In Sonoma County, officials are struggling to address a homeless encampment with roughly 200 residents. (Eric Westervelt/NPR)
Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It's a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren't always listening.
"I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need," Gibson says. "They don't want you hiding, but they don't want you in their face, you know?"
Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown "Hoovervilles," where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation's wealthiest states.
The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County's Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.
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"I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that's the reality that we're facing right now in Sonoma County," said county Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, whose district includes the encampment.
For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet "homes" have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.
"It's incredibly challenging," Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. "I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services."
expanded statewide efforts
While homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state's homeless population jumped 16% in the last year. California has the highest number of tent cities, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a new report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California's homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.
Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his new budget for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a special fund to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state's expanding homeless encampments.
Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including disease, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and in 2018 topped 1,000 — about three deaths a day.
Living on the Trail
Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname "Cowboy."
"Well, they call me cowboy," Gibson says, "I always 'cowboy up' for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It's very hard," he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. "It's a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I'm doing the best I can."
Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.
County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it's not enough.
"If you don't have someone taking out the trash, it's gonna pile up," Gibson says. "Some people are elderly and can't really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light."
At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.
"People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this," Gibson says. "A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity."
Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to "cowboy up," Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.
"I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken," says commuter Vania Supulveda. "My daughter complains, 'Oh, it's so cold out today' when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It's depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I've never seen something like this so close to me."
Exploring Solutions
The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED's Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.
The state's "No Place Like Home" program would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.
"This is actually a model that ... already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County," Hopkins told Forum. "They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing."
Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.
"That's always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What's happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable," Hopkins told Forum.
Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with "fundamental human needs," such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.
"When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it's actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail," Hopkins said. "So it's tough for service workers to actually go out there ... and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing."
Public Backlash in Sonoma County
"It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings," Hopkins said. "There's just no room for error now, there's no safety net."
On Thursday, Sonoma County's chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.
Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate $12 million in emergency funds for the encampment.
Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency operations center to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.
Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started an effort to recall Hopkins, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — "her watch, her failure" — and calls the homeless encampment a "public cesspool" that's undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.
The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.
Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is a local injunction that says the county can't arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.
A federal court ruling carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can't provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.
Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can't afford now on its own.
"How can we provide alternatives when we don't have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?" she asked.
President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response to its homeless crisis, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. "It's a shame. The world is looking at it," Trump said in September.
Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.
But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.
Volunteers Begin to Organize
In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They're asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?
"We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We've just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire," said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition. The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.
"If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things," Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, "there's no reason why we can't do this for our unhoused neighbors. It's the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There's no excuse for this."
The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.
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The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County's fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.
One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.
"A friend of mind said, 'You don't know what's going on down there.' And I said, 'You're right,' " Ramirez said. "And so I went down. And so we've spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like."
These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more "squeaky wheel coalitions" in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.
"I don't like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they're people and we shouldn't have to humanize them," said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. "And yet, we're in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized."
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We do not want this contract to exist, and we do not want our labor to go towards aiding a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, we’ll look into the deep ties between Israel and Silicon Valley and the tech workers hoping to sever them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The ties run broad and deep, and they have since the 1970s. Across a wide range of technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Rachael Myrow is senior editor of KQED Silicon Valley desk. How have you seen tech workers in Silicon Valley begin to organize against the tech industries ties to Israel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Well, it started on internal slack channels inside affinity groups that were in many cases, already issuing complaints to company management of feeling unheard or less seen than their Jewish or Israeli counterparts, or even retaliated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>But of course, the organizing took off after Israel invaded Gaza on October 27th. And that’s when you started to see groups like No Tech for apartheid making a bigger noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know you spoke to someone who began organizing with no tech for apartheid. Can you introduce me to Hasan Ibraheem? Who is he and how long has he been working in tech?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The first thing you should know about Hasan is that he’s 23 years old. So, by his own admission, not that long out of college, his first job out of college at Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I worked on sort of like ads infrastructure. I do mainly like backend server work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>He’s there about a year and a half before this whole thing began with Israel and Gaza. So Hasan starts to get involved, with no tech for apartheid as the situation in Gaza escalates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>We don’t expect that any one of our actions is going to cause these companies to suddenly pull out of the deals that they have with Israel, but we hope that with each action that we do, we inspire more tech workers to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what kinds of actions was he organizing exactly or helping to organize?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Well, we know about him because he was involved in one of the sit ins that no tech for apartheid, staged recently in three different cities Sunnyvale, Seattle and New York. So he was involved in the New York sit in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Calling for an end to Project Nimbus, which is this $1.2 billion cloud services contract with the Israeli government, including the Ministry of Defense. So, the Israeli Finance Ministry described Project Nimbus as intended to provide the government, the defense establishment and others with an all encompassing cloud solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>There’s some highly disturbing reporting about the way that the Israeli Ministry of Defense is using artificial intelligence software to choose bombing targets in Gaza, which I should say has not been directly tied to Google or Amazon software per se, or Project Nimbus per se. But for the people in no tech for a part time, the smell of smoke suggests there could be fire somewhere in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>So the original contract was made in 2021. It was between Google, Amazon and Israel, and at the time no one could see the actual contract, but no one had the contract in hand to be like, yes, this contract is between the Israeli military and Google and Amazon until time magazine actually had a hold of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>No tech for apartheid is insisting that Amazon and Google here again, quote, stop doing business with Israeli apartheid and powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and following in the footsteps of those who fought to divest from apartheid South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>And one. It’s our responsibility to rise up in support of Palestinian freedom. The Amazon and Google execs who signed this contract can still choose to be on the right side of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>Google workers inside Google who have had enough of this. We do not want this contract to exist, and we do not want our labor to go towards aiding a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Rachel, you reported on this story about why some of these demands by tech workers, these demands to divest from military contracts like this with Israel, why? That is such a tall order. Why is it a tall order?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>To be frank about it. Money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>And that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite of what’s going on in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So Guy Horowitz is Israeli. He’s been living in Palo Alto for the past six years, but he’s been a venture capitalist for the last 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>The essence of Silicon Valley, combining talent with technology and money. I think that’s the very basis of the Israeli Startup nation ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The two economies are joined at the hip by just about any business metric you can think of. How many Silicon Valley giants have purchased Israeli startups, how many Israeli startups have offices or even headquarters here? How many Israelis work here in the Bay area? How many Israelis are employed by Silicon Valley companies in Israel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So Israel wouldn’t be startup nation without Silicon Valley. But at the same token, it’s hard. To imagine Silicon Valley without Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What are some examples, Rachel, of the investments. Silicon Valley has in Israel right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So you have a ways, the satellite navigation software company that Google bought that for $1.3 billion in 2013. Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, bought Mellanox for about $7 billion roughly in 2019. And they recently announced plans to buy two more Israeli companies focused on AI. Intel, which is Israel’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I mean, just sit with that fact for a moment. Largest private employer in Israel. That’s Intel, which is based over here. So, they bought, Mobileye, the autonomous driving company, for $15 billion in 2017. They’ve they’ve got, plans for a major semiconductor manufacturing facility in Israel, according to the United States Israel Business Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli founded unicorns. That’s Silicon Valley parlance for privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. And those are just the big startups. There are hundreds of smaller startups as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how long has this relationship been going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Some economists say things really heated up in the 1990s. But most agree this really dates back to the 1970s, when U.S. companies, in particular, began to notice Israel’s tech and science universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>It became evident that Israel was developing for its own needs, technologies that were relevant for Silicon Valley and that came from military sources as well as from the research institutions that were kind of working, in tandem with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Technion, Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. And they started to notice some intriguing developments in things like agtech and biotech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The Intel 8088, the chip which Intel credits with launching it into the fortune 500. The list is long. And, you know, he acknowledges or even both says, as many Israeli investors do, that it’s all deeply tied with, Israel’s military culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>The deeper Israelis engage in conflict, then unfortunately, Israel has been in conflict for the past 76 years even more. The more value would be driven for. Israel on the economic side and for Silicon Valley as a counterpart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, that said, this actually isn’t the first time that tech and Google employees have lobbied against military related contracts, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I’m glad that you brought that up because that is the case. They’ve been successful in the past, right? Google employees have successfully lobbied to cancel military related contracts like Project Maven with the Pentagon and Project Dragonfly, which was a proposed version of Google search that would have allowed the Chinese government to censor and monitor users within China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So those are those are