US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks during a town hall-style meeting at the San Francisco Scottish Rite Masonic Center on April 17, 2017, in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
With a growing backlog of unconfirmed judicial nominees bottled up in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement Wednesday saying she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the panel until she is able to return to work.
“When I was first diagnosed with shingles, I expected to return by the end of the March work period. Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.
“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”
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But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.
Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.
Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee in the race to replace Feinstein after she leaves at the end of next year, called on Feinstein to resign to enable the Senate to confirm a backlog of judicial nominations.
“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.
Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.
“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.
Even if Schumer appoints another Democrat to take Feinstein’s spot on the Judiciary Committee, it’s by no means certain that would fix the problem with confirming judges. Senate rules require unanimous consent from all senators to change a committee member.
“The problem with that is that any Republican can object to that,” said Khanna. “I anticipate they will object to that. And that is what is my concern. Now, what happens if they object to it and we have the same problem, that we don’t have our judges being confirmed?”
Without unanimous consent to replace Feinstein on the committee, Democrats would need to pursue another track, which would require 60 votes, meaning several Republicans would need to cooperate.
Khanna is often out of lockstep with his party. In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Asked for her thoughts on Feinstein’s status and whether she should step aside, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pushed back.
“It’s interesting to me, I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said in San Francisco Wednesday. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”
But while Khanna is the first elected Democrat from California to openly call on Feinstein to step down, he is unlikely to be the last. Her absence from the evenly divided Senate Judiciary Committee blocks Democrats’ ability to move President Joe Biden’s nominations for the federal bench to a confirmation vote of the full Senate floor.
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Feinstein’s legacy as a groundbreaking Democrat — she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee — has kept most Democrats from speaking out. But for more than a year, there have been whispers from her Senate colleagues — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.
“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.
“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. Replace her with another Democrat to get that necessary one-vote margin to begin to move these confirmations through.”
Feinstein has missed most of the Senate votes this year, which includes more than two dozen for judicial nominations with some of those from California.
“It can be very, very difficult to fill those vacancies,” said Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “So for the Democrats, I think it makes every sense in the world to take the steps necessary to be able to move these judicial nominations,” especially given that “there’s this looming clock that just is starting to tick faster and faster and faster” as the 2024 election approaches.
“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”
The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. Six more nominees are waiting for a hearing by the Judiciary Committee.
“Ongoing absences are impairing not only the Senate’s ability to confirm judges, but the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ability to advance nominations,” said ACS President Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin who served with Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee before he was defeated in 2010.
“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”
While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. Barbara Lee’s name was floated as a possible appointment.
With the 2024 Senate campaign now in full swing, however, and Lee one of three prominent Democrats running, along with Congressmembers Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, it’s unlikely Newsom would want to upend voters’ opportunity to choose a successor. But he could name a caretaker who promised not to run for a full six-year term.
The U.S. Senate will reconvene Monday, April 17, after a two-week recess, and if Schumer can move quickly to name another Democrat to the Judiciary Committee, it could name pending nominations as soon as Tuesday.
This story has been updated.
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campaign finance filings released last week, which listed her as a campaign consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever spent $2 million on its campaign in the first quarter of this year as it works to gain county-wide support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985195/billionaire-backed-bid-for-new-solano-county-city-will-likely-be-on-the-ballot\">a November ballot initiative\u003c/a> that would allow the company to transform thousands of acres of farmland into a dense, walkable city akin to Berlin or Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccaro, who is married to Fairfield City Councilmember Rick Vaccaro and serves as president of the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Solano County, said California Forever paid her after she coordinated an informational meeting between the company and various Solano nonprofits, including the Chinese American Association of Solano County and Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs. She told KQED she was unsure why she was paid for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though no campaign finance rule would bar Sue Vaccaro from taking such a fee, she opted to return the money this week after KQED reported on it as part of a story about California Forever’s campaign finance spending because she didn’t want to be associated with the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Vaccaro said that neither he nor his wife have endorsed the plan to build the city, which would be a few miles away from Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not plan on endorsing the project at any time,” Rick Vaccaro said. “[Sue] gave the money back because she didn’t want it to look like she was endorsing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more housing coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Opinions about the project have varied since the company announced its plans late last year. Several elected officials have spoken out against the project, including Congressmen John Garamendi and Mike Thompson, Vallejo Councilmember Charles Palmares and Princess Washington, the Mayor Pro-Tem of Suisun City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one elected official has voiced support for the project: Vacaville Vice Mayor Greg Ritchie, who has received \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/775318240797761/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=798238288505756\">criticism on social media\u003c/a> from constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaire-backed ballot initiative moved one step closer to the November election when California Forever submitted more than 20,000 signatures to the Solano County Registrar’s Office earlier this month. The office now has 30 days to verify those signatures before passing them along to the Board of Supervisors, which will have to approve the initiative to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The wife of a Fairfield City Council member appeared as a campaign consultant on California Forever’s campaign finance documents. The council member says it’s not what it seems.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715391307,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":446},"headData":{"title":"Fairfield Official's Wife Returns Money From Campaign for New California City | KQED","description":"The wife of a Fairfield City Council member appeared as a campaign consultant on California Forever’s campaign finance documents. 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She told KQED she was unsure why she was paid for the event.\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>Though no campaign finance rule would bar Sue Vaccaro from taking such a fee, she opted to return the money this week after KQED reported on it as part of a story about California Forever’s campaign finance spending because she didn’t want to be associated with the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Vaccaro said that neither he nor his wife have endorsed the plan to build the city, which would be a few miles away from Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not plan on endorsing the project at any time,” Rick Vaccaro said. “[Sue] gave the money back because she didn’t want it to look like she was endorsing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more housing coverage ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Opinions about the project have varied since the company announced its plans late last year. Several elected officials have spoken out against the project, including Congressmen John Garamendi and Mike Thompson, Vallejo Councilmember Charles Palmares and Princess Washington, the Mayor Pro-Tem of Suisun City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one elected official has voiced support for the project: Vacaville Vice Mayor Greg Ritchie, who has received \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/775318240797761/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=798238288505756\">criticism on social media\u003c/a> from constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaire-backed ballot initiative moved one step closer to the November election when California Forever submitted more than 20,000 signatures to the Solano County Registrar’s Office earlier this month. 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Gavin Newsom announced Friday — a gap so wide that he’s proposing eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs and cutting spending across 260 state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor outlined the deficit on Friday as part of his proposed $288 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. That’s by far the largest budget of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-time cuts would include $2 billion for broadband that would have expanded broadband connections, $500 million for water storage in the drought-plagued state, and $272 million for employment services for the state’s welfare program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing cuts would save another $81 million by closing housing units with 4,600 beds across 13 state prisons and removing $300 million in pandemic-related help for state and local public health departments. Ongoing spending for a scholarship program for middle-class college students pursuing a teaching credential would be cut by $510 million. He also wants to suspend the widely used net operating loss tax deduction for businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are programs, propositions that I’ve long advanced — many of them,” Newsom said as he began outlining his budget. “But you’ve got to do it. We have to be responsible. We have to be accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deficit is smaller than the $38 billion Newsom predicted in January. However, that’s because it doesn’t include $17.3 billion in cuts and other actions he and lawmakers already agreed on to help close it. Otherwise, it would be closer to $45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second year in a row the nation’s most populous state faces a multibillion-dollar shortfall. State revenues have continued to fall amid increasing inflation and a slowdown in the state’s normally robust technology industry. Through the end of April, state tax collections from its three biggest sources — personal income, corporations and sales — dropped more than $6 billion below the previous estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, now in his last term as governor and widely seen as a future presidential candidate, said his plan would address both this year’s deficit and a projected $28.4 billion deficit for the following year. He plans to outline more than $32 billion in cuts to make that happen so that the state Legislature can pass a spending plan by June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s, I think, appropriate and prudent for us not to just solve for this year but to also solve for next year,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office have disagreed on the true size of the state’s deficit this year. The LAO said in January that the deficit was actually $58 billion when including some reductions in public education spending. The LAO will release its own new estimate next week, and it will likely be larger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Newsom floated the possibility of delaying a minimum wage increase for health care workers, which \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-health-care-workers-minimum-wage-274c712eec29573731a479bc7ef9b452#:~:text=Newsom%20signs%20law%20to%20slowly,%2425%20per%20hour%20%7C%20AP%20News\">Newsom signed into law to much fanfare just last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11981977,news_11972196,news_11969301\"]State budgeting is a guessing game, particularly in California, where a progressive tax system means the state gets the bulk of its tax collections from rich people. About half of the state’s income tax collections came from just 1% of the population in 2021, making the state more vulnerable to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-3b24f287b7214fac91311bfca23ef16c\">swings in the stock market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers and Newsom get revenue projections wrong and the state takes in less than they thought, there’s a shortfall. And unlike the federal government, the California Constitution requires the state to have a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, their predictions were way off after a series of destructive storms in January 2023 prompted lengthy delays in tax filing deadlines. Instead of filing their taxes in April, most Californians could wait until November. Lawmakers still had to pass a budget by June despite not knowing how much money they had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This January, Newsom said the state’s revenues for 2022–23 to 2024–25 have been coming in $42.9 billion lower than estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and lawmakers have already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gavin-newsom-09507c2b312e454baa50d38c94218a1d\">agreed to about $17 billion in reductions and deferrals\u003c/a> to reduce the deficit. Plus, Newsom has said he wants to take $13 billion from the state’s various savings accounts to help balance the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate tax collections are down 15% from last year, the fourth largest drop in the past 40 years, according to the LAO. And while income taxes are growing thanks to a 20% increase in the stock market since October, which is driving an increase of 8% in total income tax collections this year, the LAO said growth is unlikely to continue. That’s because the broader state economy has not improved — the unemployment rate has risen and investments in California businesses have declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The governor also suggested cutting funding for 260 different state programs as part of his proposed $288 billion state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715373610,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":835},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Proposes Cutting 10,000 Vacant State Jobs to Help Close $27 Billion Budget | KQED","description":"The governor also suggested cutting funding for 260 different state programs as part of his proposed $288 billion state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Proposes Cutting 10,000 Vacant State Jobs to Help Close $27 Billion Budget","datePublished":"2024-05-10T19:06:22.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-10T20:40:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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,"nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr>Associated Press","nprStoryId":"kqed-11985695","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985695/newsom-proposes-cutting-10000-vacant-state-jobs-to-help-close-27-billion-budget","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has a budget deficit of $27.6 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday — a gap so wide that he’s proposing eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs and cutting spending across 260 state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor outlined the deficit on Friday as part of his proposed $288 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. That’s by far the largest budget of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-time cuts would include $2 billion for broadband that would have expanded broadband connections, $500 million for water storage in the drought-plagued state, and $272 million for employment services for the state’s welfare program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing cuts would save another $81 million by closing housing units with 4,600 beds across 13 state prisons and removing $300 million in pandemic-related help for state and local public health departments. Ongoing spending for a scholarship program for middle-class college students pursuing a teaching credential would be cut by $510 million. He also wants to suspend the widely used net operating loss tax deduction for businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are programs, propositions that I’ve long advanced — many of them,” Newsom said as he began outlining his budget. “But you’ve got to do it. We have to be responsible. We have to be accountable.”\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 deficit is smaller than the $38 billion Newsom predicted in January. However, that’s because it doesn’t include $17.3 billion in cuts and other actions he and lawmakers already agreed on to help close it. Otherwise, it would be closer to $45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second year in a row the nation’s most populous state faces a multibillion-dollar shortfall. State revenues have continued to fall amid increasing inflation and a slowdown in the state’s normally robust technology industry. Through the end of April, state tax collections from its three biggest sources — personal income, corporations and sales — dropped more than $6 billion below the previous estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, now in his last term as governor and widely seen as a future presidential candidate, said his plan would address both this year’s deficit and a projected $28.4 billion deficit for the following year. He plans to outline more than $32 billion in cuts to make that happen so that the state Legislature can pass a spending plan by June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s, I think, appropriate and prudent for us not to just solve for this year but to also solve for next year,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office have disagreed on the true size of the state’s deficit this year. The LAO said in January that the deficit was actually $58 billion when including some reductions in public education spending. 