wrapped around (her dietary choices) instead of rejecting (them).”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My dad used to eat Burger King and McDonalds, and now he’s super mindful of meat consumption,” Hazel tells me. “I tell him, do you want to meet your grandchildren? You have to eat right. Illnesses like diabetes often run in families because of certain eating habits. You gotta have something green on your plate. Eat your steak, but eat more plants, too.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the past eight years, she has been volunteering, observing and connecting with vegan restaurants, festivals, and organizations around the country to to create a vegan food festival full of “culinary wizardry.” She owes a lot, she says, to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitvallejo.com/events/upcoming-events/vallejo-healthy-food-fest-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vallejo Healthy Food Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as to organizations like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://@foodempowermentproject\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food Empowerment Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been inspired by the hustlers out here,” she says. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I first met the Vegan Hood Chefs in their early days when they just had a table at Bay Area pop-ups. Now they have their own food truck, catering business, and are featured on VICE. Seeing them grow, and coming from our communities, that made me appreciate the spirit of hustling that makes our vegan scene so dope.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching other Black women like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theveganhoodchefs/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vegan Hood Chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gain national recognition through their Southern-style cooking and independent grit and appreciating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fellow Vallejo entrepreneurs like E-40\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for his contributions to food culture, her passion now is sharing how the Bay is a world-class destination for any vegan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13915891 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a food vendor serves a vegan dish to a customer at the Bizerkeley Food Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporting local vegan businesses like Vegan Heat is a priority for Hazel \u003ccite>(Jeffrey Litman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At holiday events and cook outs, she tests recipes like buffalo cauliflower instead of chicken wings, or adapts Filipino dishes from her neighbors to make vegan sisig. In meat-dependent and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/food-desert-bay-area-deserts-pantry-near-me-alameda-bank/11254529/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fast food-saturated environments that impact many low-income, East Bay communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Hazel is cooking up ways to rethink how everyone can benefit from vegan practices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are so many ways to be vegan and healthy,” Hazel says. “It’s not an unattainable, white hippie thing. 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She is also collaborating with small businesses in the region, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drhops.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctor Hop’s Real Hard Kombucha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liquifiedjuicery/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liquified Juicery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eclipsefoods.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eclipse Ice Cream\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nixtafoods/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nixta Pupusas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to “put on for the underdogs.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For anyone skeptical of veganism’s practicality, The Bizerkeley Vegan has a simple reminder: “Anything you can eat, I can eat vegan.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch Erika serving more news about Bay Area vegan culture on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thebizerkeleyvegan.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or watch as she \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYYbER1JBs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recommends her favorite vegan pizza joint in San Francisco on an episode of KQED’s “Check, Please!”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitberkeley.com/events/the-bizerkeley-food-festival-2022/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2022 Bizerkeley Food Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, originally scheduled for July, has been rescheduled until Sunday, Sep. 4. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1960s, as Berkeley became a hotbed of anti-war and “hippie” countercultural thinking, Oakland was cooking up something with a slightly different flavor: the Black Panther Party, most famous for its revolutionary politics, which also offered a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2016/2/16/11002842/free-breakfast-schools-black-panthers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free breakfast program for local youth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erika Hazel, a Berkeley-born and Vallejo-raised vegan advocate, is inspired by these traditions when she thinks about food and health awareness in 2022. As a K-12 school therapist in Oakland, adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco and vegan food blogger, Hazel—better known as “The Bizerkeley Vegan”—has set out to ensure food and health education remain accessible for those who have systemically been excluded from the conversation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Demystifying veganism is key to our future,” says Hazel, noting that she wasn’t exposed to the vegan lifestyle at all growing up in Vallejo. She initially became interested in veganism for her personal health, noting a history of cancer in her family that she hoped to reduce with a plant-based diet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Big meat factory farming is bad for our environment. We’re a meat-dependent society and it’s not good for us, especially for folks of color. My school is predominantly Black and Latinx, and seeing what they eat, it’s adding to the bigger equation of unhealthy habits.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hazel’s work is in line with a long legacy of food justice in the Bay Area. Aside from the Black Panther Party’s efforts, the Edible Schoolyard project brought gardening and food justice concepts to Berkeley middle-schoolers in a program that has since been replicated in New York and elsewhere. Nowadays, this lineage has continued with the recent efforts of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://vegnews.com/2021/7/berkeley-first-city-vegan-meals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">local orgs fighting for Berkeley to become the first city in the country to commit to vegan options\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915892\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Hazel, who is the founder of the Bizerkeley Food Festival, stands in front of her festival's banner while smiling\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0167-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Hazel shines at the first annual Bizerkeley Food Festival she organized in 2021 \u003ccite>(Jeffrey Litman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this light, you can’t dismiss the ongoing journey of a homegrown proponent like Hazel, who shares her love for being vegan beyond her family’s dinner table. For her, the revolution doesn’t begin with what happens in Washington D.C.; it begins with what happens in our bodies, and the foods we choose to eat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since fully committing to veganism in 2016, The Bizerkeley Vegan has been getting to the plant of the matter by sharing her knowledge about vegan lifestyles with the public. Her biggest feat? Organizing the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitberkeley.com/events/the-bizerkeley-food-festival-2021/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bizerkeley Food Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2021—Berkeley’s first and only vegan food festival.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally slated to debut in May 2020, Hazel was forced to pause her plans until the following year, when she received sponsorship from Berkeley to launch the city’s first-ever vegan fest to a crowd of over 1,000 attendees in the parking lot of Sports Basement. The event featured local vegan vendors, family activities, and educational resources for community members of all ages. Now in its second year, Hazel looks forward to expanding its radius to include more vendors in order to benefit more folks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the success she’s now seeing wasn’t cooked up overnight—and it wasn’t a solo effort, either, thanks to her family and community members who have “wrapped around (her dietary choices) instead of rejecting (them).”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My dad used to eat Burger King and McDonalds, and now he’s super mindful of meat consumption,” Hazel tells me. “I tell him, do you want to meet your grandchildren? You have to eat right. Illnesses like diabetes often run in families because of certain eating habits. You gotta have something green on your plate. Eat your steak, but eat more plants, too.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the past eight years, she has been volunteering, observing and connecting with vegan restaurants, festivals, and organizations around the country to to create a vegan food festival full of “culinary wizardry.” She owes a lot, she says, to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitvallejo.com/events/upcoming-events/vallejo-healthy-food-fest-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vallejo Healthy Food Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as to organizations like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://@foodempowermentproject\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food Empowerment Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been inspired by the hustlers out here,” she says. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I first met the Vegan Hood Chefs in their early days when they just had a table at Bay Area pop-ups. Now they have their own food truck, catering business, and are featured on VICE. Seeing them grow, and coming from our communities, that made me appreciate the spirit of hustling that makes our vegan scene so dope.