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After Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, Rogers and Copeland discussed attacking Democrats in a series of text messages. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">They targeted the party headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a>, just blocks from the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court records, the following exchange occurred after Rogers sent Copeland a link to the building’s location:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party office…\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Right next to CHP\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: gotta be cautious\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Only takes 3 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The pair settled on Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, but they didn’t get to launch their plan: The Napa County Sheriff’s Office raided Rogers’ business and home on Jan. 15, 2021. 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Family and friends were there to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer reflects a heightened vigilance around domestic extremism amid repeated warnings of violence from the Department of Homeland Security. 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Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/html/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2331.htm\">defines domestic terrorism\u003c/a> as “acts dangerous to human life” that violate state or federal criminal law, and appear to be an attempt to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the spring of 2020, the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic extremists has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. 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Breyer added that he understood that Rogers had serious disagreements with the way the government is operated.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And you’re not wrong to have those views,” he said. “You are entitled to have those views. You are entitled to it, because you are an American living in this society.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What you’re not entitled to is to violate the law and to threaten the existence of the government and its institutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, read a victim impact statement. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940316/fear-of-deportation-keeps-some-workers-from-reporting-labor-abuses-a-new-biden-program-aims-to-change-that\">Leer en inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ir a:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"#funciona\">\u003cstrong>Cómo funciona la solicitud de acción diferida\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A medida que progresan las investigaciones sobre posibles violaciones laborales en las dos granjas de hongos de Half Moon Bay donde se produjo un tiroteo masivo el mes pasado, los abogados laborales y de inmigración del Área de la Bahía dicen que están tratando de correr la voz sobre las nuevas protecciones federales anunciadas recientemente por la administración del presidente Biden que podrían proteger a los trabajadores indocumentados de la deportación si hablan sobre los abusos en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el gobernador Gavin Newsom visitó Half Moon Bay tras la matanza del 23 de enero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">la cual cobró la vida de siete trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes,\u003c/a> expresó su conmoción al enterarse que los empleados vivieran en contenedores de transporte y dijo que algunos le habían contado que ganaban sólo 9 dólares la hora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Patricia Ortiz, Directora jurídica del programa de inmigración, California Rural Legal Assistance\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable. Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que tienen acceso las personas en otras partes del estado, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"¿Quieren saber el salario mínimo de California? No es de 9 dólares la hora\", dijo Newsom. \"Sin atención sanitaria, sin ayudas, sin servicios. Pero ellos cuidan de nuestra salud. Prestando un servicio a todos y cada uno de nosotros, todos los días\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales comenzaron inmediatamente a recabar información sobre California Terra Garden y Concord Farms, las dos granjas atacadas, y consiguieron entrar dos horas después de que las fuerzas del orden abrieron de nuevo los sitios el 25 de enero, según Peter Melton, portavoz del Departamento de Relaciones Industriales del estado. Confirmó que su agencia está investigando a ambas empresas por posibles infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melton subrayó que la agencia no solicita ni rastrea el estatus migratorio de los trabajadores, y añadió: \"En California, los trabajadores agrícolas y de la mayoría de las demás industrias están protegidos por las leyes laborales y las normas de seguridad y salud en el lugar de trabajo de California, independientemente de su estatus migratorio\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por una cuestión de política, el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. no quiso confirmar si también está investigando las granjas. Pero el vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, Joaquín Jiménez Ureña, dijo que la semana anterior investigadores federales estuvieron en la ciudad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con ellos\", dijo. \"Compartieron conmigo lo que están investigando. Quieren colaborar con nosotros para asegurarse de que los trabajadores agrícolas estén bien atendidos con salarios y vivienda, y que se les comunique cualquier incidente que ocurra en las granjas.