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About half of the state’s income tax collections came from just 1% of the population in 2021, making the state more vulnerable to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-3b24f287b7214fac91311bfca23ef16c\">swings in the stock market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers and Newsom get revenue projections wrong and the state takes in less than they thought, there’s a shortfall. And unlike the federal government, the California Constitution requires the state to have a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, their predictions were way off after a series of destructive storms in January 2023 prompted lengthy delays in tax filing deadlines. Instead of filing their taxes in April, most Californians could wait until November. Lawmakers still had to pass a budget by June despite not knowing how much money they had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This January, Newsom said the state’s revenues for 2022–23 to 2024–25 have been coming in $42.9 billion lower than estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and lawmakers have already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gavin-newsom-09507c2b312e454baa50d38c94218a1d\">agreed to about $17 billion in reductions and deferrals\u003c/a> to reduce the deficit. Plus, Newsom has said he wants to take $13 billion from the state’s various savings accounts to help balance the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate tax collections are down 15% from last year, the fourth largest drop in the past 40 years, according to the LAO. And while income taxes are growing thanks to a 20% increase in the stock market since October, which is driving an increase of 8% in total income tax collections this year, the LAO said growth is unlikely to continue. That’s because the broader state economy has not improved — the unemployment rate has risen and investments in California businesses have declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985695/newsom-proposes-cutting-10000-vacant-state-jobs-to-help-close-27-billion-budget","authors":["byline_news_11985695"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_402","news_28565","news_27626","news_25015"],"featImg":"news_11985705","label":"news"},"news_11985781":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985781","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985781","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges","title":"Antioch Police Targeted Black People With Dogs and 40mm Launchers, Suit Alleges","publishDate":1715427016,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Antioch Police Targeted Black People With Dogs and 40mm Launchers, Suit Alleges | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two Antioch residents filed a civil rights lawsuit this week alleging city police officers intentionally injured them with a police dog and less-lethal launchers for amusement, bragged about their use of excessive force in text messages, and falsified records to conceal their misdeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers — Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger — were among ten Antioch and Pittsburg police officers and employees \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">indicted by the federal government\u003c/a> last year in a sprawling misconduct case that spiraled out of an FBI investigation uncovering thousands of racist text messages. Nearly half of the Antioch Police Department was temporarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974853/judge-finds-8-antioch-police-officers-tainted-by-racial-bias-reduces-criminal-charges\">placed on leave, the chief resigned, and the officers’ racial bias\u003c/a> tainted dozens of criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri, Rombough and Wenger’s use of force against plaintiffs Jessie Wilson and Dajon Smith was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">part of a years-long pattern\u003c/a> in which they planned and carried out excessive force against minorities, especially Black people, according to the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Northern District of California. The officers allegedly referred to their targets as “gorillas,” among other derogatory language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the incidents in question against Wilson and Smith took place in 2021, it’s only because of the unearthed text messages that they have the evidence they need to sue, their attorney Fulvio Cajina told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason we’re bringing this lawsuit now is because we didn’t have the information to bring this lawsuit before,” Cajina said. “It’s only because of the FBI investigation into the Antioch Police Department that we know that there was a conspiracy amongst officers to target minorities and to intentionally violate their civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cajina said the text messages are “sickening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch Police Department and city attorney did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the officers’ planning was carried out in text messages revealed by the FBI probe in which they frequently described the desire to beat people and allow Purcy, their K-9 unit, to bite them, according to the lawsuit. In February 2019, Rombough texted Amiri, “Yeah buddy we gonna f— some people up,” court documents showed. They discussed revenge for someone “f—ing with [an officer],” and Amiri texted Rombough, “blood for blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, an officer texted Amiri to ask about his interaction with a suspect. Amiri responded, “lol putting a pistol in someone’s mouth and telling them to stop stealing isn’t illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson was injured on Aug. 24, 2021, when Antioch police officers, including Amiri and Rombough, executed a search warrant to enter an Antioch residence, then entered Wilson’s locked room while he was sitting on an air mattress playing video games, according to the lawsuit. An unnamed officer pinned Wilson’s left arm down against his bed, and Rombough shot him with a 40mm less-lethal launcher, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A less-lethal launcher fires bean bags or sponge bullets and is intended to be used in crowd control environments, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesslethal.com/products/37mm-40mm/alstac-40-detail\">the website of Pacem Defense\u003c/a>, a company selling this type of launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s report about the incident differed from those written by other officers. An unnamed sergeant wrote to Rombough to critique his report, “you write that [Wilson] didn’t comply, but he clearly had his hands up at first. You need to describe way better what happened,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='antioch-police-department']When Antioch Police Department superiors became aware of the officers’ misdeeds, they helped them avoid discipline and accountability by concealing their actions in police reports, the suit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, a Black transgender woman, encountered the officers after she allegedly stole a Maserati on Oct. 26, 2021. The incident can be seen in officer-worn body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/03/antioch-releases-video-of-officers-shooting-less-lethal-round-at-transgender-woman-whose-hands-were-raised/\">obtained by the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police officers, including Wenger, surrounded Smith and the Maserati at an Antioch grocery store. Smith came out of the vehicle and faced the officers. Wenger can be heard saying to another officer, “You got the 40?” meaning the less-lethal launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith stood by the vehicle with her hands up, and Wenger shot her in the chest with a 40mm less-lethal launcher. Antioch police officers are trained that the chest is a “potentially lethal” area to shoot someone with a 40mm less-lethal round, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith begins to recoil in pain, the officers pin her to the ground and sic their police dog on her. The dog can be seen in the video tearing skin from her left arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough collected photos of people he injured shooting the 40mm less-lethal launcher and told Antioch police officers he was collecting the launcher’s spent munitions to craft an American flag, using the munitions as stars and stripes, the suit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Amiri shared photos of victims bitten by their K9, Purcy. After one such bite in 2019, Amiri texted, “I’m gonna take more gory pics. gory [sic] pics are for personal stuff. Cleaned up pics for the case,” followed by two laughing emojis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages, Amiri counted the number of consecutive dog bite photos he collected, which, according to the suit, amounted to 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three Antioch officers indicted in a racist text scandal are accused of intentionally injuring Black people and bragging about their use of excessive force.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715390977,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":914},"headData":{"title":"Antioch Police Targeted Black People With Dogs and 40mm Launchers, Suit Alleges | KQED","description":"Three Antioch officers indicted in a racist text scandal are accused of intentionally injuring Black people and bragging about their use of excessive force.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Antioch Police Targeted Black People With Dogs and 40mm Launchers, Suit Alleges","datePublished":"2024-05-11T11:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-11T01:29:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two Antioch residents filed a civil rights lawsuit this week alleging city police officers intentionally injured them with a police dog and less-lethal launchers for amusement, bragged about their use of excessive force in text messages, and falsified records to conceal their misdeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers — Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger — were among ten Antioch and Pittsburg police officers and employees \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">indicted by the federal government\u003c/a> last year in a sprawling misconduct case that spiraled out of an FBI investigation uncovering thousands of racist text messages. Nearly half of the Antioch Police Department was temporarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974853/judge-finds-8-antioch-police-officers-tainted-by-racial-bias-reduces-criminal-charges\">placed on leave, the chief resigned, and the officers’ racial bias\u003c/a> tainted dozens of criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri, Rombough and Wenger’s use of force against plaintiffs Jessie Wilson and Dajon Smith was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">part of a years-long pattern\u003c/a> in which they planned and carried out excessive force against minorities, especially Black people, according to the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Northern District of California. The officers allegedly referred to their targets as “gorillas,” among other derogatory language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the incidents in question against Wilson and Smith took place in 2021, it’s only because of the unearthed text messages that they have the evidence they need to sue, their attorney Fulvio Cajina told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason we’re bringing this lawsuit now is because we didn’t have the information to bring this lawsuit before,” Cajina said. “It’s only because of the FBI investigation into the Antioch Police Department that we know that there was a conspiracy amongst officers to target minorities and to intentionally violate their civil rights.”\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>Cajina said the text messages are “sickening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch Police Department and city attorney did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the officers’ planning was carried out in text messages revealed by the FBI probe in which they frequently described the desire to beat people and allow Purcy, their K-9 unit, to bite them, according to the lawsuit. In February 2019, Rombough texted Amiri, “Yeah buddy we gonna f— some people up,” court documents showed. They discussed revenge for someone “f—ing with [an officer],” and Amiri texted Rombough, “blood for blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, an officer texted Amiri to ask about his interaction with a suspect. Amiri responded, “lol putting a pistol in someone’s mouth and telling them to stop stealing isn’t illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson was injured on Aug. 24, 2021, when Antioch police officers, including Amiri and Rombough, executed a search warrant to enter an Antioch residence, then entered Wilson’s locked room while he was sitting on an air mattress playing video games, according to the lawsuit. An unnamed officer pinned Wilson’s left arm down against his bed, and Rombough shot him with a 40mm less-lethal launcher, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A less-lethal launcher fires bean bags or sponge bullets and is intended to be used in crowd control environments, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesslethal.com/products/37mm-40mm/alstac-40-detail\">the website of Pacem Defense\u003c/a>, a company selling this type of launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s report about the incident differed from those written by other officers. An unnamed sergeant wrote to Rombough to critique his report, “you write that [Wilson] didn’t comply, but he clearly had his hands up at first. You need to describe way better what happened,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"antioch-police-department"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Antioch Police Department superiors became aware of the officers’ misdeeds, they helped them avoid discipline and accountability by concealing their actions in police reports, the suit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, a Black transgender woman, encountered the officers after she allegedly stole a Maserati on Oct. 26, 2021. The incident can be seen in officer-worn body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/03/antioch-releases-video-of-officers-shooting-less-lethal-round-at-transgender-woman-whose-hands-were-raised/\">obtained by the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police officers, including Wenger, surrounded Smith and the Maserati at an Antioch grocery store. Smith came out of the vehicle and faced the officers. Wenger can be heard saying to another officer, “You got the 40?” meaning the less-lethal launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith stood by the vehicle with her hands up, and Wenger shot her in the chest with a 40mm less-lethal launcher. Antioch police officers are trained that the chest is a “potentially lethal” area to shoot someone with a 40mm less-lethal round, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith begins to recoil in pain, the officers pin her to the ground and sic their police dog on her. The dog can be seen in the video tearing skin from her left arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough collected photos of people he injured shooting the 40mm less-lethal launcher and told Antioch police officers he was collecting the launcher’s spent munitions to craft an American flag, using the munitions as stars and stripes, the suit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Amiri shared photos of victims bitten by their K9, Purcy. After one such bite in 2019, Amiri texted, “I’m gonna take more gory pics. gory [sic] pics are for personal stuff. Cleaned up pics for the case,” followed by two laughing emojis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages, Amiri counted the number of consecutive dog bite photos he collected, which, according to the suit, amounted to 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19122","news_32621","news_17725"],"featImg":"news_11947885","label":"news"},"news_11985188":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985188","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985188","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-central-coast-nears-first-indigenous-named-marine-sanctuary-in-us","title":"California's Central Coast Could Gain First Indigenous-Named Marine Sanctuary in US","publishDate":1715338820,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California’s Central Coast Could Gain First Indigenous-Named Marine Sanctuary in US | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California’s Central Coast is home to one of the world’s most \u003ca href=\"https://opc.ca.gov/marine-protected-areas/research-and-monitoring/regional-baseline-monitoring/regional-baseline-monitoring-central-coast/#:~:text=Central%20Coast%20waters%20are%20home,than%20450%20marine%20algae%20species.