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"content": "\u003cp>In most American municipalities, the elimination of one management job in city government would hardly garner notice. But Oakland is not most American municipalities, which explains why, at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, more than 30 people had gathered on the steps of City Hall to call for reinstating the staff position of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11976824/oakland-hires-its-first-cultural-affairs-manager\">Cultural Affairs Manager\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As simply as I can put it, the arts will not get by without this position,” said Cat Brooks, the Oakland artist, activist and previous mayoral candidate. “Anyone who is in the town, lives in the town or loves the town knows that arts and culture is our heartbeat. So if you’re interested in the heartbeat of Oakland, this position matters to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marked the third straight week of organized protests against the elimination of the position in Oakland’s latest budget, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043553/alternative-oakland-budget-aims-to-halt-fire-station-closures-boost-police-staffing\">adopted by city council\u003c/a> on June 11. New city expenditures, which cutting the Cultural Affairs Manager would help pay for, include $1.4 million in sideshow prevention, $1 million for the establishment of entertainment zones and an increase to police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally outside of Oakland City Hall protesting the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Explaining the need for a Cultural Affairs Manager to the average citizen poses a challenge, several attendees noted. It is a city government job, in a place where many artists and musicians are either unconcerned with or directly opposed to city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to actually be one of those artists who did not really feel like the city had anything to offer me,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/kev-choice\">Kev Choice\u003c/a>, a musician and educator who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">joined the Cultural Arts Commission\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for artists savvy with grants — or those who get hired or contracted by nonprofits, which is to say nearly all artists in Oakland — the role of a Cultural Affairs Manager provides crucial support. Equal parts advocate, fundraiser, intermediary and ambassador, its impact more than justifies its \u003ca href=\"https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=roberto+bedoya&y=\">$170,000 annual salary\u003c/a>, attendees on Tuesday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Cultural Affairs Manager Roberto Bedoya gives public comment at an Oakland City Council meeting advocating against the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget in Oakland on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people spoke highly of Roberto Bedoya, the former Cultural Affairs Manager who retired in 2024. Hired in 2016, Bedoya worked as a liaison to other departments, argued against cuts and grant delays, ran the public art program, drafted Oakland’s first-ever cultural plan and, importantly, secured money for the city’s arts and culture sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s protest, Bedoya spoke at the city council meeting to note $1.9 million in federal funds and $5 million in public-private partnerships that he had facilitated, and promised that, even in retirement, “I will help you find revenue.” Before he could finish, his microphone was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957786']The protest and city council meeting on Tuesday stood in stark contrast to the news that, across the Bay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978179/san-francisco-artist-grants-sfac-2025-2026\">San Francisco had awarded more than $10 million in grants to artists and arts organizations\u003c/a> just that morning. Vanessa Whang, the chair of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission, said the grants showed that San Francisco’s leaders were being “smart” about their priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though they are also facing deficits, they understand an investment in the arts and culture sector is what is going to make the city come back,” Whang said, noting the revenue-generating impact of the arts. “The most positive narrative that we have for Oakland right now is our culture. That’s why we get mentioned in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaenssa Whang, chair of the Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission, gives public comment at an Oakland City Council meeting advocating against the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget in Oakland on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The grants in San Francisco are funded by a hotel tax similar to Oakland’s hotel and lodging tax. Raquel Iglesias, the former cultural funding coordinator who managed the grants program for five years, said that she and Bedoya had urged city administrators to issue grants in 2024 that were delayed, causing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957786/oakland-art-and-soul-festival-canceled\">cancellation of events like the annual Art & Soul Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Iglesias said, the Cultural Affairs Divison was given no access to general fund monies for grants. “We had just roughly $180,000 in hotel tax money that we gave out in \u003cem>tiny\u003c/em> grants,” Iglesias explained, adding that she and another staff member had as of last week raised roughly $600,000 from private foundations to backfill the money that the city rescinded for general operating grantees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Symphony CEO Mieko Hatano, jazz musician and educator John Santos and Living Jazz executive director Lyz Luke joined those who spoke at the council meeting. Oakland Ballet’s artistic director Graham Lustig and Julie Baker, CEO of California Arts Advocates, are among the dozens of others who have urged the city to reinstate the Cultural Affairs Manager position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raquel Iglesias (center) attends a rally outside of Oakland City Hall protesting the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even those with no direct income from the arts or the nonprofit world spoke on Tuesday about the importance of art and cultural programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the City Hall steps, the activist Minister King X held his phone to the loudspeaker microphone so that William “Will Bop” Edwards, currently incarcerated in Solano State Prison, could address the assembled crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13969048']“When I was young, we had places to go. We had things to do that would scare us away from trouble. And with those places that involve art and creativity, it would allow us to meet, learn, and understand our neighbors. So when we grew up, we were less likely to want to shoot and kill people that grew up with us, because we had a prior relationship with them,” Edwards said, before an automated prison announcement came over the phone line to say that the call was being monitored and recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has vowed to keep protesting every week until the Oakland City Council reinstates the position, said Brooks, who referred to investing in art as a “public safety strategy” that provides revenue and jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Sanders, a dancer and poet who moved to Oakland two years ago, said that in addition to the impact on her own practice, she was dismayed at the budget being pushed through without sufficient time for thorough review by the public, or even certain council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This move just makes no sense, and it feels like a betrayal,” Sanders said. “And that’s personal, you know? So that’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The protest and city council meeting on Tuesday stood in stark contrast to the news that, across the Bay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978179/san-francisco-artist-grants-sfac-2025-2026\">San Francisco had awarded more than $10 million in grants to artists and arts organizations\u003c/a> just that morning. Vanessa Whang, the chair of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission, said the grants showed that San Francisco’s leaders were being “smart” about their priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though they are also facing deficits, they understand an investment in the arts and culture sector is what is going to make the city come back,” Whang said, noting the revenue-generating impact of the arts. “The most positive narrative that we have for Oakland right now is our culture. That’s why we get mentioned in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaenssa Whang, chair of the Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission, gives public comment at an Oakland City Council meeting advocating against the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget in Oakland on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The grants in San Francisco are funded by a hotel tax similar to Oakland’s hotel and lodging tax. Raquel Iglesias, the former cultural funding coordinator who managed the grants program for five years, said that she and Bedoya had urged city administrators to issue grants in 2024 that were delayed, causing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957786/oakland-art-and-soul-festival-canceled\">cancellation of events like the annual Art & Soul Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Iglesias said, the Cultural Affairs Divison was given no access to general fund monies for grants. “We had just roughly $180,000 in hotel tax money that we gave out in \u003cem>tiny\u003c/em> grants,” Iglesias explained, adding that she and another staff member had as of last week raised roughly $600,000 from private foundations to backfill the money that the city rescinded for general operating grantees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Symphony CEO Mieko Hatano, jazz musician and educator John Santos and Living Jazz executive director Lyz Luke joined those who spoke at the council meeting. 