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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\">Who was Junípero Serra, and what did he do? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#removal\">How statues get officially removed – and what you can do personally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n June 19, people around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825274/updates-bay-area-honors-juneteenth-on-the-streets\">took to the streets to mark Juneteenth\u003c/a>: the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, more than two years after slavery officially ended in the United States. The rallies followed weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/protests\">intense protest\u003c/a> across the country over the killings of George Floyd and other Black people by police, and over systemic racism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\">pulled down a bronze statue\u003c/a> that had stood 30 feet high over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for more than a century, spattering it with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra toppled from its plinth in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park by protesters on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1907 monument was a tribute to Father Junípero Serra: the 18th century Franciscan priest who presided over the colonizing Spanish mission system in California that resulted in the decimation of the Indigenous population, and who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">made a saint\u003c/a> by Pope Francis in 2015. Monuments to Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, who both enslaved Black people, were also pulled down in the park that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Juneteenth topplings followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">removal\u003c/a> of a Christopher Columbus statue in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood by city workers ahead of plans by protesters to topple it themselves, and the removal of a Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824573/statue-of-john-sutter-pioneer-who-enslaved-native-americans-removed-in-sacramento\">monument to John Sutter\u003c/a> — a 19th century colonizer who enslaved Native Americans at his mill. The day after the Golden Gate Park statues fell, Indigenous activists in downtown Los Angeles watched as a 1932 park monument to Serra \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/statue-junipero-serra-monument-protest-activists-take-down-los-angeles\">was ripped off its pedestal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads 'Stolen land, stolen people.'\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads ‘Stolen land, stolen people.’ \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And this past July 4, another statue of Serra was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244012732.html\">torn down in Sacramento’s Capitol Park\u003c/a> by protesters following a day of peaceful marches by demonstrators aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. The same day, Indigenous activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-04/indigenous-groups-black-lives-matters-join-forces-to-mark-historical-sins-on-july-4th\">joined forces with Black Lives Matter organizers\u003c/a> for a march in Los Angeles, calling for unity and decrying the historical ‘sins’ of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Lives Matter and the Fight Against Serra Monuments\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the timing of the July 4 marches, the Juneteenth timing of the Golden Gate Park Serra statue toppling was highly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emotional for sure,” says Morning Star Gali about how it feels to see statues come down. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe — and the project director of the organization Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples — Gali has been involved in campaigns for the removal of several statues in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She campaigned against the Sacramento monument to Sutter, and was there to watch it fall. She was present too at the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859733/sf-had-right-to-remove-early-days-statue-deemed-racist-judge-says\">removal of the Early Days\u003c/a> statue in San Francisco in 2018, which she and others had worked to remove from public view on account of its portrayal of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-800x740.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1020x944.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1536x1421.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Early Days,’ part of the Pioneer Monument in San Francisco’s Civic Center, was removed in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>America’s current movement toward social justice, and the deep reckoning with U.S. history that it demands, is “absolutely intersectional,” says Gali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a mutual understanding of Black and brown and Indigenous liberation that we understand, and we’ve done a lot of work in the past year to get to the point where we’re at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her fellow Indigenous activists are active partners with the Anti Police-Terror Project — work that’s seen them hold memorials and vigils to honor Black victims of police brutality. In Sacramento, Gali’s efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/sac-events/2020/6/17/community-conversations-to-de-serra-sacramento\">“de-Serra” the city\u003c/a> were purposefully held in partnership with the Anti Police-Terror Project, to “really show the solidarity that we have with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These statues are, Gali emphasizes, “monuments to racism. These are monuments to genocide. And it’s time for them to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali, with her youngest daughters. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Author and academic Greg Sarris is the chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and lecturer at Sonoma State University’s Native American Studies program. In support of “everyone who is suffering the legacy of racism and injustice,” Sarris says that he and his tribe fully stand behind the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us not forget that the Indians on this continent were the first to find out what European insensitivity would do to us,” he says. “And do to others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As statues of colonizers are brought down around California — mirroring actions against Confederate monuments further east — Serra remains a particular focus. And for years, he’s been a reviled figure among many Indigenous people for his leadership over a system that resulted in the incalculable loss of Native lives, and forever altered the Indigenous way of life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Serra, this is a fight that has been sustained by Indigenous activists for decades. And far from being a matter that relates mainly to California’s history, it says everything about our state’s present — and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"serra\">\u003c/a>Who Was Junípero Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Spain, Junípero Serra first traveled to the Americas in 1749 while in his thirties, to work as a Catholic missionary in Mexico. In 1768, he traveled north to California, and founded a string of missions stretching from San Diego to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10406942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/juniperoserra-e1421339520709.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1036\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Junípero Serra in a portrait by Father Jose Mosqueda. \u003ccite>(Huntington Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If members of a nearby Indigenous tribe were baptized, they were then brought into a mission where they were ordered to abandon many aspects of their culture and customs, and forced into labor — and prevented from leaving. Anyone who tried to escape the mission was subject to being hunted down and brought back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Native people in Serra’s missions were subjected to physical punishments like whippings and beating, which Serra himself justified in 1780, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm\">writing\u003c/a> “that spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of [the Americas]; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-800x665.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1020x848.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1536x1276.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of North America dated 1789, showing California when it was part of Spanish-controlled “New Spain.” \u003ccite>(Dobson's Encyclopædia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Indigenous people in the missions died from exposure to European diseases and from the brutal labor they were forced to perform. It was the discovery of the missions’ birth and death rolls — and the revelation that more Native people died under Serra’s system than were born — that sparked a more widespread re-evaluation of his legacy in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hard physical labor performed by Indigenous people in Serra’s missions was, for years, characterized in history books as ‘work.’ The word for it used today by many, including the descendants of those people, is ‘slavery.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we were enslaved in the missions, and whipped and beaten,” says Greg Sarris. “Up to 90% of the population [was] decimated, from which we never really recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missions “were concentration camps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/04/01/easter-sunday-protest-over-serra-planned-at-carmel-mission/\">said Corine Fairbanks\u003c/a> of the American Indian Movement Southern California in 2015, ahead of a protest at Serra’s canonization at the Carmel mission. “They were places of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centuries of spiritual and cultural heritage were erased by the Spanish conversion system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serra did not just bring us Christianity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/to-some-indians-in-california-father-serra-is-far-from-a-saint.html\">said academic Deborah Miranda\u003c/a>, a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation and author of “Bad Indians”, in 2015. “He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra the Saint\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Pope Francis announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">decision to make Junípero Serra a saint\u003c/a>. The news was met with outrage in California, with protests taking place in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, Mission Carmel and Mission San Juan Bautista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11748397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11748397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Spanish-born Junipero Serra, the Franciscan Friar known for starting missions in California, in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Junípero Serra in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. He canonized Serra on this visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Indigenous-authored \u003ca href=\"https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/urge-pope-francis-to?mailing_id=28356&r_by=504037&source=s.icn.em.cr\">petition\u003c/a> urging the pope to reconsider the canonization received over 11,000 signatures, stating that “it is imperative he is enlightened to understand that Father Serra was responsible for the deception, exploitation, oppression, enslavement and genocide of thousands of Indigenous Californians, ultimately resulting in the largest ethnic cleansing in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after the canonization, a statue of Serra in Monterey was decapitated. Two years later in Santa Barbara, another Serra monument at the city’s mission was also decapitated and covered with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t the first time the Church had attempted to elevate Serra’s holy stature. Almost three decades earlier, in 1988, Francis’ predecessor Pope John Paul II had actually kicked off the sanctification process by beatifying Serra. That announcement too was greeted with horror by Indigenous voices, but even back then, it represented only the latest articulation of of anti-Serra protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some saw the canonization as a Catholic matter for Catholic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4LLtN2fjLA\">a 1989 episode of the TV talk show “Firing Line,”\u003c/a> host William F. Buckley Jr. suggests to guest Edward Castillo – a Cahuilla-Luiseño professor of Native American studies at Sonoma State University and a Serra critic who participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island — that as as a non-Christian, “it’s none of your business who the church canonizes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, L.A. Native activist Norma Flores – who worked with the Kizh Nation/Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians to author the anti-canonization petition — disagreed. “Junípero Serra is being canonized for being an evangelist of the Native peoples in California,” she said. “Why do we not have an active say in this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Replaces Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Amid a national reckoning with U.S. history, how California deals with Serra is fundamental — not just to the state’s view of its past, but also to how it imagines its future, and the stories it wishes to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are crying about these statues being removed cannot name the local tribe of where they live,” says Gali. “The fact that they can’t name that San Francisco is Ramaytush Ohlone territory just goes to show the lack of education, really.” She attributes this lack of understanding to an active “suppression of information about the local tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if a statue comes down, or a place is renamed, what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the way forward? Should a statue of Serra be replaced by a figure from local Indigenous history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that simple, says April McGill, director of community partnerships and projects at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and the executive director of the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent, McGill stresses that statues of colonizers like Serra coming down is the start, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the solution. Especially when a city doesn’t work to involve Indigenous people in that removal process, and in what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827672 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April McGill, an American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent. \u003ccite>(April McGill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the city of San Francisco removed its Christopher Columbus statue, for example, McGill saw a lack of “Native presence there to follow a protocol” for marking the event. “There’s always somebody speaking \u003cem>for\u003c/em> our people,” she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the ‘what next’ after a statue comes down, McGill cautions against thinking only in terms of \u003cem>replacing\u003c/em> the monuments. After all, statues commemorating individuals are “a white thing,” she says, referencing recent words by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfchronicle.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FIn-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-32618\">Jonathan Cordero, chairperson of the Ramaytush Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to recompense and restitution for the damage done to a region’s Native peoples down the centuries, McGill says a city can begin to truly do right by its Native peoples by recognizing them as living communities with needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly say: give them a space,” she says. “Give them a park. Create a dance arena. Give them back\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\"> their shellmounds\u003c/a> … a place to continue to hold their ceremonies, and grow their indigenous food.” And federal land like San Francisco’s Presidio, McGill says, should be given to “the original stewards of that land,” the Ohlone people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>That’s\u003c/em> how you honor them — not via a statue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, McGill says, it’s about answering the question, ‘How do we heal?’\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra in Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you grew up in California in the last few decades, you could be forgiven for being confused about why statues in Junípero Serra’s honor are being pulled down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11619652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg\" alt=\"The new History-Social Science framework suggests replacing the Mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new history-social science framework suggests replacing the mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions. \u003ccite>(DAVID LOFINK/FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of California-educated people chiefly remember their fourth-grade “build a model mission” projects — and a conspicuous lack of criticism around Serra and his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hbluv2surf/status/1276257873987637248?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her own fourth grade mission education, Morning Star Gali says she knew “even back then that it was bogus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when her now 12-year-old son’s fourth grade teacher announced plans for a class visit to a Spanish mission, Gali says she flatly objected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, absolutely not. That’s not happening. I will take my son to the nearby state park, to the nearby roundhouse where he can learn about our California Indian teaching that way. But he will not be doing any ‘mission field trip.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sarahmirk/status/1276225222681563136\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/hssframework.asp\">current guidelines\u003c/a> for fourth grade education on the missions were adopted in 2016-2017. After learning about what life was like for Native peoples in California “before other settlers arrived,” the framework asks teachers to move onto the “colonizing” of California from 1769.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public school guidelines emphasize how Indigenous peoples were “initially attracted” to the missions, “impressed by the pageantry, material wealth, and abundant food of the Catholic Church,” but that as colonization increasingly disrupted existing food sources and village life, Native peoples began to be drawn into the missions out of survival — and once baptized, missionaries and military forces “conspired to forcibly keep” them there, and pressed them into “forced labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thyanhvo/status/1276229718744813568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state framework for teachers attributes the “extremely high” death rate among the Indigenous populations during the mission period to not only disease, but “the hardships of forced labor and separation from traditional ways of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it encourages educators to “sensitize” their students to “the various ways in which Indians exhibited agency in the mission system.” They say it’s in the pursuit of “a more comprehensive view of the era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Sarris says he’s hopeful about the possibility that Indigenous voices have enough influence to make change when it comes to furthering knowledge of Native American history — albeit “sadly,” he says, “only because of the money generated from our casinos that let us use that power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Sarris, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria \u003ccite>(Greg Sarris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, of which Sarris is chairman, own the land on which the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park resides. Sarris says he’s working with the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, where he’s on the Board of Trustees, and Gov. Newsom to privately finance a new template for California public schools to better teach children about their state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Gets to Define Serra for California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of statue-toppling in California have characterized ongoing protests as a passing moment, or somehow opportunistic of the current anti-racism uprising in the nation’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">statements in June on the killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> by Minneapolis police, which called for readers “to join together in prayer for an end to racism in all its pernicious manifestations,” the Archdiocese of San Francisco released \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">a statement on the “destruction” of Golden Gate Park Serra statue\u003c/a>. It was subtitled “Healing of Memories and Historical Accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its author, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, called the removal “the latest example” of how “a renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The memorialization of historic figures,” he stated, “merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given.” Instead, it characterized the statue toppling as “mob rule” — enacted against the memory of a man who “made heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous people of California from their Spanish conquerors” and offered them “the best thing he had: the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, Archbishop Cordileone and other Catholics joined at the site of the topped Serra statue in Golden Gate Park to \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/30/san-francisco-archbishop-exorcism-golden-gate-park-junipero-serra-statue-toppled/\">perform an exorcism\u003c/a>, saying that “evil has made itself present here” owing to the monument being “blasphemously torn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights reacted to the Golden Gate Park incident with even more vehemence, with president Bill Donohue commenting that “Smashing statues of American icons is all the rage among urban barbarians. Ignorant of history, they are destroying statues of those who were among the most enlightened persons of their time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra, Donohue says, “fought hard for the rights of Indians, and was rightfully canonized by Pope Francis in 2015.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Catholic Church’s view of the missions with the perspectives of Indigenous activists can make it seem like there are two Serras; two completely different versions of the Californian timeline. Yet as Dara Lind writes in her\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9391995/junipero-serra-saint-pope-francis\"> 2015 Vox explainer\u003c/a> on Pope Francis’s decision to sanctify, Serra “was canonized because what he did during his life was good \u003cem>according to Catholic teaching\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The statue of Junípero Serra in Golden Gate Park, before it was torn down on June 18, 2020 \u003ccite>(Burkhard Mücke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morning Star Gali says she’s tired of the ‘historical vandalism’ narrative in much of the mainstream commentary she sees around statue removals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are treating it like, ‘oh, this is such an awful thing; this is erasure of history.’ No, it’s erasure of the lies that are perpetuated to support white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali’s own message regarding “the healing of memories and historical accuracy?” — “Tear down these monuments to genocide, tear down white supremacy: One statue at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Serra Became a Myth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand why Junípero Serra looms so large in the California consciousness, from the statues around us to the things we (still) teach our schoolchildren, it helps to know that his status as a California legend appears to have been no accident. It was rather an integral part of how California wished to see itself — and be seen — during the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra’s reputation as a kind of California founding father was intentionally built at the end of the 19th century, in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">Atlantic writer Emma Green calls\u003c/a> “basically a marketing effort as settlers came to Southern California in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 1877 painting by Léon Trousset: ‘Father Serra Celebrates Mass at Monterey.’ \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">According to historian Bob Senkewicz\u003c/a>, author and professor at Santa Clara University, this drive to justify white westward expansion at a time when the state’s prosperity depended on it resulted in the creation of “a mission mythology of dedicated, selfless missionaries and happy, contented Indians. And this mythology created a notion of California before the U.S. as a kind of bucolic arcadia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native people have “always been the tabula rasa on which Californians can write their fantasies,” says Greg Sarris. “One of which is Junípero Serra. And we’ve been so decimated that we haven’t had the power or a loud enough or big enough voice to say, no, you cannot write our story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of that 19th century “marketing effort” lingers not only in the Serra statues and countless Serra place names across California — and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">the mythology of the “Camino Real”\u003c/a> — but on a national stage. In 1985, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated Serra with his own postage stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Capitol collection of state statues, several states are represented by 21st-century statues of Indigenous people, such as New Mexico (Pueblo leader Po’pay) and Wyoming (Chief Washakie of the Shoshone) — but a bronze figure of Serra has represented California since 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside it, the state of Virginia is still represented by a 1909 statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra as Symbol\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why has Serra in particular — and the monuments erected in his honor — become \u003cem>such\u003c/em> a flashpoint in this moment, as anti-racism campaigners take their fight to the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sarris, Serra represents a way of thinking about Indigenous culture — as something not to be understood and preserved, but colonized and assimilated — that has traumatic repercussions today. “Here was a man who represented a culture that felt entitled to dominate another culture,” he says. “The cultural insensitivity that resulted in violence and the death of 90% of the California Indian population is something to be understood, and not cherished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the drive against Confederate statues on the East Coast, Sarris just doesn’t see “enough interest or understanding of the violence against California Indians for the larger California general public to say, take down Junípero Serra.” At least, not yet. And for him, that lack of urgency from non-Native people around Serra’s legacy stems from fundamental misunderstandings about California’s Native history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow is projected over the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee on June 12, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the removal of the General Lee statue as soon as possible but legal proceedings have temporarily halted those plans. \u003ccite>(Eze Amos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Morning Star Gali, the still-standing Serra statues represent a visual emblem of the wider issue at hand: California’s systemic inaction towards its Native peoples. She notes that June marks one year since Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html\">delivered an apology\u003c/a> “for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Gali notes, “an apology is nothing without action” — especially where it concerns vital decisions being made for Indigenous people without their input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, she says, where is that action regarding the coronavirus relief funds provided by the CARES Act? Funds were dispersed only to Native tribes that are federally recognized, to the exclusion of tribes that have been terminated, disenrolled and disenfranchised. The federal government, Gali notes, still “gets to decide who is and who is not a Native person in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lack of a specific apology from the Catholic Church for Serra’s legacy, Gali sees this same inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until that’s done,” she says, “there is still a gaping wound that needs to be healed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"removal\">\u003c/a>How Can You Challenge a Statue or Place Name?