\">biodiverse stretches of ocean\u003c/a>. It’s full of rare and endangered species like gray whales, peregrine falcons and sea otters. It’s also the ancestral homeland of Native American tribes, including the Indigenous Chumash and Salinan peoples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Northern Chumash have been working to create a new national marine sanctuary that would protect these waters from offshore oil drilling and other development. If the federal government approves the designation this summer, it would be the first marine sanctuary in the U.S. to be nominated by, and named after, an Indigenous tribe. It’s the culmination of decades of tribal conservation work — but it’s also the legacy of a father and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sanctuary decades in the making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1972, the federal government created the\u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/history/\"> National Marine Sanctuary system\u003c/a>. Within the next few decades, two sanctuaries were designated on California’s Central Coast: \u003ca href=\"https://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/welcome.html\">Monterey Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://channelislands.noaa.gov/about/\">Channel Islands\u003c/a>. Together, they protect about 7,500 square miles of ocean. \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/faqs.html\">Sanctuary status bans \u003c/a>new offshore oil and gas development, disturbing wildlife and historical resources, discharging sewage and more. It allows fishing and recreational activities like boating within certain limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern Chumash tribal members have been lobbying for a third protected stretch of ocean, which would be called the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the coasts of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violet Sage Walker, Chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gina Cinardo, Northern Chumash Tribal Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This has been an ongoing dream of the Chumash people and the community for more than my lifetime — almost 50 years now,” said Violet Sage Walker, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://northernchumash.org/our-story/\">Northern Chumash Tribal Council\u003c/a> (NCTC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker is the daughter of the late Fred Collins, a former tribal chair famous for his environmental activism \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940494/a-step-towards-healing-chumash-members-reunite-sacred-rock\">around the Central Coast\u003c/a>. He proposed a new sanctuary to join the existing Channel Islands and Monterey Bay sanctuaries to create one continuous 20,000-square-mile stretch of protected ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue here is so big that we need another layer of protection so that my grandsons and my great-grandchildren won’t see oil wells off of our coast here,” said Collins, in 2015, the year he proposed the sanctuary to the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a legacy I intended to leave here, that our children will never see oil drilling going on, [or] fracking off of our coast,” he told the crowd at a \u003ca href=\"https://northernchumash.org/watch-nctc-chief-fred-collins-how-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant-got-its-name/\">renewable energy conference in San Luis Obispo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ySBYGN1Ki14?si=-m6429UJJJw2RoV6\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government accepted Collins’ proposal that same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was the] first tribally-led tribal nomination of a National Marine Sanctuary ever,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was stuck in bureaucratic limbo until 2021, when the Biden administration gave the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the green light to begin exploring the designation, an extensive, multi-year process of scientific evaluation and gathering public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fred Collins died just before NOAA began taking these steps — and long before he could see the sanctuary become official. Three years later, the federal government is expected to announce its final decision on designating the sanctuary this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a catch: If approved, the new marine sanctuary may not look as Collins originally intended. Last fall, the federal government proposed a change that surprised many tribal members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Minding the ‘gap’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After receiving tens of thousands of public comments, NOAA released an \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/\">“agency-preferred alternative”\u003c/a> in August 2023. It includes a new map that would remove Morro Bay, Cayucos and Cambria from the sanctuary boundaries. This gap would leave the ocean around Morro Rock, a Chumash sacred site, out of federal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOAA cited \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/faqs.html\">several reasons\u003c/a> for the new proposal. One is that members of another Central Coast Indigenous tribe, the Salinan, voiced their opposition to a marine sanctuary named after the Chumash tribe in an area the Salinan also consider their ancestral waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985187\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Agency-Preferred Alternative boundary of the area NOAA proposes to designate as Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy NOAA )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key concern is the plan to build renewable wind energy sites in the region. Three companies now have leases to put massive floating offshore wind turbines into the waters of Morro Bay, which would require laying underwater cables to channel that energy back to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at that and thought that might be just too much industrial development within a National Marine Sanctuary,” said Paul Michel, Regional Policy Coordinator for NOAA’s West Coast sanctuary program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michel said the gap in the proposed boundary is one possible solution to balance the interests of all ocean users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot that sanctuaries bring to communities, especially in this stretch of coast where there’s just so many issues and complexities and uses — from Department of Defense to nuclear power plants to launching missiles at Vandenberg [Space Force Base], offshore wind energy,” Michel said. “This is a busy coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, some Chumash tribal members balked at leaving a gap in the sanctuary boundaries, especially excluding Morro Rock, an area sacred to their tribe. Shortly after the announcement, they held an event called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxb1islB9mI/?img_index=1\">Rally at the Rock\u003c/a> to advocate for Morro Bay’s inclusion in the zone protected by the sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shore at the base of Morro Rock. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker and other Chumash tribal members sang songs, met with local leaders and called for people to submit public comments asking NOAA to close the gap. Morro Rock is not only sacred to the Chumash but other Indigenous tribes, and the waters around it would otherwise be left out of sanctuary protection in NOAA’s counter-proposal.[aside postID=news_11940494 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62630_rock2018-qut-1020x728.jpg']In April, the Northern Chumash Tribal Council \u003ca href=\"https://chumashsanctuary.org/2024/04/23/joint-support-for-sanctuary-designation/\">announced a compromise\u003c/a> with the wind companies. In a joint statement, they asked NOAA for a phased approach of leaving the gap in place for now, then later, expanding the sanctuary to include Morro Bay and connecting the boundary with the existing Monterey Bay Sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker said it’s a way for offshore wind to co-exist and protect Central Coast waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No compromise makes everyone come out perfectly happy, or else it wouldn’t be a compromise,” she said. “But I think that this shows that we’re able and willing to work together. And we really need to focus on … protecting the planet and protecting the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offshore wind farms have never been built on the West Coast, so it isn’t clear how long a phased-in plan would take. In the meantime, Tribal Council leaders said this is the best way forward to get the sanctuary designated this year and eventually expand the boundaries to protect an unbroken stretch of ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can get a marine sanctuary designated now, we see that as a win,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of tribal activism on the Central Coast\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1978, Chumash tribal members occupied an area north of Santa Barbara to protest a planned liquefied natural gas plant. This was less than 10 years after a devastating oil spill contaminated Santa Barbara waters, and Chumash protesters were determined to stop more fossil fuel development in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985184\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morro Bay may be left out of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary due to concerns over offshore wind development. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Today, you don’t see a natural liquefied plant there,” said Slo’w Gutierrez, a Northern Chumash elder who was part of the 1978 occupation. “We stopped it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gutierrez, the new marine sanctuary would be a logical next step in the Chumash tribes’ centuries-long history of protecting the coast. He said it would go a long way to prevent fossil fuel development, just like the 1979 protests did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just trying to keep that as natural as possible because, in the future, we want our kids to see what we’ve seen and do what we did when we were young,” Gutierrez said. “[If] you have people drilling out there … sooner or later, there’s an accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fred Collins’ legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Collins died in 2021, the Chumash held a ceremony for him in Montaña de Oro, just south of Morro Bay. They placed his ashes in a tomol (a plank-built boat) and rowed it into the sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a good ceremony for my dad. It was worthy of his stature,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985181\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Chief Fred Collins, former Chair of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeremy Bishop, Northern Chumash Tribal Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PJ Webb was there, too. She’s the Northern Chumash Tribal Council’s legal advisor and helped Collins write the original proposal for the sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The ceremony] was triumphant. It was something that I may never see again in my life,” Webb said. “It was just a beautiful thing. And it was special because this was one of Fred’s favorite places. To have all these different Chumash elders come out here and hold ceremony was very moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the marine sanctuary is designated this summer, Webb said it will be a fitting tribute to Fred Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said it many times. He said it as he was dying — that ‘It’s the most important thing I’ve done in my life.’ That’s a pretty incredible accomplishment,” Webb said. “That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Northern Chumash seeks to designate California's Central Coast as a marine sanctuary, pending federal approval, shielding one of the world’s most biodiverse stretches of ocean from oil drilling. If approved, it would be the first US sanctuary named by an Indigenous tribe.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715273512,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1668},"headData":{"title":"California's Central Coast Could Gain First Indigenous-Named Marine Sanctuary in US | KQED","description":"The Northern Chumash seeks to designate California's Central Coast as a marine sanctuary, pending federal approval, shielding one of the world’s most biodiverse stretches of ocean from oil drilling. If approved, it would be the first US sanctuary named by an Indigenous tribe.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Central Coast Could Gain First Indigenous-Named Marine Sanctuary in US","datePublished":"2024-05-10T11:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T16:51:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/6df20966-6245-4677-bcac-b16b0114f03a/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Benjamin Purper","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985188/californias-central-coast-nears-first-indigenous-named-marine-sanctuary-in-us","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s Central Coast is home to one of the world’s most \u003ca href=\"https://opc.ca.gov/marine-protected-areas/research-and-monitoring/regional-baseline-monitoring/regional-baseline-monitoring-central-coast/#:~:text=Central%20Coast%20waters%20are%20home,than%20450%20marine%20algae%20species.\">biodiverse stretches of ocean\u003c/a>. It’s full of rare and endangered species like gray whales, peregrine falcons and sea otters. It’s also the ancestral homeland of Native American tribes, including the Indigenous Chumash and Salinan peoples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Northern Chumash have been working to create a new national marine sanctuary that would protect these waters from offshore oil drilling and other development. If the federal government approves the designation this summer, it would be the first marine sanctuary in the U.S. to be nominated by, and named after, an Indigenous tribe. It’s the culmination of decades of tribal conservation work — but it’s also the legacy of a father and daughter.\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\u003ch2>A sanctuary decades in the making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1972, the federal government created the\u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/history/\"> National Marine Sanctuary system\u003c/a>. Within the next few decades, two sanctuaries were designated on California’s Central Coast: \u003ca href=\"https://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/welcome.html\">Monterey Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://channelislands.noaa.gov/about/\">Channel Islands\u003c/a>. Together, they protect about 7,500 square miles of ocean. \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/faqs.html\">Sanctuary status bans \u003c/a>new offshore oil and gas development, disturbing wildlife and historical resources, discharging sewage and more. It allows fishing and recreational activities like boating within certain limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern Chumash tribal members have been lobbying for a third protected stretch of ocean, which would be called the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the coasts of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violet Sage Walker, Chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gina Cinardo, Northern Chumash Tribal Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This has been an ongoing dream of the Chumash people and the community for more than my lifetime — almost 50 years now,” said Violet Sage Walker, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://northernchumash.org/our-story/\">Northern Chumash Tribal Council\u003c/a> (NCTC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker is the daughter of the late Fred Collins, a former tribal chair famous for his environmental activism \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940494/a-step-towards-healing-chumash-members-reunite-sacred-rock\">around the Central Coast\u003c/a>. He proposed a new sanctuary to join the existing Channel Islands and Monterey Bay sanctuaries to create one continuous 20,000-square-mile stretch of protected ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue here is so big that we need another layer of protection so that my grandsons and my great-grandchildren won’t see oil wells off of our coast here,” said Collins, in 2015, the year he proposed the sanctuary to the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a legacy I intended to leave here, that our children will never see oil drilling going on, [or] fracking off of our coast,” he told the crowd at a \u003ca href=\"https://northernchumash.org/watch-nctc-chief-fred-collins-how-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant-got-its-name/\">renewable energy conference in San Luis Obispo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ySBYGN1Ki14'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ySBYGN1Ki14'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The federal government accepted Collins’ proposal that same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was the] first tribally-led tribal nomination of a National Marine Sanctuary ever,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was stuck in bureaucratic limbo until 2021, when the Biden administration gave the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the green light to begin exploring the designation, an extensive, multi-year process of scientific evaluation and gathering public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fred Collins died just before NOAA began taking these steps — and long before he could see the sanctuary become official. Three years later, the federal government is expected to announce its final decision on designating the sanctuary this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a catch: If approved, the new marine sanctuary may not look as Collins originally intended. Last fall, the federal government proposed a change that surprised many tribal members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Minding the ‘gap’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After receiving tens of thousands of public comments, NOAA released an \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/\">“agency-preferred alternative”\u003c/a> in August 2023. It includes a new map that would remove Morro Bay, Cayucos and Cambria from the sanctuary boundaries. This gap would leave the ocean around Morro Rock, a Chumash sacred site, out of federal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOAA cited \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/faqs.html\">several reasons\u003c/a> for the new proposal. One is that members of another Central Coast Indigenous tribe, the Salinan, voiced their opposition to a marine sanctuary named after the Chumash tribe in an area the Salinan also consider their ancestral waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985187\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-MAP-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Agency-Preferred Alternative boundary of the area NOAA proposes to designate as Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy NOAA )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key concern is the plan to build renewable wind energy sites in the region. Three companies now have leases to put massive floating offshore wind turbines into the waters of Morro Bay, which would require laying underwater cables to channel that energy back to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at that and thought that might be just too much industrial development within a National Marine Sanctuary,” said Paul Michel, Regional Policy Coordinator for NOAA’s West Coast sanctuary program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michel said the gap in the proposed boundary is one possible solution to balance the interests of all ocean users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot that sanctuaries bring to communities, especially in this stretch of coast where there’s just so many issues and complexities and uses — from Department of Defense to nuclear power plants to launching missiles at Vandenberg [Space Force Base], offshore wind energy,” Michel said. “This is a busy coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, some Chumash tribal members balked at leaving a gap in the sanctuary boundaries, especially excluding Morro Rock, an area sacred to their tribe. Shortly after the announcement, they held an event called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxb1islB9mI/?img_index=1\">Rally at the Rock\u003c/a> to advocate for Morro Bay’s inclusion in the zone protected by the sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shore at the base of Morro Rock. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker and other Chumash tribal members sang songs, met with local leaders and called for people to submit public comments asking NOAA to close the gap. Morro Rock is not only sacred to the Chumash but other Indigenous tribes, and the waters around it would otherwise be left out of sanctuary protection in NOAA’s counter-proposal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11940494","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62630_rock2018-qut-1020x728.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In April, the Northern Chumash Tribal Council \u003ca href=\"https://chumashsanctuary.org/2024/04/23/joint-support-for-sanctuary-designation/\">announced a compromise\u003c/a> with the wind companies. In a joint statement, they asked NOAA for a phased approach of leaving the gap in place for now, then later, expanding the sanctuary to include Morro Bay and connecting the boundary with the existing Monterey Bay Sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage Walker said it’s a way for offshore wind to co-exist and protect Central Coast waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No compromise makes everyone come out perfectly happy, or else it wouldn’t be a compromise,” she said. “But I think that this shows that we’re able and willing to work together. And we really need to focus on … protecting the planet and protecting the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offshore wind farms have never been built on the West Coast, so it isn’t clear how long a phased-in plan would take. In the meantime, Tribal Council leaders said this is the best way forward to get the sanctuary designated this year and eventually expand the boundaries to protect an unbroken stretch of ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can get a marine sanctuary designated now, we see that as a win,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of tribal activism on the Central Coast\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1978, Chumash tribal members occupied an area north of Santa Barbara to protest a planned liquefied natural gas plant. This was less than 10 years after a devastating oil spill contaminated Santa Barbara waters, and Chumash protesters were determined to stop more fossil fuel development in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985184\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-05-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morro Bay may be left out of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary due to concerns over offshore wind development. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Today, you don’t see a natural liquefied plant there,” said Slo’w Gutierrez, a Northern Chumash elder who was part of the 1978 occupation. “We stopped it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gutierrez, the new marine sanctuary would be a logical next step in the Chumash tribes’ centuries-long history of protecting the coast. He said it would go a long way to prevent fossil fuel development, just like the 1979 protests did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just trying to keep that as natural as possible because, in the future, we want our kids to see what we’ve seen and do what we did when we were young,” Gutierrez said. “[If] you have people drilling out there … sooner or later, there’s an accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fred Collins’ legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Collins died in 2021, the Chumash held a ceremony for him in Montaña de Oro, just south of Morro Bay. They placed his ashes in a tomol (a plank-built boat) and rowed it into the sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a good ceremony for my dad. It was worthy of his stature,” Sage Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985181\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Chumash-Sanctuary-02-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Chief Fred Collins, former Chair of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeremy Bishop, Northern Chumash Tribal Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PJ Webb was there, too. She’s the Northern Chumash Tribal Council’s legal advisor and helped Collins write the original proposal for the sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The ceremony] was triumphant. It was something that I may never see again in my life,” Webb said. “It was just a beautiful thing. And it was special because this was one of Fred’s favorite places. To have all these different Chumash elders come out here and hold ceremony was very moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the marine sanctuary is designated this summer, Webb said it will be a fitting tribute to Fred Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said it many times. He said it as he was dying — that ‘It’s the most important thing I’ve done in my life.’ That’s a pretty incredible accomplishment,” Webb said. “That’s a legacy.”\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/11985188/californias-central-coast-nears-first-indigenous-named-marine-sanctuary-in-us","authors":["byline_news_11985188"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_5505","news_31097","news_29278","news_32385","news_20023","news_27626","news_29873","news_3613","news_1262","news_5648"],"featImg":"news_11985180","label":"news_26731"},"news_11985580":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985580","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985580","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"divestment-from-israeli-tech-is-a-tall-order-for-silicon-valley-heres-why","title":"Divestment from Israeli Tech Is a Tall Order for Silicon Valley. Here’s Why","publishDate":1715346042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Divestment from Israeli Tech Is a Tall Order for Silicon Valley. Here’s Why | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, many American protesters are accusing Silicon Valley companies, like Intel and Google, of complicity in the violence in Gaza and urging them to divest from Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, the group \u003ca href=\"https://notechforapartheid.com\">No Tech for Apartheid\u003c/a>, staged sit-ins at Google offices in Sunnyvale, Seattle and New York. At issue was Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion cloud services contract with the Israeli government, including the Ministry of Defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Google workers who have had enough of this, and we do not want our work going towards aiding a genocide,” said software engineer Hasan Ibraheem, one of roughly 50 Google employees fired over the protests. Ibraheem added that the goal of No Tech for Apartheid is to raise awareness as much as to get Google to cancel Project Nimbus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“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 with each action that we inspire more tech workers to speak out and take part in more actions,” he said. “We’re making people realize that there is a connection, that these companies do have involvement in this genocide, and that they need to be held accountable for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google employees have successfully lobbied the company to cancel military-related contracts in the past, like\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentagon-project-maven.html\"> Project Maven\u003c/a> with the Pentagon. Before that, it was Project Dragonfly, a proposed version of Google Search that would allow the Chinese government to censor and monitor users within China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google continues to work with the U.S. government, the Israeli government and others worldwide — as many other Silicon Valley companies do — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C47EqBEMaeb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Meta\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/apples4ceasefire/\">Apple\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is broader divestment from Israeli tech possible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some protesters aligned with the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, the goal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-e-u-vs-b-d-s-the-politics-of-israel-sanctions\">not just canceling military contracts\u003c/a> but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from Israel altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to many who are familiar with the tech sector, that’s a tall order. The relationship between Silicon Valley and Israeli tech spans various categories: ag tech, biotech, green tech, cybersecurity, semiconductors and so on. Economists say the economic love affair extends back to the 1970s but took off in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are going to continue using everyday items like an Android or iPhone, a television screen, a computer chip, these are indispensable technologies created in Israel,” said Aaron Kaplowitz, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usisrael.co\">United States — Israel Business Alliance\u003c/a>, and a Miami-based venture capitalist who invests in Israeli tech startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the business alliance, California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli-founded “unicorns” — privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. And those are just the big startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/7267524/embed?auto=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley is not just a geography, right? It’s an idea. It’s even an \u003ca href=\"https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/report/how-many-israelis-really-work-in-high-tech/#:~:text=there%20were%20508%2C400%20salaried%20employees,a%20significant%20increase%20of%2032%25.\">ideal\u003c/a> for Israel, right?” said Guy Horowitz, an Israeli venture capitalist who has lived in Palo Alto for six years. “Combining talent with technology and money, I think it’s the very basis of the Israel ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/ca-israel\">startup nation\u003c/a>’ ethos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deals, deals, deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley giants have spent a lot of money buying Israeli startups in recent years, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The satellite navigation software company Waze, which Google bought for $1.3 billion in 2013.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The computer networking company Mellanox, which Santa Clara-based NVIDIA bought for roughly $7 billion in 2019. NVIDIA has recently announced plans to buy \u003ca href=\"https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nvidias-israel-ai-spending-spree-has-downside-1001477627\">two more Israeli companies\u003c/a> focused on AI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intel bought autonomous driving company Mobileye for $15 billion in 2017.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Tech for Apartheid protesters in Sunnyvale occupied an office used by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of No Tech for Apartheid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of U.S. companies run offices and manufacturing facilities in Israel, too. \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-790725\">Intel\u003c/a>, with 11,700 employees in Israel, is the country’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So Israel wouldn’t be ‘startup nation’ without Silicon Valley, but by the same token, it’s hard to imagine Silicon Valley without Israel, and that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite what’s going on in Israel,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple generations of Israeli tech workers have learned their trade and people skills in the military, which has been engaged in conflicts with Palestinians and others in the region since Israel was founded in 1948. That’s a foundational fact, Horowitz and others say, strengthening the relationship between Silicon Valley and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Defense contracts: A foundational feature of tech, not a bug\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I know for some people, it’s hard to hear this. But Israel has always been in survival mode, and survival mode has always generated value,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gallup, 58% of Americans have a “very” or “mostly favorable” view of Israel, which is down from 68% last year.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='silicon-valley']“This is the lowest favorable rating for Israel in over two decades,” the polling outfit \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/611375/americans-views-israel-palestinian-authority-down.aspx\">wrote in March\u003c/a>, roughly five months after Hamas attacked Israel and nearly four months after Israel invaded Gaza. But Horowitz said divestment is likely to be a non-starter with Silicon Valley leaders because they’re primarily motivated by profit — not geopolitics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not a new phenomenon or one specific to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, the San José-based research outfit, said Silicon Valley companies have a long history of cultivating military contracts, initially with the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’60s and ’70s, Silicon Valley was built by defense spending because we were locked in a Cold War, engaged in a space race, and waging a battle in East Asia and Vietnam,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the industry has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tni.org/files/2023-04/Militarising%20%20Big%20Tech.pdf\">expanded to pursue military contracts\u003c/a> with governments all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets to the age-old question: Is the technology good or bad? And the answer is: Yes. All of the above,” Hancock said. “The technologies can be used for lofty, soaring goals. But they can also be used to kill people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Although American public sentiment against Israel is running high because of its actions in Gaza, divestment may be a non-starter because Silicon Valley is heavily invested in Israeli companies. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715353496,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/7267524/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1069},"headData":{"title":"Divestment from Israeli Tech Is a Tall Order for Silicon Valley. Here’s Why | KQED","description":"Although American public sentiment against Israel is running high because of its actions in Gaza, divestment may be a non-starter because Silicon Valley is heavily invested in Israeli companies. 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At issue was Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion cloud services contract with the Israeli government, including the Ministry of Defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Google workers who have had enough of this, and we do not want our work going towards aiding a genocide,” said software engineer Hasan Ibraheem, one of roughly 50 Google employees fired over the protests. Ibraheem added that the goal of No Tech for Apartheid is to raise awareness as much as to get Google to cancel Project Nimbus.\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>“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 with each action that we inspire more tech workers to speak out and take part in more actions,” he said. “We’re making people realize that there is a connection, that these companies do have involvement in this genocide, and that they need to be held accountable for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google employees have successfully lobbied the company to cancel military-related contracts in the past, like\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentagon-project-maven.html\"> Project Maven\u003c/a> with the Pentagon. Before that, it was Project Dragonfly, a proposed version of Google Search that would allow the Chinese government to censor and monitor users within China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google continues to work with the U.S. government, the Israeli government and others worldwide — as many other Silicon Valley companies do — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C47EqBEMaeb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Meta\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/apples4ceasefire/\">Apple\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is broader divestment from Israeli tech possible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some protesters aligned with the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, the goal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-e-u-vs-b-d-s-the-politics-of-israel-sanctions\">not just canceling military contracts\u003c/a> but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from Israel altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to many who are familiar with the tech sector, that’s a tall order. The relationship between Silicon Valley and Israeli tech spans various categories: ag tech, biotech, green tech, cybersecurity, semiconductors and so on. Economists say the economic love affair extends back to the 1970s but took off in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are going to continue using everyday items like an Android or iPhone, a television screen, a computer chip, these are indispensable technologies created in Israel,” said Aaron Kaplowitz, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usisrael.co\">United States — Israel Business Alliance\u003c/a>, and a Miami-based venture capitalist who invests in Israeli tech startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the business alliance, California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli-founded “unicorns” — privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. And those are just the big startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/7267524/embed?auto=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley is not just a geography, right? It’s an idea. It’s even an \u003ca href=\"https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/report/how-many-israelis-really-work-in-high-tech/#:~:text=there%20were%20508%2C400%20salaried%20employees,a%20significant%20increase%20of%2032%25.\">ideal\u003c/a> for Israel, right?” said Guy Horowitz, an Israeli venture capitalist who has lived in Palo Alto for six years. “Combining talent with technology and money, I think it’s the very basis of the Israel ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/ca-israel\">startup nation\u003c/a>’ ethos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deals, deals, deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley giants have spent a lot of money buying Israeli startups in recent years, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The satellite navigation software company Waze, which Google bought for $1.3 billion in 2013.