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"content": "\u003cp>I slipped into the Third Baptist Church of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> on the first Sunday in June. The usher handed me a program, communion crackers and grape juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, thanks,” I said, tearing open the packet and popping the wafer into my mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tapped my shoulder, stifling a laugh. “Not yet,” he whispered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oops,” I muttered, spitting the cracker into my palm and quickly pocketing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hadn’t been to church in a while. But watching Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown beam proudly behind his successor, Rev. Devon Jerome Crawford, I realized I wasn’t a visitor. I was home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After delivering his final sermon as pastor of the historic San Francisco church last Sunday, Brown leaves behind more than a pulpit — he leaves a legacy. Over nearly five decades, he helped shape the spiritual, cultural and political life of Black San Francisco, mentoring generations, fighting injustice and anchoring a community amid constant change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His departure marks the end of an era — and the start of a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-78-MO-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-78-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-78-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-78-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-78-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family, politicians and congregants gather at the Third Baptist Church for a ceremony honoring the legacy of Rev. Amos C. Brown in San Francisco on June 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a civil rights icon, spiritual leader and moral compass, his influence is now etched into the fabric of the city — from the pews of a Fillmore church to the chambers of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of Brown’s retirement hit me with an unexpected sadness, the kind that settles deep in your chest and makes you realize how much time you’ve let slip away. As a child growing up in San Francisco, I never had to ask who Brown was. Church was part of my social life. Beyond worshiping on Sunday, it was a cultural hub, a gathering place for political activism, a place to feel safe.[aside postID=news_12003610 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/022_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qed-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandmother attended Third Baptist Church, sang in the choir and even prepared Sunday dinner for fellow congregants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have memories woven into the walls of Third Baptist: attending services in my Easter dress as a child, performing with the Touch of Class Choir from Phillip and Sala Burton High School under musical director Gregory Cole as a teen, and showing up to support friends who had lost loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third Baptist wasn’t just a church. It was the heartbeat of Black San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time passed, gentrification crept in, neighborhoods shifted, elders passed away — and so did the culture of the Black church. As an adult, I realized I hadn’t spent enough time with Brown, learning from him. In this era of generational change in Black leadership, I felt an urgency to support him, to absorb his wisdom while I still could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weight of our current moment — the cultural chaos, the relentless demands of being Black and resilient in a city that often feels indifferent to our struggles — had left me spiritually depleted. I needed the kind of restoration that only comes from being among your people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the service, I approached Brown to reintroduce myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where are your grandparents from?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandpas are from Alabama, and my grandmas are from Houston and Galveston,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He smiled, a quiet recognition in his eyes. “I know you,” he said. “I better see you at church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-25-MO-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-25-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-25-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-25-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-25-MO-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new street sign honoring Rev. Amos C. Brown was unveiled outside of Third Baptist Church of San Francisco on June 21, 2025. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for KQED. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Spread love the Dr. Amos C. Brown Way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When I learned Supervisor Bilal Mahmood had prepared legislation to rename a street in Brown’s honor, I went to City Hall on June 2 to witness the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown walked into City Hall that afternoon with the quiet confidence of someone who has outlasted empires. His brown suit was pressed crisp, his steps measured and his presence filled the hallway. At 84, he moved like a man who has carried the weight of a community for nearly half a century and was finally ready to set it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee unanimously advanced legislation to rename the 800 and 900 blocks of Pierce Street as Dr. Amos C. 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Amos Brown sat here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his way out, he tipped his hat with a smile. “I’ll see you in church on Sunday,” said Brown, who served on the board for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-9-MO-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-9-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-9-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-9-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-9-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. 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When Scott took the podium, he became emotional and acknowledged Brown first, his voice breaking as he spoke about the person who has been “a straight-up champion, in San Francisco and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community owes him a debt of gratitude. I owe him a debt of gratitude,” Scott said. “As an African American man, I’m so proud of that. When I listen to him, and I’ve heard him preach many times, it always brings everybody into the conversation. He wants what’s best for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assistant Chief David Lazar recalled Brown’s hands-on approach. Twenty-six years ago, when Lazar was a vice officer dealing with prostitution problems in the Mission, Brown — then a member of the Board of Supervisors — insisted on seeing the situation for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got in the car with me. That was the first time I met him. We went around and looked at everything,” Lazar recalled. “That’s a perfect example of someone on the ground. Here he was, in city government, but he came out to the community to see what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amos C. Brown stands outside Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on June 21, 2025, for the unveiling of a street sign and ceremony renaming a section of Pierce Street in his honor. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That personal approach defined Brown’s ministry. Former Mayor London Breed recalled how during the height of gun violence in the city, “time and again, young Black men were being killed. Families had no place to bury their sons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown never hesitated. “Every single time a call was made to Rev. Brown, he said, ‘Yes.’ Every time,” Breed said. “He wasn’t seeking recognition. Most of the time, he didn’t even want people to know what he had done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stood alongside Brown on the steps of City Hall on June 12, joined by other faith leaders and community groups, he reaffirmed the city’s commitment to remaining a sanctuary amid a wave of immigration raids and detentions that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">sparked protests across California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the street renaming. Jonathan Butler, the current president of the San Francisco NAACP, said the street renaming is “a legacy carved in concrete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an opportunity to teach our students in San Francisco about civil rights and the people who fought for it right here in this city,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the June 21 unveiling of the Dr. Amos C. Brown Way street sign, Breed spoke about the impact of Brown’s service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are even more people who don’t even realize that because of him, they are who they are,” she said. “I’m one of those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045583\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-2000x1323.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-2048x1355.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos and Rev. Amos C. Brown, then president of the San Francisco NAACP, on Jan. 1, 1990. \u003ccite>(Photo by Clarence Gatson Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A sanctuary in the city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doors of Third Baptist swing open for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith is welcome but not required. Your skin color doesn’t matter. Your zip code is irrelevant. What matters is that you come with reverence — for the history held in these walls, the culture that pulses through this community and the movement still unfolding in a space where civil rights and spiritual purpose have always been one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was mentored by Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s field secretary for Mississippi, who was murdered at his home in 1963. Inspired by Evers, a World War II veteran and civil rights activist, Brown founded the NAACP’s first youth council in Jackson, Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnw3ozE43qQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, whose great-grandfather was born enslaved, is one of eight students to take the only college class ever taught by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking over Third Baptist in June 1976, Brown transformed the church into a hub for activism, interfaith coalition-building and empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 930px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg 930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amos C. Brown as a San Francisco supervisor. \u003ccite>(Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2001, first appointed by former Mayor Willie Brown Jr., then elected to the role. As president of the San Francisco NAACP, he led campaigns against police misconduct and government discrimination, pushing for equity in education, housing, public safety and healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my efforts to be concerned about the rights of Black people, I didn’t stop with just Black people,” he told me in a recent interview. “I’ve always been committed to equal protection under the law for LGBTQ+ people, for Asians, for Latinos and for immigrants, especially those from Africa and the Caribbean. Our activism must be rooted in justice for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fillmore, a district once dubbed the Harlem of the West, is where his legacy is most deeply felt. He was one of the earliest and most vocal critics of the urban renewal programs that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill\">displaced thousands of Black families\u003c/a> during the 1960s and ‘70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has often looked at Black folks, but hasn’t truly seen us as worthy of having our watering hole, our gathering place, where we would be able to thrive and survive in this city,” Brown told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who served on the California Reparations Task Force, the first statewide body to study and recommend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparative measures for Black people\u003c/a> who suffered racial harm, continues advocating for spaces where the community can gather, celebrate culture and access resources denied by racist policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As former Vice President Kamala Harris — whose ascension to the highest levels of government began in Oakland and San Francisco — launched her presidential campaign last July, conservative media personalities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003610/kamala-harris-embraced-reparations-5-years-ago-her-sf-pastor-says-criticism-is-unjust\">assailed her position on reparations\u003c/a> as extremist and zeroed in on her relationship with Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who led the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention on the night Harris accepted the nomination, said those who used reparations to attack Harris were misguided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t know history,” Brown told KQED. “Anybody who just cancels out and says no, they don’t respect the humanity of Black people, and they have a deep, deep problem. For we are human, and we deserve the same thing that other human beings have received in terms of repair for harms done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what reparations is all about, repairing the harm that was done to an individual, to a people, to a situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Devon Crawford waves to the congregation at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on June 22. He succeeds Rev. Amos C. Brown, who led the church for nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Brown told me he’s working on a book chronicling his journey through faith, civil rights and public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retirement doesn’t mean I’m going to sit in a rocking chair and twiddle my thumbs,” he said. “I’ve always been an activist. I’ll just be working from a different corner of God’s Earth, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll continue mentoring the next generation, including Crawford. “He’s got common sense, what we call motherwit. And he’s got empathy,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco etches his name into concrete and memory, something deeper is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t just about honoring the past — it’s about inheritance, the kind rooted in Sunday morning wisdom and weekday action, and in the understanding that some paths are meant to be walked together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A street now bears Brown’s name, but the true monument lies in the choice to keep walking, to keep showing up, to keep returning to the places that shaped us — and continue the work that defines us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, I’ve been going to church — arriving right on time, communion wafer intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/meaghanmitchellsf/\">Meaghan Mitchell\u003c/a> is a San Francisco native and narrative journalist whose first-person reporting is deeply rooted in the communities she covers. She was an early team member at the San Francisco Standard and previously served as an editor at Hoodline. Her work has appeared in SFGATE, San Francisco Bay View and SFist, among other outlets. She covers arts, culture and community life in underrepresented neighborhoods — centering stories on engagement, cultural identity, and social equity, while highlighting the resilience of San Francisco’s Black and Brown communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Brown hasn’t just preached to San Francisco’s Black community; he has taught, inspired, baptized, eulogized and fought for them in boardrooms where they couldn’t get a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those honored alongside Brown on June 3 was former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bill-scott\">Police Chief Bill Scott\u003c/a>, recognized for his decades of public service. When Scott took the podium, he became emotional and acknowledged Brown first, his voice breaking as he spoke about the person who has been “a straight-up champion, in San Francisco and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community owes him a debt of gratitude. I owe him a debt of gratitude,” Scott said. “As an African American man, I’m so proud of that. When I listen to him, and I’ve heard him preach many times, it always brings everybody into the conversation. He wants what’s best for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assistant Chief David Lazar recalled Brown’s hands-on approach. Twenty-six years ago, when Lazar was a vice officer dealing with prostitution problems in the Mission, Brown — then a member of the Board of Supervisors — insisted on seeing the situation for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got in the car with me. That was the first time I met him. We went around and looked at everything,” Lazar recalled. “That’s a perfect example of someone on the ground. Here he was, in city government, but he came out to the community to see what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-22-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amos C. Brown stands outside Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on June 21, 2025, for the unveiling of a street sign and ceremony renaming a section of Pierce Street in his honor. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That personal approach defined Brown’s ministry. Former Mayor London Breed recalled how during the height of gun violence in the city, “time and again, young Black men were being killed. Families had no place to bury their sons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown never hesitated. “Every single time a call was made to Rev. Brown, he said, ‘Yes.’ Every time,” Breed said. “He wasn’t seeking recognition. Most of the time, he didn’t even want people to know what he had done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stood alongside Brown on the steps of City Hall on June 12, joined by other faith leaders and community groups, he reaffirmed the city’s commitment to remaining a sanctuary amid a wave of immigration raids and detentions that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">sparked protests across California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the street renaming. Jonathan Butler, the current president of the San Francisco NAACP, said the street renaming is “a legacy carved in concrete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an opportunity to teach our students in San Francisco about civil rights and the people who fought for it right here in this city,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the June 21 unveiling of the Dr. Amos C. Brown Way street sign, Breed spoke about the impact of Brown’s service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are even more people who don’t even realize that because of him, they are who they are,” she said. “I’m one of those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045583\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-2000x1323.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-569336329-2048x1355.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos and Rev. Amos C. Brown, then president of the San Francisco NAACP, on Jan. 1, 1990. \u003ccite>(Photo by Clarence Gatson Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A sanctuary in the city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doors of Third Baptist swing open for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith is welcome but not required. Your skin color doesn’t matter. Your zip code is irrelevant. What matters is that you come with reverence — for the history held in these walls, the culture that pulses through this community and the movement still unfolding in a space where civil rights and spiritual purpose have always been one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was mentored by Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s field secretary for Mississippi, who was murdered at his home in 1963. Inspired by Evers, a World War II veteran and civil rights activist, Brown founded the NAACP’s first youth council in Jackson, Mississippi.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rnw3ozE43qQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rnw3ozE43qQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Brown, whose great-grandfather was born enslaved, is one of eight students to take the only college class ever taught by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking over Third Baptist in June 1976, Brown transformed the church into a hub for activism, interfaith coalition-building and empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 930px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122.jpg 930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1321530122-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amos C. Brown as a San Francisco supervisor. \u003ccite>(Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2001, first appointed by former Mayor Willie Brown Jr., then elected to the role. As president of the San Francisco NAACP, he led campaigns against police misconduct and government discrimination, pushing for equity in education, housing, public safety and healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my efforts to be concerned about the rights of Black people, I didn’t stop with just Black people,” he told me in a recent interview. “I’ve always been committed to equal protection under the law for LGBTQ+ people, for Asians, for Latinos and for immigrants, especially those from Africa and the Caribbean. Our activism must be rooted in justice for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fillmore, a district once dubbed the Harlem of the West, is where his legacy is most deeply felt. He was one of the earliest and most vocal critics of the urban renewal programs that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill\">displaced thousands of Black families\u003c/a> during the 1960s and ‘70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has often looked at Black folks, but hasn’t truly seen us as worthy of having our watering hole, our gathering place, where we would be able to thrive and survive in this city,” Brown told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who served on the California Reparations Task Force, the first statewide body to study and recommend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparative measures for Black people\u003c/a> who suffered racial harm, continues advocating for spaces where the community can gather, celebrate culture and access resources denied by racist policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As former Vice President Kamala Harris — whose ascension to the highest levels of government began in Oakland and San Francisco — launched her presidential campaign last July, conservative media personalities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003610/kamala-harris-embraced-reparations-5-years-ago-her-sf-pastor-says-criticism-is-unjust\">assailed her position on reparations\u003c/a> as extremist and zeroed in on her relationship with Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who led the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention on the night Harris accepted the nomination, said those who used reparations to attack Harris were misguided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t know history,” Brown told KQED. “Anybody who just cancels out and says no, they don’t respect the humanity of Black people, and they have a deep, deep problem. For we are human, and we deserve the same thing that other human beings have received in terms of repair for harms done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what reparations is all about, repairing the harm that was done to an individual, to a people, to a situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/REVAMOS_BROWN-51-MO-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Devon Crawford waves to the congregation at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on June 22. He succeeds Rev. Amos C. Brown, who led the church for nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Brown told me he’s working on a book chronicling his journey through faith, civil rights and public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retirement doesn’t mean I’m going to sit in a rocking chair and twiddle my thumbs,” he said. “I’ve always been an activist. I’ll just be working from a different corner of God’s Earth, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll continue mentoring the next generation, including Crawford. “He’s got common sense, what we call motherwit. And he’s got empathy,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco etches his name into concrete and memory, something deeper is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t just about honoring the past — it’s about inheritance, the kind rooted in Sunday morning wisdom and weekday action, and in the understanding that some paths are meant to be walked together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A street now bears Brown’s name, but the true monument lies in the choice to keep walking, to keep showing up, to keep returning to the places that shaped us — and continue the work that defines us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, I’ve been going to church — arriving right on time, communion wafer intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/meaghanmitchellsf/\">Meaghan Mitchell\u003c/a> is a San Francisco native and narrative journalist whose first-person reporting is deeply rooted in the communities she covers. She was an early team member at the San Francisco Standard and previously served as an editor at Hoodline. Her work has appeared in SFGATE, San Francisco Bay View and SFist, among other outlets. She covers arts, culture and community life in underrepresented neighborhoods — centering stories on engagement, cultural identity, and social equity, while highlighting the resilience of San Francisco’s Black and Brown communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting “No contract, no peace,” roughly 100 health care workers held the picket line outside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947102/workers-at-oakland-childrens-hospital-stage-1-day-strike-demanding-better-working-conditions-and-services\">UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland\u003c/a> on Monday, the sixth day of an open-ended strike over what they call an illegal plan to rip up their union contracts and slash take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nursing assistants, medical technicians, cooks and other workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044760/health-care-workers-at-childrens-hospital-oakland-launch-strike-over-ucsf-integration\">walked off the job last Wednesday\u003c/a> in response to an “integration” proposal from UCSF, announced in January, to rehire most of them as University of California employees beginning next month. They are currently employed directly by the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the plan, many workers at the hospital and satellite clinics across the East Bay would be transferred to public sector unions that represent UC employees and work under new contracts that would require them to pay an average of $10,000 a year more toward health and retirement benefits, the union said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for 24 years. And for whatever reasons, UCSF just decided they wanted to come in and bully us into becoming their employees, which makes no sense,” said Cameron Lewis, a shop steward who works in guest services at the hospital. “Now you’re telling me I have to go over there and start all over again? I’m 60 years old. I don’t have another 20 years in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When UCSF became affiliated with the hospital in 2014, the company assured workers the change was in name only and wouldn’t impact their existing labor agreements, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Basically, they’re busting up our union, because our union has a better contract than what’s presently at UCSF,” Lewis said as he stood in the shadow of a giant inflatable rat named Scabby on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr Way and 52nd Street. “We fought for a lot of things with our union over the years that their unions are trying to get. So why would we want to go backwards?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement last week, UCSF called claims that employees were “being fired and rehired … simply false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every employee is being mapped to a position in the appropriate unit at UCSF,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, 98% of union members voted against integrating with UCSF, according to NUHW, which represents some 1,300 workers at the hospital. The union, which argues that the takeover plan is in violation of its contracts with the hospital, filed a motion to force arbitration as part of a last-ditch effort to block the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court hearing on the motion is scheduled for Thursday, just over a week before the transition is set to take effect, on July 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NUHW president Sal Rosselli said that if the motion is denied, his union would appeal “and continue this struggle.”[aside postID=news_12044760 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“It’s horrible that these folks have to be on strike,” he said, calling UCSF’s plan “a Trumpian move” to force workers out of their union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s Hospital is a community organization,” Rosselli said. “It’s a rare institution where members’ grandchildren and children work at the hospital. They take care of their kids at the hospital. And this forced integration by UCSF is putting all of that at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UCSF said the company couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but argued that it had made “multiple good faith offers” to meet with the union to discuss transition concerns and “bargain its effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Union has refused to conduct any effective bargaining,” Jess Berthold, the UCSF spokesperson, said in an email. “We are disappointed in NUHW’s decision to strike and disrupt the care we provide to our young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and its clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berthold said the hospital has taken steps to ensure that patients still have access to important critical care services during the strike, including the emergency department and operating rooms. And she said its Walnut Creek facility, which temporarily shut down last week, has partially reopened to in-person visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike follows a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/largest-healthcare-strike-in-u-s-history-underway-as-workers-protest-wages-and-staffing#:~:text=The%20largest%20health%20care%20strike,five%20states%20and%20Washington%2C%20D.C.\">major health care labor battles\u003c/a> across the country in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038280/on-may-day-bay-area-workers-protest-trump-labor-battles\">several actions this year alone\u003c/a> at UC medical centers throughout California, where workers have staged short strikes over alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Health care workers are set to strike again on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Maggie Lewis (no relation to Cameron), who has been a chef at the hospital for 25 years, the fight is about protecting the rights of the health care workers who have long served this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame what UCSF is trying to come over and do. It’s also illegal,” said Lewis, who was born and raised in Oakland and was treated at this hospital as a child. “You know, most of these people here, they’ve never had to pay for insurance. Now, you want them to pay for insurance. They can’t afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said she plans to retire at the end of this year, so the UCSF proposal would have little direct impact on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I still have to fight with my colleagues that I’m going to leave here,” she said. “I’m ex-military. ‘Leave no man behind,’ that’s always been my quote. So that’s my whole thing. I’m gonna fight to the end with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: UCSF did not acquire Children’s Hospital Oakland in 2014, as this article previously stated. Rather, the two institutions became affiliated that year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jasminegarnett\">\u003cem>Jasmine Garnett\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s horrible that these folks have to be on strike,” he said, calling UCSF’s plan “a Trumpian move” to force workers out of their union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s Hospital is a community organization,” Rosselli said. “It’s a rare institution where members’ grandchildren and children work at the hospital. They take care of their kids at the hospital. And this forced integration by UCSF is putting all of that at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UCSF said the company couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but argued that it had made “multiple good faith offers” to meet with the union to discuss transition concerns and “bargain its effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Union has refused to conduct any effective bargaining,” Jess Berthold, the UCSF spokesperson, said in an email. “We are disappointed in NUHW’s decision to strike and disrupt the care we provide to our young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and its clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berthold said the hospital has taken steps to ensure that patients still have access to important critical care services during the strike, including the emergency department and operating rooms. And she said its Walnut Creek facility, which temporarily shut down last week, has partially reopened to in-person visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike follows a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/largest-healthcare-strike-in-u-s-history-underway-as-workers-protest-wages-and-staffing#:~:text=The%20largest%20health%20care%20strike,five%20states%20and%20Washington%2C%20D.C.\">major health care labor battles\u003c/a> across the country in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038280/on-may-day-bay-area-workers-protest-trump-labor-battles\">several actions this year alone\u003c/a> at UC medical centers throughout California, where workers have staged short strikes over alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Health care workers are set to strike again on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Maggie Lewis (no relation to Cameron), who has been a chef at the hospital for 25 years, the fight is about protecting the rights of the health care workers who have long served this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame what UCSF is trying to come over and do. It’s also illegal,” said Lewis, who was born and raised in Oakland and was treated at this hospital as a child. “You know, most of these people here, they’ve never had to pay for insurance. Now, you want them to pay for insurance. They can’t afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said she plans to retire at the end of this year, so the UCSF proposal would have little direct impact on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I still have to fight with my colleagues that I’m going to leave here,” she said. “I’m ex-military. ‘Leave no man behind,’ that’s always been my quote. So that’s my whole thing. I’m gonna fight to the end with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: UCSF did not acquire Children’s Hospital Oakland in 2014, as this article previously stated. Rather, the two institutions became affiliated that year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jasminegarnett\">\u003cem>Jasmine Garnett\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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That ruling halted Breyer’s earlier temporary restraining order, which directed Trump to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043920/judge-weighs-californias-lawsuit-over-trumps-troop-deployment-in-la\">hand back control\u003c/a> of the California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous appeals court ruling means that, for now, the troops remain in L.A. and under the control of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is arguing that the district court has jurisdiction to weigh in on questions not addressed by the appeals court, and is asking Breyer to take arguments on those issues and consider issuing a preliminary injunction in July. The Trump brief argues that the lower court has no jurisdiction over the state’s claims, saying the 9th Circuit’s decision prevents Breyer from weighing in more for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are 4,000 National Guard troops and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043453/trump-mobilizes-marines-for-duty-in-los-angeles\">700 U.S. Marines\u003c/a> called up by Trump earlier this month as immigration raids in L.A. sparked protests. The president said the troops were necessary to protect federal officials and property, while local and state officials called their deployment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043548/california-asks-court-to-stop-national-guard-marines-from-patrolling-la-streets\">unnecessary, provocative and illegal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1724\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-2000x1347.