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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents who have relied on longstanding immigration protections may now face deportation after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration has the power to terminate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> without court oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 6-3 decision, the court cleared the way for the administration to end TPS for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe Aguirre, deputy director of U.S. Litigation for the International Refugee Assistance Project, described the move as potentially the largest “de-documentation effort in history.” The decision came as a shock for immigrants who, for years or even decades, have been allowed to live and work lawfully in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After you’ve been here for like 20 years, it’s not temporary anymore. 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Since then, the Trump administration has ended, or tried to end, TPS designations for 13 of those countries, which could expose 1 million people to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/court-considers-whether-trump-administration-properly-ended-temporary-protected-status-for-haiti/\">two cases\u003c/a> before the Supreme Court involved \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5794042/supeme-court-tps\">migrants from Haiti and Syria\u003c/a>. More than 300,000 Haitians have been living legally in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has repeatedly extended their TPS, in light of a cholera epidemic and a political collapse that involved the assassination of Haiti’s president and widespread gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrians were first granted TPS in 2012, during a crackdown on dissent by former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844#_Ref202881937\">Roughly 3,800\u003c/a> Syrians still hold the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Syrian and Haitian lawsuits are among \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/practice-alert-tps-and-parole-status-updates-chart\">several\u003c/a> filed by TPS holders challenging Trump administration terminations, on the grounds that the government had not followed proper procedures and, in the Haitian case, that it was motivated by an illegal racial animus toward immigrants from Haiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases before the high court challenged the way DHS terminated the TPS designations for Syrians and Haitians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration argued that it had made those decisions properly, and it went much further, insisting that the courts had no authority to determine whether it was implementing the program as Congress intended. And most justices agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the administration’s statements were not “overtly racial,” and that the language of the TPS statute prohibiting judicial review “is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blistering dissent led by Justice Elena Kagan, she wrote that the Haitian and Syrian TPS beneficiaries “ask for only one thing: that they may stay in this country while they continue to litigate their claims. … [T]hey are entitled to that relief, and should not instead be consigned to devastating, and indeed life-threatening, injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. The Supreme Court is examining the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. \u003ccite>(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today’s ruling could essentially give the administration carte blanche to swiftly end TPS for every country — without any judicial review of whether it was complying with the process Congress laid out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth understanding this administration is obviously trying to extend its discretionary authority to the broadest extent,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration policy expert and nonresident fellow and scholar at Cornell Law School. “And a lot of people who have spent a lot of time in the U.S. in these kinds of discretionary statuses — whether it’s humanitarian parole, deferred action, temporary protected status — are all at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that people who are in the U.S. under discretionary status “should be thinking and talking to immigration attorneys about what options they may have under the law to try to stay and not necessarily wait on litigation to save them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court’s ruling is not the end of the road for advocates defending the rights of TPS holders to remain in the U.S. lawfully, Arulanantham said. Because the ruling sends the cases back to the lower courts rather than striking the protections outright, a judge must still issue an order before the terminations take effect — though courts could act sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders nationwide could lose their work permits, forcing their employers to choose between keeping them on illegally or letting them go. And those TPS holders now face the possibility of immigration officers arresting and deporting them at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the ruling didn’t address El Salvador, the country’s protections cover roughly 170,000 people, and are up for review in September. Some 100,000 Ukrainians have TPS until October. Many of those immigrants, Brown said, will lose their TPS status if they haven’t already, and will have to find other means to stay in the country legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, who along with her daughter was a plaintiff in a 2018 case to protect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\">TPS during the first Trump administration\u003c/a>, said many in the community feel caught in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shadow of deportation, that shadow that family can split; it’s been like a big umbrella around TPS families,” Morales said. “It feels so powerful. But we can pick it up. We have to hold on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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More than 300,000 Haitians have been living legally in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has repeatedly extended their TPS, in light of a cholera epidemic and a political collapse that involved the assassination of Haiti’s president and widespread gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrians were first granted TPS in 2012, during a crackdown on dissent by former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844#_Ref202881937\">Roughly 3,800\u003c/a> Syrians still hold the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Syrian and Haitian lawsuits are among \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/practice-alert-tps-and-parole-status-updates-chart\">several\u003c/a> filed by TPS holders challenging Trump administration terminations, on the grounds that the government had not followed proper procedures and, in the Haitian case, that it was motivated by an illegal racial animus toward immigrants from Haiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases before the high court challenged the way DHS terminated the TPS designations for Syrians and Haitians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration argued that it had made those decisions properly, and it went much further, insisting that the courts had no authority to determine whether it was implementing the program as Congress intended. And most justices agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the administration’s statements were not “overtly racial,” and that the language of the TPS statute prohibiting judicial review “is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blistering dissent led by Justice Elena Kagan, she wrote that the Haitian and Syrian TPS beneficiaries “ask for only one thing: that they may stay in this country while they continue to litigate their claims. … [T]hey are entitled to that relief, and should not instead be consigned to devastating, and indeed life-threatening, injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>San José State University must reinstate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988162/sjsu-professor-who-was-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-speaks-out\">Sang Hea Kil\u003c/a>, a professor fired for actions related to pro-Palestinian activism, with full back pay after an arbitrator on Monday decided the school went too far with its sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move ends a two-year institutional standoff and represents a significant win for Kil and her advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the recommendation of a faculty panel, SJSU fired Kil late last year, citing her involvement in three on-campus demonstrations spanning the spring of 2024, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">student activism over the war in Gaza\u003c/a> gripped university campuses nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests\">fired\u003c/a> from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment, citing “ongoing personnel matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-1159x1536.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Hea Kil at a protest at SJSU in February 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sang Hea Kil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the arbitrator stated that while the California State University system was able to meet the burden of proving that Kil engaged in unprofessional conduct, it could not prove a failure or refusal to perform her job duties as a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the third-party review concluded that dismissal was an “excessive and disproportionate” sanction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To determine a proportionate sanction for such misconduct, the surrounding circumstances, the harm that resulted, and the likelihood of recurrence must be considered,” arbitrator Howard Pearlman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to faculty review documents and arbitration hearing records obtained by KQED, the case against Kil began in February 2024, when she planned to attend a public guest lecture by Jeffrey Blutinger, director of the Jewish Studies program at Cal State University Long Beach, on a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aware that some pro-Palestinian students were organizing to protest the event, university administrators, faculty organizers and campus police testified that they had moved the talk to a private classroom less than an hour before the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil testified that she and several dozen demonstrators who showed up at the library eventually learned of the new location and made their way to the classroom hallway, still unaware that the lecture was no longer public. She said when they were denied entry at the door, the group sat, chanted and stomped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, school officials notified Kil that she was under investigation for allegedly violating school rules around professional responsibility and time, place and manner — policies that govern where and how sanctioned campus protests can take place.[aside postID=news_12087836 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061626CSU-Labor_GH_003-KQED.jpg']The following month, the university expanded its probe and placed Kil on paid administrative leave for “directing and encouraging” students to join encampments and violate university policies — which Kil and her representation disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year of suspension, SJSU fired Kil, who then opted for her right to appeal via a panel of her peers to publicly review the university’s case against her — a rarely invoked step. The faculty panel recommended no further sanction beyond the yearlong suspension Kil had already completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2025, the university upheld her termination anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SJSU’s agreement with its faculty’s union, a five-day arbitration hearing would be Kil’s final chance to appeal her firing. During those March 2026 proceedings, CSU lawyers justified the dismissal by emphasizing the “totality” of her alleged unprofessional conduct and refusal to perform her duties as a professor during the spring events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administrators argued that Kil’s “lack of remorse” indicated a lack of “rehabilitative potential” — something Pearlman told lawyers he “had a hard time believing” given her 17-year employment and clean record. In 2018, the Justice Studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/chhs/2018/10/25/2018-chhs-service-awards-recipients/#:~:text=This%20past%20year%2C%20Sang%20served,outreach%20to%20students%20and%20retention.