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If there’s a statue or place name in your area that you want to officially challenge, how can you do that as a member of the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a research associate at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and is on the board of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco. Born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, she’s a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. Her key advice for activism in this field? “Let the community lead” — especially if you’re a non-Indigenous ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antone-Ramirez recommends beginning by researching the communities who are “directly affected” by the issue at hand, finding out what they’re already working on, and offering support to their organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. \u003ccite>(Arianna Antone-Ramirez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also advises embarking on your \u003cem>own\u003c/em> bureaucratic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has anything come up in my city council? Wherever you live, have there been any hearings about this? … Where is this issue now? Is it in a committee?” Acquiring this familiarity with civic processes, says Antone-Ramirez, will really help these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what \u003cem>are\u003c/em> these processes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best approach for challenging a statue or place name is “the same as approaching the city government for any other civic inquiry,” says Rebekah Krell, acting director of cultural affairs at the San Francisco Arts Commission – the city body that was involved in the removal of the Early Days statue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governmental bodies she recommends contacting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your District Supervisor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Mayor’s office of your town/city\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The local Arts Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your local non-emergency 311 line\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Krell also advises attending “any number of public meetings” to “pose general public comment.” This, she says, is how member of the public campaigning for the removal of the Early Days monument “got the ball rolling”– “the community came to a [monthly] public Arts Commission meeting” and spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a group is specifically looking to challenge a monument or public artwork, Krell says that the agency governing these can differ from municipality. It could be an Arts Commission (as in San Francisco), a Parks Department or your city’s Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when all else fails,” she says, “your elected city representative (council member, district supervisor, etc.) office should be able to direct your concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\">announced plans\u003c/a> to now evaluate the the city’s nearly one hundred public monuments and memorials — and whether any of them should be removed. The plans will apparently entail the city examining factors including the story behind the historical figure a work depicts, the artist who made it, the community’s response so far, and the cost of its removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story incorrectly listed Greg Sarris as the owner of Graton Resort & Casino and has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\">Who was Junípero Serra, and what did he do? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#removal\">How statues get officially removed – and what you can do personally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n June 19, people around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825274/updates-bay-area-honors-juneteenth-on-the-streets\">took to the streets to mark Juneteenth\u003c/a>: the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, more than two years after slavery officially ended in the United States. The rallies followed weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/protests\">intense protest\u003c/a> across the country over the killings of George Floyd and other Black people by police, and over systemic racism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\">pulled down a bronze statue\u003c/a> that had stood 30 feet high over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for more than a century, spattering it with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra toppled from its plinth in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park by protesters on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1907 monument was a tribute to Father Junípero Serra: the 18th century Franciscan priest who presided over the colonizing Spanish mission system in California that resulted in the decimation of the Indigenous population, and who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">made a saint\u003c/a> by Pope Francis in 2015. Monuments to Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, who both enslaved Black people, were also pulled down in the park that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Juneteenth topplings followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">removal\u003c/a> of a Christopher Columbus statue in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood by city workers ahead of plans by protesters to topple it themselves, and the removal of a Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824573/statue-of-john-sutter-pioneer-who-enslaved-native-americans-removed-in-sacramento\">monument to John Sutter\u003c/a> — a 19th century colonizer who enslaved Native Americans at his mill. The day after the Golden Gate Park statues fell, Indigenous activists in downtown Los Angeles watched as a 1932 park monument to Serra \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/statue-junipero-serra-monument-protest-activists-take-down-los-angeles\">was ripped off its pedestal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads 'Stolen land, stolen people.'\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads ‘Stolen land, stolen people.’ \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And this past July 4, another statue of Serra was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244012732.html\">torn down in Sacramento’s Capitol Park\u003c/a> by protesters following a day of peaceful marches by demonstrators aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. The same day, Indigenous activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-04/indigenous-groups-black-lives-matters-join-forces-to-mark-historical-sins-on-july-4th\">joined forces with Black Lives Matter organizers\u003c/a> for a march in Los Angeles, calling for unity and decrying the historical ‘sins’ of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Lives Matter and the Fight Against Serra Monuments\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the timing of the July 4 marches, the Juneteenth timing of the Golden Gate Park Serra statue toppling was highly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emotional for sure,” says Morning Star Gali about how it feels to see statues come down. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe — and the project director of the organization Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples — Gali has been involved in campaigns for the removal of several statues in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She campaigned against the Sacramento monument to Sutter, and was there to watch it fall. She was present too at the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859733/sf-had-right-to-remove-early-days-statue-deemed-racist-judge-says\">removal of the Early Days\u003c/a> statue in San Francisco in 2018, which she and others had worked to remove from public view on account of its portrayal of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-800x740.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1020x944.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1536x1421.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Early Days,’ part of the Pioneer Monument in San Francisco’s Civic Center, was removed in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>America’s current movement toward social justice, and the deep reckoning with U.S. history that it demands, is “absolutely intersectional,” says Gali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a mutual understanding of Black and brown and Indigenous liberation that we understand, and we’ve done a lot of work in the past year to get to the point where we’re at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her fellow Indigenous activists are active partners with the Anti Police-Terror Project — work that’s seen them hold memorials and vigils to honor Black victims of police brutality. In Sacramento, Gali’s efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/sac-events/2020/6/17/community-conversations-to-de-serra-sacramento\">“de-Serra” the city\u003c/a> were purposefully held in partnership with the Anti Police-Terror Project, to “really show the solidarity that we have with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These statues are, Gali emphasizes, “monuments to racism. These are monuments to genocide. And it’s time for them to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali, with her youngest daughters. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Author and academic Greg Sarris is the chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and lecturer at Sonoma State University’s Native American Studies program. In support of “everyone who is suffering the legacy of racism and injustice,” Sarris says that he and his tribe fully stand behind the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us not forget that the Indians on this continent were the first to find out what European insensitivity would do to us,” he says. “And do to others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As statues of colonizers are brought down around California — mirroring actions against Confederate monuments further east — Serra remains a particular focus. And for years, he’s been a reviled figure among many Indigenous people for his leadership over a system that resulted in the incalculable loss of Native lives, and forever altered the Indigenous way of life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Serra, this is a fight that has been sustained by Indigenous activists for decades. And far from being a matter that relates mainly to California’s history, it says everything about our state’s present — and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"serra\">\u003c/a>Who Was Junípero Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Spain, Junípero Serra first traveled to the Americas in 1749 while in his thirties, to work as a Catholic missionary in Mexico. In 1768, he traveled north to California, and founded a string of missions stretching from San Diego to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10406942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/juniperoserra-e1421339520709.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1036\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Junípero Serra in a portrait by Father Jose Mosqueda. \u003ccite>(Huntington Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If members of a nearby Indigenous tribe were baptized, they were then brought into a mission where they were ordered to abandon many aspects of their culture and customs, and forced into labor — and prevented from leaving. Anyone who tried to escape the mission was subject to being hunted down and brought back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Native people in Serra’s missions were subjected to physical punishments like whippings and beating, which Serra himself justified in 1780, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm\">writing\u003c/a> “that spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of [the Americas]; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-800x665.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1020x848.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1536x1276.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of North America dated 1789, showing California when it was part of Spanish-controlled “New Spain.” \u003ccite>(Dobson's Encyclopædia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Indigenous people in the missions died from exposure to European diseases and from the brutal labor they were forced to perform. It was the discovery of the missions’ birth and death rolls — and the revelation that more Native people died under Serra’s system than were born — that sparked a more widespread re-evaluation of his legacy in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hard physical labor performed by Indigenous people in Serra’s missions was, for years, characterized in history books as ‘work.’ The word for it used today by many, including the descendants of those people, is ‘slavery.