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"content": "\u003cp>In January of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CatsCommentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a> and the Anti Police-Terror Project launched a service where trained professionals are called to respond to mental health crises; it’s an alternative to people calling the police to handle the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health First, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M.H. First\u003c/a>, initially launched in Sacramento, and began serving Oakland this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Oakland’s City Council set aside $1.35 million to fund the \u003ca href=\"http://mhaac.org/need-help-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO\u003c/a>) program– which has a similar aim as M.H. First. But MACRO’s services leave a gap in coverage, as its hour of operation coincide with the traditional work week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">f you’re fortunate enough to have your mental health breakdown between the hours of 9:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday, you might get some help,” Brooks says facetiously. “Other than that, you know, it’s 9-1-1.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without trained mental health professionals, police interactions can be deadly. \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/15/mental-illness-is-health-issue-not-police-issue/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post’s police shooting database\u003c/a> reports that nationally over the past year, around a quarter of those killed by police officers are people with mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks speaking to a group of people\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1.jpg 1959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaking to a group of people \u003ccite>(Stephen Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks says that M.H. First is just one part of the effort to refund the community and divest from overspending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, Brooks discusses M.H. First, the racism she encountered as a young person and she traces her organizing origins back to the killing of Oscar Grant– a case which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841062/alameda-da-reopens-investigation-into-oscar-grant-killing-nearly-12-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently been reopened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\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=KQINC1905524364\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBelow are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Cat Brooks.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: I’ll just ask you blatantly: Why not go through established police departments?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAT: Well, nationally one in four people gunned down by law enforcement are in the middle of a mental health crisis. Police are not trained, nor do they actually want to do this work. Oakland Police Department will say ‘well, we’ve got crisis intervention training.’ In municipalities across the country, [this training] is usually eight to fifteen hours. To be a mental health professional requires thousands of hours before you can work with someone professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other reason is that police are trained to force compliance and to do that through violence and force if necessary. And so when law enforcement shows up, your job is to do what they say when they say it, how fast they say it and the way in which they say it. And just not doing any of those things can get somebody seriously injured or killed as we see, you know, daily… People in mental health crisis or who may not be sharing our reality often cannot respond to those commands, do not understand those commands, which law enforcement is trained to see as somebody resisting.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID='news_11840071' label=' ']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the way that we’ve stigmatized and demonized mental health crisis, it usually results in incarceration. We talk about people being in mental health crisis. A lot of times what we’re having are mental health moments. And I say often, I don’t know how you’re Black or brown or in distress support in this country and you’re not having mental health moments. And what we’ve seen, particularly right now, you know, in the middle of this pandemic is people are having more and more of those moments. Because people are losing their jobs and they’re losing their housing or they’re sick or they’re afraid of getting sick or they’re losing loved ones to this virus or their essential worker. I mean, there’s all of the stressors that go along with this particular moment in time. And sometimes people just need to be heard. They just need to be listened to. They need someone to talk to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: This is something you’ve written about recently in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/we-cannot-allow-police-unions-to-define-public-safety/\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>. You mentioned how local police unions in the Bay Area have co-opted some of the language that yourself and other organizers have been using in terms of community policing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In January of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CatsCommentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a> and the Anti Police-Terror Project launched a service where trained professionals are called to respond to mental health crises; it’s an alternative to people calling the police to handle the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health First, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M.H. First\u003c/a>, initially launched in Sacramento, and began serving Oakland this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Oakland’s City Council set aside $1.35 million to fund the \u003ca href=\"http://mhaac.org/need-help-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO\u003c/a>) program– which has a similar aim as M.H. First. But MACRO’s services leave a gap in coverage, as its hour of operation coincide with the traditional work week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">f you’re fortunate enough to have your mental health breakdown between the hours of 9:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday, you might get some help,” Brooks says facetiously. “Other than that, you know, it’s 9-1-1.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without trained mental health professionals, police interactions can be deadly. \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/15/mental-illness-is-health-issue-not-police-issue/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post’s police shooting database\u003c/a> reports that nationally over the past year, around a quarter of those killed by police officers are people with mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks speaking to a group of people\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/1-1.jpg 1959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaking to a group of people \u003ccite>(Stephen Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks says that M.H. First is just one part of the effort to refund the community and divest from overspending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, Brooks discusses M.H. 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Police are not trained, nor do they actually want to do this work. Oakland Police Department will say ‘well, we’ve got crisis intervention training.’ In municipalities across the country, [this training] is usually eight to fifteen hours. To be a mental health professional requires thousands of hours before you can work with someone professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other reason is that police are trained to force compliance and to do that through violence and force if necessary. And so when law enforcement shows up, your job is to do what they say when they say it, how fast they say it and the way in which they say it. And just not doing any of those things can get somebody seriously injured or killed as we see, you know, daily… People in mental health crisis or who may not be sharing our reality often cannot respond to those commands, do not understand those commands, which law enforcement is trained to see as somebody resisting.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And a lot of the messaging was about how dangerous it is to be a police officer. The demonization of protesters, things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think it’s a testament to the organizing that has happened over the last few years that they weren’t able to do that this time. We’ve seen enough dead bodies. We’ve seen enough protests. We’ve done a good enough job in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…We have been taught from very young ages. Myself included, that cops are the good guys. They get the kittens out of the tree. That’s who keeps us safe. And so there are folks who still believe that if we do enough trainings, if we do enough body cameras, if we do enough reform, if we shift use of force policies, that maybe things will get better. And when that messaging is coming out of law enforcement, they’re promising to do that. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 22, 11:00am.