\">earned\u003c/a> the College of Health and Human Sciences Department’s lifetime achievement award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, a self-described “scholar-activist,” and her union representatives alleged that university administrators bypassed standard disciplinary procedure and terminated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower Hall at San José State University on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her team also argued her punishment was unfair, given examples of other professors who’d received \u003ca href=\"https://calcoastnews.com/2025/06/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo-pro-palestinian-professor-suspended/\">lighter\u003c/a> discipline for more serious \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/d951a6c5af1d449f9244cecb68562b13\">conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/systemwide-academic-congress/speakers/henry-reichman.html\">Henry Reichman\u003c/a>, California State University, East Bay professor emeritus and academic freedom expert, testified that the “worst thing [Kil] did was engage in noisemaking that was already happening.” He went on to offer a blistering rebuke of the school’s disregard for progressive discipline and tenure, which he said would have a chilling effect on academic freedom and free speech throughout the CSU system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Kil said she’s excited to return to the classroom after two years away, she’s worried for her safety. She said she’s faced backlash, describing hateful graffiti threatening violence against Asians, Jews and Muslims scrawled on her office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have been targeted for anti-genocide or pro-Palestine speech, once they’ve been fired, they’re blacklisted,” she said. “If they had won, I would never have gotten an academic job in the U.S.A. ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests\">fired\u003c/a> from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment, citing “ongoing personnel matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-1159x1536.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Hea Kil at a protest at SJSU in February 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sang Hea Kil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the arbitrator stated that while the California State University system was able to meet the burden of proving that Kil engaged in unprofessional conduct, it could not prove a failure or refusal to perform her job duties as a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the third-party review concluded that dismissal was an “excessive and disproportionate” sanction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To determine a proportionate sanction for such misconduct, the surrounding circumstances, the harm that resulted, and the likelihood of recurrence must be considered,” arbitrator Howard Pearlman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to faculty review documents and arbitration hearing records obtained by KQED, the case against Kil began in February 2024, when she planned to attend a public guest lecture by Jeffrey Blutinger, director of the Jewish Studies program at Cal State University Long Beach, on a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aware that some pro-Palestinian students were organizing to protest the event, university administrators, faculty organizers and campus police testified that they had moved the talk to a private classroom less than an hour before the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil testified that she and several dozen demonstrators who showed up at the library eventually learned of the new location and made their way to the classroom hallway, still unaware that the lecture was no longer public. She said when they were denied entry at the door, the group sat, chanted and stomped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, school officials notified Kil that she was under investigation for allegedly violating school rules around professional responsibility and time, place and manner — policies that govern where and how sanctioned campus protests can take place.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The following month, the university expanded its probe and placed Kil on paid administrative leave for “directing and encouraging” students to join encampments and violate university policies — which Kil and her representation disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year of suspension, SJSU fired Kil, who then opted for her right to appeal via a panel of her peers to publicly review the university’s case against her — a rarely invoked step. The faculty panel recommended no further sanction beyond the yearlong suspension Kil had already completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2025, the university upheld her termination anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SJSU’s agreement with its faculty’s union, a five-day arbitration hearing would be Kil’s final chance to appeal her firing. During those March 2026 proceedings, CSU lawyers justified the dismissal by emphasizing the “totality” of her alleged unprofessional conduct and refusal to perform her duties as a professor during the spring events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administrators argued that Kil’s “lack of remorse” indicated a lack of “rehabilitative potential” — something Pearlman told lawyers he “had a hard time believing” given her 17-year employment and clean record. In 2018, the Justice Studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/chhs/2018/10/25/2018-chhs-service-awards-recipients/#:~:text=This%20past%20year%2C%20Sang%20served,outreach%20to%20students%20and%20retention.\">earned\u003c/a> the College of Health and Human Sciences Department’s lifetime achievement award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, a self-described “scholar-activist,” and her union representatives alleged that university administrators bypassed standard disciplinary procedure and terminated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower Hall at San José State University on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her team also argued her punishment was unfair, given examples of other professors who’d received \u003ca href=\"https://calcoastnews.com/2025/06/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo-pro-palestinian-professor-suspended/\">lighter\u003c/a> discipline for more serious \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/d951a6c5af1d449f9244cecb68562b13\">conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/systemwide-academic-congress/speakers/henry-reichman.html\">Henry Reichman\u003c/a>, California State University, East Bay professor emeritus and academic freedom expert, testified that the “worst thing [Kil] did was engage in noisemaking that was already happening.” He went on to offer a blistering rebuke of the school’s disregard for progressive discipline and tenure, which he said would have a chilling effect on academic freedom and free speech throughout the CSU system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Kil said she’s excited to return to the classroom after two years away, she’s worried for her safety. She said she’s faced backlash, describing hateful graffiti threatening violence against Asians, Jews and Muslims scrawled on her office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have been targeted for anti-genocide or pro-Palestine speech, once they’ve been fired, they’re blacklisted,” she said. “If they had won, I would never have gotten an academic job in the U.S.A. ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Teenagers swarm the sidewalks outside San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lowell-high-school\">Lowell High School\u003c/a> after the final bell. They’re hoping to board the 29-Sunset, affectionately known as the city’s school bus — if they can catch a ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell junior Kaito Glaub watched as several packed buses came by and picked up a handful of students, leaving dozens behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people use the 29,” he said. “Sometimes it’ll take like 30 minutes before you can get on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and a group of high schoolers are trying to change that. Thanks to years of advocacy by the Lowell High School Transit Club and other riders, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> is moving ahead with the second phase of an ambitious project to speed up the route and make it more reliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA data, over a quarter of all students take public transit or the yellow school bus to and from school. High schoolers lead the way, with 55% reporting that they take transit regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of passengers wait for the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. The 14-mile route runs from the Presidio to Bayview via Parkmerced. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the line has long struggled with overcrowding, delays and reliability problems, particularly during the morning and afternoon school rushes. Students often watch multiple buses pass before they can board, while buses themselves become trapped in traffic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073883/its-san-franciscos-most-delayed-bus-for-riders-a-frustrating-problem-may-get-worse\">fall behind schedule\u003c/a> from frequent stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase Two of the 29-Sunset Improvement Project, approved May 19 by the SFMTA Board of Directors, includes bus stop consolidations, upgraded shelters and lighting, wider sidewalks, traffic-calming measures and infrastructure changes designed to reduce delays and overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It focuses on the southern half of the route, stretching from Junipero Serra Boulevard and Holloway Avenue through Ingleside, the Excelsior and Bayview neighborhoods. Four of the nine communities the route serves are prioritized by the SFMTA as “equity neighborhoods,” meaning the majority of the route’s riders are low-income or people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait to board the 29 Sunset bus near Lake Merced Boulevard and Middlefield Drive on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pandemic delayed portions of the project and temporarily shifted attention away from transit advocacy as schools shut down and ridership collapsed across the Muni system. But the 29-Sunset has rebounded faster than many other routes because it serves neighborhoods rather than downtown office commuters, the SFMTA said. Today, ridership has returned to 18,000 people daily, roughly 90% of pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want the 29 to run on time for years to come,” SFMTA chief Julie Kirschbaum said. “It’s an example where, as we’ve seen ridership grow, we have invested in service and now this capital investment to reflect that growing demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase One of the project cost about $9.5 million, funded using sources including $1 million in vehicle registration fees from the city’s Proposition AA, as well as regional programs like the One Bay Area Grant. Phase Two will cost $10 million, similarly drawing from local tax revenue and state and local grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait at the 29 Sunset bus stop near Plymouth Avenue and Ocean Avenue on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lowell students, the changes represent the culmination of years of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project began in 2019 after pressure from students who eventually formed the Lowell Transit Club, which attended public meetings, organized feedback campaigns and communicated directly with transit officials working on the first phase of the project, according to club president Quinn Luk.[aside postID=news_12082380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020__qed.jpg']Woody Szydlik, 17, said he joined the club in part because his friends were involved — but the bigger reason was that he relies on the bus to commute from the Richmond neighborhood to Lowell. Like many riders, he has experienced delays that made him late to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought maybe I could do something to help that,” Szydlik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Haagsman, outreach lead for the 29-Sunset Improvement Project, recently rode the route during a Monday afternoon school rush, watching students crowd onto packed buses outside Lowell and San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some intrepid high schoolers who are willing to get on, get on no matter what,” Haagsman said. “But we know that to make this a line that’s comfortable to ride, we need to make it reliable and have space to accommodate everyone who wants to ride the route.