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2221273521-2048x1379.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariachi musician Maricela Martinez performs towards U.S. Marines guarding a federal building during a protest by mariachi and folklorico dancers in response to immigration raids on June 20, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for California say Breyer should now consider two questions not taken up in the appeals court ruling: how long the deployment of the National Guard can last, and whether that deployment violates an 1878 law, known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars using the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deciding those issues would not ‘modify’ the TRO Order nor alter the ‘status quo’ between the parties with respect to the issues pending on appeal in the way that renewing or bolstering this Court’s order to de-federalize the Guard would,” the brief states. “Rather, the court would be ruling only on how the federal troops would be used for how long, and where — issues that the Ninth Circuit acknowledged are not now before the appellate court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his initial restraining order, Breyer “explicitly declined” to consider California’s claims under the Posse Comitatus Act “until a more complete factual record could be developed,” the state noted. And the appeals court, the state wrote, recognized that California planned to continue pursuing that claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also contends that Breyer has jurisdiction to weigh in on how long the troops may stay deployed to L.A. because the appeals court decision was based on the facts on the ground weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the Ninth Circuit held that, on the TRO record before it, conditions in and around the federal building in Los Angeles on June 6 and 7 likely satisfied Section 12406(3)’s factual predicate for federalization of National Guard units in the first place, the Ninth Circuit did not consider, nor did the parties present, the questions of how long such federalization is permissible in the face of changed circumstances or whether those federalized troops may be deployed in areas where those conditions never existed or have ceased to exist,” the state’s brief said.[aside postID=news_12045032 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1050-2000x1500.jpg']California wants Breyer to allow the state to conduct “limited discovery,” including deposing the acting ICE field office director in L.A. and a U.S. Army major general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump brief argues that the district court has no jurisdiction over the Posse Comitatus claim, saying the 9th Circuit’s decision “logically forecloses” California’s claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration is arguing that since the appeals court allowed Trump to federalize the National Guard, those troops are allowed to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the Ninth Circuit’s finding, it would be illogical to hold that, although the President can call up the National Guard when he is unable ‘with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,’ the Guard, once federalized, is forbidden from ‘execut[ing] the laws,’” the brief states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also argues that the court shouldn’t take up the question of how long the troops will stay under federal control, saying that there’s no limit in federal law over how long the president can federalize the Guard and that the courts should defer to the president’s authority when considering the question. Attorneys for the Trump administration also argue that the question is premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no basis now to challenge the determination to initially set a 60-day timeframe on the duration of the deployment, particularly when the initial 60-day time frame has not yet elapsed and the actual duration is unknown at present,” the brief states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They end by arguing that the state has no persuasive reason to question the use of the military, which they insist is necessary for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer will now consider both sides’ arguments and rule in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California wants Breyer to allow the state to conduct “limited discovery,” including deposing the acting ICE field office director in L.A. and a U.S. Army major general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump brief argues that the district court has no jurisdiction over the Posse Comitatus claim, saying the 9th Circuit’s decision “logically forecloses” California’s claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration is arguing that since the appeals court allowed Trump to federalize the National Guard, those troops are allowed to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the Ninth Circuit’s finding, it would be illogical to hold that, although the President can call up the National Guard when he is unable ‘with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,’ the Guard, once federalized, is forbidden from ‘execut[ing] the laws,’” the brief states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also argues that the court shouldn’t take up the question of how long the troops will stay under federal control, saying that there’s no limit in federal law over how long the president can federalize the Guard and that the courts should defer to the president’s authority when considering the question. Attorneys for the Trump administration also argue that the question is premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no basis now to challenge the determination to initially set a 60-day timeframe on the duration of the deployment, particularly when the initial 60-day time frame has not yet elapsed and the actual duration is unknown at present,” the brief states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They end by arguing that the state has no persuasive reason to question the use of the military, which they insist is necessary for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer will now consider both sides’ arguments and rule in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> made history two years ago by agreeing to establish the nation’s first retirement fund for home-based child care workers and to pay them fairly for providing subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964236/how-a-california-child-care-workers-union-fought-for-living-wages-and-won\">was considered a huge win\u003c/a> for the roughly 60,000 members of Child Care Providers United, who said for years that the state doesn’t pay them enough to cover the costs of caring for children out of their homes. But with their current contract set to expire at the end of June, and bargaining for a new one under way, they’re worried the state wants to cut back some of the benefits and delay implementing a new plan that would bring their payments up to the “true cost of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some victories, but right now, it’s like [they’re] turning their backs on us,” said Patricia Moran, a family child care provider from San José and member of the union’s bargaining team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the union’s stance, the California Department of Social Services said it doesn’t comment on ongoing contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As small-business owners, home-based child care providers don’t have access to employer-provided benefits. In 2019, they won the right to collectively bargain because many of them receive reimbursements from the state for serving lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-DAY-WITHOUT-CHILDCARE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khulood Jamil (center) and other child care providers and supporters march to the Federal Building in San José on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, more than 70% of families who receive child care vouchers send their kids to Family Child Care homes or they choose friends, family or neighbors as caregivers, \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/assets/general-files/CCP-2023-Slides_2025.04.29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few contract deals, the union secured a $100 million fund to help reduce health care expenses for its members, $80 million in annual funding for retirement benefits, plus more than $40 million for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also committed to using an “alternative methodology” to calculate subsidy rates based on how much it actually costs to provide early care and education, instead of on the current system which is based on what parents have been paying for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts agree\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> that the current system is flawed (PDF)\u003c/a>. Because providers lower tuition prices to meet what parents in their communities can afford for child care, the rates don’t reflect what it actually costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/_files/ugd/8fd549_831af20bfb4142b59fda11194bb908fd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2022 study (PDF)\u003c/a> commissioned by the state found the rates are far below the current costs to provide child care, resulting in lower wages for the workers and a chronic shortage of licensed child care. The most recent \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/assets/general-files/CCP-2023-Slides_2025.04.29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state data shows (PDF)\u003c/a> that while the number of licensed Family Child Care spaces slightly increased between 2021 and 2023, only 26% of working families have access to licensed child care.[aside postID=news_12044082 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-HEADSTARTPROGRAMS-39-BL-KQED.jpg']“Essentially when the state doesn’t pay child care providers fairly, that really just shifts costs towards California families,” said Julia Forte Frudden, a policy analyst at the Child Care Law Center, an advocacy group based in Berkeley. “And I think that’s really hard right now when so many families are feeling the squeeze of cost of living and are really fearful too about where our economy is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contract talks began, Moran said negotiators representing the state proposed eliminating the health care fund and reducing the retirement fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past two years, the health care fund helped her cover out-of-pocket expenses for medication for her rheumatoid arthritis, which costs $5,000 per month, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without that medication, I can’t lift a baby, I can’t sit down with my children for circle time,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s also frustrated that the state wants to delay implementing the new payment method by at least two years. In his revised budget for the 2025–26, Gov. Gavin Newsom cited needing more time to update technology systems for the change. Last month, he said that while he’s proud of his administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/Press%20Releases/2022/CDSSNewsRelease-CCPU.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unprecedented investments (PDF)\u003c/a> in child care, he must “hold the line” in his budget proposal due to a bleak fiscal outlook. The governor blamed President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs strategy \u003c/a>for creating financial uncertainties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children’s cars and scooters at Lisa Zarodney’s home in Livermore, where she runs a child care operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to Max Arias, the chief negotiator for the union, that reason “is like taking advantage of the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also seems like a 180 turnabout on what they were saying up until a few months ago, that it was a priority of the administration to get to the cost of care,” Arias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said workers should at least get a bump in reimbursement rates while they wait for the new model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the talks continue, union members are calling on Newsom and legislators to include funding for them as they negotiate a final budget before the July 1 start of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they really value what we do, they’re going to pay us like we’re professionals,” Moran said. “We want to have peace of mind when we pay our bills at the end of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Essentially when the state doesn’t pay child care providers fairly, that really just shifts costs towards California families,” said Julia Forte Frudden, a policy analyst at the Child Care Law Center, an advocacy group based in Berkeley. “And I think that’s really hard right now when so many families are feeling the squeeze of cost of living and are really fearful too about where our economy is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contract talks began, Moran said negotiators representing the state proposed eliminating the health care fund and reducing the retirement fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past two years, the health care fund helped her cover out-of-pocket expenses for medication for her rheumatoid arthritis, which costs $5,000 per month, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without that medication, I can’t lift a baby, I can’t sit down with my children for circle time,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s also frustrated that the state wants to delay implementing the new payment method by at least two years. In his revised budget for the 2025–26, Gov. Gavin Newsom cited needing more time to update technology systems for the change. Last month, he said that while he’s proud of his administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/Press%20Releases/2022/CDSSNewsRelease-CCPU.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unprecedented investments (PDF)\u003c/a> in child care, he must “hold the line” in his budget proposal due to a bleak fiscal outlook. The governor blamed President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs strategy \u003c/a>for creating financial uncertainties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children’s cars and scooters at Lisa Zarodney’s home in Livermore, where she runs a child care operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to Max Arias, the chief negotiator for the union, that reason “is like taking advantage of the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also seems like a 180 turnabout on what they were saying up until a few months ago, that it was a priority of the administration to get to the cost of care,” Arias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said workers should at least get a bump in reimbursement rates while they wait for the new model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the talks continue, union members are calling on Newsom and legislators to include funding for them as they negotiate a final budget before the July 1 start of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they really value what we do, they’re going to pay us like we’re professionals,” Moran said. “We want to have peace of mind when we pay our bills at the end of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>She came to the United States in 2017, after marrying her husband in their home country in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left everything, everything, my family — I was working in my country, I had a life in my country — so I left everything for him and for the family,” she said recently, choking back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had one baby, then became pregnant with their second in the U.S. But after arriving, she said, her husband turned violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is not the guy I married in my country,” she said. “It’s abuse. I was abused,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spoke with KQED in a conference room at a secure location, her voice soft and choked with tears. KQED is not naming the woman or her home country, because she is a survivor of abuse and still worries for her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called the police, but says her husband blamed her and told the officers she was the one being abusive. She appealed for help at their family mosque, but says nothing changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the woman first learned of the Asian Women’s Shelter, a San Francisco nonprofit that serves victims of domestic violence and human trafficking with a focus on immigrant and refugee communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. Ahmed, a counselor, sits in the Asian Women’s Shelter offices in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. The shelter provides safe housing and multilingual, culturally responsive support for survivors of domestic violence, trafficking and abuse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was pregnant, so I called them. And after, I just said, ‘OK, just take your time. You are pregnant, you have another baby, it’s gonna be hard.’ So I just took it easy … but he didn’t stop. My ex, he didn’t stop,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two more years and multiple conversations with Rakya Ahmed, a case manager and advocate at the shelter, for her to finally leave. Now, she has an apartment, a driver’s license, and a car. Her young children are in school and she is studying to become an educator. She has an attorney to help with the ongoing divorce case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for the Asian Women’s Shelter, she said, “either I’m in a hospital or I’m dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Millions of dollars in cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Asian Women’s Shelter is more than a shelter — in addition to providing emergency housing for survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, they connect clients with everything they will need to rebuild their lives: food, clothing, health care, legal advocacy, transportation, counseling, job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps as importantly, case managers build relationships and trust with their clients. Ahmed, the case manager, said abused women often see going to a shelter as taboo and think it will be unsafe. Her job, she said, is to walk beside these women, offer them the resources they need — and wait until they’re ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. Ahmed, a counselor, holds her phone displaying a photo from a women’s needlepoint gathering at the Asian Women’s Shelter offices in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. The shelter offers safe housing and multilingual, culturally responsive support for survivors of domestic violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some girls, they call me mom,” she said. “They melt my heart, you know, when they hug you. They are far away from family, they don’t have anybody here. So when they see us, they feel like there is somebody who will take care of them, will show them the way.”