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The computer networking company Mellanox, which Santa Clara-based NVIDIA bought for roughly $7 billion in 2019. NVIDIA has recently announced plans to buy \u003ca href=\"https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nvidias-israel-ai-spending-spree-has-downside-1001477627\">two more Israeli companies\u003c/a> focused on AI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intel bought autonomous driving company Mobileye for $15 billion in 2017.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Tech for Apartheid protesters in Sunnyvale occupied an office used by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of No Tech for Apartheid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of U.S. companies run offices and manufacturing facilities in Israel, too. \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-790725\">Intel\u003c/a>, with 11,700 employees in Israel, is the country’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So Israel wouldn’t be ‘startup nation’ without Silicon Valley, but by the same token, it’s hard to imagine Silicon Valley without Israel, and that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite what’s going on in Israel,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple generations of Israeli tech workers have learned their trade and people skills in the military, which has been engaged in conflicts with Palestinians and others in the region since Israel was founded in 1948. That’s a foundational fact, Horowitz and others say, strengthening the relationship between Silicon Valley and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Defense contracts: A foundational feature of tech, not a bug\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I know for some people, it’s hard to hear this. But Israel has always been in survival mode, and survival mode has always generated value,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gallup, 58% of Americans have a “very” or “mostly favorable” view of Israel, which is down from 68% last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"silicon-valley"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is the lowest favorable rating for Israel in over two decades,” the polling outfit \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/611375/americans-views-israel-palestinian-authority-down.aspx\">wrote in March\u003c/a>, roughly five months after Hamas attacked Israel and nearly four months after Israel invaded Gaza. But Horowitz said divestment is likely to be a non-starter with Silicon Valley leaders because they’re primarily motivated by profit — not geopolitics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not a new phenomenon or one specific to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, the San José-based research outfit, said Silicon Valley companies have a long history of cultivating military contracts, initially with the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’60s and ’70s, Silicon Valley was built by defense spending because we were locked in a Cold War, engaged in a space race, and waging a battle in East Asia and Vietnam,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the industry has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tni.org/files/2023-04/Militarising%20%20Big%20Tech.pdf\">expanded to pursue military contracts\u003c/a> with governments all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets to the age-old question: Is the technology good or bad? And the answer is: Yes. All of the above,” Hancock said. “The technologies can be used for lofty, soaring goals. But they can also be used to kill people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985580/divestment-from-israeli-tech-is-a-tall-order-for-silicon-valley-heres-why","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_1741","news_33333","news_353","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11985633","label":"news"},"news_11985760":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985760","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985760","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-airport-new-name-lawsuit-against-san-francisco","title":"Oakland's Airport Has a New Name, and a Lawsuit Against SF to Back It Up","publishDate":1715375899,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland’s Airport Has a New Name, and a Lawsuit Against SF to Back It Up | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With the Oakland airport’s name change now in effect, port officials have answered a lawsuit filed by San Francisco with a suit of their own, asking a judge to rule that the new name does not infringe on a trademark held by the city across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed Thursday, was announced immediately following a unanimous second vote by Oakland’s Board of Port Commissioners to rename Metropolitan Oakland International Airport \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985629/its-official-oakland-port-once-again-votes-to-change-airport-name-to-san-francisco-bay-oakland-international-airport\">to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Richardson, the Port of Oakland’s attorney, said Oakland’s lawsuit is a means of getting a judge to affirm Oakland’s right to use the new name and speeding up what could otherwise be a lengthy legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The port is suing the city and County of San Francisco for a court declaration that the port can lawfully use the now board-approved name San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. That the new name … does not infringe on SFO’s purported mark, and that neither SFO nor the City and County of San Francisco have the exclusive right to use or trademark the San Francisco Bay,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">sued Oakland last month\u003c/a>, arguing that the name infringes on the trademark of San Francisco International Airport and would cause confusion among travelers. City Attorney David Chiu told KQED ahead of the final vote that his office would seek a preliminary injunction to stop the name’s implementation until the lawsuit is settled, should the vote pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name change is already in effect, and Richardson said the port is immediately moving forward with changing signage and communicating with airlines and travel agencies to update their records. The full implementation could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Importantly, unlike SFO, the port is not seeking money damages. At this point, we’re not seeking anything other than a declaration that we can continue to use the name that the board approved,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides have expressed their disappointment with each other and argued that an alternative resolution could have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='oakland-airport']“We want to see the entire Bay Area thrive as a tourist destination and expand our offerings to visitors, but this proposal is not a legal or practical way to go about it,” Chiu said in a public letter to the port days before commissioners’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982744/oakland-officials-to-proceed-with-controversial-move-to-rename-airport\">first vote on the change in early April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson said Port of Oakland executives “did reach out to SFO executive leadership early on. … Those conversations were proceeding for a little bit of time,” she said. “However, the threats of litigation from the city attorney really stifled those conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco filed its lawsuit a week after the port’s initial vote, saying that their attempts to collaborate had gone ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco city attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Thursday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland is asking a judge to rule that the new name, San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, does not represent a trademark infringement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715378973,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":508},"headData":{"title":"Oakland's Airport Has a New Name, and a Lawsuit Against SF to Back It Up | KQED","description":"Oakland is asking a judge to rule that the new name, San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, does not represent a trademark infringement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland's Airport Has a New Name, and a Lawsuit Against SF to Back It Up","datePublished":"2024-05-10T21:18:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-10T22:09:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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-11985760","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985760/oakland-airport-new-name-lawsuit-against-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the Oakland airport’s name change now in effect, port officials have answered a lawsuit filed by San Francisco with a suit of their own, asking a judge to rule that the new name does not infringe on a trademark held by the city across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed Thursday, was announced immediately following a unanimous second vote by Oakland’s Board of Port Commissioners to rename Metropolitan Oakland International Airport \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985629/its-official-oakland-port-once-again-votes-to-change-airport-name-to-san-francisco-bay-oakland-international-airport\">to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Richardson, the Port of Oakland’s attorney, said Oakland’s lawsuit is a means of getting a judge to affirm Oakland’s right to use the new name and speeding up what could otherwise be a lengthy legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The port is suing the city and County of San Francisco for a court declaration that the port can lawfully use the now board-approved name San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. That the new name … does not infringe on SFO’s purported mark, and that neither SFO nor the City and County of San Francisco have the exclusive right to use or trademark the San Francisco Bay,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">sued Oakland last month\u003c/a>, arguing that the name infringes on the trademark of San Francisco International Airport and would cause confusion among travelers. City Attorney David Chiu told KQED ahead of the final vote that his office would seek a preliminary injunction to stop the name’s implementation until the lawsuit is settled, should the vote pass.\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 name change is already in effect, and Richardson said the port is immediately moving forward with changing signage and communicating with airlines and travel agencies to update their records. The full implementation could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Importantly, unlike SFO, the port is not seeking money damages. At this point, we’re not seeking anything other than a declaration that we can continue to use the name that the board approved,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides have expressed their disappointment with each other and argued that an alternative resolution could have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"oakland-airport"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We want to see the entire Bay Area thrive as a tourist destination and expand our offerings to visitors, but this proposal is not a legal or practical way to go about it,” Chiu said in a public letter to the port days before commissioners’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982744/oakland-officials-to-proceed-with-controversial-move-to-rename-airport\">first vote on the change in early April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson said Port of Oakland executives “did reach out to SFO executive leadership early on. … Those conversations were proceeding for a little bit of time,” she said. “However, the threats of litigation from the city attorney really stifled those conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco filed its lawsuit a week after the port’s initial vote, saying that their attempts to collaborate had gone ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco city attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Thursday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985760/oakland-airport-new-name-lawsuit-against-san-francisco","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18","news_33915","news_2045","news_38","news_451"],"featImg":"news_11985763","label":"news"},"news_11985689":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985689","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985689","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"under-new-california-law-restaurants-to-include-all-surcharges-in-menu-prices","title":"Under New California Law, Restaurants to Include All Surcharges in Menu Prices","publishDate":1715439648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Under New California Law, Restaurants to Include All Surcharges in Menu Prices | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Service charges, resort fees, “surcharge” add-ons: If you’ve been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant — or book a hotel room or buy a ticket to a game, you’re far from alone. But if you live in California, change is coming. A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law is simple: the price you see is the price you pay,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Wednesday, as his office issued long-awaited guidance about a law that applies to thousands of businesses in a wide range of sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it takes effect on July 1, the law promises to upend how many restaurants operate. Their menus will be required to list comprehensive prices for each item, with all mandatory charges baked into one figure. Only entirely optional fees — like leaving a tip for staff — can be left out of the posted price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a business violates the mandate, the law allows a consumer to seek “actual damages of at least $1,000.” In its new guidelines, the state said it won’t focus initial enforcement efforts on “fees that are paid directly and entirely by a restaurant to its workers, such as an automatic gratuity. However, businesses may be liable in private actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many business owners — and restaurant owners in particular — have been dreading the change, which is poised to ban separate surcharges that restaurateurs have increasingly relied on to pay higher wages to staff and to absorb discrete costs such as San Francisco’s mandatory health care payments for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consumer advocates applaud the change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocacy groups have celebrated the law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB478\">SB 478\u003c/a>, calling it a simple matter of common sense that will bring much-needed clarity and transparency to retail transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People deserve to know the true price of products upfront so that they can do good comparison shopping and so that there’s just good competition in the marketplace,” Jenn Engstrom, state director for the California Public Interest Research Group, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this guidance is great for consumers,” Engstrom said, adding that in her view, the attorney general’s interpretation tracks with legislators’ intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws like the one in California would give consumers something they need: clarity about their expectations, said Erin Witte, the director of consumer protection for the Consumer Federation of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels all over the place” right now, she said. And for a lot of people, she adds, uncertainty over whether their dinner will cost an extra $20 could have cascading effects if it’s more than they budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re thinking about late fees and increased interest and things like that. So it’s not just annoying, it’s harmful for many folks,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Restaurant owners warn of higher prices and fallout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners like Laurie Thomas, who heads the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, said the changes will bring higher prices and sticker shock, which could then raise a psychological hurdle in customers’ dining habits. That, in turn, will hurt restaurants and their workers, she warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s in the core price of the menu, there will be a pullback” in patrons’ spending, she told NPR shortly before the attorney general released the guidelines. “There are some people, I think, that are hoping that the restaurants will just absorb that cost because we’ve seen people say, ‘Oh, it’s too expensive with the service charge.