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The route, he said, faces a difficult combination of challenges. Because so many schools dismiss students around the same time, buses suddenly fill with large groups of riders. Delays then compound as buses stop more frequently to pick up waiting passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bus gets delayed, then there might be a person or more people waiting at every single stop along the route,” Haagsman said. “That makes it get even more delayed. So then you have a bus that’s both delayed and might not have space for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Haagsman, public information officer for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, poses as he rides the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA first identified major reliability problems on the route in a 2019 evaluation. Officials found that buses frequently bunched together, leaving two or three arriving at once after a long service gap, while heavy traffic and closely spaced bus stops slowed trips across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco’s longest daytime bus route, the 29-Sunset is particularly vulnerable to delays because problems in one neighborhood can ripple throughout the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the intensity of use, the fact that schools all end at the same time, are just challenges within the route that make these types of investments so valuable,” Kirschbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the route’s size, the agency split the improvement effort into two phases. The first focused on the western section of the route and was coordinated with a repaving project already underway on Sunset Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phase introduced changes that were part of SFMTA’s ongoing Muni Forward initiative, including upgraded boarding islands and transit signal priority, which allows buses to receive extended green lights at intersections, reducing the amount of time they spend sitting in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some bus stops were consolidated, and stops were moved from the near side of intersections to the far side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply by moving the bus back to the stop sign, the bus stops once,” Haagsman said, as the bus cruised down Winston Drive towards Buckingham Way near Stonestown Galleria. “It’s faster, more reliable, and it’s one small change that helps improve the ride for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083264\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Roccaforte, deputy spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, stands aboard the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plans to remove or relocate bus stops that officials consider redundant or underused drew some debate, but SFMTA planners argue that many stops are spaced too closely together, forcing buses to stop more often than necessary and contributing to delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials say they relied heavily on ridership data and community outreach to make those decisions. Every Muni bus tracks how many passengers board and exit at each stop, allowing planners to identify which stops are busiest and which see relatively little use. Haagsman conducted bus tours, stopping along the way to discuss conditions at locations such as Mansell Street and Visitacion Avenue in McLaren Park, where installation of a shelter is now proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their outreach, “what we heard consistently was people need a bus that is reliable,” Haagsman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA estimates that some Phase One improvements reduced round-trip travel times by as much as 15 minutes. Phase Two continues many of those same strategies on the southern half of the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans include upgraded shelters and lighting at stops, wider sidewalks, new transit bulbs — sidewalk extensions that allow passengers to board buses directly from the curb — and additional traffic-calming infrastructure. Haagsman said those changes will not only improve transit reliability but also make streets safer for pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project also targets several corridors that are part of San Francisco’s High Injury Network, a designation for streets with higher-than-average rates of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913450/san-francisco-has-tried-to-make-its-streets-safer-for-pedestrians-has-it-worked\">severe traffic collisions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Lowell Transit Club, meanwhile, said their work continues. Members are now advocating for a future 29-Rapid line that would provide faster, limited-stop service across the corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also begun organizing around broader regional transit funding efforts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084841/campaign-to-fund-bay-area-transit-smashes-signature-gathering-goal\">sales tax measure\u003c/a> on November’s ballot that is expected to generate around $1 billion a year for agencies such as BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain, even if the majority of the club’s members are too young to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirschbaum said the SFMTA recognizes the potential benefits of a Rapid route but said that the agency needs to stabilize funding first. Quick build improvements for Phase Two are set to roll out through this summer, with larger improvements slated through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 8: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of students who ride the 29-Sunset bus daily. About 12% of the bus’ riders are students, which is higher than the average on other lines.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Teenagers swarm the sidewalks outside San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lowell-high-school\">Lowell High School\u003c/a> after the final bell. They’re hoping to board the 29-Sunset, affectionately known as the city’s school bus — if they can catch a ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell junior Kaito Glaub watched as several packed buses came by and picked up a handful of students, leaving dozens behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people use the 29,” he said. “Sometimes it’ll take like 30 minutes before you can get on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and a group of high schoolers are trying to change that. Thanks to years of advocacy by the Lowell High School Transit Club and other riders, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> is moving ahead with the second phase of an ambitious project to speed up the route and make it more reliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA data, over a quarter of all students take public transit or the yellow school bus to and from school. High schoolers lead the way, with 55% reporting that they take transit regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_001-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of passengers wait for the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. The 14-mile route runs from the Presidio to Bayview via Parkmerced. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the line has long struggled with overcrowding, delays and reliability problems, particularly during the morning and afternoon school rushes. Students often watch multiple buses pass before they can board, while buses themselves become trapped in traffic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073883/its-san-franciscos-most-delayed-bus-for-riders-a-frustrating-problem-may-get-worse\">fall behind schedule\u003c/a> from frequent stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase Two of the 29-Sunset Improvement Project, approved May 19 by the SFMTA Board of Directors, includes bus stop consolidations, upgraded shelters and lighting, wider sidewalks, traffic-calming measures and infrastructure changes designed to reduce delays and overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It focuses on the southern half of the route, stretching from Junipero Serra Boulevard and Holloway Avenue through Ingleside, the Excelsior and Bayview neighborhoods. Four of the nine communities the route serves are prioritized by the SFMTA as “equity neighborhoods,” meaning the majority of the route’s riders are low-income or people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait to board the 29 Sunset bus near Lake Merced Boulevard and Middlefield Drive on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pandemic delayed portions of the project and temporarily shifted attention away from transit advocacy as schools shut down and ridership collapsed across the Muni system. But the 29-Sunset has rebounded faster than many other routes because it serves neighborhoods rather than downtown office commuters, the SFMTA said. Today, ridership has returned to 18,000 people daily, roughly 90% of pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want the 29 to run on time for years to come,” SFMTA chief Julie Kirschbaum said. “It’s an example where, as we’ve seen ridership grow, we have invested in service and now this capital investment to reflect that growing demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase One of the project cost about $9.5 million, funded using sources including $1 million in vehicle registration fees from the city’s Proposition AA, as well as regional programs like the One Bay Area Grant. Phase Two will cost $10 million, similarly drawing from local tax revenue and state and local grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait at the 29 Sunset bus stop near Plymouth Avenue and Ocean Avenue on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lowell students, the changes represent the culmination of years of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project began in 2019 after pressure from students who eventually formed the Lowell Transit Club, which attended public meetings, organized feedback campaigns and communicated directly with transit officials working on the first phase of the project, according to club president Quinn Luk.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Woody Szydlik, 17, said he joined the club in part because his friends were involved — but the bigger reason was that he relies on the bus to commute from the Richmond neighborhood to Lowell. Like many riders, he has experienced delays that made him late to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just thought maybe I could do something to help that,” Szydlik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Haagsman, outreach lead for the 29-Sunset Improvement Project, recently rode the route during a Monday afternoon school rush, watching students crowd onto packed buses outside Lowell and San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some intrepid high schoolers who are willing to get on, get on no matter what,” Haagsman said. “But we know that to make this a line that’s comfortable to ride, we need to make it reliable and have space to accommodate everyone who wants to ride the route.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The route, he said, faces a difficult combination of challenges. Because so many schools dismiss students around the same time, buses suddenly fill with large groups of riders. Delays then compound as buses stop more frequently to pick up waiting passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bus gets delayed, then there might be a person or more people waiting at every single stop along the route,” Haagsman said. “That makes it get even more delayed. So then you have a bus that’s both delayed and might not have space for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_005-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Haagsman, public information officer for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, poses as he rides the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA first identified major reliability problems on the route in a 2019 evaluation. Officials found that buses frequently bunched together, leaving two or three arriving at once after a long service gap, while heavy traffic and closely spaced bus stops slowed trips across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco’s longest daytime bus route, the 29-Sunset is particularly vulnerable to delays because problems in one neighborhood can ripple throughout the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the intensity of use, the fact that schools all end at the same time, are just challenges within the route that make these types of investments so valuable,” Kirschbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the route’s size, the agency split the improvement effort into two phases. The first focused on the western section of the route and was coordinated with a repaving project already underway on Sunset Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phase introduced changes that were part of SFMTA’s ongoing Muni Forward initiative, including upgraded boarding islands and transit signal priority, which allows buses to receive extended green lights at intersections, reducing the amount of time they spend sitting in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some