[aside postID=news_12043890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But programs like this one are losing federal funds under the Trump administration — part of the White House’s broader effort to decrease federal spending and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">cut off funding from programs it sees as unnecessary or counter to the administration’s agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Asian Women’s Shelter received a letter from the Department of Justice informing the nonprofit that a $500,000 grant awarded it last fall was being rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-year grant was the main source of funding for the shelter’s program aimed specifically at supporting Arab and Muslim survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, clients like the woman who spoke to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is designed to serve 14 families, including 31 children, fleeing domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former client of the Asian Women’s Shelter sits at a beauty salon where she now works in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ wrote that the program “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” and stated that the department “has changed its priorities … to focus on, among other things, more directly supporting certain law enforcement operations, combatting violent crime, protecting American children, and supporting American victims of trafficking and sexual assault, and better coordinating law enforcement efforts at all levels of government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Women’s Shelter is not alone. Its grant is one of 373 grants totaling about $500 million nationwide, all from the Office of Justice Programs that the Department of Justice abruptly canceled in April, \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/doj-funding-update-a-deeper-look-at-the-cuts/\">according to an analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $81 million of those cuts hit California organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those losing money is Stop AAPI Hate, a San Francisco-based coalition created in 2020 amid rising hate crimes against Asian Americans fueled during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The group had been awarded $2 million over the next three years, nearly a third of its projected budget in 2026 and 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the two San Francisco organizations, most of the affected nonprofits and law enforcement organizations are working in areas that the DOJ says it wants to focus on: helping police interrupt street violence and investigate crime; supporting crime survivors, including victims of human trafficking; and combating violent crime, including hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why critics, including those in law enforcement, accuse President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi of hypocrisy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi spent time \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCSSYmfCSs\">at her confirmation hearings detailing her visits with human trafficking victims\u003c/a> at the border and a Mexico safe house, and pledging to help those survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference about Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Justice Department on June 6, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a March speech at the Department of Justice, Trump said he had no “higher mission” than “making America safe again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to protect Americans and we protect everybody that’s in our country, American or not American. We want to have a safe and proud country,” he said. “We’re joined today by dozens of police officers, sheriffs and sheriff’s deputies from all across the country. My message to these law enforcement heroes is simple. With me in the White House, you once again have a president who will always have your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the grant cuts will have the opposite effect, especially when you combine them with the president’s budget proposal to cut billions of dollars more from local police departments and federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m shocked, like usual, but not surprised,” Bonta said. “This is an area where I think it’s really important to call out the just raging hypocrisy. … He says he’s gonna be a president for victims, a president of public safety, but then we have to look at what he’s actually doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said these cuts target “critical programs that help solve crime, that help victims heal, that help prevent gun violence, that address mental health and substance use disorder and provide treatment and care that support re-entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the Justice Department said it is “focused on prosecuting criminals, getting illegal drugs off the streets, and protecting all Americans from violent crime. Discretionary funds that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities are subject to review and reallocation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department didn’t answer KQED’s questions about why organizations like the Asian Women’s Shelter and Stop AAPI Hate were targeted, given that their missions appear to largely line up with those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Very short-sighted’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bonta argues it’s obvious that these programs are being cut because of who they serve: communities of color and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called it “very short-sighted and very narrow — this lens that they’re trying to put on to focus on certain victims and be contemptuous of other victims.” Another California organization that lost funding, he noted, was Youth Alive!, an Oakland nonprofit that seeks to interrupt cycles of gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt and blue foulard tie speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta fields questions during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They go to the hospital bed of a shooting victim to help them heal and help them make decisions that don’t include retaliation in their raw, emotional, traumatized state,” he said. “Not only is it the right thing to do to help folks heal, to restore them to being productive members of our society and our community, but it also can prevent additional crimes, retaliatory crimes, a cycle of crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/amid-allegations-of-illegal-practices-minneapolis-will-start-auditing-violence-interrupter-groups/601127173\">critics have called for more oversight\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://dsbystate?%3Aembed=y&%3Aiid=2&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y\">these types of DOJ grants\u003c/a>, which have totaled $15.5 billion nationally since 2021. California organizations received more than any other state over that period, securing $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief Phil Tingrides spent time as a gang intervention liaison and worked alongside community-based groups doing the same sort of violence interruption work as Youth Alive! does in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said when those groups work with police, they see success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We developed a very strong, cohesive relationship … and we saw, initially, a very significant drop in retaliation shootings,” he said. “In 2017, when I left the South Bureau, we had the lowest number of homicides and shooting victims that that bureau had seen since it opened in 1972.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tingrides said the Trump administration is right about one thing: He believes there should be more oversight and accountability to ensure that these public funds are being used properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a perception in his administration, and I don’t think they’re wrong, that there’s so many grants that go out that there is no control over, that are going to fund programs that aren’t either what they were intended to be or not what they stated to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta agreed that oversight is important, but said in this case, the administration seems to be arbitrarily cutting programs it labels as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI — not undertaking a thoughtful analysis that examines outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding challenges ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, said the $2 million grant the Trump administration rescinded was the group’s first federal funding award, which was supposed to help expand their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to raise national awareness around the surge in anti-Asian hate that was catalyzed by the COVID pandemic,” she said. “We’ve not only tracked and established that this is pervasive and widespread, but we’ve also advanced solutions, community-based solutions, and really focused on victims and survivors and ways that we can prevent incidents from occurring in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044162\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. Ahmed, a counselor, arranges flyers for the Asian Women’s Shelter at a beauty salon in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate is among five groups \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/justice-grants-funding-cuts-law-enforcement-victims-4cbe3ed87ec2ad27ff5b6e5f0b317191\">suing the DOJ\u003c/a> as part of a class action lawsuit, alleging that the grant rescissions are unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is disturbing is that this administration — and Trump himself — paints himself as a champion of law and order,” Choi said. “But this administration has illegally canceled hundreds of public safety grants and has actually left communities across the nation more vulnerable to hate, violence and injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Women’s Shelter is appealing the loss of its grant through a DOJ process, said Saara Ahmed, a spokesperson for the organization.[aside postID=news_12043890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1424951486_qed.jpg'] She said the nonprofit remains committed to funding its program for Arab and Muslim women, but is now facing not just federal cuts, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">local budget threats\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said the program to serve Arab and Muslim women has been chronically underfunded since it started in 2015, in part because the U.S. government \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html\">classifies people from the Middle East as white\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the irony is because of the classification of the Arab community as white, they’re not eligible for a lot of the culturally specific streams that we get, government or otherwise,” she said. “We can’t use that funding to serve this community. And so that has also been a factor in being chronically underfunded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anytime the nonprofit can secure multi-year funding streams like the federal grants, Ahmed said, it provides the staff doing the work on the ground the space to focus on their clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the woman who left her abusive husband, that support has been life-changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her divorce proceedings are ongoing, but she’s looking ahead and planning for the life she wants to provide for her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to be free. I want to be free, too,” she said. “I want them to visit the world. I want to take them everywhere. So I wish I can do it one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you love needs immediate assistance addressing domestic violence, call the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a> at 800-799-7233.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But programs like this one are losing federal funds under the Trump administration — part of the White House’s broader effort to decrease federal spending and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">cut off funding from programs it sees as unnecessary or counter to the administration’s agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Asian Women’s Shelter received a letter from the Department of Justice informing the nonprofit that a $500,000 grant awarded it last fall was being rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-year grant was the main source of funding for the shelter’s program aimed specifically at supporting Arab and Muslim survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, clients like the woman who spoke to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is designed to serve 14 families, including 31 children, fleeing domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former client of the Asian Women’s Shelter sits at a beauty salon where she now works in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ wrote that the program “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” and stated that the department “has changed its priorities … to focus on, among other things, more directly supporting certain law enforcement operations, combatting violent crime, protecting American children, and supporting American victims of trafficking and sexual assault, and better coordinating law enforcement efforts at all levels of government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Women’s Shelter is not alone. Its grant is one of 373 grants totaling about $500 million nationwide, all from the Office of Justice Programs that the Department of Justice abruptly canceled in April, \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/doj-funding-update-a-deeper-look-at-the-cuts/\">according to an analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $81 million of those cuts hit California organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those losing money is Stop AAPI Hate, a San Francisco-based coalition created in 2020 amid rising hate crimes against Asian Americans fueled during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The group had been awarded $2 million over the next three years, nearly a third of its projected budget in 2026 and 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the two San Francisco organizations, most of the affected nonprofits and law enforcement organizations are working in areas that the DOJ says it wants to focus on: helping police interrupt street violence and investigate crime; supporting crime survivors, including victims of human trafficking; and combating violent crime, including hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why critics, including those in law enforcement, accuse President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi of hypocrisy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi spent time \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCSSYmfCSs\">at her confirmation hearings detailing her visits with human trafficking victims\u003c/a> at the border and a Mexico safe house, and pledging to help those survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PamBondiAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference about Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Justice Department on June 6, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a March speech at the Department of Justice, Trump said he had no “higher mission” than “making America safe again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to protect Americans and we protect everybody that’s in our country, American or not American. We want to have a safe and proud country,” he said. “We’re joined today by dozens of police officers, sheriffs and sheriff’s deputies from all across the country. My message to these law enforcement heroes is simple. With me in the White House, you once again have a president who will always have your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the grant cuts will have the opposite effect, especially when you combine them with the president’s budget proposal to cut billions of dollars more from local police departments and federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m shocked, like usual, but not surprised,” Bonta said. “This is an area where I think it’s really important to call out the just raging hypocrisy. … He says he’s gonna be a president for victims, a president of public safety, but then we have to look at what he’s actually doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said these cuts target “critical programs that help solve crime, that help victims heal, that help prevent gun violence, that address mental health and substance use disorder and provide treatment and care that support re-entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the Justice Department said it is “focused on prosecuting criminals, getting illegal drugs off the streets, and protecting all Americans from violent crime. Discretionary funds that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities are subject to review and reallocation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department didn’t answer KQED’s questions about why organizations like the Asian Women’s Shelter and Stop AAPI Hate were targeted, given that their missions appear to largely line up with those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Very short-sighted’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bonta argues it’s obvious that these programs are being cut because of who they serve: communities of color and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called it “very short-sighted and very narrow — this lens that they’re trying to put on to focus on certain victims and be contemptuous of other victims.” Another California organization that lost funding, he noted, was Youth Alive!, an Oakland nonprofit that seeks to interrupt cycles of gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt and blue foulard tie speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta fields questions during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They go to the hospital bed of a shooting victim to help them heal and help them make decisions that don’t include retaliation in their raw, emotional, traumatized state,” he said. “Not only is it the right thing to do to help folks heal, to restore them to being productive members of our society and our community, but it also can prevent additional crimes, retaliatory crimes, a cycle of crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/amid-allegations-of-illegal-practices-minneapolis-will-start-auditing-violence-interrupter-groups/601127173\">critics have called for more oversight\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://dsbystate?