Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest
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Nazzal, who runs the Palestinian food pop-up in Oakland Mishmish, will give a talk about food sovereignty and will make stuffed grape leaves, hummus and labna made from cashews for the potluck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazzal and Sundos both have deep family history in the Palestinian region. Pro-Israeli forces expelled Sundos’ family from Palestine in 1948, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/palestinians-mark-the-nakba-the-original-catastrophe-of-mass-expulsion\">700,000 other Palestinians\u003c/a>, he says. 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The SFMOMA workers’ letter underscores that PACBI is not a boycott of individuals based on their identity, and that the workers also stand against antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with an SFMOMA worker who contributed to the letter, who asked that their name be withheld out of retaliation concerns. “We have been seeing unprecedented levels of censorship and cancellation across the art world,” the employee said. “We’ve seen shows of Palestinian artists canceled. We’ve seen shows and talks and panels of those supporting Palestinian resistance canceled. This quashes the opportunity for public to hear a diversity of perspectives, and I think it’s the duty of cultural workers to question why that is happening and then push back against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMOMA’s director of communications did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment as of publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMOMA workers are joining an international wave of artists and arts workers protesting in solidarity with Palestinians. In New York, Museum of Modern Art workers sent a similar letter to their leadership in February, as did those at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum. [aside postid='arts_13955613,arts_13954119']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a block away from SFMOMA at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">pro-Palestinian Jewish artists pulled out of a group exhibition\u003c/a> in protest after museum leaders declined to join PACBI and meet other demands. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, across the street from SFMOMA, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">embroiled in censorship accusations\u003c/a> ever since the museum shut down for a month following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">February pro-Palestinian demonstration\u003c/a>, during which artists added protest messages to their exhibited works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most large arts institutions in the Bay Area and nationwide have been hesitant to make statements on the humanitarian crisis Gaza, several smaller organizations have \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZAto1GFIWTYvyrxsXymfvQpmADtHAH_RwsSc5JXNk4/edit\">vowed to join PACBI\u003c/a>, including experimental music venue The Lab and art space Galería de la Raza in San Francisco, and drag festival Oaklash and art center Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of publication time, nearly 200 people have signed the SFMOMA workers’ letter, including artists, museum patrons and 50 current employees.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The letter calls on the museum to join an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1714494975,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":642},"headData":{"title":"SFMOMA Workers Urge Museum to Support Palestinians in Letter | KQED","description":"The letter calls on the museum to join an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"SFMOMA Workers Urge Museum to Support Palestinians in Letter %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"SFMOMA Workers Urge the Museum to Support Palestinians in an Open Letter","datePublished":"2024-04-24T11:33:23-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-30T09:36:15-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13956575","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956575/sfmoma-workers-open-letter-palestinians-gaza-pacbi","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, a group of workers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) published \u003ca href=\"https://dearsfmoma.com/\">an open letter\u003c/a> to museum leadership, urging them to take a public stance in solidarity with Palestinians and join a boycott of Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We write as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art employees, in the absence of any statement from our institution’s leadership, to affirm our solidarity with the Palestinian people as they confront decades of violent oppression and apartheid and to condemn Israel’s devastating and ongoing siege of Gaza,” opens the letter addressed to Director Chris Bedford, the board of trustees and the executive committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter cites SFMOMA’s previous statements on diversity, equity and inclusion; in 2021, the museum published a statement that reads “museums and cultural organizations are not (and shout not be) neutral.” Arguing that SFMOMA leadership’s silence on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza undermines their stated values, the employees wrote, “We believe the museum is losing credibility and relevance as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter asks SFMOMA to adopt four commitments: give a platform to Palestinian voices in commissions, collaborations and exhibitions, and vow not to censor pro-Palestinian work; create space for internal dialogue; call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire; and join the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi\">Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel\u003c/a> (PACBI).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PACBI is part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which calls for a boycott of Israeli institutions until its government ends its siege and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, gives equal rights to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel and allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands. The SFMOMA workers’ letter underscores that PACBI is not a boycott of individuals based on their identity, and that the workers also stand against antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with an SFMOMA worker who contributed to the letter, who asked that their name be withheld out of retaliation concerns. “We have been seeing unprecedented levels of censorship and cancellation across the art world,” the employee said. “We’ve seen shows of Palestinian artists canceled. We’ve seen shows and talks and panels of those supporting Palestinian resistance canceled. This quashes the opportunity for public to hear a diversity of perspectives, and I think it’s the duty of cultural workers to question why that is happening and then push back against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMOMA’s director of communications did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment as of publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMOMA workers are joining an international wave of artists and arts workers protesting in solidarity with Palestinians. In New York, Museum of Modern Art workers sent a similar letter to their leadership in February, as did those at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955613,arts_13954119","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a block away from SFMOMA at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">pro-Palestinian Jewish artists pulled out of a group exhibition\u003c/a> in protest after museum leaders declined to join PACBI and meet other demands. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, across the street from SFMOMA, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">embroiled in censorship accusations\u003c/a> ever since the museum shut down for a month following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">February pro-Palestinian demonstration\u003c/a>, during which artists added protest messages to their exhibited works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most large arts institutions in the Bay Area and nationwide have been hesitant to make statements on the humanitarian crisis Gaza, several smaller organizations have \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZAto1GFIWTYvyrxsXymfvQpmADtHAH_RwsSc5JXNk4/edit\">vowed to join PACBI\u003c/a>, including experimental music venue The Lab and art space Galería de la Raza in San Francisco, and drag festival Oaklash and art center Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of publication time, nearly 200 people have signed the SFMOMA workers’ letter, including artists, museum patrons and 50 current employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956575/sfmoma-workers-open-letter-palestinians-gaza-pacbi","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_8838","arts_1381"],"featImg":"arts_13956649","label":"arts"},"arts_13955613":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955613","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955613","score":null,"sort":[1712622682000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit","title":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit","publishDate":1712622682,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>A group of artists who call themselves California Jewish Artists for Palestine have withdrawn their work from a group exhibition opening June 6 at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists’ decision came after disagreements with CJM leadership over sources of museum funding, as well as how their art would be contextualized in the exhibit \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecjm.org/upcoming_exhibitions\">\u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. The exhibition will now include a blank wall to symbolize the absence of the artists’ perspectives. Their action follows an international wave of pro-Palestinian protests at museums, including one where artists modified their own works at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, located directly across the street from CJM. [aside postid='arts_13952460,arts_13954119']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the open call for \u003cem>California Jewish Open \u003c/em>late last year, Jewish artists Micah Bazant, Jules Cowan, Rebekah Erev, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Sophia Sobko, Arielle Tonkin and Irina Zadov submitted works with pro-Palestinian messages. They expected to be rejected. Instead, guest curator Elissa Strauss chose five of their works for the show, which centers on the theme of connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selected artists then sent museum leadership a list of demands that included a call to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which aims to discourage international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions. PACBI is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement\u003c/a>, which calls for a boycott of Israel until it ends its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, gives equal rights to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel and allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Sobko said it would be hypocritical for the museum to feature art criticizing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “while receiving funding that directly … facilitates the material oppression that we’re trying to raise awareness to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko added, “I wish for some ethical clarity and backbone and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A spray painted background with brown, black and purple, overlaid with white letters that say \"CA Jewish Artists for Palestine.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘CA Jewish Artists for Palestine,’ 8″ x 8″, papercut and spray paint on paper, 2024 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo piece that Sobko withdrew, \u003ci>The Four Mitzvot of the Queer Soviet Jewish Diaspora\u003c/i>, is a collaboration with Zadov and Aravah Berman-Mirkin under the name Krivoy Kolectiv. It features Ukrainian head scarves embroidered with four mitzvahs, or commandments, including one for a free Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJM’s interim Executive Director Kerry King told artists it would not join PACBI. In a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">press release issued April 5\u003c/a>, the California Jewish Artists for Palestine raised the fact that CJM has previously received funding from the Israeli government. (King said CJM hasn’t received funding from the Consulate General of Israel or other Israeli organizations since 2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, another museum funder, the Helen Diller Family Foundation, has been \u003ca href=\"https://forward.com/news/411355/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish/\">accused of funneling money into Canary Mission\u003c/a>, an organization known for doxxing anti-Zionist students and professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said many of CJM’s donors have a variety of philanthropic projects that are out of CJM’s control. “We have donors who support the arts and support having a Jewish museum in San Francisco,” she told KQED. Because of these donors, added King, “We are able to do what we do. We’re able to continue to operate and have our doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg\" alt=\"A photo of people looking into the distance while waving colorful flags.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Sayaka Rosen, Arielle Tonkin and collaborators. ‘Morocco to the Bay: A diasporic Prayerformance.’ \u003ccite>(M Fields. Albany, California, 2023.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention between California Jewish Artists for Palestine and museum leaders arose around the wall text that would have accompanied their artworks. Senior Curator Heidi Rabben told KQED that CJM was open to artists using the phrase “anti-Zionist” to describe their political stance, but the parties disagreed on how to contextualize the term, which means different things to different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their list of demands, the artists wanted full control over wall text and the right to modify or withdraw their works at any time, which the museum refused. Rabben and King said they disagree with the artists’ characterization of this as censorship in their press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply asked that they define what they meant in using [‘anti-Zionist’] and include that as well in the statement so that it was very clear,” Rabben said, noting that she respects the artists’ decision to withdraw their work. “What they meant by it, as we understood their work to be about, was not questioning the right of Israel to exist, but to say that they were envisioning Jewish futures outside of nationalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko said abstract debates about terminology distract from the real-life suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Zionism [is enacted] as a Jewish ethno-nation state. And then that creates an apartheid system against Palestinians,” Sobko said. “To me, anti-Zionism is … a refusal to create hierarchies of people within militarized nation states, in this case being Jewish supremacy. But I’m also against it on Turtle Island in the United States just as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about our Jewishness bringing us here, ethically, to stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable,’” said fellow collective member Kate Laster, who withdrew a print reading, “No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of our consent can be manufactured to conflate any justification for apartheid, or genocide [of Palestinians],” Laster added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A print that says \"No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘Solidarity is Essential,’ 11″ x 17″, collagraph on paper, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another artist, Liat Berdugo, separately withdrew from \u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>, concerned that the exhibit wouldn’t sufficiently address what she describes as the Israeli government weaponizing Jewish grief after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to justify the killings and displacement of Palestinians. She said the language in CJM’s contract made her uneasy about whether the message of her work would be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimedia work Berdugo withdrew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.liatberdugo.com/work/trees\">\u003ci>Seeing It For the Trees\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, examines an Israeli organization that plants trees under the guise of environmentalism. “But really a lot of it is greenwashing,” she said. “Planting forests over the ruins of Palestinian villages strategically to camouflage them … to claim lands that were Palestinian and make them public parks, which then are subject to different legal jurisdictions, and deny the right of return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to withdraw from the show was difficult for Berdugo, because she specifically wanted a Jewish audience to see her piece. “I think these conversations are necessarily messy,” she said. “Is there a way to have these conversations not on the surface, but on a tectonic level, that identifies structures and systems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Jewish Artists for Palestine are in the early stages of organizing their own exhibition, and say they invite artists, Contemporary Jewish Museum staff and other creative professionals to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko describes the collective’s goals with a hopeful vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] putting our energy toward creating something new, visible-izing our perspectives toward drawing that attention to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and, obviously, Palestinian resistance and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The artists called for the museum to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which leadership refused. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713557381,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1215},"headData":{"title":"Pro-Palestinian Artists Pull Out of Contemporary Jewish Museum | KQED","description":"The artists called for the museum to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which leadership refused. 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The exhibition will now include a blank wall to symbolize the absence of the artists’ perspectives. Their action follows an international wave of pro-Palestinian protests at museums, including one where artists modified their own works at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, located directly across the street from CJM. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13952460,arts_13954119","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the open call for \u003cem>California Jewish Open \u003c/em>late last year, Jewish artists Micah Bazant, Jules Cowan, Rebekah Erev, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Sophia Sobko, Arielle Tonkin and Irina Zadov submitted works with pro-Palestinian messages. They expected to be rejected. Instead, guest curator Elissa Strauss chose five of their works for the show, which centers on the theme of connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selected artists then sent museum leadership a list of demands that included a call to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which aims to discourage international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions. PACBI is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement\u003c/a>, which calls for a boycott of Israel until it ends its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, gives equal rights to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel and allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Sobko said it would be hypocritical for the museum to feature art criticizing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “while receiving funding that directly … facilitates the material oppression that we’re trying to raise awareness to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko added, “I wish for some ethical clarity and backbone and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A spray painted background with brown, black and purple, overlaid with white letters that say \"CA Jewish Artists for Palestine.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘CA Jewish Artists for Palestine,’ 8″ x 8″, papercut and spray paint on paper, 2024 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo piece that Sobko withdrew, \u003ci>The Four Mitzvot of the Queer Soviet Jewish Diaspora\u003c/i>, is a collaboration with Zadov and Aravah Berman-Mirkin under the name Krivoy Kolectiv. It features Ukrainian head scarves embroidered with four mitzvahs, or commandments, including one for a free Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJM’s interim Executive Director Kerry King told artists it would not join PACBI. In a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">press release issued April 5\u003c/a>, the California Jewish Artists for Palestine raised the fact that CJM has previously received funding from the Israeli government. (King said CJM hasn’t received funding from the Consulate General of Israel or other Israeli organizations since 2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, another museum funder, the Helen Diller Family Foundation, has been \u003ca href=\"https://forward.com/news/411355/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish/\">accused of funneling money into Canary Mission\u003c/a>, an organization known for doxxing anti-Zionist students and professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said many of CJM’s donors have a variety of philanthropic projects that are out of CJM’s control. “We have donors who support the arts and support having a Jewish museum in San Francisco,” she told KQED. Because of these donors, added King, “We are able to do what we do. We’re able to continue to operate and have our doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg\" alt=\"A photo of people looking into the distance while waving colorful flags.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Sayaka Rosen, Arielle Tonkin and collaborators. ‘Morocco to the Bay: A diasporic Prayerformance.’ \u003ccite>(M Fields. Albany, California, 2023.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention between California Jewish Artists for Palestine and museum leaders arose around the wall text that would have accompanied their artworks. Senior Curator Heidi Rabben told KQED that CJM was open to artists using the phrase “anti-Zionist” to describe their political stance, but the parties disagreed on how to contextualize the term, which means different things to different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their list of demands, the artists wanted full control over wall text and the right to modify or withdraw their works at any time, which the museum refused. Rabben and King said they disagree with the artists’ characterization of this as censorship in their press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply asked that they define what they meant in using [‘anti-Zionist’] and include that as well in the statement so that it was very clear,” Rabben said, noting that she respects the artists’ decision to withdraw their work. “What they meant by it, as we understood their work to be about, was not questioning the right of Israel to exist, but to say that they were envisioning Jewish futures outside of nationalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko said abstract debates about terminology distract from the real-life suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Zionism [is enacted] as a Jewish ethno-nation state. And then that creates an apartheid system against Palestinians,” Sobko said. “To me, anti-Zionism is … a refusal to create hierarchies of people within militarized nation states, in this case being Jewish supremacy. But I’m also against it on Turtle Island in the United States just as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about our Jewishness bringing us here, ethically, to stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable,’” said fellow collective member Kate Laster, who withdrew a print reading, “No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of our consent can be manufactured to conflate any justification for apartheid, or genocide [of Palestinians],” Laster added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A print that says \"No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘Solidarity is Essential,’ 11″ x 17″, collagraph on paper, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another artist, Liat Berdugo, separately withdrew from \u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>, concerned that the exhibit wouldn’t sufficiently address what she describes as the Israeli government weaponizing Jewish grief after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to justify the killings and displacement of Palestinians. She said the language in CJM’s contract made her uneasy about whether the message of her work would be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimedia work Berdugo withdrew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.liatberdugo.com/work/trees\">\u003ci>Seeing It For the Trees\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, examines an Israeli organization that plants trees under the guise of environmentalism. “But really a lot of it is greenwashing,” she said. “Planting forests over the ruins of Palestinian villages strategically to camouflage them … to claim lands that were Palestinian and make them public parks, which then are subject to different legal jurisdictions, and deny the right of return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to withdraw from the show was difficult for Berdugo, because she specifically wanted a Jewish audience to see her piece. “I think these conversations are necessarily messy,” she said. “Is there a way to have these conversations not on the surface, but on a tectonic level, that identifies structures and systems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Jewish Artists for Palestine are in the early stages of organizing their own exhibition, and say they invite artists, Contemporary Jewish Museum staff and other creative professionals to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko describes the collective’s goals with a hopeful vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] putting our energy toward creating something new, visible-izing our perspectives toward drawing that attention to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and, obviously, Palestinian resistance and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1787","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_8838","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13955612","label":"arts"},"arts_13955463":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955463","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955463","score":null,"sort":[1712269964000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"indigenous-artists-oakland-to-palestine","title":"Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Emergency Assistance Efforts in Gaza","publishDate":1712269964,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Emergency Assistance Efforts in Gaza | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Printmakers, protest photographers and jewelry makers will sell work this Sunday at an art show with proceeds going to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland photographer Ashley Salaz and artist Nicole Gervacio say that the show, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5HTmhvvJt2/?hl=en\">Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is grounded in Indigenous artistry and solidarity with Palestine. Salaz, who is of the Coharie Tribe in North Carolina and works for local Indigenous-led organization Sogorea Te’, says there are overwhelming commonalities in the experiences of Native folks and the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13939726']“Palestinians have been in solidarity with us — the Native people of Turtle Island — for a very long time,” she said. “Israel cutting off food sources and cutting down the olive trees — the same was done to our ancestors here, with the mass slaughtering of buffalo and other resources that our people needed to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few months, Salaz has photographed local demonstrations and sold her own beadwork to raise awareness and money for pro-Palestinian organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that artists are the driving force sometimes behind getting people involved and getting people to care, especially nowadays with social media,” Salaz said. “I think art is revolutionary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1556\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-768x622.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-1536x1245.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos by Saman Qadir, like the one above, will be on display in Oakland on April 7. \u003ccite>(Saman Qadir)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those selling their work on Sunday is Saman Qadir, an East Bay photojournalist who has photographed an estimated 35 protests, from the Bay Area to Washington D.C. and Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since October 7, I’ve been going to every single action in the Bay Area to document the movement,” Qadir said. “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve seen this many people from all different backgrounds together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13940325']One four of the photos Qadir is selling on Sunday is an image of women — Palestinian and Ohlone — embracing at a demonstration at an Ohlone shellmound in January. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was incredibly heartening and so potent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine’ takes place on Sunday, April 7, at 510 Firehouse (815 Alice St., Oakland). \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5HTmhvvJt2/?hl=en\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine' offers prints, zines and protest photography to benefit the Middle East Children’s Alliance.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712272862,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":376},"headData":{"title":"‘Oakland to Palestine:’ Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Assistance Efforts in Gaza | KQED","description":"'Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine' offers prints, zines and protest photography to benefit the Middle East Children’s Alliance.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"‘Oakland to Palestine:’ Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Assistance Efforts in Gaza %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Emergency Assistance Efforts in Gaza","datePublished":"2024-04-04T15:32:44-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-04T16:21:02-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955463/indigenous-artists-oakland-to-palestine","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Printmakers, protest photographers and jewelry makers will sell work this Sunday at an art show with proceeds going to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland photographer Ashley Salaz and artist Nicole Gervacio say that the show, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5HTmhvvJt2/?hl=en\">Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is grounded in Indigenous artistry and solidarity with Palestine. Salaz, who is of the Coharie Tribe in North Carolina and works for local Indigenous-led organization Sogorea Te’, says there are overwhelming commonalities in the experiences of Native folks and the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13939726","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Palestinians have been in solidarity with us — the Native people of Turtle Island — for a very long time,” she said. “Israel cutting off food sources and cutting down the olive trees — the same was done to our ancestors here, with the mass slaughtering of buffalo and other resources that our people needed to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few months, Salaz has photographed local demonstrations and sold her own beadwork to raise awareness and money for pro-Palestinian organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that artists are the driving force sometimes behind getting people involved and getting people to care, especially nowadays with social media,” Salaz said. “I think art is revolutionary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1556\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-768x622.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/saman_qadir3-1536x1245.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos by Saman Qadir, like the one above, will be on display in Oakland on April 7. \u003ccite>(Saman Qadir)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those selling their work on Sunday is Saman Qadir, an East Bay photojournalist who has photographed an estimated 35 protests, from the Bay Area to Washington D.C. and Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since October 7, I’ve been going to every single action in the Bay Area to document the movement,” Qadir said. “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve seen this many people from all different backgrounds together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13940325","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One four of the photos Qadir is selling on Sunday is an image of women — Palestinian and Ohlone — embracing at a demonstration at an Ohlone shellmound in January. