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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]yre Nichols was mercilessly beaten by Memphis police officers after a traffic stop last month — and it was his fault. That’s if you believe the five officers accused of killing Nichols, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the story officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157756023/memphis-tyre-nichols-police-officers-court-charges\">who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges on Feb. 17\u003c/a>, wanted the public to buy: Nichols, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article272243108.html\">lived in Sacramento\u003c/a> before moving to Memphis, was driving recklessly, a misdemeanor in Tennessee, before he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being forcibly removed from his car at gunpoint, he fled. The officers, then-part of an elite crime suppression unit, chased Nichols. They punched and kicked Nichols and struck him with a baton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-arrest-videos.html\">justifying the violence in a false police report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of police and traffic camera footage revealed the glaring disparity that often exists between the police narrative and what actually occurs. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, wasn’t violent or aggressive, and he didn’t reach for an officer’s gun, as the initial report falsely asserted. So why did Nichols flee? In my bones, I know he was running to his mother’s house in search of what many police officers decline to provide Black people: safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America has been imperiled for four centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America is at the core of the California Reparations Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish more Californians were aware of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">the first statewide body to consider reparations for Black people\u003c/a>. The task force has presented an irrefutable examination of how systemic racism was woven into the fabric of America and California. I can think of at least 1,619 reasons why the work is largely unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about it: After the unpaid workforce of millions was emancipated, laws were enacted to restrict economic and social mobility. The emancipated population was terrorized by white supremacists intent on preserving the racial hierarchy as promises of land, opportunity and security were abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t safe for Black people to look white people in the eye. It wasn’t safe for Black people to vote. It wasn’t safe for Black people to be in some towns after dark. It wasn’t safe for Black people to prosper. To maintain institutionalized social order, first it was the slave patrols, and now it’s the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wesley Lowery, journalist, author and contributing editor to The Marshall Project\"]‘What type of resources are we pouring into communities if our aim is to cut down on crime? Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?’[/pullquote]In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Reparations Coverage' tag='california-reparations']In July, the task force will deliver reparations recommendations, which are expected to include direct payments to eligible Black Californians. But reparations are more than compensation. Last summer, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">released a preliminary report (PDF)\u003c/a> with recommendations to address, among other things, the unjust legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are the gatekeepers of that system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary report suggests reducing “the scope of law enforcement jurisdiction within the public safety system” and shifting “more funding for prevention and mental health care.” The report also calls for the elimination of “discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force and racial profiling” of Black people; the elimination of racial disparities in police stops; and the elimination of over-policing of predominantly Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force could pave the road to viable racial equity in America. But to get to that place, it’s guaranteed to be a bumpy journey. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeRobertis influenced and informed the way Wing feels and thinks, and he says this has allowed him to be more in touch with his heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wing also teaches \u003ca href=\"https://pacificvibration.com/lessons\">music lessons\u003c/a> and says it’s integral to his own musical and spiritual journey. He sees the process of teaching and sharing as a profound one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than just learning to technically play an instrument or sing. It is an expression of the soul, heart and mind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wing, songwriting is more like tuning into something. “I listen to the song and it comes through me,” he said. “I’m just fortunate enough to have heard it and been able to transcribe it into a song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, music is one of the ways he expresses himself. “I do feel like music is a way of communicating something that I can’t do otherwise,” he said. “I’m also starting to realize that being an artist is not just about the music. It’s really about my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wing has plans to finish a solo album this year, as well as a Pacific Vibration album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smile” was mixed and mastered by E.N. Young. Pacific Vibration’s band members include Randy Nakamura and Aidan Wing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wing will be playing a solo acoustic show on March 17, 2023, at Alice’s Restaurant in Woodside. He’ll also be playing with Pacific Vibration in Tahoe on July 21, 2023, at \u003ca href=\"https://northtahoebusiness.org/music-on-the-beach/\">Music on the Beach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with his music, follow Kerry Wing and Pacific Vibration on social media:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Kerry Wing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kerrywingmusic/\">Instagram\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/33bB79iEslUdOCQWDWsF8z\">Spotify\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOaOLf0wRO3nP-_skzValMA\">YouTube\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pacific Vibration: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pacificvibration/\">Instagram\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/3VGgDr7FKNimM8esrtg0MD\">Spotify\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAIvlB1q497kEN9_wbeK0A\">YouTube\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. On weekends, she traveled around the country teaching sewing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail, June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trail’s relationship with sewing drastically changed when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083233572/trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter\">was shot in 2012\u003c/a>. Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. The group also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/memorial-quilts\">memorial quilts\u003c/a> as gifts for victims’ families and published an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/antiracist-guidebook\">Anti-Racist Guidebook.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance banner with images stretched across a street at night time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA Remembrance Project banners on display under the lights of downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SJSA remains completely volunteer-run, and workshops are still at the center of their work. But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. Political quilts by artists like \u003ca href=\"https://quiltcon.com/featured-lecturer-exhibit/\">Chawne Kimber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisabutler.com/\">Bisa Butler\u003c/a> are getting more attention. \u003ca href=\"https://simplicity.com/\">Garment patterns\u003c/a> now feature more racially diverse models and come in a wider range of sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for me, the motivating factor is, I want to see this industry change,” Trail said. “The more little hurdles we knock over, that’s what keeps me going for months on end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. On weekends, she traveled around the country teaching sewing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail, June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trail’s relationship with sewing drastically changed when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083233572/trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter\">was shot in 2012\u003c/a>. Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. The group also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/memorial-quilts\">memorial quilts\u003c/a> as gifts for victims’ families and published an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/antiracist-guidebook\">Anti-Racist Guidebook.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance banner with images stretched across a street at night time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA Remembrance Project banners on display under the lights of downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SJSA remains completely volunteer-run, and workshops are still at the center of their work. But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. 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Hosted by the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (OCIC), the parade comes at a time when community members are hoping to augur a fresh and positive start after the COVID pandemic, a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and violence since the start of the pandemic, and two recent mass shootings that claimed the lives of 18 people in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">Monterey Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three young women dressed in green and red costumes with face masks and holding fans walk on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants make their way through Chinatown during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have had participants drop out of the parade because of [Monterey Park],” said Stewart Chen, board president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocic-ca.org/\">Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council\u003c/a>, in an interview with Ericka Cruz Guevarra, host of KQED’s The Bay podcast. “I think this is important for us to show the rest of the Bay Area and the community and the world that we’re not afraid … It’s a new beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short hair and glasses wearing a light blue shirt holds up part of a sign while standing next to a woman wearing a yellow hat and sun glasses.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran walks with the Little Saigon Business Improvement District group during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community is really hungry for celebration [and] hope, and at the same time, this is a theme the same week with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939598/what-we-know-about-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols\">the video that was just released for Mr. Tyre Nichols\u003c/a> and his family,” said Jennifer Tran, executive director of PIVOT (the national Progressive Vietnamese American Organization) and president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce. “And so our hearts are so heavy and we talk about changing the direction and coming together. But what does justice look like for our communities who experience violence? There’s violence in the AAPI community, violence in Latinx communities, violence in the Black communities and for many marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Lunar New Year, it’s really difficult or actually taboo to talk about a big negative,” she added. “Everything has to be hopeful, but our next direction have to hold those two in tension, right? Both healing and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from Monterey Park, and it’s been really hard hearing from community members down there after many years of staying at home and not being able to come out and celebrate,” said Carline Au. “It’s that sense of fear again and not wanting to go outside and feeling alone. I really wanted to come out today in Oakland to combat that narrative that it’s OK, and that joy and community [are] still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themed “Oakland Is Changing,” the inaugural Lunar New Year parade aims to revitalize Oakland’s Chinatown while also celebrating the city’s newly elected mayor, Sheng Thao, who is Hmong American. It also comes just a few months after Gov. Gavin Newsom passed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2596-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=4d6ee2\">formally recognizing Lunar New Year as a public holiday in California (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing red and black clothing holds a microphone outdoors next to other people dressed in red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, 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together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a panda costume walks down the street with other people on the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local employees and spectactors watch as a giant panda walks past during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially given all the events of the past week, it’s just really meaningful to get to share it with the next generation,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People dressed in bright green costumes and pink hats with face masks walk in formation while holding red drums and drum sticks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group performs a waist drum dance followed by traditional fan dancers during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The Lunar New Year parade] is something that I think can unify people because I think we have more in common than we do in difference,” said Vasana Ly, who was volunteering with