two examples where employees internally pressured the leadership to take a different direction. But but I think I should add something from my reporting, Ericka, which is that when it comes to company contracts, labor law, U.S. labor law firmly comes down on the side of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The leadership has the legal right to decide the direction a company takes, with or without the approval of individual employees. So labor attorneys I talked to said, you know, if you don’t like it, you can attempt to pressure the company or leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I think you’re you’re kind of heading towards where I want to go next, Rachel, which is to the Google employees behind no tech for a part. I mean, you know, we have seen universities recently hired to the demands by student protesters to divest from Israel. But I guess, is it realistic to think that tech would do that\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>After the reporting for this story? I would argue it’s unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So in a nutshell, I think it’s going to be a nonproductive effort, maybe even counterproductive effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Guy and other people like him that I’ve talked to, they don’t seem to be worried about divestment, at least from tech in the slightest. Ericka. And I don’t mean to suggest that these guys are the kind of people who don’t worry. They definitely worry about a lot of things, but not divestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So whoever is saying divestment is a way to make Israel, reconsider its political or geopolitical stance on Palestine or whatever. But hey, the deeper the conflict is and the longer it goes would actually make Israel a more lucrative place to do business with for the next 20, 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At the end of the day, Rachel, we are talking about private companies for whom profit is king. How does Hasan respond to this? Why protest anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I think for Hasan, this is this is a moral issue. He sees a direct line from what’s happening right now in Gaza to write the corporate balance sheets of of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I would not be disappointed to stop working for a company that has an active, contract with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I think he feels powerfully, you know, not not in a egocentric or a naive way, that he’s in a very special position as somebody who works in tech. To call out what’s upsetting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>We will continue to make noise about this. We will continue to make our voices heard. We will continue to educate our colleagues about what’s going on. And we’ll. Yeah, we’ll continue standing up for Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What happened to Hasan and others who took part in those actions against Google that we were just talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>You know, in Hasan’s case, he says he and the fellow protesters in New York were about seven hours into their sit in when they were informed they’d been put on administrative leave, and then their badge access was taken away. Their corporate device is taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>9:30 p.m. almost ten hours in, the police arrived. So then the very calmly arrested us and escorted out of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>About 24 hours later, he gets an email telling him he was terminated immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>And then the following Monday was when the rest of the 50 people were also fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what’s next for him, Rachel? I mean, has this experience changed the way that he feels about being in the tech industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, he’s, he’s been spending a little time, regrouping with family. But he’s he’s back in it, back in, you know, the protests. He’s participating. He’s energized for the fight ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I’m going to continue on doing that. Going to look at what opportunities there are in terms of my next job, because obviously I’m gonna need a job at some point. But I’m going to be a lot more conscious when it comes to actually choosing what company I work for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I’ll tell you, I, I think I don’t want to speak for Hasan, but I think he recognizes that his problems with Google and its corporate sensibilities extend to other big tech companies. So he told me he might work for maybe a smaller tech firm, without these, you know, multinational contracts or or a nonprofit maybe that needs a software engineer. He’s got options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I want to make sure that my labor is actually going towards something I support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>We’re at a kind of an inflection moment. You know, it is a world where we’re asking, what kind of world do we want to live in, and how do we use or not use technology to help us get there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Rachel, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Rachael Myrow, senior editor of KQED Silicon Valley desk. This 35 minute conversation with Rachael was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Thanks as well to KQED reporter Joseph Geha for the protest tape you heard at the top of this episode. Music courtesy of the Audio Network. We are a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. 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But as KQED’s Rachael Myrow explains, Silicon Valley’s ties to Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985580/divestment-from-israeli-tech-is-a-tall-order-for-silicon-valley-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">run much deeper\u003c/a> — which makes divesting a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2740176826\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Last week, protesters blocked the entrance of Google’s largest developer conference in Mountain View, demanding the company divest from contracts with the Israeli government as it continues its siege on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At issue is Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus, the tech giant’s cloud computing contract that services the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Protesters included current and former Google employees under the name No Tech for apartheid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>We are Google workers inside Google who have had enough of this. We do not want this contract to exist, and we do not want our labor to go towards aiding a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, we’ll look into the deep ties between Israel and Silicon Valley and the tech workers hoping to sever them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The ties run broad and deep, and they have since the 1970s. Across a wide range of technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Rachael Myrow is senior editor of KQED Silicon Valley desk. How have you seen tech workers in Silicon Valley begin to organize against the tech industries ties to Israel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Well, it started on internal slack channels inside affinity groups that were in many cases, already issuing complaints to company management of feeling unheard or less seen than their Jewish or Israeli counterparts, or even retaliated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>But of course, the organizing took off after Israel invaded Gaza on October 27th. And that’s when you started to see groups like No Tech for apartheid making a bigger noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know you spoke to someone who began organizing with no tech for apartheid. Can you introduce me to Hasan Ibraheem? Who is he and how long has he been working in tech?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The first thing you should know about Hasan is that he’s 23 years old. So, by his own admission, not that long out of college, his first job out of college at Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I worked on sort of like ads infrastructure. I do mainly like backend server work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>He’s there about a year and a half before this whole thing began with Israel and Gaza. So Hasan starts to get involved, with no tech for apartheid as the situation in Gaza escalates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>We don’t expect that any one of our actions is going to cause these companies to suddenly pull out of the deals that they have with Israel, but we hope that with each action that we do, we inspire more tech workers to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what kinds of actions was he organizing exactly or helping to organize?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Well, we know about him because he was involved in one of the sit ins that no tech for apartheid, staged recently in three different cities Sunnyvale, Seattle and New York. So he was involved in the New York sit in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Calling for an end to Project Nimbus, which is this $1.2 billion cloud services contract with the Israeli government, including the Ministry of Defense. So, the Israeli Finance Ministry described Project Nimbus as intended to provide the government, the defense establishment and others with an all encompassing cloud solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>There’s some highly disturbing reporting about the way that the Israeli Ministry of Defense is using artificial intelligence software to choose bombing targets in Gaza, which I should say has not been directly tied to Google or Amazon software per se, or Project Nimbus per se. But for the people in no tech for a part time, the smell of smoke suggests there could be fire somewhere in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>So the original contract was made in 2021. It was between Google, Amazon and Israel, and at the time no one could see the actual contract, but no one had the contract in hand to be like, yes, this contract is between the Israeli military and Google and Amazon until time magazine actually had a hold of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>No tech for apartheid is insisting that Amazon and Google here again, quote, stop doing business with Israeli apartheid and powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and following in the footsteps of those who fought to divest from apartheid South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>And one. It’s our responsibility to rise up in support of Palestinian freedom. The Amazon and Google execs who signed this contract can still choose to be on the right side of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>Google workers inside Google who have had enough of this. We do not want this contract to exist, and we do not want our labor to go towards aiding a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Rachel, you reported on this story about why some of these demands by tech workers, these demands to divest from military contracts like this with Israel, why? That is such a tall order. Why is it a tall order?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>To be frank about it. Money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>And that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite of what’s going on in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So Guy Horowitz is Israeli. He’s been living in Palo Alto for the past six years, but he’s been a venture capitalist for the last 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>The essence of Silicon Valley, combining talent with technology and money. I think that’s the very basis of the Israeli Startup nation ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The two economies are joined at the hip by just about any business metric you can think of. How many Silicon Valley giants have purchased Israeli startups, how many Israeli startups have offices or even headquarters here? How many Israelis work here in the Bay area? How many Israelis are employed by Silicon Valley companies in Israel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So Israel wouldn’t be startup nation without Silicon Valley. But at the same token, it’s hard. To imagine Silicon Valley without Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What are some examples, Rachel, of the investments. Silicon Valley has in Israel right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So you have a ways, the satellite navigation software company that Google bought that for $1.3 billion in 2013. Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, bought Mellanox for about $7 billion roughly in 2019. And they recently announced plans to buy two more Israeli companies focused on AI. Intel, which is Israel’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I mean, just sit with that fact for a moment. Largest private employer in Israel. That’s Intel, which is based over here. So, they bought, Mobileye, the autonomous driving company, for $15 billion in 2017. They’ve they’ve got, plans for a major semiconductor manufacturing facility in Israel, according to the United States Israel Business Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli founded unicorns. That’s Silicon Valley parlance for privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. And those are just the big startups. There are hundreds of smaller startups as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how long has this relationship been going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Some economists say things really heated up in the 1990s. But most agree this really dates back to the 1970s, when U.S. companies, in particular, began to notice Israel’s tech and science universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>It became evident that Israel was developing for its own needs, technologies that were relevant for Silicon Valley and that came from military sources as well as from the research institutions that were kind of working, in tandem with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Technion, Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. And they started to notice some intriguing developments in things like agtech and biotech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The Intel 8088, the chip which Intel credits with launching it into the fortune 500. The list is long. And, you know, he acknowledges or even both says, as many Israeli investors do, that it’s all deeply tied with, Israel’s military culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>The deeper Israelis engage in conflict, then unfortunately, Israel has been in conflict for the past 76 years even more. The more value would be driven for. 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I would argue it’s unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So in a nutshell, I think it’s going to be a nonproductive effort, maybe even counterproductive effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Guy and other people like him that I’ve talked to, they don’t seem to be worried about divestment, at least from tech in the slightest. Ericka. And I don’t mean to suggest that these guys are the kind of people who don’t worry. They definitely worry about a lot of things, but not divestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Horowitz: \u003c/strong>So whoever is saying divestment is a way to make Israel, reconsider its political or geopolitical stance on Palestine or whatever. But hey, the deeper the conflict is and the longer it goes would actually make Israel a more lucrative place to do business with for the next 20, 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At the end of the day, Rachel, we are talking about private companies for whom profit is king. How does Hasan respond to this? Why protest anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I think for Hasan, this is this is a moral issue. He sees a direct line from what’s happening right now in Gaza to write the corporate balance sheets of of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I would not be disappointed to stop working for a company that has an active, contract with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I think he feels powerfully, you know, not not in a egocentric or a naive way, that he’s in a very special position as somebody who works in tech. To call out what’s upsetting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>We will continue to make noise about this. We will continue to make our voices heard. We will continue to educate our colleagues about what’s going on. And we’ll. Yeah, we’ll continue standing up for Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What happened to Hasan and others who took part in those actions against Google that we were just talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>You know, in Hasan’s case, he says he and the fellow protesters in New York were about seven hours into their sit in when they were informed they’d been put on administrative leave, and then their badge access was taken away. Their corporate device is taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>9:30 p.m. almost ten hours in, the police arrived. 