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About 100 people spoke during public comment for the meeting and the vast majority of them told council to support a Davila proposal to reduce the police budget \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-14-Item-18b-Support-Redistribution-of-City.pdf\">by at least 50%\u003c/a>. Davila said officials also got 700 emails in support of her item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arreguín item \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mayor-Supp-3-Police-Items.pdf\">blended five proposals\u003c/a> from different council members designed to reshape local policing. They ranged from creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Item-18e-Rev-Robinson.pdf\">new Department of Transportation (“BerkDOT”)\u003c/a>; launching a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-14-Item-18a-Safety-for-All-The-George-Floyd.pdf\">comprehensive audit of police calls\u003c/a>; and creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-14-Item-18c-Referral-to-City-Manager.pdf\">robust community process\u003c/a> around a variety of public safety reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Berkeley Councilman Rigel Robinson\"]‘I’m committed to digging into this process until we hit gold or until we hit bedrock.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the mayor’s revised item, the city will now move forward with Councilmember Rigel Robinson’s proposal to create BerkDOT “to ensure a racial justice lens in traffic enforcement” and find ways to eliminate or reduce “pretextual stops based on minor traffic violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also now work to develop a pilot program to “re-assign non-criminal police service calls” to a new Specialized Care Unit staffed by a “network of crisis responders.” The city auditor’s office will also take a deep dive into police calls and traffic stops. Those items came from Councilmember Ben Bartlett’s proposal for what he called the George Floyd Community Safety Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s item also sets in motion a “public safety reimagining process” that will feature “transparent community forums to listen, learn and receive people’s ideas about how policing should be re-imagined and transformed so that communities of color can be safer within their neighborhoods, the City of Berkeley, and trust in the Berkeley Police Department can begin to be rebuilt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Narrowing the Police Focus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As part of the public process, the city will look at what duties might eventually be shifted away from police so officers can focus on “violent and criminal matters” rather than calls about people in mental health crises or living in homeless camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That public process will also include, as per Davila’s proposal, consideration of “the goal of reducing the Berkeley Police Department budget by 50%, to be based on the results of requested studies and analysis and achieved through programs such as the Specialized Care Unit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in line with the Davila item, the city will look at ways to reduce the police budget so more money can be spent on youth and restorative justice programs, housing and homeless services, and mental health services, among other community needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During public comment, many community members said the mayor’s item did not go far enough, fast enough. One described it as a “pathetic attempt to placate the will of the people at the 11th hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his remarks, Bartlett tried to allay some of those concerns, saying he saw the omnibus motion as something that would be both sustainable and groundbreaking while creating a model the rest of the country could follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate bureaucracy and I hate everything slow,” he said. “These items are meant to go up at the same time as a system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the new transportation department, Robinson said he hoped it could change the relationship the public has to policing. He said reform must, however, be done in a way that doesn’t put city employees or first responders in danger. Details will be worked out in the upcoming public safety process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m committed to digging into this process until we hit gold or until we hit bedrock,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Desire for Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Next to the Davila proposal to defund BPD by 50%, the BerkDOT item saw the most praise from community members during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic enforcement is “a tool of broken policing to just do investigations on disproportionately Black and brown drivers and it endangers everyone,” local resident Darrell Owens told city officials. “The status quo has not kept the public safe: Remove it away from the police into a department focused around equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, the vast majority of public commenters said police should be defunded or abolished, that policing is based on white supremacy and protects only the monied interests, and that police do not make the community safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]“Defund the police 100% immediately and start by firing the police chief,” said a woman with the Zoom name Isis Feral. She said police are “armed thugs in uniform” who criminalize and brutalize Black and brown people and take away their freedom. They are “the boot boys of the ruling class,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few people also wrote or called to say they have appreciated the longstanding record of restraint and professionalism from the Berkeley Police Department and its chief. Others noted that bias is present in all aspects of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t give up on our police,” said a speaker with the Zoom name Jovi Tseng, “because most of their biases are also our own.” Tseng said that, while “we can definitely have better police… they’re not fundamentally evil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During public comment, speaker after speaker expressed their gratitude for Councilmember Davila. They said she represented the community’s views and called on her colleagues to support her more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many said they had been disgusted, earlier in the night, when no other council member supported a late item from Davila to censure the Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood for \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/07/14/davila-calls-for-council-vote-against-berkeley-police-chief-tuesday-night\">controversial comments he made \u003c/a>during a June council meeting in response to a question about use of force. As a result, the item could not be considered for Tuesday’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor explained to the public that Davila’s item had not met the narrow legal standard for late items, which requires the need for immediate action and that the issue “must have come to light only since the agenda was posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila pledged to bring back her item calling for a no-confidence vote in the police chief through the regular council agenda process. She thanked the many community members who made their voices heard Tuesday night and into the early hours Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the latest we’ve ever had a council meeting and there’s still 141 people on the line,” Davila said toward the end of the meeting. “Put your fists up high and stand for Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Emilie Raguso is Berkeleyside’s senior editor of news. Email: \u003ca href=\"mailto:emilie@berkeleyside.com\">emilie@berkeleyside.com\u003c/a>. Twitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emraguso\">emraguso\u003c/a>. Phone: 510-459-8325.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After months of rallies, teary testimonials and a final 11-hour negotiation session, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-unified-school-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-federation-of-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Federation of Teachers\u003c/a> have finally reached a tentative agreement on the union’s new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers have two weeks to ratify the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tentative-agreement-2019-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tentative agreement\u003c/a>, released Wednesday afternoon, and the school board has final say. Teachers have been working on an expired contract since the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Berkeley Unified School District\"]'BUSD salaries will become significantly more competitive in Alameda County, which will help to retain our excellent teachers and hire high-quality new employees.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new two-year contract would guarantee all teachers raises of 2.5% in 2019-20 and again in 2020-21, plus up to 7% more next year if a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/09/11/berkeley-unified-might-ask-voters-to-pay-a-teacher-tax-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed new parcel tax passes\u003c/a>. All classified staff (such as custodians and cafeteria workers) as well as administrators (such as principals and program supervisors), who each have their own union, would receive the same 12% increase over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BFT’s president called it a “historic agreement,” with “huge wins” for educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BUSD salaries will become significantly more competitive in Alameda County, which will help to retain our excellent teachers and hire high-quality new employees,” BFT said in a written summary of the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also agreed to significant changes in special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/09/11/berkeley-unified-might-ask-voters-to-pay-a-teacher-tax-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special education teachers\u003c/a> have long said they’re overworked, serving the students with the highest needs while juggling assessments and meetings. Meanwhile, the district has struggled to fill those positions; it began this school year with multiple vacancies. Under the proposed contract, a teacher who serves children with “mild to moderate” disabilities would soon have no more than 21 students in their caseload, while a “moderate to severe” teacher would have up to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those caseloads, as well as new restrictions on assessment load, are much lower than what’s required by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People all over the state are going to look to us,” said BFT president Matt Meyer. “It really changes the nature of the job for our case managers. They’re really going to be able to do their jobs better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11784156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkteachers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkteachers.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkteachers-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkteachers-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkteachers-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Berkeley High teacher leads her colleagues in a chant to support striking teachers in Oakland and Los Angeles in 2019. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caseload agreement is not the only change to come to the special education department this week. Director Jan Hamilton has resigned after just over one year on the job, the district confirmed Thursday. Berkeleyside has reached out to Hamilton for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement also requires BUSD to contribute more toward teachers’ health care plans, pay substitute teachers and school psychologists more, and turn Independent Studies teachers into salaried, not hourly, employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district leaders also said they were “happy” with the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tentative agreement demonstrates the district’s commitment to address both compensation and funding gaps that have become realities for most California public school districts and teachers,” said Superintendent Brent Stephens in a press release. “We’re happy to have a tentative agreement in place that honors the hard work and passion for excellence our Berkeley teachers embody on a daily basis and allows us to return our full and collective focus back to the students we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators have often said they agree that teachers deserve higher pay and better treatment. But with BUSD coming off two consecutive years of painful budget cuts, staff said the money just wasn’t there for a significant increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year 12% raise is a major bump up from the 1% raise and 1% bonus in the teachers’ last contract — but the increase is contingent on receiving additional funds from outside the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD staff and board members have thrown their support behind a proposed new tax that could help fund that level of compensation. Voters are likely to see the $10 million-per-year parcel tax, at a rate of 12 cents per square foot, on their March primary ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some mixed feelings about relying on the will and wallets of voters for teachers’ raises. Berkeley schools already enjoy strong support from the community, with taxes and bonds funding facilities costs, maintenance, small class sizes and libraries. The district will be asking voters to renew the facilities bond and maintenance tax in 2020, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11784157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/berkeley-teachers-1-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers and supporters brought their instruments to a rally before a recent school board meeting. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meyer said he agrees with the district that the tax is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the general fund can’t handle the kind of raises we need, because the state of California doesn’t fully fund education,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement allows BFT to go back to the bargaining table mid-contract if the tax measure fails, Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a year, BFT has waged a highly organized and visible campaign around the new contract. One after another, teachers have shared personal stories at school board meetings of taking on second jobs and long commutes to make ends meet in the expensive Bay Area. They’ve rung the alarm over colleagues leaving the historically desirable BUSD, sometimes for the nearby districts that pay their employees more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11781890,news_11781129,news_11780141\" label=\"Related coverage\"]Teachers clad in red and playing festive music while chanting and waving protest signs have become familiar sights outside board meetings and in front of campuses before school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the final scheduled negotiation session approached in late October without a promise from the district to meet all the salary demands, some teachers took matters into their own hands. 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"content": "\u003cp>There is a person out there with a sly sense of humor, a way with words, a working knowledge of Berkeley history and a desire to impart pithy observations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He or she or they has been going around town the past few months affixing round metal medallions with clever sayings to sidewalks around central Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Karen Flynn, Berkeley business owner\"]‘At first I thought it was something serious but then I read it and thought ‘that’s funny.’ ‘[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Berkeley. Now stop doing that,” reads one medallion nailed into the sidewalk near the Berkeley/Oakland border. The other half of the medallion says: “Welcome to Oakland. We missed you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another states: “On this spot, ….David Kravitz finally thought of a witty rejoinder after that dreadful dinner party a week earlier. Mr. Kravitz had wished to say at the time, ‘Some suffer in silence, but others make everyone suffer each time they open their mouth’ to that loudmouthed Mrs. Pearlman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third located at Delaware and Sacramento streets says, “On this spot, you are directly here. You could have been anywhere else at this moment, rendering this plaque irrelevant, but you’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets. \u003ccite>( Leslie Cain via @becauseberkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one seems to know the creator’s identity, even though the question has been posed on Facebook and Twitter and even on Tom Dalzell’s \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quirky Berkeley\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, just everybody – tout le monde – is talking about the mysterious medallions that are appearing in Berkeley’s sidewalks,” \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/mysterious-medallions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dalzell wrote\u003c/a>. “You read about them in Berkeleyside, you see them on Twitter, your hip friends are talking about them. ‘Plaque’ might be a better word for what these are, but medallion gives us alliteration with mysterious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person has followers, people who appreciate their use of words and phrases, their deadpan delivery and the unexpectedness of the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg\" alt=\"L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue. \u003ccite>(Natasha Beery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This miniature plaque is embedded at a bus stop near the Rose Garden,” Natasha Beery posted on Facebook on Aug. 8 with a picture of the medallion. “It is one of a series of mysterious markers turning up around town. Have you seen others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Sovern, a political reporter for KCBS Radio, first spotted the Oakland/Berkeley medallion in April. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Neff, who contributes photos to Berkeleyside and Quirky Berkeley, reported that she first saw one in May. (She noted that the creator misspelled Shattuck Avenue as “Shattack.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Flynn, the owner of The Optician on Allston Way just east of Shattuck Avenue, first spotted one of the mysterious medallions in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The medallions reveal a knowledge of Berkeley's geography, as seen in this medallion's description of Strawberry Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The medallions reveal a knowledge of Berkeley’s geography, as seen in this medallion’s description of Strawberry Creek. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was out cleaning the windows and I looked down,” she said. “At first I thought it was something serious but then I read it and thought ‘that’s funny.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11655269 label='Berkeley Medallions, Oakland Gnomes']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallion by her store is titled “Strawberry Creek,” and it indicates that the creator is familiar with Berkeley geography. It reads: “On this spot, the Strawberry Creek flows deeply buried below this sidewalk … no longer posing a threat to surface dwellers.” (\u003ca href=\"https://strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu/content/strawberry-creek\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Creek\u003c/a> runs freely through the UC Berkeley campus but is undergrounded when it hits downtown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another medallion at 1900 Fourth St. — a parking lot across from the now-shuttered Spenger’s restaurant — refers to one of the most contested pieces of land in Berkeley. The property is owned by the Spenger family and Ruegg & Ellsworth, who have sought to build housing there. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/1900-fourth-st\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the intricacies.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-800x769.jpg\" alt=\"A medallion left at 1900 Fourth St.\" width=\"800\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-800x769.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-160x154.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St..jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medallion left at 1900 Fourth St. \u003ccite>(KL Baxter via @becauseberkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Native Americans in the area have protested, as they say the land is sacred to them. One developer tried to get it fast-tracked, evoking California’s SB 35, but the city rebuked the effort. The matter is now in in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the creator hammering the metal medallions into the sidewalks under the cover of night? During rush hour when people’s attentions are distracted? Why has no one spotted him/her/they in action? #mysteriousmedallions\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Berkeley. Now stop doing that,” reads one medallion nailed into the sidewalk near the Berkeley/Oakland border. The other half of the medallion says: “Welcome to Oakland. We missed you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another states: “On this spot, ….David Kravitz finally thought of a witty rejoinder after that dreadful dinner party a week earlier. Mr. Kravitz had wished to say at the time, ‘Some suffer in silence, but others make everyone suffer each time they open their mouth’ to that loudmouthed Mrs. Pearlman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third located at Delaware and Sacramento streets says, “On this spot, you are directly here. You could have been anywhere else at this moment, rendering this plaque irrelevant, but you’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets. \u003ccite>( Leslie Cain via @becauseberkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one seems to know the creator’s identity, even though the question has been posed on Facebook and Twitter and even on Tom Dalzell’s \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quirky Berkeley\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, just everybody – tout le monde – is talking about the mysterious medallions that are appearing in Berkeley’s sidewalks,” \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/mysterious-medallions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dalzell wrote\u003c/a>. “You read about them in Berkeleyside, you see them on Twitter, your hip friends are talking about them. ‘Plaque’ might be a better word for what these are, but medallion gives us alliteration with mysterious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person has followers, people who appreciate their use of words and phrases, their deadpan delivery and the unexpectedness of the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg\" alt=\"L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue. \u003ccite>(Natasha Beery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This miniature plaque is embedded at a bus stop near the Rose Garden,” Natasha Beery posted on Facebook on Aug. 8 with a picture of the medallion. “It is one of a series of mysterious markers turning up around town. Have you seen others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Sovern, a political reporter for KCBS Radio, first spotted the Oakland/Berkeley medallion in April. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Neff, who contributes photos to Berkeleyside and Quirky Berkeley, reported that she first saw one in May. 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Parents of the two boys and others said black residents are often mistreated and profiled by their neighbors at the complex, who call the police when they misread something as “suspicious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My child lost his innocence and I want somebody to be accountable for that,” said a mother of one of the boys during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the meeting said they have video footage of the interaction between police and the two children, where they said excessive force was used, but have chosen not to share it to protect the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two black children were assaulted by the University of California, Berkeley Police Department yesterday,” wrote organizer Derrika Hunt, a graduate student, in a public Facebook post shared with Berkeleyside. “CHILDREN. 