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vulnerables a la explotación\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A pesar de las protecciones laborales de California, los trabajadores inmigrantes suelen tener miedo a denunciar por temor a las represalias de los empleadores y a la amenaza de la deportación, afirman los defensores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casi el 60% de los trabajadores agrícolas del estado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">son inmigrantes indocumentados\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés), según los últimos datos del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso los trabajadores agrícolas que trabajan legalmente, con \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/espanol\">visados agrícolas temporales H-2A\u003c/a>, pueden ser reacios a quejarse \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">porque dependen de sus empleadores para mantener sus visados de trabajo\u003c/a>. Y para los inmigrantes indocumentados, el temor es aún mayor, dice Patricia Ortiz, directora legal del programa de inmigración de la organización sin fines de lucro California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11919450\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarmworkersIlloVignet-1020x659-1.jpg\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable\", dijo Ortiz. \"Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que la gente en otras partes del estado tiene acceso, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-anuncia-mejoras-en-los-procesos-para-apoyar-las-investigaciones-de-cumplimiento\">un nuevo programa simplificado y acelerado de solicitud de \"acción diferida\"\u003c/a>, destinado a ayudar al gobierno a acabar con los empleadores abusivos, podría animar a más trabajadores indocumentados a denunciar condiciones injustas o inseguras, dijo Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores que demuestren que están cooperando con una investigación laboral pueden solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección contra la deportación a través de un proceso acelerado anunciado en enero por el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés), Alejandro Mayorkas. La protección, que se concederá caso por caso, se basa en \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/memo_from_secretary_mayorkas_on_worksite_enforcement.pdf\">un memorando de octubre de 2021 en el que se describe la estrategia del DHS para hacer cumplir la ley en los lugares de trabajo (PDF)\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Los empresarios sin escrúpulos que se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores extranjeros perjudican a todos los trabajadores y ponen en desventaja a las empresas que respetan las normas\", declaró Mayorkas al anunciar el nuevo programa en enero. \"Responsabilizaremos a estos depredadores animando a todos los trabajadores a hacer valer sus derechos\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Difundir el mensaje\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ortiz dice que grupos de defensa de los inmigrantes como el suyo han estado organizando apresuradamente cursos de formación y seminarios web para informar sobre el programa a otros proveedores de servicios jurídicos que trabajan con inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Jiménez Ureña, vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, que también ayuda dirigir la organización sin fines de lucro ALAS, o Ayudando Latinos a Soñar, que apoya a trabajadores agrícolas en el condado de San Mateo, dijo que desconocía la iniciativa federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tras el tiroteo masivo y las posibles infracciones laborales en las granjas de hongos, la Agencia de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral de la administración del gobernador Newsom ha empezado a compartir información sobre el nuevo programa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"La administración ha estado en estrecho contacto con el condado de San Mateo y las organizaciones comunitarias en relación con asistencia migratoria y las nuevas orientaciones del DHS sobre posibles ayudas de inmigración para los trabajadores que hayan sufrido infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\", dijo Erin Hickey, portavoz de la agencia, en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los líderes sindicales de California llevaron a cabo un curso de formación sobre el nuevo programa en Los Ángeles. Y un grupo de abogados del Área de la Bahía programaron una videollamada para debatir cómo podrían beneficiar a sus clientes estas protecciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Un giro de 180 grados\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sergio Benavides, un abogado de inmigración de Hayward dijo que ya hace tiempo es que la administración Biden debería haberse enfocado en las protecciones laborales para los inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Para mí representa un giro completo de 180 grados con respecto a la era del expresidente Trump\", dijo. \"La administración Biden está diciendo, 'Oigan, trabajadores, queremos ayudarlos. Queremos protegerlos. Queremos investigar las violaciones de la ley. Por favor, salgan a la luz'\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Benavides advirtió que la acción diferida es sólo temporal, y dijo que los inmigrantes deberían consultar primero a un abogado para decidir si les beneficiaría solicitarla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay otras formas de alivio de la inmigración que podrían ser más duraderas para los inmigrantes indocumentados, incluidos los de las granjas de setas de Half Moon Bay, dijo. Una de ellas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/es/programas-humanitarios/victimas-de-la-trata-de-personas-y-de-otros-crimenes/victimas-de-actos-criminales-estatus-u-de-no-inmigrante\">el visado U\u003c/a>, puede conducir a una tarjeta verde y, en última instancia, a la ciudadanía para las víctimas de determinados delitos que cooperen con las fuerzas del orden o los investigadores gubernamentales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y la eficacia del nuevo programa federal dependerá de lo bien que se administre, dijo Benavides. Aunque el DHS dice que el proceso de solicitud será \"agilizado y acelerado\", otras solicitudes de inmigración suelen retrasarse, señaló.