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we were enslaved in the missions, and whipped and beaten,” says Greg Sarris. “Up to 90% of the population [was] decimated, from which we never really recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missions “were concentration camps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/04/01/easter-sunday-protest-over-serra-planned-at-carmel-mission/\">said Corine Fairbanks\u003c/a> of the American Indian Movement Southern California in 2015, ahead of a protest at Serra’s canonization at the Carmel mission. “They were places of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centuries of spiritual and cultural heritage were erased by the Spanish conversion system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serra did not just bring us Christianity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/to-some-indians-in-california-father-serra-is-far-from-a-saint.html\">said academic Deborah Miranda\u003c/a>, a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation and author of “Bad Indians”, in 2015. “He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra the Saint\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Pope Francis announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">decision to make Junípero Serra a saint\u003c/a>. The news was met with outrage in California, with protests taking place in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, Mission Carmel and Mission San Juan Bautista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11748397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11748397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Spanish-born Junipero Serra, the Franciscan Friar known for starting missions in California, in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Junípero Serra in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. He canonized Serra on this visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Indigenous-authored \u003ca href=\"https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/urge-pope-francis-to?mailing_id=28356&r_by=504037&source=s.icn.em.cr\">petition\u003c/a> urging the pope to reconsider the canonization received over 11,000 signatures, stating that “it is imperative he is enlightened to understand that Father Serra was responsible for the deception, exploitation, oppression, enslavement and genocide of thousands of Indigenous Californians, ultimately resulting in the largest ethnic cleansing in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after the canonization, a statue of Serra in Monterey was decapitated. Two years later in Santa Barbara, another Serra monument at the city’s mission was also decapitated and covered with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t the first time the Church had attempted to elevate Serra’s holy stature. Almost three decades earlier, in 1988, Francis’ predecessor Pope John Paul II had actually kicked off the sanctification process by beatifying Serra. That announcement too was greeted with horror by Indigenous voices, but even back then, it represented only the latest articulation of of anti-Serra protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some saw the canonization as a Catholic matter for Catholic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4LLtN2fjLA\">a 1989 episode of the TV talk show “Firing Line,”\u003c/a> host William F. Buckley Jr. suggests to guest Edward Castillo – a Cahuilla-Luiseño professor of Native American studies at Sonoma State University and a Serra critic who participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island — that as as a non-Christian, “it’s none of your business who the church canonizes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, L.A. Native activist Norma Flores – who worked with the Kizh Nation/Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians to author the anti-canonization petition — disagreed. “Junípero Serra is being canonized for being an evangelist of the Native peoples in California,” she said. “Why do we not have an active say in this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Replaces Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Amid a national reckoning with U.S. history, how California deals with Serra is fundamental — not just to the state’s view of its past, but also to how it imagines its future, and the stories it wishes to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are crying about these statues being removed cannot name the local tribe of where they live,” says Gali. “The fact that they can’t name that San Francisco is Ramaytush Ohlone territory just goes to show the lack of education, really.” She attributes this lack of understanding to an active “suppression of information about the local tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if a statue comes down, or a place is renamed, what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the way forward? Should a statue of Serra be replaced by a figure from local Indigenous history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that simple, says April McGill, director of community partnerships and projects at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and the executive director of the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent, McGill stresses that statues of colonizers like Serra coming down is the start, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the solution. Especially when a city doesn’t work to involve Indigenous people in that removal process, and in what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827672 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April McGill, an American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent. \u003ccite>(April McGill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the city of San Francisco removed its Christopher Columbus statue, for example, McGill saw a lack of “Native presence there to follow a protocol” for marking the event. “There’s always somebody speaking \u003cem>for\u003c/em> our people,” she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the ‘what next’ after a statue comes down, McGill cautions against thinking only in terms of \u003cem>replacing\u003c/em> the monuments. After all, statues commemorating individuals are “a white thing,” she says, referencing recent words by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfchronicle.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FIn-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-32618\">Jonathan Cordero, chairperson of the Ramaytush Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to recompense and restitution for the damage done to a region’s Native peoples down the centuries, McGill says a city can begin to truly do right by its Native peoples by recognizing them as living communities with needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly say: give them a space,” she says. “Give them a park. Create a dance arena. Give them back\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\"> their shellmounds\u003c/a> … a place to continue to hold their ceremonies, and grow their indigenous food.” And federal land like San Francisco’s Presidio, McGill says, should be given to “the original stewards of that land,” the Ohlone people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>That’s\u003c/em> how you honor them — not via a statue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, McGill says, it’s about answering the question, ‘How do we heal?’\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra in Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you grew up in California in the last few decades, you could be forgiven for being confused about why statues in Junípero Serra’s honor are being pulled down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11619652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg\" alt=\"The new History-Social Science framework suggests replacing the Mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new history-social science framework suggests replacing the mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions. \u003ccite>(DAVID LOFINK/FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of California-educated people chiefly remember their fourth-grade “build a model mission” projects — and a conspicuous lack of criticism around Serra and his actions.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Sarris says he’s working with the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, where he’s on the Board of Trustees, and Gov. Newsom to privately finance a new template for California public schools to better teach children about their state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Gets to Define Serra for California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of statue-toppling in California have characterized ongoing protests as a passing moment, or somehow opportunistic of the current anti-racism uprising in the nation’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">statements in June on the killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> by Minneapolis police, which called for readers “to join together in prayer for an end to racism in all its pernicious manifestations,” the Archdiocese of San Francisco released \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">a statement on the “destruction” of Golden Gate Park Serra statue\u003c/a>. It was subtitled “Healing of Memories and Historical Accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its author, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, called the removal “the latest example” of how “a renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The memorialization of historic figures,” he stated, “merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given.” Instead, it characterized the statue toppling as “mob rule” — enacted against the memory of a man who “made heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous people of California from their Spanish conquerors” and offered them “the best thing he had: the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, Archbishop Cordileone and other Catholics joined at the site of the topped Serra statue in Golden Gate Park to \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/30/san-francisco-archbishop-exorcism-golden-gate-park-junipero-serra-statue-toppled/\">perform an exorcism\u003c/a>, saying that “evil has made itself present here” owing to the monument being “blasphemously torn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights reacted to the Golden Gate Park incident with even more vehemence, with president Bill Donohue commenting that “Smashing statues of American icons is all the rage among urban barbarians. Ignorant of history, they are destroying statues of those who were among the most enlightened persons of their time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra, Donohue says, “fought hard for the rights of Indians, and was rightfully canonized by Pope Francis in 2015.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Catholic Church’s view of the missions with the perspectives of Indigenous activists can make it seem like there are two Serras; two completely different versions of the Californian timeline. Yet as Dara Lind writes in her\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9391995/junipero-serra-saint-pope-francis\"> 2015 Vox explainer\u003c/a> on Pope Francis’s decision to sanctify, Serra “was canonized because what he did during his life was good \u003cem>according to Catholic teaching\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The statue of Junípero Serra in Golden Gate Park, before it was torn down on June 18, 2020 \u003ccite>(Burkhard Mücke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morning Star Gali says she’s tired of the ‘historical vandalism’ narrative in much of the mainstream commentary she sees around statue removals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are treating it like, ‘oh, this is such an awful thing; this is erasure of history.’ No, it’s erasure of the lies that are perpetuated to support white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali’s own message regarding “the healing of memories and historical accuracy?” — “Tear down these monuments to genocide, tear down white supremacy: One statue at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Serra Became a Myth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand why Junípero Serra looms so large in the California consciousness, from the statues around us to the things we (still) teach our schoolchildren, it helps to know that his status as a California legend appears to have been no accident. It was rather an integral part of how California wished to see itself — and be seen — during the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra’s reputation as a kind of California founding father was intentionally built at the end of the 19th century, in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">Atlantic writer Emma Green calls\u003c/a> “basically a marketing effort as settlers came to Southern California in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 1877 painting by Léon Trousset: ‘Father Serra Celebrates Mass at Monterey.’ \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">According to historian Bob Senkewicz\u003c/a>, author and professor at Santa Clara University, this drive to justify white westward expansion at a time when the state’s prosperity depended on it resulted in the creation of “a mission mythology of dedicated, selfless missionaries and happy, contented Indians. And this mythology created a notion of California before the U.S. as a kind of bucolic arcadia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native people have “always been the tabula rasa on which Californians can write their fantasies,” says Greg Sarris. “One of which is Junípero Serra. And we’ve been so decimated that we haven’t had the power or a loud enough or big enough voice to say, no, you cannot write our story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of that 19th century “marketing effort” lingers not only in the Serra statues and countless Serra place names across California — and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">the mythology of the “Camino Real”\u003c/a> — but on a national stage. In 1985, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated Serra with his own postage stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Capitol collection of state statues, several states are represented by 21st-century statues of Indigenous people, such as New Mexico (Pueblo leader Po’pay) and Wyoming (Chief Washakie of the Shoshone) — but a bronze figure of Serra has represented California since 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside it, the state of Virginia is still represented by a 1909 statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra as Symbol\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why has Serra in particular — and the monuments erected in his honor — become \u003cem>such\u003c/em> a flashpoint in this moment, as anti-racism campaigners take their fight to the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sarris, Serra represents a way of thinking about Indigenous culture — as something not to be understood and preserved, but colonized and assimilated — that has traumatic repercussions today. “Here was a man who represented a culture that felt entitled to dominate another culture,” he says. “The cultural insensitivity that resulted in violence and the death of 90% of the California Indian population is something to be understood, and not cherished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the drive against Confederate statues on the East Coast, Sarris just doesn’t see “enough interest or understanding of the violence against California Indians for the larger California general public to say, take down Junípero Serra.” At least, not yet. And for him, that lack of urgency from non-Native people around Serra’s legacy stems from fundamental misunderstandings about California’s Native history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow is projected over the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee on June 12, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the removal of the General Lee statue as soon as possible but legal proceedings have temporarily halted those plans. \u003ccite>(Eze Amos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Morning Star Gali, the still-standing Serra statues represent a visual emblem of the wider issue at hand: California’s systemic inaction towards its Native peoples. She notes that June marks one year since Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html\">delivered an apology\u003c/a> “for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Gali notes, “an apology is nothing without action” — especially where it concerns vital decisions being made for Indigenous people without their input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, she says, where is that action regarding the coronavirus relief funds provided by the CARES Act? Funds were dispersed only to Native tribes that are federally recognized, to the exclusion of tribes that have been terminated, disenrolled and disenfranchised. The federal government, Gali notes, still “gets to decide who is and who is not a Native person in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lack of a specific apology from the Catholic Church for Serra’s legacy, Gali sees this same inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until that’s done,” she says, “there is still a gaping wound that needs to be healed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"removal\">\u003c/a>How Can You Challenge a Statue or Place Name?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If there’s a statue or place name in your area that you want to officially challenge, how can you do that as a member of the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a research associate at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and is on the board of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco. Born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, she’s a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. Her key advice for activism in this field? “Let the community lead” — especially if you’re a non-Indigenous ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antone-Ramirez recommends beginning by researching the communities who are “directly affected” by the issue at hand, finding out what they’re already working on, and offering support to their organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. \u003ccite>(Arianna Antone-Ramirez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also advises embarking on your \u003cem>own\u003c/em> bureaucratic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has anything come up in my city council? Wherever you live, have there been any hearings about this? … Where is this issue now? Is it in a committee?” Acquiring this familiarity with civic processes, says Antone-Ramirez, will really help these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what \u003cem>are\u003c/em> these processes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best approach for challenging a statue or place name is “the same as approaching the city government for any other civic inquiry,” says Rebekah Krell, acting director of cultural affairs at the San Francisco Arts Commission – the city body that was involved in the removal of the Early Days statue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governmental bodies she recommends contacting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your District Supervisor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Mayor’s office of your town/city\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The local Arts Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your local non-emergency 311 line\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Krell also advises attending “any number of public meetings” to “pose general public comment.” This, she says, is how member of the public campaigning for the removal of the Early Days monument “got the ball rolling”– “the community came to a [monthly] public Arts Commission meeting” and spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a group is specifically looking to challenge a monument or public artwork, Krell says that the agency governing these can differ from municipality. It could be an Arts Commission (as in San Francisco), a Parks Department or your city’s Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when all else fails,” she says, “your elected city representative (council member, district supervisor, etc.) office should be able to direct your concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\">announced plans\u003c/a> to now evaluate the the city’s nearly one hundred public monuments and memorials — and whether any of them should be removed. The plans will apparently entail the city examining factors including the story behind the historical figure a work depicts, the artist who made it, the community’s response so far, and the cost of its removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story incorrectly listed Greg Sarris as the owner of Graton Resort & Casino and has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They called for supporters to ready for more pushback as the work of redesigning school safety gets underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re very excited to win the removal of the police department from OUSD, we also are embracing this next level of struggle,” said Jessica Black, an organizing director for BOP, who added that it will “require people to change their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, she said, it’ll require the school district to hand over some decision making power to community stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have to change our hearts and minds around who the experts are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly approved \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564122&GUID=C591BB69-6054-4DCC-8548-69AA1623E643&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department\u003c/a> directs Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell to launch “an inclusive, community-driven process” for developing a new district safety plan by Aug. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution explicitly calls for parents, students, teachers, administrators, the Black Organizing Project and others to be included in the process. 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Expulsions dropped 53% over that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show a modest decrease in the percentage of all suspensions and expulsions of Black students, from 36.2% to 33.0%. Black students make up about 11 % of district students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In voting to lay off all 67 employees of the Oakland School Police Department, including its 10 sworn officers, the board agreed it could funnel those savings towards student support services like counselors and academic mentors. The board’s decision also directs the district to put in place annual implicit bias and anti-racism training for all staff — and in a last-minute addition, for school board members themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s resolution draws in part on a \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Black Organizing Project plan\u003c/a> for police-free schools, which calls for moving the safety program to the equity or behavioral health departments and investing more money in mental health and special education staff, plus restorative justice programs. The plan would replace school security officers with “peacekeepers” or “school climate specialists” trained in de-escalation and trauma-informed approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools police department chief Jeff Godown has expressed support for the board’s vote, and his input may help guide the alternative safety plan development. Earlier this year, Superintendent Johnson-Trammell tasked Godown with coming up with guidelines for how the district could function without officers in schools. Last month, the school board also hired Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Project to develop recommendations. That report, due in the fall, will likely also shape the safety plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ousd\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists with BOP want to seize on the momentum to think beyond safety in the traditional sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re proposing to have students learn social skills, to have students learn how to build relationships, to have teachers learn how to build relationships,” said BOP organizer Black. “We’re proposing to change the entire school culture and climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School leaders have echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police in schools are ultimately a symptom of a much larger issue,” Johnson-Trammell said before the vote. “If we are really going to make progress, we have to transform the underlying conditions within the school system that have brought us to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Advocates say they’re ready for the work. “It’s gonna take a while to turn this thing around,” said BOP director Jackie Byers. “We’re in for the long haul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article has been updated to clarify the number of armed personnel included in the Oakland School Police Department’s total staff. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So I do envision some of our workforce will continue as disaster service workers for the foreseeable future. But other workers, for example, the ones in the hotels — I’m optimistic that we will get those folks back in the near term. I understand that the Human Services Agency is looking to contract that work out to nonprofits. And once they can have the alternative workforce in place, then my branch managers can come back to the library and help me stand up SFPL To Go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why will it take so long to get some library workers back into their regular jobs? Why can’t the city find other people to take over for them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I share my staff’s eagerness to reopen and resume library services. But I also understand that the city’s priorities overall are to protect vulnerable populations, ensure that there’s adequate availability of alternative housing and be prepared for a medical surge. I’m realistic about this upcoming year and the city’s need for disaster service workers — I do expect that to continue on some level. What I’m working on is trying to balance reopening libraries with our ability to continue supporting the city’s priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why are librarians deployed in this manner in such high numbers? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re a very well funded, well supported library system. We have 28 library locations that were open seven days a week. At the time we closed on March 13, we had the largest idle workforce of any city department. So as the city needed to respond to the public health emergency, we were a logical source of city workers for staffing food pantries and doing community outreach and the myriad roles that library staff are currently serving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When was the last time the San Francisco Public Library workforce was deployed on this scale?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly unprecedented. We are now in the longest sustained closure of our library system since World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The City of San Francisco is paying the salaries of workers currently serving in DSW roles. But the city is expecting to eventually get reimbursed for much of these salaries by FEMA and other state and federal disaster recovery funds. Does this provide the city with a further incentive to keep library workers serving in emergency roles?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think so. I think the main reason to rely on library workers to perform disaster service work or functions is because there’s a need for library staff to help be a part of the city’s response. That’s the primary driver of why library workers are being called upon. I don’t think it’s a financial motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A library worker who responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824854/san-francisco-libraries-still-closed-as-their-staff-work-on-covid-19-front-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week’s KQED story\u003c/a> about the San Francisco library system on social media wrote, “Staff was forced to exhaust their sick pay or not get paid at all if they did not want to go to the front lines.” KQED has received similar comments from other library workers. What’s your response to this criticism?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel for our library staff that were unable to report for their disaster service work reactivations. In those scenarios, people have options. Depending on what their individual circumstances are, they can either use their vacation time or their sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What happens if someone runs out of leave? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have the option of using unpaid leave and there may be some other options they have available to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest word from the city is that library workers are assured salaries through the end of June. Is that date likely to be extended?