bus stops were consolidated, and stops were moved from the near side of intersections to the far side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply by moving the bus back to the stop sign, the bus stops once,” Haagsman said, as the bus cruised down Winston Drive towards Buckingham Way near Stonestown Galleria. “It’s faster, more reliable, and it’s one small change that helps improve the ride for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083264\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/05112629-BUS_GH_017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Roccaforte, deputy spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, stands aboard the 29 Sunset bus on May 11, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plans to remove or relocate bus stops that officials consider redundant or underused drew some debate, but SFMTA planners argue that many stops are spaced too closely together, forcing buses to stop more often than necessary and contributing to delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials say they relied heavily on ridership data and community outreach to make those decisions. Every Muni bus tracks how many passengers board and exit at each stop, allowing planners to identify which stops are busiest and which see relatively little use. Haagsman conducted bus tours, stopping along the way to discuss conditions at locations such as Mansell Street and Visitacion Avenue in McLaren Park, where installation of a shelter is now proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their outreach, “what we heard consistently was people need a bus that is reliable,” Haagsman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA estimates that some Phase One improvements reduced round-trip travel times by as much as 15 minutes. Phase Two continues many of those same strategies on the southern half of the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans include upgraded shelters and lighting at stops, wider sidewalks, new transit bulbs — sidewalk extensions that allow passengers to board buses directly from the curb — and additional traffic-calming infrastructure. Haagsman said those changes will not only improve transit reliability but also make streets safer for pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project also targets several corridors that are part of San Francisco’s High Injury Network, a designation for streets with higher-than-average rates of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913450/san-francisco-has-tried-to-make-its-streets-safer-for-pedestrians-has-it-worked\">severe traffic collisions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Lowell Transit Club, meanwhile, said their work continues. Members are now advocating for a future 29-Rapid line that would provide faster, limited-stop service across the corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also begun organizing around broader regional transit funding efforts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084841/campaign-to-fund-bay-area-transit-smashes-signature-gathering-goal\">sales tax measure\u003c/a> on November’s ballot that is expected to generate around $1 billion a year for agencies such as BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain, even if the majority of the club’s members are too young to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirschbaum said the SFMTA recognizes the potential benefits of a Rapid route but said that the agency needs to stabilize funding first. Quick build improvements for Phase Two are set to roll out through this summer, with larger improvements slated through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 8: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of students who ride the 29-Sunset bus daily. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area schools were working to restore access to Canvas on Friday after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082828/canvas-hacked-bay-area-colleges-disrupted-by-global-cyberattack-on-learning-platform\">a cyberattack\u003c/a> on the company behind the widely used learning platform left students and teachers around the world without access to homework and exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University, the California State University system and the Peralta Colleges — Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College and Merritt College — were among the institutions that had begun to restore the software’s use on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation has been challenging, but people here in the East Bay are resilient,” Mark Johnson, a spokesperson for the Peralta Community College District, told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley said access “has largely been restored and final exams will proceed as scheduled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Foothill and De Anza Colleges in the South Bay said their security team restored Canvas access at 1 p.m. Friday, and said the “attacker did not access core Canvas functionality, downloaded but did not have access to and make any changes to user data, grades, or course content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructure, the Salt Lake City-based company that develops and publishes Canvas, said early Friday that it had brought the platform back online, but many individual schools and groups that use the system were conducting their own checks before restoring access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials \u003ca href=\"https://lts.calstate.edu/csu-canvas-incident-reports\">said Friday\u003c/a> that “in an abundance of caution, CSU has not yet fully reintegrated our campus systems or data connections with Canvas,” though they planned to do so by the afternoon after completing security protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at all 116 California community colleges, along with thousands of K-12 schools, colleges and universities nationwide, rely on the learning software daily to view and submit assignments, take part in class discussions, access syllabi and learning materials, and take exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/StanfordUniversity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/StanfordUniversity.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/StanfordUniversity-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/StanfordUniversity-1536x1162.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the entrances to the Main Quad on the Stanford University campus on April 9, 2019. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A black-hat hacker group named ShinyHunters took credit for the attack, though the group’s role has not yet been confirmed. On Thursday, students like Emily Mills, at City College of San Francisco, were greeted by what appeared to be a ransom note threatening to release sensitive information when they tried logging into Canvas to take their exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it’s scheduled maintenance, maybe it’s ShinyHunters,” Mills joked in a post on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sf_mills/status/2052507484565524640\">X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Skolnik, part-time faculty at Chabot College in Hayward, said she was teaching an in-person statistics course Thursday when a student showed her the hackers’ message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really read it very carefully other than to see its threatening and really obnoxious tone, and really alarming dark colors on the screen,” she said.[aside postID=news_12082828 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-7-KQED.jpg']Without access to Canvas to share course materials, Skolnik passed around a flash drive to all 20 students to download the data they needed for class to their laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skolnik said the experience made her reflect on how the experience must feel to community college students, particularly those who are only enrolled in online courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so much a part of their world it seems,” she said,” scams and hacks and all of the privacy issues that come up in online spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Instructure said it took Canvas offline Thursday after “the unauthorized actor involved in our ongoing security incident made changes to the pages that appeared when some students and teachers were logged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “exploited an issue related to Free-For-Teacher accounts,” company spokesperson Brian Watkins said in an email shortly after 1 a.m. Friday, referring to a demo program for educators whose schools weren’t Canvas users. After temporarily shutting down those accounts, Watkins said, the company restored access to Canvas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Community Colleges Security Center, Instructure first detected the intrusion April 29, “immediately began containment, and confirmed the incident publicly over the following days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students make their on campus at CSU East Bay on Feb. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, CSU officials said Instructure’s CEO and chief security officer notified them of a data breach potentially compromising Canvas users’ personal information, but Canvas remained up and they said there was “no indication of ongoing risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, it appeared the cyberattackers still had access to Instructure’s systems, posting the ransom messages to Canvas login pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the investigation to date, there is no evidence that passwords, Social Security numbers, financial information, or dates of birth were involved, community college and CSU officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/kkr-instructure-sued-after-data-breach-of-canvas-edtech-tool?taid=69fe4a284bb6d90001e00489&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Instructure was slapped with at least seven federal suits this week, including six filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. KKR, a global investment firm that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-acquired-by-KKR\">purchased\u003c/a> Instructure in 2024 for about $4.8 billion, is a named defendant in a case filed in the Southern District of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Powazek, a research program director at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, said schools are a “treasure trove” of sensitive data, particularly that of minors. They’re also particularly vulnerable because there aren’t many education software vendors like Instructure, and they have a large number of users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have a very high market share,” Powazek said. “Almost every school in the country at the K-12 level uses some combination of the same tools, which means that there’s a very high value for hackers that are able to intercept or get some sort of access to one of these products — because it means they won’t have access to just one school … they might be able to access the accounts of multiple schools across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powazek and other cybersecurity experts said the attack highlighted education’s reliance on digital technology, which creates a single point of failure in the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cliff Steinhauer, director of Information Security and Engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GWxsCyPmRxsAVy4DiZfvUxsEUO?domain=staysafeonline.org/\">National Cybersecurity Alliance\u003c/a>, said it should be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley Campus in Berkeley on Aug. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Canvas breach underscores how deeply schools now depend on centralized digital platforms to keep day-to-day academic operations running,” Steinhauer said. “Even if highly sensitive financial information was not exposed, educational records, communications, and identity data can still be valuable to cybercriminals for phishing, impersonation, and future attacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powazek said the Canvas attack is similar to a 2024 breach of PowerSchool, one of the most widely used student information systems in North America. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Without access to Canvas to share course materials, Skolnik passed around a flash drive to all 20 students to download the data they needed for class to their laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skolnik said the experience made her reflect on how the experience must feel to community college students, particularly those who are only enrolled in online courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so much a part of their world it seems,” she said,” scams and hacks and all of the privacy issues that come up in online spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Instructure said it took Canvas offline Thursday after “the unauthorized actor involved in our ongoing security incident made changes to the pages that appeared when some students and teachers were logged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “exploited an issue related to Free-For-Teacher accounts,” company spokesperson Brian Watkins said in an email shortly after 1 a.m. Friday, referring to a demo program for educators whose schools weren’t Canvas users. After temporarily shutting down those accounts, Watkins said, the company restored access to Canvas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Community Colleges Security Center, Instructure first detected the intrusion April 29, “immediately began containment, and confirmed the incident publicly over the following days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250219-CSU-East-Bay-File-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students make their on campus at CSU East Bay on Feb. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, CSU officials said Instructure’s CEO and chief security officer notified them of a data breach potentially compromising Canvas users’ personal information, but Canvas remained up and they said there was “no indication of ongoing risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, it appeared the cyberattackers still had access to Instructure’s systems, posting the ransom messages to Canvas login pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the investigation to date, there is no evidence that passwords, Social Security numbers, financial information, or dates of birth were involved, community college and CSU officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/kkr-instructure-sued-after-data-breach-of-canvas-edtech-tool?taid=69fe4a284bb6d90001e00489&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Instructure was slapped with at least seven federal suits this week, including six filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. KKR, a global investment firm that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-acquired-by-KKR\">purchased\u003c/a> Instructure in 2024 for about $4.8 billion, is a named defendant in a case filed in the Southern District of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Powazek, a research program director at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, said schools are a “treasure trove” of sensitive data, particularly that of minors. They’re also particularly vulnerable because there aren’t many education software vendors like Instructure, and they have a large number of users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have a very high market share,” Powazek said. “Almost every school in the country at the K-12 level uses some combination of the same tools, which means that there’s a very high value for hackers that are able to intercept or get some sort of access to one of these products — because it means they won’t have access to just one school … they might be able to access the accounts of multiple schools across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powazek and other cybersecurity experts said the attack highlighted education’s reliance on digital technology, which creates a single point of failure in the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cliff Steinhauer, director of Information Security and Engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GWxsCyPmRxsAVy4DiZfvUxsEUO?domain=staysafeonline.org/\">National Cybersecurity Alliance\u003c/a>, said it should be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley Campus in Berkeley on Aug. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Canvas breach underscores how deeply schools now depend on centralized digital platforms to keep day-to-day academic operations running,” Steinhauer said. “Even if highly sensitive financial information was not exposed, educational records, communications, and identity data can still be valuable to cybercriminals for phishing, impersonation, and future attacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powazek said the Canvas attack is similar to a 2024 breach of PowerSchool, one of the most widely used student information systems in North America. 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"content": "\u003cp>No work, no school, no shopping and no billionaires: That was the message at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081912/trumps-immigration-crackdown-draws-out-may-day-crowds-in-the-bay-area\">May Day protests across the Bay Area\u003c/a> on Friday, as activists gathered to fight for workers’ rights over those of the nation’s ultra-wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s protests in the U.S. on International Workers’ Day are also taking aim at the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration agenda and high living costs — exacerbated by the U.S. war in Iran — that threaten to upend the lives of workers worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local elected officials were among several arrested Friday morning at a rally at San Francisco International Airport. Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Connie Chan, as well as state Sen. Josh Becker, D–Menlo Park, were detained by police, who planned to cite 20 to 25 protesters, according to an officer at the scene. Mandelman told KQED that they were cited for blocking a roadway and failing to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally at SFO, which demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the city, was led by the airport’s passenger service workers, who are preparing for a Board of Supervisors hearing next week over low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They move bags, they assist the elderly, disabled passengers, they clean airport cabins … and I was there to stand with them in solidarity as they push for a new contract,” Becker said. “But also I think it’s part of a larger moment today on International Workers’ Day to say that one job should be enough here in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, for many workers, that’s not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082139 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is arrested as he stands with other demonstrators blocking the road in front of San Francisco International terminal during the ICE Out of San Francisco protest at SFO on May Day at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, May 1, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFO was also the site of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">high-profile altercation with ICE\u003c/a> last month in which officers forcefully detained a woman and her young child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators who were detained and being processed Friday afternoon appear to have been among a group blocking the street outside the airport’s International Terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good day for the movement,” Sanjay Garla, first vice president at SEIU United Service Workers West, said as he was escorted through the terminal by police. “ICE out of SFO!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Civic Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 2 p.m., Mission Action, a group that advocates for the city’s immigrant and low-income residents, held a rally at Civic Center, which was followed by a march to Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Robinson, a student at KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory, marches during a May Day protest near Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco and Oakland school of the arts students cheer as they listen to speakers during a May Day rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re walking out of our schools because we need to show up and be there for the people — because we are the people,” said Max Navarro Serrano, a high school student at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. “We have the power, not the f— billionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the May Day Coalition’s demands are that leaders support a ballot measure that would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the assets of California’s roughly 200 billionaires, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081502\">qualified for the November ballot\u003c/a> this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march during a May Day protest at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco high school students cheer as they listen to speakers during a May Day rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In East San José, local and state labor groups joined hundreds of progressive activists at a rally at Story and King roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hundred people held signs and chanted slogans in support of workers, against ICE, and against wars during a large May Day rally and march in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billionaire and candidate for California governor Tom Steyer speaks with Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, and Doug Moore, executive director of the United Domestic Workers of America, during a May Day rally in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the crowd was Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, who directly called out Big Tech for trying to “buy elections” in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the epicenter of what we’re fighting here, when we say ‘Workers over billionaires.’ We’re going to fight back and we’re going to do it right here on their turf,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fareed F. holds up an American flag during a May Day rally in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hundred gathered to support workers, immigrants and anti-war policies near Story and King roads in East San José on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds rallied and marched from Fruitvale Plaza through the East Oakland neighborhood to show solidarity with immigrant workers. Oakland resident Andrea Byers held a sign that said: “I support my immigrant neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support my immigrant neighbors because my immigrant neighbors support me, and support this economy,” Byers said. “It’s what our economy has always been based on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Alejo dances with the Teokali dance group at a rally proceeding the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082229\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harriet Shange – Watkins (left), and Savannah Shange (center) cheer for the speakers at a rally proceeding the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melissa Guzman Garcia, an associate Ethnic Studies professor at San Francisco State University, said she came to Oakland alongside some students and colleagues to remind herself that “there are so many things to fight for in this country, even when it feels like so many things are going wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to see so many people, so many different generations showing up to Fruitvale, Oakland, and coming here to celebrate together,” Guzman Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oree Originol carries a sign demanding justice for Renee Good at the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria C. with Mujeres Unidas en Acción and others chant while marching in the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is a public holiday honoring labor in many countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the first May Day was celebrated in 1890 in Emeryville’s Shellmound Park, organized by carpenters and joiners unions, according to activist historians \u003ca href=\"https://leftinthebay.com/\">Left in the Bay\u003c/a>. The labor celebrations overlapped with the festival celebrating the change of the seasons, commemorated throughout the northern hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082239 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An onlooker cheers from a window as protesters march at the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That May Day used to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/SF-s-May-Day-How-a-once-popular-children-s-13827340.php\">public holiday\u003c/a> in San Francisco for schoolchildren, who danced around \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfheritage.org/heritage-in-the-neighborhoods/may-day-history-in-the-parkside/\">May Poles\u003c/a> and were given free milk and cookies in city parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">\u003cem>María Fernanda Bernal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/daisynguyen\">\u003cem>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jgeha\">\u003cem>Joseph Geha\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally at SFO, which demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the city, was led by the airport’s passenger service workers, who are preparing for a Board of Supervisors hearing next week over low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They move bags, they assist the elderly, disabled passengers, they clean airport cabins … and I was there to stand with them in solidarity as they push for a new contract,” Becker said. “But also I think it’s part of a larger moment today on International Workers’ Day to say that one job should be enough here in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, for many workers, that’s not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082139 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is arrested as he stands with other demonstrators blocking the road in front of San Francisco International terminal during the ICE Out of San Francisco protest at SFO on May Day at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, May 1, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFO was also the site of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">high-profile altercation with ICE\u003c/a> last month in which officers forcefully detained a woman and her young child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators who were detained and being processed Friday afternoon appear to have been among a group blocking the street outside the airport’s International Terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good day for the movement,” Sanjay Garla, first vice president at SEIU United Service Workers West, said as he was escorted through the terminal by police. “ICE out of SFO!