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With protests across the country calling for cities to defund local police departments, police abolition has entered the mainstream lexicon, along with calls to channel police funding into social services that promote healthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, a city that’s seen school closures and a rapid rise in homelessness in recent years, the police budget takes up around 44% of the general fund. And yet, OPD has been under federal oversight for nearly two decades and has failed to meet standards for reform. After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 sex abuse scandal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/opd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous fatal police shootings\u003c/a> over the past decade, activists are \u003ca href=\"https://defund12.org/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling for Oakland \u003c/a>to take millions of dollars out of its police budget and invest in social services while the city council grapples with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/09/advocates-push-back-on-plan-to-spend-parks-and-homeless-services-funds-on-oakland-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget crisis\u003c/a> due to the COVID-19 economic shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, activists, educators and artists imagine what community-driven efforts to keep the peace could look like in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These interviews have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cat Brooks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“In conjunction with our \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18071377099206102/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund OPD campaign\u003c/a>, we’ve been very focused on building a model of response to mental health and interpersonal violence that does not rely on law enforcement. We don’t understand why—when we should be sending compassionate care—we’re sending a badge and a gun. We made a very specific demand in the last budget cycle to redirect money from the police to make sure that Oakland had a 24/7 mental health crisis response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the school district government and city government are separate, I think it would behoove us to invest that money in our schools and in our children. We could double or triple the summer job program. Cleaning up our city—we have a massive rat infestation in deep East and West Oakland, which brings with it all sorts of health problems that need to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to house people and get the people \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/23/oakland-saw-a-47-percent-spike-in-homelessness-this-year/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sleeping on Oakland’s streets\u003c/a> into shelter and provide them with all the resources and supports they need. We could spend the money ensuring that when people come home from jails and prisons, they have the resources to get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to invest in co-ops that could create green jobs for Oaklanders. We need to clean up our environment—we have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/pollution-and-health-concerns-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dirtiest air\u003c/a> in East and West Oakland. All of that stuff requires funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to invest in humanity, not punitive policing. It doesn’t work—if it worked, we’d be the safest country in the world because we incarcerate more people than any other country on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881949\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Williams and Dujuanna Archable stand during a protest against police violence at 14th and Broadway in Oakland on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indigomateo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigo Mateo\u003c/a>, musician and activist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m on the side of defunding the police as a way to abolish the police and as a way to abolish prisons and the legal system that entraps mainly Black and brown people for very long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is a huge hot spot for child sex trafficking. The money that is defunded from police should go to organizations that are on the ground working against human trafficking, providing mental heath services for young people especially, services for people without homes. Those are what keep our streets safe. Organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/claires-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire’s House\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/With-internships-Oakland-boutique-aids-human-6587100.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regina’s Door\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://misssey.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MISSSEY\u003c/a> and other collectives around the Bay Area doing healing and liberation and therapy, especially for people of color and Black people—those services should be invested into. Those organizations have to be poured into so that we as a community know how to stand on our own two feet to handle harm when it comes up, because it will come up. People who know how to talk to survivors, be respectful of each others’ experiences and know the gravity of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a survivor of rape, and when I brought my case to the police, all the emphasis was on catching this predator and putting him behind bars. A lot of survivors of trafficking experience times when their abuser does go behind bars, their trafficker gets incarcerated. And still, the problem of trafficking doesn’t end. Another pimp picks you up, or that pimp gets out of prison and keeps doing the same thing. There’s no transformative work that’s being done. There needs to be more of a compassionate emphasis around the experience of a survivor and what a survivor needs to heal and be safe in community. A lot of the time, a survivor needs visibility and the ability to use their voice. Also to have stable housing and a pathway to a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ideologies are really what make us safe, as opposed to constantly capturing people, putting them away and filtering them back into society, often with more vindication and more trauma than what they had before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rasheed Lockheart, reentry coordinator at \u003ca href=\"https://plantingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planting Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“As someone who grew up in the ’80s, when you were pulled over by the police and the first thing they told you was, ‘Don’t fucking move. I’ll shoot you. I promise you.’ We absolutely have to do away with that system. It still exists today, it’s just more relevant now because it’s on camera. We have to defund the police to eventually abolish them. That money needs to be put into reentry programs, taking care of the homeless, education and mental health programs. I remember being a kid and going to a Boys and Girls Club-type thing after school, and when they shut that down I didn’t have anything to do but be in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities are more resilient than people give them credit for, but often they don’t have the resources. We have to learn to genuinely care about the next human being no matter what they might be, whether they are Black, white, queer—whatever. We can’t do away with the system and create another system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tricky because there will always be bad seeds, you can’t expect everyone to be great and to care about the next human being altruistically. But we can start going to our youth and plant seeds now of what love looks like, what community looks like, and hope that when we are 10, 15, 20 years down the line that those seeds grow into something sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people really impacted by the system, whether it’s the incarceration side of things or the police system. Who knows better what it means to be persecuted than the people who are impacted by the system? We want everybody to be involved. But you should leave it to those impacted by these systems to get the message out there and rally behind them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators fill the intersection at 14th and Broadway in Oakland at a protest against police violence on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kortney Ziegler, creator of the \u003ca href=\"https://app.moonclerk.com/c/h27chmplg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Appolition\u003c/a> bail fund app\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The global pandemic where the whole economy shuts down and everyone has to be inside—I think it’s a perfect time for people to extend that imagination to envisioning the world without police and how we can use the surplus of money that’s being used to terrorize American citizens, as well as anyone that lives here, for so many other things. Education, community spaces, more social services and healthcare. I’m really excited about what’s happening now in the conversation, but I’m worried a lot of the conversation is about defunding and keeping police around rather than figuring out how we can live in the world without police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people have things they need to lead a healthy life—education, access to healthcare, food, equality, resources—our idea of crime will probably be nonexistent. Living in this country, a very violent country that has significant levels of poverty, people are committing crimes because of that. A lot of people are ill in this country because of the violence. There are a number of things the American public has to address when we discuss abolition because it relates to our mental health, how we relate to each other and what it means to be accountable in a community, and how we institute practices where we hold people accountable without policing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://kevchoice.