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was incredibly heartening and so potent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Artists Rising: Oakland to Palestine’ takes place on Sunday, April 7, at 510 Firehouse (815 Alice St., Oakland). \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5HTmhvvJt2/?hl=en\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955463/indigenous-artists-oakland-to-palestine","authors":["11872"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_8838","arts_21682","arts_5375","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13955485","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13954119":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954119","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954119","score":null,"sort":[1710452420000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation","title":"An Embattled YBCA to Reopen Amid Censorship Accusations, CEO’s Resignation","publishDate":1710452420,"format":"standard","headTitle":"An Embattled YBCA to Reopen Amid Censorship Accusations, CEO’s Resignation | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">closing its galleries\u003c/a> for a month, following a Feb. 15 protest where artists modified their own artworks with pro-Palestinian messages, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/ybca\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)\u003c/a> made the \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/ban9-exhibition-reopening-announcement/\">unexpected announcement\u003c/a> Wednesday night that it will reopen its \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibition with the altered artworks intact — accompanied by disclaimers that they represent the artists’ views, not YBCA’s — starting Friday, March 15. [aside label='More YBCA Coverage' postid='arts_13953653,arts_13953032,arts_13952460']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invite members of our community to join us in engaging with the exhibition, considering the significance of the alterations and participating in thoughtful reflection and discourse,” reads the statement from the embattled art center’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA, which receives city funding, has faced accusations of censorship from artists, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">its own staff\u003c/a> and San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who last week called for an April hearing about the prolonged closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">Interim CEO Sarah Fenske Bahat resigned\u003c/a> on March 3 as a result of the fallout, citing “antisemitic backlash” in a letter to the board of directors. The board has not yet hired a new chief executive. (Bahat and Board Chair Renuka Kher did not accept KQED’s request for an interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">At the Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a>, activists unfurled a Palestinian flag from a balcony overlooking the main gallery and made speeches while eight artists modified their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit, painting and draping signs with messages like “Ceasefire Now!” and “Viva Palestina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"an overhead view of a museum gallery full of artworks, with a Palestinian flag hanging to the right\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza alter art during protest at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protest occurred in response to YBCA preventing artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo from including the phrase “Free Palestine” in a museum marquee above Branfman-Verissimo’s outdoor mural; YBCA also rejected Jeff Cheung’s design for an outdoor piece that exclusively used the colors of the Palestinian flag (in the final work, a small grouping of red, green and black figures appear in a rainbow-colored display).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight protesting artists — who now call themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/b.a.a.a.g/\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide, or B.A.A.A.G.\u003c/a> — have presented a list of demands for YBCA. It includes a call to join the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/cultural-boycott-guidelines\">Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel\u003c/a> (PACBI), which aims to prevent international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions as part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists also called for a removal of “Zionist board members and funders.” In several subsequent statements, Fenske Bahat and YBCA’s board called the artists’ demands hateful and divisive — a charge the artists have denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting for the right to speak against genocide because we believe in love,” said artist Paz G. “That’s what this is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sculpture of a boat is covered in a drape of white and red, with notecards surrounding on the wooden floor below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by champoy is altered during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s reopening announcement drew mixed emotions from B.A.A.A.G. artists, who want YBCA’s board to create an advisory committee of artists so that the institution’s policies can better reflect the community. B.A.A.A.G. artists also say they were in talks about meeting with Fenske Bahat before she resigned, and that they have not yet met with the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are excited, in a way, for the community to see the show … we are also wanting to make sure that we continue to pressure and hold YBCA accountable for the other demands that we have on our list,” said Branfman-Verissimo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Sholeh Asgary took issue with YBCA’s reopening statement, which refers to “the Israel–Hamas war.” Asgary and other artists and activists refer to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza — which has killed over 30,000 Palestinians and displaced 2.2 million more, many of whom are women and children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health — not as a war, but as a genocide. “Our cultural narrative is very important right now and always has been,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before YBCA resumes its regular Wednesday–Sunday hours starting March 15, B.A.A.A.G. artists have invited the public to a March 14 event outside of YBCA from 5:30–8:30 p.m. Artists will screen print event-goers’ tote bags and T-shirts with designs by Cheung and Branfman-Verissimo, and project short films by Palestinian filmmakers onto the building in a program curated by Asgary and Dena Al-Adeeb. Films include Mona Hatoum’s \u003ci>So Much I Want to Say\u003c/i> and Jackie Reem Salloum’s \u003ci>Planet of the Arabs\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re taking back the outside of YBCA in an attempt to create a space for connection and care,” Paz G said. “We’re providing something that YBCA can’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"YBCA's galleries have been closed for a month following a pro-Palestinian protest by exhibiting artists.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710463555,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":918},"headData":{"title":"An Embattled YBCA to Reopen Amid Censorship Accusations, CEO’s Resignation | KQED","description":"YBCA's galleries have been closed for a month following a pro-Palestinian protest by exhibiting artists.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"An Embattled YBCA to Reopen Amid Censorship Accusations, CEO’s Resignation","datePublished":"2024-03-14T14:40:20-07:00","dateModified":"2024-03-14T17:45:55-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">closing its galleries\u003c/a> for a month, following a Feb. 15 protest where artists modified their own artworks with pro-Palestinian messages, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/ybca\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)\u003c/a> made the \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/ban9-exhibition-reopening-announcement/\">unexpected announcement\u003c/a> Wednesday night that it will reopen its \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibition with the altered artworks intact — accompanied by disclaimers that they represent the artists’ views, not YBCA’s — starting Friday, March 15. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More YBCA Coverage ","postid":"arts_13953653,arts_13953032,arts_13952460"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invite members of our community to join us in engaging with the exhibition, considering the significance of the alterations and participating in thoughtful reflection and discourse,” reads the statement from the embattled art center’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA, which receives city funding, has faced accusations of censorship from artists, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">its own staff\u003c/a> and San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who last week called for an April hearing about the prolonged closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">Interim CEO Sarah Fenske Bahat resigned\u003c/a> on March 3 as a result of the fallout, citing “antisemitic backlash” in a letter to the board of directors. The board has not yet hired a new chief executive. (Bahat and Board Chair Renuka Kher did not accept KQED’s request for an interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">At the Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a>, activists unfurled a Palestinian flag from a balcony overlooking the main gallery and made speeches while eight artists modified their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit, painting and draping signs with messages like “Ceasefire Now!” and “Viva Palestina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"an overhead view of a museum gallery full of artworks, with a Palestinian flag hanging to the right\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza alter art during protest at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protest occurred in response to YBCA preventing artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo from including the phrase “Free Palestine” in a museum marquee above Branfman-Verissimo’s outdoor mural; YBCA also rejected Jeff Cheung’s design for an outdoor piece that exclusively used the colors of the Palestinian flag (in the final work, a small grouping of red, green and black figures appear in a rainbow-colored display).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight protesting artists — who now call themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/b.a.a.a.g/\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide, or B.A.A.A.G.\u003c/a> — have presented a list of demands for YBCA. It includes a call to join the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/cultural-boycott-guidelines\">Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel\u003c/a> (PACBI), which aims to prevent international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions as part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists also called for a removal of “Zionist board members and funders.” In several subsequent statements, Fenske Bahat and YBCA’s board called the artists’ demands hateful and divisive — a charge the artists have denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting for the right to speak against genocide because we believe in love,” said artist Paz G. “That’s what this is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sculpture of a boat is covered in a drape of white and red, with notecards surrounding on the wooden floor below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by champoy is altered during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s reopening announcement drew mixed emotions from B.A.A.A.G. artists, who want YBCA’s board to create an advisory committee of artists so that the institution’s policies can better reflect the community. B.A.A.A.G. artists also say they were in talks about meeting with Fenske Bahat before she resigned, and that they have not yet met with the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are excited, in a way, for the community to see the show … we are also wanting to make sure that we continue to pressure and hold YBCA accountable for the other demands that we have on our list,” said Branfman-Verissimo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Sholeh Asgary took issue with YBCA’s reopening statement, which refers to “the Israel–Hamas war.” Asgary and other artists and activists refer to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza — which has killed over 30,000 Palestinians and displaced 2.2 million more, many of whom are women and children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health — not as a war, but as a genocide. “Our cultural narrative is very important right now and always has been,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before YBCA resumes its regular Wednesday–Sunday hours starting March 15, B.A.A.A.G. artists have invited the public to a March 14 event outside of YBCA from 5:30–8:30 p.m. Artists will screen print event-goers’ tote bags and T-shirts with designs by Cheung and Branfman-Verissimo, and project short films by Palestinian filmmakers onto the building in a program curated by Asgary and Dena Al-Adeeb. Films include Mona Hatoum’s \u003ci>So Much I Want to Say\u003c/i> and Jackie Reem Salloum’s \u003ci>Planet of the Arabs\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re taking back the outside of YBCA in an attempt to create a space for connection and care,” Paz G said. “We’re providing something that YBCA can’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_8838","arts_1146","arts_1040"],"featImg":"arts_13953036","label":"arts"},"arts_13954260":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954260","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954260","score":null,"sort":[1710437845000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"editing-mamas-for-a-free-palestine-safety-doesnt-come-from-bombs","title":"Mamas for a Free Palestine: Safety Doesn't Come From Bombs","publishDate":1710437845,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Mamas for a Free Palestine: Safety Doesn’t Come From Bombs | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":8720,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello dear reader, thanks for lending me your attention. These last six months, our world has borne witness to the ongoing violence in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of “engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” according to a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">case\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> filed by South Africa in the UN’s International Court of Justice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My colleagues have reported on this siege and the ways it is impacting our communities here in the Bay Area (\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976415/gaza-is-a-queer-issue-for-bay-area-lgbtq-artists\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to name a few). So as not to belabor their work, I want to direct your attention to a collective of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/gaza-cease-fire-protest-sf/3459082/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dissenters \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who haven’t been covered much in the media. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This collective, Mamas for a Free Palestine, is made up of mothers across the Bay Area who say they are fed up with business as usual. While they are a relatively new group, these mothers are not new to activism and political organizing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13953768 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-800x533.jpg\" alt='Nine people face the camera, hold signs with the words \"genocide\" and \"cease fire\" and look at a person holding a microphone. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters at Senator Padilla’s office in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December 2023 and February 2024, Mamas for a Free Palestine organized alongside\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/eastbay4ceasefirenow/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eastbay for Ceasefire Now\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to rally rank and file workers across various unions and social justice organizations like\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arab Resource & Organizing Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (AROC), \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jewish Voice for Peace \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(JVP)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (PODER)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to demand that elected officials declare a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and end usage of U.S. dollars for Israel’s military.