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"content": "\u003cp>In the last weeks of his life, Oakland hip-hop artist Stephen Gaines, better known as Zumbi of Zion I, had started a hopeful new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2021, he headlined a concert in Nevada City where eager fans lined up for pictures and autographs. He’d come down with COVID-19 after the show, but with his partner of four years, Millaray Rodriguez Avila, he began recovering. The couple visited the beach and went on hikes, and Gaines regained his appetite, eating second helpings of vegan ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines laid plans to release new music and embark upon a Zion I reunion tour with his longtime musical collaborator, Amp Live. He and Rodriguez Avila prepared to sign a lease on a house in Oakland, where they planned to live with Gaines’ mother, his young three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s middle school-age son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those plans ground to a halt on Aug. 13, 2021, when Gaines was killed during a stay at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. [aside postid='arts_13920004']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day prior, Gaines had called 911 for help during an apparent mental health crisis and checked himself into Alta Bates. His family and their lawyers say he should have walked out of the hospital alive. Instead, they allege, hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards used excessive force and killed him. According to the coroner’s report, three men, including a patient transporter and a security guard, piled on top of Gaines, placing their weight on his arms, legs and upper torso. They held Gaines to the ground for approximately five to 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. Officers noticed that Gaines was unresponsive, rolled him on his back, and then put him in handcuffs before administering CPR. By then it was too late. Gaines was pronounced dead at 5:51 a.m. on Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Millaray Rodriguez Avila']‘I want the truth. What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?’[/pullquote]That morning, Rodriguez Avila got a call from the hospital director. The partner she had been building a life with was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of collapsed,” she says now, over a year later. “I lost myself, where I was. I thought it was a movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the truth,” Rodriguez Avila continues. “What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and friends who knew Gaines for decades describe him as a kind, gentle soul — a loving parent, partner and friend. They remember him as a health-conscious meditation practitioner who aspired to be his best self and encouraged people to be kinder to each other. That message was audible in his music, which often dealt with themes of societal injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me love,” says Rodriguez Avila. “In our relationship, the beautiful thing is that love, that passion that we had for each other, it was around us, too. It was with our kids. It was with our friends. Everywhere we [went], we projected and received back love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember him as somebody who always spread love and spread light, and somebody who was an innovator, extremely creative, original,” says friend and fellow hip-hop artist Dustin Sharpe. “Almost like a God-sent prophet because he always spoke wisdom. He always looked at the positive side of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people close to Gaines say he didn’t have a history of mental illness. He dealt with normal life stressors from parenthood and his career as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that he brought himself to the hospital, I knew that something was up, that he must have been going through something,” says longtime friend and musical collaborator The Grouch. “People can reach a point of struggle, and whatever happens in that hospital, the hospital is the professionals, and they should be trained to take care of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations outline safe techniques for restraining patients in hospitals. “They specifically call out in the federal regulations that there cannot be positional asphyxiation,” Grossman says. “Most importantly, the regulations require that medical aid be given while restraints are being applied. These regulations were written with a history of understanding that mental health situations often result in restraints being used, and trying to correct bad practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, every bad practice happened,” Grossman continues. “For the five to 10 minutes that he was being restrained with three men lying on his back, there was not one ounce of medical care offered to save this man’s life. That is ugly beyond belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='left' citation='Deuce Eclipse']‘The bottom line for me is he should still be here.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Gaines are frustrated law enforcement hasn’t named any suspects. “What are the names of these people who laid on him for five to 10 minutes thinking that was right, whether he was having an episode or not?” says Gina Madrid, a friend and fellow hip-hop artist. “Because you’re not going to kill our brother like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to be held accountable,” says hip-hop artist Deuce Eclipse, who had been close with Gaines since the two were in high school. “The bottom line for me is he should still be here. There’s no reason I can find in my mind, my heart, my spirit and my soul why he would be killed in the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police, Alta Bates or its security company, Allied Universal, did not respond to requests for comment as of press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi (back right) backstage with his friend Deuce Eclipse (front right) in 2018. The two had been close since high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deuce Eclipse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Loved ones call for accountability for hospital security guards and staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the eyes of his partner and friends, Gaines’ death is another example of authority figures treating the life of a Black person as disposable. For Rodriguez Avila, the loss was shocking, but it also felt disturbingly familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happened before in this country. It’s happened in California. It’s happened in the Bay Area before,” she says. “And there’s so many families, mothers, brothers, sisters that are waiting for answers for other brown, Latino and Black people that have been killed by use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, what happened to Gaines is indicative of abuse and racism in the medical and criminal justice systems. “I think that there needs to be a magnifying glass put on the hospitals and how they function,” says The Grouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the private security companies that hospitals hire. Allied Universal is a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate that operates in 90 countries and employs 800,000. Liv Styler, a friend of Gaines and an independent journalist, points out that \u003ca href=\"https://livmuthafknstyler.medium.com/misuse-of-force-is-an-under-reported-epidemic-in-private-security-and-may-have-played-a-role-in-the-646f2627375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">security guards receive significantly less use-of-force training than police officers\u003c/a>. Unlike police, security guards have no public oversight. They aren’t compelled to disclose information by public records laws, which makes it possible to hide misconduct. 