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kev Choice\u003c/a>, musician, teacher and member of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oakland-cultural-affairs-commission-re-established\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cultural Affairs Commission\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There are so many artists out here that need to be supported, especially with COVID-19. Cultural affairs could be one area where we directly divert those funds from [OPD]. At the same time, we can’t take money from anywhere in Oakland without addressing the housing issue, addressing homelessness. That has to be at the top of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD has been in budget crisis for years, even to the point where they were taken over by state government years ago because the budget was in disarray. Teachers’ salaries—I’m a teacher involved in the union negotiations trying to fight for fair wages, a wage where we can live in this high-priced market. A lot of our teachers have to move away because they don’t make enough money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There need to be more spaces where our youth can be creators, can be leaders, whether it’s putting more money into places like \u003ca href=\"http://eoydc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastside Arts Alliance\u003c/a>. Anything that can help develop these powerful youth. It’s obvious they have ideas and they have civic engagement. They marched to Libby Schaaf’s house. They have all this energy, and we have to find a way to channel this energy into a positive direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with COVID, there should be a small business relief fund, especially when it comes to business owned by people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/community-police-review-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Police Review Agency\u003c/a>, so that needs to be developed more so people know what it is, who’s involved and how to get involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial at Oscar Grant Plaza for Black lives lost to police violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://favianna.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Favianna Rodriguez\u003c/a>, artist and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Cultural Power\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Historically, the police are an institution that is built on the foundation of slave catching. Throughout my entire life growing up here [in Oakland] and in Los Angeles, I have never had a good experience with the police. Furthermore, when I was in an abusive relationship with someone with mental health issues, I would never call the police out of fear that they would kill my former partner. I don’t believe we should have police exist in its current form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want specialized experts who address sexual assault, I want specialized experts to be able to come to somebody’s home when there are mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would like to have collaborative program for when I have issues with noise or fireworks in my community, or I notice someone is abusing an animal. I would like for service workers to be easily accessible. I don’t believe the police are necessary for that. We don’t need force of peace keepers who are so heavily militarized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe in abolishing the police and I think it starts with defunding them. But I fully believe we have to transition to another way of keeping the peace. That’s something that’s many years away, but it has to evolve from investing in things that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.xaviergbuck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xavier Buck\u003c/a>, historian and deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Considering that this is a government service, and being from communities where the government has constantly neglected us, I think it is only proper to defund the police and create something that is community oriented and actually serves the people. We pay taxes for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of dollars were actually put into Black communities in the ’60s and ’70s, but it was through COINTELPRO. It was through the FBI coming in and tearing Black communities apart. For the first time in a very long time, we have the opportunity to control where government money is spent in favor of the Black community. We have to rectify and get reparations for what has already happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has to be an integration of the Black Panthers’ ideals and values and history into the Oakland Unified curriculum. I think that’s specifically because, if we’re going to understand how to move forward and what the issues are at hand, we need the entire population of the Bay Area, the entire United States, to jump on board and realize history was not always done right. We should not embrace the American identity that was, that oppressed Black people and other people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to reimagine [policing], it has to be on a very local scale. I think when we say police abolition, we think nationwide, it’s going to be a sweeping change, it’s going to look uniform. I think it starts in that very grassroots, community local scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> This article originally stated that the budget for the Oakland Police Department constitutes 44% of Oakland’s total city budget. The OPD budget constitutes 44% of the general fund, not the total city budget. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 22, 11:00am.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With protests across the country calling for cities to defund local police departments, police abolition has entered the mainstream lexicon, along with calls to channel police funding into social services that promote healthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, a city that’s seen school closures and a rapid rise in homelessness in recent years, the police budget takes up around 44% of the general fund. And yet, OPD has been under federal oversight for nearly two decades and has failed to meet standards for reform. After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 sex abuse scandal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/opd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous fatal police shootings\u003c/a> over the past decade, activists are \u003ca href=\"https://defund12.org/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling for Oakland \u003c/a>to take millions of dollars out of its police budget and invest in social services while the city council grapples with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/09/advocates-push-back-on-plan-to-spend-parks-and-homeless-services-funds-on-oakland-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget crisis\u003c/a> due to the COVID-19 economic shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, activists, educators and artists imagine what community-driven efforts to keep the peace could look like in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These interviews have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cat Brooks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“In conjunction with our \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18071377099206102/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund OPD campaign\u003c/a>, we’ve been very focused on building a model of response to mental health and interpersonal violence that does not rely on law enforcement. We don’t understand why—when we should be sending compassionate care—we’re sending a badge and a gun. We made a very specific demand in the last budget cycle to redirect money from the police to make sure that Oakland had a 24/7 mental health crisis response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the school district government and city government are separate, I think it would behoove us to invest that money in our schools and in our children. We could double or triple the summer job program. Cleaning up our city—we have a massive rat infestation in deep East and West Oakland, which brings with it all sorts of health problems that need to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to house people and get the people \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/23/oakland-saw-a-47-percent-spike-in-homelessness-this-year/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sleeping on Oakland’s streets\u003c/a> into shelter and provide them with all the resources and supports they need. We could spend the money ensuring that when people come home from jails and prisons, they have the resources to get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to invest in co-ops that could create green jobs for Oaklanders. We need to clean up our environment—we have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/pollution-and-health-concerns-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dirtiest air\u003c/a> in East and West Oakland. All of that stuff requires funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to invest in humanity, not punitive policing. It doesn’t work—if it worked, we’d be the safest country in the world because we incarcerate more people than any other country on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881949\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/002_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Williams and Dujuanna Archable stand during a protest against police violence at 14th and Broadway in Oakland on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indigomateo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigo Mateo\u003c/a>, musician and activist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m on the side of defunding the police as a way to abolish the police and as a way to abolish prisons and the legal system that entraps mainly Black and brown people for very long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is a huge hot spot for child sex trafficking. The money that is defunded from police should go to organizations that are on the ground working against human trafficking, providing mental heath services for young people especially, services for people without homes. Those are what keep our streets safe. Organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/claires-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire’s House\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/With-internships-Oakland-boutique-aids-human-6587100.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regina’s Door\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://misssey.