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"La gente puede tener derecho a prestaciones y las solicita, pero tarda años y hay estos enormes retrasos\", dijo. \"Van a intentar acelerarlo. ¿Pero qué significa eso? No sé si el gobierno de Biden tiene el personal necesario para asegurarse de que estas solicitudes se tramitan más rápido.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"funciona\">\u003c/a>Cómo funciona este programa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si está pensando en solicitar la acción diferida sobre la deportación, aquí tiene algunos detalles que debe conocer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Un abogado de inmigración puede ayudarle a decidir si le conviene presentar la solicitud. También pueden decirle si hay otras formas de ayuda migratoria a las que pueda optar, incluidas protecciones más permanentes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Para solicitarla, debe presentar, entre otros formularios:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Una solicitud firmada en la que explique su reclamación y que está participando en una investigación de una agencia laboral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Una carta de apoyo de la agencia laboral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentos que prueben su empleo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prueba de su identidad y nacionalidad.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Información biográfica.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Una solicitud de permiso de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>La protección contra la expulsión es temporal, hasta dos años. Puede renovarse si la investigación laboral está en curso. Tenga en cuenta que el DHS dice que puede poner fin a la acción diferida \"en cualquier momento, a su discreción\".\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Si su solicitud es aprobada y puede demostrar \"necesidad económica\", también puede obtener un permiso de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>En algunos casos, el USCIS puede remitir las solicitudes al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE.UU. (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), especialmente si está en proceso de deportación. 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"content": "\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable. Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que tienen acceso las personas en otras partes del estado, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"¿Quieren saber el salario mínimo de California? No es de 9 dólares la hora\", dijo Newsom. \"Sin atención sanitaria, sin ayudas, sin servicios. Pero ellos cuidan de nuestra salud. Prestando un servicio a todos y cada uno de nosotros, todos los días\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales comenzaron inmediatamente a recabar información sobre California Terra Garden y Concord Farms, las dos granjas atacadas, y consiguieron entrar dos horas después de que las fuerzas del orden abrieron de nuevo los sitios el 25 de enero, según Peter Melton, portavoz del Departamento de Relaciones Industriales del estado. Confirmó que su agencia está investigando a ambas empresas por posibles infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melton subrayó que la agencia no solicita ni rastrea el estatus migratorio de los trabajadores, y añadió: \"En California, los trabajadores agrícolas y de la mayoría de las demás industrias están protegidos por las leyes laborales y las normas de seguridad y salud en el lugar de trabajo de California, independientemente de su estatus migratorio\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por una cuestión de política, el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. no quiso confirmar si también está investigando las granjas. Pero el vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, Joaquín Jiménez Ureña, dijo que la semana anterior investigadores federales estuvieron en la ciudad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con ellos\", dijo. \"Compartieron conmigo lo que están investigando. Quieren colaborar con nosotros para asegurarse de que los trabajadores agrícolas estén bien atendidos con salarios y vivienda, y que se les comunique cualquier incidente que ocurra en las granjas.