%3Aembed=y&%3Aiid=2&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y\">these types of DOJ grants\u003c/a>, which have totaled $15.5 billion nationally since 2021. California organizations received more than any other state over that period, securing $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief Phil Tingrides spent time as a gang intervention liaison and worked alongside community-based groups doing the same sort of violence interruption work as Youth Alive! does in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said when those groups work with police, they see success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We developed a very strong, cohesive relationship … and we saw, initially, a very significant drop in retaliation shootings,” he said. “In 2017, when I left the South Bureau, we had the lowest number of homicides and shooting victims that that bureau had seen since it opened in 1972.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tingrides said the Trump administration is right about one thing: He believes there should be more oversight and accountability to ensure that these public funds are being used properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a perception in his administration, and I don’t think they’re wrong, that there’s so many grants that go out that there is no control over, that are going to fund programs that aren’t either what they were intended to be or not what they stated to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta agreed that oversight is important, but said in this case, the administration seems to be arbitrarily cutting programs it labels as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI — not undertaking a thoughtful analysis that examines outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding challenges ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, said the $2 million grant the Trump administration rescinded was the group’s first federal funding award, which was supposed to help expand their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to raise national awareness around the surge in anti-Asian hate that was catalyzed by the COVID pandemic,” she said. “We’ve not only tracked and established that this is pervasive and widespread, but we’ve also advanced solutions, community-based solutions, and really focused on victims and survivors and ways that we can prevent incidents from occurring in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044162\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-DOJGRANTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. 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Martin says the vetting process has taken time and that’s intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re more interested in fairness and making sure everyone that wants to participate is given an opportunity to do so than driven by any deadlines,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the late 1950s through the early 1960s, the city of Palm Springs bulldozed and burned homes in Section 14, a 1-square-mile neighborhood that was home to mostly Black and Latino families with low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With city approval, fire crews torched homes, and residents were pushed out to make way for commercial development. In recent years, survivors and descendants have come forward to demand recognition and repair.[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of advocacy, the Palm Springs City Council unanimously approved the cash settlement last November, along with a broader reparations package that includes $21 million for housing and small business investment over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify for the cash settlement, survivors and their descendants had to submit three documents proving they lived in Section 14 during the years the city cleared the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s proved challenging for many applicants in their late 70s and 80s who don’t use email or online platforms. Martin’s team received about 350 claims, relying on records like phone books, school documents and marriage certificates to verify eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re using Docusign — something very common for people in the workplace, but not for 75- and 80-year-old people,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PALM-SPRINGS-30-ZS-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pearl Devers, a former Section 14 resident, in Palm Springs on May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each application is now being reviewed by a retired California Supreme Court justice working pro bono. Martin says the process should be completed in 60 to 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort is part of a growing push across California to address racial harms. A year after the failure of key reparations bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">drew backlash from activists\u003c/a>, the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced several new measures this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is SB 518, introduced by state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson (D-San Diego). The bill would establish a state framework to support local reparations programs, like the one in Palm Springs, by helping cities identify eligible recipients, develop cultural restoration projects and distribute funds fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For centuries, systemic discrimination has created barriers for opportunity for economic security, housing, education, health and so much more,” Weber Pierson said. “The effects of these injustices are still felt today and action is long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond cash payouts, Palm Springs also committed to cultural and community investments, including plans for a healing center, a public monument, and a permanent day of remembrance for Section 14. So far, the programs haven’t been launched. The city says more details will be released later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pearl Devers, one of the former Section 14 residents, the journey has been emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suppressed a lot of what happened in my family all these years until the floodgates opened,” she said. “Then I was able to shed my first tear.”[aside postID=news_12027903 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/CMReparations01.jpg']In digging into her family’s history, Devers discovered that her father had been a member of the NAACP. She says being part of the reparations process feels like continuing his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a full life-circle moment for me, to complete something I know my father’s passion and hard work was a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Section 14 survivors and supporters celebrated the progress with a gala last weekend in Palm Springs, but for many, the true milestone will come when the first check is delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says the momentum from Palm Springs is already rippling out. Tulsa’s new reparative justice plan, she says, mirrors aspects of the Section 14 settlement, and more cities are reaching out for guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repair is possible,” Martin said. “Communities across the country are watching this, seeing it can be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>About 200 people protested at San Francisco’s Embarcadero on Sunday to condemn the decision by President Donald Trump to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045402/u-s-completes-strikes-on-iran-nuclear-sites-trump-says\">strike three nuclear sites in Iran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-23_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red, white, green and black flag over her shoulders with sun glasses walks in a large group of people holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-23_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12045408,news_12045402\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Protesters at the action, which the anti-war ANSWER Coalition organized, denounced the U.S. military involvement in Iran and said the strikes would only intensify violence in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration on Saturday carried out the military strikes without Congressional approval, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045408/im-furious-bay-area-leaders-criticize-trump-for-foregoing-congress-on-iran-strikes\">a move many members of Congress in the Bay Area called illegal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-21_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a black shirt holds a megaphone in a large crowd.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-21_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-21_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bint Ard’Lana chants during a protest in response to the U.S bombing three Iranian nuclear sites, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali with the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Bay Area chapter said it also violates international law and norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-13_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-13_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of people walk down a street holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march on Market St., in response to the U.S bombing three Iranian nuclear sites, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s putting everyone in the world at threat of something nuclear [coming] out of this,” Ali said. “It’s World War III.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045431\" 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Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s putting everyone in the world at threat of something nuclear [coming] out of this,” Ali said. “It’s World War III.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045431\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250622_NoWarinIranProtest_GC-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:00 p.m. Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area lawmakers are urging de-escalation, and blasting President Donald Trump for not getting authorization from Congress before striking three Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday. East Bay Rep. Lateefah Simon called the U.S. strikes on Iran “lawless, dangerous and immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we normalize war as a reactionary decision, an easy decision … we lose our moral compass as a nation,” Simon said. “No one is safe under a presidency that chooses bombs over dialogue, chaos over peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman, who represents the North Coast, echoed those sentiments, saying that Trump’s actions in Iran are not just dangerous, but “a direct violation of the constitution and Congress’s authority to declare war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman added that there were “diplomatic and strategic alternatives to address the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions” that the administration ignored.\u003cbr>\n“What may seem ‘successful’ in the moment is more likely to lead to awful ramifications for our service members, national security, and our global credibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Sam Liccardo stressed the danger of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, and urged the country’s leaders to allow international inspectors to return their work unimpeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t get to that point then we continue to have a threat from Iran, and that threat will take many forms,” Liccardo said. “They will pick the retaliation [against U.S. troops] at a time and place of their choosing, and American lives will be lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disagreement among national Democrats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After nearly two years of stark divisions over the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">war in Gaza\u003c/a> and support for Israel, Democrats seemed to remain at odds over policy toward Iran. Progressives demanded unified opposition before Trump announced U.S. strikes against Tehran’s nuclear program but party leaders were treading more cautiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. leaders of all stripes have found common ground for two decades on the position that Iran could not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. The longtime U.S. foe has supported groups that have killed Americans across the Mideast and threatened to destroy Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-talks-geneva-news-06-21-2025-a7b0cdaba28b5817467ccf712d214579\">But Trump’s announcement Saturday that the U.S. had struck three nuclear sites\u003c/a> could become the Democratic Party’s latest schism, just as it was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-maga-tucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-409c839e4eadf2a39a1b957213379b08\">sharply dividing\u003c/a> Trump’s isolationist \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-israel-maga-jones-kirk-carlson-greene-bannon-7ffad821874e1a68b63ff1308c5ba4e9\">“Make America Great Again”\u003c/a> base from more hawkish conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, noted that in January, Trump suggested the U.S. could “measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, against his own words, the president sent bombers into Iran,” Martin said in a statement. “Americans overwhelmingly do not want to go to war. Americans do not want to risk the safety of our troops abroad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, said the U.S. entering the war in Iran “does not make America more secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bombing was an act of war that risks retaliation by the Iranian regime,” Welch said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While progressives in the lead-up to the military action had staked out clear opposition to Trump’s potential intervention, the party leadership played the safer ground of insisting on a role for Congress before any use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin’s statement took a similar tact, stating, “Americans do not want a president who bypasses our constitution and pulls us towards war without Congressional approval. Donald Trump needs to bring his case to Congress immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine called Trump’s actions, “Horrible judgement” and said he’d “push for all senators to vote on whether they are for this third idiotic Middle East war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many prominent Democrats with 2028 presidential aspirations had been silent on the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-gaza-news-06-20-2025-8adbedb3427a76be7dbde4a18a05f75f\">Israel-Iran war\u003c/a>, even before Trump’s announcement — underscoring how politically tricky the issue can be for the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are sort of hedging their bets,” said Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who served under Democratic President Barack Obama and is now a strategist on foreign policy. “The beasts of the Democratic Party’s constituencies right now are so hostile to Israel’s war in Gaza that it’s really difficult to come out looking like one would corroborate an unauthorized war that supports Israel without blowback.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progressive Democrats also are using Trump’s ideas and words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., had called Trump’s consideration of an attack “a defining moment for our party.” Khanna had introduced legislation with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that called on the Republican president to “terminate” the use of U.S. armed forces against Iran unless “explicitly authorized” by a declaration of war from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Saturday night, Khanna said Congress needs to vote on the bipartisan War Powers Resolution to ensure there is no further conflict and escalation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stopping Iran from having a nuclear bomb is a top priority, but dragging the U.S. into another Middle East war is not the solution.” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna used Trump’s own campaign arguments of putting American interests first when the congressman spoke to Theo Von, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/who-is-theo-von-aed4f15f1e24585e0173eba42b995be9\">comedian\u003c/a> who has been supportive of the president and is popular in the so-called “manosphere” of male Trump supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to cost this country a lot of money that should be being spent here at home,” said Khanna, who is said to be among the many Democrats eyeing the party’s 2028 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who twice sought the Democratic presidential nomination, had pointed to Trump’s stated goal during his inaugural speech of being known as “a peacemaker and a unifier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting Netanyahu’s war against Iran would be a catastrophic mistake,” Sanders said about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders reintroduced legislation prohibiting the use of federal money for force against Iran, insisted that U.S. military intervention would be unwise and illegal and accused Israel of striking unprovoked. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York signed on to a similar bill from Sanders in 2020, but so far was holding off this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some believed the party should stake out a clear anti-war stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The leaders of the Democratic Party need to step up and loudly oppose war with Iran and demand a vote in Congress,” said Tommy Vietor, a former Obama aide, on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mainstream Democrats are cautious, while critical\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staunch support from the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for Israel’s war against Hamas \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-trump-mideast-gaza-hezbollah-hamas-623945957dac623c238041242e13340a\">loomed over\u003c/a> the party’s White House ticket in 2024, even with the criticism of Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Trump exploited the divisions to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/president-elect-donald-trump-smaller-faith-groups-copts-amish-chabad-eee11dc29462ea9051bb4086c571dd1b\">make inroads with Arab American voters\u003c/a> and Orthodox Jews on his way back to the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Israel-Iran war is the latest test for a party struggling to repair its coalition before next year’s midterm elections and the quick-to-follow kickoff to the 2028 presidential race. The party will look to bridge the divide between an activist base that is skeptical of foreign interventions and already critical of U.S. support for Israel and more traditional Democrats and independents who make up a sizable, if not always vocal, voting bloc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Israel’s first strikes on Iran, Schumer said Israel has a right to defend itself and “the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and defense must be ironclad as they prepare for Iran’s response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said “the U.S. must continue to stand with Israel, as it has for decades, at this dangerous moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Democrats have condemned Israel’s strikes and accused Netanyahu of sabotaging nuclear talks with Iran. They are reminding the public that Trump withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear agreement that limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions negotiated during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump created the problem,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., posted on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The progressives’ pushback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Pearson-Institute_AP-NORC-2024-Topline-Final.pdf\">Pearson Institute/Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from September 2024\u003c/a> found that about half of Democrats said the U.S. was being “too supportive” of Israel and about 4 in 10 said their level of support was “about right.” Democrats were more likely than independents and Republicans to say the Israeli government had “a lot” of responsibility for the continuation of the war between Israel and Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 6 in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans felt Iran was an adversary with whom the U.S. was in conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Adriana Gomez Licon, Thomas Beaumont, Mary Clare Jalonick, Linley Sanders, Will Weissert and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report. KQED’s Rachael Vasquez, Maria Fernanda Bernal and Lakshmi Sarah contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Progressives demanded unified opposition before Trump announced U.S. strikes against Tehran’s nuclear program but party leaders were treading more cautiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. leaders of all stripes have found common ground for two decades on the position that Iran could not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. The longtime U.S. foe has supported groups that have killed Americans across the Mideast and threatened to destroy Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-talks-geneva-news-06-21-2025-a7b0cdaba28b5817467ccf712d214579\">But Trump’s announcement Saturday that the U.S. had struck three nuclear sites\u003c/a> could become the Democratic Party’s latest schism, just as it was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-maga-tucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-409c839e4eadf2a39a1b957213379b08\">sharply dividing\u003c/a> Trump’s isolationist \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-israel-maga-jones-kirk-carlson-greene-bannon-7ffad821874e1a68b63ff1308c5ba4e9\">“Make America Great Again”\u003c/a> base from more hawkish conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, noted that in January, Trump suggested the U.S. could “measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, against his own words, the president sent bombers into Iran,” Martin said in a statement. “Americans overwhelmingly do not want to go to war. Americans do not want to risk the safety of our troops abroad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, said the U.S. entering the war in Iran “does not make America more secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bombing was an act of war that risks retaliation by the Iranian regime,” Welch said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While progressives in the lead-up to the military action had staked out clear opposition to Trump’s potential intervention, the party leadership played the safer ground of insisting on a role for Congress before any use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin’s statement took a similar tact, stating, “Americans do not want a president who bypasses our constitution and pulls us towards war without Congressional approval. Donald Trump needs to bring his case to Congress immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine called Trump’s actions, “Horrible judgement” and said he’d “push for all senators to vote on whether they are for this third idiotic Middle East war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many prominent Democrats with 2028 presidential aspirations had been silent on the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-gaza-news-06-20-2025-8adbedb3427a76be7dbde4a18a05f75f\">Israel-Iran war\u003c/a>, even before Trump’s announcement — underscoring how politically tricky the issue can be for the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are sort of hedging their bets,” said Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who served under Democratic President Barack Obama and is now a strategist on foreign policy. “The beasts of the Democratic Party’s constituencies right now are so hostile to Israel’s war in Gaza that it’s really difficult to come out looking like one would corroborate an unauthorized war that supports Israel without blowback.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progressive Democrats also are using Trump’s ideas and words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., had called Trump’s consideration of an attack “a defining moment for our party.” Khanna had introduced legislation with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that called on the Republican president to “terminate” the use of U.S. armed forces against Iran unless “explicitly authorized” by a declaration of war from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Saturday night, Khanna said Congress needs to vote on the bipartisan War Powers Resolution to ensure there is no further conflict and escalation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stopping Iran from having a nuclear bomb is a top priority, but dragging the U.S. into another Middle East war is not the solution.” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna used Trump’s own campaign arguments of putting American interests first when the congressman spoke to Theo Von, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/who-is-theo-von-aed4f15f1e24585e0173eba42b995be9\">comedian\u003c/a> who has been supportive of the president and is popular in the so-called “manosphere” of male Trump supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to cost this country a lot of money that should be being spent here at home,” said Khanna, who is said to be among the many Democrats eyeing the party’s 2028 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who twice sought the Democratic presidential nomination, had pointed to Trump’s stated goal during his inaugural speech of being known as “a peacemaker and a unifier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting Netanyahu’s war against Iran would be a catastrophic mistake,” Sanders said about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders reintroduced legislation prohibiting the use of federal money for force against Iran, insisted that U.S. military intervention would be unwise and illegal and accused Israel of striking unprovoked. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York signed on to a similar bill from Sanders in 2020, but so far was holding off this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some believed the party should stake out a clear anti-war stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The leaders of the Democratic Party need to step up and loudly oppose war with Iran and demand a vote in Congress,” said Tommy Vietor, a former Obama aide, on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mainstream Democrats are cautious, while critical\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staunch support from the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for Israel’s war against Hamas \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-trump-mideast-gaza-hezbollah-hamas-623945957dac623c238041242e13340a\">loomed over\u003c/a> the party’s White House ticket in 2024, even with the criticism of Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Trump exploited the divisions to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/president-elect-donald-trump-smaller-faith-groups-copts-amish-chabad-eee11dc29462ea9051bb4086c571dd1b\">make inroads with Arab American voters\u003c/a> and Orthodox Jews on his way back to the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Israel-Iran war is the latest test for a party struggling to repair its coalition before next year’s midterm elections and the quick-to-follow kickoff to the 2028 presidential race. The party will look to bridge the divide between an activist base that is skeptical of foreign interventions and already critical of U.S. support for Israel and more traditional Democrats and independents who make up a sizable, if not always vocal, voting bloc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Israel’s first strikes on Iran, Schumer said Israel has a right to defend itself and “the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and defense must be ironclad as they prepare for Iran’s response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said “the U.S. must continue to stand with Israel, as it has for decades, at this dangerous moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Democrats have condemned Israel’s strikes and accused Netanyahu of sabotaging nuclear talks with Iran. They are reminding the public that Trump withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear agreement that limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions negotiated during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump created the problem,” Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A debate over roads may cost Glenn County its only emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glenn Medical Center, a 25-bed hospital in the rural agricultural town of Willows, north of Sacramento, is about to lose its “critical access” title. Without it, administrators say the hospital couldn’t afford to stay open because it would lose its increased Medicare reimbursements and regulatory flexibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glenn Medical Center received a letter in April from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notifying the hospital that it was no longer in compliance with the distance requirement to qualify as “critical access.” That requirement states that hospitals must be more than a 35-mile drive on primary roads — or a 15-mile drive on mountainous or secondary roads — from the next nearest hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next closest hospital is Colusa Medical Center, which the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency places at 32 miles south of Glenn Medical Center. That makes Glenn County’s hospital three miles short of the qualifying distance for the critical access title. But local health officials and the Willows Fire Department say ambulances and most patients take the “more reliable” route of I-5 and Highway 20, which makes the distance between the hospitals 35.7 miles — far enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40% of Glenn County’s 30,000 residents rely on public health insurance programs — Medicaid and Medicare — and 12% live under the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We treat and see and care for a lot of people who are unseen in the community. A lot of behavioral health crises, a lot of justice-involved folks, a lot of elderly, a lot of people without transportation. And we are truly a lifeline for those folks,” said Lauren Still, chief administrative officer at Glenn Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: An ambulance parked at Glenn Medical Center in Willows. Right: Emergency medicine physician Dr. Salah Sherif (center) talks with Bradley Ford (right) assistant ER manager, and registered nurse Rebecca Vranich (left). \u003ccite>(Chris Kaufman for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Closing the only hospital in this Sacramento Valley county would mean residents would have to travel farther for emergency care and ambulances would take longer responding to 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jared Garrison, Glenn County’s health officer, said losing the hospital would be a devastating blow to the community. Garrison worries about the elderly who may be afraid to drive at night and people who don’t have transportation to make it out of the county. Heart attacks, strokes, traumatic injuries and overdoses can become more deadly when hospital treatment is delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Glenn Medical Center closes, it’s not just a health crisis — it’s an economic and social crisis,” Garrison said. “We’ll see longer emergency response times, job losses, declining local businesses, and worsening health outcomes for our most vulnerable neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘This is not the road people would take’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both hospitals, Colusa and Glenn, have been at the same location since their construction decades ago. In 2001, Glenn Medical Center was first approved to participate in the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-safety-standards/certification-compliance/critical-access-hospitals\">Critical Access Hospital Program\u003c/a> under the same distance rule. Hospital and county health officials say geographically nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried to send some emails back and forth and say, ‘Hey, this is not the road people would take. This is not the road the ambulance takes. This is just not accurate,’” Garrison said. The “shorter” route, he explained, actually takes longer because it includes a county road that often floods and is primarily used by farm equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s appeals to the federal agency have been unsuccessful. Still said she is clinging to one last hope that U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Richvale Republican, can make the hospital’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Spannagel, chief of staff at LaMalfa’s office, told CalMatters that no resolution has been reached yet, but that conversations with the federal agency continue and that the hospital’s situation is under “heightened review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Medicare and Medicaid agency is supposed to review critical access hospitals’ eligibility periodically. This review started last year and the issue seems to be a reclassification of roads, Spannagel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agency did not respond to a CalMatters request for comment about why it changed its decision on the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/061325_Glenn-Medical-Center_CK_26-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>At left, Glenn County public health officer Dr. Jared Garrison and Lauren Still, chief administrative officer, worry that the hospital may have to close. \u003cem>Chris Kaufman for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peggy Wheeler, vice president of policy at the California Hospital Association, said she is aware of four critical access hospitals in California that received a similar letter. Two of them, Bear Valley Community Hospital in Big Bear Lake and George L. Mee Memorial in Monterey County, have since resolved their cases and will be allowed to keep their “critical access” designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital in Solvang is also working with the federal agency and considering its options, Wheeler said. The Cottage Health system declined an interview request from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler explained that hospitals that lose their “critical access” designation may have to apply for other classifications, such as a “low volume provider” or “sole community hospital,” which also provide enhanced Medicare payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its letter, the federal agency told Glenn Medical Center that it has until April 23, 2026 to reclassify as another type of hospital to continue participating in the Medicare program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A financial buffer for ‘critical access’ hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Clinton administration created the Critical Access Program in 1997 as a way to support rural hospitals. The goal of the program is to make sure that remote areas far from cities have adequate medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hospital was on the brink of closure back in 2001. We got this designation and have kept our doors open for the next 24 years,” said Still at Glenn Medical Center. The hospital is owned by American Advanced Management, the same group that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/02/madera-hospital-reopen/\">recently purchased and reopened Madera Community Hospital\u003c/a>.