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She says she and co-producer \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/films/no-mas-bebes/filmmaker\">Virginia Espino\u003c/a>, a historian who wrote her dissertation on the case, wanted to tell a multilayered story, one that revealed how even the best intentions could do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajima-Peña and Espino explore the roles played by federally funded family-planning programs; a growing popular movement to curb population growth that attracted both environmentalists and anti-immigration proponents; doctors fresh out of medical school working in under-resourced maternity wards; cultural misunderstandings; and the popular belief that poor women who need public assistance should abstain from having children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these factors created what Tajima-Peña calls a “perfect storm” resulting in the sterilization of thousands of vulnerable women across the country in the late ’60s and early 1970s. 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(They also called for a dramatic reduction to immigration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Akm8so5PCpQmztRAsKC6euza1J5VHAba”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there were divisions within the feminist movement on how sterilization fit into the bigger picture of reproductive rights. Mainstream white feminists marched for “the right to choose,” including unfettered access to sterilizations, contraception and abortions. Feminists of color also called for abortion rights and easy access to contraception, but broke with white feminists on the issue of sterilization, arguing that for women of color, sterilization was not always a matter of choice. They called for waiting periods before tubal ligation procedures, and Latina activists called for Spanish-language consent forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “No Más Bebés,” California politician \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-morrison-new29-2009aug29-column.html\">Gloria Molina\u003c/a>, who was active in the Chicana feminist movement in the 1970s, says the idea of a waiting period was “totally offensive” to white feminists, who, she says, pushed for sterilization upon demand. “They weren’t taking into account that if you were Spanish-speaking, and if you don’t speak English, you were being denied a right, totally,” Molina says in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the long-held stance, still popular today, that poor women should not have children they can’t afford to support, especially poor women of color. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About 40 years ago, when she was 24, Consuelo Hermosillo had an emergency cesarean section at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. In the new documentary, “No Más Bebés,” she recalls asking her doctor what type of birth control she should use going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He goes, ‘You don’t need anything. We cut your tubes,’ ” Hermosillo says in the film. “And I said, ‘Why?’ And he said, ‘Well you signed for it.’ And I said, ‘Me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nomasbebesmovie.com/\">“No Más Bebés (No More Babies),”\u003c/a> which aired on PBS Monday night, tells the story of how 10 immigrant Mexican women, Hermosillo included, sued Los Angeles County doctors, the state and the U.S. government in 1975 for allegedly violating their civil rights. The women’s cases were similar. Each had an emergency cesarean section and each said she was either unaware that she signed for a tubal ligation or was told by a medical professional that not signing for one could mean death for her and her unborn child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/no-mas-bebes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch the full “No Más Bebés” film here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It examines how the lawsuit, \u003cem>Madrigal v. Quilligan\u003c/em>, came to be, how questions of informed consent — or lack thereof — and coercion played into the case, and how the collision of various societal issues resulted in stories like Hermosillo’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She says she and co-producer \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/films/no-mas-bebes/filmmaker\">Virginia Espino\u003c/a>, a historian who wrote her dissertation on the case, wanted to tell a multilayered story, one that revealed how even the best intentions could do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajima-Peña and Espino explore the roles played by federally funded family-planning programs; a growing popular movement to curb population growth that attracted both environmentalists and anti-immigration proponents; doctors fresh out of medical school working in under-resourced maternity wards; cultural misunderstandings; and the popular belief that poor women who need public assistance should abstain from having children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these factors created what Tajima-Peña calls a “perfect storm” resulting in the sterilization of thousands of vulnerable women across the country in the late ’60s and early 1970s. 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Congress also lifted a ban on federal funding for sterilization, so hospitals that provided the indigent with medical care, like Los Angeles County General Hospital, could apply for government money to perform tubal ligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, lobbying efforts in Washington, fueled by a fear of overpopulation gripping the nation, led to yet more funding for family planning programs. Inspired by the popularity of biologist Paul Ehrlich’s best-selling 1968 book, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html\">The Population Bomb\u003c/a>,” which predicted that at some point in the 1980s, overpopulation would make it impossible for the planet to support humanity, members of the “zero population movement” worked to convince the public that having children was a very bad idea. Some went so far as promoting the sterilization of women deemed to have had too many. 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They called for waiting periods before tubal ligation procedures, and Latina activists called for Spanish-language consent forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “No Más Bebés,” California politician \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-morrison-new29-2009aug29-column.html\">Gloria Molina\u003c/a>, who was active in the Chicana feminist movement in the 1970s, says the idea of a waiting period was “totally offensive” to white feminists, who, she says, pushed for sterilization upon demand. “They weren’t taking into account that if you were Spanish-speaking, and if you don’t speak English, you were being denied a right, totally,” Molina says in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the long-held stance, still popular today, that poor women should not have children they can’t afford to support, especially poor women of color. For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/puertorico.html\">Puerto Rican women had been subjected to sterilizations at various points\u003c/a> as a way to combat astronomical unemployment and poverty on the island; a 1965 survey found that a third of Puerto Rican mothers living on the island at the time had been sterilized. \u003ca href=\"https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v024/24.3lawrence.html\">Native American women\u003c/a> were sterilized at the hands of the Indian Health Service in the 1970s. Poor African-American women on government assistance were also sterilized across the country during that time period. \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/relf-v-weinberger\">A particularly damning case\u003c/a>, brought two years before \u003cem>Madrigal v. 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"content": "\u003cp>New data show the vast majority of women with children seeking refuge in the U.S. who were ordered deported in the last year and a half never had a lawyer. One of those women was 21-year-old María Pérez, who escaped violence in her town in Mexico and in her home. She applied for asylum, but due to confusion missed an all-important court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez lived in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, with her two small children and her husband. She says he was involved with a drug cartel and often beat her. She didn’t trust the police to protect her. After all, she says, they did nothing about the kidnappings, rapes and killings that had become common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245078175\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cartels showed up ... and corpses appeared all over,\" says Pérez. \"The government didn’t do anything. Nothing. That’s how the government is in Mexico.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez says after her husband’s enemies shot up her house, she took her baby daughter and 3-year-old son and fled north. At the California border, she asked for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Home in Central Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez settled in the Central Valley, and she says she tried to do everything the government asked. She traveled every month to San Francisco to check in with immigration authorities. She didn’t have a lawyer, though, and when she got a court date in the mail, she mistakenly showed up at the immigration office again, instead of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got there and I asked, 'Where is the court? I was supposed to have court.' But the officer didn’t speak Spanish. He just told me to sign in, and then he gave me a new date to come back. So I thought I had done what I had to do,\" Pérez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851710\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration attorney Laura Polstein (L) confers with Maria Perez. 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That’s what happened to Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/mwc/\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University\u003c/a>, 18,607 women and children seeking asylum in the U.S. were issued final orders of removal between July 2014 and December 2015. Like Pérez, 86 percent of them did not have a lawyer. And also like Pérez, the vast majority simply never made it to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Importance of a Lawyer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, says when potential asylees have legal representation, it makes it easier for judges to be sure they have all the facts before making a decision. That's important, she says, because the stakes are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a judge makes a decision that someone has to go back, they may be sent to a life-threatening situation,\" says Marks, who speaks as an official of her union, not on behalf of her employer, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the United States Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.'