11 years old. 13 years old … my heart is so heavy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore said she did not have any more information about what happened between the officers and the children beyond what she included in her statement. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/search/berkeley+flea+market\">Berkeley Flea Market\u003c/a> is shutting down for February and March — the first time in its 46-year history that it has closed — and may end up relocating from the Ashby BART Station parking lot to a lot on Adeline Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend outdoor market has been struggling financially in recent years, and organizers said they will use the next few months to regroup and consider future plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The flea market has been suffering for the past three years,” said Charles Gary, a long-time board member of Community Services United (CSU), the Berkeley nonprofit that runs the market, which aims to help homeless and working-class people run their own businesses. “We felt that this would be a good time to reorganize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s expenses include $2,500 in monthly rent to BART, as well as the cost of insurance, security, portable toilets and personnel to assist vendors. It makes money from renting out stalls to vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU has launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/save-the-berkeley-flea-market\">GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a>, hoping to raise $20,000 in donations to keep the market alive. As of Wednesday morning, $2,659 had been contributed by 36 donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Flea Market is in grave danger,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/save-the-berkeley-flea-market\">a statement\u003c/a> on the GoFundMe web page reads. “Our cash flow is very low, and the rainy season has come. When it rains, we can lose a whole weekend’s earnings. We will only survive if our community supports us. This is an emergency. Please help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The market, which typically draws about 100 vendors, also recently had to close for two weekends because of storms and smoky conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we don’t operate, we don’t make any money, but we still have the costs,” said CSU board member Andrea Prichett, who said the market is planning to reopen in April. “It’s frightening for [vendors’] livelihood ... It’s important for us to get back into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t provide any direct funding to the flea market, although Jordan Klein, Berkeley’s manager of economic development, said the city is working with CSU in several ways, including through the city’s new partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://uptimabootcamp.com/\">Uptima Business Bootcamp,\u003c/a> an Oakland-based “business accelerator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re working directly with the flea market to develop an action plan to help them with their sustainability,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were fortunate enough to be their first client (in Berkeley),” Gary said, adding that CSU has already met with Uptima twice this week, and another meeting is scheduled for Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Flea Market’s history — which Gary said doesn’t include ever shutting down in February and March — stretches back to 1973, the year the Ashby BART station opened. Trains didn’t initially run on weekends, prompting people to use the empty parking area to sell secondhand items. It has since grown into a Berkeley institution and an important source of income for some local residents – many of whom are homeless and living on low-wage jobs — as well as a community gathering place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African art and objects on display at the Berkeley Flea Market. \u003ccite>(Andrew Steltzer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Site's future still unclear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The future of the 6.3-acre, 600-space Ashby BART parking area, which consists of two lots, has long been a contentious issue in South Berkeley. While BART owns the underground space of the station and the parking area, the city controls the site’s above-ground development rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1985, a court ruled against BART in a lawsuit aimed at moving the flea market off the site, saying the market had the right to stay as long as BART didn’t have a legitimate use for the parking area, according to Prichett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Berkeley is eyeing the BART parking lot for affordable housing. And, while the city has said it intends to find a space for the market, many neighbors have expressed concern in public meetings about gentrification, the need for affordable housing and the possible disappearance of the flea market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has been working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/21/city-seeks-feedback-future-adeline-corridor\">a long-range plan\u003c/a> for the area through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/search/Adeline+Corridor\">Adeline Corridor Plan\u003c/a>, a vision for a 100-acre expanse stretching about a mile, from the intersection of Dwight Way and Shattuck Avenue to the Oakland border. The city launched the idea after receiving a $750,000 grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is working with BART and residents on the specifics. The project’s first draft plan and environmental impact report will be ready in April or May, Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One idea that's been floated is to turn the space into a nonprofit-managed “town square” with permanent vendors, live music and other arts and cultural amenities, and a smaller area set aside for the flea market. Gary said a farmer’s market could also be added on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the bridge (between) the community that’s been there for 40 years, and the community that’s coming there daily,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The gentrification factor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There’s been an overall decline in foot traffic in the market,” said Prichett. “We attribute that to gentrification. In the last three to five years, we’ve really seen it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through dozens of eminent-domain seizures of homes and businesses in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, BART construction radically transformed this South Berkeley neighborhood, which had previously been home to mostly black and Japanese families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three decades, the racial makeup of the Adeline Corridor neighborhood has changed rapidly. In 1990, nearly half the neighborhood was African-American. By 2010, that percentage had dwindled to about 25 percent, as a growing number of white families moved in, according to a 2016 report from the Adeline Corridor Community Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary said the average home price west of Martin Luther King Jr. Way was $61,000 when the flea market began operating in 1973. “Now it would cost $1.4 or $1.5 million,” he said. “That’s a changing demographic. When all these things are put together, it’s been difficult for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dwindling attendance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gary said a number of other factors have also contributed to dwindling attendance at the market in recent years, including the growing popularity of online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, every stall in the market would be full,” he said. “We were able to make money. That’s not the case anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendors at the market sell \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/06/03/berkeley-flea-market-still-going-strong-after-three-decades\">all sorts of wares\u003c/a>, from Bob Marley pins and African masks to clothes, socks, jewelry and plants. Drummers form a drum circle every weekend. Food from all around the world is also on offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A commenter on Yelp wrote recently of how he appreciated the eclectic nature of the market. “You had vendors that sold all sorts of things,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/berkeley-flea-market-berkeley?hrid=miVLsbtNbjUMufyOj0JkwQ&osq=Ashby+Flea+Market\">wrote Tre S. from Pittsburg\u003c/a>. “You had your bohemian stuff, your hipster stuff, your old records and nick nacks [sic], food stalls, scent and oil stands, jewelry, knock off products and even massage stations throughout this space. They also had some African musicians playing in spurts as I walked along and looked at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commenters on Yelp, though, noted that the market had gone downhill in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This market was once overflowing with local and regional vendors,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/berkeley-flea-market-berkeley?hrid=miVLsbtNbjUMufyOj0JkwQ&osq=Ashby+Flea+Market\">wrote Dee Was Here Z\u003c/a>, who is from Alameda. “It was full and thriving when bootleg movies were hot! One could spend hours learning, listening to the bongo/Congo drummers, eating ethnic foods, smelling the trees, and of course, supporting the locals striving to survive in the Bay. But evolving streaming technologies have permanently altered the landscape and it seems more like an opportunity to get a sunburn in the summer and grab a cool ginger drink to take on your stroll back to your car, meet Uber or hop on BART.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Eyeing a new site\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The market is considering a proposal to relocate to Adeline Street where there would be built-in foot traffic and better visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been strategizing how to make the market more visible,” said Gary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klein, the city's economic development manager, said the flea market has obtained the paperwork to apply for the required special-event permit to potentially move to Adeline Street, a process he noted could be “pretty complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the flea market is a valuable community asset,” he said. “We’ve heard a very clear expression from the community about the value of the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/01/25/berkeley-flea-market-shuts-down-for-winter-this-is-an-emergency-say-organizers#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This story\u003c/a> was originally published by Berkeleyside on Jan. 25, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Flea Market is in grave danger,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/save-the-berkeley-flea-market\">a statement\u003c/a> on the GoFundMe web page reads. “Our cash flow is very low, and the rainy season has come. When it rains, we can lose a whole weekend’s earnings. We will only survive if our community supports us. This is an emergency. Please help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The market, which typically draws about 100 vendors, also recently had to close for two weekends because of storms and smoky conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we don’t operate, we don’t make any money, but we still have the costs,” said CSU board member Andrea Prichett, who said the market is planning to reopen in April. “It’s frightening for [vendors’] livelihood ... It’s important for us to get back into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t provide any direct funding to the flea market, although Jordan Klein, Berkeley’s manager of economic development, said the city is working with CSU in several ways, including through the city’s new partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://uptimabootcamp.com/\">Uptima Business Bootcamp,\u003c/a> an Oakland-based “business accelerator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re working directly with the flea market to develop an action plan to help them with