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching other Black women like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theveganhoodchefs/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vegan Hood Chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gain national recognition through their Southern-style cooking and independent grit and appreciating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fellow Vallejo entrepreneurs like E-40\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for his contributions to food culture, her passion now is sharing how the Bay is a world-class destination for any vegan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13915891 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a food vendor serves a vegan dish to a customer at the Bizerkeley Food Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_0168.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporting local vegan businesses like Vegan Heat is a priority for Hazel \u003ccite>(Jeffrey Litman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At holiday events and cook outs, she tests recipes like buffalo cauliflower instead of chicken wings, or adapts Filipino dishes from her neighbors to make vegan sisig. In meat-dependent and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/food-desert-bay-area-deserts-pantry-near-me-alameda-bank/11254529/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fast food-saturated environments that impact many low-income, East Bay communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Hazel is cooking up ways to rethink how everyone can benefit from vegan practices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are so many ways to be vegan and healthy,” Hazel says. “It’s not an unattainable, white hippie thing. I want to take the whiteness out of veganism, because it’s really for everyone.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with organizations like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://@foodempowermentproject\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food Empowerment Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Petaluma and coordinating the Vallejo Healthy Food Festival from 2019 to 2021, Hazel has been joyfully marinating in the Bay Area’s diverse vegan community and sharing what she has learned with others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She might be a self-proclaimed “tree hugger,” but Hazel isn’t overly idealistic about her approach to changing eating habits for those living in her neighborhood. Currently, she is working on a cookbook with her mom that provides alternatives for dishes that are commonly enjoyed in her household, such as black-eyed peas. She is also collaborating with small businesses in the region, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drhops.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctor Hop’s Real Hard Kombucha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liquifiedjuicery/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liquified Juicery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eclipsefoods.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eclipse Ice Cream\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nixtafoods/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nixta Pupusas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to “put on for the underdogs.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For anyone skeptical of veganism’s practicality, The Bizerkeley Vegan has a simple reminder: “Anything you can eat, I can eat vegan.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch Erika serving more news about Bay Area vegan culture on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thebizerkeleyvegan.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or watch as she \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYYbER1JBs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recommends her favorite vegan pizza joint in San Francisco on an episode of KQED’s “Check, Please!”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content Warning\u003c/strong>: This article contains multiple uncensored uses, including a recording, of derogatory phrases which some may find highly offensive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, we arrived at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, excited to document the return of the stoner celebration. Among the crowd were primarily young, Black and Brown people enjoying themselves—far more than you typically see in one space in modern-day San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We—Julian, the reporter, and Amaya, the photojournalist—were looking forward to collaborating on a photo essay that centered Black and Brown entrepreneurs and artists. We wanted to help foster a sense of pride, and capture how folks who look like us have shaped California’s cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Black journalists, we experienced an angry harangue from a white man named Mike Barnes involving aggressive use of the n-word. In a follow-up conversation, he used it many more times, and doubled down on his right to say it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a fixture in press coverage of Bay Area cannabis events, and appears to openly court media attention. We’ve decided to give it to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in a marijuana-themed suit and hat, covered in leaves, points his finger at a young Black reporter during an interview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Julian Sorapuru (right) interviews Mike Barnes at Hippie Hill at 4/20. Shortly after the interview began, Barnes aggressively used a racial slur. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Yes, With a Hard ‘R’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Hippie Hill on April 20, we see someone who we think would make an interesting addition to our story. He carries himself with the energy of a total character, dressed in a gaudy, black suit and bucket hat adorned all over with green marijuana leaves. It was hard to miss this large, middle-aged white man, so we identify ourselves as journalists and stop him for an interview. He agrees, and introduces himself as “Big Mike.” Neither of us expect what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Amaya snaps some photos of him and we kick off the interview, Big Mike begins boasting about how many times he’s been in the media: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/stoners-celebrate-420-weed-pot-cannabis-824550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, KTVU, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-s-420-celebration-lights-up-17110328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em>—he’s something of a minor celebrity in the Bay Area cannabis scene. He says he’s a weed grower just there to have a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty standard answer so far. Then he suddenly launches into a story about an interaction he had with Mike Tyson while the former boxer and cannabis entrepreneur spoke on stage earlier in the day. He gets visibly angry as he describes how, in his version of events, Tyson swatted away the handfuls of weed Big Mike decided to throw at him while he spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Fuck you, nigger,’ and turned around and walked away,” Big Mike says aggressively. “You don’t want my weed? You want the whole bag?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Mike Barnes’ interview in full below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/MikeBarnes.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, I’m stunned into silence. My eyes go wide and I size him up. He’s a big dude: about 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. Now I’m thinking about our safety. Centuries of generational trauma tell me that when a white man uses the n-word with that much vitriol, it’s either time to fight or get the hell out. Hearing that word could have meant life or death for our ancestors. It still can. But my journalism training tells me to let the source finish his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does: “Let’s just say I’m not a Mike Tyson fan anymore,” Big Mike says. I half-expect to hear an apology or a joke, but he keeps doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on disparaging Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally I get out. “Have a good day, man,” I say, maintaining an air of professionalism and respect towards an interviewee who showed neither to us. I walk away and end the recording as he continues with his rant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did a white man dressed in a weed suit he ordered from Amazon really just say the n-word with a hard “R” without any provocation at a 4/20 festival? The absurdity of the incident made me feel like I was in an episode of \u003ci>Atlanta\u003c/i>. This is an event that’s supposed to be all about good vibes and relaxation, not hatred and bitterness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaya laughs the way you do when you’re trying to hold back tears. “He can’t be serious,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, he absolutely \u003cem>was\u003c/em> serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who Is Mike Barnes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Mike’s real name is Mike Barnes. He is a 52 year-old resident of the Berkeley area. He’s a former Army airborne combat engineer, he says, who previously ran a dispensary called the Hayward Patients Resource Center, which is now defunct. Today, he is self-employed, earning a living by doing “handyman things” and growing marijuana for “a small group of private individuals for medical reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes has a habit of popping up at cannabis-related events. Photos of him in his eye-catching suit at previous iterations of the 4/20 festival have appeared in the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-may-start-permitting-cannabis-sales-consumption-at-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/news/cannabis/4-20-in-golden-gate-park-is-officially-cancelled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/i> and \u003ca href=\"https://ksltv.com/412196/brands-roll-stoner-holiday-pot-legalization-grows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSL TV\u003c/a>. Barnes was photographed for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Smokeless-medicinal-pot-has-its-advocates-2661126.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle article\u003c/a> as far back as 2005 (in a shirt that read: “The DEA took my medical marijuana away!