\u003ccite>Attorney Laura Polstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Marks says even if you do have a lawyer and make your case to a judge, it’s still hard to qualify for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I compare asylum law to putting together a jigsaw puzzle,\" Marks says. \"You may have enough pieces that we all know what the picture is going to look like, but if there is a piece missing, that case cannot be granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winning Asylum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing deportation, María Pérez started desperately calling attorneys until she found \u003ca href=\"http://centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> in Oakland. Attorney Laura Polstein was able to reopen Pérez’s case, arguing that she did not willfully miss her court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Pérez and her children won asylum in the United States. Polstein says attorneys had to do extensive research and submit multiple news articles, human rights reports and expert affidavits to document the violence by drug cartels in Mexico and the lack of protection for victims of domestic violence. She says the attorney for the government cross-examined Pérez extensively for about two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a legal point of view, this is not something people can do without an attorney, especially if they have a low literacy level,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes many other families who were ordered deported could also have valid claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fU6MN3r3TXf4aiISNYib9Ng7N5b9BkY5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day we have people coming to our doors, and we meet people at court who need attorneys and who we are not able to provide services to,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics from TRAC also show that if women with children have an attorney, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/396/\">their chance to win their asylum cases goes up 14 times\u003c/a>. The overwhelming lack of legal counsel in these cases prompted the bipartisan U.S. Civil Rights Commission to call for \u003ca href=\"http://www.usccr.gov/press/2016/PR_ICE_Deportations_Announcement.pdf\">halting all deportations of women and children from Central America \u003c/a>who are seeking asylum, until their cases can be reviewed to see if they had due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who advocate for restricting immigration say asylum seekers who didn’t show up in court have had their chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t see any reason to use government resources to go back through and give people another bite of the apple when they’ve already abused the system,\" says Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. \"What needs to happen is they should be sent home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Detainees Last Month\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained 121 women and children in early January, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/01/04/statement-secretary-jeh-c-johnson-southwest-border-security\"> also argued these people had exhausted their legal options\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), which requires day care providers to be vaccinated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 216,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, even if the device does not contain tobacco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 960\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat, makes it easier for people to donate sperm or eggs and for unmarried parents who use assisted reproduction to be recognized as legal guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Rights and Equality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the governor couldn’t agree on much around affordable housing, but they did back a number of bills expanding workers rights, particularly for women and parents — including a groundbreaking gender pay bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 358\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Sen. Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. Mitchell gives child welfare social workers better oversight of mental health treatment for foster kids, including the prescription of psychotropic medications.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 731\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Sen. Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. Sponsored by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, it registers people to vote when they receive or renew their driver’s license, unless they opt out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 990\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), requires clearer disclosure on campaign fliers so it’s apparent who is paying for them. It took effect in October.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AB1100, by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), raises the filing fee for ballot measures from $200 to $2,000 to discourage abuse.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Everything else\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 40\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), bars the Golden Gate Bridge District and other state-owned bridges from charging tolls to pedestrians and bicyclists.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 774\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblyman Mark Levine (D-Marin), allows beer tastings at farmers markets.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1116\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>by Assemblyman Gatto, protects Californians from television voice-recognition features that could surreptitiously record private conversations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 30,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Salinas), takes effect in 2017 and bars schools from using “Redskins” as their mascot.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), which requires day care providers to be vaccinated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 216,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, even if the device does not contain tobacco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 960\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat, makes it easier for people to donate sperm or eggs and for unmarried parents who use assisted reproduction to be recognized as legal guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Rights and Equality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the governor couldn’t agree on much around affordable housing, but they did back a number of bills expanding workers rights, particularly for women and parents — including a groundbreaking gender pay bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 358\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Sen. Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. Mitchell gives child welfare social workers better oversight of mental health treatment for foster kids, including the prescription of psychotropic medications.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 731\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Sen. Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. Sponsored by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, it registers people to vote when they receive or renew their driver’s license, unless they opt out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 990\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), requires clearer disclosure on campaign fliers so it’s apparent who is paying for them. It took effect in October.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AB1100, by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), raises the filing fee for ballot measures from $200 to $2,000 to discourage abuse.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In Orange County, California, there’s no shortage of restaurants selling bánh mì, that delicious Vietnamese sandwich featuring a crunchy baguette filled with grilled meat, pate, and fresh and pickled vegetables. The county's Little Saigon is home to the largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam. But go to the town of Westminster and you can see a pop star behind the counter, a woman known as the \"Vietnamese Madonna.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216225838\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai is the most glamorous proprietor of a sandwich shop I’ve ever seen. She sports stiletto heels, a short skirt and perfect makeup -- including false eyelashes. She’s also a bit of a diva. She makes me wait two hours to interview her! Yet in between text messages and phone calls, \u003cem>she’s\u003c/em> the one running to the kitchen -- checking an industrial mixer as it churns a special sauce for the sandwiches. She’s the only one who knows the recipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, Lynda Sandwich, sit in the middle of a parking lot in a strip mall. Inside, though, it feels like a posh living room, with lush plants, brightly painted murals of her idols like Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, and a wide-screen TV playing the Food Network. There’s also a wall of fame, with framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but Lynda Trang Dai might be more famous than any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614788\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1440x1085.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1400x1054.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-960x723.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I used to watch her in videos with my parents when I was a kid growing up. So, she's pretty famous among the Vietnamese community,” says customer Patrick Pham, adding sheepishly, “I never met her, personally,” even though she’s actually at a table just a few feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s clearly star-struck, but he insists he comes for the bánh mì. “They have really good food here. Yeah, it's really simple, you know what I mean?\" he says. \"I think the whole baguette came from like France, when they colonized us for 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Javier Alcala, works at the local community college. He’s eating his favorite \u003cem>cha tom\u003c/em>, a slightly unconventional bánh mì with shrimp cake. Alcala first came in out of curiosity. For years he’d seen posters around town, announcing the singer’s concerts, so he wanted to come in and try the food made by the Madonna of Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai’s journey to Orange County was pretty arduous, but as she talks even about her earliest days, in the ‘70s in central Vietnam, it’s clear that food has always been a driving force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614792\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614792\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-400x403.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1440x1450.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1400x1409.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1180x1188.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-960x967.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember sitting on this wooden table. My grandmother taught me how to make \u003cem>bánh bèo\u003c/em>, dough with shrimp on it,” a dish she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, her family went from well-off to poor, and she remembers, “I would buy fruit, a whole big watermelon, cut it up, and sell it and make money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1979, her father got tipped off that the government was going to investigate him on suspicion of aiding the CIA during the war. They escaped at 2:00 in the morning, family members split between tiny boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to be quiet, so quiet,” Lynda remembers. “It was scary. If we got caught, we'd go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went through storms and ran out of food, and finally found some refuge on a Chinese island, where she says they were fed rice with sugar. “It’s strange to eat rice with sugar, but it was so good at the time,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got back on the water, headed for Hong Kong, and then saw the large British ship that would save them. They all started waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could never forget. It was just unbelievable, the most amazing moment,” Lynda remembers, choking up. “When we got up for them to rescue us into land, they gave us croissants. That was like going from hell to heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614790\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"One of Lynda's signature bánh mì.