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like everyone else, I’m eagerly awaiting an updated communication about the continuance of that benefit, hopefully this week. This affects all city employees, not just the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will happen if employees’ salaries are not extended beyond June 30?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am an optimist. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every day that Kim Lewis headed out the door to her job at a nursing home in San Rafael, she left her husband, Robert Lewis, to keep track of their first- and third-graders’ homeschooling, while he also watched their 4 year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said their kids’ teachers had been pretty good at communicating and tracking progress, but she said sometimes the kids would be “sneaky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They pretend they’re doing their homework, but they don’t,” she said, laughing. “They think it’s vacation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then one day, school principal David Finnane knocked on their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so funny. He said, ‘What’s going on? Where’s my kids?'” said Lewis. “And then my husband was like, ‘Oh, they didn’t do their homework today.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Marin County issued shelter-in-place orders in mid-March, Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy realized a small number of its 120 students were having a hard time learning from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent of the Sausalito Marin City School District, Itoco Garcia, said staff came together as a team and began calling families at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the reason some of our kids were struggling to get their distance learning done is that their parents are essential workers and they’re still working,” said Garcia, adding that he could relate, with kids of his own at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the phone calls weren’t enough, so the school decided to offer 35 parents the option of sending their children to school from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. to learn in class with a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825498\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43702_IMG_2099_v2-qut-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Lewis said she signed a school waiver so that her two children could attend an in-person pilot program at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43702_IMG_2099_v2-qut-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43702_IMG_2099_v2-qut-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43702_IMG_2099_v2-qut-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43702_IMG_2099_v2-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Lewis said she signed a school waiver so that her two children could attend an in-person pilot program at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lewis said that after learning about the safety procedures the school would put in place, she felt comfortable signing the school’s waiver and agreed to send in her children, Cameron and Camora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I trust the school,” she said. “It was a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-week pilot began May 20 and ended on the last day of school, June 4. Twenty-seven students from the K-8 school, which is near the border of Marin City and Sausalito, consistently attended school in the building as part of a limited test run of how things could work this summer and in the fall. The school took guidance from the county health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825497 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43703_IMG_2092_v2-qut-800x853.jpg\" alt=\"Administrative assistant Julius Holtzclaw checks a kindergartner's temperature when she arrives at school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43703_IMG_2092_v2-qut-800x853.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43703_IMG_2092_v2-qut-160x171.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43703_IMG_2092_v2-qut-1020x1088.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43703_IMG_2092_v2-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Administrative assistant Julius Holtzclaw checks a kindergartner’s temperature when she arrives at school. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protocol during the three weeks required families to drop their children off outside the school at staggered times in 10 to 15 minute intervals and by grade level or cohort; if students arrived in groups, they were directed to stand on taped marks 6 feet apart outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school doorway, administrative assistant Julius Holtzclaw checked each student, making sure they had masks on, got their temperature checked, and received a big squirt of hand sanitizer and rubbed while he counted to 20. He asked them whether they had had any diarrhea or vomiting the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Garcia said county public health officials had advised that students in the pilot program under the age of 12 didn’t need to wear masks, but the school still encouraged it. Teachers had to wear masks, and inside each classroom was a desk holding extra masks and hand sanitizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fifth grader Roderick Bradley arrived, Holtzclaw reminded him to put on his mask\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, a little bit, it bothers me,” said Roderick. But he said he was glad to be back in class with his friend Bairon Puertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a good idea,” said Bairon. “Because if I don’t get something, the teacher is there. I could just ask for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boys sat at desks 6 feet apart, and the maximum class size during the pilot was 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley makes a point of getting his in-person class of six students out on a walk during the school day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley makes a point of getting his in-person class of six students out on a walk during the school day. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley is one of several teachers who volunteered to return to Bayside MLK. He figured he could run his virtual classes from inside the school for the majority of his students who were doing fine learning from home, while at the same time provide in-person instruction for six of his students for whom virtual learning was not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really wanted to come back to work,” said Culley. “I’m a person-to-person kind of teacher. It was just really odd, trying to get it all done through Zoom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not lost on Culley that reopening school campuses is a risk. As shelter-in-place orders ease up, California is seeing a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections. The virus can spread from an adult to a child who then, potentially asymptomatic, can spread it to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m questioning myself as to how close do I get? When is the last time I washed my hands or used hand sanitizer? There’s a lot of filtering going on that is hard to get used to,” Culley said. “I’m constantly worried about kids being human beings in the sense of being close and talking and touching, and that’s been challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825496\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43704_IMG_2101_v2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sausalito Marin City schools superintendent Itoco Garcia drops in on a pilot program class, where desks are spaced 6 feet apart.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43704_IMG_2101_v2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43704_IMG_2101_v2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43704_IMG_2101_v2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43704_IMG_2101_v2-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sausalito Marin City schools superintendent Itoco Garcia drops in on a pilot program class, where desks are spaced 6 feet apart. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garcia said the pilot program proved that this school community can reopen classrooms safely. But he said it will take more investment by the state to achieve smaller class sizes in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he will need to hire three more teachers in the fall to keep students in groups of 12, as recommended by public health and state guidelines for schools. Yet, he is facing a 10% budget reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature just passed a budget that rejected the deep cuts to education proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. However, it won’t be until July that state tax revenues will be tallied and word on whether any further COVID-19 relief is on its way from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 80 families dropped their children off Monday at Bayside MLK for summer school. Summer school is when many students who need to catch up on learning can do so — and with the pandemic, this year there are plenty of takers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said she signed up her children to attend.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Twenty-seven students from the K-8 school, which is near the border of Marin City and Sausalito, consistently attended school in the building as part of a limited test run of how things could work this summer and in the fall. 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He asked them whether they had had any diarrhea or vomiting the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Garcia said county public health officials had advised that students in the pilot program under the age of 12 didn’t need to wear masks, but the school still encouraged it. Teachers had to wear masks, and inside each classroom was a desk holding extra masks and hand sanitizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fifth grader Roderick Bradley arrived, Holtzclaw reminded him to put on his mask\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, a little bit, it bothers me,” said Roderick. But he said he was glad to be back in class with his friend Bairon Puertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a good idea,” said Bairon. “Because if I don’t get something, the teacher is there. I could just ask for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boys sat at desks 6 feet apart, and the maximum class size during the pilot was 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley makes a point of getting his in-person class of six students out on a walk during the school day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43705_IMG_2114_v2-qut.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley makes a point of getting his in-person class of six students out on a walk during the school day. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fifth grade teacher Brandon Culley is one of several teachers who volunteered to return to Bayside MLK. He figured he could run his virtual classes from inside the school for the majority of his students who were doing fine learning from home, while at the same time provide in-person instruction for six of his students for whom virtual learning was not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really wanted to come back to work,” said Culley. “I’m a person-to-person kind of teacher. It was just really odd, trying to get it all done through Zoom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not lost on Culley that reopening school campuses is a risk. As shelter-in-place orders ease up, California is seeing a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections. The virus can spread from an adult to a child who then, potentially asymptomatic, can spread it to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m questioning myself as to how close do I get? When is the last time I washed my hands or used hand sanitizer? 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The university’s proposed Ethnic Studies and Social Justice requirement is before its board of trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CSU requirement avoids setting a dangerous precedent for legislative interference and keeps the higher education curriculum setting process within those institutions,” Toni Molle, director of public affairs at the university, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporting the university’s stance, Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Contra Costa, said courses on Armenian studies, for instance, would not count toward the bill’s graduation requirement. He warned of “political interference in the academy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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It’s the heart of Oakland,” said resident Topher Francia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the lake has also drawn controversy. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018\u003c/a>, the lake was the backdrop of a viral video that showed a white woman calling the police on two Black men barbecuing. The term “BBQ Becky” was coined, and used to refer to this incident, as a concerning trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francia was sitting with Gabriel Alcaraz, who said that nooses have also been found on the campus of Mills College in Oakland. Alcaraz, who has studied ethnic studies and art, said the noose is “meant to terrorize and recall people being publicly murdered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some in the community were surprised by the effigy, others saw it as a tool of opportunists attempting to spark fear. 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After his conversation with the woman, he looked it up on social media. Johnson said, as a Black man, he wasn’t surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m kind of happy the ugliness appeared as it did. I think it will make us come together even more. 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It’s the perfect storm for a righteous conversation for good,” Johnson said. He showed the book he was reading on complex PTSD, and said racism also impacts those who perpetrate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the initial shock, Esther Melton voiced the sentiment of many enjoying a sunny afternoon at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody enjoys this space. We’re still out here,” Melton said. “I still feel like this is our space. We’re still gonna have our joy.