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vulnerables a la explotación\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A pesar de las protecciones laborales de California, los trabajadores inmigrantes suelen tener miedo a denunciar por temor a las represalias de los empleadores y a la amenaza de la deportación, afirman los defensores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casi el 60% de los trabajadores agrícolas del estado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">son inmigrantes indocumentados\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés), según los últimos datos del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso los trabajadores agrícolas que trabajan legalmente, con \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/espanol\">visados agrícolas temporales H-2A\u003c/a>, pueden ser reacios a quejarse \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">porque dependen de sus empleadores para mantener sus visados de trabajo\u003c/a>. Y para los inmigrantes indocumentados, el temor es aún mayor, dice Patricia Ortiz, directora legal del programa de inmigración de la organización sin fines de lucro California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable\", dijo Ortiz. \"Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que la gente en otras partes del estado tiene acceso, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-anuncia-mejoras-en-los-procesos-para-apoyar-las-investigaciones-de-cumplimiento\">un nuevo programa simplificado y acelerado de solicitud de \"acción diferida\"\u003c/a>, destinado a ayudar al gobierno a acabar con los empleadores abusivos, podría animar a más trabajadores indocumentados a denunciar condiciones injustas o inseguras, dijo Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores que demuestren que están cooperando con una investigación laboral pueden solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección contra la deportación a través de un proceso acelerado anunciado en enero por el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés), Alejandro Mayorkas. La protección, que se concederá caso por caso, se basa en \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/memo_from_secretary_mayorkas_on_worksite_enforcement.pdf\">un memorando de octubre de 2021 en el que se describe la estrategia del DHS para hacer cumplir la ley en los lugares de trabajo (PDF)\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Los empresarios sin escrúpulos que se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores extranjeros perjudican a todos los trabajadores y ponen en desventaja a las empresas que respetan las normas\", declaró Mayorkas al anunciar el nuevo programa en enero. \"Responsabilizaremos a estos depredadores animando a todos los trabajadores a hacer valer sus derechos\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Difundir el mensaje\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ortiz dice que grupos de defensa de los inmigrantes como el suyo han estado organizando apresuradamente cursos de formación y seminarios web para informar sobre el programa a otros proveedores de servicios jurídicos que trabajan con inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Jiménez Ureña, vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, que también ayuda dirigir la organización sin fines de lucro ALAS, o Ayudando Latinos a Soñar, que apoya a trabajadores agrícolas en el condado de San Mateo, dijo que desconocía la iniciativa federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tras el tiroteo masivo y las posibles infracciones laborales en las granjas de hongos, la Agencia de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral de la administración del gobernador Newsom ha empezado a compartir información sobre el nuevo programa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"La administración ha estado en estrecho contacto con el condado de San Mateo y las organizaciones comunitarias en relación con asistencia migratoria y las nuevas orientaciones del DHS sobre posibles ayudas de inmigración para los trabajadores que hayan sufrido infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\", dijo Erin Hickey, portavoz de la agencia, en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los líderes sindicales de California llevaron a cabo un curso de formación sobre el nuevo programa en Los Ángeles. Y un grupo de abogados del Área de la Bahía programaron una videollamada para debatir cómo podrían beneficiar a sus clientes estas protecciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Un giro de 180 grados\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sergio Benavides, un abogado de inmigración de Hayward dijo que ya hace tiempo es que la administración Biden debería haberse enfocado en las protecciones laborales para los inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Para mí representa un giro completo de 180 grados con respecto a la era del expresidente Trump\", dijo. \"La administración Biden está diciendo, 'Oigan, trabajadores, queremos ayudarlos. Queremos protegerlos. Queremos investigar las violaciones de la ley. Por favor, salgan a la luz'\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Benavides advirtió que la acción diferida es sólo temporal, y dijo que los inmigrantes deberían consultar primero a un abogado para decidir si les beneficiaría solicitarla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay otras formas de alivio de la inmigración que podrían ser más duraderas para los inmigrantes indocumentados, incluidos los de las granjas de setas de Half Moon Bay, dijo. Una de ellas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/es/programas-humanitarios/victimas-de-la-trata-de-personas-y-de-otros-crimenes/victimas-de-actos-criminales-estatus-u-de-no-inmigrante\">el visado U\u003c/a>, puede conducir a una tarjeta verde y, en última instancia, a la ciudadanía para las víctimas de determinados delitos que cooperen con las fuerzas del orden o los investigadores gubernamentales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y la eficacia del nuevo programa federal dependerá de lo bien que se administre, dijo Benavides. Aunque el DHS dice que el proceso de solicitud será \"agilizado y acelerado\", otras solicitudes de inmigración suelen retrasarse, señaló.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"La gente puede tener derecho a prestaciones y las solicita, pero tarda años y hay estos enormes retrasos\", dijo. \"Van a intentar acelerarlo. ¿Pero qué significa eso? No sé si el gobierno de Biden tiene el personal necesario para asegurarse de que estas solicitudes se tramitan más rápido.