… and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13913116']Barnes was photographed and quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/01/01/crowds-gather-6-celebrate-first-sales-recreational-cannabis-berkeley?doing_wp_cron=1652725845.1196229457855224609375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> and \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2018/01/01/first-sales-of-recreational-marijuana-in-berkeley-usher-in-whole-new-era/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Cal\u003c/a>\u003c/i> at the ribbon-cutting for Berkeley’s first legal recreational marijuana sale at the Berkeley Patients Group dispensary. His photo also appeared in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article114091003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Sacramento Bee\u003c/i> opinion article\u003c/a> on Proposition 64, which legalized the use of recreational cannabis in California. In the photo, Barnes is pictured smoking inside of his “420 Limo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided it was important to hold Barnes accountable for his words, so we called him on May 6 to inform him of our intention to publish the interview, and to see what he had to say for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, make the spelling N-I-G-G-A if you do it,” he says. “It’s like, people say nigga all the time, and it’s acceptable if you’re a Black man, but if you’re a white man, and you say nigga, then it’s completely racist, which is just, you know, completely hypocritical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began rattling off other racial slurs against Latino, Asian and Black people, arguing that they only refer to the “lowlives” of each ethnic group and, in his eyes, are therefore OK to use. In the same breath, he asked us not to publish his quote, even though he gave it to us knowing full well that this was an on-record interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I meant it in a disrespectful way towards [Tyson] specifically, nobody else,” Barnes says. “So if anybody else takes offense at it, well, fuck them. I wasn’t talking to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up on a bag of marijuana, a large joint, held by a man in a marijuana-themed outfit \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes holds a bag of marijuana at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Deeply Disturbed,’ Says Friend and Dispensary Owner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a white man gaining clout, attention, and potentially income from a drug that has been used to criminalize Black people for decades. (Barnes told us that he’s been raided by law enforcement four times, but never charged with a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen white people profit the most from the corporatization of cannabis in recent years while people of color continuously get left behind. The Associated Press reports that the cannabis industry was worth \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-race-and-ethnicity-8e047483fc6e83e2e5f6dc971cb4aa73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$33 billion in sales in 2021\u003c/a>. Of all cannabis business owners in the United States, 81% are white, while just a little over 4% are Black, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://mjbizdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Women-and-Minorities-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 survey from Marijuana Business Daily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13849783']Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people are still sitting in jail for marijuana offenses. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/marijuanareport_03232021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2020 report by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the national Black population is still nearly four times more likely than the white population to be arrested for marijuana possession, even after weed became legal in several states. These arrests have detrimental impacts, running along intersections of class and income, for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Fontan, co-owner and vice president of Berkeley Patients Group, whom Barnes called “a friend of mine” who he has known for “a long time,” wrote in a statement to KQED, “I, along with the team at Berkeley Patients Group, do not tolerate racism or hate speech and this is the first we are learning of any accusations relating to Mr. Barnes’ use of such language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed to learn that Mr. Barnes, who apparently attended public events held by BPG several years ago, expressed such views,” Fontan continued. “Such rhetoric and actions in no way reflect my or my company’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Mike Barnes’ and Mike Tyson’s stage interaction below, filmed by Rich America Production Co. & Jamal Trulove:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Md4o4CUltHA\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mike Tyson and Harmful Stereotypes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes using the n-word to describe Mike Tyson is especially unsettling, considering that Tyson has often been portrayed in popular media as a Black Brute, a caricature of Black men that portrays them as dangerous, animalistic, sexually aggressive and unintelligent. This framing was especially prominent in the ’80s and ’90s, when Tyson was at the height of his boxing powers. (Representatives for Mike Tyson did not respond to requests for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the event in San Francisco, the media has covered Tyson for his “angry” interactions with fans, the first of which occurred April 21 aboard Tyson’s flight departing from San Francisco. A fellow passenger \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-punches-passenger-airplane-tmz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly harassed Tyson\u003c/a>, according to reports, which led the former boxer to punch the man multiple times. (Authorities declined to file charges against Tyson for the incident.) On May 3, a fan in Las Vegas \u003ca href=\"https://www.al.com/sports/2022/05/mike-tyson-has-another-angry-interaction-with-fan-when-woman-appears-to-try-to-pick-his-nose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted to stick their finger up Tyson’s nose\u003c/a>, which prompted an annoyed reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ behavior—throwing things at Tyson while he is on stage attempting to give a speech—is in this same category of fans going too far. Many people, it seems, feel entitled to violate Tyson’s personal space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson is not perfect. He has done some reprehensible things. But to portray him as a brute is a reductionist and racist point of view of a complicated man. Regardless of one’s image or status, no one deserves to be called a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13913381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man holds a bag of marijuana and a large joint, dressed in a marijuana-themed suit and bucket hat covered in leaves.\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait in a gaudy marijuana-themed costume at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The So-Called ‘Progressive’ Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ comments should not only make us interrogate one dimensional views of Mike Tyson, but it should also make us think critically about how we view race relations in the Bay Area. Often, the Bay is hailed as a racially enlightened, progressive haven where everyone is respectful of each other’s identities, culture and humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a Black person in this country, living in a “progressive” place does not mean a reprieve from the smothering presence of racism; it just means your suffocation happens in the shadows. Our experience encountering anti-Black hate speech is not an isolated one. We just happen to have it on tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incident is about more than just one word said by one man on one day. It’s a case study; a harsh, slap-to-the-face reminder that anti-Black racism is alive and very well, even in San Francisco. Barnes weaponized the power he holds as a white man in this country to disarm and dehumanize both Tyson and ourselves—a microcosm of the racial power dynamic inherent in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11905492']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking the Power Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black people must get through each day with a cloud over our heads, knowing that as our proximity to whiteness increases, so does the likelihood that we may be the victim of racism. Power coupled with ignorance is a terrible combination. It’s why everyone should strive to better understand the ways in which the n-word has been and continues to be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That word from the mouth of a white person is a reminder of the ideology used against our ancestors to justify the inhumane atrocities of chattel slavery. It was the word shouted in hate by white mobs as they lynched Black people without due process of law. It was the word ordinary Black folks heard through ringing ears as they were brutalized by police simply for demanding their right to vote. It was the word \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-shooting-suspect-had-n-word-written-on-gun-2022-5\">painted onto the barrel of the Buffalo shooter’s gun\u003c/a>. A white person saying the n-word is a reminder of the things that have been denied to us; the ways we have been treated as subhuman; how we have been forced to make a way out of no way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in that grand tradition of those who came before us, we are attempting to create something proactive out of a negative experience. Hopefully we are not presumptive by saying that we speak in the interests of not only ourselves, but for many other Black people who don’t have the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ actions should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who feels emboldened to use that word in such a hateful way. For all of our sakes, hold your tongue—or be ready to face the consequences if you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content Warning\u003c/strong>: This article contains multiple uncensored uses, including a recording, of derogatory phrases which some may find highly offensive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, we arrived at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, excited to document the return of the stoner celebration. Among the crowd were primarily young, Black and Brown people enjoying themselves—far more than you typically see in one space in modern-day San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We—Julian, the reporter, and Amaya, the photojournalist—were looking forward to collaborating on a photo essay that centered Black and Brown entrepreneurs and artists. We wanted to help foster a sense of pride, and capture how folks who look like us have shaped California’s cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Black journalists, we experienced an angry harangue from a white man named Mike Barnes involving aggressive use of the n-word. In a follow-up conversation, he used it many more times, and doubled down on his right to say it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a fixture in press coverage of Bay Area cannabis events, and appears to openly court media attention. We’ve decided to give it to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in a marijuana-themed suit and hat, covered in leaves, points his finger at a young Black reporter during an interview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Julian Sorapuru (right) interviews Mike Barnes at Hippie Hill at 4/20. Shortly after the interview began, Barnes aggressively used a racial slur. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Yes, With a Hard ‘R’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Hippie Hill on April 20, we see someone who we think would make an interesting addition to our story. He carries himself with the energy of a total character, dressed in a gaudy, black suit and bucket hat adorned all over with green marijuana leaves. It was hard to miss this large, middle-aged white man, so we identify ourselves as journalists and stop him for an interview. He agrees, and introduces himself as “Big Mike.” Neither of us expect what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Amaya snaps some photos of him and we kick off the interview, Big Mike begins boasting about how many times he’s been in the media: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/stoners-celebrate-420-weed-pot-cannabis-824550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, KTVU, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-s-420-celebration-lights-up-17110328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em>—he’s something of a minor celebrity in the Bay Area cannabis scene. He says he’s a weed grower just there to have a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty standard answer so far. Then he suddenly launches into a story about an interaction he had with Mike Tyson while the former boxer and cannabis entrepreneur spoke on stage earlier in the day. He gets visibly angry as he describes how, in his version of events, Tyson swatted away the handfuls of weed Big Mike decided to throw at him while he spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Fuck you, nigger,’ and turned around and walked away,” Big Mike says aggressively. “You don’t want my weed? You want the whole bag?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Mike Barnes’ interview in full below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/MikeBarnes.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, I’m stunned into silence. My eyes go wide and I size him up. He’s a big dude: about 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. Now I’m thinking about our safety. Centuries of generational trauma tell me that when a white man uses the n-word with that much vitriol, it’s either time to fight or get the hell out. Hearing that word could have meant life or death for our ancestors. It still can. But my journalism training tells me to let the source finish his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does: “Let’s just say I’m not a Mike Tyson fan anymore,” Big Mike says. I half-expect to hear an apology or a joke, but he keeps doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on disparaging Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally I get out. “Have a good day, man,” I say, maintaining an air of professionalism and respect towards an interviewee who showed neither to us. I walk away and end the recording as he continues with his rant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did a white man dressed in a weed suit he ordered from Amazon really just say the n-word with a hard “R” without any provocation at a 4/20 festival? The absurdity of the incident made me feel like I was in an episode of \u003ci>Atlanta\u003c/i>. This is an event that’s supposed to be all about good vibes and relaxation, not hatred and bitterness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaya laughs the way you do when you’re trying to hold back tears. “He can’t be serious,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, he absolutely \u003cem>was\u003c/em> serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who Is Mike Barnes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Mike’s real name is Mike Barnes. He is a 52 year-old resident of the Berkeley area. He’s a former Army airborne combat engineer, he says, who previously ran a dispensary called the Hayward Patients Resource Center, which is now defunct. Today, he is self-employed, earning a living by doing “handyman things” and growing marijuana for “a small group of private individuals for medical reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes has a habit of popping up at cannabis-related events. Photos of him in his eye-catching suit at previous iterations of the 4/20 festival have appeared in the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-may-start-permitting-cannabis-sales-consumption-at-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/news/cannabis/4-20-in-golden-gate-park-is-officially-cancelled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/i> and \u003ca href=\"https://ksltv.com/412196/brands-roll-stoner-holiday-pot-legalization-grows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSL TV\u003c/a>. Barnes was photographed for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Smokeless-medicinal-pot-has-its-advocates-2661126.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle article\u003c/a> as far back as 2005 (in a shirt that read: “The DEA took my medical marijuana away!… and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people are still sitting in jail for marijuana offenses. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/marijuanareport_03232021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2020 report by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the national Black population is still nearly four times more likely than the white population to be arrested for marijuana possession, even after weed became legal in several states. These arrests have detrimental impacts, running along intersections of class and income, for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Fontan, co-owner and vice president of Berkeley Patients Group, whom Barnes called “a friend of mine” who he has known for “a long time,” wrote in a statement to KQED, “I, along with the team at Berkeley Patients Group, do not tolerate racism or hate speech and this is the first we are learning of any accusations relating to Mr. Barnes’ use of such language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed to learn that Mr. Barnes, who apparently attended public events held by BPG several years ago, expressed such views,” Fontan continued. “Such rhetoric and actions in no way reflect my or my company’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Mike Barnes’ and Mike Tyson’s stage interaction below, filmed by Rich America Production Co. & Jamal Trulove:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Md4o4CUltHA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Md4o4CUltHA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Mike Tyson and Harmful Stereotypes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes using the n-word to describe Mike Tyson is especially unsettling, considering that Tyson has often been portrayed in popular media as a Black Brute, a caricature of Black men that portrays them as dangerous, animalistic, sexually aggressive and unintelligent. This framing was especially prominent in the ’80s and ’90s, when Tyson was at the height of his boxing powers. (Representatives for Mike Tyson did not respond to requests for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the event in San Francisco, the media has covered Tyson for his “angry” interactions with fans, the first of which occurred April 21 aboard Tyson’s flight departing from San Francisco. A fellow passenger \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-punches-passenger-airplane-tmz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly harassed Tyson\u003c/a>, according to reports, which led the former boxer to punch the man multiple times. (Authorities declined to file charges against Tyson for the incident.) On May 3, a fan in Las Vegas \u003ca href=\"https://www.al.com/sports/2022/05/mike-tyson-has-another-angry-interaction-with-fan-when-woman-appears-to-try-to-pick-his-nose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted to stick their finger up Tyson’s nose\u003c/a>, which prompted an annoyed reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ behavior—throwing things at Tyson while he is on stage attempting to give a speech—is in this same category of fans going too far. Many people, it seems, feel entitled to violate Tyson’s personal space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson is not perfect. He has done some reprehensible things. But to portray him as a brute is a reductionist and racist point of view of a complicated man. Regardless of one’s image or status, no one deserves to be called a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13913381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man holds a bag of marijuana and a large joint, dressed in a marijuana-themed suit and bucket hat covered in leaves.\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait in a gaudy marijuana-themed costume at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The So-Called ‘Progressive’ Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ comments should not only make us interrogate one dimensional views of Mike Tyson, but it should also make us think critically about how we view race relations in the Bay Area. Often, the Bay is hailed as a racially enlightened, progressive haven where everyone is respectful of each other’s identities, culture and humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a Black person in this country, living in a “progressive” place does not mean a reprieve from the smothering presence of racism; it just means your suffocation happens in the shadows. Our experience encountering anti-Black hate speech is not an isolated one. We just happen to have it on tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incident is about more than just one word said by one man on one day. It’s a case study; a harsh, slap-to-the-face reminder that anti-Black racism is alive and very well, even in San Francisco. Barnes weaponized the power he holds as a white man in this country to disarm and dehumanize both Tyson and ourselves—a microcosm of the racial power dynamic inherent in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking the Power Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black people must get through each day with a cloud over our heads, knowing that as our proximity to whiteness increases, so does the likelihood that we may be the victim of racism. Power coupled with ignorance is a terrible combination. It’s why everyone should strive to better understand the ways in which the n-word has been and continues to be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That word from the mouth of a white person is a reminder of the ideology used against our ancestors to justify the inhumane atrocities of chattel slavery. It was the word shouted in hate by white mobs as they lynched Black people without due process of law. It was the word ordinary Black folks heard through ringing ears as they were brutalized by police simply for demanding their right to vote. It was the word \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-shooting-suspect-had-n-word-written-on-gun-2022-5\">painted onto the barrel of the Buffalo shooter’s gun\u003c/a>. A white person saying the n-word is a reminder of the things that have been denied to us; the ways we have been treated as subhuman; how we have been forced to make a way out of no way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in that grand tradition of those who came before us, we are attempting to create something proactive out of a negative experience. Hopefully we are not presumptive by saying that we speak in the interests of not only ourselves, but for many other Black people who don’t have the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Overturning \u003cem>Roe v. 