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to Do If You Witness a Hate Crime\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you believe you’ve seen or been the victim of a hate crime or incident, the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">California Attorney General\u003c/a>‘s Office recommends that you call the local sheriff or police department immediately to make a report. 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It’s the heart of Oakland,” said resident Topher Francia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the lake has also drawn controversy. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018\u003c/a>, the lake was the backdrop of a viral video that showed a white woman calling the police on two Black men barbecuing. The term “BBQ Becky” was coined, and used to refer to this incident, as a concerning trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francia was sitting with Gabriel Alcaraz, who said that nooses have also been found on the campus of Mills College in Oakland. Alcaraz, who has studied ethnic studies and art, said the noose is “meant to terrorize and recall people being publicly murdered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some in the community were surprised by the effigy, others saw it as a tool of opportunists attempting to spark fear. Retiree Floyd Johnson said he was shocked, but also wondered if someone was trying to instigate something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought we’d come a whole lot farther than that,” Johnson said. “I would suggest people focus on themselves, forget about that and continue to love people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43698_MVIMG_20200618_172901-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I would suggest people focus on themselves, forget about that and continue to love people,” said Floyd Johnson on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esteban Samayoa, an Oakland-based artist who sat by the lake with his dog and friend Tiernan Nguyen, said he was surprised by the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said incidents like these have made his friends nervous, but acknowledged that “this isn’t new at all, it’s been happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Johnson found out about the incident when a white woman came by to ask if a nearby tree was where the effigy was found. After his conversation with the woman, he looked it up on social media. Johnson said, as a Black man, he wasn’t surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m kind of happy the ugliness appeared as it did. I think it will make us come together even more. The more the hate rears its ugly head … then we’ll continue to fight, unify and speak truth to power,” said Johnson, who works with \u003ca href=\"https://choose1.org\">CHOOSE1\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43694_MVIMG_20200618_170451-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The more the hate rears its ugly head … then we’ll continue to fight, unify and speak truth to power,’ said John Johnson on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the moment is static-charged and it’s a good energy. It’s the perfect storm for a righteous conversation for good,” Johnson said. He showed the book he was reading on complex PTSD, and said racism also impacts those who perpetrate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the initial shock, Esther Melton voiced the sentiment of many enjoying a sunny afternoon at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody enjoys this space. We’re still out here,” Melton said. “I still feel like this is our space. We’re still gonna have our joy.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to Do If You Witness a Hate Crime\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you believe you’ve seen or been the victim of a hate crime or incident, the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">California Attorney General\u003c/a>‘s Office recommends that you call the local sheriff or police department immediately to make a report. It’s also suggested that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/get-help-now\">make a report to the FBI\u003c/a>, so it can be investigated as a federal crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also report hate crimes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/a>. SPLC, however, recommends you report to local law enforcement first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, law enforcement officials recommend that you also take notes and save evidence from the incident to aid law enforcement in their investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area cities have their own processes of reporting hate crimes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2018/opd-hate-crime-hotline\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpd.org/reportingcrime/hatecrimes.html\">San Jose\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org/san-francisco-coalition-against-hate-violence-cahv\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Molly McCall is a librarian based at the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/excelsior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a>’s Excelsior branch. For the past couple of months, she’s been reassigned as a disaster service worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get a badge and everything,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, McCall has been delivering meals to at-risk people in a Civic Center hotel. She and other library workers are doing contact tracing, running food banks and helping out at hotels and trailer parks where the city is housing homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s proud of San Francisco for taking such a cautious approach to the coronavirus recovery process and loves being of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really satisfying, rewarding work,\" McCall said. \"It feels great to be giving people food and helping.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her colleagues agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being with the most needy in the city at this time is very gratifying,\" said\u003cb> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main Library \u003c/a>librarian Moazzam Sheikh, who recently completed a stint as a disaster service worker delivering meals at a trailer park. \u003c/span>\u003c/b>\"People were so grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love our city. We want to help people,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/west-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Portal branch\u003c/a> librarian Angela Moffett, who has contributed to the disaster relief effort also by serving meals at an outdoor site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after months of closure, the public libraries around the Bay Area are slowly starting to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libraries in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/express-pickup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomalibrary.org/curbside-pickup-at-library\">Santa Rosa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://guides.aclibrary.org/NoContactPickup\">Alameda County\u003c/a> have started offering curbside pickup. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oaklibrary/status/1272608688935583745?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland\u003c/a> will begin its service on Friday, and Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/05/29/berkeley-public-library-plans-to-offer-curbside-pick-up-of-books-in-mid-to-late-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has gone public\u003c/a> on plans to do the same soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One notable exception is San Francisco, where more than a third of library workers continue to do frontline disaster relief, while reopening plans remain under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 12\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> roughly 350 San Francisco library employees out of a total staff of around 900 were currently working on the front lines of the city’s coronavirus relief efforts, alongside workers from other city departments such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Services Agency\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfwater.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a clause in the employment contracts\u003c/a> of all San Francisco city employees that states they may be called upon to do disaster service work in the case of a local emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But of course, we all thought of it as, like, responding after an earthquake or something like that,\" McCall said. \"I mean, who could imagine any of this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other Bay Area libraries in the process of bringing librarians back to their regular jobs, McCall and many of her colleagues are concerned that San Francisco hasn’t yet done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, the city included libraries in the draft press release detailing reopening plans for the week of June 15, dubbed Phase 2B — but then removed them by the time the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-timeline-and-plan-safely-reopening-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official statement\u003c/a> was released, a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11824960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"A draft press release from the San Francisco mayor's office shows libraries as being slated for reopening for curbside pickup in Phase 2B starting June 15. The mention of libraries was removed by the time the official press release went out later on May 28.\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft press release from the San Francisco mayor's office shows libraries as being slated for reopening for curbside pickup in Phase 2B starting June 15. The mention of libraries was removed by the time the official press release went out later on May 28. \u003ccite>(Screenshot of draft press release)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The content in the embargoed release was based on a draft list of activities that would be allowed to resume in phases,\" wrote the mayor's deputy press director Sarah Owens in an email. \"There were some adjustments to that content prior to issuing the final release, which is why library curbside pickup wasn't in the final version.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I don't know anything about a draft press release indicating we were supposed to reopen on June 15,\" wrote Michelle Jeffers, San Francisco Public Library's c\u003c/span>hief of community programs and partnerships. \"That is the first I've heard of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the library's rank and file said they have been receiving conflicting messages and an overall lack of communication from the city's senior management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824958 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Portal branch librarian Angela Moffett in costume for a special library event. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angela Moffett)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's been a real lack of transparency,\" said librarian Moffett. \"We're not really privy to the decision making.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moffett said patrons have also been asking what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Myself and other librarians at our branches have been getting calls and emails from patrons wanting to know when we're reopening,\" said Moffett. \"So I know the patrons are eager to see some kind of service resume.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Public Library turned down KQED’s request for an interview with its top official, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/about-us/library-administration/michael-lambert-city-librarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Librarian Michael Lambert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a recent email obtained by KQED, Lambert told library staff, \"One of the challenges to be overcome for our eventual reopening of SFPL is orchestrating the return of library workers from their Disaster Service Work assignments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824970 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Librarian Michel Lambert. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lambert wrote that it could be a year before some librarians, particularly those involved in contact tracing, will get to return to their regular jobs. The city's Human Services Agency has started \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/job-opportunity-site-monitor-emergency-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advertising for jobs helping out at hotels and trailer parks\u003c/a>, suggesting disaster service workers in those positions may be relieved sooner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert said in his email that the city is likely to reopen the main branch first, with other select locations, yet to be determined, reopening for business with limited hours of operation thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more than a third of San Francisco's library staffers are currently part of the city's disaster recovery workforce, by comparison, only 17% of San Jose's library employees have been deployed as emergency workers. San Jose was able to launch its \"Express Pickup\" service at libraries on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of our staff members are continuing to support the emergency operations center on a part-time basis while also supporting the library’s transition to express pickup,\" wrote San Jose library spokeswoman Elizabeth Castaneda in an email. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"First, we are bringing back staff who have yet to be fully assigned; as we expand library services that can be provided within our county public health orders, we will transition other emergency deployed staff back into library service.