their sustainability,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were fortunate enough to be their first client (in Berkeley),” Gary said, adding that CSU has already met with Uptima twice this week, and another meeting is scheduled for Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Flea Market’s history — which Gary said doesn’t include ever shutting down in February and March — stretches back to 1973, the year the Ashby BART station opened. Trains didn’t initially run on weekends, prompting people to use the empty parking area to sell secondhand items. It has since grown into a Berkeley institution and an important source of income for some local residents – many of whom are homeless and living on low-wage jobs — as well as a community gathering place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/flea_mkt2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African art and objects on display at the Berkeley Flea Market. \u003ccite>(Andrew Steltzer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Site's future still unclear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The future of the 6.3-acre, 600-space Ashby BART parking area, which consists of two lots, has long been a contentious issue in South Berkeley. While BART owns the underground space of the station and the parking area, the city controls the site’s above-ground development rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1985, a court ruled against BART in a lawsuit aimed at moving the flea market off the site, saying the market had the right to stay as long as BART didn’t have a legitimate use for the parking area, according to Prichett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Berkeley is eyeing the BART parking lot for affordable housing. And, while the city has said it intends to find a space for the market, many neighbors have expressed concern in public meetings about gentrification, the need for affordable housing and the possible disappearance of the flea market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has been working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/21/city-seeks-feedback-future-adeline-corridor\">a long-range plan\u003c/a> for the area through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/search/Adeline+Corridor\">Adeline Corridor Plan\u003c/a>, a vision for a 100-acre expanse stretching about a mile, from the intersection of Dwight Way and Shattuck Avenue to the Oakland border. The city launched the idea after receiving a $750,000 grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is working with BART and residents on the specifics. The project’s first draft plan and environmental impact report will be ready in April or May, Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One idea that's been floated is to turn the space into a nonprofit-managed “town square” with permanent vendors, live music and other arts and cultural amenities, and a smaller area set aside for the flea market. Gary said a farmer’s market could also be added on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the bridge (between) the community that’s been there for 40 years, and the community that’s coming there daily,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The gentrification factor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There’s been an overall decline in foot traffic in the market,” said Prichett. “We attribute that to gentrification. In the last three to five years, we’ve really seen it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through dozens of eminent-domain seizures of homes and businesses in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, BART construction radically transformed this South Berkeley neighborhood, which had previously been home to mostly black and Japanese families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three decades, the racial makeup of the Adeline Corridor neighborhood has changed rapidly. In 1990, nearly half the neighborhood was African-American. By 2010, that percentage had dwindled to about 25 percent, as a growing number of white families moved in, according to a 2016 report from the Adeline Corridor Community Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary said the average home price west of Martin Luther King Jr. Way was $61,000 when the flea market began operating in 1973. “Now it would cost $1.4 or $1.5 million,” he said. “That’s a changing demographic. When all these things are put together, it’s been difficult for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dwindling attendance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gary said a number of other factors have also contributed to dwindling attendance at the market in recent years, including the growing popularity of online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, every stall in the market would be full,” he said. “We were able to make money. That’s not the case anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendors at the market sell \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/06/03/berkeley-flea-market-still-going-strong-after-three-decades\">all sorts of wares\u003c/a>, from Bob Marley pins and African masks to clothes, socks, jewelry and plants. Drummers form a drum circle every weekend. Food from all around the world is also on offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A commenter on Yelp wrote recently of how he appreciated the eclectic nature of the market. “You had vendors that sold all sorts of things,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/berkeley-flea-market-berkeley?hrid=miVLsbtNbjUMufyOj0JkwQ&osq=Ashby+Flea+Market\">wrote Tre S. from Pittsburg\u003c/a>. “You had your bohemian stuff, your hipster stuff, your old records and nick nacks [sic], food stalls, scent and oil stands, jewelry, knock off products and even massage stations throughout this space. 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But evolving streaming technologies have permanently altered the landscape and it seems more like an opportunity to get a sunburn in the summer and grab a cool ginger drink to take on your stroll back to your car, meet Uber or hop on BART.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Eyeing a new site\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The market is considering a proposal to relocate to Adeline Street where there would be built-in foot traffic and better visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been strategizing how to make the market more visible,” said Gary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klein, the city's economic development manager, said the flea market has obtained the paperwork to apply for the required special-event permit to potentially move to Adeline Street, a process he noted could be “pretty complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the flea market is a valuable community asset,” he said. “We’ve heard a very clear expression from the community about the value of the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley and a conservative student group have reached a settlement agreement in a prominent 2017 free speech case, both parties announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, UC Berkeley has \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-A-Revisions-to-Major-Events-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its campus events policy\u003c/a>, explicitly laying out which events require student groups to pay security costs. The university also agreed to pay the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/19/inconsequential-berkeley-college-republicans-now-command-national-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley College Republicans\u003c/a> and Young America’s Foundation $70,000 in attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/04/24/berkeley-college-republicans-file-lawsuit-force-university-let-ann-coulter-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed the lawsuit\u003c/a> in federal court in April 2017, alleging UC Berkeley violated conservative students’ First Amendment rights by placing prohibitive restrictions on when and where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11427970/reports-controversial-coulter-speech-at-uc-berkeley-cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">events featuring Ann Coulter\u003c/a> and David Horowitz could take place. The campus maintained that the restrictions were set in place due to legitimate security concerns — following violent protests that forced the cancellation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11618852/free-speech-week-protestors-face-off-at-barricaded-sproul-plaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech\u003c/a> earlier that year — rather than the political views of the speakers, and that the rules did not prevent the groups from holding their events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11709940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A campus police officer talks on his radio after protesters toppled a mobile light trailer and set it on fire during a demonstration against the scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley on Feb. 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit emerged during the series of raucous protests and speaking events that trailed the Yiannopoulos melee on campus in 2017. While the public controversy has largely died down, the lawsuit has continued quietly in court. Judge Maxine Chesney dismissed the case in late 2017, but plaintiffs accepted her invitation to file an amended complaint in light of new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides said they considered the settlement a victory. However, they appear to be interpreting the implications of the agreement differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “insubstantial cosmetic changes” to the final events policy simply codify what the campus has been doing all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve clarified existing practices,” Mogulof said. “The claims that we had an unconstitutional events policy were thrown out of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-B-UCPD-Event-Fee-Schedule-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fee schedule\u003c/a>, student groups holding events in classrooms and similar venues are not required to pay for security, except in some specific cases like dances. Mogulof said this has been the university’s practice, pointing to several Berkeley College Republicans events last spring that he said were held at no cost to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Worden, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, talks to reporters about the club’s invitation to Ann Coulter and the campus’s response in the spring of 2017. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some venues that are rented out separately, like Zellerbach Hall, set their own security fees that student groups have always been, and are still, responsible for, he said. The Berkeley College Republicans and their sponsors, Young America’s Foundation, paid $9,000 for security, which the groups said was an unfair amount, when they hosted Ben Shapiro there in September 2017. UC Berkeley and the University of California paid $600,000 in security costs for anticipated protests outside the event that barely materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Shapiro event happened again next year, the students would be responsible for the same or similar cost, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy also removes language that allowed the university to judge the nature of an event, and thus how much security would cost, based on its “complexity.” That passage was among pieces of the policy that prompted some conservatives to say the university discriminated against right-wing events. Mogulof said UC Berkeley never actually made any decisions based on the “complexity” provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harmeet Dhillon, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, however, said the new policy required in the settlement “completely changes” the university’s approach to campus events. Her clients achieved the outcome they wanted, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to charge all student groups zero dollars for security — that is a landmark policy,” she said. “Our clients ... and our firm view this settlement as a major victory for the First Amendment rights of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said her understanding of the agreement is that venues like Zellerbach can state flat security requirements for events held there, but cannot charge amounts that vary based on the nature of the event, like what happened, she said, when Shapiro spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said the $70,000 that UC Berkeley is obligated to pay her clients indicates campus culpability. She said the amount did not represent “100 percent of the attorney fees — that is customary in a settlement,” but declined to state how much her clients had paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the lawsuit has cost UC Berkeley an estimated $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the sort of fight that protects something so foundational to the university,” he said. “It was worth all the effort and resources to establish beyond any doubt that the polices are constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said he is unaware of any events held by the College Republicans this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Worden, who was president of the club when the lawsuit was filed, was among the many on the right who celebrated the settlement online Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honored to have been a part of this momentous victory for the New Free Speech Movement,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TroyWerden/status/1069684502170124302\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “insubstantial cosmetic changes” to the final events policy simply codify what the campus has been doing all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve clarified existing practices,” Mogulof said. “The claims that we had an unconstitutional events policy were thrown out of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-B-UCPD-Event-Fee-Schedule-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fee schedule\u003c/a>, student groups holding events in classrooms and similar venues are not required to pay for security, except in some specific cases like dances. Mogulof said this has been the university’s practice, pointing to several Berkeley College Republicans events last spring that he said were held at no cost to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Worden, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, talks to reporters about the club’s invitation to Ann Coulter and the campus’s response in the spring of 2017. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some venues that are rented out separately, like Zellerbach Hall, set their own security fees that student groups have always been, and are still, responsible for, he said. The Berkeley College Republicans and their sponsors, Young America’s Foundation, paid $9,000 for security, which the groups said was an unfair amount, when they hosted Ben Shapiro there in September 2017. UC Berkeley and the University of California paid $600,000 in security costs for anticipated protests outside the event that barely materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Shapiro event happened again next year, the students would be responsible for the same or similar cost, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy also removes language that allowed the university to judge the nature of an event, and thus how much security would cost, based on its “complexity.” That passage was among pieces of the policy that prompted some conservatives to say the university discriminated against right-wing events. Mogulof said UC Berkeley never actually made any decisions based on the “complexity” provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harmeet Dhillon, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, however, said the new policy required in the settlement “completely changes” the university’s approach to campus events. Her clients achieved the outcome they wanted, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to charge all student groups zero dollars for security — that is a landmark policy,” she said. “Our clients ... and our firm view this settlement as a major victory for the First Amendment rights of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said her understanding of the agreement is that venues like Zellerbach can state flat security requirements for events held there, but cannot charge amounts that vary based on the nature of the event, like what happened, she said, when Shapiro spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said the $70,000 that UC Berkeley is obligated to pay her clients indicates campus culpability. She said the amount did not represent “100 percent of the attorney fees — that is customary in a settlement,” but declined to state how much her clients had paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the lawsuit has cost UC Berkeley an estimated $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the sort of fight that protects something so foundational to the university,” he said. “It was worth all the effort and resources to establish beyond any doubt that the polices are constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said he is unaware of any events held by the College Republicans this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Worden, who was president of the club when the lawsuit was filed, was among the many on the right who celebrated the settlement online Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honored to have been a part of this momentous victory for the New Free Speech Movement,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TroyWerden/status/1069684502170124302\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elmwood Cafe\u003c/a> has closed abruptly, shutting down its social media pages and posting a brief note on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of about 2 a.m. Friday, the windows of the Elmwood neighborhood restaurant at 2900 College Ave. were covered with brown butcher paper, a Berkeleyside reader reported. A sign on the door proclaimed the business has closed for good: “Our sincere gratitude to all in the community,” the note reads. “Thank you for your support through the years.” The cafe had been open for business Thursday, the reader said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent wave of negative Yelp reviews accusing the business of racism may have contributed to the sudden closure. The reviews were prompted by news coverage this week drawing a parallel between a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/04/new-details-emerge-in-w-kamau-bellelmwood-cafe-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 incident at the cafe\u003c/a> and last week’s controversial Starbucks arrest of two black men in Philadelphia. Berkeleyside has asked the Elmwood’s owner for information, but failed to speak with him before publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closed sign was posted at the Elmwood Cafe early Friday morning. \u003ccite>(Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cafe was thrust into the spotlight Monday when comedian \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/opinions/philadelphia-starbucks-sounds-familiar-to-me-w-kamau-bell-opinion/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. Kamau Bell posted a blog on CNN\u003c/a> to share thoughts about what he and his wife have said was racism at the Elmwood Cafe in 2015. Bell’s opinion piece, “I know what it’s like to get kicked out for being black,” was featured prominently online as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/starbucks-philadelphia-black-men-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starbucks drew significant criticism\u003c/a> for the April 12 arrest of two black men who sat down without ordering and then would not leave when police were called. The New York Times identified the men as real estate agents there for a meeting. Starbucks has apologized, called the incident “reprehensible,” and pledged to train staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/starbucks-racial-bias-training.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to be more aware of racial bias\u003c/a>. A video of the arrest on Twitter has been viewed more than 11 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his CNN piece, Bell, who is black, said the Starbucks incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/opinions/philadelphia-starbucks-sounds-familiar-to-me-w-kamau-bell-opinion/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought up a lot of memories for him\u003c/a>. In 2015, he had walked up to the cafe to speak with his wife, who is white, and her friends as they sat at a table outside. It was his birthday, and the couple had also eaten breakfast at the Elmwood that morning. But he had left to work on his computer at another coffee spot on College Avenue. When he got back to the Elmwood Cafe and approached his wife and her friends, he said a staff member gestured for him to leave, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/29/comedian-w-kamau-bell-reports-being-subject-of-racism-at-berkeleys-elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought he was a stranger\u003c/a> trying to sell something. That person ultimately was fired. Bell asserted on his blog that he was discriminated against because he is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Starbucks-racial-apologies-revive-bad-memories-12842822.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/comedian-w-kamau-bell-recalls-being-kicked-out-of-coffee-shop/3351799/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC 7\u003c/a> both featured Bell’s story this week. The Chronicle said “Starbucks’ racial apologies” had revived “bad memories” for Bell. He told ABC 7 the Elmwood had “let the story go,” and that “the owner of the Elmwood Cafe stopped answering my emails because once they got through the storm, they were able to sort of go back to business as usual.” Bell said the cafe never followed through with promises it had made to launch an \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/16/at-community-forum-in-berkeley-w-kamau-bell-and-elmwood-cafe-launch-implicit-bias-training-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambitious implicit bias initiative\u003c/a> for service workers. The Chronicle said it was unable to reach Elmwood owner Michael Pearce to get his side of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community members have said on social media this week that they were disappointed in the Elmwood, based on what Bell had written. One woman who shared the CNN blog said on Facebook on Tuesday: “Shame on the Elmwood Cafe (College Ave, Berkeley)!! I remember when this happened a few years ago, and I’m further appalled that NOTHING has been done to prevent it from happening again ... and that they’re not kept their promises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said the business had done what it needed to do, and had been a big supporter of community efforts over the years: “I do not sit outdoors when I am there because of the panhandling that happens every day. It’s unfortunate that W. Kamal [sic] Bell continues to slam them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no explanation for the Elmwood Cafe’s closure at the business early Friday morning. But its Facebook page “isn’t available right now,” according to a message reached by clicking the Facebook link on the company website. Its Instagram page is now set to private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red banner on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/elmwood-cafe-berkeley?osq=elmwood+cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cafe’s Yelp page\u003c/a> reads, “This business is being monitored by Yelp’s Support team for content related to media reports.” A large red pop-up box, entitled “Active Cleanup Alert,” notes that the Elmwood “recently made waves in the news, which often means that people come to this page to post their views on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posts on the Elmwood Cafe’s Yelp are under review in the wake of this week’s media coverage. \u003ccite>(Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, the Yelp message said, reviews “may be removed as part of our cleanup process” to limit reviews “motivated more by the news coverage itself than the reviewer’s personal consumer experience.” But 15 mostly one-star reviews since Monday, criticizing the business in connection with Bell’s recent opinion piece and other media coverage, are still present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is miserable and racist. They are hypocritical. Why bother? There are so many other places to go,” one person wrote. On Friday, a woman who listed Los Angeles as her location wrote, “Get some diversity and race sensitivity training ASAP or close down shop! This is Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reviewer wrote, “Not gonna go there. I don’t care how ... hip, cozy, whatever it seems to be. They didn’t do the diversity training that they said they would after they threw W. Kamau Bell out for talking to a white woman (his wife), thinking he was trying to sell her something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote another, “Darker folks with Afros who go to this place with their ivory skinned wives and their little mixed baby should be able to eat all the overpriced food and drink all the overpriced coffee they want to. It’s time the owner sets the record straight. Apologize and do better. I’ll be back soon if you do. If you don’t I will be counting the days until you are no longer in business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said another reviewer, who signed off “BLM” in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement: “I would have gone here with my family until I learned about you kicking out black folks like Starbucks does. How very Berkeley of you. Now I hope you go out of business. I urge everyone in the East Bay to boycott this cafe immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wkamaubell.com/blog/2015/01/happy-birthday-have-some-racism-from-elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 blog\u003c/a> about his experience at the cafe, called “Happy Birthday! Have some racism from Elmwood Cafe,” continues to be among the top Google search results for the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the 2015 incident, the Elmwood Cafe has retained many devoted customers. Many fans have lauded the cafe’s program to \u003ca href=\"https://www.elmwoodcafe.