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"funciona\">\u003c/a>Cómo funciona este programa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si está pensando en solicitar la acción diferida sobre la deportación, aquí tiene algunos detalles que debe conocer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Un abogado de inmigración puede ayudarle a decidir si le conviene presentar la solicitud. También pueden decirle si hay otras formas de ayuda migratoria a las que pueda optar, incluidas protecciones más permanentes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Para solicitarla, debe presentar, entre otros formularios:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Una solicitud firmada en la que explique su reclamación y que está participando en una investigación de una agencia laboral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Una carta de apoyo de la agencia laboral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentos que prueben su empleo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prueba de su identidad y nacionalidad.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Información biográfica.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Una solicitud de permiso de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>La protección contra la expulsión es temporal, hasta dos años. Puede renovarse si la investigación laboral está en curso. Tenga en cuenta que el DHS dice que puede poner fin a la acción diferida \"en cualquier momento, a su discreción\".\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Si su solicitud es aprobada y puede demostrar \"necesidad económica\", también puede obtener un permiso de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>En algunos casos, el USCIS puede remitir las solicitudes al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE.UU. (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), especialmente si está en proceso de deportación. Pueden pedir al ICE que les ayude a decidir si le conceden la acción diferida.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Información de EE.UU. ha creado una oficina para tramitar las solicitudes de forma acelerada.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/apoyo-del-dhs-la-aplicacion-de-las-leyes-laborales-y-de-empleo\">La información completa sobre el proceso de solicitud está disponible aquí, en español e inglés.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]yre Nichols was mercilessly beaten by Memphis police officers after a traffic stop last month — and it was his fault. That’s if you believe the five officers accused of killing Nichols, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the story officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157756023/memphis-tyre-nichols-police-officers-court-charges\">who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges on Feb. 17\u003c/a>, wanted the public to buy: Nichols, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article272243108.html\">lived in Sacramento\u003c/a> before moving to Memphis, was driving recklessly, a misdemeanor in Tennessee, before he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being forcibly removed from his car at gunpoint, he fled. The officers, then-part of an elite crime suppression unit, chased Nichols. They punched and kicked Nichols and struck him with a baton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-arrest-videos.html\">justifying the violence in a false police report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of police and traffic camera footage revealed the glaring disparity that often exists between the police narrative and what actually occurs. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, wasn’t violent or aggressive, and he didn’t reach for an officer’s gun, as the initial report falsely asserted. So why did Nichols flee? In my bones, I know he was running to his mother’s house in search of what many police officers decline to provide Black people: safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America has been imperiled for four centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America is at the core of the California Reparations Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish more Californians were aware of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">the first statewide body to consider reparations for Black people\u003c/a>. The task force has presented an irrefutable examination of how systemic racism was woven into the fabric of America and California. I can think of at least 1,619 reasons why the work is largely unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about it: After the unpaid workforce of millions was emancipated, laws were enacted to restrict economic and social mobility. The emancipated population was terrorized by white supremacists intent on preserving the racial hierarchy as promises of land, opportunity and security were abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t safe for Black people to look white people in the eye. It wasn’t safe for Black people to vote. It wasn’t safe for Black people to be in some towns after dark. It wasn’t safe for Black people to prosper. To maintain institutionalized social order, first it was the slave patrols, and now it’s the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wesley Lowery, journalist, author and contributing editor to The Marshall Project\"]‘What type of resources are we pouring into communities if our aim is to cut down on crime? Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?’