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MISSSEY\u003c/a> and other collectives around the Bay Area doing healing and liberation and therapy, especially for people of color and Black people—those services should be invested into. Those organizations have to be poured into so that we as a community know how to stand on our own two feet to handle harm when it comes up, because it will come up. People who know how to talk to survivors, be respectful of each others’ experiences and know the gravity of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a survivor of rape, and when I brought my case to the police, all the emphasis was on catching this predator and putting him behind bars. A lot of survivors of trafficking experience times when their abuser does go behind bars, their trafficker gets incarcerated. And still, the problem of trafficking doesn’t end. Another pimp picks you up, or that pimp gets out of prison and keeps doing the same thing. There’s no transformative work that’s being done. There needs to be more of a compassionate emphasis around the experience of a survivor and what a survivor needs to heal and be safe in community. A lot of the time, a survivor needs visibility and the ability to use their voice. Also to have stable housing and a pathway to a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ideologies are really what make us safe, as opposed to constantly capturing people, putting them away and filtering them back into society, often with more vindication and more trauma than what they had before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rasheed Lockheart, reentry coordinator at \u003ca href=\"https://plantingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planting Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“As someone who grew up in the ’80s, when you were pulled over by the police and the first thing they told you was, ‘Don’t fucking move. I’ll shoot you. I promise you.’ We absolutely have to do away with that system. It still exists today, it’s just more relevant now because it’s on camera. We have to defund the police to eventually abolish them. That money needs to be put into reentry programs, taking care of the homeless, education and mental health programs. I remember being a kid and going to a Boys and Girls Club-type thing after school, and when they shut that down I didn’t have anything to do but be in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities are more resilient than people give them credit for, but often they don’t have the resources. We have to learn to genuinely care about the next human being no matter what they might be, whether they are Black, white, queer—whatever. We can’t do away with the system and create another system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tricky because there will always be bad seeds, you can’t expect everyone to be great and to care about the next human being altruistically. But we can start going to our youth and plant seeds now of what love looks like, what community looks like, and hope that when we are 10, 15, 20 years down the line that those seeds grow into something sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people really impacted by the system, whether it’s the incarceration side of things or the police system. Who knows better what it means to be persecuted than the people who are impacted by the system? We want everybody to be involved. But you should leave it to those impacted by these systems to get the message out there and rally behind them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/RS43553_012_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_06032020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators fill the intersection at 14th and Broadway in Oakland at a protest against police violence on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kortney Ziegler, creator of the \u003ca href=\"https://app.moonclerk.com/c/h27chmplg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Appolition\u003c/a> bail fund app\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The global pandemic where the whole economy shuts down and everyone has to be inside—I think it’s a perfect time for people to extend that imagination to envisioning the world without police and how we can use the surplus of money that’s being used to terrorize American citizens, as well as anyone that lives here, for so many other things. Education, community spaces, more social services and healthcare. I’m really excited about what’s happening now in the conversation, but I’m worried a lot of the conversation is about defunding and keeping police around rather than figuring out how we can live in the world without police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people have things they need to lead a healthy life—education, access to healthcare, food, equality, resources—our idea of crime will probably be nonexistent. Living in this country, a very violent country that has significant levels of poverty, people are committing crimes because of that. A lot of people are ill in this country because of the violence. There are a number of things the American public has to address when we discuss abolition because it relates to our mental health, how we relate to each other and what it means to be accountable in a community, and how we institute practices where we hold people accountable without policing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://kevchoice.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kev Choice\u003c/a>, musician, teacher and member of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oakland-cultural-affairs-commission-re-established\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cultural Affairs Commission\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There are so many artists out here that need to be supported, especially with COVID-19. Cultural affairs could be one area where we directly divert those funds from [OPD]. At the same time, we can’t take money from anywhere in Oakland without addressing the housing issue, addressing homelessness. That has to be at the top of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD has been in budget crisis for years, even to the point where they were taken over by state government years ago because the budget was in disarray. Teachers’ salaries—I’m a teacher involved in the union negotiations trying to fight for fair wages, a wage where we can live in this high-priced market. A lot of our teachers have to move away because they don’t make enough money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There need to be more spaces where our youth can be creators, can be leaders, whether it’s putting more money into places like \u003ca href=\"http://eoydc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastside Arts Alliance\u003c/a>. Anything that can help develop these powerful youth. It’s obvious they have ideas and they have civic engagement. They marched to Libby Schaaf’s house. They have all this energy, and we have to find a way to channel this energy into a positive direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with COVID, there should be a small business relief fund, especially when it comes to business owned by people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/community-police-review-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Police Review Agency\u003c/a>, so that needs to be developed more so people know what it is, who’s involved and how to get involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/breonna-taylor-oscar-grant-plaza.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial at Oscar Grant Plaza for Black lives lost to police violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://favianna.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Favianna Rodriguez\u003c/a>, artist and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Cultural Power\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Historically, the police are an institution that is built on the foundation of slave catching. Throughout my entire life growing up here [in Oakland] and in Los Angeles, I have never had a good experience with the police. Furthermore, when I was in an abusive relationship with someone with mental health issues, I would never call the police out of fear that they would kill my former partner. I don’t believe we should have police exist in its current form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want specialized experts who address sexual assault, I want specialized experts to be able to come to somebody’s home when there are mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would like to have collaborative program for when I have issues with noise or fireworks in my community, or I notice someone is abusing an animal. I would like for service workers to be easily accessible. I don’t believe the police are necessary for that. We don’t need force of peace keepers who are so heavily militarized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe in abolishing the police and I think it starts with defunding them. But I fully believe we have to transition to another way of keeping the peace. That’s something that’s many years away, but it has to evolve from investing in things that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.xaviergbuck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xavier Buck\u003c/a>, historian and deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Considering that this is a government service, and being from communities where the government has constantly neglected us, I think it is only proper to defund the police and create something that is community oriented and actually serves the people. We pay taxes for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of dollars were actually put into Black communities in the ’60s and ’70s, but it was through COINTELPRO. It was through the FBI coming in and tearing Black communities apart. For the first time in a very long time, we have the opportunity to control where government money is spent in favor of the Black community. We have to rectify and get reparations for what has already happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has to be an integration of the Black Panthers’ ideals and values and history into the Oakland Unified curriculum. I think that’s specifically because, if we’re going to understand how to move forward and what the issues are at hand, we need the entire