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support local and international nonprofits\u003c/a> that are chosen by the community. The Elmwood’s Yelp page shows a four-star rating and nearly 700 reviews. It has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g32066-d3514469-Reviews-Elmwood_Cafe-Berkeley_California.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Certificate of Excellence” from TripAdvisor\u003c/a>, bestowed upon “attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travelers,” according to that website. No reviews appear to have been written on that page since the Bell blog on CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe remained busy right up until its closure. Thursday around noon there was a line outside the door of people waiting to place their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Abbott, a co-owner of Mrs. Dalloway’s, the bookstore next door, said she saw a lot of people gathered for a meeting in the cafe Thursday evening after a bookstore event. “Private party or crisis powwow,” she said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside has asked the cafe for further information. This story will be updated if it is provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elmwood Cafe\u003c/a> has closed abruptly, shutting down its social media pages and posting a brief note on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of about 2 a.m. Friday, the windows of the Elmwood neighborhood restaurant at 2900 College Ave. were covered with brown butcher paper, a Berkeleyside reader reported. A sign on the door proclaimed the business has closed for good: “Our sincere gratitude to all in the community,” the note reads. “Thank you for your support through the years.” The cafe had been open for business Thursday, the reader said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent wave of negative Yelp reviews accusing the business of racism may have contributed to the sudden closure. The reviews were prompted by news coverage this week drawing a parallel between a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/04/new-details-emerge-in-w-kamau-bellelmwood-cafe-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 incident at the cafe\u003c/a> and last week’s controversial Starbucks arrest of two black men in Philadelphia. Berkeleyside has asked the Elmwood’s owner for information, but failed to speak with him before publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/elmwood-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closed sign was posted at the Elmwood Cafe early Friday morning. \u003ccite>(Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cafe was thrust into the spotlight Monday when comedian \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/opinions/philadelphia-starbucks-sounds-familiar-to-me-w-kamau-bell-opinion/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. Kamau Bell posted a blog on CNN\u003c/a> to share thoughts about what he and his wife have said was racism at the Elmwood Cafe in 2015. Bell’s opinion piece, “I know what it’s like to get kicked out for being black,” was featured prominently online as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/starbucks-philadelphia-black-men-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starbucks drew significant criticism\u003c/a> for the April 12 arrest of two black men who sat down without ordering and then would not leave when police were called. The New York Times identified the men as real estate agents there for a meeting. Starbucks has apologized, called the incident “reprehensible,” and pledged to train staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/starbucks-racial-bias-training.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to be more aware of racial bias\u003c/a>. A video of the arrest on Twitter has been viewed more than 11 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his CNN piece, Bell, who is black, said the Starbucks incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/opinions/philadelphia-starbucks-sounds-familiar-to-me-w-kamau-bell-opinion/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought up a lot of memories for him\u003c/a>. In 2015, he had walked up to the cafe to speak with his wife, who is white, and her friends as they sat at a table outside. It was his birthday, and the couple had also eaten breakfast at the Elmwood that morning. But he had left to work on his computer at another coffee spot on College Avenue. When he got back to the Elmwood Cafe and approached his wife and her friends, he said a staff member gestured for him to leave, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/29/comedian-w-kamau-bell-reports-being-subject-of-racism-at-berkeleys-elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought he was a stranger\u003c/a> trying to sell something. That person ultimately was fired. Bell asserted on his blog that he was discriminated against because he is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Starbucks-racial-apologies-revive-bad-memories-12842822.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/comedian-w-kamau-bell-recalls-being-kicked-out-of-coffee-shop/3351799/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC 7\u003c/a> both featured Bell’s story this week. The Chronicle said “Starbucks’ racial apologies” had revived “bad memories” for Bell. He told ABC 7 the Elmwood had “let the story go,” and that “the owner of the Elmwood Cafe stopped answering my emails because once they got through the storm, they were able to sort of go back to business as usual.” Bell said the cafe never followed through with promises it had made to launch an \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/16/at-community-forum-in-berkeley-w-kamau-bell-and-elmwood-cafe-launch-implicit-bias-training-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambitious implicit bias initiative\u003c/a> for service workers. The Chronicle said it was unable to reach Elmwood owner Michael Pearce to get his side of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community members have said on social media this week that they were disappointed in the Elmwood, based on what Bell had written. One woman who shared the CNN blog said on Facebook on Tuesday: “Shame on the Elmwood Cafe (College Ave, Berkeley)!! I remember when this happened a few years ago, and I’m further appalled that NOTHING has been done to prevent it from happening again ... and that they’re not kept their promises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said the business had done what it needed to do, and had been a big supporter of community efforts over the years: “I do not sit outdoors when I am there because of the panhandling that happens every day. It’s unfortunate that W. Kamal [sic] Bell continues to slam them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no explanation for the Elmwood Cafe’s closure at the business early Friday morning. But its Facebook page “isn’t available right now,” according to a message reached by clicking the Facebook link on the company website. Its Instagram page is now set to private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red banner on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/elmwood-cafe-berkeley?osq=elmwood+cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cafe’s Yelp page\u003c/a> reads, “This business is being monitored by Yelp’s Support team for content related to media reports.” A large red pop-up box, entitled “Active Cleanup Alert,” notes that the Elmwood “recently made waves in the news, which often means that people come to this page to post their views on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Elmwood-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posts on the Elmwood Cafe’s Yelp are under review in the wake of this week’s media coverage. \u003ccite>(Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, the Yelp message said, reviews “may be removed as part of our cleanup process” to limit reviews “motivated more by the news coverage itself than the reviewer’s personal consumer experience.” But 15 mostly one-star reviews since Monday, criticizing the business in connection with Bell’s recent opinion piece and other media coverage, are still present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is miserable and racist. They are hypocritical. Why bother? There are so many other places to go,” one person wrote. On Friday, a woman who listed Los Angeles as her location wrote, “Get some diversity and race sensitivity training ASAP or close down shop! This is Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reviewer wrote, “Not gonna go there. I don’t care how ... hip, cozy, whatever it seems to be. They didn’t do the diversity training that they said they would after they threw W. Kamau Bell out for talking to a white woman (his wife), thinking he was trying to sell her something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote another, “Darker folks with Afros who go to this place with their ivory skinned wives and their little mixed baby should be able to eat all the overpriced food and drink all the overpriced coffee they want to. It’s time the owner sets the record straight. Apologize and do better. I’ll be back soon if you do. If you don’t I will be counting the days until you are no longer in business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said another reviewer, who signed off “BLM” in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement: “I would have gone here with my family until I learned about you kicking out black folks like Starbucks does. How very Berkeley of you. Now I hope you go out of business. I urge everyone in the East Bay to boycott this cafe immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wkamaubell.com/blog/2015/01/happy-birthday-have-some-racism-from-elmwood-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 blog\u003c/a> about his experience at the cafe, called “Happy Birthday! Have some racism from Elmwood Cafe,” continues to be among the top Google search results for the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the 2015 incident, the Elmwood Cafe has retained many devoted customers. Many fans have lauded the cafe’s program to \u003ca href=\"https://www.elmwoodcafe.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support local and international nonprofits\u003c/a> that are chosen by the community. The Elmwood’s Yelp page shows a four-star rating and nearly 700 reviews. It has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g32066-d3514469-Reviews-Elmwood_Cafe-Berkeley_California.