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But as a second line of defense, she said some can stop an already-fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus—considered the beginning of a pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In changing definition of when pregnancy starts to just at fertilization, it would compromise our ability to provide access to really highly effective methods of contraception such as the copper IUD,” Arora said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some abortion rights opponents regard such devices as quote “life-ending” because of the possibility that implantation can be disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13913100']Kristan Hawkins is president of the anti-abortion rights groups Students for Life of America, which is pushing for state and federal legislation to recognize human life as beginning “\u003ca href=\"https://studentsforlife.org/2022/02/02/why-every-state-needs-a-life-at-conception-bill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at conception\u003c/a>.” Her group takes the position that some devices and pills that can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg are “mislabeled” as contraception—a position at odds with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, which defines pregnancy as beginning at implantation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think legislators should be able to have the right to decide and to investigate if there are devices, if there’s chemicals that are ending the lives of their citizens in their state,” Hawkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview last week, Hawkins denied that birth control is a focus of her movement—and called that notion a “scare tactic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republican leaders, including a state lawmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qam9/roe-v-wade-birth-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in Idaho\u003c/a>, have expressed an openness to entertaining questions about the safety of contraceptives, which are tested by federal regulators before they are put on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a Louisiana state lawmaker proposed a bill that would classify \u003ca href=\"https://www.wwno.org/2022-05-05/louisiana-bill-would-allow-murder-charges-for-abortions-opponents-call-it-barbaric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abortion as a homicide\u003c/a>—beginning at the moment of fertilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, when host Jake Tapper asked Mississippi’s Republican Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Do you remember the last thing you said aloud? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No? That’s ok. Try saying this: “Wow.” Pucker up. Let the lips widen and whip around a small ball of air before returning to their pursed shape. “W-O-W.” Now do it again. See that coworker looking at you strangely? Invite them to join you. “Wow.” Keep it up, until it loses all sense and becomes pure sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still with me, you’ve already enacted the core principle of Bobby McFerrin’s performance practice: playful repetition. For McFerrin, there’s a thin line between spoken word and song. A simple “wow” from the crowd becomes a bebop solo or a chorale in four-part harmony. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As musicians,” McFerrin told me last week, “we say, ‘Okay, ready, set, \u003cem>play\u003c/em>.’ And I take that literally. The stage is a platform for adventure…Everything is game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might know McFerrin as the voice behind the 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” or even as one of the inspirations for Key and Peele’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCYWX5CkyjU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kings of Mouth Noise\u003c/a>” sketch. But scratch the surface of celebrity, and you’ll realize that McFerrin is one of the most inimitable musicians of the past 40 years: a virtuosic solo performer with a four-octave range, conductor of St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and 2020 NEA Jazz Master.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in his seventies, McFerrin has returned to the stage, performing his \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> at Freight and Salvage each Monday through the end of May. It is the best kept secret in Berkeley right now. Playing the audience as his second instrument, McFerrin is clearly still an unparalleled creative force, a peaceful warrior of song. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man in a sweatshirt, jeans, and dreadlocks on stage. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913145\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.Freight.BW_-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McFerrin leads a recent ‘Circlesongs’ performance at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Freight & Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Communal Jam Session\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>McFerrin released \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> as an album in 1997, but the term describes something much bigger: a completely improvised collective performance. The project began in the late 1980s, first as “Voicestra,” then “Hard Choral” in the nineties, and, until the pandemic, “Gimme 5.” The latest group, “Motion,” is aptly named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The simplest definition of improvisation is motion,” says McFerrin. “Play one note, then you play another one, and then another. And everyone can do that. It’s just like following words on a page.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If improvising is like reading a book, it’s one we’re all writing. McFerrin leads \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em>, playing the microphone like a piccolo, his longtime soundman Dan Vicari adding just the right amount of reverb to turn the wooden paneled room into a European cathedral. But like any great improviser, McFerrin knows how to foreground others. Bryan Dyer sings a rubber-band bassline to every figure, accompanied by the uncanny realism of Dave Worm’s vocal percussion. Destani Wolf harmonizes above and below, while Tammi Brown takes us into heavens of the higher registers. If you’re a vocalist or instrumentalist, don’t forget your axe: you may find yourself onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10430792']\u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is a communal jam session, but it’s also a very personal affair. This is especially true for Dave Worm, who was a theology student in Berkeley in the 1980s when he discovered McFerrin’s music at Leopold’s Records. As Worm recalls, “I just thought, if I could ever sing like this guy … that would be the thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worm changed career trajectories, and later that year, when he was singing at a Christmas party at the Newman Center, in walked McFerrin. The chance encounter led to a series of auditions, and the two have now been performing together for nearly 30 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of all the members on stage, \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is most personal for McFerrin. Having \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tyc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spoken openly about Parkinson’s\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074372317/bobby-mcferrin-reflects-on-going-from-the-hotel-bar-to-prescribing-medicine-musi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sudden loss of his friend Chick Corea\u003c/a>, performance is for him an act of spiritual healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve done some concerts, and [beforehand] I felt physically lousy,” he explains. “And then I do the gig and find out that 90 minutes later, I feel so much better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man and woman sit on stage, singing into microphones\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-1536x1098.