[aside postID=forum_2010101909199 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/iStock-921681588-1-1020x574.jpg']The program gives the hospital a bit of a financial buffer through higher-than-average Medicare reimbursement. Medicare pays critical access hospitals 101% of costs for most inpatient and outpatient services; for comparison, Medicare reimburses \u003ca href=\"https://www.aha.org/2024-01-10-infographic-medicare-significantly-underpays-hospitals-cost-patient-care\">most other hospitals 82% of costs\u003c/a>, according to the American Hospital Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designation also allows rural hospitals to stay open even if they don’t meet certain standards required of most other general acute hospitals. For example, Glenn Medical Center does not have a serviceable operating room, and bringing it up to required standards is financially prohibitive, Still said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The financial burden of losing its critical access designation would be such that the hospital would likely have to close its inpatient services by next spring, Still said. Outpatient services, such as clinics and labs, would remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like hospitals across the country, Glenn Medical Center is also bracing for a separate financial blow in the form of potential Medicaid cuts that are currently being debated in Congress. Hospitals could see decreased federal funding and increased costs because of uncompensated care from people who lose their Medicaid coverage. The American Hospital Association has estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-06-16-analysis-highlights-impact-proposed-medicaid-cuts-rural-patients-and-hospitals\">rural hospitals across the country could lose about $50 billion\u003c/a> altogether in federal Medicaid spending by 2034, if President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” were to pass as currently drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, all of California’s Republican House members \u003ca href=\"https://lamalfa.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/lamalfa-applauds-house-passage-budget-reconciliation-package\">voted in support \u003c/a>of the budget bill, including LaMalfa, who represents the area. The Senate is now deliberating on its own version of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise awareness of the hospital’s looming loss of its critical access status, Glenn Medical Center \u003ca href=\"https://saveglennmedical.com/\">recently launched a campaign\u003c/a> urging residents to write testimonials and letters in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a local hospital, the county’s two ambulances would have to travel farther, to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, about 36 miles north. Garrison explained that ambulances would probably choose Enloe over Colusa Medical Center because it is the larger of the two and has a trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast central-north region between Mendocino and Plumas National Forests is already down a hospital after Adventist’s Feather River Hospital was damaged in the 2018 Camp Fire and did not reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ambulances have to drive 45 minutes out of the county instead of the five to ten minutes to their local hospital, that will affect the ability of Emergency Medical Services to respond to 911 calls, Garrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to an administrator at Enloe and they estimated that this could increase their wait times by up to two hours,” Garrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next closest hospital is Colusa Medical Center, which the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency places at 32 miles south of Glenn Medical Center. That makes Glenn County’s hospital three miles short of the qualifying distance for the critical access title. But local health officials and the Willows Fire Department say ambulances and most patients take the “more reliable” route of I-5 and Highway 20, which makes the distance between the hospitals 35.7 miles — far enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40% of Glenn County’s 30,000 residents rely on public health insurance programs — Medicaid and Medicare — and 12% live under the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We treat and see and care for a lot of people who are unseen in the community. A lot of behavioral health crises, a lot of justice-involved folks, a lot of elderly, a lot of people without transportation. And we are truly a lifeline for those folks,” said Lauren Still, chief administrative officer at Glenn Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: An ambulance parked at Glenn Medical Center in Willows. Right: Emergency medicine physician Dr. Salah Sherif (center) talks with Bradley Ford (right) assistant ER manager, and registered nurse Rebecca Vranich (left). \u003ccite>(Chris Kaufman for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Closing the only hospital in this Sacramento Valley county would mean residents would have to travel farther for emergency care and ambulances would take longer responding to 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jared Garrison, Glenn County’s health officer, said losing the hospital would be a devastating blow to the community. Garrison worries about the elderly who may be afraid to drive at night and people who don’t have transportation to make it out of the county. Heart attacks, strokes, traumatic injuries and overdoses can become more deadly when hospital treatment is delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Glenn Medical Center closes, it’s not just a health crisis — it’s an economic and social crisis,” Garrison said. “We’ll see longer emergency response times, job losses, declining local businesses, and worsening health outcomes for our most vulnerable neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘This is not the road people would take’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both hospitals, Colusa and Glenn, have been at the same location since their construction decades ago. In 2001, Glenn Medical Center was first approved to participate in the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-safety-standards/certification-compliance/critical-access-hospitals\">Critical Access Hospital Program\u003c/a> under the same distance rule. Hospital and county health officials say geographically nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried to send some emails back and forth and say, ‘Hey, this is not the road people would take. This is not the road the ambulance takes. This is just not accurate,’” Garrison said. The “shorter” route, he explained, actually takes longer because it includes a county road that often floods and is primarily used by farm equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s appeals to the federal agency have been unsuccessful. Still said she is clinging to one last hope that U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Richvale Republican, can make the hospital’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Spannagel, chief of staff at LaMalfa’s office, told CalMatters that no resolution has been reached yet, but that conversations with the federal agency continue and that the hospital’s situation is under “heightened review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Medicare and Medicaid agency is supposed to review critical access hospitals’ eligibility periodically. This review started last year and the issue seems to be a reclassification of roads, Spannagel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agency did not respond to a CalMatters request for comment about why it changed its decision on the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/061325_Glenn-Medical-Center_CK_26-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>At left, Glenn County public health officer Dr. Jared Garrison and Lauren Still, chief administrative officer, worry that the hospital may have to close. \u003cem>Chris Kaufman for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peggy Wheeler, vice president of policy at the California Hospital Association, said she is aware of four critical access hospitals in California that received a similar letter. Two of them, Bear Valley Community Hospital in Big Bear Lake and George L. 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The Cottage Health system declined an interview request from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler explained that hospitals that lose their “critical access” designation may have to apply for other classifications, such as a “low volume provider” or “sole community hospital,” which also provide enhanced Medicare payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its letter, the federal agency told Glenn Medical Center that it has until April 23, 2026 to reclassify as another type of hospital to continue participating in the Medicare program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A financial buffer for ‘critical access’ hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Clinton administration created the Critical Access Program in 1997 as a way to support rural hospitals. The goal of the program is to make sure that remote areas far from cities have adequate medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hospital was on the brink of closure back in 2001. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on June 20, before President Donald Trump’s Saturday evening announcement that the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, bringing the U.S. military directly into the conflict between Israel and Iran.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pantea Karimi, an Iranian American \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922777/iranian-american-artists-women-life-freedom-protests-bay-area\">fine artist\u003c/a> living in San José, is feeling overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her brothers and both her parents are trapped in Tehran. She is hoping against hope that no Israeli bomb falls on or near the family home her father, an architect, built himself: a three-story brick house. But given the neighborhood it sits in, those hopes are fragile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Israeli missile hit a power station about 3 miles from their home, knocking out electricity for the entire neighborhood. What happened after that is unclear to family members in the U.S. and Canada, as the Iranian government \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-plunged-internet-blackout-deepening-conflict-rcna213544\">shut off global internet access\u003c/a>, citing fears of Israeli cyberattacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have lost contact right now. There is no internet. There is no landline. Nothing works,” Karimi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents, 75 and 79 years old, can’t evacuate because her mother is still recuperating from spinal surgery two and a half months ago. Karimi’s brother, who traveled from Toronto to help care for their mother, is trapped as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IsraelIranConflictGetty2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IsraelIranConflictGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IsraelIranConflictGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IsraelIranConflictGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IsraelIranConflictGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of a damaged building in the Iranian capital, Tehran, following an Israeli attack, on June 13, 2025. Firefighting teams are dispatched to the area. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced that Israel conducted strikes on Iran. \u003ccite>(Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karimi is one of tens of thousands of Iranians and Israelis in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been glued to the news about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910343/u-s-weighs-role-it-should-play-in-escalating-israel-iran-conflict\">escalating conflict\u003c/a> between the two countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between the frantic texts and phone calls, Karimi tries to find some solace practicing art in her home studio. “I try to take refuge in my art. My art is about tension and healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest update she has about her parents came from her other brother in Toronto, who spoke with a cousin in Shiraz over a two-minute, satellite-enabled phone call. “Everyone is OK,” the cousin said. That just means they’re alive. “That’s it,” Karimi said — all the information she has until someone outside the country hears more from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are in the middle?” said Karimi. “Governments are not in the middle. People [are]. They are squeezed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just so, so, so devastating,” she continued, choking back tears.[aside postID=news_12044621 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2218796587-2000x1333.jpg']Her husband’s parents died years ago, but his siblings remain stuck in Tehran and, unlike her close relatives, do not have citizenship in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian Americans and Israeli Americans alike are bracing in fear for their loved ones abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent U.S. Census data shows approximately 45,000 people of Iranian ancestry live in the Bay Area, many in the South Bay like Karimi. The region is also home to roughly 10,000 Israelis, similarly concentrated in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Israel and Iran have been at odds since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, their Bay Area diaspora communities share much in common. They have friendships, work together at the same companies, shop at the same stores and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13965475/rose-market-iranian-persian-food-mountain-view\">eat at the same restaurants\u003c/a>. Now they share fear for loved ones back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sense of anxiety right now is high,” said Guy Miasnik, an Israeli American living in Los Altos. “I have my parents, who are close to 80. I have my sister and her family. Extended family and close friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most apartment buildings in Israel include a basement bunker, and newer homes have fortified safe rooms. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1994, a 26-year-old Alex Padilla, sporting a newly minted engineering degree from MIT, was back at home living with his parents in the San Fernando Valley when that fall’s most heated ballot measure campaign dragged him into a life of politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 187, the Save Our State initiative, would bar undocumented immigrants across California from using public schools, taxpayer-funded social services and non-emergency medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to get involved, so that families like mine, communities like mine, would not continue to be scapegoated or targeted,” Padilla, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico, said in an \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/7zZOOFby6Nc?si=rqCi8eG4BlMpTVH5&t=40\">interview in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attitude put him in the political minority at the time. Backed by then-Gov. 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In that role he has become one of the most visible symbols of the clash of values between the nativism of President Donald Trump’s administration and California’s liberal consensus on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/alex-padilla-handcuffed/\">jarring altercation\u003c/a>, in which Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and briefly handcuffed, elected officials across California lined up to lionize and defend him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t Pete Wilson’s California anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration policy a ‘settled issue’ in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pollster Mark Baldassare has been chronicling the change for decades. In 1998, he and his colleagues at the Public Policy Institute of California began asking Californians a simple question: Are immigrants a “benefit” or a “burden” to California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Respondents were evenly split in the first survey. Ever since, a majority — one that has grown with each decade — has come to see immigrants as a boon to our state. In February, when PPIC most recently asked the question, 72% of respondents chose “benefit.”[aside postID=news_12045336 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg']That included 91% of Democrats and 73% of political independents, though only 31% of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty much a settled issue,” said Baldassarre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that sweeping change can be explained by the state’s shifting demographics. If the U.S. is the land of immigrants, California is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">doubly so\u003c/a>. More than a quarter of the state’s population was born abroad, and almost half of California’s children were born to an immigrant parent. More than half of California’s immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/#:~:text=More%20than%20half%20(55%25)%20of%20California%E2%80%99s%20immigrants%20were%20naturalized%20US%20citizens%20in%202023.%20This%20share%20has%20increased%20consistently%20since%201990%2C%20when%20only%2031%25%20of%20immigrants%20were%20naturalized.\">are naturalized U.S. citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California’s immigrant community is diverse: 49% are originally from Latin American countries and 41% from Asia. For the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">more immigrants\u003c/a> from Asia have entered California than from Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s changing demographics are only part of the reason immigration politics have seen such a radical shift in such a relatively short period of time, said Adrian Pantoja, a political science and Chicano studies professor at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pitzer.edu/\">Pitzer College in Claremont\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a law of nature that Latinos and other demographic groups with sizable immigrant populations should favor the Democratic Party. Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://t\">Latinos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/10/09/how-asian-americans-see-the-u-s-immigration-system/\">Asian Americans\u003c/a>, for example, hold traditionally conservative opinions — on specific border and immigration-related policies and a host of other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/051824-Fresno-State-Graduation-LV_CM_08-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A group of college graduates sits in rows during a commencement ceremony, wearing black caps and gowns adorned with colorful stoles, leis, and sashes. The focus is on a young woman in glasses looking ahead, surrounded by classmates with celebratory decorations, including a student in a green gown and marigold leis.