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new guidelines, Thomas’ organization said in an email to NPR, restaurants will be forced to impose “significant menu price increases.” And if customers eat out less, it warns, “Not only will restaurants struggle, but workers will lose hours and jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said she has always advocated for restaurants to be clear about any additional fees they charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a restaurant organization have never been a proponent of not fully disclosing any additional fees,” she said, citing longstanding practices like charging a mandatory gratuity for large parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should always be listed,” she said. “You should never mislead a customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her two restaurants, Thomas said, longtime staff prefer a traditional tipping method. She plans to use the time before July 1 to consult with her employees about how to adjust to the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association “strenuously disagrees with the AG’s expansive interpretation” of the law, said Matthew Sutton, the group’s senior vice president of government affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutton accuses the attorney general’s office of a “bait-and-switch,” saying its interpretation “is clearly inconsistent with the Legislature’s intent.” Courts have allowed service fees as long as they’re properly disclosed; he added that the industry group is “considering all available options to block implementation” of the law in the way the guidelines describe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Momentum is building for transparent pricing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to predict all of the potential effects of California’s new law, partly due to the disparate industries it affects and because it would be the first such ban enacted in the U.S. The federal government has proposed a similar rule, and several other states are also weighing legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen states, including \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1151\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2023&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=636\">Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, have taken up legislation similar to California’s this year, although as of now, none of those bills have gotten final approval, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.endjunkfees.com/\">American Economic Liberties Project\u003c/a>, a progressive nonprofit that campaigns against junk fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, the Federal Trade Commission is reviewing thousands of comments it received after \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0064/document\">publishing a proposed rule\u003c/a> about “unfair or deceptive fees” that misled customers about the total costs of goods and services last November. However, federal rules are subject to change whenever the White House changes hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it really behooves states to be very active on this issue,” Witte said, noting the growing momentum behind junk fee legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen consumers across political lines,” she said. “This is a really bipartisan issue” to push for transparent pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another important consideration, Witte and other advocates said, is to ensure changes don’t harm employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why do restaurant patrons react so strongly to fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The restaurant-patron relationship is personal by nature: you are, after all, putting their product in your body. For millions of Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted that dynamic. And when they returned to restaurants, things were different. It was common to see eateries struggle to attract and retain enough staff; to sweeten the deal, many added surcharges that helped them raise workers’ pay. [aside label='Related Coverage' tag='california-law']“Nationally, the restaurant industry has been one of the largest employers in the U.S., but the absolute lowest paying employer for generations,” Saru Jayaraman, the president of One Fair Wage and the director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “Really in part due to this sub-minimum wage for tipped workers that is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/980047710/the-land-of-the-fee\">direct legacy of slavery\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many patrons, those changes were a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels a bit sudden,” Witte said, citing the lingering effects of the pandemic and high inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, folks understand that inflation affects everyone, right? But feeling like you had fees added on to already increasing prices across the economy sort of felt like a double punch for consumers,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor, she said, is that restaurants didn’t always make clear to diners what kind of fees it would tack onto their final bill — or what the money was for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone feels like, well, I’m already paying a tip in the form of a 20% service fee; why would I also have to pay a tip to the server if they’re already getting it? That disconnect and that lack of transparency make consumers feel angry. It makes them feel deceived, and it can harm people who rely on that income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a restaurant adds service charges to your bill, “you have the right to inquire what they’re being used for if it’s not spelled out,” Jayaraman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if a restaurant offers the option of tipping, you should use it, Jayaraman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely encourage you to tip,” she said, adding that cash is best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason for tipping in cash is that a lot of businesses deduct credit card processing fees from tipped workers tips, which is very difficult for the tipped worker and not what the consumer expects to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How pervasive are hidden fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California law applies to both online and in-person transactions, covering “the sale or lease of most goods and services that are for a consumer’s personal use,” the attorney general’s office said, from short-term rentals and event tickets to hotels, restaurants, and food delivery services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s more common in online purchases,” Engstrom said, adding that she has seen ticket sellers for events tack on fees that add 20% to 30% more to the advertised price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the law’s goal is to ensure a level playing field, whether companies are trying to attract concertgoers or diners. It also targets hotels that might add a “resort fee” to a customer’s check-out price for the use of fairly standard amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is an enormously lucrative opportunity for businesses and not just because of the fee itself,” Witte said, “but because of the way that it allows them to take business from other honest businesses who transparently disclose a higher price upfront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One place that we’ve seen a lot of junk and hidden fees is with car dealers, and that is certainly not limited to larger franchised car dealerships, Witte said, describing strategies such as dealers advertising a car at an enticing price — only to tack on expensive fees during an hours-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Car dealers are subject to a pending rule from the FTC, which said the change could save U.S. consumers \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/ftc-announces-cars-rule-fight-scams-vehicle-shopping\">more than $3.4 billion\u003c/a> — and an estimated 72 million hours worth of time spent shopping for vehicles. The rule was due to take effect in July, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-pauses-cars-rule-effective-date\">it’s now in limbo after a legal challenge\u003c/a> from the auto dealer industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new state law mandating price transparency will begin in July, poised to upend how many restaurants operate. Under the law, menus must display all-inclusive prices for each item, incorporating all mandatory charges.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715371599,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1828},"headData":{"title":"Under New California Law, Restaurants to Include All Surcharges in Menu Prices | KQED","description":"A new state law mandating price transparency will begin in July, poised to upend how many restaurants operate. Under the law, menus must display all-inclusive prices for each item, incorporating all mandatory charges.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Under New California Law, Restaurants to Include All Surcharges in Menu Prices","datePublished":"2024-05-11T15:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-10T20:06:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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,"nprByline":"Bill Chappell","nprStoryId":"1249930674","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1249930674/california-restaurants-fees","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"2024-05-10T05:01:05-04:00","nprStoryDate":"2024-05-10T05:01:05-04:00","nprLastModifiedDate":"2024-05-10T05:01:05-04:00","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985689/under-new-california-law-restaurants-to-include-all-surcharges-in-menu-prices","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Service charges, resort fees, “surcharge” add-ons: If you’ve been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant — or book a hotel room or buy a ticket to a game, you’re far from alone. But if you live in California, change is coming. A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law is simple: the price you see is the price you pay,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Wednesday, as his office issued long-awaited guidance about a law that applies to thousands of businesses in a wide range of sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it takes effect on July 1, the law promises to upend how many restaurants operate. Their menus will be required to list comprehensive prices for each item, with all mandatory charges baked into one figure. Only entirely optional fees — like leaving a tip for staff — can be left out of the posted price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a business violates the mandate, the law allows a consumer to seek “actual damages of at least $1,000.” In its new guidelines, the state said it won’t focus initial enforcement efforts on “fees that are paid directly and entirely by a restaurant to its workers, such as an automatic gratuity. However, businesses may be liable in private actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many business owners — and restaurant owners in particular — have been dreading the change, which is poised to ban separate surcharges that restaurateurs have increasingly relied on to pay higher wages to staff and to absorb discrete costs such as San Francisco’s mandatory health care payments for workers.\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\u003ch2>Consumer advocates applaud the change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocacy groups have celebrated the law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB478\">SB 478\u003c/a>, calling it a simple matter of common sense that will bring much-needed clarity and transparency to retail transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People deserve to know the true price of products upfront so that they can do good comparison shopping and so that there’s just good competition in the marketplace,” Jenn Engstrom, state director for the California Public Interest Research Group, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this guidance is great for consumers,” Engstrom said, adding that in her view, the attorney general’s interpretation tracks with legislators’ intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws like the one in California would give consumers something they need: clarity about their expectations, said Erin Witte, the director of consumer protection for the Consumer Federation of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels all over the place” right now, she said. And for a lot of people, she adds, uncertainty over whether their dinner will cost an extra $20 could have cascading effects if it’s more than they budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re thinking about late fees and increased interest and things like that. So it’s not just annoying, it’s harmful for many folks,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Restaurant owners warn of higher prices and fallout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners like Laurie Thomas, who heads the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, said the changes will bring higher prices and sticker shock, which could then raise a psychological hurdle in customers’ dining habits. That, in turn, will hurt restaurants and their workers, she warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s in the core price of the menu, there will be a pullback” in patrons’ spending, she told NPR shortly before the attorney general released the guidelines. “There are some people, I think, that are hoping that the restaurants will just absorb that cost because we’ve seen people say, ‘Oh, it’s too expensive with the service charge.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new guidelines, Thomas’ organization said in an email to NPR, restaurants will be forced to impose “significant menu price increases.” And if customers eat out less, it warns, “Not only will restaurants struggle, but workers will lose hours and jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said she has always advocated for restaurants to be clear about any additional fees they charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a restaurant organization have never been a proponent of not fully disclosing any additional fees,” she said, citing longstanding practices like charging a mandatory gratuity for large parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should always be listed,” she said. “You should never mislead a customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her two restaurants, Thomas said, longtime staff prefer a traditional tipping method. She plans to use the time before July 1 to consult with her employees about how to adjust to the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association “strenuously disagrees with the AG’s expansive interpretation” of the law, said Matthew Sutton, the group’s senior vice president of government affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutton accuses the attorney general’s office of a “bait-and-switch,” saying its interpretation “is clearly inconsistent with the Legislature’s intent.” Courts have allowed service fees as long as they’re properly disclosed; he added that the industry group is “considering all available options to block implementation” of the law in the way the guidelines describe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Momentum is building for transparent pricing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to predict all of the potential effects of California’s new law, partly due to the disparate industries it affects and because it would be the first such ban enacted in the U.S. The federal government has proposed a similar rule, and several other states are also weighing legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen states, including \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1151\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2023&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=636\">Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, have taken up legislation similar to California’s this year, although as of now, none of those bills have gotten final approval, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.endjunkfees.com/\">American Economic Liberties Project\u003c/a>, a progressive nonprofit that campaigns against junk fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, the Federal Trade Commission is reviewing thousands of comments it received after \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0064/document\">publishing a proposed rule\u003c/a> about “unfair or deceptive fees” that misled customers about the total costs of goods and services last November. However, federal rules are subject to change whenever the White House changes hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it really behooves states to be very active on this issue,” Witte said, noting the growing momentum behind junk fee legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen consumers across political lines,” she said. “This is a really bipartisan issue” to push for transparent pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another important consideration, Witte and other advocates said, is to ensure changes don’t harm employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why do restaurant patrons react so strongly to fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The restaurant-patron relationship is personal by nature: you are, after all, putting their product in your body. For millions of Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted that dynamic. And when they returned to restaurants, things were different. It was common to see eateries struggle to attract and retain enough staff; to sweeten the deal, many added surcharges that helped them raise workers’ pay. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"california-law"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Nationally, the restaurant industry has been one of the largest employers in the U.S., but the absolute lowest paying employer for generations,” Saru Jayaraman, the president of One Fair Wage and the director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “Really in part due to this sub-minimum wage for tipped workers that is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/980047710/the-land-of-the-fee\">direct legacy of slavery\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many patrons, those changes were a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels a bit sudden,” Witte said, citing the lingering effects of the pandemic and high inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, folks understand that inflation affects everyone, right? But feeling like you had fees added on to already increasing prices across the economy sort of felt like a double punch for consumers,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor, she said, is that restaurants didn’t always make clear to diners what kind of fees it would tack onto their final bill — or what the money was for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone feels like, well, I’m already paying a tip in the form of a 20% service fee; why would I also have to pay a tip to the server if they’re already getting it? That disconnect and that lack of transparency make consumers feel angry. It makes them feel deceived, and it can harm people who rely on that income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a restaurant adds service charges to your bill, “you have the right to inquire what they’re being used for if it’s not spelled out,” Jayaraman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if a restaurant offers the option of tipping, you should use it, Jayaraman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely encourage you to tip,” she said, adding that cash is best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason for tipping in cash is that a lot of businesses deduct credit card processing fees from tipped workers tips, which is very difficult for the tipped worker and not what the consumer expects to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How pervasive are hidden fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California law applies to both online and in-person transactions, covering “the sale or lease of most goods and services that are for a consumer’s personal use,” the attorney general’s office said, from short-term rentals and event tickets to hotels, restaurants, and food delivery services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s more common in online purchases,” Engstrom said, adding that she has seen ticket sellers for events tack on fees that add 20% to 30% more to the advertised price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the law’s goal is to ensure a level playing field, whether companies are trying to attract concertgoers or diners. It also targets hotels that might add a “resort fee” to a customer’s check-out price for the use of fairly standard amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is an enormously lucrative opportunity for businesses and not just because of the fee itself,” Witte said, “but because of the way that it allows them to take business from other honest businesses who transparently disclose a higher price upfront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One place that we’ve seen a lot of junk and hidden fees is with car dealers, and that is certainly not limited to larger franchised car dealerships, Witte said, describing strategies such as dealers advertising a car at an enticing price — only to tack on expensive fees during an hours-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Car dealers are subject to a pending rule from the FTC, which said the change could save U.S. consumers \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/ftc-announces-cars-rule-fight-scams-vehicle-shopping\">more than $3.4 billion\u003c/a> — and an estimated 72 million hours worth of time spent shopping for vehicles. The rule was due to take effect in July, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-pauses-cars-rule-effective-date\">it’s now in limbo after a legal challenge\u003c/a> from the auto dealer industry.