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McFerrin sings at a recent ‘Circlesongs’ performance at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Freight & Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Democratic Principles at Play\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m usually wary, as a secular Jew in a Christain society, of any whiff of organized religion. But to become part of McFerrin’s communal canvas is to come as close to a religious experience as I’ve ever had. \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> unsettles the distinction between the spiritual and the secular: it all comes full circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not “wow-ed” or easily moved, you’ll definitely learn something. McFerrin often tells stories about his father, Robert McFerrin Sr., who was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. As he tells it, “I used to hide under the piano as a kid. And so I heard some of his voice lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he described these lessons to me, they sounded painstakingly detailed. But “Papa would take a mediocre singer and turn them into a really fine instrument.” With \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em>, McFerrin revises his father’s method by making play the most powerful pedagogy, teaching us that we are in fact our own best teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though singing collectively is an ancient practice, McFerrin’s \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> gives it new meaning today. “I’ve been thinking a lot about musicians’ role during this time,” he told me, “the political unrest that’s going on in the world, on the planet. The threats to our everyday lives and the role that singing can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11320037']Because we’ve spent the past five years fearing the rise of fascism, and the last two terrified of each other’s breath, \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is paean to the democratic principle of shared air. The performance reminded me of the etymological meaning of inspiration: to allow yourself to be breathed into. Even though the audience is vaccinated and masked, it’s still the first time—in a long time—where everyone laughing and singing around me felt less like a burden and more like a blessing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, McFerrin’s \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> offers play as not just an aesthetics but a politics, a way not of escaping the problems of the world but a way of shaping them. “This might sound really naïve,” he says “but the first thing the politicians should do is sing. Talk later. They should first become acquainted with each other’s songs and dances and rituals.” Singing for him is not simply a celebration of victory nor a palliative for defeat, but a practice, something you do to instantiate change in the world everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no coincidence, then, that the show starts at 12pm. People are hungry for incorporating improvisation into their daily lives, and \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> offers that nourishment weekly. If you can make it, but especially if you can’t, pay attention to the last thing you said—because every breath has the potential to take flight into song. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bobby McFerrin performs ‘Circlesongs’ each Monday, at noon, at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://secure.thefreight.org/events/466,10848?view=list&hidedate&kid=shows&startdate=2022-04-11\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is a communal jam session, but it’s also a very personal affair. This is especially true for Dave Worm, who was a theology student in Berkeley in the 1980s when he discovered McFerrin’s music at Leopold’s Records. As Worm recalls, “I just thought, if I could ever sing like this guy … that would be the thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worm changed career trajectories, and later that year, when he was singing at a Christmas party at the Newman Center, in walked McFerrin. The chance encounter led to a series of auditions, and the two have now been performing together for nearly 30 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of all the members on stage, \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is most personal for McFerrin. Having \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tyc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spoken openly about Parkinson’s\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074372317/bobby-mcferrin-reflects-on-going-from-the-hotel-bar-to-prescribing-medicine-musi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sudden loss of his friend Chick Corea\u003c/a>, performance is for him an act of spiritual healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve done some concerts, and [beforehand] I felt physically lousy,” he explains. “And then I do the gig and find out that 90 minutes later, I feel so much better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man and woman sit on stage, singing into microphones\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Bobby.Mcferrin.stage_-1536x1098.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McFerrin sings at a recent ‘Circlesongs’ performance at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Freight & Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Democratic Principles at Play\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m usually wary, as a secular Jew in a Christain society, of any whiff of organized religion. But to become part of McFerrin’s communal canvas is to come as close to a religious experience as I’ve ever had. \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> unsettles the distinction between the spiritual and the secular: it all comes full circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not “wow-ed” or easily moved, you’ll definitely learn something. McFerrin often tells stories about his father, Robert McFerrin Sr., who was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. As he tells it, “I used to hide under the piano as a kid. And so I heard some of his voice lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he described these lessons to me, they sounded painstakingly detailed. But “Papa would take a mediocre singer and turn them into a really fine instrument.” With \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em>, McFerrin revises his father’s method by making play the most powerful pedagogy, teaching us that we are in fact our own best teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though singing collectively is an ancient practice, McFerrin’s \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> gives it new meaning today. “I’ve been thinking a lot about musicians’ role during this time,” he told me, “the political unrest that’s going on in the world, on the planet. The threats to our everyday lives and the role that singing can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Because we’ve spent the past five years fearing the rise of fascism, and the last two terrified of each other’s breath, \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> is paean to the democratic principle of shared air. The performance reminded me of the etymological meaning of inspiration: to allow yourself to be breathed into. Even though the audience is vaccinated and masked, it’s still the first time—in a long time—where everyone laughing and singing around me felt less like a burden and more like a blessing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, McFerrin’s \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> offers play as not just an aesthetics but a politics, a way not of escaping the problems of the world but a way of shaping them. “This might sound really naïve,” he says “but the first thing the politicians should do is sing. Talk later. They should first become acquainted with each other’s songs and dances and rituals.” Singing for him is not simply a celebration of victory nor a palliative for defeat, but a practice, something you do to instantiate change in the world everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no coincidence, then, that the show starts at 12pm. People are hungry for incorporating improvisation into their daily lives, and \u003cem>Circlesongs\u003c/em> offers that nourishment weekly. If you can make it, but especially if you can’t, pay attention to the last thing you said—because every breath has the potential to take flight into song. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the better part of the pandemic, Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino didn’t even think about reopening \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.makamham.com/cafeohlone\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cafe Ohlone\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The world’s only Ohlone restaurant never did outdoor dining. It only started offering a tiny number of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/7/1/21309438/cafe-ohlone-closed-berkeley-takeout-new-location\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">take-home meal kits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> many months after takeout had become the new normal—and just for one Sunday a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Medina and Trevino found an even higher calling: While the restaurant hibernated, they huddled close within their own community and dedicated themselves to hosting weekly language classes over Zoom, teaching young children and 90-year-old elders how to speak Chochenyo and Rumsen Ohlone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, all that cultural work is paying dividends for the restaurant, too. When Cafe Ohlone opens next month at its new location at UC Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearst Museum of Anthropology\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, even the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trees \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">will speak and sing in Chochenyo—trees hooked up to a state-of-the-art sound system playing recordings of those same Chochenyo students, to be specific. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The singing trees are just one of the showpieces in Cafe Ohlone’s new outdoor dining room, which is finally gearing up to open after the restaurant \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/7/1/21309438/cafe-ohlone-closed-berkeley-takeout-new-location\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lost its original, back-of-a-bookstore Berkeley location\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fairly early on during shelter in place. According to Medina, every aspect of the new restaurant is meant to evoke “a beautiful reality that looks like an Ohlone village when you walk in.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A sampler plate of Ohlone food includes a small dish of acorn soup, fried sea lettuce and a skewer of venison backstrap.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sampling of Cafe Ohlone’s food given out at an April 23 preview event. Small bites included fried sea lettuce, roasted fiddlehead ferns, venison backstrap and cold black oak acorn soup for dipping. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re calling it a love song to Ohlone culture,” Medina told guests at an April preview event held at the restaurant, “because every element of the space has been designed to be specific to our beautiful Ohlone culture—to our language, to our plants, to our foods, to our values, to our aesthetics.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=arts_13899524,arts_13913184]Even after Cafe Ohlone lost its home during the early months of the pandemic, Medina and Trevino were always insistent that the restaurant would return bigger and better than ever. But the two felt conflicted at first when the Hearst Museum offered them the opportunity to reopen. After all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899524/cafe-ohlone-restaurant-hearst-museum-berkeley-opening\">the museum’s relationship with the Ohlones had been deeply fraught\u003c/a>: Alfred Kroeber, the museum’s longtime director, was the one who was largely responsible for the Ohlones losing their federal recognition when his \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handbook of the Indians of California\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> declared them to be “culturally extinct” in 1925. Subsequently, the museum itself looted the Ohlone shellmounds and took possession of many of their sacred objects and ancestral remains. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Medina and Trevino decided to take the museum’s offer to host Cafe Ohlone as a first step toward righting some of those past wrongs. “In the past, the university has not been on our side,” Medina says. “But no one wants to stay stuck in a place of frustration. This is something that can go in a really beautiful direction, especially when it’s paired with Ohlone people having a permanent presence here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913047\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Vincent Medina holds a wooden post with the name of an Ohlone community member inscribed on it.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meyer Sound speakers will be attached to wooden posts next to each singing tree in the main dining area at cafe Ohlone. Each post will have the name of the Ohlone community whose voice recording is attached to that tree. \u003ccite>(Hearst Museum of Anthrolopogy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The design of the space itself is meant to make Cafe Ohlone feel like a portal to a “whole world reimagined,” as Medina puts it—a place that reflects an Ohlone worldview down to the last detail. When guests first enter the open-air restaurant, they’ll cross through a redwood-framed “shadow box” of sorts, with plants native to the Ohlone lands illuminated onto a screen. Walking down a winding path, they’ll see two 5,000-pound granite boulders that will serve as the seats for one dining area. At the center of the restaurant, handmade tables and chairs made of reclaimed redwood will form several socially distanced “dining pods.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the wall along one side of the dining room, there will be a building-sized mural by the native artist Jean LaMarr that will depict the great-grandparents of today’s Ohlones looking down on the restaurant, with chipped glass on top made to look like stars illuminating the night sky. At the very back of the restaurant, next to a newly built shellmound, there will be one final, elevated dining area overlooking the entire restaurant—“one communal table for our elders to sit and take it all in,” Medina explains. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the central area of the restaurant is where the singing trees will live. The idea came about through a collaboration with Meyer Sound, a Berkeley-based company known for its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/91355/two-east-bay-restaurants-take-unique-approach-to-noise\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">groundbreaking restaurant sound systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. At the new Cafe Ohlone, the Meyer Sound–donated sound system will be set up so that the trees scattered throughout the outdoor dining room—valley oak, hazel, manzanita and sycamore—will have speakers attached that will fill the space with the living Chochenyo language. Each speaker will feature the recorded voice of a member of the Ohlone community—a student in Medina and Trevino’s ongoing Chochenyo classes, in fact. So, as guests sit down to enjoy their meal, the trees will also converse and share gossip with one another in Chochenyo. “One tree will tell a joke, and another will start laughing,” Medina says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913049\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Hearst Museum staff member passes out cups of rosehip tea.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hearst Museum staff member passes out cups of lightly sweetened rosehip tea. \u003ccite>(Hearst Museum of Anthropology)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And yes, the trees will even sing. Medina explains that he and Trevino have translated some of the 1960s pop songs that their grandparents played at home. For instance, they’ve recorded a Chochenyo version of the old love song “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2dAQ3xb8s\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angel Baby\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” but they’ve changed it so that the song is now addressed to “holše noono,” which means “beautiful language”—a love song to Chochenyo itself. The song starts with a single tree—a single elder from the community—singing by itself until the others join in one by one. It ends with a ten-year-old girl named Amaya Ruano—a star pupil of those Chochenyo language classes—singing a solo to represent the passing of the torch to the next generation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the food itself, one important change is that Medina and Trevino will train members of the Cal Dining staff to prepare most of the food that will be served at the original restaurant. Another is that the menu will have a little bit more of a modern feel. In addition to the most traditional, precolonial Ohlone food preparations, the new Cafe Ohlone will also serve rancheria dishes that became popular within the community during the late 1800s—things like rabbit mole, venison chile colorado and California’s native Olympia oysters, served both raw and smoked. Medina says he also plans to introduce some Ohlone-ized pasta dishes like the ones his great-great-great-grandfather—a Sicilian who took asylum at Mission San Jose and fell in love with an Ohlone woman—would have introduced to the community. So, Medina is playing around with handmade pasta dishes that incorporate native edible flowers like violet and nasturtium or a dandelion green pesto. “All these things are part of the Ohlone tradition,” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medina estimates that the construction and design work on the restaurant is currently about 60% complete, though major components like the mural and the sound system still need to be installed. If all goes well, Cafe Ohlone will start serving a series of meals for members of the Ohlone community later this month. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the better part of the pandemic, Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino didn’t even think about reopening \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.makamham.com/cafeohlone\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cafe Ohlone\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The world’s only Ohlone restaurant never did outdoor dining. It only started offering a tiny number of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/7/1/21309438/cafe-ohlone-closed-berkeley-takeout-new-location\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">take-home meal kits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> many months after takeout had become the new normal—and just for one Sunday a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Medina and Trevino found an even higher calling: While the restaurant hibernated, they huddled close within their own community and dedicated themselves to hosting weekly language classes over Zoom, teaching young children and 90-year-old elders how to speak Chochenyo and Rumsen Ohlone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, all that cultural work is paying dividends for the restaurant, too. When Cafe Ohlone opens next month at its new location at UC Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearst Museum of Anthropology\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, even the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trees \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">will speak and sing in Chochenyo—trees hooked up to a state-of-the-art sound system playing recordings of those same Chochenyo students, to be specific. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The singing trees are just one of the showpieces in Cafe Ohlone’s new outdoor dining room, which is finally gearing up to open after the restaurant \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/7/1/21309438/cafe-ohlone-closed-berkeley-takeout-new-location\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lost its original, back-of-a-bookstore Berkeley location\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fairly early on during shelter in place. According to Medina, every aspect of the new restaurant is meant to evoke “a beautiful reality that looks like an Ohlone village when you walk in.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A sampler plate of Ohlone food includes a small dish of acorn soup, fried sea lettuce and a skewer of venison backstrap.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_sampler-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sampling of Cafe Ohlone’s food given out at an April 23 preview event. Small bites included fried sea lettuce, roasted fiddlehead ferns, venison backstrap and cold black oak acorn soup for dipping. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re calling it a love song to Ohlone culture,” Medina told guests at an April preview event held at the restaurant, “because every element of the space has been designed to be specific to our beautiful Ohlone culture—to our language, to our plants, to our foods, to our values, to our aesthetics.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even after Cafe Ohlone lost its home during the early months of the pandemic, Medina and Trevino were always insistent that the restaurant would return bigger and better than ever. But the two felt conflicted at first when the Hearst Museum offered them the opportunity to reopen. After all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899524/cafe-ohlone-restaurant-hearst-museum-berkeley-opening\">the museum’s relationship with the Ohlones had been deeply fraught\u003c/a>: Alfred Kroeber, the museum’s longtime director, was the one who was largely responsible for the Ohlones losing their federal recognition when his \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handbook of the Indians of California\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> declared them to be “culturally extinct” in 1925. Subsequently, the museum itself looted the Ohlone shellmounds and took possession of many of their sacred objects and ancestral remains. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Medina and Trevino decided to take the museum’s offer to host Cafe Ohlone as a first step toward righting some of those past wrongs. “In the past, the university has not been on our side,” Medina says. “But no one wants to stay stuck in a place of frustration. This is something that can go in a really beautiful direction, especially when it’s paired with Ohlone people having a permanent presence here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913047\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Vincent Medina holds a wooden post with the name of an Ohlone community member inscribed on it.