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1400x931.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Lynda's signature bánh mì. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when her family got to the United States, she developed another passion, and found her first career. She always loved to sing, the first to volunteer in elementary school, she says. As a high school student she started performing in tiny venues around Little Saigon, putting up her own fliers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one night she was discovered singing at a club. She was invited to film her first spot in a variety show called \"Paris By Night\" -- a hugely popular video series -- so she missed her high school graduation and flew to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She became a star, dressing provocatively, singing in both English and Vietnamese, a draw for young Vietnamese-Americans. In the '90s in any home throughout the Vietnamese diaspora, you’d probably find a VHS tape featuring Lynda Trang Dai. The videos even made it back to Vietnam in a kind of gray market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Sometimes when I travel to sing on a tour, I would be up all night making sauce, and just sleep on the plane.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Back then, it's illegal to watch,” Lynda explains, adding that if people got caught they could go to jail. But an estimated 72 million people in Vietnam did watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda started touring Vietnamese communities around the U.S. and the world, but her obsession with Vietnamese food remained constant. She says the first time she went to Australia, she brought food on the plane with her, including \u003cem>bánh bèo \u003c/em>and a noodle soup that she asked the flight attendant to heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the other Vietnamese singers would look at me, like, ‘You are so weird,’ ” she says. But she found good Vietnamese food all over the world, and started a kind of ritual wherever she touched down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any city I'd go to, I'd just check in on the hotel, throw all my luggage down and go and find a Vietnamese restaurant, that’s it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1440x1012.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1400x984.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She still tours a lot, but when I visit she’s performing in Westminster with her contemporaries in a banquet hall, just a few hundred feet away from her bánh mì shop. People in the crowd are dressed to the nines, including sisters Hang and Juliette Nguyen. They came from L.A. to see this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were younger, the sisters say, these were the big Vietnamese stars. They used to watch them on videos, and go to their concerts whenever they came to the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sisters say there weren’t a lot of Vietnamese people in Alabama in the '80s. Tonight the singer is dressed in a barely-there strappy outfit. It fits the image the sisters remember: the sex symbol among Vietnamese singers. She was the \"Vietnamese Madonna,” they say in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comparison thrills Lynda, who is in her late 40s, but she says she worked hard to communicate to the larger community that it was just her onstage persona. “When I’m off stage I’m like 100 percent completely different, a total Vietnamese traditional girl who takes care of their family, food on the table, everything,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: She started her sandwich shop as a business with her family, and though a small staff does most of the food prep and sales, Lynda Trang Dai is still is the only one to make the special Lynda Sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes when I travel to Australia to sing on a tour, or to Europe, I would be up all night here making sauce, and just sleep on the plane if I have to.” Anything, she says, for a great meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally produced for KCRW’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/independent-producer-project\">Independent Producers Project\u003c/a> while Morehouse was at a residency at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>. The series \u003ca href=\"http://californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on July 25, 2015.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In Orange County, California, there’s no shortage of restaurants selling bánh mì, that delicious Vietnamese sandwich featuring a crunchy baguette filled with grilled meat, pate, and fresh and pickled vegetables. The county's Little Saigon is home to the largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam. But go to the town of Westminster and you can see a pop star behind the counter, a woman known as the \"Vietnamese Madonna.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216225838&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216225838'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai is the most glamorous proprietor of a sandwich shop I’ve ever seen. She sports stiletto heels, a short skirt and perfect makeup -- including false eyelashes. She’s also a bit of a diva. She makes me wait two hours to interview her! Yet in between text messages and phone calls, \u003cem>she’s\u003c/em> the one running to the kitchen -- checking an industrial mixer as it churns a special sauce for the sandwiches. She’s the only one who knows the recipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, Lynda Sandwich, sit in the middle of a parking lot in a strip mall. Inside, though, it feels like a posh living room, with lush plants, brightly painted murals of her idols like Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, and a wide-screen TV playing the Food Network. There’s also a wall of fame, with framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but Lynda Trang Dai might be more famous than any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614788\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1440x1085.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1400x1054.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-960x723.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I used to watch her in videos with my parents when I was a kid growing up. So, she's pretty famous among the Vietnamese community,” says customer Patrick Pham, adding sheepishly, “I never met her, personally,” even though she’s actually at a table just a few feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s clearly star-struck, but he insists he comes for the bánh mì. “They have really good food here. Yeah, it's really simple, you know what I mean?\" he says. \"I think the whole baguette came from like France, when they colonized us for 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Javier Alcala, works at the local community college. He’s eating his favorite \u003cem>cha tom\u003c/em>, a slightly unconventional bánh mì with shrimp cake. Alcala first came in out of curiosity. For years he’d seen posters around town, announcing the singer’s concerts, so he wanted to come in and try the food made by the Madonna of Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai’s journey to Orange County was pretty arduous, but as she talks even about her earliest days, in the ‘70s in central Vietnam, it’s clear that food has always been a driving force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614792\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614792\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-400x403.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1440x1450.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1400x1409.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1180x1188.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-960x967.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember sitting on this wooden table. My grandmother taught me how to make \u003cem>bánh bèo\u003c/em>, dough with shrimp on it,” a dish she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, her family went from well-off to poor, and she remembers, “I would buy fruit, a whole big watermelon, cut it up, and sell it and make money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1979, her father got tipped off that the government was going to investigate him on suspicion of aiding the CIA during the war. They escaped at 2:00 in the morning, family members split between tiny boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to be quiet, so quiet,” Lynda remembers. “It was scary. If we got caught, we'd go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went through storms and ran out of food, and finally found some refuge on a Chinese island, where she says they were fed rice with sugar. “It’s strange to eat rice with sugar, but it was so good at the time,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got back on the water, headed for Hong Kong, and then saw the large British ship that would save them. They all started waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could never forget. It was just unbelievable, the most amazing moment,” Lynda remembers, choking up. “When we got up for them to rescue us into land, they gave us croissants. That was like going from hell to heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614790\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"One of Lynda's signature bánh mì.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1400x931.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Lynda's signature bánh mì. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when her family got to the United States, she developed another passion, and found her first career. She always loved to sing, the first to volunteer in elementary school, she says. As a high school student she started performing in tiny venues around Little Saigon, putting up her own fliers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one night she was discovered singing at a club. She was invited to film her first spot in a variety show called \"Paris By Night\" -- a hugely popular video series -- so she missed her high school graduation and flew to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She became a star, dressing provocatively, singing in both English and Vietnamese, a draw for young Vietnamese-Americans. In the '90s in any home throughout the Vietnamese diaspora, you’d probably find a VHS tape featuring Lynda Trang Dai. The videos even made it back to Vietnam in a kind of gray market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Sometimes when I travel to sing on a tour, I would be up all night making sauce, and just sleep on the plane.