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Going to look at what opportunities there are in terms of my next job, because obviously I’m gonna need a job at some point. But I’m going to be a lot more conscious when it comes to actually choosing what company I work for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>I’ll tell you, I, I think I don’t want to speak for Hasan, but I think he recognizes that his problems with Google and its corporate sensibilities extend to other big tech companies. So he told me he might work for maybe a smaller tech firm, without these, you know, multinational contracts or or a nonprofit maybe that needs a software engineer. He’s got options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasan Ibraheem: \u003c/strong>I want to make sure that my labor is actually going towards something I support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>We’re at a kind of an inflection moment. You know, it is a world where we’re asking, what kind of world do we want to live in, and how do we use or not use technology to help us get there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Rachel, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Rachael Myrow, senior editor of KQED Silicon Valley desk. This 35 minute conversation with Rachael was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. 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In an 11 1/2-minute phone call from inside a school bathroom, the 13-year-old student told the dispatcher Haynes lost control after students failed to answer certain problems.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student cried at points during the conversation and said she was scared Haynes would discover she was making the phone call. She said her teacher had sworn at some classmates and was so furious he knocked over a desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when police officers arrived, they found both Haynes and his students were calm. Police determined he didn’t throw anything but that when he lifted a desk and dropped it to get his students’ attention it fell on its side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atherton police Lt. Joe Wade has also said police learned Haynes had raised his voice and used profanity. He said the girl who called police had recorded some of the tirade before leaving class and that both police and the school district have a copy of the recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because police determined Haynes didn’t threaten any students or commit a crime, the school district is leading the investigation. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can listen to \u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/mercurynews/911-tape-student-calls-police\">audio\u003c/a> of the girl’s 911 call, posted by the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redwood City School District has posted this \u003ca href=\"http://rcsd.schoolwires.net/rcsd//cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=288732\">statement\u003c/a> about the status of the teacher:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>…We would like to clarify that the teacher …was not suspended and no disciplinary action toward the teacher has been taken. 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Gavin Newsom told reporters that the farmworkers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">living in “shipping containers”\u003c/a> and earned only $9 per hour, far below the state’s minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">The accused gunman Chunli Zhao\u003c/a> was indicted in January. At the time of the shooting, Zhao worked at California Terra Gardens, where five people were shot, one of whom survived. Three more people were shot and killed at nearby Concord Farms, where Zhao had previously worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concord Farms has already paid about half of the total back wages and damages it owes, roughly $187,000, a labor department spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Sencion, who directs the farmworker program at Ayudando a Latinos a Soñar in Half Moon Bay, said the nonprofit has been helping eligible workers and victims’ families recover the money they are also owed in the earlier California Terra Garden settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sencion described the latest development about Concord Farms’ agreement as “great news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for other farmworkers to see that justice is served,” she told KQED. “There’s a lot of fear that workers have to speak up. And I hope it makes them feel like their voice matters, that their work matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to contact Concord Farm’s owner, Grace Tung, for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal investigations, state regulators have also taken action to enforce workplace regulations against the two farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">proposed penalties\u003c/a> of nearly $114,000 against \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1646557.015\">California Terra Garden\u003c/a> for 22 workplace safety violations. The agency also \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1647115.015\">cited Concord Farms\u003c/a> more than $51,000 for 19 violations. Both cases appear to be open, according to federal OSHA business records available online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner’s Office additionally cited California Terra Garden for violations of paid sick leave laws. The business \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">had settled for $150,000\u003c/a> as of January, according to an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. Department of Labor investigators found Concord Farms housed workers in moldy, makeshift rooms and failed to pay overtime wages. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Half Moon Bay Farm Where Mass Shooting Took Place Settles Workplace Violations For More Than $400,000","datePublished":"2024-05-20T17:37:29-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-20T20:27:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11987049","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11987049/half-moon-bay-farm-where-mass-shooting-took-place-settles-workplace-violations-for-nearly-400000","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The second of two mushroom farms where seven farmworkers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">fatally shot in Half Moon Bay last year\u003c/a> has agreed to pay $374,000 in back wages and damages to workers, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240520-0\">announcement\u003c/a> on Monday by the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its settlement, Concord Farms has also agreed to pay $29,000 in penalties to the U.S. Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators found that the employer housed farmworkers in moldy, makeshift rooms in a greenhouse infested with insects and failed to pay overtime wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974555/half-moon-bay-farm-involved-in-shooting-paid-126000-in-workplace-violations\">reported\u003c/a> that California Terra Garden, the other farm where the shooting took place, paid more than $126,000 in back wages and penalties for violations uncovered by regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our investigators found workers at California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms housed in sickening conditions, forced to sleep near garbage and with insects all around,” Alberto Raymond, assistant district director at the Department of Labor, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11940176,news_11974555,news_11954144,news_11939470","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Department of Labor is determined to hold employers accountable when they ignore their legal responsibilities to provide suitable housing when required and pay workers all their legally earned wages,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the shooting, which happened on Jan. 23, 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that the farmworkers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">living in “shipping containers”\u003c/a> and earned only $9 per hour, far below the state’s minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">The accused gunman Chunli Zhao\u003c/a> was indicted in January. At the time of the shooting, Zhao worked at California Terra Gardens, where five people were shot, one of whom survived. Three more people were shot and killed at nearby Concord Farms, where Zhao had previously worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concord Farms has already paid about half of the total back wages and damages it owes, roughly $187,000, a labor department spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Sencion, who directs the farmworker program at Ayudando a Latinos a Soñar in Half Moon Bay, said the nonprofit has been helping eligible workers and victims’ families recover the money they are also owed in the earlier California Terra Garden settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sencion described the latest development about Concord Farms’ agreement as “great news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for other farmworkers to see that justice is served,” she told KQED. “There’s a lot of fear that workers have to speak up. And I hope it makes them feel like their voice matters, that their work matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to contact Concord Farm’s owner, Grace Tung, for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal investigations, state regulators have also taken action to enforce workplace regulations against the two farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">proposed penalties\u003c/a> of nearly $114,000 against \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1646557.015\">California Terra Garden\u003c/a> for 22 workplace safety violations. The agency also \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1647115.015\">cited Concord Farms\u003c/a> more than $51,000 for 19 violations. Both cases appear to be open, according to federal OSHA business records available online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner’s Office additionally cited California Terra Garden for violations of paid sick leave laws. The business \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">had settled for $150,000\u003c/a> as of January, according to an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11987049/half-moon-bay-farm-where-mass-shooting-took-place-settles-workplace-violations-for-nearly-400000","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18269","news_27626","news_1164","news_32332"],"featImg":"news_11971712","label":"news"},"news_11986910":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11986910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11986910","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters","title":"UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers Strike in Support of Pro-Palestinian Protesters","publishDate":1716227394,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers Strike in Support of Pro-Palestinian Protesters | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Graduate students and academic workers at UC Santa Cruz \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/uaw_4811/status/1792577161515167769\">walked off the job Monday\u003c/a>, the first campus to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986767/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-to-strike-over-universitys-treatment-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">as part of a larger protest\u003c/a> against the public university system, which they say has violated the rights of union members who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of UAW 4811, which represents about 48,000 graduate-student teaching assistants, tutors and researchers on the 10-campus UC system, voted last week to authorize the action. Union leaders said strikes will be called on a rolling basis across the campuses, with UCSC taking the lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s motion in favor of the rolling strikes was passed by 79% of those voting, according to the union leaders, although fewer than half of all members voted.[aside postID=news_11986767 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005151_qut-1020x680.jpg']It remains unclear how long the strike at UCSC will last or which other campuses will follow, but actions could continue until the term ends in late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the classes that are taught by graduate workers or post-docs, those will be canceled,” said Rebecca Gross, a UCSC graduate student and UAW 4811 organizer. “We’ll also see grading come to a halt, and we’ll see a lot of lab workers walk off the job, so their data is going to be withheld as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC administration, however, maintains the strike is unlawful and a violation of the union’s contract, which prohibits work stoppages, Lori Kletzer, UCSC campus provost and executive vice chancellor, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system last week also filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union, which the\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\"> California Public Employment Relations Board will review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes in response to recent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests on several UC campuses, including at UCLA, where police earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">violently broke up a campus encampment\u003c/a> and arrested more than 200 activists – less than two days after standing by as counter-protesters attacked demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last week, another 47 pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">at UC Irvine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking workers are demanding that the UC system divest from businesses that support Israel and disclose research funding sources while also granting amnesty to union members who have been arrested in the protests or face disciplinary measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ball is in UC’s court — and the first step they need to take is dropping all criminal and disciplinary proceedings against our colleagues,” Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 4811, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Kelly O’Mara and The Associated Press.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Graduate students went on strike as of 8 a.m. 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so, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986767/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-to-strike-over-universitys-treatment-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">as part of a larger protest\u003c/a> against the public university system, which they say has violated the rights of union members who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of UAW 4811, which represents about 48,000 graduate-student teaching assistants, tutors and researchers on the 10-campus UC system, voted last week to authorize the action. Union leaders said strikes will be called on a rolling basis across the campuses, with UCSC taking the lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s motion in favor of the rolling strikes was passed by 79% of those voting, according to the union leaders, although fewer than half of all members voted.