the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council. “I think with everything that’s going on, we should take every chance we can to celebrate these kind of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an embroidered golden costume and headpiece stands next to an American flag outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parade participant stands on a float before the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosted by the OCIC and co-hosted by the Toishan Benevolent Association, this year’s parade also commemorated former Alameda County supervisor and California Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886344/remembering-alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan\">Wilma Chan\u003c/a>, an Asian American political trailblazer whose life was tragically cut short in a 2021 traffic accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To honor Chan’s legacy, the parade began at 11 a.m. at the newly renamed Wilma Chan Park by the Lake Merritt BART station, proceeding four blocks down 9th Street, turning onto Webster, and then proceeding another four blocks up 10th Street before ending where it began at 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939666 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman, both Asian American, smiling happily, and wearing black clothing, embrace outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao hugs Assemblymember Evan Low during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a time for our community to come together and celebrate this momentous occasion,” said OCIC’s Chen to KQED. “Lunar New Year is now a state holiday. This is a celebration — it’s momentous, it’s historic, and the fear is not going to stop us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini, Beth LaBerge and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area residents gathered in Oakland’s Chinatown today for the city’s first Lunar New Year Parade in decades. January 22 marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit (and the Vietnamese Year of the Cat). Hosted by the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (OCIC), the parade comes at a time when community members are hoping to augur a fresh and positive start after the COVID pandemic, a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and violence since the start of the pandemic, and two recent mass shootings that claimed the lives of 18 people in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">Monterey Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three young women dressed in green and red costumes with face masks and holding fans walk on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants make their way through Chinatown during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have had participants drop out of the parade because of [Monterey Park],” said Stewart Chen, board president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocic-ca.org/\">Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council\u003c/a>, in an interview with Ericka Cruz Guevarra, host of KQED’s The Bay podcast. “I think this is important for us to show the rest of the Bay Area and the community and the world that we’re not afraid … It’s a new beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short hair and glasses wearing a light blue shirt holds up part of a sign while standing next to a woman wearing a yellow hat and sun glasses.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran walks with the Little Saigon Business Improvement District group during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community is really hungry for celebration [and] hope, and at the same time, this is a theme the same week with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939598/what-we-know-about-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols\">the video that was just released for Mr. Tyre Nichols\u003c/a> and his family,” said Jennifer Tran, executive director of PIVOT (the national Progressive Vietnamese American Organization) and president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce. “And so our hearts are so heavy and we talk about changing the direction and coming together. But what does justice look like for our communities who experience violence? There’s violence in the AAPI community, violence in Latinx communities, violence in the Black communities and for many marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Lunar New Year, it’s really difficult or actually taboo to talk about a big negative,” she added. “Everything has to be hopeful, but our next direction have to hold those two in tension, right? Both healing and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from Monterey Park, and it’s been really hard hearing from community members down there after many years of staying at home and not being able to come out and celebrate,” said Carline Au. “It’s that sense of fear again and not wanting to go outside and feeling alone. I really wanted to come out today in Oakland to combat that narrative that it’s OK, and that joy and community [are] still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themed “Oakland Is Changing,” the inaugural Lunar New Year parade aims to revitalize Oakland’s Chinatown while also celebrating the city’s newly elected mayor, Sheng Thao, who is Hmong American. It also comes just a few months after Gov. Gavin Newsom passed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2596-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=4d6ee2\">formally recognizing Lunar New Year as a public holiday in California (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing red and black clothing holds a microphone outdoors next to other people dressed in red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao speaks during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, we all know that we are celebrating a new year,” said Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao during the festivities. “We are also celebrating a new way of building community with new leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this is what we’re going to continue to do,” she added. “But we can’t do the work if we don’t actually uplift our seniors and our elders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing costumes and makeup face another person with an arm outstretched.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lana Wong (left), 90, and her daughter Maggie Wong greet friends before the start of the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>It’s really special because the parade hasn’t been here for several decades,” said Becky Luoh, who attended the celebration with her family. “Living in Oakland as an Asian American family, it’s really special to get to have this tradition and to see the community come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a panda costume walks down the street with other people on the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local employees and spectactors watch as a giant panda walks past during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially given all the events of the past week, it’s just really meaningful to get to share it with the next generation,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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