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Back then, it's illegal to watch,” Lynda explains, adding that if people got caught they could go to jail. But an estimated 72 million people in Vietnam did watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda started touring Vietnamese communities around the U.S. and the world, but her obsession with Vietnamese food remained constant. She says the first time she went to Australia, she brought food on the plane with her, including \u003cem>bánh bèo \u003c/em>and a noodle soup that she asked the flight attendant to heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the other Vietnamese singers would look at me, like, ‘You are so weird,’ ” she says. But she found good Vietnamese food all over the world, and started a kind of ritual wherever she touched down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any city I'd go to, I'd just check in on the hotel, throw all my luggage down and go and find a Vietnamese restaurant, that’s it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1440x1012.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1400x984.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She still tours a lot, but when I visit she’s performing in Westminster with her contemporaries in a banquet hall, just a few hundred feet away from her bánh mì shop. People in the crowd are dressed to the nines, including sisters Hang and Juliette Nguyen. They came from L.A. to see this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were younger, the sisters say, these were the big Vietnamese stars. They used to watch them on videos, and go to their concerts whenever they came to the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sisters say there weren’t a lot of Vietnamese people in Alabama in the '80s. Tonight the singer is dressed in a barely-there strappy outfit. It fits the image the sisters remember: the sex symbol among Vietnamese singers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Authorities in Northern California are investigating nearly half a dozen attacks against Muslims and Islamic institutions in the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like every few days there's a vandalism or attempted firebombing of a mosque nationally,\" said Basim Elkarra, executive director for Sacramento Valley's Council on American-Islamic Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The recent spike in hate incidents has been unprecedented and we feel it's due to the political rhetoric in the campaign.'\u003ccite>Basim Elkarra, executive director for Sacramento Valley CAIR\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Elkarra says recent incidents in Tracy, Richmond, Santa Clara and Castro Valley are part an alarming trend; that includes more than 50 suspected hate crimes against Muslims across the country in just the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239632310\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames the 2016 presidential candidates: \"The recent spike in hate incidents has been unprecedented and we feel it's due to the political rhetoric in the campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, Donald Trump has called for a \"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.\" The candidate has also said that he would increase the surveillance of mosques \"because something is happening in there. Man, there's anger, and we have to know about it.\" Marco Rubio also called for a ban on immigration from \"that part of the world\" and said that \"there is no evidence in this country that there’s widespread and systemic discrimination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some law enforcement officers agree that these statements have influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Harp recently retired as second-in-command of the San Francisco office of the FBI, which investigates such crimes. He compares the impact of such messages with that of Southern officials who rejected integration a half-century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10813905\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10813905\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10813905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Mosque leaders in Tracy contacted CAIR after discovering fire damage on a side door from what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17907_transform-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mosque leaders contacted CAIR after discovering fire damage on a side door from what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CAIR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have people who are watching those candidates who say, well, these are supposedly leaders in our nation and they're going to think those people are the gospel,\" Harp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harp said the FBI works with local law enforcement and civil rights groups to try to prevent such crimes, but often it's public tips that make the difference. Recently, a Richmond man allegedly made criminal threats against Muslims and posted a picture of what appeared to be a pipe bomb online. In that case, a Facebook friend reportedly alerted authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin Zimring, director of criminal justice at UC Berkeley's School of Law, says that local law enforcement should look for the \"usual suspects\" when investigating hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're a police officer there, and there's a brick through a Muslim house of worship, then what you have to do is round up the usual suspects. They're the same people who drink too many beers in bars and will in other situations go off gay-bashing or finding themselves racial minorities,\" he said. \"Those are essentially thugs taking on different targets because Muslims are in the news.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Penny Nelson contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the American Muslim community has a tendency toward isolation, Zaytuna College is where that insularity comes to die. At the only accredited Muslim college in the United States, students spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaytuna is located on ‘‘Holy Hill’’ in Berkeley, just around the corner from the Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of Christian seminaries affiliated with University of California, Berkeley. The college emerged from the Zaytuna Institute, an Islamic educational organization founded in nearby Hayward in 1996. The college admitted its first class in 2010 and was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘‘How are we going to engage the broader community if we’re only working within our own community?’’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The school has 60 students, split almost equally between men and women. 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While traveling with the team, he became disillusioned. ‘‘We had players who were married,’’ he says, ‘‘and that just went out the window when they were out at the clubs. It was all about seeking immediate satisfaction. I started asking myself, ‘What are you doing? What benefit does baseball provide society anyway? What is the purpose of life?’’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, a Muslim friend shared some Islamic lectures with Bhardwaj. ‘‘I opened a Koran and started reading it, and it worked,’’ he says. Bhardwaj decided to travel in the Muslim world and quit his job. He and his friend went to Egypt. It was there that Bhardwaj converted, while studying with a local sheik in 6th of October City outside Cairo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was tension when he returned home. ‘‘I don’t think I’ve ever made my mom cry except for two times,’’ he says, ‘‘and one of those times was when I told her I converted.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhardwaj says his mother has become supportive after seeing how he has found his place at Zaytuna. Bhardwaj was drawn to the college to study Islamic principles of economics and transactional law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘I think Muslims have a lot to offer in the field of finance,’’ he says, especially given ‘‘the corruption on Wall Street.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking Outside the Mosque\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaytuna’s coordinator of learning outside the classroom, Dawood Yasin, says the college wants students ‘‘to think outside the masjid,’’ using the Arabic word for mosque. ‘‘How are we going to engage the broader community if we’re only working within our own community?’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasin is also a convert. He was raised Catholic and is a fourth-generation native of Nantucket, Massachusetts. So it’s pretty ironic, he says, ‘‘when people give me the finger and say, ‘Go back to your country!’’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasin worked as a fashion model in the 1990s in New York, Paris, and South Africa. It was while working in South Africa that he converted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘A lot of times conversion stories are about hitting rock bottom, but I was doing quite well in South Africa, doing TV, and print, and runway,’’ he says. ‘‘But I was asking myself, ‘What does this all mean?’’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After converting, Yasin backpacked around the Muslim world and studied at an Islamic seminary in Damascus, eventually coming back to the United States, working as an Arabic teaching assistant at Yale and later studying at Dartmouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Zaytuna, he leads service education trips with students, in which they work with non-Muslims through organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and with state forestry departments. He also sets up volunteer experiences for students at places such as domestic violence shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, last year after the death of Michael Brown, to work as community organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasin’s focus with the students is not a ‘‘feel-good Islam,’’ he says. Yasin wants students to think about their faith in the context of issues such as poverty and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘How do I buy that pint of strawberries that I know is being picked by people who don’t have access to health care or education?’’ he asks students, when ‘‘the Koran is telling me to eat that which is pure.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘The Koran talks to you through the natural world,’’ Yasin says. ‘‘It’s talking about the mountains and the sky and the rivers and the stars.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds: ‘‘The Koran serves as a reminder to you to be mindful of your responsibility.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Decision to Wear Hijab\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophomore Iman Hamze is a 19-year-old Bay Area native. A first-generation American, her mother is South African and her father is Lebanese. She was raised Muslim. Part of what attracted Hamze to Zaytuna was the chance to study Arabic intensively. She eventually wants to teach the language, ‘‘so that more people can know what the religion is really about. If you can read the Koran, you can figure out the religion for yourself, so it’s not just people feeding it to you.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamze has three older sisters, but she’s the only one of the children in her family to wear the hijab, the head covering worn by some Muslim women, which is not required at Zaytuna. ‘‘My mom wore the hijab and really wanted me to,’’ she says. ‘‘And I never really cared what people thought.