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco librarian McCall said she and her colleagues could be using their training and experience to do more to help those hit hardest by the pandemic, like helping people fill out online unemployment forms or research health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's this vital thing out there that I'm trained and experienced in that I'm not doing,\" McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she started disaster recovery work, McCall, who's a children's librarian, was part of a team creating online tutorial videos for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\" data-card-key=\"315412bdcd554e5fab14e2295681d82f\">\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_r3cwkC0as\">Brainfuse -- Show & Tell with SFPL\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Brainfuse -- Show & Tell with SFPL Got homework woes? Meet Brainfuse, the tech support for your homework. Brainfuse is available 24/7, with online tutors on ...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is worried about what the ongoing closure of San Francisco’s libraries could mean for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids, when they go into the summer, and if they don't read, their reading skills slide,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public elementary school teacher and mom Sandra Vega-Martinez said before the pandemic hit, she had come to rely on her local library to keep her students and her own kids happy and busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11825124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-800x1045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-800x1045.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-1020x1333.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco teacher and mom Sandra Vega-Martinez with her children Georgia and Austin. The family misses their local library branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sandra Vega-Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Not being able to go there and interact with the staff and with the kids has I think unfortunately helped some of the kids regress,\" Vega-Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s always thought libraries were important. But their closure has made her realize how essential they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know what's going on with the schools,\" Vega-Martinez said. \"But at least the library would offer some option for the kids to go back inside and have some sort of interaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extended closure of the libraries isn't just an issue for children and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cb>\u003c/b>It's been like losing a friend,\" said San Francisco resident Anne Jones, who's been frequenting the West Portal branch since moving into the neighborhood more than a decade ago. \"I can talk to my friends on the phone or text them, but I can't talk to or text being at the library. Just being in the middle of all those books and all the knowledge that's there — I miss that.\u003ci>\"\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/06%2015%202020%20Phased%20Resumption%20of%20Library%20Services%20CL%20Memo.FINAL_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did issue a public statement\u003c/a> earlier this week outlining the beginnings of a plan — but no dates — to start curbside pickup in some locations. A launch date for the service, dubbed \"SFPL To Go\", has yet to be determined. The Excelsior branch's McCall is excited about the prospect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, my greatest hope is just that we are able to start getting books into kids hands,\" she said. \"Even if it's a very cautious, limited opening of just certain branches in key areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her colleagues agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being with the most needy in the city at this time is very gratifying,\" said\u003cb> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main Library \u003c/a>librarian Moazzam Sheikh, who recently completed a stint as a disaster service worker delivering meals at a trailer park. \u003c/span>\u003c/b>\"People were so grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love our city. We want to help people,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/west-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Portal branch\u003c/a> librarian Angela Moffett, who has contributed to the disaster relief effort also by serving meals at an outdoor site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after months of closure, the public libraries around the Bay Area are slowly starting to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libraries in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/express-pickup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomalibrary.org/curbside-pickup-at-library\">Santa Rosa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://guides.aclibrary.org/NoContactPickup\">Alameda County\u003c/a> have started offering curbside pickup. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oaklibrary/status/1272608688935583745?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland\u003c/a> will begin its service on Friday, and Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/05/29/berkeley-public-library-plans-to-offer-curbside-pick-up-of-books-in-mid-to-late-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has gone public\u003c/a> on plans to do the same soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One notable exception is San Francisco, where more than a third of library workers continue to do frontline disaster relief, while reopening plans remain under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 12\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> roughly 350 San Francisco library employees out of a total staff of around 900 were currently working on the front lines of the city’s coronavirus relief efforts, alongside workers from other city departments such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Services Agency\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfwater.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a clause in the employment contracts\u003c/a> of all San Francisco city employees that states they may be called upon to do disaster service work in the case of a local emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But of course, we all thought of it as, like, responding after an earthquake or something like that,\" McCall said. \"I mean, who could imagine any of this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other Bay Area libraries in the process of bringing librarians back to their regular jobs, McCall and many of her colleagues are concerned that San Francisco hasn’t yet done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, the city included libraries in the draft press release detailing reopening plans for the week of June 15, dubbed Phase 2B — but then removed them by the time the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-timeline-and-plan-safely-reopening-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official statement\u003c/a> was released, a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11824960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"A draft press release from the San Francisco mayor's office shows libraries as being slated for reopening for curbside pickup in Phase 2B starting June 15. The mention of libraries was removed by the time the official press release went out later on May 28.\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43668_draft-press-release-qut.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft press release from the San Francisco mayor's office shows libraries as being slated for reopening for curbside pickup in Phase 2B starting June 15. The mention of libraries was removed by the time the official press release went out later on May 28. \u003ccite>(Screenshot of draft press release)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The content in the embargoed release was based on a draft list of activities that would be allowed to resume in phases,\" wrote the mayor's deputy press director Sarah Owens in an email. \"There were some adjustments to that content prior to issuing the final release, which is why library curbside pickup wasn't in the final version.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I don't know anything about a draft press release indicating we were supposed to reopen on June 15,\" wrote Michelle Jeffers, San Francisco Public Library's c\u003c/span>hief of community programs and partnerships. \"That is the first I've heard of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the library's rank and file said they have been receiving conflicting messages and an overall lack of communication from the city's senior management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824958 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43666_Angela-Moffett-me-at-work-with-butterbeer-during-a-Harry-Potter-STEM-event-qut-e1592436462167.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Portal branch librarian Angela Moffett in costume for a special library event. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angela Moffett)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's been a real lack of transparency,\" said librarian Moffett. \"We're not really privy to the decision making.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moffett said patrons have also been asking what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Myself and other librarians at our branches have been getting calls and emails from patrons wanting to know when we're reopening,\" said Moffett. \"So I know the patrons are eager to see some kind of service resume.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Public Library turned down KQED’s request for an interview with its top official, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/about-us/library-administration/michael-lambert-city-librarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Librarian Michael Lambert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a recent email obtained by KQED, Lambert told library staff, \"One of the challenges to be overcome for our eventual reopening of SFPL is orchestrating the return of library workers from their Disaster Service Work assignments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824970 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43671_Michael-Lambert-qut.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Librarian Michel Lambert. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lambert wrote that it could be a year before some librarians, particularly those involved in contact tracing, will get to return to their regular jobs. The city's Human Services Agency has started \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/job-opportunity-site-monitor-emergency-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advertising for jobs helping out at hotels and trailer parks\u003c/a>, suggesting disaster service workers in those positions may be relieved sooner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert said in his email that the city is likely to reopen the main branch first, with other select locations, yet to be determined, reopening for business with limited hours of operation thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more than a third of San Francisco's library staffers are currently part of the city's disaster recovery workforce, by comparison, only 17% of San Jose's library employees have been deployed as emergency workers. San Jose was able to launch its \"Express Pickup\" service at libraries on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of our staff members are continuing to support the emergency operations center on a part-time basis while also supporting the library’s transition to express pickup,\" wrote San Jose library spokeswoman Elizabeth Castaneda in an email. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"First, we are bringing back staff who have yet to be fully assigned; as we expand library services that can be provided within our county public health orders, we will transition other emergency deployed staff back into library service.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco librarian McCall said she and her colleagues could be using their training and experience to do more to help those hit hardest by the pandemic, like helping people fill out online unemployment forms or research health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's this vital thing out there that I'm trained and experienced in that I'm not doing,\" McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she started disaster recovery work, McCall, who's a children's librarian, was part of a team creating online tutorial videos for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\" data-card-key=\"315412bdcd554e5fab14e2295681d82f\">\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_r3cwkC0as\">Brainfuse -- Show & Tell with SFPL\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Brainfuse -- Show & Tell with SFPL Got homework woes? Meet Brainfuse, the tech support for your homework. Brainfuse is available 24/7, with online tutors on ...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is worried about what the ongoing closure of San Francisco’s libraries could mean for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids, when they go into the summer, and if they don't read, their reading skills slide,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public elementary school teacher and mom Sandra Vega-Martinez said before the pandemic hit, she had come to rely on her local library to keep her students and her own kids happy and busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11825124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-800x1045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-800x1045.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut-1020x1333.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43690_Sandra-Georgia-and-Austin-Vega-qut.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco teacher and mom Sandra Vega-Martinez with her children Georgia and Austin. The family misses their local library branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sandra Vega-Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Not being able to go there and interact with the staff and with the kids has I think unfortunately helped some of the kids regress,\" Vega-Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s always thought libraries were important. But their closure has made her realize how essential they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know what's going on with the schools,\" Vega-Martinez said. \"But at least the library would offer some option for the kids to go back inside and have some sort of interaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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