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11986767","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005151_qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It remains unclear how long the strike at UCSC will last or which other campuses will follow, but actions could continue until the term ends in late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the classes that are taught by graduate workers or post-docs, those will be canceled,” said Rebecca Gross, a UCSC graduate student and UAW 4811 organizer. “We’ll also see grading come to a halt, and we’ll see a lot of lab workers walk off the job, so their data is going to be withheld as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC administration, however, maintains the strike is unlawful and a violation of the union’s contract, which prohibits work stoppages, Lori Kletzer, UCSC campus provost and executive vice chancellor, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system last week also filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union, which the\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\"> California Public Employment Relations Board will review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes in response to recent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests on several UC campuses, including at UCLA, where police earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">violently broke up a campus encampment\u003c/a> and arrested more than 200 activists – less than two days after standing by as counter-protesters attacked demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last week, another 47 pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">at UC Irvine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking workers are demanding that the UC system divest from businesses that support Israel and disclose research funding sources while also granting amnesty to union members who have been arrested in the protests or face disciplinary measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ball is in UC’s court — and the first step they need to take is dropping all criminal and disciplinary proceedings against our colleagues,” Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 4811, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Kelly O’Mara and The Associated Press.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11986910/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters","authors":["byline_news_11986910"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_33647","news_25682","news_206"],"featImg":"news_11986982","label":"news"},"news_11987091":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11987091","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11987091","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf","title":"Pro-Palestinian Activists Protest Nancy Pelosi, One Arrested at Harvard Club Event in SF","publishDate":1716258702,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Activists Protest Nancy Pelosi, One Arrested at Harvard Club Event in SF | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Roughly 30 people protested outside the \u003ca href=\"https://hcsanfrancisco.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=2000\">Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th anniversary event\u003c/a> on Monday evening, where former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was being honored. One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing a celebratory dinner for someone who has been an active supporter of the state of Israel of someone who has personally profiteered from the war, to me, is unconscionable,” said Harvard alumna Kate Sim, one of the two protesters who entered the event and disrupted Pelosi’s speech. Sim was ultimately escorted out but not arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sold-out event was held at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio, where Pelosi received an award for “distinguished citizen of the year.” The protesters, the majority of whom said they were alumni of Harvard, mostly remained outside the event. A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. If anyone should be honored, it should be those at the frontlines of Palestine resistance and the brave students and workers enacting solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and activists allege that Harvard broke its agreement with campus demonstrators who participated in a 20-day pro-Palestine encampment at the university, led by Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), the unrecognized pro-Palestine coalition of student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For other similar student protests, precedent is dropping charges and refraining from imposing severe consequences. This was the outcome for student organizers in the South Africa Apartheid encampment, Living Wage occupation of Mass Hall, Fossil Fuel divestment blockades and Belinda Hall occupation,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HBv6ar2k2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “The precedent is clear: drop the charges and do not heavily discipline students for calling for disclosure and divestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters holds signs outside the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th-anniversary celebration, where Nancy Pelosi was honored on Monday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sim said that in addition to calling for divestment from Israel and an immediate cease-fire, they also asked for Harvard to nullify the suspensions. She added that they’d be happy to have an “honest conversation” with Pelosi but also said they plan to continue to disrupt any Pelosi events. “Not another nickel, not another dime. We do not want our money funding this genocide,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israel’s ground and air assaults, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since the Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 250 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, protests have erupted across the Bay Area, including at several major college campuses, such as the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Monday’s action comes alongside a stream of protests across the Bay Area, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. 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One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing a celebratory dinner for someone who has been an active supporter of the state of Israel of someone who has personally profiteered from the war, to me, is unconscionable,” said Harvard alumna Kate Sim, one of the two protesters who entered the event and disrupted Pelosi’s speech. Sim was ultimately escorted out but not arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sold-out event was held at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio, where Pelosi received an award for “distinguished citizen of the year.” The protesters, the majority of whom said they were alumni of Harvard, mostly remained outside the event. A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. If anyone should be honored, it should be those at the frontlines of Palestine resistance and the brave students and workers enacting solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and activists allege that Harvard broke its agreement with campus demonstrators who participated in a 20-day pro-Palestine encampment at the university, led by Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), the unrecognized pro-Palestine coalition of student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For other similar student protests, precedent is dropping charges and refraining from imposing severe consequences. This was the outcome for student organizers in the South Africa Apartheid encampment, Living Wage occupation of Mass Hall, Fossil Fuel divestment blockades and Belinda Hall occupation,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HBv6ar2k2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “The precedent is clear: drop the charges and do not heavily discipline students for calling for disclosure and divestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters holds signs outside the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th-anniversary celebration, where Nancy Pelosi was honored on Monday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sim said that in addition to calling for divestment from Israel and an immediate cease-fire, they also asked for Harvard to nullify the suspensions. She added that they’d be happy to have an “honest conversation” with Pelosi but also said they plan to continue to disrupt any Pelosi events. “Not another nickel, not another dime. We do not want our money funding this genocide,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israel’s ground and air assaults, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since the Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 250 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, protests have erupted across the Bay Area, including at several major college campuses, such as the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11987091/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf","authors":["1459","11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_177","news_33647"],"featImg":"news_11987094","label":"news"},"news_11986991":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11986991","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11986991","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf","title":"Peskin Ballot Measure Aims to Pay Rent for Thousands of Low-Income Households in SF","publishDate":1716246739,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Peskin Ballot Measure Aims to Pay Rent for Thousands of Low-Income Households in SF | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Thousands of impoverished San Francisco seniors and people with disabilities may soon get help paying the rent under a proposed amendment to the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter amendment, which Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin plans to introduce Tuesday, would dedicate millions of dollars a year to creating a Housing Opportunity Fund primarily to help pay rent for people 62 or older living in affordable housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A just society takes care of our grandmas and grandpas, our seniors, and our disabled,” Peskin told a crowd of more than 100 supporters gathered Monday in the courtyard of the Mary Helen Rogers Senior Community housing development, where he announced the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential recipient of the new funding is the Senior Operating Subsidy program, which was created in 2019 by the Board of Supervisors and first funded by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. It has helped hundreds of extremely low-income seniors pay their rent so far, Peskin said. However, housing advocates at the event said the city hasn’t consistently funded the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need for rental assistance among seniors is growing: 18% of San Francisco’s 897,000 residents were seniors in 2020, but that is expected to jump to 26% by 2030, according to a Senior Operating Subsidy program policy brief authored by the city last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Peskin’s new charter amendment, the Housing Opportunity Fund would increase by $8.3 million a year for four years starting in 2026 but would be capped at $33 million in fiscal year 2029–2030. That would help pay rent for roughly 2,200 households, Peskin’s office estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single seniors with a monthly income of $1,500 would qualify, as would single people with a disability making $1,493 monthly. Some families would also qualify, including those with single parents working a full-time minimum-wage job with two kids making $3,111 monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Stories' tag='housing']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese seniors who are members of the Community Tenants Association, an organization that supported Peskin’s mayoral campaign kickoff in April, attended the rally in support. They carried signs reading “Real Affordability Now” in English and with Chinese-language messages such as “Waited for 17 years, still no affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s president, Wing Hoo Leung, said this measure was long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have many members who have been waiting for senior housing for over 10 years on the waiting list,” Leung said in Cantonese, with the aid of an English-speaking interpreter. “Then some of them finally receive offer of housing, but are then told they do not qualify because their income is way too low. This is not justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal comes as Peskin, who has long counted on the support of Chinatown groups that aid low-income seniors and families, aims to strengthen his bona fides with his core supporters ahead of November’s mayoral election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gen Fujioka, a policy director with the Chinatown Community Development Center, said Peskin’s proposal was based on community frustration. Many tenants would come to the Chinatown Community Development Center’s housing clinic on Clay Street and ask the staff for help when they could no longer afford their rent as they grew older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing clinic staffers often have no city resources to offer extremely low-income seniors, Fujioka told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no place to tell them except when you actually get put on the street, where you go to find shelter. That’s it,” Fujioka said. “That wears down our souls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Flandrich, a North Beach resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-North-Beach-tenants-landlord-settle-Ellis-Act-6451988.php\">who famously fought back an Ellis Act eviction in 2015\u003c/a>, said the senior housing funding would have given her neighbors another option during their eviction battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My upstairs neighbor actually died during our eviction because there was no place to go,” Flandrich said. “She had crossed the entire city trying to find housing that was affordable, and there were waitlists that were closed for five years, for eight years. And that hasn’t changed much in the last decade because there’s not enough truly affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure does not involve tax increases or bonds; instead, it would draw from the city’s general fund to create the Housing Opportunity Fund, which would exclusively help extremely low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding increases may be a tough sell with the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985465/youth-and-nonprofits-rally-against-cuts-to-sf-family-support-programs\">as the city faces a budget deficit of $1.3 billion over the next five years\u003c/a>. In a December memo, Mayor London Breed asked departments to freeze the creation of new positions and to make reductions. Peskin said he’s open to tweaking the charter amendment should his colleagues have budgetary concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be tough to do,” Peskin said. “But there’s never a good time, and now is the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state-mandated goal for San Francisco to build 82,000 housing units by 2031 may favor the proposal. Of that housing, 14,000 units are supposed to be for extremely low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed by the Board of Supervisors, Peskin’s proposed charter amendment would appear before voters this November and require a simple majority for approval.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed amendment to the San Francisco city charter would dedicate millions of dollars a year to expand the Senior Operating Subsidy program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716251075,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":904},"headData":{"title":"Peskin Ballot Measure Aims to Pay Rent for Thousands of Low-Income Households in SF | KQED","description":"The proposed amendment to the San Francisco city charter would dedicate millions of dollars a year to expand the Senior Operating Subsidy program.