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Hamze, wearing the hijab hasn’t been isolating. On the contrary, it’s been a way for her to connect with non-Muslims. ‘‘I guess people have this idea of women in Islam, that they’re oppressed,’’ Hamze says. ‘‘For me the hijab is empowering. I like that it makes me stand out. People ask me about it. Or they ask me about the way I live my life. And I can talk to them and they can see that we’re just like everyone else.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"American Muslim Women Have High Goals\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘Things are really bleak in the Muslim world,’’ says Colleen Keyes, the dean of students at Zaytuna. ‘‘There’s so much suffering.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keyes believes these ‘‘miserable conditions’’ draw people to extremist Islamic groups. But, she says, those radical views reflect ignorance of Muslim traditions, and ‘‘people around the world are hungry for solid scholarship and thought that makes sense.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from New Haven, Connecticut, Keyes was raised Catholic. She converted to Islam in the late 1980s. She was teaching English at a community college and had several Muslim students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If the American Muslim community has a tendency toward isolation, Zaytuna College is where that insularity comes to die. At the only accredited Muslim college in the United States, students spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaytuna is located on ‘‘Holy Hill’’ in Berkeley, just around the corner from the Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of Christian seminaries affiliated with University of California, Berkeley. The college emerged from the Zaytuna Institute, an Islamic educational organization founded in nearby Hayward in 1996. The college admitted its first class in 2010 and was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘‘How are we going to engage the broader community if we’re only working within our own community?’’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The school has 60 students, split almost equally between men and women. About half are from California, and the rest are from other parts of the United States. Students don’t take out loans, and they graduate debt-free, although most of them receive financial assistance from the school, which is supported by individual American Muslim donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaytuna offers only one bachelor’s degree, in Islamic law and theology, but the curriculum combines Islamic and Western teachings. If students are going to be Muslims in the United States, Zaytuna believes they need to understand the country’s history and founding principles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious study isn’t enough at this college. Islam may be the world’s second-largest religion, but in the United States, it is the subject of much misunderstanding and even hatred, and its adherents are often maligned. At Zaytuna, young Muslims are asked to figure out the future of their faith in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Bhardwaj was drawn to the college to study Islamic principles of economics and transactional law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘I think Muslims have a lot to offer in the field of finance,’’ he says, especially given ‘‘the corruption on Wall Street.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking Outside the Mosque\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaytuna’s coordinator of learning outside the classroom, Dawood Yasin, says the college wants students ‘‘to think outside the masjid,’’ using the Arabic word for mosque. ‘‘How are we going to engage the broader community if we’re only working within our own community?’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasin is also a convert. He was raised Catholic and is a fourth-generation native of Nantucket, Massachusetts. So it’s pretty ironic, he says, ‘‘when people give me the finger and say, ‘Go back to your country!’’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasin worked as a fashion model in the 1990s in New York, Paris, and South Africa. It was while working in South Africa that he converted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘A lot of times conversion stories are about hitting rock bottom, but I was doing quite well in South Africa, doing TV, and print, and runway,’’ he says. ‘‘But I was asking myself, ‘What does this all mean?’’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After converting, Yasin backpacked around the Muslim world and studied at an Islamic seminary in Damascus, eventually coming back to the United States, working as an Arabic teaching assistant at Yale and later studying at Dartmouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Zaytuna, he leads service education trips with students, in which they work with non-Muslims through organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and with state forestry departments. 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Yasin wants students to think about their faith in the context of issues such as poverty and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘How do I buy that pint of strawberries that I know is being picked by people who don’t have access to health care or education?’’ he asks students, when ‘‘the Koran is telling me to eat that which is pure.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘The Koran talks to you through the natural world,’’ Yasin says. ‘‘It’s talking about the mountains and the sky and the rivers and the stars.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds: ‘‘The Koran serves as a reminder to you to be mindful of your responsibility.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Decision to Wear Hijab\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophomore Iman Hamze is a 19-year-old Bay Area native. A first-generation American, her mother is South African and her father is Lebanese. She was raised Muslim. Part of what attracted Hamze to Zaytuna was the chance to study Arabic intensively. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nicole Castro had no idea she was going to make history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago she was just a senior at James Logan High School in Union City. That’s when she realized that she never saw Filipinos in the history books she read in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 18, she was sharing a stage with East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta, the first Filipino-American state legislator in California history, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/larry-itliong-forgotten-filipino-labor-leader.html?_r=0\">Johnny Itliong\u003c/a>, the son of a Filipino labor leader she’d learned about in an ethnic studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro and two other former James Logan students were being recognized for leading an effort to rename the first school in the nation to honor Filipino-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Driving up, we saw the [school] signs change and it just gave me goosebumps,” said Castro, who’s now 20 and studying nursing. “I still can’t believe I was a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802807\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10802807 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2608\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), the first Filipino-American Assembly member in California history, stands with students in front of new signage at Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Itliong- Vera Cruz Middle School in Union City — formerly Alvarado Middle School — honors Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz, two Filipino-American leaders who organized for farmworkers rights in California. The two helped lead the successful \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201509100930\">Delano Grape Strike of 1965,\u003c/a> which ultimately led to the formation of the United Farm Workers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually when people think of the farmworkers movement, they think of Cesar Chavez,” said 19-year-old Kevin Torion, one of the three students who led the campaign, who is currently majoring in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State. “The history of the Delano Manongs has been marginalized throughout history … [and] I feel like this renaming is the perfect time to recognize those efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students got involved after what began as a civics lesson in their Filipino Heritage Studies class at James Logan three years ago. Their teacher, Ivan Santos, was starting a unit on Filipino-American history. Their discussions focused on immigration, Filipino communities and labor organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then it gradually started growing bigger than all of us,” said Torion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in that class that the students learned about the largely \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/50-years-later-the-forgotten-origins-of-the-historic-delano-grape-strike\">forgotten history\u003c/a> of Filipino farmworkers in California, and the 13-year effort to get New Haven Unified School District to name a school after Filipino-Americans, which was finally \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23065812/union-city-school-is-nations-first-named-after\">approved\u003c/a> by the school board in April 2013 but didn’t take effect until Dec. 18, 2015. Johnllen Crisostomo, a 20-year-old student who now studies psychology at Ohlone College, was also a leader in the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became more aware of the community,” said Crisostomo, who regularly attended school board meetings to talk about the name change. “We have a Cesar Chavez Middle School. Why not have one for Filipinos to represent both sides of the movement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students began dedicating their semester projects to the name change, and Santos began pulling in support from the Filipino community and beyond. But there was something special about these three students in particular. They were introverts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t your traditional leaders — the high-energy, overachieving students most teachers think of when they think of leaders,” said Santos. “When they were tasked to learn about the experience of their own families, they connected it all with the curriculum. That’s when their engagement jumped. They saw themselves in the history and found motivation to not only take leadership roles in the classroom, but also out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to get the district to name a school after Filipino-Americans were first initiated in 1992 by the New Haven Pilipino-American Society for Education, or NHPASE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracie Noriega, who holds a district position and serves as president of NHPASE, said that campaign was revived by the city’s youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These three young people were instrumental in bringing our vision to reality,” said Noriega. “They organized walks and spirit rallies, as well as gathered support from fellow youth, including Cesar Chavez’s grandson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you ask any of the three students about their role in the efforts, they deflect attention from themselves. 