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Meanwhile, the delay in the district attorney’s decision on whether or not to file charges is “becoming detrimental to the case, and also just to the emotions and the sentiment of those who are close to him as we try to process this,” says musician and longtime friend Kev Choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gaines’ friends and family fear there could be further obstacles. O’Malley, the Alameda County District Attorney, will retire when her term ends at the beginning of 2023. A spokesperson for the D.A. told KQED on Oct. 7 that there is currently no timeline for a decision in Gaines’ case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been 14 months,” says Rodriguez Avila. “What is gonna happen to the review of the case she says that she’s doing? I want to know the result of the review … I want her to [file] charges before she leaves office, before the elections in November next month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m learning for the first time how to go day-by-day without my love. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. 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But Wednesday, after meeting with District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, Gaines’ mother, Carolyn Gaines, and her lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, released a statement that the D.A. still could bring criminal charges. [aside postID='arts_13901531']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has been finalized on criminal charges related to my son’s death,” Carolyn Gaines said in a statement. “I feel assured and confident that this case is not over and criminal charges remain likely. I am holding steadfast that the institutions responsible for my son’s death will be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same statement, Grossman echoed the possibility of criminal charges. “I spoke directly with Nancy O’Malley today and a final decision has not been made,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office confirmed this development. “We are looking at potential new information. That’s all we can say at this time,” a spokesperson for the district attorney told KQED on Wednesday. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Liv Styler, friend']‘If [Zumbi] was having a mental health episode, crisis, whatever, he should still be alive.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances surrounding Zumbi’s death have been shrouded in secrecy. Over the past year, KQED repeatedly requested interviews with the Berkeley Police Department and the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau and did not receive a response, even after Berkeley Police concluded their investigation in August 2022. BPD also denied KQED’s public records request for officer body camera footage from the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slowness of the investigation and lack of transparency has frustrated Zumbi’s loved ones. “I’m infuriated. I’m mad and angry and sad, but I’m not surprised,” said rapper and activist Equipto, Zumbi’s close friend and collaborator, in an interview in August, adding: “I think people power is really the only way that we’re really going to get anything accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-001-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for the Zion I tribute concert at Hiero Day on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report, obtained by \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>, revealed previously unknown allegations from Berkeley Police investigators and hospital staff. The report noted that Gaines checked himself in during a mental health crisis during which he experienced suicidal ideation, and was diagnosed with COVID-related pneumonia. According to staff and investigators, prior to his death, Gaines woke up before a CT scan, chased hospital staff through the halls and put a pregnant security guard in a “choke hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But family and friends of Zumbi question what happened in those last moments. Those who knew him describe Zumbi as a spiritual practitioner, loving father and kind, supportive friend. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Carolyn Gaines']‘I am holding steadfast that the institutions responsible for my son’s death will be held accountable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a really great human. They took a really, really, really amazing person from a lot of people,” said Zumbi’s longtime friend Liv Styler, who added that she didn’t know him to have serious mental health issues. She and others are demanding that the hospital release its security footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he was having a mental health episode, crisis, whatever, he should still be alive,” said Styler. “No matter what version of a mental health situation he was in at the time, they decided it was OK to take his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Styler, an activist and \u003ca href=\"https://livmuthafknstyler.medium.com/misuse-of-force-is-an-under-reported-epidemic-in-private-security-and-may-have-played-a-role-in-the-646f2627375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent journalist\u003c/a>, said on Tuesday that the incident points to a larger issue: the difficulty in holding private security guards — who have little use-of-force training, and no public oversight — accountable for deaths and injuries. (A \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/10/28/new-california-law-requires-use-of-force-training-for-security-guards-prompted-by-capradio-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new California law\u003c/a> will require use-of-force standards and training for private security in 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Styler is frustrated by the lack of transparency in the investigation. “None of this has been handled well, and no one in the system is ever forced to really think about the kind of detriment that they do to the people who are actually impacted on a day-to-day basis after someone is murdered,” she said. “But for those of us that are still here, it’s like watching him die over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Styler and others are compiling tributes, and possible future calls to action, on a recently created \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justice_for_zumbi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justice for Zumbi\u003c/a> Instagram account.