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13953767 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Posters with names and photographs of children killed in Gaza sit on the steps outside of Senator Padilla's office in San Francisco, CA\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters with names and photographs of children killed in Gaza sit on the steps outside of Senator Padilla’s office in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They say they want elected officials to support humanitarian aid for Gaza immediately and fund community needs like healthcare and affordable housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you’ve stayed this long, I hope you will stay longer to listen to our episode and hear the voices of mamas calling for a future that centers caring, not bombing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This episode has been edited in accordance with KQED’s editorial guidelines and Code of Ethics.\u003c/em>\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=KQINC7438431403\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena, host: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of this recording, we are about five months into the bombardment of Gaza, including the targeting of hospitals, schools and libraries. The world has seen the results: Massive displacement, death, and starvation. And nearly 100 journalists killed. That being said, I don’t want to use this precious time that I have your attention, to spotlight human-made calamities, that I’m sure you are aware of. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Instead, I want to direct your attention to a collective of people who are using their voices\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to bring attention to what’s happening in Gaza, and to bear witness to the humanity of the Palestinian people whose homes and bodies are under siege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this episode of Rightnowish, we’ll visit a local protest organized by a group of Bay Area mothers and learn why this wasn’t your average protest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd singing] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Marisol Medina-Cadena. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in December of 2023, I heard about a collective called “Mamas for a Free Palestine”. They don’t have an online presence so I decided to go to one of their actions in San Francisco’s Financial District to learn more\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd sings a call and response song: “Not in our name/ Not in our name/ Stop the genocide/ Stop the genocide…” ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walking up Montgomery Street I followed chanting to 333 Bush Street— the SF office of Senator Alex Padilla. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to the action, Mamas for a Free Palestine along with a larger coalition called East Bay For Ceasefire Now sent a letter to Senator Padilla expressing their grief over the loss of life and urging him to call for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd sings,“We breathe together, Stop the occupation” ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Since they say they weren’t given a chance to dialogue with the senator, they staged an action at his office both inside the lobby and on the outdoor public steps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside, I saw religious leaders of Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim faith wearing their clerical attire. They stood behind the rest of the protesters who were either sitting in wheelchairs or sitting directly on the floor. The lobby staff looked nervous but respectful of the protest. Individuals who worked inside the building awkwardly moseyed in trying not to step on protestors while getting to the elevator. Some looked empathetic, concerned, curious. Others looked aggravated. I saw someone push a protestor as they walked by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 40 minutes of speeches, singing, and call and response chants, the organizers informed everyone that the inside action would end and folks should join the outside rally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed them out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King, speaking to the crowd:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I now want to introduce our healer in our community, Angela Angel, who will share the grief ritual that we are about to… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Outside, the energy shifted from indignation to sobering reverence. A grief ritual was now unfolding \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so today we do this to honor all of these families. We do this to mourn with them. We know that with our fight also comes with tenderness and honoring the sacred.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three people dressed in all black carefully dipped their palms into buckets of red paint and pressed their handprints on the sidewalk altar, for all to see. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the speaker read from a list of names of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Gaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yasmine Ramez Abdel Razzaq El Masry, a newborn, Aisha Jihad Jalal Shaheen, a newborn… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a recent UNICEF report, the death toll is now over 11,000 children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To the left of me, a woman and her young son were holding flowers, waiting in line to lay them down on the sidewalk altar. The mom started to cry and her child looked up at her with a look I recognized in my younger self… It’s a look of shock and fear that the adults in your life are capable of suffering. I surmised that because as a young kid, my parents took me to rallies and vigils. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This made me reflect on how some kids of color aren’t spared the harshness of this country. Our parents tell us about colonialism, police violence, and deportations because they have no choice. They’re trying to protect us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also want to pray for protection, not only for ourselves right now, as we do this work and dissent, we also want to pray for the protection, continued protection of Palestine. And so put those in your prayers right now and stay close to the earth, let the earth source you for this fight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Another organizer reads more names of martyred children. The crowd responds in spanish by saying “presente,” meaning “here.”] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As the long list of dead children’s names comes to a close, different organizers get on the mic to make their call to action heard. I then notice some folks gathering over a table of warm empanadas and hot chai. I make my way over and learn that it’s the People’s Kitchen Collective who are providing this free food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point, I’m still itching to speak with an organizer one on one. I found someone with ‘East Bay for Ceasefire Now’ which is the larger coalition behind all this. Here’s Isa Flores-Jones explaining her message to Senator Padilla:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Isa Flores Jones: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re out here to say not in our names, not with our tax dollars. We don’t consent to that. We want our senators, our California senators to stand with their constituents and say, not one dime more\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. [car horn honks in support]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Isa Flores Jones:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Everybody is just out here as rank and file workers, as baristas, as housekeepers, as the folks who who are working in the city and across the East Bay to just call on Senator Padilla to please stop funding this genocide, to put an end to the U.S. tax dollars that are flowing to to these deaths instead of to critical services that we need so badly in the Bay and across California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We feel as if our concerns are just not not being heard and that the senator just doesn’t doesn’t fully understand the extent to which his constituents are impacted seeing every single day the thousands and thousands of men, women and children who are being killed in Gaza and that we stand against it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> From the stage, I hear one of the Mamas speak to the crowd. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mamas for a Free Palestine Organizer, speaking to the crowd:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Palestinian people of his constituency here in the state are devastated \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[car horn honking in support] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the loss and destruction \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[supporters honking car horns] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in their homeland. And with the overwhelming majority of people around the globe who know that this continued attacks and atrocities will not make the world safe. They will not make the world safer. They may, for a brief moment, make someone more comfortable thinking that safety comes like this. But it does never come from bombs. It never comes in this way. And so we are here to say spend that money on life. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Spend that money on the Palestinian people in reclaiming their land! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The olive trees. The birds! The rivers! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Isa then introduces me to another organizer who can speak to more of my questions. Gayla King is part of Mamas for a Free Palestine, and I asked her if there was a precedent for moms, at least in the Bay Area or California, protesting around militarism abroad:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, absolutely. I think I’m definitely here following a lineage of mamas, of women, of feminine energy and power that have been leading these movements throughout time, throughout um, throughout the globe. There’s been a huge um anti militarization movement led by women that has been connecting different struggles across, across the continent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, I am a daughter of an immigrant from the Philippines. But my mother was actually born in the Philippines during the time of World War II, when the U.S. was bombing her hometown, aimed at Japanese occupation but harming community, harming people, harming her family. And many of us have this lineage, right, of how a U.S. war machine impacts the homelands of our ancestors, of our people, bringing us here in very much the same way as what’s happening in Palestine, with Israel being backed by the United States and harming the people, killing the people, dropping the bombs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s the mothers. It’s the mothers that are resisting. It’s the mothers that are holding the grief, that are trying to protect their children, that are trying to protect their community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mamas for a Free Palestine, while we’re a relatively new kind of collective of coming together post-October 7th but many of us have been involved in many movements for decades. And so I think we really just wanted to have a space where we could show up as mamas in our full holistic self to be able to grieve together, to heal together, to feed each other and to really be fierce in our resistance and in our deep solidarity for Palestine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What kind of questions is your kid asking you about this moment?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I have two young boys, 11 and 14, and they’re trying to understand. We have family, friends who are Palestinian that they’ve spent time with, and they know. They’ve heard the stories of what it’s been like for our friends growing up in the West Bank and so they’re really struggling with understanding how this can happen. Like, you know, why, why are we supporting this? Why is the U.S. government supporting this? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they also have really, you know, close friends that are of Jewish faith and that they’re trying to grapple with this issue and understanding how the state of Israel, you know, is claiming to be a space for Jewish people but the Jewish friends they know and love don’t believe in bombs and don’t believe in what’s happening. So they’re asking a lot of questions and they’re grieving, too, because they are hearing and seeing of what’s happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Have they said anything like if their teachers are holding space for them or for their emotions? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It doesn’t sound like it’s being held in the space that my 11 year old is in, at least not by the teachers. My 14 year old, who is in high school, he’s had a few teachers that have both done a teach-in on Palestine and that he’s also seen at some of the actions. So that’s been really important to him to see other adults who care about this issue taking a stand and bringing it into the school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are such beautiful spaces that we’re creating together that our children can very much be a part of because our children can hold so much with us. They can hold the grief. And they can, we’re singing together. We’re eating together. We’re taking care of each other. And that’s what we also know is important for this movement to survive and to be sustained is that it has to be done centering our children and our families so that we can be in it for the long haul, yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gayla told me the Mamas plan to keep organizing till a permanent ceasefire is reached. So, on Presidents Day, they and other groups showed up again. This time at the plaza outside of Senator Laphonza Butler’s SF office to ask her to call for a ceasefire and the divestment of the 14 billion aid package Congress approved for Israel’s military. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And beyond banners and signs, the organizers brought a banquet table and set up chairs around it, essentially saying, ‘since you won’t invite us to the table to discuss, we brought our own table to host you.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later that night, Senator Butler was moderating a book talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The talk was on the politics of adoption and reproductive justice. So, the mama’s showed up there too, to call attention to what they see as the hypocrisy of the Democratic establishment championing the right to choose yet staying quiet when it comes to safety for pregnant women and kids in Gaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifty of the mamas bought tickets to the event and attended. Halfway through the program they staged what they call a “rolling interruption” whereby a group of them stood up and sang a song adapted from a Palestinian poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then one by one staggering their interruptions, the mamas declared why they felt as mothers obligated to speak up and demand Senator Butler to call for a ceasefire as well as an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After each mama made their verbal provocation, they were escorted out the venue. From the stage, Senator Butler acknowledged that protest is a part of democracy and that there’s room for expression and differing opinions, but she did not call for a ceasefire. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My name is Hedieh Matinrad. It’s spelled… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Two weeks after the action, I spoke on the phone with one of the Mamas to get her reflections on the evening that Senator Butler spoke.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And certainly ya know, she said that her heart goes out too, for all lives lost. And that is great and not enough. We were being so clear that the first step is to stop the bombs from dropping, for a ceasefire to happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There could be a lot of emotions, a lot of adrenaline, a lot of… I don’t know. I’m wondering, like, what was running in your head, like, moments, seconds, minutes before you raised your voice? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This has been going on, this massacre in Gaza for many months. My baby was born a month before the offense began, and now he’s six months old.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of my work as a palliative care doctor where I care for people with serious illness, like cancer a lot of times, is to help alleviate their suffering. And I think it really shakes me to my core, the unnecessary manufactured suffering that Palestinians in Gaza of all ages, everybody is being forced to live through. And I just, I see it as part of my mission in life, to be speaking out against this unnecessary suffering. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because Palestinian children deserve to live. Just like my child deserves to live. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caring for the collective good of children and families is what brought these mothers together. Their protests are intended to disrupt business as usual by reminding everyone not to get comfortable with the devastation happening… because they say, their love knows no borders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big big thank you to the organizers who trusted me and spoke to me for this episode. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was produced and hosted by me, Marisol Medina-Cadena. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patiently edited by Chris Hambrick and Jen Chien.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expertly engineered by Christopher Beale and Brendan Willard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lovingly supported by Rightnowish team members Sheree Bishop and Pendarvis Harshaw. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional support provided by Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Ugur Dursun and Holly Kernan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ve been listening to Rightnowish, a KQED Production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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These last six months, our world has borne witness to the ongoing violence in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of “engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” according to a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">case\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> filed by South Africa in the UN’s International Court of Justice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My colleagues have reported on this siege and the ways it is impacting our communities here in the Bay Area (\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976415/gaza-is-a-queer-issue-for-bay-area-lgbtq-artists\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to name a few). So as not to belabor their work, I want to direct your attention to a collective of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/gaza-cease-fire-protest-sf/3459082/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dissenters \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who haven’t been covered much in the media. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This collective, Mamas for a Free Palestine, is made up of mothers across the Bay Area who say they are fed up with business as usual. While they are a relatively new group, these mothers are not new to activism and political organizing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13953768 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-800x533.jpg\" alt='Nine people face the camera, hold signs with the words \"genocide\" and \"cease fire\" and look at a person holding a microphone. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-093-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters at Senator Padilla’s office in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December 2023 and February 2024, Mamas for a Free Palestine organized alongside\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/eastbay4ceasefirenow/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eastbay for Ceasefire Now\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to rally rank and file workers across various unions and social justice organizations like\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arab Resource & Organizing Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (AROC), \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jewish Voice for Peace \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(JVP)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (PODER)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to demand that elected officials declare a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and end usage of U.S. dollars for Israel’s military.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13953767 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Posters with names and photographs of children killed in Gaza sit on the steps outside of Senator Padilla's office in San Francisco, CA\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Padilla-Ceasefire-sit-in-12_12_23-073-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters with names and photographs of children killed in Gaza sit on the steps outside of Senator Padilla’s office in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They say they want elected officials to support humanitarian aid for Gaza immediately and fund community needs like healthcare and affordable housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you’ve stayed this long, I hope you will stay longer to listen to our episode and hear the voices of mamas calling for a future that centers caring, not bombing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This episode has been edited in accordance with KQED’s editorial guidelines and Code of Ethics.\u003c/em>\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=KQINC7438431403\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena, host: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of this recording, we are about five months into the bombardment of Gaza, including the targeting of hospitals, schools and libraries. The world has seen the results: Massive displacement, death, and starvation. And nearly 100 journalists killed. That being said, I don’t want to use this precious time that I have your attention, to spotlight human-made calamities, that I’m sure you are aware of. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Instead, I want to direct your attention to a collective of people who are using their voices\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to bring attention to what’s happening in Gaza, and to bear witness to the humanity of the Palestinian people whose homes and bodies are under siege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this episode of Rightnowish, we’ll visit a local protest organized by a group of Bay Area mothers and learn why this wasn’t your average protest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd singing] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Marisol Medina-Cadena. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in December of 2023, I heard about a collective called “Mamas for a Free Palestine”. They don’t have an online presence so I decided to go to one of their actions in San Francisco’s Financial District to learn more\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd sings a call and response song: “Not in our name/ Not in our name/ Stop the genocide/ Stop the genocide…” ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walking up Montgomery Street I followed chanting to 333 Bush Street— the SF office of Senator Alex Padilla. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to the action, Mamas for a Free Palestine along with a larger coalition called East Bay For Ceasefire Now sent a letter to Senator Padilla expressing their grief over the loss of life and urging him to call for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Crowd sings,“We breathe together, Stop the occupation” ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Since they say they weren’t given a chance to dialogue with the senator, they staged an action at his office both inside the lobby and on the outdoor public steps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside, I saw religious leaders of Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim faith wearing their clerical attire. They stood behind the rest of the protesters who were either sitting in wheelchairs or sitting directly on the floor. The lobby staff looked nervous but respectful of the protest. Individuals who worked inside the building awkwardly moseyed in trying not to step on protestors while getting to the elevator. Some looked empathetic, concerned, curious. Others looked aggravated. I saw someone push a protestor as they walked by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 40 minutes of speeches, singing, and call and response chants, the organizers informed everyone that the inside action would end and folks should join the outside rally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed them out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King, speaking to the crowd:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I now want to introduce our healer in our community, Angela Angel, who will share the grief ritual that we are about to… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Outside, the energy shifted from indignation to sobering reverence. A grief ritual was now unfolding \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so today we do this to honor all of these families. We do this to mourn with them. We know that with our fight also comes with tenderness and honoring the sacred.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three people dressed in all black carefully dipped their palms into buckets of red paint and pressed their handprints on the sidewalk altar, for all to see. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the speaker read from a list of names of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Gaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yasmine Ramez Abdel Razzaq El Masry, a newborn, Aisha Jihad Jalal Shaheen, a newborn… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a recent UNICEF report, the death toll is now over 11,000 children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To the left of me, a woman and her young son were holding flowers, waiting in line to lay them down on the sidewalk altar. The mom started to cry and her child looked up at her with a look I recognized in my younger self… It’s a look of shock and fear that the adults in your life are capable of suffering. I surmised that because as a young kid, my parents took me to rallies and vigils. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This made me reflect on how some kids of color aren’t spared the harshness of this country. Our parents tell us about colonialism, police violence, and deportations because they have no choice. They’re trying to protect us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Angel, speaking to the crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also want to pray for protection, not only for ourselves right now, as we do this work and dissent, we also want to pray for the protection, continued protection of Palestine. And so put those in your prayers right now and stay close to the earth, let the earth source you for this fight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Another organizer reads more names of martyred children. The crowd responds in spanish by saying “presente,” meaning “here.”] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As the long list of dead children’s names comes to a close, different organizers get on the mic to make their call to action heard. I then notice some folks gathering over a table of warm empanadas and hot chai. I make my way over and learn that it’s the People’s Kitchen Collective who are providing this free food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point, I’m still itching to speak with an organizer one on one. I found someone with ‘East Bay for Ceasefire Now’ which is the larger coalition behind all this. Here’s Isa Flores-Jones explaining her message to Senator Padilla:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Isa Flores Jones: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re out here to say not in our names, not with our tax dollars. We don’t consent to that. We want our senators, our California senators to stand with their constituents and say, not one dime more\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. [car horn honks in support]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Isa Flores Jones:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Everybody is just out here as rank and file workers, as baristas, as housekeepers, as the folks who who are working in the city and across the East Bay to just call on Senator Padilla to please stop funding this genocide, to put an end to the U.S. tax dollars that are flowing to to these deaths instead of to critical services that we need so badly in the Bay and across California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We feel as if our concerns are just not not being heard and that the senator just doesn’t doesn’t fully understand the extent to which his constituents are impacted seeing every single day the thousands and thousands of men, women and children who are being killed in Gaza and that we stand against it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> From the stage, I hear one of the Mamas speak to the crowd. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mamas for a Free Palestine Organizer, speaking to the crowd:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Palestinian people of his constituency here in the state are devastated \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[car horn honking in support] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the loss and destruction \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[supporters honking car horns] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in their homeland. And with the overwhelming majority of people around the globe who know that this continued attacks and atrocities will not make the world safe. They will not make the world safer. They may, for a brief moment, make someone more comfortable thinking that safety comes like this. But it does never come from bombs. It never comes in this way. And so we are here to say spend that money on life. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Spend that money on the Palestinian people in reclaiming their land! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The olive trees. The birds! The rivers! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[crowd cheers]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Isa then introduces me to another organizer who can speak to more of my questions. Gayla King is part of Mamas for a Free Palestine, and I asked her if there was a precedent for moms, at least in the Bay Area or California, protesting around militarism abroad:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, absolutely. I think I’m definitely here following a lineage of mamas, of women, of feminine energy and power that have been leading these movements throughout time, throughout um, throughout the globe. There’s been a huge um anti militarization movement led by women that has been connecting different struggles across, across the continent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, I am a daughter of an immigrant from the Philippines. But my mother was actually born in the Philippines during the time of World War II, when the U.S. was bombing her hometown, aimed at Japanese occupation but harming community, harming people, harming her family. And many of us have this lineage, right, of how a U.S. war machine impacts the homelands of our ancestors, of our people, bringing us here in very much the same way as what’s happening in Palestine, with Israel being backed by the United States and harming the people, killing the people, dropping the bombs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s the mothers. It’s the mothers that are resisting. It’s the mothers that are holding the grief, that are trying to protect their children, that are trying to protect their community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mamas for a Free Palestine, while we’re a relatively new kind of collective of coming together post-October 7th but many of us have been involved in many movements for decades. And so I think we really just wanted to have a space where we could show up as mamas in our full holistic self to be able to grieve together, to heal together, to feed each other and to really be fierce in our resistance and in our deep solidarity for Palestine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What kind of questions is your kid asking you about this moment?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I have two young boys, 11 and 14, and they’re trying to understand. We have family, friends who are Palestinian that they’ve spent time with, and they know. They’ve heard the stories of what it’s been like for our friends growing up in the West Bank and so they’re really struggling with understanding how this can happen. Like, you know, why, why are we supporting this? Why is the U.S. government supporting this? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they also have really, you know, close friends that are of Jewish faith and that they’re trying to grapple with this issue and understanding how the state of Israel, you know, is claiming to be a space for Jewish people but the Jewish friends they know and love don’t believe in bombs and don’t believe in what’s happening. So they’re asking a lot of questions and they’re grieving, too, because they are hearing and seeing of what’s happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Have they said anything like if their teachers are holding space for them or for their emotions? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It doesn’t sound like it’s being held in the space that my 11 year old is in, at least not by the teachers. My 14 year old, who is in high school, he’s had a few teachers that have both done a teach-in on Palestine and that he’s also seen at some of the actions. So that’s been really important to him to see other adults who care about this issue taking a stand and bringing it into the school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gayla King:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are such beautiful spaces that we’re creating together that our children can very much be a part of because our children can hold so much with us. They can hold the grief. And they can, we’re singing together. We’re eating together. We’re taking care of each other. And that’s what we also know is important for this movement to survive and to be sustained is that it has to be done centering our children and our families so that we can be in it for the long haul, yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gayla told me the Mamas plan to keep organizing till a permanent ceasefire is reached. So, on Presidents Day, they and other groups showed up again. This time at the plaza outside of Senator Laphonza Butler’s SF office to ask her to call for a ceasefire and the divestment of the 14 billion aid package Congress approved for Israel’s military. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And beyond banners and signs, the organizers brought a banquet table and set up chairs around it, essentially saying, ‘since you won’t invite us to the table to discuss, we brought our own table to host you.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later that night, Senator Butler was moderating a book talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The talk was on the politics of adoption and reproductive justice. So, the mama’s showed up there too, to call attention to what they see as the hypocrisy of the Democratic establishment championing the right to choose yet staying quiet when it comes to safety for pregnant women and kids in Gaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifty of the mamas bought tickets to the event and attended. Halfway through the program they staged what they call a “rolling interruption” whereby a group of them stood up and sang a song adapted from a Palestinian poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then one by one staggering their interruptions, the mamas declared why they felt as mothers obligated to speak up and demand Senator Butler to call for a ceasefire as well as an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After each mama made their verbal provocation, they were escorted out the venue. From the stage, Senator Butler acknowledged that protest is a part of democracy and that there’s room for expression and differing opinions, but she did not call for a ceasefire. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My name is Hedieh Matinrad. It’s spelled… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Two weeks after the action, I spoke on the phone with one of the Mamas to get her reflections on the evening that Senator Butler spoke.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And certainly ya know, she said that her heart goes out too, for all lives lost. And that is great and not enough. We were being so clear that the first step is to stop the bombs from dropping, for a ceasefire to happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There could be a lot of emotions, a lot of adrenaline, a lot of… I don’t know. I’m wondering, like, what was running in your head, like, moments, seconds, minutes before you raised your voice? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hedieh Matinrad: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This has been going on, this massacre in Gaza for many months. My baby was born a month before the offense began, and now he’s six months old.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of my work as a palliative care doctor where I care for people with serious illness, like cancer a lot of times, is to help alleviate their suffering. And I think it really shakes me to my core, the unnecessary manufactured suffering that Palestinians in Gaza of all ages, everybody is being forced to live through. And I just, I see it as part of my mission in life, to be speaking out against this unnecessary suffering. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because Palestinian children deserve to live. Just like my child deserves to live. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caring for the collective good of children and families is what brought these mothers together. Their protests are intended to disrupt business as usual by reminding everyone not to get comfortable with the devastation happening… because they say, their love knows no borders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big big thank you to the organizers who trusted me and spoke to me for this episode. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was produced and hosted by me, Marisol Medina-Cadena. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patiently edited by Chris Hambrick and Jen Chien.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expertly engineered by Christopher Beale and Brendan Willard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lovingly supported by Rightnowish team members Sheree Bishop and Pendarvis Harshaw. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional support provided by Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Ugur Dursun and Holly Kernan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ve been listening to Rightnowish, a KQED Production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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[aside label='More YBCA Coverage' postid='arts_13953032,arts_13952460']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a direct result of the events of February 15th and its unending repercussions, I am offering this official notice to immediately resign my position as CEO of YBCA,” Fenske Bahat wrote in a March 3 letter to the art center’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat’s resignation arrived as San Francisco County Supervisor Hillary Ronen called for a special hearing to look into the publicly funded arts institution, whose galleries have remained closed since an initial Feb. 15 protest three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the protest, called Love Letter to Gaza, eight participating artists in YBCA’s \u003cem>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/em> exhibition modified their own works with pro-Palestinian messages. The artists organized the protest in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace, U.S. Palestinian Community Network and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Honestly, we are disappointed to hear that Sara Fenske Bahat has chosen to resign before meeting with us,” Paz G, an artist who co-organized the protest, told KQED. “Our hope was that YBCA, as a public institution, would take this as an opportunity to be in dialogue, learn from and be accountable to the communities that YBCA is supposed to serve. As a collective we firmly believe in transformative justice, and are really sad to hear that resigning and relinquishing all responsibilities was the CEO’s only response.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public support of the artists has grown since the Feb. 15 protest. On Feb. 27, a group of YBCA staff published an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">open letter in support of the artists\u003c/a>, which has since been signed by nearly 600 people, including high-profile figures like Emory Douglas and San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given [that YBCA is] supposed to be a public institution that has nonprofit status, I believe its responsibility is to allow these conversations to happen without interfering as much as they have been,” said artist My-Linh Le, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895904/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-announces-ybca-10-program\">YBCA 10 fellow\u003c/a> who signed the letter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March 5 Board of Supervisors meeting, Ronen referred to YBCA’s actions as censorship. “Instead of making room for perspectives of these artists, YBCA, which promoted the exhibit as showcasing diverse voices, responded alarmingly by shutting down the exhibit,” Ronen said. “These actions translate into no field trips for our high school students and canceled film, dance and art performances for the public at large. It is also concerning to me that all the censored artists are people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheila Chung Hagen, Ronen’s legislative aide, told KQED that the hearing will likely take place in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Margulies, YBCA’s publicist, told KQED that an interim CEO has not been named, and it is still unknown when the museum will reopen. She said museum leadership still plans to meet with the Love Letter to Gaza artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Fenske Bahat’s resignation, YBCA’s board of directors published a statement that condemned the Feb. 15 protest, and specifically the artists’ call to “remove Zionist board members and funders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not art. That isn’t protest. That is simply wrong and unacceptable,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous statement from YBCA leadership charged the artists with ethnic and religious discrimination, which protest organizers denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tactic that is being used against people fighting for a ceasefire and to end the genocide in Palestine. … We’re being essentially painted as anti-Semitic,” artist Paz G said in a previous interview with KQED, adding that Zionism is a political ideology and not a religion or ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her resignation letter, Fenske Bahat predicted that protesters “will claim victory over my leaving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vitriolic and anti-Semitic backlash directed at me personally since that night nearly three weeks ago has made being here intolerable,” she wrote. “I no longer feel safe in our own space, including due to the actions of some of our own employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 14 at 5:30 p.m., the Love Letter to Gaza artists plan a public program outside of YBCA, where they will screen print protest posters. They have reached out to the museum’s board for a meeting, and are calling for YBCA to reopen the \u003cem>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/em> exhibition with the altered artworks intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a developing story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sara Fenske Bahat resigned after Supervisor Hillary Ronen called for a hearing on censorship allegations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710177703,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":786},"headData":{"title":"YBCA CEO Resigns After Pro-Palestinian Protest and Boycott | KQED","description":"Sara Fenske Bahat resigned after Supervisor Hillary Ronen called for a hearing on censorship allegations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"YBCA CEO Resigns After Pro-Palestinian Protest and Boycott","datePublished":"2024-03-07T11:54:36-08:00","dateModified":"2024-03-11T10:21:43-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/64e0f4a3-f685-4d41-9ba9-b12d0125645d/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">protests\u003c/a>, censorship accusations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">calls for a boycott\u003c/a> at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), museum interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned, the museum’s spokesperson confirmed. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More YBCA Coverage ","postid":"arts_13953032,arts_13952460"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a direct result of the events of February 15th and its unending repercussions, I am offering this official notice to immediately resign my position as CEO of YBCA,” Fenske Bahat wrote in a March 3 letter to the art center’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat’s resignation arrived as San Francisco County Supervisor Hillary Ronen called for a special hearing to look into the publicly funded arts institution, whose galleries have remained closed since an initial Feb. 15 protest three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the protest, called Love Letter to Gaza, eight participating artists in YBCA’s \u003cem>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/em> exhibition modified their own works with pro-Palestinian messages. The artists organized the protest in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace, U.S. Palestinian Community Network and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Honestly, we are disappointed to hear that Sara Fenske Bahat has chosen to resign before meeting with us,” Paz G, an artist who co-organized the protest, told KQED. “Our hope was that YBCA, as a public institution, would take this as an opportunity to be in dialogue, learn from and be accountable to the communities that YBCA is supposed to serve. As a collective we firmly believe in transformative justice, and are really sad to hear that resigning and relinquishing all responsibilities was the CEO’s only response.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public support of the artists has grown since the Feb. 15 protest. On Feb. 27, a group of YBCA staff published an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">open letter in support of the artists\u003c/a>, which has since been signed by nearly 600 people, including high-profile figures like Emory Douglas and San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given [that YBCA is] supposed to be a public institution that has nonprofit status, I believe its responsibility is to allow these conversations to happen without interfering as much as they have been,” said artist My-Linh Le, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895904/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-announces-ybca-10-program\">YBCA 10 fellow\u003c/a> who signed the letter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March 5 Board of Supervisors meeting, Ronen referred to YBCA’s actions as censorship. “Instead of making room for perspectives of these artists, YBCA, which promoted the exhibit as showcasing diverse voices, responded alarmingly by shutting down the exhibit,” Ronen said. “These actions translate into no field trips for our high school students and canceled film, dance and art performances for the public at large. It is also concerning to me that all the censored artists are people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheila Chung Hagen, Ronen’s legislative aide, told KQED that the hearing will likely take place in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Margulies, YBCA’s publicist, told KQED that an interim CEO has not been named, and it is still unknown when the museum will reopen. She said museum leadership still plans to meet with the Love Letter to Gaza artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Fenske Bahat’s resignation, YBCA’s board of directors published a statement that condemned the Feb. 15 protest, and specifically the artists’ call to “remove Zionist board members and funders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not art. That isn’t protest. That is simply wrong and unacceptable,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous statement from YBCA leadership charged the artists with ethnic and religious discrimination, which protest organizers denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tactic that is being used against people fighting for a ceasefire and to end the genocide in Palestine. … We’re being essentially painted as anti-Semitic,” artist Paz G said in a previous interview with KQED, adding that Zionism is a political ideology and not a religion or ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her resignation letter, Fenske Bahat predicted that protesters “will claim victory over my leaving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vitriolic and anti-Semitic backlash directed at me personally since that night nearly three weeks ago has made being here intolerable,” she wrote. “I no longer feel safe in our own space, including due to the actions of some of our own employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 14 at 5:30 p.m., the Love Letter to Gaza artists plan a public program outside of YBCA, where they will screen print protest posters. They have reached out to the museum’s board for a meeting, and are calling for YBCA to reopen the \u003cem>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/em> exhibition with the altered artworks intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a developing story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_8838","arts_1756","arts_1040"],"featImg":"arts_13953035","label":"arts"},"arts_13953032":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13953032","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13953032","score":null,"sort":[1708992750000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott","title":"YBCA