[/pullquote]In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Reparations Coverage' tag='california-reparations']In July, the task force will deliver reparations recommendations, which are expected to include direct payments to eligible Black Californians. But reparations are more than compensation. Last summer, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">released a preliminary report (PDF)\u003c/a> with recommendations to address, among other things, the unjust legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are the gatekeepers of that system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary report suggests reducing “the scope of law enforcement jurisdiction within the public safety system” and shifting “more funding for prevention and mental health care.” The report also calls for the elimination of “discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force and racial profiling” of Black people; the elimination of racial disparities in police stops; and the elimination of over-policing of predominantly Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force could pave the road to viable racial equity in America. But to get to that place, it’s guaranteed to be a bumpy journey. Make sure you buckle up for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Five detainees on an ongoing hunger strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/hunger-strikers-central-valley-immigration-detention-facilities-file-class-action-lawsuit\">have sued\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a private prison company for alleged retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several dozen men have refused meals for more than a week, protesting what they call “inhumane” living and working conditions at the two for-profit detention centers in Kern County where they are held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Mendez_v._ICE_Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> accuses ICE and its detention contractor The GEO Group of punishing hunger strikers by taking away their yard time, family visitation and other recreational activities, and by threatening them with solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO staffers have also made dormitory temperatures “uncomfortably cold” and tried to halt the detainees’ strike by leaving food on their beds for long periods of time, according to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We filed this lawsuit to protect the First Amendment rights of a group of people who have put their bodies on the line to protest the injustice of their detention,” said Bree Bernwanger, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they should draw is the attention of ICE and GEO to the horrendous conditions that they are detained under,” she added. “Instead, they were deprived for no reason except to punish them. That violates the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for ICE and GEO have denied the alleged retaliation, but declined to comment further on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five plaintiffs, who have been detained for lengths ranging from 10 months to more than two years, are asking the court to let them represent about 80 detainees who began the hunger strike on Feb. 17, in a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>More than 70 people locked up at two for-profit immigration detention centers in Kern County have refused to eat any meals for a week now, according to interviews with detainees and legal assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson confirmed that the hunger strike became official as of last Sunday evening, after detainees missed nine consecutive meals at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield and the nearby Golden State Annex in McFarland.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oscar Rodriguez Picazo, ICE detainee and hunger striker\"]'We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us.'[/pullquote]Hunger strikers said they will risk their lives as a last resort to pressure ICE officials to improve the “\u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/pressroom_posts/breaking-seventy-seven-detained-immigrants-launch-hunger-strike-at-two-central-valley-facilities-protest-unpaid-labor-and-inhumane-conditions/\">soul-crushing\u003c/a>” working and living conditions at the facilities they’ve complained repeatedly about, to no avail. The detainees \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/opla/prosecutorial-discretion\">argue officials should also use their prosecutorial discretion to release those who don’t pose a safety threat or flight risk\u003c/a>, but are jailed long-term while they fight deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us,” Oscar Rodriguez Picazo told KQED by phone from Mesa Verde, where he has been held for more than a year. The 36-year-old said he felt weak after skipping all meals since last Friday, but that he and others would continue the hunger strike “until we drop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde staffers have responded by taking away yard time and other recreational activities, as well as access to the law library, said Rodriguez Picazo and another hunger striker, Jose Hernandez. That has left protesters confined to their dorm 24/7, they said, except for trips to get medical checkups elsewhere in the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked an officer, she told us, ‘You guys don’t get no visits, no rec, nothing of nothing, because you are on a hunger strike,’” said Rodriguez Picazo, who grew up in California’s Tulare County after emigrating from Mexico.