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Civic Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 2 p.m., Mission Action, a group that advocates for the city’s immigrant and low-income residents, held a rally at Civic Center, which was followed by a march to Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Robinson, a student at KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory, marches during a May Day protest near Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco and Oakland school of the arts students cheer as they listen to speakers during a May Day rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re walking out of our schools because we need to show up and be there for the people — because we are the people,” said Max Navarro Serrano, a high school student at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. “We have the power, not the f— billionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the May Day Coalition’s demands are that leaders support a ballot measure that would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the assets of California’s roughly 200 billionaires, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081502\">qualified for the November ballot\u003c/a> this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march during a May Day protest at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MayDayProtest-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco high school students cheer as they listen to speakers during a May Day rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In East San José, local and state labor groups joined hundreds of progressive activists at a rally at Story and King roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hundred people held signs and chanted slogans in support of workers, against ICE, and against wars during a large May Day rally and march in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billionaire and candidate for California governor Tom Steyer speaks with Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, and Doug Moore, executive director of the United Domestic Workers of America, during a May Day rally in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the crowd was Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, who directly called out Big Tech for trying to “buy elections” in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the epicenter of what we’re fighting here, when we say ‘Workers over billionaires.’ We’re going to fight back and we’re going to do it right here on their turf,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fareed F. holds up an American flag during a May Day rally in East San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-MAYDAYSJ-KQED-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hundred gathered to support workers, immigrants and anti-war policies near Story and King roads in East San José on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds rallied and marched from Fruitvale Plaza through the East Oakland neighborhood to show solidarity with immigrant workers. Oakland resident Andrea Byers held a sign that said: “I support my immigrant neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support my immigrant neighbors because my immigrant neighbors support me, and support this economy,” Byers said. “It’s what our economy has always been based on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Alejo dances with the Teokali dance group at a rally proceeding the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082229\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harriet Shange – Watkins (left), and Savannah Shange (center) cheer for the speakers at a rally proceeding the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melissa Guzman Garcia, an associate Ethnic Studies professor at San Francisco State University, said she came to Oakland alongside some students and colleagues to remind herself that “there are so many things to fight for in this country, even when it feels like so many things are going wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to see so many people, so many different generations showing up to Fruitvale, Oakland, and coming here to celebrate together,” Guzman Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oree Originol carries a sign demanding justice for Renee Good at the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-06-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria C. with Mujeres Unidas en Acción and others chant while marching in the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is a public holiday honoring labor in many countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the first May Day was celebrated in 1890 in Emeryville’s Shellmound Park, organized by carpenters and joiners unions, according to activist historians \u003ca href=\"https://leftinthebay.com/\">Left in the Bay\u003c/a>. The labor celebrations overlapped with the festival celebrating the change of the seasons, commemorated throughout the northern hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082239 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260501-OAKLAND-MAY-DAY-MD-09-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An onlooker cheers from a window as protesters march at the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day march in Oakland on May 1, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That May Day used to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/SF-s-May-Day-How-a-once-popular-children-s-13827340.php\">public holiday\u003c/a> in San Francisco for schoolchildren, who danced around \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfheritage.org/heritage-in-the-neighborhoods/may-day-history-in-the-parkside/\">May Poles\u003c/a> and were given free milk and cookies in city parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">\u003cem>María Fernanda Bernal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/daisynguyen\">\u003cem>Daisy Nguyen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jgeha\">\u003cem>Joseph Geha\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Early last Wednesday, it was Gabriel Korty’s turn to take watch while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059265/california-journalist-others-on-2nd-gaza-aid-flotilla-released-from-israeli-captivity\">sailing\u003c/a> across the Balearic Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rose at dawn to look out from the deck of an eight-person wooden \u003ca href=\"https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=224114520\">sailboat\u003c/a> named Al Quds, an Arabic name for Jerusalem, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian aid fleet destined for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gabekorty/\"> the Point Reyes artist\u003c/a> said he often struggled to discuss the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051743/bay-area-rabbis-jewish-leaders-demand-israel-let-aid-into-gaza-as-crisis-persists\">humanitarian crisis in Gaza\u003c/a> with those around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people just don’t have the capacity to talk about it,” Korty, 36, said of his community in the foggy, rural beach town an hour north of San Francisco. “I think maybe because they feel that they can’t do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he set out to prove that regular people can do something. Today, he’s cruising around the coast of Sicily along with a fleet carrying over 1,000 people from more than 100 countries, and at least six people with ties to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s significantly larger than a previous mission in September 2025, which included 42 boats and 462 participants, but has the same aim: to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and remind the world of the enclave’s plight, Korty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really feels like people were forgetting that this genocide was still happening,” Korty said. “I wanted to be here so people in my community had some sort of connection to this flotilla and maybe would pay Gaza the attention it deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080589\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Gabriel Korty, an artist, woodworker and event producer from Point Reyes. Korty is crewing on Al Quds, a sailboat with Spanish flags, headed to Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gabriel Korty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. It is around two-thirds the size of San José, with twice the population. More than half of its residents are children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, after Hamas took control of Gaza’s governance from the Palestinian Authority, Israel began a blockade of the strip by air, land and sea, effectively caging in its 2 million Palestinians. Following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and the start of an Israeli military campaign that leveled entire cities and killed, by some estimates, around \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00522-4/fulltext\">75,000 \u003c/a>Palestinians, the stranglehold on humanitarian food, medicine and aid intensified. By April 2025, the blockade pushed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/gaza-un-experts-urge-general-assembly-respond-famine-and-genocide\">parts of Gaza into famine\u003c/a>, according to the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a ceasefire declared Oct. 10, 2025, Israel promised to freely allow aid to pass into Gaza. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has-israel-violated-the-gaza-ceasefire-here-are-the-numbers#:~:text=Israel%20still%20choking%20aid,%2C%20crisps%2C%20and%20soft%20drinks.\">analysis by Al Jazeera\u003c/a> found that aid deliveries in the weeks that followed faced major delays, if allowed in at all. Israel’s military and Hamas, meanwhile, have continued to trade attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel controls all inflow and outflow of personnel and aid on the borders of Gaza,” said Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician based in Saratoga. “Anything that is going to enter, whether it be on trucks or otherwise, has to be vetted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is assisting the flotilla as part of the medical coordination team before heading to Lebanon for an aid mission, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">traveled to Gaza multiple times\u003c/a>, mainly to set up American-style field hospitals to evaluate and treat civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, he experienced firsthand the challenges of providing lifesaving medical care under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medications that contain ingredients like glycerin, which can be found in Children’s Tylenol, are rejected by the Israeli authorities as “dual-use” because they could be used for military purposes, Subeh said. Physicians have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-doctor-denied-gaza-entry-9.7080727\">reported\u003c/a> that Israel has limited the bringing in of \u003ca href=\"https://peaceandjustice.org/to-get-a-stethoscope-into-gaza-you-needed-to-buy-a-tv/\">stethoscopes\u003c/a>, a tool that is practically synonymous with the practice of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going through this constant struggle to try to justify all the things that you are bringing in to treat patients,” said Subeh, 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007717\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subeh traveled to Sicily to help train boat medics before another round of ships departs Saturday for the journey across the Mediterranean. Medics will also train in how to provide care in detention, in case the fleet is intercepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983361/bay-area-residents-to-join-gaza-aid-flotilla\">have tried to reach Gaza’s shores\u003c/a> multiple times since Israel’s blockade started. None of the attempts has made it past the naval blockade, which has \u003ca href=\"https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/israel-blockade-gaza-and-flotilla-incident\">closed\u003c/a> Gaza’s coast to maritime traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no international law prohibits civilian vessels from reaching Gaza by boat, Israel said its naval blockade is legal and necessary for self-defense, as an attempt to stop the illegal transport of weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many flotilla participants, deemed a security threat, are banned for life from entering Palestinian territories. But Subeh said that’s a risk faced by anyone who provides aid. After being denied entry to Gaza twice, Subeh said he took his \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/08/israel-gaza-doctors-denied-entry/\">case\u003c/a> to an Israeli high court.