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Certificate of Excellence” from TripAdvisor\u003c/a>, bestowed upon “attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travelers,” according to that website. No reviews appear to have been written on that page since the Bell blog on CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe remained busy right up until its closure. Thursday around noon there was a line outside the door of people waiting to place their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Abbott, a co-owner of Mrs. Dalloway’s, the bookstore next door, said she saw a lot of people gathered for a meeting in the cafe Thursday evening after a bookstore event. “Private party or crisis powwow,” she said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside has asked the cafe for further information. This story will be updated if it is provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Some UC Berkeley students, as well as other supporters, are calling for the release of Luis Mora, an undocumented student in the custody of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) at a private detention center in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora, a 20-year-old junior transfer student at Cal, spent the holidays in San Diego County, where he grew up. According to Mora’s attorney, he and his girlfriend took a wrong turn while driving in Jamul on Saturday night, and encountered a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol immigration checkpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Mack, an ICE spokeswoman for the San Diego area, told Berkeleyside that Mora was arrested on suspicion of overstaying his visa and was held in a Border Patrol facility before being transferred by ICE to Otay Mesa Detention Center, where he is awaiting deportation proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora’s girlfriend, Jaleen Udarbe, has been advocating for Mora’s release so he can go back to school until he is due in court. His deportation hearing date has not yet been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from the UC Berkeley advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://callink.berkeley.edu/organization/RISE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education (RISE)\u003c/a>, and others, have joined the cause, and Prerna Lal, an immigration attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/east-bay-community-law-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>, has taken on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokeswoman Janet Gilmore said in a statement Thursday that the university has heard about the arrest and is “actively seeking to confirm all the facts of this distressing news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campus does have processes in place to support students seeking legal resources on a variety of issues, and this includes attorney services for students managing immigration issues. While student privacy laws and UC policy limit what we can disclose about individual student records, we can tell you that we are looking into the matter to determine everything we can do to support and assist the student during this difficult time,” Gilmore wrote in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Lal said she was unavailable for interviews Thursday, but has been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/prernaplal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting live updates\u003c/a> and visited Mora at the detention center Thursday. According to Lal, who works for UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://undocu.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undocumented Student Program\u003c/a>, Mora could have been eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Obama-era program, which granted temporary reprieve, and the ability to work, to many undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/06/impromptu-berkeley-rally-draws-150-students-others-daca-decision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescinded by President Trump in September\u003c/a>. Mora came to the U.S. from Colombia as an 11-year-old on a temporary visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora’s case has attracted the attention of student groups, national advocacy organization and high-profile activists like Jose Antonio Vargas, who have tweeted their support under the hashtag #FreeLuis and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/949042236930473984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared an image\u003c/a> directing allies to call ICE and demand Mora’s immediate release. Late Thursday, Lal tweeted that California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, along with Rep. Barbara Lee, had reached out to offer their support to Mora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have authority to parole,” confirmed ICE spokeswoman Mack, but she said no decision has been made either way yet. “He was just taken into our custody yesterday,” she said. Mack said she has been fielding lots of calls asking if Mora could be bailed out. Border Patrol did not set a bond when Mora was arrested, she said, though he has a right to request one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora’s supporters are raising money on YouCaring in the hope that a bond is set, and plan to place funds in his detainee account that, they believe, would allow him to make phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting her client, Lal tweeted that Mora will continue fighting for himself, and said she encouraged him to organize other detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a bright young bilingual man who knows his rights and has plenty of resources at his disposal,” she wrote. “He knows human rights violations when he sees them. He’s competent and intelligent. Keeping him detained at this facility just means he will start a revolution in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora, who is studying political science at Cal, was given the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Young Latino Champion award in 2016, when he was a student at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/sd-me-luis-mora-20161027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union-Tribune profile\u003c/a>, Mora faced challenges as a non-native English speaker, but ended up becoming a writing tutor for English and non-English speakers, volunteered at his church and worked at a refugee advocacy organization at the time of the article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to show that you can make an impact in your community no matter who you are,” Mora said then. “What inspires me is seeing how little things can make a big change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal was relieved that Mora was transferred to Otay Mesa after being held longer than expected at the Border Patrol’s facility, which is designed only for temporary stays. But she and others are concerned because Otay Mesa was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-detention-lawsuit-20171229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently sued in a class-action suit\u003c/a> alleging forced labor and inhumane conditions at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://undocu.berkeley.edu/press-release-luis-mora/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement released late Thursday\u003c/a>, Valeria Suarez, lead organizer with RISE, said the campaign to release Mora is part of a broader effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As grateful as I am for the huge levels of support directed towards Luis, it’s important to remember that his story is not the only one,” she said. “We must fight to liberate Luis alongside the thousands of undocumented folks who are being unjustly held in detention centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Keep Berkeleyside running and support independent local journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-us-by-becoming-a-member/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming a member\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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While student privacy laws and UC policy limit what we can disclose about individual student records, we can tell you that we are looking into the matter to determine everything we can do to support and assist the student during this difficult time,” Gilmore wrote in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Lal said she was unavailable for interviews Thursday, but has been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/prernaplal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting live updates\u003c/a> and visited Mora at the detention center Thursday. According to Lal, who works for UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://undocu.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undocumented Student Program\u003c/a>, Mora could have been eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Obama-era program, which granted temporary reprieve, and the ability to work, to many undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/06/impromptu-berkeley-rally-draws-150-students-others-daca-decision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescinded by President Trump in September\u003c/a>. Mora came to the U.S. from Colombia as an 11-year-old on a temporary visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora’s case has attracted the attention of student groups, national advocacy organization and high-profile activists like Jose Antonio Vargas, who have tweeted their support under the hashtag #FreeLuis and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/949042236930473984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared an image\u003c/a> directing allies to call ICE and demand Mora’s immediate release. Late Thursday, Lal tweeted that California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, along with Rep. Barbara Lee, had reached out to offer their support to Mora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have authority to parole,” confirmed ICE spokeswoman Mack, but she said no decision has been made either way yet. “He was just taken into our custody yesterday,” she said. Mack said she has been fielding lots of calls asking if Mora could be bailed out. Border Patrol did not set a bond when Mora was arrested, she said, though he has a right to request one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora’s supporters are raising money on YouCaring in the hope that a bond is set, and plan to place funds in his detainee account that, they believe, would allow him to make phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting her client, Lal tweeted that Mora will continue fighting for himself, and said she encouraged him to organize other detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a bright young bilingual man who knows his rights and has plenty of resources at his disposal,” she wrote. “He knows human rights violations when he sees them. 