\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/11985689/under-new-california-law-restaurants-to-include-all-surcharges-in-menu-prices","authors":["byline_news_11985689"],"categories":["news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_30069","news_333","news_22714"],"featImg":"news_11985690","label":"news"},"news_11985684":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985684","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985684","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-wants-to-give-downtown-a-boost-with-more-pop-ups-in-empty-storefronts","title":"SF Wants to Give Downtown a Boost With More Pop-Ups in Empty Storefronts","publishDate":1715365204,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Wants to Give Downtown a Boost With More Pop-Ups in Empty Storefronts | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco officials are expanding an economic revitalization project to bring business back to empty downtown storefronts, announcing plans for additional funding and more pop-ups set to open next month in SOMA, the East Cut and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight pop-ups announced Thursday as part of the Vacant to Vibrant program include a deli, coffeeshop, social club, glass workshop and florist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, launched last fall, matches local entrepreneurs with property owners who have vacant ground-level commercial space. Landlords must agree to rent the space for three months free of charge, with the opportunity to extend, and utilities are covered by the program’s $1.2 million budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative is part of San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">effort to jumpstart the city’s sputtering economic recovery\u003c/a> from the COVID-19 pandemic, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">exodus of office workers\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977217/macys-to-close-flagship-san-francisco-union-square-store\">decline of brick-and-mortar retail\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11985696 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday, May 9, 2024, that she plans to include more money for the Vacant to Vibrant economic revitalization program in the upcoming city budget. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing thousands of new businesses pop up in communities, but we weren’t having that same success downtown — Vacant to Vibrant has changed the game,” Breed said at a press event on Thursday. “For those folks who have a new idea and want an opportunity to thrive in San Francisco and in downtown, we want to make it possible, so we will be investing more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signaling a desire to expand the program, Breed said she plans to include it in the upcoming city budget but did not specify how much. She also called on more property owners with vacant downtown storefronts to partner in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982009/sf-mayor-london-breed-facing-stiff-competition-from-the-left-and-right\">gears up for a mayoral election\u003c/a> that is in many ways a referendum on the city’s direction, her office has focused on improving a downtown tarnished by “doom loop” narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacant to Vibrant is a partnership between the mayor’s office, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and SF New Deal — a nonprofit that began during the early days of the pandemic as an effort to help keep local restaurants afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo has also pitched into the program’s budget and on Thursday committed an additional $1 million to support vendors who want to become permanent after the pop-up period ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nafy Flatley, owner of the Senegalese food pop-up Teranga, who was part of the first Vacant to Vibrant cohort, the incoming assistance will be much appreciated. Despite the logistical and financial support from the program during her six months of operating as a pop-up, when it was time to negotiate her own lease, she found herself on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google was my best friend,” Flatley said. “I had to be the one working on talking to them, learning about how to read contracts, learning about how to negotiate. I really became an expert in contracts and an expert in reading this fine print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nafy Flatley at the press event for Vacant to Vibrant on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Her Senegalese restaurant Teranga went from pop-up to permanent. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The space Flatley moved to at 4 Embarcadero Center is smaller than the one she was in as a pop-up, and she said she’ll have to downsize her staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the upcoming cohort, SF New Deal plans to offer more support to businesses that want to become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Previously, we weren’t sure after six months what people were going to be able to do,” said Jacob Bindman, co-founder and chief program officer of SF New Deal. The money from Wells Fargo will help the businesses “in terms of grant funding, in terms of technical assistance, to keep them here over the course of that first year or longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another change from the first cohort is an increase in the grant amounts given to the pop-ups, expected to be $8,000 to $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nine pop-ups that participated in the first cohort, seven have signed leases downtown, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco officials are expanding an economic revitalization project that's part of Mayor London Breed's plan for downtown.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715368951,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":721},"headData":{"title":"SF Wants to Give Downtown a Boost With More Pop-Ups in Empty Storefronts | KQED","description":"San Francisco officials are expanding an economic revitalization project that's part of Mayor London Breed's plan for downtown.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Wants to Give Downtown a Boost With More Pop-Ups in Empty Storefronts","datePublished":"2024-05-10T18:20:04.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-10T19:22:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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-11985684","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985684/sf-wants-to-give-downtown-a-boost-with-more-pop-ups-in-empty-storefronts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco officials are expanding an economic revitalization project to bring business back to empty downtown storefronts, announcing plans for additional funding and more pop-ups set to open next month in SOMA, the East Cut and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight pop-ups announced Thursday as part of the Vacant to Vibrant program include a deli, coffeeshop, social club, glass workshop and florist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, launched last fall, matches local entrepreneurs with property owners who have vacant ground-level commercial space. Landlords must agree to rent the space for three months free of charge, with the opportunity to extend, and utilities are covered by the program’s $1.2 million budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative is part of San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">effort to jumpstart the city’s sputtering economic recovery\u003c/a> from the COVID-19 pandemic, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">exodus of office workers\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977217/macys-to-close-flagship-san-francisco-union-square-store\">decline of brick-and-mortar retail\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11985696 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6257_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday, May 9, 2024, that she plans to include more money for the Vacant to Vibrant economic revitalization program in the upcoming city budget. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing thousands of new businesses pop up in communities, but we weren’t having that same success downtown — Vacant to Vibrant has changed the game,” Breed said at a press event on Thursday. “For those folks who have a new idea and want an opportunity to thrive in San Francisco and in downtown, we want to make it possible, so we will be investing more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signaling a desire to expand the program, Breed said she plans to include it in the upcoming city budget but did not specify how much. She also called on more property owners with vacant downtown storefronts to partner in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982009/sf-mayor-london-breed-facing-stiff-competition-from-the-left-and-right\">gears up for a mayoral election\u003c/a> that is in many ways a referendum on the city’s direction, her office has focused on improving a downtown tarnished by “doom loop” narratives.\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>Vacant to Vibrant is a partnership between the mayor’s office, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and SF New Deal — a nonprofit that began during the early days of the pandemic as an effort to help keep local restaurants afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo has also pitched into the program’s budget and on Thursday committed an additional $1 million to support vendors who want to become permanent after the pop-up period ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nafy Flatley, owner of the Senegalese food pop-up Teranga, who was part of the first Vacant to Vibrant cohort, the incoming assistance will be much appreciated. Despite the logistical and financial support from the program during her six months of operating as a pop-up, when it was time to negotiate her own lease, she found herself on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google was my best friend,” Flatley said. “I had to be the one working on talking to them, learning about how to read contracts, learning about how to negotiate. I really became an expert in contracts and an expert in reading this fine print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nafy Flatley at the press event for Vacant to Vibrant on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Her Senegalese restaurant Teranga went from pop-up to permanent. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The space Flatley moved to at 4 Embarcadero Center is smaller than the one she was in as a pop-up, and she said she’ll have to downsize her staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the upcoming cohort, SF New Deal plans to offer more support to businesses that want to become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Previously, we weren’t sure after six months what people were going to be able to do,” said Jacob Bindman, co-founder and chief program officer of SF New Deal. The money from Wells Fargo will help the businesses “in terms of grant funding, in terms of technical assistance, to keep them here over the course of that first year or longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another change from the first cohort is an increase in the grant amounts given to the pop-ups, expected to be $8,000 to $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nine pop-ups that participated in the first cohort, seven have signed leases downtown, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985684/sf-wants-to-give-downtown-a-boost-with-more-pop-ups-in-empty-storefronts","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_32847","news_6931","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11985688","label":"news"},"news_11985856":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985856","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985856","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-commencement-ceremony-disrupted-by-student-protests","title":"UC Berkeley Commencement Ceremony Disrupted by Student Protests","publishDate":1715475618,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Commencement Ceremony Disrupted by Student Protests | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Protesters calling for UC Berkeley to divest from companies in Israel — or those they say profit from Israel’s war in Gaza — disrupted the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes after the ceremony began, a few small groups of students stood up holding Palestinian flags, keffiyehs and signs reading “DIVEST.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Regents, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?” Shouted students in one section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters march down the stadium steps during UC Berkeley’s undergraduate commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Security officials walked around and confiscated most of the flags, but the students continued undeterred and soon gathered into a larger group at a section of bleachers near the main stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration mirrored a similar event during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">Friday’s law school graduation\u003c/a> at Berkeley, where students turned their back on the speakers, revealed shirts that read “DIVEST,” and chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Fiona Collantes said that when they heard about a plan to chant and walk out of the ceremony, they immediately decided to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985860\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester holds up a homemade sign that reads ‘Antizionist Jews for a Free Palestine’ during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is extremely important, especially in a university institution that gets funding and funds Israel and funds the weapons that they send to bomb children in Gaza,” Collantes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan seems to have spread through word of mouth, and even those who didn’t hear the rumors said they were unsurprised, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2014/nov/15/berkeley-a-history-of-disobedience-in-pictures\">Berkeley’s decades-long history of student activism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan Kim, an undergraduate excited to receive his degree, did not have prior knowledge of a protest happening but told KQED at the start of the event that he would not be surprised if a protest broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students raise Palestinian flags to begin a protest during the 2024 commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was saying if there was a way to bet 50 bucks that something was going to happen, I actually would,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim missed his high school graduation due to the pandemic and lamented the prospect of missing a proper college commencement due to demonstrations, but he also said he understood the motivations of those seeking to disrupt the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously what Hamas did was not right,” said Kim. “But I think what Israel is doing in retaliation to hurt the innocent Palestinian people, which is different, is crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a graduation gown holds a keffiyeh over his head with a crowd of other students in academic regalia behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anonymous protester chants along with the crowd during UC Berkeley’s commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the first wave of protesters gathered together, they numbered in the dozens. But a steady stream of students rose from their seats to join the group until they numbered in the hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students said they felt embarrassed trying to focus on the ceremony while others stood up for what they considered to be a worthy cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony continued, but the mass of students chanting and stomping their feet served as an effective distraction and even drowned out the speakers for those sitting nearest to the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters grew into the hundreds within 30 minutes, eventually filling an entire column of bleachers during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley strives to celebrate the achievements of our graduates in a safe and respectful environment,” a university spokesperson said in an email. “While today’s commencement was, at times, unfortunately disrupted, it did not prevent us from honoring the hard work and accomplishments of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the start of the protest, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ began her address by discussing the recent protests on the campus, including an ongoing encampment which has been up for nearly three weeks and grown continuously, now spanning dozens of tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Ying, recipient of UC Berkeley’s 2024 University Medal, gives his commencement ceremony speech while a pro-Palestinian protest goes on in the bleachers behind him at the California Memorial Stadium. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They feel passionately about the brutality of the violence in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians killed and the destruction of educational institutions and vital infrastructure. I, too, am deeply troubled by the terrible tragedy unfolding in Gaza,” Christ said, to cheers from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ went on to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian harassment and called on attendees to, “find a way to recognize our shared humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chancellor moved on to other remarks, the chants began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Carol Christ welcomes students and faculty to the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some said they appreciated that Christ named Gaza, something they felt she has not done enough, others said she should have gone further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Divest Coalition, the banner name for the groups operating the on-campus encampment, posted to social media Saturday afternoon calling for an emergency rally while referring to the chancellor as “Carol Anti-Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students celebrate the start of the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the post, the group alleges that they have tried to negotiate for their terms — primarily a disclosure of university investments and a commitment from the university to divest from the aforementioned companies — but that the university has destroyed any attempt to negotiate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried to sedate us, but we cannot be quelled. They tried to silence us, but our screams will not be held … Join us in making our demands as loud as the bombs that are raining down on Rafah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall continues to grow in size in Berkeley, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dozens of students began chanting in protest of the university's ties to Israeli companies, their numbers eventually swelling into the hundreds through the ceremony. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715478101,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1022},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Commencement Ceremony Disrupted by Student Protests | KQED","description":"Dozens of students began chanting in protest of the university's ties to Israeli companies, their numbers eventually swelling into the hundreds through the ceremony. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"UC Berkeley Commencement Ceremony Disrupted by Student Protests","datePublished":"2024-05-12T01:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-12T01:41:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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-11985856","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985856/uc-berkeley-commencement-ceremony-disrupted-by-student-protests","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Protesters calling for UC Berkeley to divest from companies in Israel — or those they say profit from Israel’s war in Gaza — disrupted the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes after the ceremony began, a few small groups of students stood up holding Palestinian flags, keffiyehs and signs reading “DIVEST.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Regents, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?” Shouted students in one section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters march down the stadium steps during UC Berkeley’s undergraduate commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Security officials walked around and confiscated most of the flags, but the students continued undeterred and soon gathered into a larger group at a section of bleachers near the main stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration mirrored a similar event during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">Friday’s law school graduation\u003c/a> at Berkeley, where students turned their back on the speakers, revealed shirts that read “DIVEST,” and chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Fiona Collantes said that when they heard about a plan to chant and walk out of the ceremony, they immediately decided to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985860\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester holds up a homemade sign that reads ‘Antizionist Jews for a Free Palestine’ during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is extremely important, especially in a university institution that gets funding and funds Israel and funds the weapons that they send to bomb children in Gaza,” Collantes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan seems to have spread through word of mouth, and even those who didn’t hear the rumors said they were unsurprised, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2014/nov/15/berkeley-a-history-of-disobedience-in-pictures\">Berkeley’s decades-long history of student activism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan Kim, an undergraduate excited to receive his degree, did not have prior knowledge of a protest happening but told KQED at the start of the event that he would not be surprised if a protest broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students raise Palestinian flags to begin a protest during the 2024 commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was saying if there was a way to bet 50 bucks that something was going to happen, I actually would,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim missed his high school graduation due to the pandemic and lamented the prospect of missing a proper college commencement due to demonstrations, but he also said he understood the motivations of those seeking to disrupt the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously what Hamas did was not right,” said Kim. “But I think what Israel is doing in retaliation to hurt the innocent Palestinian people, which is different, is crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a graduation gown holds a keffiyeh over his head with a crowd of other students in academic regalia behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anonymous protester chants along with the crowd during UC Berkeley’s commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the first wave of protesters gathered together, they numbered in the dozens. But a steady stream of students rose from their seats to join the group until they numbered in the hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students said they felt embarrassed trying to focus on the ceremony while others stood up for what they considered to be a worthy cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony continued, but the mass of students chanting and stomping their feet served as an effective distraction and even drowned out the speakers for those sitting nearest to the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters grew into the hundreds within 30 minutes, eventually filling an entire column of bleachers during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley strives to celebrate the achievements of our graduates in a safe and respectful environment,” a university spokesperson said in an email. “While today’s commencement was, at times, unfortunately disrupted, it did not prevent us from honoring the hard work and accomplishments of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the start of the protest, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ began her address by discussing the recent protests on the campus, including an ongoing encampment which has been up for nearly three weeks and grown continuously, now spanning dozens of tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Ying, recipient of UC Berkeley’s 2024 University Medal, gives his commencement ceremony speech while a pro-Palestinian protest goes on in the bleachers behind him at the California Memorial Stadium. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They feel passionately about the brutality of the violence in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians killed and the destruction of educational institutions and vital infrastructure. I, too, am deeply troubled by the terrible tragedy unfolding in Gaza,” Christ said, to cheers from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ went on to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian harassment and called on attendees to, “find a way to recognize our shared humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chancellor moved on to other remarks, the chants began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Carol Christ welcomes students and faculty to the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some said they appreciated that Christ named Gaza, something they felt she has not done enough, others said she should have gone further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Divest Coalition, the banner name for the groups operating the on-campus encampment, posted to social media Saturday afternoon calling for an emergency rally while referring to the chancellor as “Carol Anti-Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students celebrate the start of the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the post, the group alleges that they have tried to negotiate for their terms — primarily a disclosure of university investments and a commitment from the university to divest from the aforementioned companies — but that the university has destroyed any attempt to negotiate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried to sedate us, but we cannot be quelled. They tried to silence us, but our screams will not be held … Join us in making our demands as loud as the bombs that are raining down on Rafah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall continues to grow in size in Berkeley, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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/11985856/uc-berkeley-commencement-ceremony-disrupted-by-student-protests","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_27626","news_33647","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11985864","label":"news"},"forum_2010101905688":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101905688","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"forum","id":"2010101905688","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ali-velshi-on-the-small-acts-of-courage-that-define-his-familys-inheritance-and-his-journalism","title":"Ali Velshi on the ‘Small Acts of Courage’ That Define His Family’s Inheritance and His Journalism","publishDate":1715382107,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Ali Velshi on the ‘Small Acts of Courage’ That Define His Family’s Inheritance and His Journalism | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>In his new memoir “Small Acts of Courage.” MSNBC host Ali Velshi recounts his family’s migration across continents –– beginning in India under British rule, intersecting with Gandhi’s “satyagraha” movement in South Africa, and eventually settling in Canada during a refugee crisis for the global Indian diaspora. Ali himself immigrated to the United States two days after September 11, 2001 and writes: “Cynicism about politics is actually a luxury of those who have never had to experience life without it, and if those people every truly lost their ability to participate in the system, they’d never take it for granted again.” And we want to hear from you: Are there “small acts of courage” that define your life and values? 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Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> issued a statement Wednesday saying she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the panel until she is able to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was first diagnosed with shingles, I expected to return by the end of the March work period. Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee in the race to replace Feinstein after she leaves at the end of next year, called on Feinstein to resign to enable the Senate to confirm a backlog of judicial nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11946548 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Indian man with dark hair and eyes wears a light blue business suit and busy orange and green tie sits on a wooden bench outside. He sits crossed-legged with his arms folded on his knee. He looks to the right of the camera. Crowds of people and children are pictured behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Rep. Ro Khanna of California’s 17th District on Aug. 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont)\"]‘Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.’[/pullquote]Even if Schumer appoints another Democrat to take Feinstein’s spot on the Judiciary Committee, it’s by no means certain that would fix the problem with confirming judges. Senate rules require unanimous consent from all senators to change a committee member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with that is that any Republican can object to that,” said Khanna. “I anticipate they will object to that. And that is what is my concern. Now, what happens if they object to it and we have the same problem, that we don’t have our judges being confirmed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without unanimous consent to replace Feinstein on the committee, Democrats would need to pursue another track, which would require 60 votes, meaning several Republicans would need to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is often out of lockstep with his party. In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for her thoughts on Feinstein’s status and whether she should step aside, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me, I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said in San Francisco Wednesday. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Khanna is the first elected Democrat from California to openly call on Feinstein to step down, he is unlikely to be the last. Her absence from the evenly divided Senate Judiciary Committee blocks Democrats’ ability to move President Joe Biden’s nominations for the federal bench to a confirmation vote of the full Senate floor.[aside label='More on California' tag='california']Feinstein’s legacy as a groundbreaking Democrat — she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee — has kept most Democrats from speaking out. But for more than a year, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">whispers from her Senate colleagues\u003c/a> — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. Replace her with another Democrat to get that necessary one-vote margin to begin to move these confirmations through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein has missed most of the Senate votes this year, which includes more than two dozen for judicial nominations with some of those from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be very, very difficult to fill those vacancies,” said Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “So for the Democrats, I think it makes every sense in the world to take the steps necessary to be able to move these judicial nominations,” especially given that “there’s this looming clock that just is starting to tick faster and faster and faster\u003ci>” \u003c/i>as the 2024 election approaches.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Norman Ornstein, congressional scholar, American Enterprise Institute\"]‘We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary. And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.’[/pullquote]“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. Six more nominees are waiting for a hearing by the Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ongoing absences are impairing not only the Senate’s ability to confirm judges, but the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ability to advance nominations,” said ACS President Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin who served with Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee before he was defeated in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11946594 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with light, brown hair and a blue business suit stands next to another man with gray hair and a gray suit. He holds a yellow folder and is showing the woman a document inside a government building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) chats with a staffer as she leaves the Senate chamber following a vote at the US Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection next year, marking the end of one of the state’s most storied political careers. Despite ongoing health concerns, she plans to remain in office through the end of her term. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. Barbara Lee’s name was floated as a possible appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the 2024 Senate campaign now in full swing, however, and Lee one of three prominent Democrats running, along with Congressmembers Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, it’s unlikely Newsom would want to upend voters’ opportunity to choose a successor. But he could name a caretaker who promised not to run for a full six-year term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Senate will reconvene Monday, April 17, after a two-week recess, and if Schumer can move quickly to name another Democrat to the Judiciary Committee, it could name pending nominations as soon as Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement Wednesday that said she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the US Senate Judiciary Committee until she is able to return to work.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681513715,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1435},"headData":{"title":"Feinstein's Prolonged Absence Frustrates Senate Democrats | KQED","description":"Sen. 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Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”\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>But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee in the race to replace Feinstein after she leaves at the end of next year, called on Feinstein to resign to enable the Senate to confirm a backlog of judicial nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11946548 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Indian man with dark hair and eyes wears a light blue business suit and busy orange and green tie sits on a wooden bench outside. He sits crossed-legged with his arms folded on his knee. He looks to the right of the camera. Crowds of people and children are pictured behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Rep. Ro Khanna of California’s 17th District on Aug. 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"US Rep. 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In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for her thoughts on Feinstein’s status and whether she should step aside, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me, I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said in San Francisco Wednesday. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Khanna is the first elected Democrat from California to openly call on Feinstein to step down, he is unlikely to be the last. Her absence from the evenly divided Senate Judiciary Committee blocks Democrats’ ability to move President Joe Biden’s nominations for the federal bench to a confirmation vote of the full Senate floor.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California ","tag":"california"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Feinstein’s legacy as a groundbreaking Democrat — she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee — has kept most Democrats from speaking out. But for more than a year, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">whispers from her Senate colleagues\u003c/a> — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. 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And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Norman Ornstein, congressional scholar, American Enterprise Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. 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He holds a yellow folder and is showing the woman a document inside a government building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) chats with a staffer as she leaves the Senate chamber following a vote at the US Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection next year, marking the end of one of the state’s most storied political careers. Despite ongoing health concerns, she plans to remain in office through the end of her term. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. 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