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Crisostomo organized and counted petitions, and worked as Santos’ instructional aide her senior year. Castro regularly attended school board meetings and had background discussions with other local leaders to discuss the name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were told that it was going to be a big thing, that we were gonna make history,” said Castro. “But for me it never really was about that. We’re always absent in the books. But Itliong and Vera Cruz were just as important as Cesar Chavez, [and] I just felt like it was the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the ceremony, Crisostomo was overwhelmed with emotions. She didn’t think their high school efforts would lead to anything after she graduated from high school in 2013. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nicole Castro had no idea she was going to make history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago she was just a senior at James Logan High School in Union City. That’s when she realized that she never saw Filipinos in the history books she read in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 18, she was sharing a stage with East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta, the first Filipino-American state legislator in California history, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/larry-itliong-forgotten-filipino-labor-leader.html?_r=0\">Johnny Itliong\u003c/a>, the son of a Filipino labor leader she’d learned about in an ethnic studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro and two other former James Logan students were being recognized for leading an effort to rename the first school in the nation to honor Filipino-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Driving up, we saw the [school] signs change and it just gave me goosebumps,” said Castro, who’s now 20 and studying nursing. “I still can’t believe I was a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802807\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10802807 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2608\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2608-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), the first Filipino-American Assembly member in California history, stands with students in front of new signage at Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Itliong- Vera Cruz Middle School in Union City — formerly Alvarado Middle School — honors Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz, two Filipino-American leaders who organized for farmworkers rights in California. The two helped lead the successful \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201509100930\">Delano Grape Strike of 1965,\u003c/a> which ultimately led to the formation of the United Farm Workers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually when people think of the farmworkers movement, they think of Cesar Chavez,” said 19-year-old Kevin Torion, one of the three students who led the campaign, who is currently majoring in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State. “The history of the Delano Manongs has been marginalized throughout history … [and] I feel like this renaming is the perfect time to recognize those efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students got involved after what began as a civics lesson in their Filipino Heritage Studies class at James Logan three years ago. Their teacher, Ivan Santos, was starting a unit on Filipino-American history. Their discussions focused on immigration, Filipino communities and labor organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then it gradually started growing bigger than all of us,” said Torion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in that class that the students learned about the largely \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/50-years-later-the-forgotten-origins-of-the-historic-delano-grape-strike\">forgotten history\u003c/a> of Filipino farmworkers in California, and the 13-year effort to get New Haven Unified School District to name a school after Filipino-Americans, which was finally \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23065812/union-city-school-is-nations-first-named-after\">approved\u003c/a> by the school board in April 2013 but didn’t take effect until Dec. 18, 2015. Johnllen Crisostomo, a 20-year-old student who now studies psychology at Ohlone College, was also a leader in the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became more aware of the community,” said Crisostomo, who regularly attended school board meetings to talk about the name change. “We have a Cesar Chavez Middle School. Why not have one for Filipinos to represent both sides of the movement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students began dedicating their semester projects to the name change, and Santos began pulling in support from the Filipino community and beyond. But there was something special about these three students in particular. They were introverts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t your traditional leaders — the high-energy, overachieving students most teachers think of when they think of leaders,” said Santos. “When they were tasked to learn about the experience of their own families, they connected it all with the curriculum. That’s when their engagement jumped. They saw themselves in the history and found motivation to not only take leadership roles in the classroom, but also out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to get the district to name a school after Filipino-Americans were first initiated in 1992 by the New Haven Pilipino-American Society for Education, or NHPASE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracie Noriega, who holds a district position and serves as president of NHPASE, said that campaign was revived by the city’s youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These three young people were instrumental in bringing our vision to reality,” said Noriega. “They organized walks and spirit rallies, as well as gathered support from fellow youth, including Cesar Chavez’s grandson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you ask any of the three students about their role in the efforts, they deflect attention from themselves. Even as Torion introduced Itliong’s son, Johnny, in the gym where the official renaming ceremony took place, he was reluctant to take credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802808\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10802808 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2573\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_2573-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Itliong, son of Filipino-American labor leader Larry Itliong, pauses during a ceremony to officially rename Alvarado Middle School to honor his father. ‘This has been a long time coming,’ he said to applause. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Looking at the words of Manong Philip, leadership is not essential to the movement,” said Torion, who got involved when he was just a junior in high school two years ago. “The movement should move past its leaders because if we just focus on the leaders, then the movement is going to die with the leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torion managed an Instagram account for the movement and even worked as an instructional aide in Santos’ class. 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"content": "\u003cp>The new nuclear deal with Iran has some Californians salivating, quite literally. That's because the deal will lift longtime bans on the imports of food and carpets after Iran meets certain obligations to change its nuclear program, possibly as soon as next summer. With more than 200,000 people of Persian descent in California, that has piqued the interest of some Iranian entrepreneurs here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Idin Deeb, who immigrated to the Los Angeles area from Tehran with his parents at the age of 5. As such, the Persian food distributor knows something about the little longings of his homesick patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's candies and gums and prepared foods of certain brands that no one else can get quite right, \" says Deeb, \"I've had people wax poetic for 25 minutes about a gumball before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb, 27, started his company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalamala.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kalamala, \u003c/a>as a hobby when he was just 15 with the help of his dad, who imports olive oils from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238664199\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always raised with that kind of Iranian-American entrepreneurial mindset, even from a young age. There was no allowance or anything like that. You wanna buy this, how are you gonna make the money to do it?\" remembers Deeb. \"And I knew that there were Persians all throughout the U.S. who were looking for certain ingredients and items. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb fields regular calls from people in the Iranian diaspora desperate, after more than three decades of trade bans, for what he calls \"nostalgic foods,\" which are laden with memories of childhood and homeland. Walking through his Van Nuys warehouse, Deeb demonstrates how two sugar loaves are rubbed together over a couple during their wedding ceremony to bless them with sweetness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You see, there's a sprinkling of sugar,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb found a local Southern California woman who makes these sugar loaves, an example of how he's had to get creative -- because of sanctions, none of his products are actually from Iran. Teas are often from India, and other products come from places as far as China. He says he's hoping that thawing relations will soon allow him to import authentic Persian foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10802966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_3833-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that once the embargo has dropped and relations have normalized a little bit,\" says Deeb, \"that this room will be filled with stuff that's all foreign labeling and been produced in \u003cspan class=\"il\">Iran.