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>What were the ’90s? I ask myself this question more and more lately. In the past month, I’ve watched \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@horsesweremylife/video/7143108449130401066?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7143108449130401066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a reunited Pavement\u003c/a> amble through a set of slacker anthems, witnessed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nylon.com/fashion/grunge-90s-fashion-clothes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high school fashion turn into grunge 2.0\u003c/a>, tried to ignore \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-albums-of-the-1990s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dumb internet lists\u003c/a> and endured daily questions about the decade from my 13-year-old daughter. “What was your favorite movie in the ’90s?” she asks me. “Was Weezer cool in the ’90s?” “Is this shirt ’90s?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movies, music and fashion are all part of the decade, sure. Less easy to recall, 30 years later, is what daily life was actually like, and how people felt most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101889960,forum_2010101882386\"]I devoured Hua Hsu’s \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> (Doubleday; $26) in one sitting, finding new answers to the question on every page. A memoir of Hua’s college years at UC Berkeley, \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> is primarily about his relationship with his best friend, Ken. Confident, loud and outgoing, Ken belongs to a frat, listens to the Dave Matthews Band and comes from a Japanese American family, “bright and optimistic in a way I found suspect.” In other words: mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hua, meanwhile, is one of the millions whose outlook was changed by Nirvana. Philosophical, cynical and quiet, he nonetheless strikes up an odd friendship with Ken, who is genuinely curious in his clothes, music and books. The two grow close through smoke breaks and road trips, and stay up late together talking about life. (“We came up with brilliant theories,” Hua writes, “but forgot to write them down.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, Ken is murdered in a senseless carjacking, and nothing is the same. Hua describes his grief: he leans on friends, blames himself, goes to therapy and saves nearly everything Ken left behind. Somehow, some way, he settles into acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of this particular trauma are specific. But to the lingering question — what were the ’90s? — \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> also serves as an expertly pieced-together collage of life in Berkeley as a twentysomething in the Clinton years, a snapshot that will be immediately recognizable to readers who came of age in that decade. Part of this is achieved through simple markers, now out of date: the early internet of listservs, mall CD stores, fax machines. The book’s 173 pages are rife with obsolete objects, remembered from journals, clippings from his zine, and the many boxes of ephemera that he’s saved. (Hua is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/arts/music/popcast-collecting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prolific caretaker of stuff\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other part — the life that happens with the people close to you, around and between the stuff — is what Hua’s so good at capturing. It’s what’s in the faxes from his dad in Taiwan; what’s on the CDs from the mall and how his friends react to it all. \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> describes Berkeley institutions like Top Dog, Amoeba, the Daily Cal and Revolution Books; it also nails the experience of shopping at anglophile-indie record store Mod Lang, back when record stores were the only way to access new music, and clerks could afford to be haughty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 635px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg\" alt=\"a young Asian man's student ID against an orange backdrop\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg 635w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hua Hsu’s UC Berkeley student ID. \u003ccite>(@huahsu/Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One part early in the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/my-dad-and-kurt-cobain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes life in 1980s Cupertino\u003c/a>, among the first wave of software engineers emigrating from Asia. Nostalgia is a curious driver of Hua’s work; he reassembles the past carefully, but not necessarily in the service of a rosy-eyed, things-used-to-be-better view. The Chinese immigrants who moved to the South Bay ten years later, Hua writes, “probably didn’t even know there was once only a single Asian grocer in the area, and it wasn’t even that good, and you had to drive a half hour to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the setting in Berkeley, political organizing plays a part in Hua’s life; Jesse Jackson speaks at Sproul Plaza, and Hua’s friends are excited, until three weeks later when he comes to speak again, and then later, again. Hua helps out at the Black Panthers’ storefront, protests the anti-affirmative action initiative Prop. 209, and eventually volunteers at a Richmond youth center and works with prisoners inside San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What were the ’90s? Honestly, most of it was boredom. Just as important, it was you and your friends’ various ways to alleviate boredom. That’s why I never felt comfortable with the ’90s being known as the “slacker” generation. Hua is bored, but to stave off stagnancy, he is constantly active — he makes zines and mixtapes, gets involved in causes, writes ridiculous movie scripts, marches in protests, saves \u003ca href=\"https://byhuahsu.com/listings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a lot of things\u003c/a> along the way. He does most of it with a close group of friends by his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes Ken’s death so heartbreaking. What’s worse: boredom or loss? How do you fill the hole left by a dead friend the same way you once filled long stretches of empty time, together? By the end of the book, it becomes clear that Hua’s achievement is the not-so-simple act, 24 years later, of keeping his friend alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter 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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688054/stay-true-by-hua-hsu/\">Stay True\u003c/a>’ is in stores now. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I devoured Hua Hsu’s \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> (Doubleday; $26) in one sitting, finding new answers to the question on every page. A memoir of Hua’s college years at UC Berkeley, \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> is primarily about his relationship with his best friend, Ken. Confident, loud and outgoing, Ken belongs to a frat, listens to the Dave Matthews Band and comes from a Japanese American family, “bright and optimistic in a way I found suspect.” In other words: mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hua, meanwhile, is one of the millions whose outlook was changed by Nirvana. Philosophical, cynical and quiet, he nonetheless strikes up an odd friendship with Ken, who is genuinely curious in his clothes, music and books. The two grow close through smoke breaks and road trips, and stay up late together talking about life. (“We came up with brilliant theories,” Hua writes, “but forgot to write them down.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, Ken is murdered in a senseless carjacking, and nothing is the same. Hua describes his grief: he leans on friends, blames himself, goes to therapy and saves nearly everything Ken left behind. Somehow, some way, he settles into acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Hua is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/arts/music/popcast-collecting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prolific caretaker of stuff\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other part — the life that happens with the people close to you, around and between the stuff — is what Hua’s so good at capturing. It’s what’s in the faxes from his dad in Taiwan; what’s on the CDs from the mall and how his friends react to it all. \u003cem>Stay True\u003c/em> describes Berkeley institutions like Top Dog, Amoeba, the Daily Cal and Revolution Books; it also nails the experience of shopping at anglophile-indie record store Mod Lang, back when record stores were the only way to access new music, and clerks could afford to be haughty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 635px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13919839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg\" alt=\"a young Asian man's student ID against an orange backdrop\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline.jpg 635w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Hua.inline-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hua Hsu’s UC Berkeley student ID. \u003ccite>(@huahsu/Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One part early in the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/my-dad-and-kurt-cobain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes life in 1980s Cupertino\u003c/a>, among the first wave of software engineers emigrating from Asia. Nostalgia is a curious driver of Hua’s work; he reassembles the past carefully, but not necessarily in the service of a rosy-eyed, things-used-to-be-better view. The Chinese immigrants who moved to the South Bay ten years later, Hua writes, “probably didn’t even know there was once only a single Asian grocer in the area, and it wasn’t even that good, and you had to drive a half hour to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the setting in Berkeley, political organizing plays a part in Hua’s life; Jesse Jackson speaks at Sproul Plaza, and Hua’s friends are excited, until three weeks later when he comes to speak again, and then later, again. Hua helps out at the Black Panthers’ storefront, protests the anti-affirmative action initiative Prop. 209, and eventually volunteers at a Richmond youth center and works with prisoners inside San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What were the ’90s? Honestly, most of it was boredom. Just as important, it was you and your friends’ various ways to alleviate boredom. That’s why I never felt comfortable with the ’90s being known as the “slacker” generation. Hua is bored, but to stave off stagnancy, he is constantly active — he makes zines and mixtapes, gets involved in causes, writes ridiculous movie scripts, marches in protests, saves \u003ca href=\"https://byhuahsu.com/listings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a lot of things\u003c/a> along the way. He does most of it with a close group of friends by his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes Ken’s death so heartbreaking. What’s worse: boredom or loss? How do you fill the hole left by a dead friend the same way you once filled long stretches of empty time, together? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>“Permanent Behavior: Getting Tatted in the Bay,” is our\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918368/rightnowish-presents-permanent-behavior-getting-tatted-in-the-bay\"> four-part series\u003c/a>, about local tattoo artists. In these stories, we dive into the permanence of ink as it resides on impermanent beings.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophia Blum, also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pio.poke/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pio Poke, \u003c/a>is a master of the stick-and-poke (or hand poke) method of tattooing. With a handheld needle, she creates detailed textile designs and images of feathers, arrows, birds and botanicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935864']Her designs are a nod to her Berkley roots, where she grew up with an affinity for flowers. Her personal stick-and-poke style stems from her family roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family is Mennonite,” she says, “and so they do a lot of hand stitching, hand sewing stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s amazing what she can do with thin, black lines of permanent ink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918876 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pio Poke at work!\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum, also known as Pio Poke, at work tattooing a client at Thorns Tattoo, Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of being a skilled artist, she’s in the business of changing the industry — after recognizing unfair labor practices within traditional tattoo parlors, where owners get the lion’s share of the the revenue and workers make a small percentage, Blum organized with other artists and formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thorns.tattoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thorns Tattoo\u003c/a>, a worker-owned studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s deeper than aesthetics too. Blume has used her craft to support social justice causes by organizing tattoo fundraisers donating the proceeds to folks on the front lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918877 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pamphlets and periodicals at Thorns Tattoo in Berkeley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlets and periodicals at Thorns Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For our second episode of ‘Permanent Behavior: Getting Tatted In The Bay’ we talk to Sophia Blum a.k.a. Pio Poke about \u003cem>manually\u003c/em> making her mark, as well as the importance of workers’ rights and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6346815878&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3BsJ1zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Sophia Blum a.k.a. Pio Poke. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia Blum:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The origins of tattooing is pretty, pretty far back. Stick-and-poke feels like more of a modern iteration, but non-mechanical or non-machine tattoos have been around for as long as like humans have been wanting to mark their bodies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hand poke or stick-and-poke, that style, in my head is tied to prison tatts or even punk tatts… \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sure, sure \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, like, am I wrong for having that assumption or connection?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A hand in a black medical gloves uses a needle to poke ink to a client's shoulder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum specializes in hand poke tattoos. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Sophia:\u003c/em> That’s definitely true. I mean, it’s like the simplest form, you know? So it’s just accessible. You know, all you need is like a needle or something pointy and some ink. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he first tattoos that I ever made were, you know, like a BIC pen and a sewing needle. But that was like when I was like 14 before I knew what I was doing at all\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahh. That sounds aggressive! \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia:\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>It’s not something I would recommend for anybody to do. But I feel like that, you know, like the prison tattoo or the punk tattoo, it’s just kind of what you have. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a DIY kind of experience. But there’s also just so many simple ways you can make a machine too. I think that simplicity is kind of a part of all of that. But in terms of indigenous tattooing, practices like those have been around so much longer and there’s like a wide range of tools and specific practices that go into that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum at Thorns Tattoo Studio in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Perusing your Instagram, I see that you have a lot of influence from like, nature. What’s your connection to flowers?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia\u003c/span>: \u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve been a florist for ten years now. Nope! Twelve years. Oh, time is a wild thing!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I just have an affinity for plants and flowers and I’m from the Bay — I grew up like hiking, backpacking all around California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I get all my color work done with the flower side of things, so I don’t really bring it into like tattoos or like my art. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with flowers has taught me everything that I know about design and composition. It’s just sculptural, but it’s also ephemeral. Like, it doesn’t last. You’re working with something that is temporary, and I’ll draw that parallel with tattoos pretty often.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918899 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum, also known as Pio Poke, tattoos a client at Thorns Tattoo Studio in Berkeley on September 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>\u003cb>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You said something that stuck with me: Tattoos essentially don’t last forever. When I think of tattoos, I think like, that’s probably the most permanent form of art that I can think of — what lasts longer than tattoos, you know? And so why? Why are they impermanent?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia\u003c/span>:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, I think of it in the opposite sense. Most art lasts so much longer than your body does. Like a painting lasts for hundreds of years. A piece of sculpture will last way longer than the artist itself will last. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A photograph lasts for a really long time. But you only last as long as you last. Tattooing is essentially just like decorating your vessel, and that can end at any moment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her designs are a nod to her Berkley roots, where she grew up with an affinity for flowers. Her personal stick-and-poke style stems from her family roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family is Mennonite,” she says, “and so they do a lot of hand stitching, hand sewing stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s amazing what she can do with thin, black lines of permanent ink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918876 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pio Poke at work!\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/7EqF2nX4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum, also known as Pio Poke, at work tattooing a client at Thorns Tattoo, Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of being a skilled artist, she’s in the business of changing the industry — after recognizing unfair labor practices within traditional tattoo parlors, where owners get the lion’s share of the the revenue and workers make a small percentage, Blum organized with other artists and formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thorns.tattoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thorns Tattoo\u003c/a>, a worker-owned studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s deeper than aesthetics too. Blume has used her craft to support social justice causes by organizing tattoo fundraisers donating the proceeds to folks on the front lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918877 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pamphlets and periodicals at Thorns Tattoo in Berkeley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/8Sj5o4jA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlets and periodicals at Thorns Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For our second episode of ‘Permanent Behavior: Getting Tatted In The Bay’ we talk to Sophia Blum a.k.a. Pio Poke about \u003cem>manually\u003c/em> making her mark, as well as the importance of workers’ rights and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6346815878&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3BsJ1zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Sophia Blum a.k.a. Pio Poke. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia Blum:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The origins of tattooing is pretty, pretty far back. Stick-and-poke feels like more of a modern iteration, but non-mechanical or non-machine tattoos have been around for as long as like humans have been wanting to mark their bodies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hand poke or stick-and-poke, that style, in my head is tied to prison tatts or even punk tatts… \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sure, sure \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, like, am I wrong for having that assumption or connection?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A hand in a black medical gloves uses a needle to poke ink to a client's shoulder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/008_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum specializes in hand poke tattoos. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Sophia:\u003c/em> That’s definitely true. I mean, it’s like the simplest form, you know? So it’s just accessible. You know, all you need is like a needle or something pointy and some ink. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he first tattoos that I ever made were, you know, like a BIC pen and a sewing needle. But that was like when I was like 14 before I knew what I was doing at all\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahh. That sounds aggressive! \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia:\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>It’s not something I would recommend for anybody to do. But I feel like that, you know, like the prison tattoo or the punk tattoo, it’s just kind of what you have. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a DIY kind of experience. But there’s also just so many simple ways you can make a machine too. I think that simplicity is kind of a part of all of that. But in terms of indigenous tattooing, practices like those have been around so much longer and there’s like a wide range of tools and specific practices that go into that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09072022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum at Thorns Tattoo Studio in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen:\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Perusing your Instagram, I see that you have a lot of influence from like, nature. What’s your connection to flowers?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia\u003c/span>: \u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve been a florist for ten years now. Nope! Twelve years. Oh, time is a wild thing!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I just have an affinity for plants and flowers and I’m from the Bay — I grew up like hiking, backpacking all around California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I get all my color work done with the flower side of things, so I don’t really bring it into like tattoos or like my art. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with flowers has taught me everything that I know about design and composition. It’s just sculptural, but it’s also ephemeral. Like, it doesn’t last. You’re working with something that is temporary, and I’ll draw that parallel with tattoos pretty often.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918899 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistSophiaBlum_09012022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Blum, also known as Pio Poke, tattoos a client at Thorns Tattoo Studio in Berkeley on September 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>\u003cb>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You said something that stuck with me: Tattoos essentially don’t last forever. When I think of tattoos, I think like, that’s probably the most permanent form of art that I can think of — what lasts longer than tattoos, you know? And so why? Why are they impermanent?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophia\u003c/span>:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, I think of it in the opposite sense. Most art lasts so much longer than your body does. Like a painting lasts for hundreds of years. A piece of sculpture will last way longer than the artist itself will last. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A photograph lasts for a really long time. But you only last as long as you last. Tattooing is essentially just like decorating your vessel, and that can end at any moment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6818480529&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>“Permanent Behavior: Getting Tatted in the Bay,” is our\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918368/rightnowish-presents-permanent-behavior-getting-tatted-in-the-bay\"> four-part series\u003c/a>, about local tattoo artists. In these stories, we dive into the permanence of ink as it resides on impermanent beings.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3cFNogV\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tattoo artist \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/misterbouncer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.instagram.com/misterbouncer/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Miguel “Bounce” Perez\u003c/a> has vivid childhood memories of art created by his family: His mother drew “chola-style” portraits of women with feathered hair and sharp brows, while his uncles created lettering in “Cali-Chicano” Old English script. His father was part of a car club in his West Berkeley community, a neighborhood that was also home to a number of graffiti murals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/005_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel “Bounce”Perez at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley on Aug. 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this poured into Perez, and laid the foundation for what he does today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935864']He’s a versatile artist, who sees collaboration with his clients as central to his work. He’s done touch-ups for people who’ve been incarcerated, and even inked a team of mathletes. His art is detailed and graphic, ranging from Mayan goddesses to anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he doesn’t have a “specialty,” but he’s often asked to do cover-ups of faded tattoos; a community service of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also part of the art collective\u003ca href=\"https://www.trustyourstruggle.org/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a>, which paints murals in other countries that have been historically colonized and thus, under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez works with Lindsey Tran to create her leg and sleeve tattoos at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given Perez’s experiences with both impermanent aerosol and indelible ink, I figured he’d be the best person to start this exploration into the culture of tattooing in the Bay Area, and what it feels like to create \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> artwork— if such a thing exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Miguel “Bounce” Perez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring us back to the origins, how’d you get started in art in general?