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Peskin Ballot Measure Aims to Pay Rent for Thousands of Low-Income Households in SF","datePublished":"2024-05-20T16:12:19-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-20T17:24:35-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11986991","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11986991/peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of impoverished San Francisco seniors and people with disabilities may soon get help paying the rent under a proposed amendment to the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter amendment, which Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin plans to introduce Tuesday, would dedicate millions of dollars a year to creating a Housing Opportunity Fund primarily to help pay rent for people 62 or older living in affordable housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A just society takes care of our grandmas and grandpas, our seniors, and our disabled,” Peskin told a crowd of more than 100 supporters gathered Monday in the courtyard of the Mary Helen Rogers Senior Community housing development, where he announced the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential recipient of the new funding is the Senior Operating Subsidy program, which was created in 2019 by the Board of Supervisors and first funded by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. It has helped hundreds of extremely low-income seniors pay their rent so far, Peskin said. However, housing advocates at the event said the city hasn’t consistently funded the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need for rental assistance among seniors is growing: 18% of San Francisco’s 897,000 residents were seniors in 2020, but that is expected to jump to 26% by 2030, according to a Senior Operating Subsidy program policy brief authored by the city last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Peskin’s new charter amendment, the Housing Opportunity Fund would increase by $8.3 million a year for four years starting in 2026 but would be capped at $33 million in fiscal year 2029–2030. That would help pay rent for roughly 2,200 households, Peskin’s office estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single seniors with a monthly income of $1,500 would qualify, as would single people with a disability making $1,493 monthly. Some families would also qualify, including those with single parents working a full-time minimum-wage job with two kids making $3,111 monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Housing Stories ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese seniors who are members of the Community Tenants Association, an organization that supported Peskin’s mayoral campaign kickoff in April, attended the rally in support. They carried signs reading “Real Affordability Now” in English and with Chinese-language messages such as “Waited for 17 years, still no affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s president, Wing Hoo Leung, said this measure was long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have many members who have been waiting for senior housing for over 10 years on the waiting list,” Leung said in Cantonese, with the aid of an English-speaking interpreter. “Then some of them finally receive offer of housing, but are then told they do not qualify because their income is way too low. This is not justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal comes as Peskin, who has long counted on the support of Chinatown groups that aid low-income seniors and families, aims to strengthen his bona fides with his core supporters ahead of November’s mayoral election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gen Fujioka, a policy director with the Chinatown Community Development Center, said Peskin’s proposal was based on community frustration. Many tenants would come to the Chinatown Community Development Center’s housing clinic on Clay Street and ask the staff for help when they could no longer afford their rent as they grew older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing clinic staffers often have no city resources to offer extremely low-income seniors, Fujioka told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no place to tell them except when you actually get put on the street, where you go to find shelter. That’s it,” Fujioka said. “That wears down our souls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Flandrich, a North Beach resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-North-Beach-tenants-landlord-settle-Ellis-Act-6451988.php\">who famously fought back an Ellis Act eviction in 2015\u003c/a>, said the senior housing funding would have given her neighbors another option during their eviction battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My upstairs neighbor actually died during our eviction because there was no place to go,” Flandrich said. “She had crossed the entire city trying to find housing that was affordable, and there were waitlists that were closed for five years, for eight years. And that hasn’t changed much in the last decade because there’s not enough truly affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure does not involve tax increases or bonds; instead, it would draw from the city’s general fund to create the Housing Opportunity Fund, which would exclusively help extremely low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding increases may be a tough sell with the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985465/youth-and-nonprofits-rally-against-cuts-to-sf-family-support-programs\">as the city faces a budget deficit of $1.3 billion over the next five years\u003c/a>. In a December memo, Mayor London Breed asked departments to freeze the creation of new positions and to make reductions. Peskin said he’s open to tweaking the charter amendment should his colleagues have budgetary concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be tough to do,” Peskin said. “But there’s never a good time, and now is the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state-mandated goal for San Francisco to build 82,000 housing units by 2031 may favor the proposal. Of that housing, 14,000 units are supposed to be for extremely low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed by the Board of Supervisors, Peskin’s proposed charter amendment would appear before voters this November and require a simple majority for approval.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11986991/peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_3921","news_27626","news_1775","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11986980","label":"news"},"news_11986750":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11986750","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11986750","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sonoma-school-district-cuts-bilingual-liaison-immigrant-families-are-fighting-back","title":"Sonoma School District Cuts Bilingual Liaison. Immigrant Families Are Fighting Back","publishDate":1716202851,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Sonoma School District Cuts Bilingual Liaison. Immigrant Families Are Fighting Back | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>“My only goal in this country is that my children go to college,” Sandra Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz first arrived in Santa Rosa in 2006 with her husband and two children. Originally from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, they had left everything behind to start all over again in the North Bay — where she enrolled her two kids in the Oak Grove Union School District, which serves families in west Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite not speaking English and working as a housecleaner, Cruz wanted to be a part of her children’s education and began volunteering at school events and field trips. “It was like finding a family,” she said, “even though we didn’t speak the language, folks opened doors for us at every school event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the roughly 800 students enrolled in Oak Grove’s two school sites, about a third are Latino, and many of them are also learning English as a second language. As her children grew up and moved on to a different district for high school, Cruz kept many of the friendships she made with parents and teachers. When she and her husband had a third child, a girl, she knew she wanted to go back to Oak Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her youngest is now 9 years old, a third-grader in Oak Grove Elementary. This time around, Cruz said that Spanish-speaking students are even more integrated into the classrooms, thanks to Ana Castillo-Williams, the district’s part-time bilingual liaison. Castillo-Williams makes sure all communication to parents is available in both English and Spanish, translates in parent-teacher meetings and helps organize the district’s multicultural events like the Día de los Niños celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s earned the trust of families as many parents don’t feel comfortable coming to the schools because they don’t know the language,” Cruz said. “But she works with them so they have the courage to show up, and she also makes sure that their voices are heard even when they don’t speak English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, on March 13, the Oak Grove Board of Trustees \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QfcRaf_zQFgwVCBQvkgyvNvZlgrCzh7/view\">voted to cut the hours of 10 positions\u003c/a> — eliminating the bilingual liaison — as the district seeks to close budget gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the district’s announcement, Cruz and dozens of other parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/oak-grove-union-spanish-speaking-parents-protest-district-firing-its-only-t/\">have been leading weekly protests demanding the district revert its decision\u003c/a>. They’ve garnered the support of the community at large, including the teachers’ union and groups like the North Bay Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over Bay Area school districts, immigrant parents have shown their organizing power — with or without English. In Oakland, Mam-speaking parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855640/how-native-speakers-are-helping-1300-mam-students-in-oakland-through-remote-learning\">mobilized to help out Indigenous families struggling with remote learning during the pandemic\u003c/a>. Over in San Francisco, Cantonese-speaking parents led the efforts to pass Proposition N in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-school-board-non-citizen-voting-upheld-proposition-n-california-court-of-appeal/\">allowing noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Grove, families argue that without the bilingual liaison position, the gap between Latino students and their peers will continue to grow. And parents said they’re not planning to step back on their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight for ‘language justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 8, Oak Grove trustees were scheduled to have their first meeting since approving the staff layoffs. Even before the meeting began, dozens of parents were already protesting outside the gym of Willowside Middle School, where the board meets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With signs that read, “Keep our bilingual liaison” and “Language justice,” parents and community members chanted: “¡Amber, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” — “Amber, listen to us, we’re in this fight!” referring to district Superintendent Amber Stringfellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willowside Middle School in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stringfellow told KQED that the Sonoma County Office of Education has directed the district to cut back on spending to match projected state funding. The \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> first reported in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/state-budget-better-than-expected-but-sonoma-county-school-districts-still/\">that Oak Grove is one of three districts in the county facing the most financial stress\u003c/a>, with cash reserves running below state requirements. With all the staff cuts announced in March, the district hopes to save $237,242, but officials are still looking for more ways to rein in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district understands and is committed to providing avenues of communication for our community, including our parents and guardians who are not fluent in English,” Stringfellow said. She added that the district provides stipends to other bilingual staff who pitch in with translation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for some teachers, getting other district employees to fill the shoes of the bilingual liaison isn’t a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 13 people getting a stipend for bilingualism,” said sixth-grade teacher Cari Cardle, who is also the co-president of the Oak Grove Union Elementary Educators Association. “But you know what? Those 13 people have a job. And it’s not to be the bilingual liaison. It’s not to be an interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardle has taught at Oak Grove for 25 years. Whatever the topic is, she can teach it, she said — but adds that over time, what teachers are responsible for has grown considerably. “The mental health, physical health, the social media aspect, all of those things combined have changed this job so dramatically,” she said, “and that’s the part that’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of this goes into forming relationships with students and their families, she said. This is especially important for students learning English as a second language, who have to learn material twice as fast to catch up with their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that matters in a school system for student success is relationships,” Cardle said. “If you don’t have a relationship, you’re not going to get the best out of the kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Castillo-Williams would play a key role as bilingual liaison, she explains. When something was going on at home, Spanish-speaking parents would call the bilingual liaison — not teachers or school administrators. Parents told KQED that Castillo-Williams felt like the only staff member they could comfortably talk about delicate family issues. (Castillo-Williams herself was not available to talk to KQED for this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s not just the families that are benefiting. It’s also the teachers who can then help the kids because we have an avenue to find out what’s going on,” Cardle said. In its March meeting, over 90% of the Educators Association voted in favor of supporting parents’ demand to bring back the bilingual liaison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you reach that kid who doesn’t have what they need?” Cardle said. “If they’re hungry, they can’t learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We cannot stay quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts up and down California are struggling with widening deficits. San Francisco Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">could see a $100 million budget shortfall next year,\u003c/a> and the district projects student enrollment will continue to shrink for the rest of the decade. Over in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/thousands-rally-over-expected-cuts-to-l-a-schools-a-rebuke-to-lausds-no-layoff-claims\">LAUSD could see a deficit of roughly $1.75 billion next year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite recent promises from Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-again-pledges-to-spare-cuts-for-schools-and-community-colleges-but-not-for-csu-and-uc/711722\">to protect K–12 funding at the state level\u003c/a>, federal grants that helped buoy up school districts during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239609135/the-190-billion-in-emergency-funds-given-to-schools-during-the-pandemic-is-endin\">have essentially run out\u003c/a>. “What to cut?” is the top question at many school board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cutting the bilingual liaison could specifically make it harder for Latino students to make up lost learning, parents said.