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of Persian Cheetos doesn't quicken your pulse, perhaps Persian caviar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.najmiehskitchen.com/pdf/FoodofLife_2012_FishFreshHerbs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pistachios, saffron or the sweet-sour barberry\u003c/a>? That could be just the start, says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the embargo, he says, there's been an explosion when it comes to literacy around foreign cuisine. A foodie at heart, he's most eager to see the flavors he loves make their mark here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really, really excited to see great Western chefs get their hands on traditional Iranian ingredients that have been used for thousands of years,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ImmShift375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Stories from Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While Deeb could have his way relatively soon, sanctions expert Sam Cutler of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari and Associates \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., says the trade opening is still very narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's very little actually changing if you're inside the United States,\" says Cutler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler warns that most transactions between the U.S. and Iran -- whether business or personal -- will still be banned. That means people can still get in trouble for shipping products with possible military uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've seen over the past couple of years a number of prosecutions of individuals for shipping items to Iran that may not be thought to be sensitive,\" says Cutler, \"like MRI coils or air-conditioning equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler says the U.S. will lift sanctions only around foreign subsidiaries, commercial airplane parts, food and carpets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siamak Shamouilzadeh has been in that business for three decades. He shows off one of his favorite pieces in his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos, a Kashan from the 1880s. While he says traditional rugs like these have fallen out of favor with Americans, he’s confident of their enduring value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as rugs go, Persian rugs are amongst the very best in the world,\" says Shamouilzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With craft culture all the rage these days, Shamouilzadeh is optimistic about a comeback for handmade Persian rugs. He still has connections to rug makers in Iran, and hopes that once the trade ban is lifted, he can travel back and forth to commission rugs for American clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They could] focus on the type of pattern and designs and colors that would be more usable in this country and, in that manner, expand production,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shamouilzadeh is looking forward to his own business opportunities, he says he's even more hopeful that increased trade will help make lives easier for people back in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people share that sentiment, says attorney Nazy Fahimi of the Persian community organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pars Equality Center\u003c/a>. But she advises people to consult a lawyer before doing any business in Iran. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The new nuclear deal with Iran has some Californians salivating, quite literally. That's because the deal will lift longtime bans on the imports of food and carpets after Iran meets certain obligations to change its nuclear program, possibly as soon as next summer. With more than 200,000 people of Persian descent in California, that has piqued the interest of some Iranian entrepreneurs here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Idin Deeb, who immigrated to the Los Angeles area from Tehran with his parents at the age of 5. As such, the Persian food distributor knows something about the little longings of his homesick patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's candies and gums and prepared foods of certain brands that no one else can get quite right, \" says Deeb, \"I've had people wax poetic for 25 minutes about a gumball before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb, 27, started his company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalamala.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kalamala, \u003c/a>as a hobby when he was just 15 with the help of his dad, who imports olive oils from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238664199&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238664199'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always raised with that kind of Iranian-American entrepreneurial mindset, even from a young age. There was no allowance or anything like that. You wanna buy this, how are you gonna make the money to do it?\" remembers Deeb. \"And I knew that there were Persians all throughout the U.S. who were looking for certain ingredients and items. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb fields regular calls from people in the Iranian diaspora desperate, after more than three decades of trade bans, for what he calls \"nostalgic foods,\" which are laden with memories of childhood and homeland. Walking through his Van Nuys warehouse, Deeb demonstrates how two sugar loaves are rubbed together over a couple during their wedding ceremony to bless them with sweetness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You see, there's a sprinkling of sugar,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb found a local Southern California woman who makes these sugar loaves, an example of how he's had to get creative -- because of sanctions, none of his products are actually from Iran. Teas are often from India, and other products come from places as far as China. He says he's hoping that thawing relations will soon allow him to import authentic Persian foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10802966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_3833-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that once the embargo has dropped and relations have normalized a little bit,\" says Deeb, \"that this room will be filled with stuff that's all foreign labeling and been produced in \u003cspan class=\"il\">Iran.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of Persian Cheetos doesn't quicken your pulse, perhaps Persian caviar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.najmiehskitchen.com/pdf/FoodofLife_2012_FishFreshHerbs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pistachios, saffron or the sweet-sour barberry\u003c/a>? That could be just the start, says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the embargo, he says, there's been an explosion when it comes to literacy around foreign cuisine. A foodie at heart, he's most eager to see the flavors he loves make their mark here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really, really excited to see great Western chefs get their hands on traditional Iranian ingredients that have been used for thousands of years,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ImmShift375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Stories from Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While Deeb could have his way relatively soon, sanctions expert Sam Cutler of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari and Associates \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., says the trade opening is still very narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's very little actually changing if you're inside the United States,\" says Cutler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler warns that most transactions between the U.S. and Iran -- whether business or personal -- will still be banned. That means people can still get in trouble for shipping products with possible military uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've seen over the past couple of years a number of prosecutions of individuals for shipping items to Iran that may not be thought to be sensitive,\" says Cutler, \"like MRI coils or air-conditioning equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler says the U.S. will lift sanctions only around foreign subsidiaries, commercial airplane parts, food and carpets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siamak Shamouilzadeh has been in that business for three decades. He shows off one of his favorite pieces in his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos, a Kashan from the 1880s. While he says traditional rugs like these have fallen out of favor with Americans, he’s confident of their enduring value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as rugs go, Persian rugs are amongst the very best in the world,\" says Shamouilzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With craft culture all the rage these days, Shamouilzadeh is optimistic about a comeback for handmade Persian rugs. He still has connections to rug makers in Iran, and hopes that once the trade ban is lifted, he can travel back and forth to commission rugs for American clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They could] focus on the type of pattern and designs and colors that would be more usable in this country and, in that manner, expand production,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shamouilzadeh is looking forward to his own business opportunities, he says he's even more hopeful that increased trade will help make lives easier for people back in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people share that sentiment, says attorney Nazy Fahimi of the Persian community organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pars Equality Center\u003c/a>. But she advises people to consult a lawyer before doing any business in Iran. (The Treasury Department has a mind-bogglingly detailed informational page about Iran sanctions \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/iran.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of folks that we talk to are very excited about this deal,\" says Fahimi. \"But unfortunately, and what we're most concerned about, is that they might be overly eager.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is currently hosting an ongoing series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/events/\" target=\"_blank\">seminars\u003c/a> to teach the Iranian community what it can -- and still can't -- do if the embargo lifts.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At her apartment in East Oakland, Rawaa Kasedah, 37, fries almonds in a deep pan. She adds them to the chickpea, pita bread and yogurt dish she is preparing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s called fatteh hummus,” she says in Arabic. Her husband, Mohammad Rawoas, and their four children fill their plates with boiled eggs, olives and baba ghanoush already on the table. The meal is the “perfect Syrian breakfast,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six members of the Rawoas family arrived in the U.S. nine months ago as refugees. They are among the roughly 260 Syrian refugees who have been resettled in California since March 2011, when Syria’s civil war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238517553″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Paris attacks last month sparked a controversy in the United States over whether to admit more Syrian refugees, and the resettlement program has come under fire from mostly Republican lawmakers and elected officials. In unconfirmed reports, one of the gunmen in Paris was alleged to have entered Europe by posing as a refugee with a Syrian passport, which authorities now recognize as fake, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/17/were-syrian-refugees-involved-in-the-paris-attacks-what-we-know-and-dont-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syria’s civil war has forced over \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.3 million people\u003c/a> to register as refugees in asylum countries such as Egypt and Jordan, according to the United Nations The U.S. has admitted just \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrapsnet.org/Reports/InteractiveReporting/tabid/393/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2,310\u003c/a> since the conflict began, significantly fewer than countries like Germany and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suburb of Damascus where the Rawoas family lived, Mohammed Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory. He had to lay off all 50 employees when the area turned into a war zone. Three of Rawaa Kasedah’s cousins were arrested and disappeared. Tanks rolled on the streets and sniper fire flew into the Rawoas home. Many of their neighbors were killed during bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would see dead bodies on the streets,” Rawoas, 47, says in Arabic. “Sometimes gunfire would start on the street and I’d be trapped in my car. I would just say my prayers and prepare to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family fled to Jordan. First it was a temporary haven but, as they realized the conflict was not subsiding, they applied to the U.N. for refugee status. Obtaining it took more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family underwent background checks by agencies like Homeland Security and the FBI. There were fingerprints, iris scans and multiple interviews of each parent and child by U.N. and American officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For a White House infographic of the screening process for refugee entry into the U.S. click \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10799643 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with a cat he adopted and called Simbad.