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first influences are like from my mom. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She used to draw these kind of chola drawings, you know, the Chicano style cholas with feathered hair, all nice and detailed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember I used to create my own little comic characters and my uncles drew too. They all kind of did that same kind of that Cali-Chicano style. My uncles did the cholo letters. We’d see them around the house, like written on books and all this stuff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did, how did Berkeley, as a city, pour into your work as an artist?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel like there’s a lot of murals around Berkeley that influenced me. The Che mural, the West Campus one, the recycling mural that was on MLK. I went from seeing all the Chicano styles that my family was doing and seeing graff and murals on the street. I think that definitely seeped its way in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez tattoos the sleeve of Lindsey Tran at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: Miguel also came up with a crew known as Trust Your Struggle. The collective of artists do work for low or no cost in communities that could benefit from murals or other visual art that supports local culture. They started in 2003, and they’ve done work not only in the Bay but in Hawaii and the Philippines, and other places. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel\u003c/em>\u003c/span>:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rust Your Struggle it was definitely like-minded folks who had a lot of the same passions and same views on the world, politics and life and everything. I think we’re more just like a crew of homies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the earlier things we were doing was these mural tours. We went started in Mexico and like worked our way down, on bus all the way to Nicaragua. Basically donated murals, linked up with different organizations and painted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> I remember one of the last ones we did in 2009, we went to the Philippines. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were meeting up with these orgs and stuff. Like this was the one we’d probably raised the most money for and we get out there and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do this mural for y’all, it’s free, blah, blah, blah.’ And they’re like, ‘Great, this is beautiful.’ And then we see like how they living and they’re like, ‘Oh shit. Like, they don’t need a mural. They need food, some clothes.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez continues working on Lindsey Tran’s sleeve at Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>It humbled us. You ain’t gonna save the world with a painting. It might look pretty. So, some of us have got more into, actual legislation. My boy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918019/robert-liu-trujillo-on-creating-books-for-kids-like-me\">Rob [Liu-Trujillo]\u003c/a> is, like, doing, like, children’s books.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>I’m doing tattoos, which is just like not like a political thing, but the thing that’s cool about tattoos, it’s always some transitional period in most people’s lives when they’re getting it. And it’s pretty cool to share that with them and even help guide them through it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s so tight, bro, like thinking about life in those transitional periods and change is the only constant. But to get something to signify that you’ve gone through a transitional period is to say that ‘I want something to last forever from this doorway that I’m going through.’ And you’re more or less holding that door open or helping construct the doorway.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>Even sometimes I’m closing it, like, don’t go through that door! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if you want that door. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He’s a versatile artist, who sees collaboration with his clients as central to his work. He’s done touch-ups for people who’ve been incarcerated, and even inked a team of mathletes. His art is detailed and graphic, ranging from Mayan goddesses to anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he doesn’t have a “specialty,” but he’s often asked to do cover-ups of faded tattoos; a community service of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also part of the art collective\u003ca href=\"https://www.trustyourstruggle.org/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a>, which paints murals in other countries that have been historically colonized and thus, under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez works with Lindsey Tran to create her leg and sleeve tattoos at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given Perez’s experiences with both impermanent aerosol and indelible ink, I figured he’d be the best person to start this exploration into the culture of tattooing in the Bay Area, and what it feels like to create \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> artwork— if such a thing exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Miguel “Bounce” Perez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring us back to the origins, how’d you get started in art in general?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first influences are like from my mom. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She used to draw these kind of chola drawings, you know, the Chicano style cholas with feathered hair, all nice and detailed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember I used to create my own little comic characters and my uncles drew too. They all kind of did that same kind of that Cali-Chicano style. My uncles did the cholo letters. We’d see them around the house, like written on books and all this stuff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did, how did Berkeley, as a city, pour into your work as an artist?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel like there’s a lot of murals around Berkeley that influenced me. The Che mural, the West Campus one, the recycling mural that was on MLK. I went from seeing all the Chicano styles that my family was doing and seeing graff and murals on the street. I think that definitely seeped its way in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez tattoos the sleeve of Lindsey Tran at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: Miguel also came up with a crew known as Trust Your Struggle. The collective of artists do work for low or no cost in communities that could benefit from murals or other visual art that supports local culture. They started in 2003, and they’ve done work not only in the Bay but in Hawaii and the Philippines, and other places. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel\u003c/em>\u003c/span>:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rust Your Struggle it was definitely like-minded folks who had a lot of the same passions and same views on the world, politics and life and everything. I think we’re more just like a crew of homies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the earlier things we were doing was these mural tours. We went started in Mexico and like worked our way down, on bus all the way to Nicaragua. Basically donated murals, linked up with different organizations and painted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> I remember one of the last ones we did in 2009, we went to the Philippines. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were meeting up with these orgs and stuff. Like this was the one we’d probably raised the most money for and we get out there and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do this mural for y’all, it’s free, blah, blah, blah.’ And they’re like, ‘Great, this is beautiful.’ And then we see like how they living and they’re like, ‘Oh shit. Like, they don’t need a mural. They need food, some clothes.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez continues working on Lindsey Tran’s sleeve at Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>It humbled us. You ain’t gonna save the world with a painting. It might look pretty. So, some of us have got more into, actual legislation. My boy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918019/robert-liu-trujillo-on-creating-books-for-kids-like-me\">Rob [Liu-Trujillo]\u003c/a> is, like, doing, like, children’s books.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>I’m doing tattoos, which is just like not like a political thing, but the thing that’s cool about tattoos, it’s always some transitional period in most people’s lives when they’re getting it. And it’s pretty cool to share that with them and even help guide them through it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s so tight, bro, like thinking about life in those transitional periods and change is the only constant. But to get something to signify that you’ve gone through a transitional period is to say that ‘I want something to last forever from this doorway that I’m going through.’ And you’re more or less holding that door open or helping construct the doorway.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>Even sometimes I’m closing it, like, don’t go through that door! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if you want that door. 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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": "\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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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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"content": "\u003cp>After Vivian Osborne graduated from high school in 1914, she applied to study anthropology at U.C. Berkeley. A gifted student, she had earned outstanding grades at both Berkeley High and, prior to that, Houston High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13950520']At the time, U.C. Berkeley refused to admit any student who had been schooled even partially in Southern states unless that student also passed four additional entrance exams. Osborne completed only two — she was excused from the last couple because her results on the first two were so good. So exceptional, in fact, that her example prompted Berkeley to permanently scrap its discriminatory policies against students from the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the first time that Vivian would transform U.C. Berkeley for the better. 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. It seems if there was a club actively fighting racism, sexism or both, Vivian was in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13926548']Through her association with the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, she became active with the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, which was focused on civil rights and improving conditions for the Black community. Vivian was a member of the YWCA and the Berkeley Women’s Civic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1928, she became director of the Oakland junior branch of the NAACP — she would work alongside the anti-racist organization in one way or another for the rest of her life. And in 1929, Vivian established the Omega Sigma Alumnae Chapter so that U.C. Berkeley women could continue their involvement in Delta Sigma Theta after they’d graduated. (She was Omega Sigma’s first president.) In fact, Vivian’s work for the sorority never ceased. 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. Roberts, the first African American man to be elected to the California State Assembly read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear Sir: The California Federation of Colored Women’s clubs … on the 6th day of January 1931, have unanimously gone on record as protesting the passage of the discriminatory act sponsored by the League of California Municipalities. This bill proposes to discriminate against colored boys and girls by setting aside for them certain hours and days in public playgrounds and swimming pools. Speaking for the thousands of colored voters, we petition you to use your best efforts before the legislature to prevent the passage of this bill.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The legislation was defeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the decade, Vivian campaigned relentlessly at universities and women’s clubs to help get anti-lynching legislation passed. 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. But the frustrating failure did nothing to dull Vivian’s fighting spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 1930s, Vivian was focused on helping young Black people across the nation. As part of her role as Delta Sigma Theta’s national president (1935-’39), she organized a traveling library for children in rural Georgia. Then she created a program called “Teen Lift,” which covered travel and ticket costs for underprivileged Black children to attend operas, symphonies, concerts and other live events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Depression, Vivian was the first Black woman on the West Coast to take on the position of state supervisor of the National Youth Organization (NYO). Working in the Division of Negro Affairs, she was tasked with finding jobs for unemployed people of color between the ages of 16 and 25 and ensuring that other parts of the organization were free from discriminatory practices. 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. 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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. 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>[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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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. 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