population of the Bay Area, the entire United States, to jump on board and realize history was not always done right. We should not embrace the American identity that was, that oppressed Black people and other people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to reimagine [policing], it has to be on a very local scale. I think when we say police abolition, we think nationwide, it’s going to be a sweeping change, it’s going to look uniform. I think it starts in that very grassroots, community local scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Oscar Grant’s death, KQED asked artists, activists and family members to look back on Grant’s life and legacy. What would they say to him today? What changes have they seen in their own communities over the past decade? What hopes do they have for the future? You can submit your own “Dear Oscar Grant” message by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847179/dear-oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chantay Moore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oscar Grant’s sister\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not a day that I don’t think of you. I miss you each and every day. Time hasn’t made this any easier. Ten years have passed so fast, I remember each detail of receiving the call when they said you had gotten shot. If only I could go back and change the outcome. God knew what he was doing and it was your time, but of course, I wasn’t ready. I love you and will forever keep your memory alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Garza speaks during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Garza speaks during the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Sam Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Alicia Garza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Co-founder, \u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people tell the story of Black Lives Matter they either start it in 2014 with Michael Brown, or they start it in 2013, which is where we started it, with Trayvon Martin. But I would say for us, for those of us who created Black Lives Matter, it really does start with Oscar Grant…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re still fighting. I didn’t know Oscar and a lot of people who got involved in this fight didn’t know Oscar. There was an iconization of him that I wonder a lot about. But ultimately, I’m grateful people came together to accomplish what felt impossible then and that people haven’t stopped… There’s a lot of work to do, and what I’d say to Oscar if I knew him and he was alive is: We’re not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rev. Dereca Blackmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Spiritual activist; assistant vice provost, Stanford\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was this moment when art said, “Oh no, we have real lives and we matter and we are human beings.” And Mistah F.A.B. did that and Favianna Rodriguez did that. There were so many people who created art from this moment who opened the doors for other people to make it. There is no Pulitzer Prize for Kendrick Lamar until hip hop was allowed to make these political statements. But people like Mistah F.A.B. didn’t wait to be allowed, they used their platform and they just did. And that is how something is a grassroots movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mohammad Gorjestani\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Director, ‘\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/127217499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy Birthday Oscar Grant, Love Mom\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He should be someone no one knew about because he should be living—or if people knew about him, it should be for a different reason. He should be living among us right now. I would say that I’m really sorry that happened to you, and I hope you know that that tragedy has activated a generation of people who want to make sure that no other mother, no other father, no other friend has to experience what he and his family experienced on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1.jpg\" alt=\"Young Gully.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-375x240.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Gully. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Young Gully\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rap artist, ‘\u003ca href=\"https://younggullyyh.bandcamp.com/album/the-grant-station-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Grant Station Project\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that he’s looking down, smiling from all the support that he got. I still love him even though I didn’t know him, and I was happy to meet his family. We’re still fighting for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13807489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225.jpg\" alt=\"Mistah F.A.B. performs at Hiero Day 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mistah F.A.B. performs at Hiero Day 2017. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mistah F.A.B.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rap artist, “\u003ca href=\"https://mistahfab.bandcamp.com/album/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Life (Oscar Grant)\u003c/a>“\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time that art has been a reflection of what’s been going on. Music has always been a reflection, and it should always be always a reflection. And I won’t just limit it to musicians. Any kind of art, let’s just continue to utilize that to raise the conscious level and represent for our people. We have to be the rebels that go out and represent for that. The Black Panthers did that and we’re in the home of that. May the revolution live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Carvell Wallace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.carvellwallace.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critic\u003c/a>, ‘The New York Times Magazine’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just wish he was here. He should be here. He should have the opportunity to grow up and learn whatever else the universe had for him. That’s the main thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks during her 2018 campaign for Oakland Mayor.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks during her 2018 campaign for Oakland Mayor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cat Brooks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Cat Brooks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Former Oakland Mayoral candidate; founder, \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Police Terror Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some things have changed. There are more conversations happening and there are different conversations happening. You cannot ignore the fact that there are law enforcement officers at least being indicted—not very many get convicted—but they’re being indicted. As a result of the movement that was spurred by the murder of Oscar Grant, we have accomplished major transformation in the city of Oakland in terms of our ability to hold law enforcement accountable and make them think twice before they pull the trigger, because they are clear there will be community accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lateefah Simon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President, \u003ca href=\"https://akonadi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>; BART board member representing District 7\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every police department in the country knows who this young man was and still is. This tragedy, and the strength of the family and this community, created an arc in policing in this country. Every single time a young black man who is unarmed is murdered, it is front-page news—and for hundreds of years, it was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so [because of] Oscar, this community, the outcry of his mother, the coupling of litigation, of social media, of culture, of folks saying, “Actually, our babies are human and the state must not kill them, period”—that has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longer do we have a situation where folks who are sworn to protect can kill in silence. My police force that I work closely with, they’re consistently thinking about how not to repeat what happened ten years ago. We all have a long way to go, but Oscar changed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Oscar Grant’s death, KQED asked artists, activists and family members to look back on Grant’s life and legacy. What would they say to him today? What changes have they seen in their own communities over the past decade? What hopes do they have for the future? You can submit your own “Dear Oscar Grant” message by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847179/dear-oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chantay Moore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oscar Grant’s sister\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not a day that I don’t think of you. I miss you each and every day. Time hasn’t made this any easier. Ten years have passed so fast, I remember each detail of receiving the call when they said you had gotten shot. If only I could go back and change the outcome. God knew what he was doing and it was your time, but of course, I wasn’t ready. I love you and will forever keep your memory alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Garza speaks during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/AliciaGarza_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Garza speaks during the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Sam Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Alicia Garza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Co-founder, \u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people tell the story of Black Lives Matter they either start it in 2014 with Michael Brown, or they start it in 2013, which is where we started it, with Trayvon Martin. But I would say for us, for those of us who created Black Lives Matter, it really does start with Oscar Grant…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re still fighting. I