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-400x306.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-768x588.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1440x1102.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-960x735.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamad Rawoas, 10, plays in his family’s Oakland apartment with Simbad, a cat he recently adopted. Mohamad attends fourth grade at a public school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government screens Syrian refugees more thoroughly than almost anyone else applying to come into this country, and that process that can take years. That’s one reason that fears of Syrian refugees are misplaced, says Kate Jastram, a UC Berkeley law professor who has worked on refugee issues for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not very likely that the enterprising terrorist is going to want to take that route to get to the U.S.,” says Jastram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, governors of 31 states said in November that they object to admitting Syrian refugees. Officials in Texas sued the federal government to keep new refugee families out of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a much less welcoming environment than just a few months ago, when images of a drowned 3-year-old boy lying on a Turkish beach galvanized public attention to the plight of Syrians fleeing the war, says Karen Ferguson, executive director of the International Rescue Committee of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s been interesting is watching the country really swing as a pendulum,” says Ferguson. “There was such incredible compassion and swelling up of people’s understanding of the plight of Syrian refugees. And then, unfortunately, the natural reaction of panic and fear that came with the Paris attacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, fears of terrorism have increased in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations says that anti-Muslim hate crimes have spiked nationwide in recent weeks. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/13309-cair-calls-for-condemnation-of-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-during-tonight-s-gop-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attributes\u003c/a> these incidents in part to rhetoric by presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “until our country’s representatives can figure out what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their cultural orientation classes, Ferguson’s resettlement agency is now telling Syrian and Muslim refugees about how to handle potential aggression here in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if they experience something, to know that they don’t have to respond and that they can bring that to the attention of their community members or the police,” says Ferguson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10799645 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ghaidaa Mousabacha visits with the Rawoas. Mousabacha volunteers to help Syrian refugee families in the East Bay with translations and other support.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghaidaa Mousabacha, from San Jose, visits with the Rawoas family. Mousabacha volunteers to help the Rawoas family and another Syrian refugee family in Oakland with translations and other support. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-American Ghaidaa Mousabacha, a middle school teacher from San Jose, has been helping refugee families like the Rawoases navigate life in their new home. Mousabacha admits that some members of her community are a little worried about extra scrutiny by airport security, or unfriendly looks from strangers. But Mousabacha says she has actually felt a lot of support recently from co-workers and even strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to a church yesterday and I attended a choir celebration for Christmas,” she says. “And people who knew that I was Syrian, they all hugged me … and I felt that they cared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Rawoas family say they haven’t felt any discrimination either. Mostly they are just trying to adapt to a whole new language and culture. Mohammad Rawoas has found work as a delivery driver. Money is tight, but the family is finding a sense of community through the local mosque and through other Syrian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three younger kids, Batool, Bayan and Mohamad, are in school, and Hanan, the oldest, is studying English and working to continue her college education to become a pharmacist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Tuesday and Thursday I take a health care program and I prepare for the pharmacy technician examination board,” Hanan says in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Mohammad Rawoas, believes Americans who still mistrust Syrians should get to know his family so they can change their minds. Rawoas says the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott — who sued to bar Syrian refugees — would be welcome to come to his home for a Syrian brunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will host him for the whole day, from morning to night,” says Rawoas with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife hope their relatives still living in war-torn Syria might eventually gain refugee status here as well.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Many of their neighbors were killed during bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would see dead bodies on the streets,” Rawoas, 47, says in Arabic. “Sometimes gunfire would start on the street and I’d be trapped in my car. I would just say my prayers and prepare to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family fled to Jordan. First it was a temporary haven but, as they realized the conflict was not subsiding, they applied to the U.N. for refugee status. Obtaining it took more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family underwent background checks by agencies like Homeland Security and the FBI. There were fingerprints, iris scans and multiple interviews of each parent and child by U.N. and American officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For a White House infographic of the screening process for refugee entry into the U.S. click \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10799643 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with a cat he adopted and called Simbad.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-400x306.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-768x588.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1440x1102.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-960x735.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamad Rawoas, 10, plays in his family’s Oakland apartment with Simbad, a cat he recently adopted. Mohamad attends fourth grade at a public school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government screens Syrian refugees more thoroughly than almost anyone else applying to come into this country, and that process that can take years. That’s one reason that fears of Syrian refugees are misplaced, says Kate Jastram, a UC Berkeley law professor who has worked on refugee issues for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not very likely that the enterprising terrorist is going to want to take that route to get to the U.S.,” says Jastram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, governors of 31 states said in November that they object to admitting Syrian refugees. Officials in Texas sued the federal government to keep new refugee families out of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a much less welcoming environment than just a few months ago, when images of a drowned 3-year-old boy lying on a Turkish beach galvanized public attention to the plight of Syrians fleeing the war, says Karen Ferguson, executive director of the International Rescue Committee of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s been interesting is watching the country really swing as a pendulum,” says Ferguson. “There was such incredible compassion and swelling up of people’s understanding of the plight of Syrian refugees. And then, unfortunately, the natural reaction of panic and fear that came with the Paris attacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, fears of terrorism have increased in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations says that anti-Muslim hate crimes have spiked nationwide in recent weeks. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/13309-cair-calls-for-condemnation-of-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-during-tonight-s-gop-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attributes\u003c/a> these incidents in part to rhetoric by presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “until our country’s representatives can figure out what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their cultural orientation classes, Ferguson’s resettlement agency is now telling Syrian and Muslim refugees about how to handle potential aggression here in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if they experience something, to know that they don’t have to respond and that they can bring that to the attention of their community members or the police,” says Ferguson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10799645 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ghaidaa Mousabacha visits with the Rawoas. Mousabacha volunteers to help Syrian refugee families in the East Bay with translations and other support.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghaidaa Mousabacha, from San Jose, visits with the Rawoas family. 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Mostly they are just trying to adapt to a whole new language and culture. Mohammad Rawoas has found work as a delivery driver. Money is tight, but the family is finding a sense of community through the local mosque and through other Syrian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three younger kids, Batool, Bayan and Mohamad, are in school, and Hanan, the oldest, is studying English and working to continue her college education to become a pharmacist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Tuesday and Thursday I take a health care program and I prepare for the pharmacy technician examination board,” Hanan says in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Mohammad Rawoas, believes Americans who still mistrust Syrians should get to know his family so they can change their minds. 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