\">\u003cfigcaption>Graduating students at the Fresno State Chicano/Latino Commencement Celebration in the Save Mart Center in Fresno on May 18, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Had the GOP “reached out effectively to Latinos, to Asian American voters — populations that were inclined and trending toward the Republican Party” the state GOP might still be an electoral force, said Pantoja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state party hitched its political future to a ballot measure aimed at penalizing undocumented immigrants and their children — and hasn’t won a statewide race since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as in much of the nation, Latino support for Republicans in the last presidential election ticked up in California. In nine of 12 counties where Latinos are the largest demographic group, support for Trump increased from 4 to 6 percentage points between the last two presidential contests, depending on the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legacy of Proposition 187\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three decades after that great California political rupture, the fruits of Prop. 187 are apparent in who holds power in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla is California’s senior U.S. senator. Both chambers of the state Legislature have elected Latino leaders — Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Speaker Robert Rivas\u003c/a> of Salinas and Senate President Pro Tem-elect \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-senate-leadership-limon/\">Monique Limón\u003c/a> of Santa Barbara. In the early 1990s, the count of Latinos in the Legislature bounced around the single digits. Today, there are a combined 42 members in the Democratic and Republican parties’ respective Latino caucuses out of 120 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rise in political power has translated to changes in policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 54, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">sanctuary state law\u003c/a> that largely bars state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. The bill’s author, Kevin de Leon, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/08/777466912/californias-prop-187-vote-damaged-gop-relations-with-immigrants\">traces his start in politics\u003c/a> to Prop. 187.[aside postID=news_12045198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/trump-with-executive-order.jpg']More recently, the state has expanded Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income Californians and those with disabilities, to all immigrants without legal status. Newsom signed successive expansions into law starting in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Prop. 187 was authored to deprive undocumented immigrants of social services, California’s Medi-Cal expansion was its antithesis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generational impact of that ballot measure was demonstrated in 2010, when immigrants were mobilized to vote and shift the state further to the left.By then, a quarter of the state’s electorate was Latino, said Thad Kousser, a professor of California politics at UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos become this voting block that helps deliver the state to Jerry Brown, and then the state becomes Democratic in every single statewide office, in every election” since, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, Brown defeated billionaire businesswoman Meg Whitman in an acrimonious gubernatorial race, showcasing California as an outlier in the national red wave and ending a run in which Republicans won the governor’s race six times out of the previous eight elections. Democrats lost no congressional seats in California even as the party was \u003ca href=\"https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/elections/2010/results/house.html\">routed nationally\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, the respective leaders of the State Assembly and Senate were Latino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/making-history-who-are-latinos-leading-california-s-legislature-n577546\">a first in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all efforts to reverse the conservatism of the 1990s in California have succeeded. In 2020, a ballot measure to largely reverse the state’s ban on using race, ethnicity or gender as factors in public university admissions and government grant-making \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2020/10/prop-16-affirmative-action-trailing/\">failed to woo voters\u003c/a>. In the state’s population center of Los Angeles County, a majority of Asian voters shot down the proposal while \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/us/supreme-court-affirmative-action.html#:~:text=This%20was%20true%20even%20of%20majority%20Black%20precincts%20in%20Los%20Angeles%2C%20which%20supported%20Proposition%2016%20by%20wide%20margins.\">only 55% of Latino voters backed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And immigrants or their children make up a sizable chunk of the GOP in the state capital. When voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-06/california-senate-race-its-first-transgender-candidate-vs-first-republican-latina\">in 2020\u003c/a> elected Redlands Republican \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh-165450\">Rosilicie Ochoa-Bogh\u003c/a>, the child of Mexican immigrants, she became the first GOP Latina state senator in California’s history. Today the Republican Senate caucus has at least three members who are immigrants or whose parents were born abroad, according to their public biographies — 30% of the caucus. Before being elected to the Assembly as a Republican, Tri Ta became the first Vietnamese American to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/lastdays/firstdaysstoryproject/interviews/im-product-community/raw/\">serve as mayor of a U.S. city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Medi-Cal rollback shifts views\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recent polling shows the latest wave of Medi-Cal expansions may have gone too far even for California’s immigrant-friendly electorate. A majority of Californians — 58% — oppose health coverage for immigrants without permanent legal status, according to PPIC’s June 2025 survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other polls show a majority of likely voters still support health insurance for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This mixed picture emerges as California grapples with a third successive fiscal year of multibillion-dollar deficits and sharply increasing Medi-Cal costs. While those data may indicate softening political support for the boldest of California’s policies aimed at helping undocumented immigrants, it doesn’t spell a political realignment, said Kousser.[aside postID=news_12044637 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2219434485-2000x1333.jpg']“California moved so far to the left that there’s almost nowhere to go other than the slight counter-reaction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare of PPIC agreed, saying the Medi-Cal survey results may simply reflect a growing concern about the state’s finances. He noted that Newsom has proposed freezing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some other measures affecting immigrants, Democratic lawmakers and Newsom have diverged. Last year the Legislature approved a bill to essentially adopt a novel legal theory to permit public college students without legal authorization in the U.S. to work on their campuses. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/university-of-california-students-weapons-jobs/\">vetoed the bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anti-ICE protests: A new Prop. 187 moment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is some indication that California’s philosophical support for immigrants is, at least in part, accelerated by Trump. The share of respondents who called immigrants a “benefit” in PPIC’s surveys shot up during the first Trump administration and ebbed during Joe Biden’s stint in the White House. The most recent survey, the first since Trump returned to power, saw another spike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has some immigrant rights advocates hoping that the Trump administration’s current sweeping deportation policy will galvanize a new generation of political activists in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s post-Prop. 187 or post-9/11 for middle eastern South Asian communities, at some point you realize that you are being endlessly and inhumanely targeted and if you don’t speak up, and if you don’t practice your First Amendment rights, and if you’re not civically engaged, then you’ll be taken advantage of,” said Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center. “I think those are really the things that brought people together then, and what are bringing people to the streets now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_07-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a green tracksuit holding up a sign saying, “IMMIGRANTS UILT THIS NATION,” while next to a guard railing over a highway in downtown Los Angeles. In the background, cars can be seen driving on the road while crowds of protesters hold up signs and flags on both sides of the highway.\">\u003cfigcaption>Protesters gather over the 101 freeway in Downtown Los Angeles in support of the “Day Without Immigrants” march, on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said if he were asked a few months ago whether California elected leaders were shifting to the center on immigration, he’d have said yes. But Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles are “allowing elected officials to come out more strongly” against the apprehensions, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Arana, vice president of policy at the Latino Community Foundation, was just six years old when Prop. 187 was on the ballot. He has distinct memories of marching with his family, everyone clad in white shirts, surrounded by a wide array of his neighbors chanting delightfully brash slogans about someone named Pete Wilson.[aside postID=news_12039972 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/DSC06624_qed-1020x680.jpg']“For six-year-old me, what I understood was that my parents, my neighbors, my community was under attack because some man — in that case the governor of California — was blaming California’s problems on them,” he said. “I wonder how young children are experiencing this moment now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen-year-old Nathon Ponce has an answer: He feels vulnerable. The rising high school sophomore at USC Hybrid High College Prep stood with his aunt several hundred feet from law enforcement as they fired projectiles and less-lethal rounds at protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to see the government create a legal pathway to citizenship for immigrants without that status, “instead of pushing them away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, he was there to support his community, which “some people consider a vulnerable group, like Hispanics and low-income working people,” he said. “And I just want to show my support by, like, actually attending a protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-prop187-immigration-politics/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attitude put him in the political minority at the time. Backed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican who made the campaign a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-09-mn-60569-story.html\">centerpiece of his reelection\u003c/a>, Prop. 187 passed with a commanding 58%, including majorities in 51 out of 58 counties. That included Padilla’s Los Angeles County, where it won by eight percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has changed in the three decades since, a political and cultural transformation that is in many ways personified by Padilla’s career. In just a single generation, the political clout immigrants hold in California has soared. So have the legal protections afforded even to those immigrants who are unauthorized to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the whole, public opinion on immigration policy, border security and the rightful role of immigrants in American life has inverted from 31 years ago. Prop. 187 was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/19/prop.187/\">voided by a federal judge\u003c/a> shortly after its passage, but its effect on California politics endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-95N3K\" style=\"min-height: 478px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/95N3K/full.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Padilla, the reluctant young activist, is now the first Latino U.S. senator to represent California. In that role he has become one of the most visible symbols of the clash of values between the nativism of President Donald Trump’s administration and California’s liberal consensus on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/alex-padilla-handcuffed/\">jarring altercation\u003c/a>, in which Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and briefly handcuffed, elected officials across California lined up to lionize and defend him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t Pete Wilson’s California anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration policy a ‘settled issue’ in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pollster Mark Baldassare has been chronicling the change for decades. In 1998, he and his colleagues at the Public Policy Institute of California began asking Californians a simple question: Are immigrants a “benefit” or a “burden” to California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Respondents were evenly split in the first survey. Ever since, a majority — one that has grown with each decade — has come to see immigrants as a boon to our state. In February, when PPIC most recently asked the question, 72% of respondents chose “benefit.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That included 91% of Democrats and 73% of political independents, though only 31% of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty much a settled issue,” said Baldassarre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that sweeping change can be explained by the state’s shifting demographics. If the U.S. is the land of immigrants, California is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">doubly so\u003c/a>. More than a quarter of the state’s population was born abroad, and almost half of California’s children were born to an immigrant parent. More than half of California’s immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/#:~:text=More%20than%20half%20(55%25)%20of%20California%E2%80%99s%20immigrants%20were%20naturalized%20US%20citizens%20in%202023.%20This%20share%20has%20increased%20consistently%20since%201990%2C%20when%20only%2031%25%20of%20immigrants%20were%20naturalized.\">are naturalized U.S. citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California’s immigrant community is diverse: 49% are originally from Latin American countries and 41% from Asia. For the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">more immigrants\u003c/a> from Asia have entered California than from Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s changing demographics are only part of the reason immigration politics have seen such a radical shift in such a relatively short period of time, said Adrian Pantoja, a political science and Chicano studies professor at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pitzer.edu/\">Pitzer College in Claremont\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a law of nature that Latinos and other demographic groups with sizable immigrant populations should favor the Democratic Party. Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://t\">Latinos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/10/09/how-asian-americans-see-the-u-s-immigration-system/\">Asian Americans\u003c/a>, for example, hold traditionally conservative opinions — on specific border and immigration-related policies and a host of other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/051824-Fresno-State-Graduation-LV_CM_08-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A group of college graduates sits in rows during a commencement ceremony, wearing black caps and gowns adorned with colorful stoles, leis, and sashes. The focus is on a young woman in glasses looking ahead, surrounded by classmates with celebratory decorations, including a student in a green gown and marigold leis.\">\u003cfigcaption>Graduating students at the Fresno State Chicano/Latino Commencement Celebration in the Save Mart Center in Fresno on May 18, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Had the GOP “reached out effectively to Latinos, to Asian American voters — populations that were inclined and trending toward the Republican Party” the state GOP might still be an electoral force, said Pantoja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state party hitched its political future to a ballot measure aimed at penalizing undocumented immigrants and their children — and hasn’t won a statewide race since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as in much of the nation, Latino support for Republicans in the last presidential election ticked up in California. In nine of 12 counties where Latinos are the largest demographic group, support for Trump increased from 4 to 6 percentage points between the last two presidential contests, depending on the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legacy of Proposition 187\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three decades after that great California political rupture, the fruits of Prop. 187 are apparent in who holds power in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla is California’s senior U.S. senator. Both chambers of the state Legislature have elected Latino leaders — Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Speaker Robert Rivas\u003c/a> of Salinas and Senate President Pro Tem-elect \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-senate-leadership-limon/\">Monique Limón\u003c/a> of Santa Barbara. In the early 1990s, the count of Latinos in the Legislature bounced around the single digits. Today, there are a combined 42 members in the Democratic and Republican parties’ respective Latino caucuses out of 120 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rise in political power has translated to changes in policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 54, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">sanctuary state law\u003c/a> that largely bars state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. The bill’s author, Kevin de Leon, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/08/777466912/californias-prop-187-vote-damaged-gop-relations-with-immigrants\">traces his start in politics\u003c/a> to Prop. 187.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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