didn’t know Oscar and a lot of people who got involved in this fight didn’t know Oscar. There was an iconization of him that I wonder a lot about. But ultimately, I’m grateful people came together to accomplish what felt impossible then and that people haven’t stopped… There’s a lot of work to do, and what I’d say to Oscar if I knew him and he was alive is: We’re not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rev. Dereca Blackmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Spiritual activist; assistant vice provost, Stanford\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was this moment when art said, “Oh no, we have real lives and we matter and we are human beings.” And Mistah F.A.B. did that and Favianna Rodriguez did that. There were so many people who created art from this moment who opened the doors for other people to make it. There is no Pulitzer Prize for Kendrick Lamar until hip hop was allowed to make these political statements. But people like Mistah F.A.B. didn’t wait to be allowed, they used their platform and they just did. And that is how something is a grassroots movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Gorjestani_1200-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mohammad Gorjestani\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Director, ‘\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/127217499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy Birthday Oscar Grant, Love Mom\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He should be someone no one knew about because he should be living—or if people knew about him, it should be for a different reason. He should be living among us right now. I would say that I’m really sorry that happened to you, and I hope you know that that tragedy has activated a generation of people who want to make sure that no other mother, no other father, no other friend has to experience what he and his family experienced on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1.jpg\" alt=\"Young Gully.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-375x240.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/YoungGully-1-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Gully. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Young Gully\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rap artist, ‘\u003ca href=\"https://younggullyyh.bandcamp.com/album/the-grant-station-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Grant Station Project\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that he’s looking down, smiling from all the support that he got. I still love him even though I didn’t know him, and I was happy to meet his family. We’re still fighting for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13807489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225.jpg\" alt=\"Mistah F.A.B. performs at Hiero Day 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0225-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mistah F.A.B. performs at Hiero Day 2017. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mistah F.A.B.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rap artist, “\u003ca href=\"https://mistahfab.bandcamp.com/album/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Life (Oscar Grant)\u003c/a>“\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time that art has been a reflection of what’s been going on. Music has always been a reflection, and it should always be always a reflection. And I won’t just limit it to musicians. Any kind of art, let’s just continue to utilize that to raise the conscious level and represent for our people. We have to be the rebels that go out and represent for that. The Black Panthers did that and we’re in the home of that. May the revolution live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Carvell Wallace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.carvellwallace.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critic\u003c/a>, ‘The New York Times Magazine’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just wish he was here. He should be here. He should have the opportunity to grow up and learn whatever else the universe had for him. That’s the main thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks during her 2018 campaign for Oakland Mayor.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/cat_brooks_campaign_photo-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks during her 2018 campaign for Oakland Mayor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cat Brooks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Cat Brooks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Former Oakland Mayoral candidate; founder, \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Police Terror Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some things have changed. There are more conversations happening and there are different conversations happening. You cannot ignore the fact that there are law enforcement officers at least being indicted—not very many get convicted—but they’re being indicted. As a result of the movement that was spurred by the murder of Oscar Grant, we have accomplished major transformation in the city of Oakland in terms of our ability to hold law enforcement accountable and make them think twice before they pull the trigger, because they are clear there will be community accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lateefah Simon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President, \u003ca href=\"https://akonadi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>; BART board member representing District 7\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every police department in the country knows who this young man was and still is. This tragedy, and the strength of the family and this community, created an arc in policing in this country. Every single time a young black man who is unarmed is murdered, it is front-page news—and for hundreds of years, it was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so [because of] Oscar, this community, the outcry of his mother, the coupling of litigation, of social media, of culture, of folks saying, “Actually, our babies are human and the state must not kill them, period”—that has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longer do we have a situation where folks who are sworn to protect can kill in silence. My police force that I work closely with, they’re consistently thinking about how not to repeat what happened ten years ago. We all have a long way to go, but Oscar changed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the Friday before Halloween, ten days before the midterm elections, Lukas Smithey parked a bread truck-turned-mobile sound system outside the New Parish in downtown Oakland. He wore reflective overalls, and beside him was a large fluorescent painted papier-mâché cat head. Riding along were friends in similarly cat-themed rave garb. One was DJing; the gutted delivery truck’s rollup door opened to reveal a wall of speakers, blasting the queued show-goers with techno and sampled meows. “We just got chased off Telegraph,” Smithey said, “The cops gave us 40 seconds to bounce.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey and his friends represent the Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters, a loose-knit outfit promoting democratic participation and a \u003ca href=\"http://spacecats.org/?fbclid=IwAR2t_eD8uaLv68NDL5UkysQNcKrlEjJhXd9lFfVRxoO0Fju2eeL1DdNHUl0\">progressive slate\u003c/a> of candidates and causes on the local and state levels. Outside the New Parish, they distributed glossy cardstock flyers bearing the loud graphics of a rave handbill—but, upon closer inspection, they were in fact emoji-embellished voter guides. Cat Brooks, the activist challenger to incumbent Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, earned five beaming cat faces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters outside the New Parish nightclub in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters outside the New Parish nightclub in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smithey approached the line outside the venue, where the Extra Action Marching Band were headlining a sold-out gig, holding a megaphone attached to a toy keyboard modified to play two octaves of meows. The Space Cats formed in 2014, he recalled, inspired by the irreverence of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theleaguesf.org/voter_guides\">League of Pissed Off Voters\u003c/a> in San Francisco and energized by the Oakland mayoral campaign of civil-rights organizer Dan Siegel, who’d notoriously resigned as Jean Quan’s legal advisor to protest her approach to Occupy Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dozen or so members of the Space Cat endorsement board, who deliberate in group texts and Google docs, are largely artists and musicians. Smithey helps organize and promote underground dance parties, often featuring the sound truck, through word-of-mouth and hotlines. Teri Sage, who was also canvassing, lives at the artist colony at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13838421/with-luxury-development-on-all-sides-oakland-artists-buy-the-right-to-stay-put\">Fifth Avenue Marina\u003c/a>. “I hated flyering when I was in a band,” she said. “People are more receptive to this. No one comes up and thanks you for promoting your own show.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wobbly passerby approached, shouting, “I wanna join! Do you have lasers?” Yes, Smithey said, and asked if she was registered to vote. “I love lasers,” she responded. “Can I wear your hat?