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_pillar-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meyer Sound speakers will be attached to wooden posts next to each singing tree in the main dining area at cafe Ohlone. Each post will have the name of the Ohlone community whose voice recording is attached to that tree. \u003ccite>(Hearst Museum of Anthrolopogy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The design of the space itself is meant to make Cafe Ohlone feel like a portal to a “whole world reimagined,” as Medina puts it—a place that reflects an Ohlone worldview down to the last detail. When guests first enter the open-air restaurant, they’ll cross through a redwood-framed “shadow box” of sorts, with plants native to the Ohlone lands illuminated onto a screen. Walking down a winding path, they’ll see two 5,000-pound granite boulders that will serve as the seats for one dining area. At the center of the restaurant, handmade tables and chairs made of reclaimed redwood will form several socially distanced “dining pods.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the wall along one side of the dining room, there will be a building-sized mural by the native artist Jean LaMarr that will depict the great-grandparents of today’s Ohlones looking down on the restaurant, with chipped glass on top made to look like stars illuminating the night sky. At the very back of the restaurant, next to a newly built shellmound, there will be one final, elevated dining area overlooking the entire restaurant—“one communal table for our elders to sit and take it all in,” Medina explains. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the central area of the restaurant is where the singing trees will live. The idea came about through a collaboration with Meyer Sound, a Berkeley-based company known for its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/91355/two-east-bay-restaurants-take-unique-approach-to-noise\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">groundbreaking restaurant sound systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. At the new Cafe Ohlone, the Meyer Sound–donated sound system will be set up so that the trees scattered throughout the outdoor dining room—valley oak, hazel, manzanita and sycamore—will have speakers attached that will fill the space with the living Chochenyo language. Each speaker will feature the recorded voice of a member of the Ohlone community—a student in Medina and Trevino’s ongoing Chochenyo classes, in fact. So, as guests sit down to enjoy their meal, the trees will also converse and share gossip with one another in Chochenyo. “One tree will tell a joke, and another will start laughing,” Medina says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913049\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Hearst Museum staff member passes out cups of rosehip tea.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/cafeohlone_tea-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hearst Museum staff member passes out cups of lightly sweetened rosehip tea. \u003ccite>(Hearst Museum of Anthropology)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And yes, the trees will even sing. Medina explains that he and Trevino have translated some of the 1960s pop songs that their grandparents played at home. For instance, they’ve recorded a Chochenyo version of the old love song “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2dAQ3xb8s\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angel Baby\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” but they’ve changed it so that the song is now addressed to “holše noono,” which means “beautiful language”—a love song to Chochenyo itself. The song starts with a single tree—a single elder from the community—singing by itself until the others join in one by one. It ends with a ten-year-old girl named Amaya Ruano—a star pupil of those Chochenyo language classes—singing a solo to represent the passing of the torch to the next generation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the food itself, one important change is that Medina and Trevino will train members of the Cal Dining staff to prepare most of the food that will be served at the original restaurant. Another is that the menu will have a little bit more of a modern feel. In addition to the most traditional, precolonial Ohlone food preparations, the new Cafe Ohlone will also serve rancheria dishes that became popular within the community during the late 1800s—things like rabbit mole, venison chile colorado and California’s native Olympia oysters, served both raw and smoked. Medina says he also plans to introduce some Ohlone-ized pasta dishes like the ones his great-great-great-grandfather—a Sicilian who took asylum at Mission San Jose and fell in love with an Ohlone woman—would have introduced to the community. So, Medina is playing around with handmade pasta dishes that incorporate native edible flowers like violet and nasturtium or a dandelion green pesto. “All these things are part of the Ohlone tradition,” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medina estimates that the construction and design work on the restaurant is currently about 60% complete, though major components like the mural and the sound system still need to be installed. If all goes well, Cafe Ohlone will start serving a series of meals for members of the Ohlone community later this month. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Monday, May 9 at 4:40pm.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final brood of Annie and Grinnell, UC Berkeley’s famous peregrine falcons, has hatched on top of the university Campanile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new chicks began arriving on Thursday morning, monitored and announced by the dedicated ornithologists of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@calfalconcam\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first egg began to hatch at dawn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522200736607703041\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the first hatchling made an appearance a couple of hours later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522226390992576513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hatchlings, when they first emerge, look like tiny meat sacks with a few sparse white feathers. This was the new chick first thing this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-800x640.png\" alt=\"A tiny, freshly hatched peregrine falcon chick sits between broken red-brown egg shell pieces, next to another intact egg. An adult peregrine falcon watches over the hatchling closely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-800x640.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-1020x816.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-768x614.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM.png 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first of the chicks that arrived on May 5. Look at its tiny beaky face! \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @calfalconcam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just a few hours later, the cuteness factor went through the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cal_alumna/status/1522279686352474112\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie continued to incubate the two remaining eggs while also keeping the new chick safe and warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522275821628628992\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Friday morning, the second chick made its first appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522655860828389376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chick no. 2 escaped its shell entirely just a couple of hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522683029264924672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the third egg was abandoned. The new parents, however, kept themselves busy with the very serious task of feeding the babies their snack of choice—raw meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w2gHoNOyVE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1523828974899666944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny duo will no doubt consume the attention of falcon fans and UC Berkeley’s ornithologists as they mature over the next 40 days or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie and Grinnell’s fourteenth and fifteenth babies successfully making it out of their eggs is cause for celebration. Concerns that none of the toot-floofs would make it into the world went into overdrive on March 31, when \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1509650552904466447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grinnell was hit and killed by a car\u003c/a>. At that time, Annie was incubating two eggs at their nest—a task she wouldn’t be able to complete alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes to her beloved baby daddy, including flowers, photos and newspaper articles, were placed at the base of the Campanile in the days that followed. Annie and Grinnell had been resident at the Campanile together since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FakePaperclips/status/1510022367849824258\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Annie’s repeated calls to Grinnell went unheeded (sob), she quickly acquired an attentive new mate. Within one day of Grinnell’s departure, New Guy (as the internet initially dubbed him) started assisting Annie with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1509999046294970369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">egg-warming duties\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1511388038273900549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">food deliveries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1510788263208001541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nest defense\u003c/a> at the Campanile. Annie felt so at ease with New Guy, she even laid a third egg. Ordinarily when a mated peregrine falcon loses their partner during breeding season, the nest gets abandoned. Final proof, if we needed it, that Annie is no ordinary falcon. (We kind of figured that out after she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909929/uc-berkeley-peregrine-falcons-campanile-annie-grinnell-not-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faked her own death at the end of February\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909929']Realizing Annie’s new partnership was not a flash in the pan (like that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907837/peregrine-falcon-annie-grinnel-berkeley-campanile-birdwatching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mean falcon that hospitalized Grinnell back in Nov. 2021\u003c/a>), a public vote was held to decide on an official name for New Guy. The best little stepdad in Berkeley was renamed Alden on April 18 after winning 29% of the vote, and beating out the names Lou, Archie, Savio, Takaki, Ed, Ned, Morgan and Calvin. 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