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='education']According to \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2023&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=49&lstDistrict=70839-000&lstSchool=0000000&lstFocus=a\">state testing data\u003c/a>, approximately 52% of all students in Oak Grove schools met or exceeded English Language Arts (ELA) standards at the end of the 2022–23 school year. In math, that number was 42%. Among students who identify as Latino or Hispanic, the numbers were lower: 42% in ELA and 28% in math. While research has confirmed that testing results \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/02/10/research-shows-what-state-standardized-tests-actually-measure/?sh=352fad7375e5\">are rarely good indicators of student success\u003c/a>, this data can be used to identify student needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stay quiet while we see the needs of our Hispanic community ignored,” said parent María Gayosso at the district’s March 8 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if one group of students is struggling, that could also affect other students, said Rhianna Casesa, associate professor at Sonoma State University. She focuses on bilingual education and works with many young educators who want to teach in Sonoma schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 2017, Sonoma County has gone through one trauma after another, with fires, COVID-19, flooding,” she said. “If you don’t know what it’s like from a child’s perspective or from a parent’s perspective, it’s really hard to appropriately teach that child in that classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why it’s so important for parents to speak up, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that I’ve seen happening more and more is that parents are demanding what they deserve,” she said. “Parents now feel that they have the agency to make these demands because, ultimately, it’s their tax money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oak Grove, the school board is considering a process for reinstating positions once next year’s budget is finalized in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Cruz says she and other parents will keep protesting every week until they get the bilingual liaison back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing is the seed we plant in our children,” she said. “The courage we show them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Latino families in Santa Rosa's Oak Grove Union School District heavily depend on a bilingual liaison, but budget cuts eliminated the position. Since then, parents have held weekly protests against the decision.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715995762,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1654},"headData":{"title":"Sonoma School District Cuts Bilingual Liaison. Immigrant Families Are Fighting Back | KQED","description":"Latino families in Santa Rosa's Oak Grove Union School District heavily depend on a bilingual liaison, but budget cuts eliminated the position. Since then, parents have held weekly protests against the decision.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sonoma School District Cuts Bilingual Liaison. Immigrant Families Are Fighting Back","datePublished":"2024-05-20T04:00:51-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-17T18:29:22-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11986750/sonoma-school-district-cuts-bilingual-liaison-immigrant-families-are-fighting-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“My only goal in this country is that my children go to college,” Sandra Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz first arrived in Santa Rosa in 2006 with her husband and two children. Originally from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, they had left everything behind to start all over again in the North Bay — where she enrolled her two kids in the Oak Grove Union School District, which serves families in west Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite not speaking English and working as a housecleaner, Cruz wanted to be a part of her children’s education and began volunteering at school events and field trips. “It was like finding a family,” she said, “even though we didn’t speak the language, folks opened doors for us at every school event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the roughly 800 students enrolled in Oak Grove’s two school sites, about a third are Latino, and many of them are also learning English as a second language. As her children grew up and moved on to a different district for high school, Cruz kept many of the friendships she made with parents and teachers. When she and her husband had a third child, a girl, she knew she wanted to go back to Oak Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her youngest is now 9 years old, a third-grader in Oak Grove Elementary. This time around, Cruz said that Spanish-speaking students are even more integrated into the classrooms, thanks to Ana Castillo-Williams, the district’s part-time bilingual liaison. Castillo-Williams makes sure all communication to parents is available in both English and Spanish, translates in parent-teacher meetings and helps organize the district’s multicultural events like the Día de los Niños celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s earned the trust of families as many parents don’t feel comfortable coming to the schools because they don’t know the language,” Cruz said. “But she works with them so they have the courage to show up, and she also makes sure that their voices are heard even when they don’t speak English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, on March 13, the Oak Grove Board of Trustees \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QfcRaf_zQFgwVCBQvkgyvNvZlgrCzh7/view\">voted to cut the hours of 10 positions\u003c/a> — eliminating the bilingual liaison — as the district seeks to close budget gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the district’s announcement, Cruz and dozens of other parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/oak-grove-union-spanish-speaking-parents-protest-district-firing-its-only-t/\">have been leading weekly protests demanding the district revert its decision\u003c/a>. They’ve garnered the support of the community at large, including the teachers’ union and groups like the North Bay Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over Bay Area school districts, immigrant parents have shown their organizing power — with or without English. In Oakland, Mam-speaking parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855640/how-native-speakers-are-helping-1300-mam-students-in-oakland-through-remote-learning\">mobilized to help out Indigenous families struggling with remote learning during the pandemic\u003c/a>. Over in San Francisco, Cantonese-speaking parents led the efforts to pass Proposition N in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-school-board-non-citizen-voting-upheld-proposition-n-california-court-of-appeal/\">allowing noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Grove, families argue that without the bilingual liaison position, the gap between Latino students and their peers will continue to grow. And parents said they’re not planning to step back on their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight for ‘language justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 8, Oak Grove trustees were scheduled to have their first meeting since approving the staff layoffs. Even before the meeting began, dozens of parents were already protesting outside the gym of Willowside Middle School, where the board meets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With signs that read, “Keep our bilingual liaison” and “Language justice,” parents and community members chanted: “¡Amber, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” — “Amber, listen to us, we’re in this fight!” referring to district Superintendent Amber Stringfellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willowside Middle School in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stringfellow told KQED that the Sonoma County Office of Education has directed the district to cut back on spending to match projected state funding. The \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> first reported in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/state-budget-better-than-expected-but-sonoma-county-school-districts-still/\">that Oak Grove is one of three districts in the county facing the most financial stress\u003c/a>, with cash reserves running below state requirements. With all the staff cuts announced in March, the district hopes to save $237,242, but officials are still looking for more ways to rein in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district understands and is committed to providing avenues of communication for our community, including our parents and guardians who are not fluent in English,” Stringfellow said. She added that the district provides stipends to other bilingual staff who pitch in with translation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for some teachers, getting other district employees to fill the shoes of the bilingual liaison isn’t a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 13 people getting a stipend for bilingualism,” said sixth-grade teacher Cari Cardle, who is also the co-president of the Oak Grove Union Elementary Educators Association. “But you know what? Those 13 people have a job. And it’s not to be the bilingual liaison. It’s not to be an interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardle has taught at Oak Grove for 25 years. Whatever the topic is, she can teach it, she said — but adds that over time, what teachers are responsible for has grown considerably. “The mental health, physical health, the social media aspect, all of those things combined have changed this job so dramatically,” she said, “and that’s the part that’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of this goes into forming relationships with students and their families, she said. This is especially important for students learning English as a second language, who have to learn material twice as fast to catch up with their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that matters in a school system for student success is relationships,” Cardle said. “If you don’t have a relationship, you’re not going to get the best out of the kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Castillo-Williams would play a key role as bilingual liaison, she explains. When something was going on at home, Spanish-speaking parents would call the bilingual liaison — not teachers or school administrators. Parents told KQED that Castillo-Williams felt like the only staff member they could comfortably talk about delicate family issues. (Castillo-Williams herself was not available to talk to KQED for this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s not just the families that are benefiting. It’s also the teachers who can then help the kids because we have an avenue to find out what’s going on,” Cardle said. In its March meeting, over 90% of the Educators Association voted in favor of supporting parents’ demand to bring back the bilingual liaison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you reach that kid who doesn’t have what they need?” Cardle said. “If they’re hungry, they can’t learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We cannot stay quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts up and down California are struggling with widening deficits. San Francisco Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">could see a $100 million budget shortfall next year,\u003c/a> and the district projects student enrollment will continue to shrink for the rest of the decade. Over in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/thousands-rally-over-expected-cuts-to-l-a-schools-a-rebuke-to-lausds-no-layoff-claims\">LAUSD could see a deficit of roughly $1.75 billion next year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite recent promises from Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-again-pledges-to-spare-cuts-for-schools-and-community-colleges-but-not-for-csu-and-uc/711722\">to protect K–12 funding at the state level\u003c/a>, federal grants that helped buoy up school districts during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239609135/the-190-billion-in-emergency-funds-given-to-schools-during-the-pandemic-is-endin\">have essentially run out\u003c/a>. “What to cut?” is the top question at many school board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cutting the bilingual liaison could specifically make it harder for Latino students to make up lost learning, parents said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2023&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=49&lstDistrict=70839-000&lstSchool=0000000&lstFocus=a\">state testing data\u003c/a>, approximately 52% of all students in Oak Grove schools met or exceeded English Language Arts (ELA) standards at the end of the 2022–23 school year. In math, that number was 42%. Among students who identify as Latino or Hispanic, the numbers were lower: 42% in ELA and 28% in math. While research has confirmed that testing results \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/02/10/research-shows-what-state-standardized-tests-actually-measure/?sh=352fad7375e5\">are rarely good indicators of student success\u003c/a>, this data can be used to identify student needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stay quiet while we see the needs of our Hispanic community ignored,” said parent María Gayosso at the district’s March 8 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if one group of students is struggling, that could also affect other students, said Rhianna Casesa, associate professor at Sonoma State University. She focuses on bilingual education and works with many young educators who want to teach in Sonoma schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 2017, Sonoma County has gone through one trauma after another, with fires, COVID-19, flooding,” she said. “If you don’t know what it’s like from a child’s perspective or from a parent’s perspective, it’s really hard to appropriately teach that child in that classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why it’s so important for parents to speak up, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that I’ve seen happening more and more is that parents are demanding what they deserve,” she said. “Parents now feel that they have the agency to make these demands because, ultimately, it’s their tax money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oak Grove, the school board is considering a process for reinstating positions once next year’s budget is finalized in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Cruz says she and other parents will keep protesting every week until they get the bilingual liaison back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing is the seed we plant in our children,” she said. “The courage we show them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11986750/sonoma-school-district-cuts-bilingual-liaison-immigrant-families-are-fighting-back","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_30780","news_27626","news_16","news_26686","news_474","news_4981"],"featImg":"news_11986140","label":"news"},"forum_2010101905801":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101905801","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"forum","id":"2010101905801","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nicholas-kristof-on-finding-hope-through-journalism","title":"Nicholas Kristof On Finding Hope Through Journalism","publishDate":1716241383,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Nicholas Kristof On Finding Hope Through Journalism | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>Longtime New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has reported from war zones and humanitarian crises and has examined our own nation’s struggles with poverty, addiction and homelessness. And yet, in his new memoir, “Chasing Hope,” Kristof calls himself an optimist. Journalism, he says, is an act of hope in itself. We talk to Kristof about what he’s learned about the power of storytelling to make people care about issues near and far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716318102,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":80},"headData":{"title":"Nicholas Kristof On Finding Hope Through Journalism | KQED","description":"Longtime New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has reported from war zones and humanitarian crises and has examined our own nation's struggles with poverty, addiction and homelessness. And yet, in his new memoir, “Chasing Hope,” Kristof calls himself an optimist. 