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844318\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a New Parish security guard told the Space Cats that most of the crowd was already inside, they climbed back into the truck and proceeded along San Pablo Avenue, where a stranger leaped into the side door and screamed, “It’s lit!” Smithey, back behind the wheel, said he got the truck three years ago; the phrase “ALL BUBBLES BURST” appears in block letters on one side. “The speakers, there’s four subs and two 21-inch drivers,” he said. “They’re bootleg Turbosounds someone brought back from the Czech Republic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey stopped outside the Starline Social Club, which had dancing downstairs and chamber-pop group Foxtails Brigade upstairs. Brady Pisha, a Space Cat who runs his own metalworking company in Richmond, said he has quibbles with some of the recommendations on the Space Cat slate. “But it’s more important to push that voting is interesting, especially during the midterms,” he explained. “It’s not just for suited fuddy-duddies—it’s for cool cats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters passes out rave-style handbill flyers and plays music from a bank of speakers in their large remodeled bread truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters passes out rave-style handbill flyers and plays music from a bank of speakers in their large remodeled bread truck. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smithey, meanwhile, found that someone was tagging his cathead while he wore it, and that another reveler was freestyling through his megaphone. Nearby on the sidewalk, where costumed Halloween revelers were out in abundance, Sage was talking to one of Santa’s elves. “I always do my own research, but there’s so little information,” said the elf. “Like the judges, and County Assessor—the f-ck is ‘County Assessor’?” (The guild endorsed businessman and attorney Phong La for Alameda County Assessor, a position overseeing residential and commercial property tax assessments.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey talked more about the endorsement process, likening Colin Dodsworth, another founder of the group, to head of the editorial board. “So, he’ll go, ‘Oh, you only put one unicorn on [Jovanka] Beckles—we should’ve ran unicorns off the page,’” he said, referring to the democratic-socialist Richmond city councilmember competing against Barack Obama-endorsed Buffy Wicks for the Assembly District 15 seat. “Actually we didn’t use the poo emoji much this year at all, only to qualify our support for Gavin Newsom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The police eventually shooed the Space Cats from the Starline, so after a snack stop on Adeline Street (Fig Newtons and Kettle chips), the truck stopped at a backyard party. The house windows featured a poster reading “ABOLISH ICE,” and another supporting Cat Brooks, who happened to live next door. Dodsworth, who joined the group at the party, said he’d asked local artist Monica Canilao to paint his cathead. “I got it yesterday and we actually ran into Cat [Brooks] at 7th West,” he said, adding that they took a selfie together. “It was awesome. I mean, you can’t be sure how a candidate will respond to our endorsement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the truck on the way back to the New Parish, where they hoped to catch the crowd as it let out around 2am, Smithey poured oolong tea from a Thermos into a ceramic mug. Dodsworth described internal debates. “The bridge toll, back in June, that was divisive,” he said, but talk turned to “I Voted” stickers. Better, the Space Cats agreed, would be acid-soaked “I Voted” blotter paper. Then someone yelled to the DJ, “Bring the meow back!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the Friday before Halloween, ten days before the midterm elections, Lukas Smithey parked a bread truck-turned-mobile sound system outside the New Parish in downtown Oakland. He wore reflective overalls, and beside him was a large fluorescent painted papier-mâché cat head. Riding along were friends in similarly cat-themed rave garb. One was DJing; the gutted delivery truck’s rollup door opened to reveal a wall of speakers, blasting the queued show-goers with techno and sampled meows. “We just got chased off Telegraph,” Smithey said, “The cops gave us 40 seconds to bounce.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey and his friends represent the Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters, a loose-knit outfit promoting democratic participation and a \u003ca href=\"http://spacecats.org/?fbclid=IwAR2t_eD8uaLv68NDL5UkysQNcKrlEjJhXd9lFfVRxoO0Fju2eeL1DdNHUl0\">progressive slate\u003c/a> of candidates and causes on the local and state levels. Outside the New Parish, they distributed glossy cardstock flyers bearing the loud graphics of a rave handbill—but, upon closer inspection, they were in fact emoji-embellished voter guides. Cat Brooks, the activist challenger to incumbent Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, earned five beaming cat faces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters outside the New Parish nightclub in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.line_-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters outside the New Parish nightclub in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smithey approached the line outside the venue, where the Extra Action Marching Band were headlining a sold-out gig, holding a megaphone attached to a toy keyboard modified to play two octaves of meows. The Space Cats formed in 2014, he recalled, inspired by the irreverence of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theleaguesf.org/voter_guides\">League of Pissed Off Voters\u003c/a> in San Francisco and energized by the Oakland mayoral campaign of civil-rights organizer Dan Siegel, who’d notoriously resigned as Jean Quan’s legal advisor to protest her approach to Occupy Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dozen or so members of the Space Cat endorsement board, who deliberate in group texts and Google docs, are largely artists and musicians. Smithey helps organize and promote underground dance parties, often featuring the sound truck, through word-of-mouth and hotlines. Teri Sage, who was also canvassing, lives at the artist colony at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13838421/with-luxury-development-on-all-sides-oakland-artists-buy-the-right-to-stay-put\">Fifth Avenue Marina\u003c/a>. “I hated flyering when I was in a band,” she said. “People are more receptive to this. No one comes up and thanks you for promoting your own show.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wobbly passerby approached, shouting, “I wanna join! Do you have lasers?” Yes, Smithey said, and asked if she was registered to vote. “I love lasers,” she responded. “Can I wear your hat?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844318\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.MAIN_.rev_-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a New Parish security guard told the Space Cats that most of the crowd was already inside, they climbed back into the truck and proceeded along San Pablo Avenue, where a stranger leaped into the side door and screamed, “It’s lit!” Smithey, back behind the wheel, said he got the truck three years ago; the phrase “ALL BUBBLES BURST” appears in block letters on one side. “The speakers, there’s four subs and two 21-inch drivers,” he said. “They’re bootleg Turbosounds someone brought back from the Czech Republic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey stopped outside the Starline Social Club, which had dancing downstairs and chamber-pop group Foxtails Brigade upstairs. Brady Pisha, a Space Cat who runs his own metalworking company in Richmond, said he has quibbles with some of the recommendations on the Space Cat slate. “But it’s more important to push that voting is interesting, especially during the midterms,” he explained. “It’s not just for suited fuddy-duddies—it’s for cool cats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters passes out rave-style handbill flyers and plays music from a bank of speakers in their large remodeled bread truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.CollageFlyerTruck-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Guild of Space Cat Voters passes out rave-style handbill flyers and plays music from a bank of speakers in their large remodeled bread truck. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smithey, meanwhile, found that someone was tagging his cathead while he wore it, and that another reveler was freestyling through his megaphone. Nearby on the sidewalk, where costumed Halloween revelers were out in abundance, Sage was talking to one of Santa’s elves. “I always do my own research, but there’s so little information,” said the elf. “Like the judges, and County Assessor—the f-ck is ‘County Assessor’?” (The guild endorsed businessman and attorney Phong La for Alameda County Assessor, a position overseeing residential and commercial property tax assessments.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smithey talked more about the endorsement process, likening Colin Dodsworth, another founder of the group, to head of the editorial board. “So, he’ll go, ‘Oh, you only put one unicorn on [Jovanka] Beckles—we should’ve ran unicorns off the page,’” he said, referring to the democratic-socialist Richmond city councilmember competing against Barack Obama-endorsed Buffy Wicks for the Assembly District 15 seat. “Actually we didn’t use the poo emoji much this year at all, only to qualify our support for Gavin Newsom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/SpaceCat.collage-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland guild of Space Cat Voters out on the town before Election Day. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The police eventually shooed the Space Cats from the Starline, so after a snack stop on Adeline Street (Fig Newtons and Kettle chips), the truck stopped at a backyard party. The house windows featured a poster reading “ABOLISH ICE,” and another supporting Cat Brooks, who happened to live next door. Dodsworth, who joined the group at the party, said he’d asked local artist Monica Canilao to paint his cathead. “I got it yesterday and we actually ran into Cat [Brooks] at 7th West,” he said, adding that they took a selfie together. “It was awesome. I mean, you can’t be sure how a candidate will respond to our endorsement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the truck on the way back to the New Parish, where they hoped to catch the crowd as it let out around 2am, Smithey poured oolong tea from a Thermos into a ceramic mug. Dodsworth described internal debates. “The bridge toll, back in June, that was divisive,” he said, but talk turned to “I Voted” stickers. Better, the Space Cats agreed, would be acid-soaked “I Voted” blotter paper. 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