[aside postID=news_12079164 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-21-BL_qed.jpg']“The question we should be asking is, what right does the state of Israel have of banning folks from going to Palestine?” said Subeh, who is Palestinian and grew up in Kuwait and Los Angeles as a refugee. “Everybody’s silence plays a huge role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chad Ashby, a ship electrician from Los Angeles, considered joining the Freedom Flotilla, a precursor to the Global Sumud Flotilla, last year and interviewed with organizers at the time. A longtime activist who lived on boats in Bay Area marinas for a decade, Ashby said he’s made more than a dozen humanitarian trips to the Mediterranean with Sea-Watch, a German organization that rescues refugees off the Libyan coast and ferries them to boats bound for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Sea-Watch, Ashby, 41, has come face to face with Libyan Coast Guard vessels, with machine guns mounted on their bows, as his crew worked to rescue people from sinking rubber boats and life rafts. He said he still remembers how his heart pounded for hours after his first encounter with Libya’s fleet, which is known for firing on migrants and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing this type of work, your comfort level starts to change, and you just start to become more comfortable with doing things that seem a bit more risky,” Ashby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, though, Ashby backed out of joining the Freedom Flotilla. In his research, he learned about an Israeli \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/activist-flotilla-seeking-to-break-the-israeli-blockade-of-gaza-says-drones-attacked-its-boats\">raid\u003c/a> on the Mavi Marmara, a passenger ferry headed to Gaza in 2010, that killed nine Turkish activists, including one Turkish American. The attack was condemned globally, and Israel eventually agreed to pay Turkey $20 million in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing that story gave me great hesitation,” Ashby said. “It made me [think] I’m not sure if I’m really willing to die for this right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the crew of the Shireen, a legal support boat, look out from the port of Augusta, Sicily, on April 18, 2026. The Global Sumud Flotilla includes around 70 vessels and nearly 1,000 participants from 70 countries, making it significantly larger than a previous mission in September 2025, which included 42 boats and 462 participants.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of Ashby’s friends from the Sea-Watch community were on a Freedom Flotilla ship called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/conscience-drone-strike-gaza-flotilla-aftermath/\">Conscience\u003c/a> that was anchored off the coast of Malta last May when it was hit twice by drones in the middle of the night, ripping open the ship’s hull. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058820/ca-families-officials-call-for-release-of-us-citizens-detained-with-gaza-aid-flotilla\">more ships embarked for Gaza\u003c/a>, carrying activists including Greta Thunberg and Amazon labor organizer Chris Smalls. That voyage made international news when Israel detained more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lk292jww4o\">400\u003c/a> participants 70 nautical miles off Gaza’s coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058820/ca-families-officials-call-for-release-of-us-citizens-detained-with-gaza-aid-flotilla\">California lawmakers and people around the world\u003c/a> called for the immediate release of the detained activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing about that mission changed a lot of minds for activists, because people before that thought that this is like a death sentence,” Ashby said. “Even though they were not able to deliver the aid, they were able to get the message out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Ashby packed a small bag, including his electrical equipment and his documents. He also brought his violin, he said, not only to keep up his daily practice but also as a form of meditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Ashby plays violin at his home in Topanga on April 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, he traveled to Sicily’s eastern coast to join the crew of the Shireen, a sailboat named for Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank while reporting in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, the crew got to work on a list of maintenance tasks needed before the boat could leave port. In the evenings, after working, the crew and others in the marina joined together to play music and \u003ca href=\"https://wavezero.world/?podcast=1f13347d-8921-68d2-8710-b31fe50b6f8e\">livestreamed\u003c/a> it as a radio show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s impressive how many people have come together to try to make an effort to put a stop to the genocide,” Ashby said. “I love to see all of the organization and the passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shireen doesn’t plan to reach Gaza and will stay in international waters for the duration of the voyage. As a legal support boat, it carries a handful of legal observers as well as a small group of people with the skills to fix other ships’ broken navigational systems, lights and whatever else they need to make it across the sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just inundated with this horrible information and feeling so bad for what was happening and feeling very powerless,” Ashby said. “And it seemed like a way that I could use my skill to be able to help out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he set out to prove that regular people can do something. Today, he’s cruising around the coast of Sicily along with a fleet carrying over 1,000 people from more than 100 countries, and at least six people with ties to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s significantly larger than a previous mission in September 2025, which included 42 boats and 462 participants, but has the same aim: to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and remind the world of the enclave’s plight, Korty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really feels like people were forgetting that this genocide was still happening,” Korty said. “I wanted to be here so people in my community had some sort of connection to this flotilla and maybe would pay Gaza the attention it deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080589\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FOLITTLA-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Gabriel Korty, an artist, woodworker and event producer from Point Reyes. Korty is crewing on Al Quds, a sailboat with Spanish flags, headed to Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gabriel Korty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. It is around two-thirds the size of San José, with twice the population. More than half of its residents are children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, after Hamas took control of Gaza’s governance from the Palestinian Authority, Israel began a blockade of the strip by air, land and sea, effectively caging in its 2 million Palestinians. Following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and the start of an Israeli military campaign that leveled entire cities and killed, by some estimates, around \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00522-4/fulltext\">75,000 \u003c/a>Palestinians, the stranglehold on humanitarian food, medicine and aid intensified. By April 2025, the blockade pushed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/gaza-un-experts-urge-general-assembly-respond-famine-and-genocide\">parts of Gaza into famine\u003c/a>, according to the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a ceasefire declared Oct. 10, 2025, Israel promised to freely allow aid to pass into Gaza. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has-israel-violated-the-gaza-ceasefire-here-are-the-numbers#:~:text=Israel%20still%20choking%20aid,%2C%20crisps%2C%20and%20soft%20drinks.\">analysis by Al Jazeera\u003c/a> found that aid deliveries in the weeks that followed faced major delays, if allowed in at all. Israel’s military and Hamas, meanwhile, have continued to trade attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel controls all inflow and outflow of personnel and aid on the borders of Gaza,” said Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician based in Saratoga. “Anything that is going to enter, whether it be on trucks or otherwise, has to be vetted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is assisting the flotilla as part of the medical coordination team before heading to Lebanon for an aid mission, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">traveled to Gaza multiple times\u003c/a>, mainly to set up American-style field hospitals to evaluate and treat civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, he experienced firsthand the challenges of providing lifesaving medical care under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medications that contain ingredients like glycerin, which can be found in Children’s Tylenol, are rejected by the Israeli authorities as “dual-use” because they could be used for military purposes, Subeh said. 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He said he still remembers how his heart pounded for hours after his first encounter with Libya’s fleet, which is known for firing on migrants and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing this type of work, your comfort level starts to change, and you just start to become more comfortable with doing things that seem a bit more risky,” Ashby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, though, Ashby backed out of joining the Freedom Flotilla. In his research, he learned about an Israeli \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/activist-flotilla-seeking-to-break-the-israeli-blockade-of-gaza-says-drones-attacked-its-boats\">raid\u003c/a> on the Mavi Marmara, a passenger ferry headed to Gaza in 2010, that killed nine Turkish activists, including one Turkish American. The attack was condemned globally, and Israel eventually agreed to pay Turkey $20 million in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing that story gave me great hesitation,” Ashby said. “It made me [think] I’m not sure if I’m really willing to die for this right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-GAZA-FLOTILLA-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the crew of the Shireen, a legal support boat, look out from the port of Augusta, Sicily, on April 18, 2026. The Global Sumud Flotilla includes around 70 vessels and nearly 1,000 participants from 70 countries, making it significantly larger than a previous mission in September 2025, which included 42 boats and 462 participants.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of Ashby’s friends from the Sea-Watch community were on a Freedom Flotilla ship called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/conscience-drone-strike-gaza-flotilla-aftermath/\">Conscience\u003c/a> that was anchored off the coast of Malta last May when it was hit twice by drones in the middle of the night, ripping open the ship’s hull. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058820/ca-families-officials-call-for-release-of-us-citizens-detained-with-gaza-aid-flotilla\">more ships embarked for Gaza\u003c/a>, carrying activists including Greta Thunberg and Amazon labor organizer Chris Smalls. That voyage made international news when Israel detained more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lk292jww4o\">400\u003c/a> participants 70 nautical miles off Gaza’s coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058820/ca-families-officials-call-for-release-of-us-citizens-detained-with-gaza-aid-flotilla\">California lawmakers and people around the world\u003c/a> called for the immediate release of the detained activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing about that mission changed a lot of minds for activists, because people before that thought that this is like a death sentence,” Ashby said. “Even though they were not able to deliver the aid, they were able to get the message out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Ashby packed a small bag, including his electrical equipment and his documents. He also brought his violin, he said, not only to keep up his daily practice but also as a form of meditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041526_CHADASHBY_9530-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Ashby plays violin at his home in Topanga on April 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, he traveled to Sicily’s eastern coast to join the crew of the Shireen, a sailboat named for Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank while reporting in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, the crew got to work on a list of maintenance tasks needed before the boat could leave port. In the evenings, after working, the crew and others in the marina joined together to play music and \u003ca href=\"https://wavezero.world/?podcast=1f13347d-8921-68d2-8710-b31fe50b6f8e\">livestreamed\u003c/a> it as a radio show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s impressive how many people have come together to try to make an effort to put a stop to the genocide,” Ashby said. “I love to see all of the organization and the passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shireen doesn’t plan to reach Gaza and will stay in international waters for the duration of the voyage. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco public health officials on Wednesday announced the city’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/measles\">measles case\u003c/a> since 2019, saying that an unvaccinated infant was exposed to the virus while traveling internationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infant, who is younger than 12 months old, became infectious after returning to San Francisco and is currently recovering at home, the city’s Department of Public Health said in a statement. The case was confirmed on Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All members of the infant’s household are reportedly vaccinated, the release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is battling one of its worst measles outbreaks since 2019, with 39 confirmed cases this year as of noon Monday, before the San Francisco case was confirmed, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/measles.aspx\">latest data \u003c/a>available from the state’s Department of Public Health. No deaths have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month alone, nine related cases were reported in Placer and Sacramento counties, where officials said Wednesday that at least 19 cases have been confirmed amid an ongoing outbreak, including an exposure at a pediatric care setting. An outbreak is three or more related cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise in measles in the Golden State overlaps with a national resurgence of the preventable disease. In 2025, the U.S. reported its highest number of measles cases in 30 years, driven mostly by large outbreaks in Texas and South Carolina. The country declared measles eliminated in 2000, but that status is now at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhencanbabiesgetanearlydoseoftheMMRvaccine\">When can babies get an early dose of the MMR vaccine?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ImplanningtotravelsoonHowworriedshouldIbeaboutmeasles\">I’m planning to travel soon. How worried should I be about measles?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The virus, which is highly contagious, can cause serious illness and death. It spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, talks or coughs, and it can linger in the air for up to an hour. Symptoms can include fever, cough, runny nose and pink eye, followed 2-4 days later by a rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are 97% effective at stopping illness, officials said. The standard MMR vaccine schedule involves two doses: the first at 12-15 months old and the second at 4-6 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP-1536x1140.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nurse prepares a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Andrews County Health Department on April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. \u003ccite>(Annie Rice/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip, San Francisco’s health officer, highlighted the risk as a reason to get vaccinated at any age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is incredibly important to get the MMR vaccine, as measles is one of the most infectious diseases in the world,” Philip said. “If you and your family are traveling internationally, make sure everyone is up to date with the MMR vaccine and is aware of the symptoms of measles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhencanbabiesgetanearlydoseoftheMMRvaccine\">\u003c/a>Why is measles so dangerous for babies and children?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measles is preventable with the combined MMR vaccine, and vaccination against the disease has been part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html\">routine childhood immunization\u003c/a> for decades. (There’s also a combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, or MMRV, vaccine, but it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html\">only licensed\u003c/a> for use in children 1-12 years old.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/complications.html\">Babies and young children are especially at risk from measles\u003c/a>, but because the measles vaccine is routinely recommended only for children 12 months and older, infants younger than 12 months of age — like the San Francisco child currently infected with measles — are especially vulnerable to infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10813255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10813255 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/measles-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because the measles vaccine is routinely recommended only for children 12 months of age and older, babies are especially vulnerable to infection. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For this reason, health officials usually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981370/why-are-bay-area-health-officials-warning-about-measles\">advise parents\u003c/a> of infants to reach out to their child’s health care provider before any international travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents intending to travel internationally with an infant \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/plan-for-travel.html\">may be able to secure an early MMR vaccination for children as young as 6 months old\u003c/a> due to the measles risk they may face abroad if unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ImplanningtotravelsoonHowworriedshouldIbeaboutmeasles\">\u003c/a>I’m traveling internationally soon. How aware should I be of measles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Travelers are advised to stay up-to-date on the global locations where measles outbreaks are currently taking place. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/global-measles-vaccination/data-research/global-measles-outbreaks/index.html\">The CDC has a dashboard of these countries\u003c/a>, which include India, Angola, Indonesia and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who is unvaccinated (or just doesn’t have “adequate evidence of immunity”) and planning to travel internationally in the coming weeks and months — even if not to a country with a current measles outbreak — can get \u003ca href=\"https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/level1/measles-globe\">an emergency two-dose course of the vaccine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic travelers should also know that there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\">measles outbreaks taking place in other U.S. states\u003c/a>, including South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning travelers should watch for any \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html#:~:text=Signs%20and%20symptoms,-Seek%20care%20immediately%21\">symptoms of measles \u003c/a>for a total of three weeks after arriving back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I’m vaccinated, could I still get measles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Six years of living with COVID-19 have taught us that being vaccinated against a virus doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t get infected with that virus.[aside postID=news_12073722 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1718981175_qut-1020x681.jpg']The COVID-19 vaccine, for example, does somewhat reduce your chances of being infected — although the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/5-things-you-should-know.html\"> CDC said \u003c/a>that “protection against infection tends to be modest and sometimes short-lived” — but it also means you’re much less likely to get severely ill if you do get infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the measles vaccine \u003cem>is \u003c/em>incredibly effective at protecting against infections, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/questions.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\"> CDC said\u003c/a>, and two doses of the measles vaccine are “about 97% effective” at preventing measles if you’re exposed. (One dose is “about 93% effective.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for why “about three out of 100” people vaccinated against measles will still get measles after exposure — also known as breakthrough cases — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/questions.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\">the CDC said \u003c/a>that experts “aren’t sure why” and that this could be due to the responsiveness of an individual’s immune system to the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the good news is, fully vaccinated people who get measles seem more likely to have a milder illness,” the CDC said — and fully vaccinated people “seem also less likely to spread the disease to other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I’m up-to-date on my measles vaccines, do I need a measles booster?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. The CDC’s longtime advice says: If you had two doses of measles vaccine as a child according to the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/questions.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\">vaccination schedule\u003c/a>, the CDC considers you “protected for life” and you “do not ever need a booster dose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given that measles can be fatal to some people — and serious impacts from an infection can appear\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk\"> years later \u003c/a>— even those who’ve had their MMR vaccine may be concerned about how protected they still are against the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simple blood test known as a “titer test” is a way medical professionals can see how much immunity a person still has against a disease like measles.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073722/2026-measles-cases-mmr-vaccine-how-to-get-titer-test-immunity-antibodies-extra-dose\"> Read more about how to check your measles immunity and who might need an extra MMR vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The standard MMR vaccine schedule involves two doses: the first at 12-15 months old and the second at 4-6 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MeaslesAP-1536x1140.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nurse prepares a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Andrews County Health Department on April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. \u003ccite>(Annie Rice/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip, San Francisco’s health officer, highlighted the risk as a reason to get vaccinated at any age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is incredibly important to get the MMR vaccine, as measles is one of the most infectious diseases in the world,” Philip said. “If you and your family are traveling internationally, make sure everyone is up to date with the MMR vaccine and is aware of the symptoms of measles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhencanbabiesgetanearlydoseoftheMMRvaccine\">\u003c/a>Why is measles so dangerous for babies and children?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measles is preventable with the combined MMR vaccine, and vaccination against the disease has been part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html\">routine childhood immunization\u003c/a> for decades. 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