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And yet, in his new memoir, “Chasing Hope,” Kristof calls himself an optimist. Journalism, he says, is an act of hope in itself. We talk to Kristof about what he’s learned about the power of storytelling to make people care about issues near and far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/forum/2010101905801/nicholas-kristof-on-finding-hope-through-journalism","authors":["243"],"categories":["forum_165"],"featImg":"forum_2010101905802","label":"forum"},"news_11986837":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11986837","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11986837","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-diego-aims-to-help-wage-theft-victims-recover-money-owed","title":"San Diego Aims to Help Wage-Theft Victims Recover Money Owed","publishDate":1716206425,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Diego Aims to Help Wage-Theft Victims Recover Money Owed | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Diego County is stepping up efforts to help residents recover wages they’re owed while fronting them up to $3,000 through a new Workplace Justice Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last decade, thousands of wage claims have remained unpaid even after state authorities ruled in favor of workers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Judgment-Enforcement-Unit.html\">ordered\u003c/a> their employers to pay. Part of the challenge for many wage-theft victims is that they are essentially left on their own to try to collect that debt, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/PubsTemp/DLSE%20Brochures/Collect%20Your%20Award%20from%20the%20Caifornia%20Labor/Brochure-JE_WEB-EN.pdf\">process\u003c/a> that can be time-consuming and onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support dozens of workers with low-income who are waiting for unpaid wage judgments, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/OLSE/WorkplaceJusticeFund.html\">Workplace Justice Fund\u003c/a> has distributed roughly $100,000. San Diego’s debt collections agency then also takes on their cases and works to get them paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program is an example of a county really serving workers in a creative and innovative way, and showing that the county has their back,” said Terri Gerstein, a former wage-theft investigator who now directs the Wagner Labor Initiative at New York University. “Employers who are law-abiding should know that programs like this will enable them to have more fair competition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program is the first of its kind, according to both Gerstein and county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, California has some of the strongest employee protections in the nation. Yet, as of last summer, more than 6,500 cases with wage claim judgments since 2013 remained completely unpaid, according to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. The amount in back wages, penalties and interest owed totaled $84.6 million. The agency did not provide KQED with more recent figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor commissioner, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">understaffed\u003c/a>, works to help workers recover wages in a fraction of those cases. While the agency has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits\">small judgment enforcement unit\u003c/a> dedicated to the task, it often faces employers who intentionally hide assets or close down their business to avoid complying. Others may simply lack the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego is part of a growing number of counties and cities in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits\">leveraging their authority\u003c/a> and resources to assist state authorities in combating wage theft, when an employer doesn’t pay workers what they are due.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘They are heroes’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jesus Arriaga, 38, said he filed a complaint with the labor commissioner after a construction company failed to compensate him about $1,700 for work installing bathroom tiles in 2019. The father of two said that as a result he struggled to cover the cost of food, rent and other basics for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arriaga met with agency staffers and attended a hearing. The labor commissioner ruled in the fall of 2021 that Titan Tile Corp. owed him $10,500, for the original work plus waiting time penalties and interest. But until recently, Arriaga felt frustrated by the state wage claim process. Titan Tile didn’t pay him a penny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so disappointed in the laws,” Arriaga said. “I believed in them, in the labor commissioner. I thought they were going to help me, and all they did was waste my time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus Arriaga puts away some of his tools from his tile setting job outside his San Diego apartment on Friday, May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dustin Gornik, the former chief executive officer at Titan Tile, told KQED he disputed the labor commissioner’s findings, but declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all bogus anyway, what the guy was claiming,” said Gornik. “It was a complete farce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, only one in seven employers in wage claim judgments ultimately paid their workers the full amount owed, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/09/california-wage-theft-cases/#:~:text=California%20issued%20%2432.7%20million%20worth,subsequent%20years%20paid%20even%20fewer.\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of labor commissioner data. Those who don’t pay often face minimal or no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Arriaga’s case record led San Diego County officials to come to him with a proposition he said initially seemed “too good to be true.” He became one of the first participants in the Workplace Justice Fund, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countynewscenter.com/county-board-approves-workplace-justice-fund/?emci=d301eed8-bd24-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&emdi=b70e7a67-7825-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&ceid=12907144\">approved\u003c/a> by the county board of supervisors last spring with a budget of $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego issued Arriaga a check for $3,000 last December and transferred the case to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/auditor/orrpage.html\">Office of Revenue and Recovery\u003c/a> for collection efforts on his behalf. After years of waiting for redress, Arriaga said his faith in the law has been restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are heroes,” he said. “I never expected the county to give me money that they have no obligation to give me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The challenge of debt collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the county is successful in obtaining payment on Arriaga’s judgment, the first $3,000 would go back to the fund to help other workers, according to county officials. Any additional money recouped would be handed to Arriaga, minus a 35% fee to cover costs incurred by the recovery office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979626,news_11960459,news_11973279\"]Even with the county’s legal tools and resources, recovering what he is owed will be very difficult because — as often happens in wage-theft recovery — the company Arriaga used to work for closed down. Titan Tile’s contractor’s license, which is required to operate in California, expired in November 2021, just one day after the labor commissioner issued its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employment attorneys said Arriaga — or the county on his behalf — could only pursue assets from Titan Tile, not from any individual owners, because the company was the sole entity named as a defendant in the judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of the challenge… I don’t think we’ll get apples-to-apples back,” said Branden Butler, who heads the county’s Office of Labor Standards & Enforcement, which launched the Workplace Justice Fund. “But we are hoping that this new model, where essentially we’re trying to take over the debt collection process on behalf of these workers, will yield results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said the county has yet to collect any wage judgments on behalf of the 34 participating workers, but that process has just begun. The county may also make changes to this pilot program after they evaluate its impact, he said, both in terms of benefits to participants and debt collectability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to hold the line on accountability,” he said. “We’re going to do our best to try to help these workers recover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Diego County's Workplace Justice Fund distributes up to $3,000 to local workers who are owed wages but were never paid. The county then takes on the debt collection on workers' behalf. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716324131,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1095},"headData":{"title":"San Diego Aims to Help Wage-Theft Victims Recover Money Owed | KQED","description":"San Diego County's Workplace Justice Fund distributes up to $3,000 to local workers who are owed wages but were never paid. The county then takes on the debt collection on workers' behalf. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Diego Aims to Help Wage-Theft Victims Recover Money Owed","datePublished":"2024-05-20T05:00:25-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-21T13:42:11-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/ba130a23-e819-4db8-bd3c-b17601099abd/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11986837","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11986837/san-diego-aims-to-help-wage-theft-victims-recover-money-owed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Diego County is stepping up efforts to help residents recover wages they’re owed while fronting them up to $3,000 through a new Workplace Justice Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last decade, thousands of wage claims have remained unpaid even after state authorities ruled in favor of workers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Judgment-Enforcement-Unit.html\">ordered\u003c/a> their employers to pay. Part of the challenge for many wage-theft victims is that they are essentially left on their own to try to collect that debt, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/PubsTemp/DLSE%20Brochures/Collect%20Your%20Award%20from%20the%20Caifornia%20Labor/Brochure-JE_WEB-EN.pdf\">process\u003c/a> that can be time-consuming and onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support dozens of workers with low-income who are waiting for unpaid wage judgments, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/OLSE/WorkplaceJusticeFund.html\">Workplace Justice Fund\u003c/a> has distributed roughly $100,000. San Diego’s debt collections agency then also takes on their cases and works to get them paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program is an example of a county really serving workers in a creative and innovative way, and showing that the county has their back,” said Terri Gerstein, a former wage-theft investigator who now directs the Wagner Labor Initiative at New York University. “Employers who are law-abiding should know that programs like this will enable them to have more fair competition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program is the first of its kind, according to both Gerstein and county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, California has some of the strongest employee protections in the nation. Yet, as of last summer, more than 6,500 cases with wage claim judgments since 2013 remained completely unpaid, according to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. The amount in back wages, penalties and interest owed totaled $84.6 million. The agency did not provide KQED with more recent figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor commissioner, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">understaffed\u003c/a>, works to help workers recover wages in a fraction of those cases. While the agency has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits\">small judgment enforcement unit\u003c/a> dedicated to the task, it often faces employers who intentionally hide assets or close down their business to avoid complying. Others may simply lack the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego is part of a growing number of counties and cities in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits\">leveraging their authority\u003c/a> and resources to assist state authorities in combating wage theft, when an employer doesn’t pay workers what they are due.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘They are heroes’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jesus Arriaga, 38, said he filed a complaint with the labor commissioner after a construction company failed to compensate him about $1,700 for work installing bathroom tiles in 2019. The father of two said that as a result he struggled to cover the cost of food, rent and other basics for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arriaga met with agency staffers and attended a hearing. The labor commissioner ruled in the fall of 2021 that Titan Tile Corp. owed him $10,500, for the original work plus waiting time penalties and interest. But until recently, Arriaga felt frustrated by the state wage claim process. Titan Tile didn’t pay him a penny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so disappointed in the laws,” Arriaga said. “I believed in them, in the labor commissioner. I thought they were going to help me, and all they did was waste my time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240518-San-Diego-Wage-Fund-CM-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus Arriaga puts away some of his tools from his tile setting job outside his San Diego apartment on Friday, May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dustin Gornik, the former chief executive officer at Titan Tile, told KQED he disputed the labor commissioner’s findings, but declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all bogus anyway, what the guy was claiming,” said Gornik. “It was a complete farce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, only one in seven employers in wage claim judgments ultimately paid their workers the full amount owed, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/09/california-wage-theft-cases/#:~:text=California%20issued%20%2432.7%20million%20worth,subsequent%20years%20paid%20even%20fewer.