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Keeping him detained at this facility just means he will start a revolution in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora, who is studying political science at Cal, was given the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Young Latino Champion award in 2016, when he was a student at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/sd-me-luis-mora-20161027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union-Tribune profile\u003c/a>, Mora faced challenges as a non-native English speaker, but ended up becoming a writing tutor for English and non-English speakers, volunteered at his church and worked at a refugee advocacy organization at the time of the article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to show that you can make an impact in your community no matter who you are,” Mora said then. “What inspires me is seeing how little things can make a big change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal was relieved that Mora was transferred to Otay Mesa after being held longer than expected at the Border Patrol’s facility, which is designed only for temporary stays. But she and others are concerned because Otay Mesa was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-detention-lawsuit-20171229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently sued in a class-action suit\u003c/a> alleging forced labor and inhumane conditions at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://undocu.berkeley.edu/press-release-luis-mora/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement released late Thursday\u003c/a>, Valeria Suarez, lead organizer with RISE, said the campaign to release Mora is part of a broader effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As grateful as I am for the huge levels of support directed towards Luis, it’s important to remember that his story is not the only one,” she said. “We must fight to liberate Luis alongside the thousands of undocumented folks who are being unjustly held in detention centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Keep Berkeleyside running and support independent local journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-us-by-becoming-a-member/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming a member\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Online video of a University of California Police officer in Berkeley who ticketed a hot dog vendor outside a Cal football game Saturday, and seized $60 from the man’s wallet, has prompted an outpouring of support for the vendor and a backlash against the officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof offered a brief statement Sunday evening: “We are aware of the incident. The officer was tasked with enforcing violations related to vending without a permit on campus. UCPD is looking into the matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles resident, and UC Berkeley alumnus, Martin Flores posted the video online just before 5:40 p.m. Saturday. He attended the football game that day with his children, according to his posts online. In the video, Flores questions UC Police Officer Sean Aranas about why he has to take the hot dog vendor’s money. Flores was buying hot dogs from the vendor when police interrupted the transaction, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original video had, as of Monday morning, been viewed 11 million times -- and attracted significant attention and comments online. Flores sought out the vendor, who has publicly been identified only as “Juan,” as interest in the story grew along with pledges of support. Flores posted on Facebook shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday that he had found “Juan,” and said they were preparing to be interviewed by Telemundo in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to online records from UCPD, the vendor was ticketed at Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way, across from Memorial Stadium where the football game took place, just after 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The 34-year-old man got a ticket related to vending without a license, which is a violation of the Berkeley Municipal Code. It was the only such citation for the day, which was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calbears.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=530\" target=\"_blank\">first home game of the season\u003c/a>. UCPD spokeswoman Sgt. 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UC Berkeley student Vicky Zamarripa \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/992/821/972/remove-s.-aranas-76-from-university-of-california-police-department/?taf_id=42211857&cid=fb_na#bbfb=716735099\" target=\"_blank\">posted a petition online\u003c/a> Saturday night to have Aranas \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/10/petition-to-remove-ucpd-officer-receives-over-5000-signatures/\" target=\"_blank\">removed from his job\u003c/a>, as first reported by the Daily Californian. Nearly 11,000 people have signed it as of Monday morning, including about 700 who said they are from Berkeley. The campaign has spread far beyond the city limits due to extensive sharing on social media. According to Zamarripa, Aranas had engaged in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/992/821/972/remove-s.-aranas-76-from-university-of-california-police-department/?taf_id=42211857&cid=fb_na#bbfb=716735099\" target=\"_blank\">a number of troubling interactions\u003c/a> with the public prior to Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people, including several who wrote on the Berkeleyside Facebook page, said they have known Aranas for years and consider him to be fair. “I have always seen him acting professionally and I have seen him countless times,” wrote one. Wrote another: “I’ve interacted with this cop several times in the past also; he also struck me as a good guy but definitely a tough guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people have questioned whether Aranas legally was allowed to take the vendor’s money. Berkeleyside has asked the university for additional information. In the meantime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside/posts/10155609333402456\" target=\"_blank\">readers have been weighing in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evidently when doing illegal sales on UC Property ... the money is confiscated,” wrote one local resident on Facebook. “I know an illegal t-shirt vendor and that’s what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday morning, the Flores video was shared on the “Woke Folks” Facebook page, which helped further spread the word about the incident. The Tennessee-based community organization was \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/1443312512374329?comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22O%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">launched in June\u003c/a> by prominent civil rights activist and writer Shaun King. A Woke Folks moderator wrote that laws related to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">civil forfeiture\u003c/a> allow police officers to confiscate goods in circumstances like these.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley Police confronted this street vendor for selling hotdogs to football fans. He didn’t have a permit, so it’s understandable that they gave him a ticket. What doesn’t makes sense is this cop (Officer Sean Aranas) flipping through the man’s wallet and taking every dollar he has on him,” wrote the moderator. “How can Aranas get away with this? Civil forfeiture laws give cops the legal authority to rob unlucky people like Juan, who just wanted to work hard and make a living. This legalized thuggery has pretty much always existed in America, but the difference now is that we’re able to film these injustices on the spot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement officers to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">seize assets from people suspected of crime or illegal activity\u003c/a>, has sparked increasing controversy in recent years and a movement is afoot to end it. The ACLU says \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/asset-forfeiture-abuse\" target=\"_blank\">the process has been widely abused\u003c/a>, and that calls for reform have been growing. California Gov. 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UC Berkeley student Vicky Zamarripa \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/992/821/972/remove-s.-aranas-76-from-university-of-california-police-department/?taf_id=42211857&cid=fb_na#bbfb=716735099\" target=\"_blank\">posted a petition online\u003c/a> Saturday night to have Aranas \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/10/petition-to-remove-ucpd-officer-receives-over-5000-signatures/\" target=\"_blank\">removed from his job\u003c/a>, as first reported by the Daily Californian. Nearly 11,000 people have signed it as of Monday morning, including about 700 who said they are from Berkeley. The campaign has spread far beyond the city limits due to extensive sharing on social media. According to Zamarripa, Aranas had engaged in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/992/821/972/remove-s.-aranas-76-from-university-of-california-police-department/?taf_id=42211857&cid=fb_na#bbfb=716735099\" target=\"_blank\">a number of troubling interactions\u003c/a> with the public prior to Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people, including several who wrote on the Berkeleyside Facebook page, said they have known Aranas for years and consider him to be fair. “I have always seen him acting professionally and I have seen him countless times,” wrote one. Wrote another: “I’ve interacted with this cop several times in the past also; he also struck me as a good guy but definitely a tough guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people have questioned whether Aranas legally was allowed to take the vendor’s money. Berkeleyside has asked the university for additional information. 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He also protested outside the courthouse during \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/05/26/eric-clanton-charged-four-counts-assault-deadly-weapon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the arraignment of Eric Clanton\u003c/a>, an anti-fascist demonstrator charged with smashing a bike lock over the head of a Trump supporter at that rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hordes of people took to Top Dog’s Yelp pages and social media accounts Saturday, calling for White to be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Top Dog employee said the business has also been receiving “a ton of calls” and questions from customers since White was outed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “pretty much everyone’s happy with the fact that he no longer works here,” the employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Dog’s management has never shied away from promoting its own political views, plastering Libertarian messages over the walls of its two Berkeley locations. (There is a third location in Oakland.) 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The rally participants, protesting the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces, included KKK members and neo-Nazis, who carried Tiki torches and yelled slogans like, “White lives matter” and “Jews will not replace us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611770\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11611770\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_9834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_9834.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_9834-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A letter posted to Top Dog’s saying Cole White had been fired. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The following day, rally participant James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a group of counter-demonstrators, killing protester Heather Heyer and injuring others, according to police. He has been charged with second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter users quickly posted photos of the events online, asking others to identify the people in them. A user with the handle\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacistWhite\">@YesYoureRacist\u003c/a> zoomed in on White, revealing that he worked for Top Dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it came out that White was at the rally, he was immediately fired, the Top Dog employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Dog placed a sign on the doors of its Durant Avenue location on Sunday, announcing that, as of Saturday, Aug. 12, Cole no longer worked for the company. “The actions of those in Charlottesville are not supported by top dog. We believe in individual freedom and voluntary association for everyone,” the sign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White has participated in local political events, too, according to photos of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/04/15/live-coverage-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the April 15 Berkeley rally\u003c/a> that became a bloody battle between the far-right organizers and far-left Antifa counter-protesters. He also protested outside the courthouse during \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/05/26/eric-clanton-charged-four-counts-assault-deadly-weapon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the arraignment of Eric Clanton\u003c/a>, an anti-fascist demonstrator charged with smashing a bike lock over the head of a Trump supporter at that rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hordes of people took to Top Dog’s Yelp pages and social media accounts Saturday, calling for White to be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Top Dog employee said the business has also been receiving “a ton of calls” and questions from customers since White was outed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “pretty much everyone’s happy with the fact that he no longer works here,” the employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Dog’s management has never shied away from promoting its own political views, plastering Libertarian messages over the walls of its two Berkeley locations. (There is a third location in Oakland.) 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