Gallery Remains Closed; Pro-Palestinian Artists Claim Censorship","publishDate":1708992750,"format":"standard","headTitle":"YBCA Gallery Remains Closed; Pro-Palestinian Artists Claim Censorship | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After a Feb. 15 protest in which artists altered their own exhibited works with pro-Palestinian messages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, YBCA’s galleries remain closed with no reopening date in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">eight protesting artists\u003c/a> along with \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">15 current museum employees\u003c/a> decried YBCA’s actions as censorship in two Feb. 26 open letters, and the artists have called for a boycott of the museum. [aside label='YBCA Updates' postid='arts_13953653,arts_13952460']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the demonstration, artists draped banners and painted over their own work in the museum’s \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> (\u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i>) exhibition. As they modified their pieces, Palestinian, Arab and Jewish community organizers gave speeches calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and accused YBCA of censoring pro-Palestinian messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I refuse to be told that I cannot speak to the Palestinian struggle or genocide in my public programming, as I believe that Palestinian liberation means liberation for all,” said artist and protest co-organizer Paz G, in an interview on Monday. Paz G spray painted their ceramic sculpture with the words “Viva Palestina — Free Palestine” during the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saying no to genocide does not feel radical to me, and it doesn’t feel problematic, and it doesn’t feel divisive,” Paz G added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Courtney Desiree Morris during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow organizer Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, who currently has an outdoor installation on YBCA’s Third Street wall, also expressed disappointment at the museum’s decision. “So much of this action was not only to call for the museum to call for a ceasefire and to acknowledge this genocide and to end censorship, but also to demand that the museum commit to the lifelong work of standing with the Palestinian people,” Branfman-Verissimo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 24, YBCA CEO Sara Fenske Bahat emailed the eight protesting artists to indicate that their works would be de-installed on Monday, Feb. 26, and that she would be available for “curatorial conversations” one-on-one beforehand, according to an email reviewed by KQED. The artists requested more time in order to coordinate a meeting with Fenske Bahat as a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Fenske Bahat declined an interview request, she emailed KQED a statement through a spokesperson: “We are eager to meet with [the artists] to have a meaningful conversation and hear how they would like to present their works. … All of the artworks remain in the gallery as they were, as we were hoping to have a conversation with the artists before moving forward. We don’t yet have a firm date for the reopening of the galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 21, YBCA published its first \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/statement-on-2-15-protest/\">public statement about the protest\u003c/a>, underscoring the institution’s refusal to take a public stance on Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the death toll of which is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/gaza-death-toll-set-to-pass-30000-as-israel-prepares-assault-on-rafah\">rise above 30,000 this week\u003c/a>. “If YBCA has refrained from lending its voice to any side, it has been so that our many stakeholders can hold theirs,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s statement also referred to the artists’ protest tactics as “polarizing” and “disruptive,” and asserted that ignoring the protest would set a “dangerous precedent”: “We risk descending into a world where cooperative curation and community building is governed by chaos, and the public is left wondering if visits to view artists’ works will be marred by disruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo characterized YBCA’s statement as a distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tactic used for political repression to paint us as these violent, dangerous protesters and not speak to the meat of the issue, which is that there is a genocide happening in Palestine,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i> artists’ accusations of censorship go back to an incident from December 2023, when YBCA prevented Branfman-Verissimo from including the words “Free Palestine” on its outdoor marquee. The museum had previously used that display space for protest slogans in support of movements such as Black Lives Matter and Woman Life Freedom. Fellow \u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i> artist Jeff Cheung also accused the museum of preventing him from using the colors of the Palestinian flag in an outdoor mural, which Fenske Bahat denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the protesting artists say that YBCA’s removal of the modified artworks amounts to further censorship. Fenske Bahat did not address questions from KQED about why the institution views the pro-Palestinian movement differently from other social justice movements such as \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/2020-black-lives-matter/\">Black Lives Matter, which the museum endorsed\u003c/a> with an official statement on its website in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are out of touch with the community they claim to represent and serve,” Paz G said, noting that the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond have adopted resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and that tens of thousands of Bay Area protesters have mobilized around the issue. Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo said over 2,200 people have emailed YBCA supporting the artist protest through a form that the artists set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Feb. 15 demonstration, protesters passed out flyers with demands, two of which called for YBCA to join the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and to “remove all Zionist funders and board members,” without naming specific people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such language is neither productive nor tolerable,” reads the YBCA statement in response, which also refers to protest demands as amounting to a call for “illegal, identity-based discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers denied this charge, and pointed out that Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion or ethnicity. “This is a tactic that is being used against people fighting for a ceasefire and to end the genocide in Palestine. … We’re being essentially painted as anti-Semitic,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been hundreds of organizations nationwide that have stood with PACBI,” said Branfman-Verissimo, who is Jewish. Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace also joined the Feb. 15 demonstration among Palestinian groups such as the U.S. Palestinian Community Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo said the eight artists hope to meet with YBCA leadership this week. In addition to protest demands, they will ask YBCA to create an artist advisory board so that it can better serve public interests. Until then, they are asking the public not to support the institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] a way for YBCA to move forward and to show the Bay area that they stand with us, that they care,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eight artists are calling for a boycott of the San Francisco museum.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710176401,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1241},"headData":{"title":"YBCA Gallery Remains Closed; Pro-Palestinian Artists Claim Censorship | KQED","description":"Eight artists are calling for a boycott of the San Francisco museum.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"YBCA Gallery Remains Closed; Pro-Palestinian Artists Claim Censorship","datePublished":"2024-02-26T16:12:30-08:00","dateModified":"2024-03-11T10:00:01-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a Feb. 15 protest in which artists altered their own exhibited works with pro-Palestinian messages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, YBCA’s galleries remain closed with no reopening date in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">eight protesting artists\u003c/a> along with \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">15 current museum employees\u003c/a> decried YBCA’s actions as censorship in two Feb. 26 open letters, and the artists have called for a boycott of the museum. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"YBCA Updates ","postid":"arts_13953653,arts_13952460"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the demonstration, artists draped banners and painted over their own work in the museum’s \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> (\u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i>) exhibition. As they modified their pieces, Palestinian, Arab and Jewish community organizers gave speeches calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and accused YBCA of censoring pro-Palestinian messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I refuse to be told that I cannot speak to the Palestinian struggle or genocide in my public programming, as I believe that Palestinian liberation means liberation for all,” said artist and protest co-organizer Paz G, in an interview on Monday. Paz G spray painted their ceramic sculpture with the words “Viva Palestina — Free Palestine” during the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saying no to genocide does not feel radical to me, and it doesn’t feel problematic, and it doesn’t feel divisive,” Paz G added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-11-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Courtney Desiree Morris during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow organizer Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, who currently has an outdoor installation on YBCA’s Third Street wall, also expressed disappointment at the museum’s decision. “So much of this action was not only to call for the museum to call for a ceasefire and to acknowledge this genocide and to end censorship, but also to demand that the museum commit to the lifelong work of standing with the Palestinian people,” Branfman-Verissimo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 24, YBCA CEO Sara Fenske Bahat emailed the eight protesting artists to indicate that their works would be de-installed on Monday, Feb. 26, and that she would be available for “curatorial conversations” one-on-one beforehand, according to an email reviewed by KQED. The artists requested more time in order to coordinate a meeting with Fenske Bahat as a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Fenske Bahat declined an interview request, she emailed KQED a statement through a spokesperson: “We are eager to meet with [the artists] to have a meaningful conversation and hear how they would like to present their works. … All of the artworks remain in the gallery as they were, as we were hoping to have a conversation with the artists before moving forward. We don’t yet have a firm date for the reopening of the galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 21, YBCA published its first \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/statement-on-2-15-protest/\">public statement about the protest\u003c/a>, underscoring the institution’s refusal to take a public stance on Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the death toll of which is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/gaza-death-toll-set-to-pass-30000-as-israel-prepares-assault-on-rafah\">rise above 30,000 this week\u003c/a>. “If YBCA has refrained from lending its voice to any side, it has been so that our many stakeholders can hold theirs,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s statement also referred to the artists’ protest tactics as “polarizing” and “disruptive,” and asserted that ignoring the protest would set a “dangerous precedent”: “We risk descending into a world where cooperative curation and community building is governed by chaos, and the public is left wondering if visits to view artists’ works will be marred by disruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo characterized YBCA’s statement as a distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tactic used for political repression to paint us as these violent, dangerous protesters and not speak to the meat of the issue, which is that there is a genocide happening in Palestine,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i> artists’ accusations of censorship go back to an incident from December 2023, when YBCA prevented Branfman-Verissimo from including the words “Free Palestine” on its outdoor marquee. The museum had previously used that display space for protest slogans in support of movements such as Black Lives Matter and Woman Life Freedom. Fellow \u003ci>BAN 9\u003c/i> artist Jeff Cheung also accused the museum of preventing him from using the colors of the Palestinian flag in an outdoor mural, which Fenske Bahat denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the protesting artists say that YBCA’s removal of the modified artworks amounts to further censorship. Fenske Bahat did not address questions from KQED about why the institution views the pro-Palestinian movement differently from other social justice movements such as \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/2020-black-lives-matter/\">Black Lives Matter, which the museum endorsed\u003c/a> with an official statement on its website in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are out of touch with the community they claim to represent and serve,” Paz G said, noting that the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond have adopted resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and that tens of thousands of Bay Area protesters have mobilized around the issue. Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo said over 2,200 people have emailed YBCA supporting the artist protest through a form that the artists set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Feb. 15 demonstration, protesters passed out flyers with demands, two of which called for YBCA to join the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and to “remove all Zionist funders and board members,” without naming specific people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such language is neither productive nor tolerable,” reads the YBCA statement in response, which also refers to protest demands as amounting to a call for “illegal, identity-based discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers denied this charge, and pointed out that Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion or ethnicity. “This is a tactic that is being used against people fighting for a ceasefire and to end the genocide in Palestine. … We’re being essentially painted as anti-Semitic,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been hundreds of organizations nationwide that have stood with PACBI,” said Branfman-Verissimo, who is Jewish. Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace also joined the Feb. 15 demonstration among Palestinian groups such as the U.S. Palestinian Community Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz G and Branfman-Verissimo said the eight artists hope to meet with YBCA leadership this week. In addition to protest demands, they will ask YBCA to create an artist advisory board so that it can better serve public interests. Until then, they are asking the public not to support the institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] a way for YBCA to move forward and to show the Bay area that they stand with us, that they care,” Paz G said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_8838","arts_1040"],"featImg":"arts_13952456","label":"arts"},"arts_13952460":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13952460","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13952460","score":null,"sort":[1708105168000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest","title":"Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest","publishDate":1708105168,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Eight artists painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages over their own work during an event at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/ybca\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA) on Thursday evening as part of a surprise protest to demand the museum show support, publicly and institutionally, for the people of Gaza. [aside label='YBCA Updates' postid='arts_13953653,arts_13953032']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the event, titled \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/event/love-letter-to-soma/\">A Love Letter to SOMA\u003c/a>, protesters unfurled a sign reading “Stop Funding Genocide” as several artists currently featured in the museum’s \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> group show began to alter their pieces on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ceramic artist Paz G spray painted their sculpture \u003cem>You Have a Broken Heart\u003c/em> in bright pink letters reading “Viva Palestina — Free Palestine.” Jeffrey Cheung, whose colorful, large-scale paintings of abstracted nude forms hang in the main gallery, hung a sign reading “Ceasefire Now!” over his works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A black ceramic sculpture in a shallow pool is covered with pink spray paint reading \"Viva Palestina - Free Palestine\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Paz G altered their work with spray paint that says ‘Viva Palestina – Free Palestine,’ calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during a protest at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protest at YBCA comes during a week in which pro-Palestinian demonstrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.artforum.com/news/pro-palestine-demonstrators-take-message-to-museums-549239/\">disrupted programming at other high-profile arts institutions\u003c/a>. A reported 800 people flooded New York’s Museum of Modern Art with pro-Palestinian chants and flyers, causing security to shut down the galleries within 15 minutes. Other protests have occurred at the Brooklyn Museum and Jewish Museum in New York, the British Museum in London, and the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At YBCA, the artist champoy, along with several people wearing masks and keffiyehs, turned champoy’s boat sculpture into an altar for Gazan people killed in Israeli airstrikes, with their names and ages written on notecards. Tracy Ren laid a banner on their wool rug installation that read “No more blood money — ceasefire now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A scultupre of a boat is covered in a drape of white and red, with notecards surrounding on the wooden floor below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by champoy is altered during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other artists who modified their works included Sholeh Asgary, Courtney Desiree Morris and Leila Weefur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, protestors from several Bay Area activist groups — including Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestinian Feminist Collective, U.S. Palestinian Communities Network and Palestinian Youth Movement — addressed the crowd through a megaphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is a universal language meant to speak out against injustice. The institution of art, just like every U.S. corporation, is aligned with the state of Israel,” said Palestinian American muralist Chris Gazaleh. “As an artist, I use my art to educate about my people. Artists in general — we need to speak out against what is happening. It is our duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"an overhead view of a museum gallery full of artworks, with a Palestinian flag hanging to the right\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza alter art during protest at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve come to tell San Francisco and the people of Yerba Buena that we’re not gonna stop,” said Maisa Morrar of Palestinian Feminist Collective. “We’re gonna show up in your art exhibits, at the Academy of Sciences, at the Golden Gate Bridge, at the Bay Bridge, at the Federal Building — we’re gonna be there. This genocide is one too many lives lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest took place as the death toll in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, climbs to upwards of 28,000, including 12,300 children and 8,400 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When approached at the museum for comment, YBCA’s head of art and public programs Amy Kisch directed inquiries to Lauren Macmadu, head of external relations, in attendance nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to be a space where we can support the community and bring people together to have open conversations,” Macmadu said, adding that she was not prepared to discuss the specifics of the protesters’ demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Chris Gazaleh speaks during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the protest, activists passed out flyers with the heading “Love Letter to Gaza” that contained a list of demands for YBCA leadership — firstly, that the museum join the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which calls for international cultural institutions and universities to refrain from working with Israeli institutions. Without naming examples, the flyer also demands that YBCA “stop censoring artists’ language, work and programming that involves and centers Palestinian liberation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached by phone, exhibiting artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo — who helped coordinate the protest, but was not in attendance — told KQED that in 2023, YBCA had prevented them from including the words “Free Palestine” on the building’s orange marquee as part of their outdoor installation commissioned by the museum. YBCA has previously displayed messages on the marquee \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ybca/p/CtkentCvY-8/\">supporting Iran’s Woman Life Freedom movement\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/2020-black-lives-matter/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 20 email reviewed by KQED, Kisch told Branfman-Verissimo that YBCA “will not be able to include mention of Palestine on the marquee,” citing YBCA’s 501(c)(3) status, as well as its position in the SOMA neighborhood, directly across from the Contemporary Jewish Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment over email, YBCA CEO Sara Fenske Bahat replied that throughout the process with Branfman-Verissimo, “YBCA remained committed to exploring options to highlight their advocacy work through programming and/or on other platforms. Lukaza did not respond to our offer, but continued to collaborate on the installation of their mural.” (Branfman-Verissimo disputed this characterization in a follow-up interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat also noted that YBCA did not interrupt or attempt to stop Thursday night’s protest, and reiterated the museum’s commitment to serving as a safe gathering space for people of different identities and viewpoints. She did not address a KQED inquiry about YBCA’s decision to display marquee messages for Black Lives Matter and Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Movement while refusing a message in support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you might imagine, in our own curatorial and programming decisions we need to carefully weigh whether we are in fact contributing to deeper division, something we actively seek not to do, while striving to ensure different perspectives are heard,” she wrote. “To date, we are not aware of any accusations that any \u003cem>BAN9\u003c/em> artists have been mistreated by our team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the artists who altered their own exhibition work are primarily asking YBCA to make a statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invite YBCA to join us in this fight for Palestinian liberation,” Branfman-Verissimo said. “And make sure that they know that the artists that they’re working with are keeping an eye on them.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eight artists and dozens of protestors accused the museum of censorship and called attention to Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715272714,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1292},"headData":{"title":"Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest | KQED","description":"Eight artists and dozens of protestors accused the museum of censorship and called attention to Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest","datePublished":"2024-02-16T09:39:28-08:00","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:38:34-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13952460","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eight artists painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages over their own work during an event at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/ybca\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA) on Thursday evening as part of a surprise protest to demand the museum show support, publicly and institutionally, for the people of Gaza. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"YBCA Updates ","postid":"arts_13953653,arts_13953032"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the event, titled \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/event/love-letter-to-soma/\">A Love Letter to SOMA\u003c/a>, protesters unfurled a sign reading “Stop Funding Genocide” as several artists currently featured in the museum’s \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> group show began to alter their pieces on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ceramic artist Paz G spray painted their sculpture \u003cem>You Have a Broken Heart\u003c/em> in bright pink letters reading “Viva Palestina — Free Palestine.” Jeffrey Cheung, whose colorful, large-scale paintings of abstracted nude forms hang in the main gallery, hung a sign reading “Ceasefire Now!” over his works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A black ceramic sculpture in a shallow pool is covered with pink spray paint reading \"Viva Palestina - Free Palestine\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-14-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Paz G altered their work with spray paint that says ‘Viva Palestina – Free Palestine,’ calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during a protest at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protest at YBCA comes during a week in which pro-Palestinian demonstrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.artforum.com/news/pro-palestine-demonstrators-take-message-to-museums-549239/\">disrupted programming at other high-profile arts institutions\u003c/a>. A reported 800 people flooded New York’s Museum of Modern Art with pro-Palestinian chants and flyers, causing security to shut down the galleries within 15 minutes. Other protests have occurred at the Brooklyn Museum and Jewish Museum in New York, the British Museum in London, and the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At YBCA, the artist champoy, along with several people wearing masks and keffiyehs, turned champoy’s boat sculpture into an altar for Gazan people killed in Israeli airstrikes, with their names and ages written on notecards. Tracy Ren laid a banner on their wool rug installation that read “No more blood money — ceasefire now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A scultupre of a boat is covered in a drape of white and red, with notecards surrounding on the wooden floor below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-05-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by champoy is altered during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other artists who modified their works included Sholeh Asgary, Courtney Desiree Morris and Leila Weefur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, protestors from several Bay Area activist groups — including Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestinian Feminist Collective, U.S. Palestinian Communities Network and Palestinian Youth Movement — addressed the crowd through a megaphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is a universal language meant to speak out against injustice. The institution of art, just like every U.S. corporation, is aligned with the state of Israel,” said Palestinian American muralist Chris Gazaleh. “As an artist, I use my art to educate about my people. Artists in general — we need to speak out against what is happening. It is our duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"an overhead view of a museum gallery full of artworks, with a Palestinian flag hanging to the right\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza alter art during protest at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve come to tell San Francisco and the people of Yerba Buena that we’re not gonna stop,” said Maisa Morrar of Palestinian Feminist Collective. “We’re gonna show up in your art exhibits, at the Academy of Sciences, at the Golden Gate Bridge, at the Bay Bridge, at the Federal Building — we’re gonna be there. This genocide is one too many lives lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest took place as the death toll in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, climbs to upwards of 28,000, including 12,300 children and 8,400 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When approached at the museum for comment, YBCA’s head of art and public programs Amy Kisch directed inquiries to Lauren Macmadu, head of external relations, in attendance nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to be a space where we can support the community and bring people together to have open conversations,” Macmadu said, adding that she was not prepared to discuss the specifics of the protesters’ demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-06-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Chris Gazaleh speaks during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the protest, activists passed out flyers with the heading “Love Letter to Gaza” that contained a list of demands for YBCA leadership — firstly, that the museum join the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which calls for international cultural institutions and universities to refrain from working with Israeli institutions. Without naming examples, the flyer also demands that YBCA “stop censoring artists’ language, work and programming that involves and centers Palestinian liberation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached by phone, exhibiting artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo — who helped coordinate the protest, but was not in attendance — told KQED that in 2023, YBCA had prevented them from including the words “Free Palestine” on the building’s orange marquee as part of their outdoor installation commissioned by the museum. YBCA has previously displayed messages on the marquee \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ybca/p/CtkentCvY-8/\">supporting Iran’s Woman Life Freedom movement\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/2020-black-lives-matter/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 20 email reviewed by KQED, Kisch told Branfman-Verissimo that YBCA “will not be able to include mention of Palestine on the marquee,” citing YBCA’s 501(c)(3) status, as well as its position in the SOMA neighborhood, directly across from the Contemporary Jewish Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment over email, YBCA CEO Sara Fenske Bahat replied that throughout the process with Branfman-Verissimo, “YBCA remained committed to exploring options to highlight their advocacy work through programming and/or on other platforms. Lukaza did not respond to our offer, but continued to collaborate on the installation of their mural.” (Branfman-Verissimo disputed this characterization in a follow-up interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat also noted that YBCA did not interrupt or attempt to stop Thursday night’s protest, and reiterated the museum’s commitment to serving as a safe gathering space for people of different identities and viewpoints. She did not address a KQED inquiry about YBCA’s decision to display marquee messages for Black Lives Matter and Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Movement while refusing a message in support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you might imagine, in our own curatorial and programming decisions we need to carefully weigh whether we are in fact contributing to deeper division, something we actively seek not to do, while striving to ensure different perspectives are heard,” she wrote. “To date, we are not aware of any accusations that any \u003cem>BAN9\u003c/em> artists have been mistreated by our team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the artists who altered their own exhibition work are primarily asking YBCA to make a statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We invite YBCA to join us in this fight for Palestinian liberation,” Branfman-Verissimo said. “And make sure that they know that the artists that they’re working with are keeping an eye on them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_8838","arts_21682","arts_822","arts_1756","arts_1040"],"featImg":"arts_13952458","label":"arts"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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