\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of labor commissioner data. Those who don’t pay often face minimal or no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Arriaga’s case record led San Diego County officials to come to him with a proposition he said initially seemed “too good to be true.” He became one of the first participants in the Workplace Justice Fund, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countynewscenter.com/county-board-approves-workplace-justice-fund/?emci=d301eed8-bd24-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&emdi=b70e7a67-7825-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&ceid=12907144\">approved\u003c/a> by the county board of supervisors last spring with a budget of $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego issued Arriaga a check for $3,000 last December and transferred the case to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/auditor/orrpage.html\">Office of Revenue and Recovery\u003c/a> for collection efforts on his behalf. After years of waiting for redress, Arriaga said his faith in the law has been restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are heroes,” he said. “I never expected the county to give me money that they have no obligation to give me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The challenge of debt collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the county is successful in obtaining payment on Arriaga’s judgment, the first $3,000 would go back to the fund to help other workers, according to county officials. Any additional money recouped would be handed to Arriaga, minus a 35% fee to cover costs incurred by the recovery office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11979626,news_11960459,news_11973279"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even with the county’s legal tools and resources, recovering what he is owed will be very difficult because — as often happens in wage-theft recovery — the company Arriaga used to work for closed down. Titan Tile’s contractor’s license, which is required to operate in California, expired in November 2021, just one day after the labor commissioner issued its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employment attorneys said Arriaga — or the county on his behalf — could only pursue assets from Titan Tile, not from any individual owners, because the company was the sole entity named as a defendant in the judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of the challenge… I don’t think we’ll get apples-to-apples back,” said Branden Butler, who heads the county’s Office of Labor Standards & Enforcement, which launched the Workplace Justice Fund. “But we are hoping that this new model, where essentially we’re trying to take over the debt collection process on behalf of these workers, will yield results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said the county has yet to collect any wage judgments on behalf of the 34 participating workers, but that process has just begun. The county may also make changes to this pilot program after they evaluate its impact, he said, both in terms of benefits to participants and debt collectability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to hold the line on accountability,” he said. “We’re going to do our best to try to help these workers recover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11986837/san-diego-aims-to-help-wage-theft-victims-recover-money-owed","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_34071","news_34070","news_18208","news_34072"],"featImg":"news_11986811","label":"news"},"news_11795790":{"type":"news","id":"news_11795790","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11795790","found":true},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1578957222,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Sonoma County Considers Buying Houses for Some Homeless on Santa Rosa Trail","title":"Sonoma County Considers Buying Houses for Some Homeless on Santa Rosa Trail","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It's a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren't always listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,\" Gibson says. \"They don't want you hiding, but they don't want you in their face, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\"]'I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that's the reality that we're facing right now in Sonoma County.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown \"Hoovervilles,\" where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation's wealthiest states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County's Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that's the reality that we're facing right now in Sonoma County\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>\" said county \u003ca href=\"http://lyndaforsupervisor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\u003c/a>, whose district includes the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet \"homes\" have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's incredibly challenging,\" Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. \"I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794599 label='expanded statewide efforts' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/newsom-1020x681.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state's homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California's homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state's expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname \"Cowboy,\" lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. \"It's a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,\" he says. \"I'm doing the best I can.\" \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname \"Cowboy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, they call me cowboy,\" Gibson says, \"I always 'cowboy up' for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It's very hard,\" he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. \"It's a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I'm doing the best I can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it's not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't have someone taking out the trash, it's gonna pile up,\" Gibson says. \"Some people are elderly and can't really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,\" Gibson says. \"A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to \"cowboy up,\" Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,\" says commuter Vania Supulveda. \"My daughter complains, 'Oh, it's so cold out today' when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It's depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I've never seen something like this so close to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED's Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">\"No Place Like Home\" program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is actually a model that ... already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,\" Hopkins told Forum. \"They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What's happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,\" Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with \"fundamental human needs,\" such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it's actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,\" Hopkins said. \"So it's tough for service workers to actually go out there ... and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,\" Hopkins said. \"There's just no room for error now, there's no safety net.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County's chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — \"her watch, her failure\" — and calls the homeless encampment a \"public cesspool\" that's undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can't arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can't provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marcos Ramirez, co-founder of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition\"]'We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We've just seen it recently with the Kincade fire.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can't afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we provide alternatives when we don't have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. \"It's a shame. The world is looking at it,\" Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They're asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We've just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,\" said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,\" Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, \"there's no reason why we can't do this for our unhoused neighbors. It's the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There's no excuse for this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101875281,news_11792903,news_11679471\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County's fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A friend of mind said, 'You don't know what's going on down there.' And I said, 'You're right,' \" Ramirez said. \"And so I went down. And so we've spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more \"squeaky wheel coalitions\" in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they're people and we shouldn't have to humanize them,\" said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. \"And yet, we're in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Forum contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11795790 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11795790","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/01/13/sonoma-county-supes-to-consider-buying-houses-for-some-homeless-on-santa-rosa-trail/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2315,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":55},"modified":1581368344,"excerpt":"The wrangling over what to do about a sprawling homeless camp on the Joe Rodota Trail in Santa Rosa highlights how hard it is to find answers for what is a growing crisis across California.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The wrangling over what to do about a sprawling homeless camp on the Joe Rodota Trail in Santa Rosa highlights how hard it is to find answers for what is a growing crisis across California.","title":"Sonoma County Considers Buying Houses for Some Homeless on Santa Rosa Trail | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sonoma County Considers Buying Houses for Some Homeless on Santa Rosa Trail","datePublished":"2020-01-13T15:13:42-08:00","dateModified":"2020-02-10T12:59:04-08:00","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0422-91a27dff3c70d7e54c00956e12b2af539f7d163d-1020x765.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"byline_news_11795790","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_news_11795790","name":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/2101350/eric-westervelt\"> Eric Westervelt \u003ca />","isLoading":false}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","width":1200,"height":630},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["homelessness","housing","Santa Rosa","Sonoma County"]}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sonoma-county-supes-to-consider-buying-houses-for-some-homeless-on-santa-rosa-trail","status":"publish","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=795439405&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:04:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:37:22 -0500","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795439405/sprawling-homeless-camps-modern-hoovervilles-vex-california?ft=nprml&f=795439405","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2020/01/20200113_me_sprawling_homeless_camps_modern_hoovervilles_vex_california_.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=295&p=3&story=795439405&ft=nprml&f=795439405","nprImageAgency":"NPR","source":"NPR","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1795829722-5742dc.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=295&p=3&story=795439405&ft=nprml&f=795439405","nprStoryId":"795439405","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/2101350/eric-westervelt\"> Eric Westervelt \u003ca />","audioTrackLength":295,"nprImageCredit":"Eric Westervelt","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:37:00 -0500","path":"/news/11795790/sonoma-county-supes-to-consider-buying-houses-for-some-homeless-on-santa-rosa-trail","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2020/01/20200113_me_sprawling_homeless_camps_modern_hoovervilles_vex_california_.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=295&p=3&story=795439405&ft=nprml&f=795439405","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It's a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren't always listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,\" Gibson says. \"They don't want you hiding, but they don't want you in their face, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that's the reality that we're facing right now in Sonoma County.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown \"Hoovervilles,\" where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation's wealthiest states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County's Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that's the reality that we're facing right now in Sonoma County\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>\" said county \u003ca href=\"http://lyndaforsupervisor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\u003c/a>, whose district includes the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet \"homes\" have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's incredibly challenging,\" Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. \"I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11794599","label":"expanded statewide efforts ","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/newsom-1020x681.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state's homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California's homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state's expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname \"Cowboy,\" lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. \"It's a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,\" he says. \"I'm doing the best I can.\" \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname \"Cowboy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, they call me cowboy,\" Gibson says, \"I always 'cowboy up' for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It's very hard,\" he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. \"It's a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I'm doing the best I can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it's not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't have someone taking out the trash, it's gonna pile up,\" Gibson says. \"Some people are elderly and can't really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,\" Gibson says. \"A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to \"cowboy up,\" Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,\" says commuter Vania Supulveda. \"My daughter complains, 'Oh, it's so cold out today' when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It's depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I've never seen something like this so close to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED's Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">\"No Place Like Home\" program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is actually a model that ... already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,\" Hopkins told Forum. \"They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What's happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,\" Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with \"fundamental human needs,\" such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it's actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,\" Hopkins said. \"So it's tough for service workers to actually go out there ... and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,\" Hopkins said. \"There's just no room for error now, there's no safety net.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County's chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — \"her watch, her failure\" — and calls the homeless encampment a \"public cesspool\" that's undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can't arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can't provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We've just seen it recently with the Kincade fire.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Marcos Ramirez, co-founder of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can't afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we provide alternatives when we don't have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. \"It's a shame. The world is looking at it,\" Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They're asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We've just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,\" said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,\" Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, \"there's no reason why we can't do this for our unhoused neighbors. It's the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There's no excuse for this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101875281,news_11792903,news_11679471","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County's fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A friend of mind said, 'You don't know what's going on down there.' And I said, 'You're right,' \" Ramirez said. \"And so I went down. And so we've spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more \"squeaky wheel coalitions\" in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they're people and we shouldn't have to humanize them,\" said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. \"And yet, we're in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Forum contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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