[aside postID=news_11938736 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS57626_007_KQED_AnoopPrasad_08052022-qut-1020x680.jpg']Medical personnel must carefully monitor the health, as well as food and water intake, of detainees on hunger strike, which ICE considers as such \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2019/4_2.pdf\">only after detainees have not eaten for 72 hours (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the agency’s standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” said an agency spokesperson in a statement. “ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency did not confirm how many detainees it considers on hunger strike at the two facilities. But commissary food items remain available for purchase by detainees, the spokesperson added, saying “ICE explains the negative health effects of not eating to our detainees, and they are under close medical observation by ICE or contract medical providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike represents an escalation of an ongoing, months-long work stoppage that detainees say they are waging to protest expired food, substandard medical care and overpriced commissary items that have pushed Rodriguez Picazo and others to work at the facilities for well below minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex are overseen by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officials stationed in San Francisco. The agency contracts with the multinational prison company The GEO Group to operate those detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, more than a dozen supporters of the hunger strikers sang chants on megaphones and rallied outside ICE headquarters in downtown San Francisco, as dozens of people looked on while they waited in line to enter the agency offices, clutching paper forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Esperanza Cuautle, an organizer with the nonprofit Pangea Legal Services, told the crowd on the street. Hunger strikers “are tired of the mistreatment, tired of the violation of their human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941702\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman speaks into a megaphone with male and female protesters behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esperanza Cuautle, 30, an organizer with the Mesa Verde-Golden State Annex Hunger Strike Support Committee, speaks outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown San Francisco on Feb. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group pays detainees $1 per day for eight-hour shifts to scrub bathrooms, do laundry, work as barbers and do other tasks to maintain the facilities, per \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/5-8.pdf\">ICE guidelines that require compensation of “at least” $1 per day (PDF)\u003c/a>. Yet the company has engaged in “unlawful wage theft, unjust enrichment and forced labor” by coercing detainees to work, according to a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the suit was filed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925791/california-lawmakers-call-for-investigation-into-detainee-complaints-of-solitary-confinement\">more than a dozen California members of Congress urged top immigration authorities to investigate\u003c/a> alleged “disturbing conditions and abusive and retaliatory behavior” toward detainees — including the use of solitary confinement — for participating in the peaceful labor strike at the two detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-to-chair-senate-judiciary-subcommittee-on-immigration/\">Senator Alex Padilla of California\u003c/a>, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety, did not immediately return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José) led the request six months ago for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate detention conditions at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hoping they can address the issues my colleagues and I highlighted in our September 2022 letter as soon as possible. I also hope the Administration has already begun the thorough investigation we requested,” said Lofgren, a senior member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement and a former immigration lawyer, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards,” she added.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José)\"]'As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards.'[/pullquote]KQED obtained a copy of ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson’s recent response to Lofgren, Padilla and the other California members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE was made aware of the allegations against the Geo Group,” said Johnson in his letter. “On July 7, 2022, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) submitted all documentation related to the allegations to the ICE Joint Intake Center for further review and investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS’ Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which also received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/laf-09-12-2022-mv-gsa\">complaint from nine detainees at the two facilities last September\u003c/a>, is investigating reports “related to conditions of detention” at Golden State Annex, said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A GEO Group spokesperson rejected allegations of retaliation against detainees or substandard detention conditions at the facilities. Both detention centers provide round-the-clock medical care, nutritional meals approved by a registered dietician and enhanced recreational amenities, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it relates to allegations regarding retaliation, GEO has a grievance process in place for use by persons housed at our facilities that is grounded in accessibility, confidentiality, fairness, objectivity and integrity, without fear of retaliation,” the GEO spokesperson said. “GEO has a zero-tolerance policy with respect to staff misconduct. Any alleged misconduct by GEO staff is promptly investigated and addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also contesting fines of more than $104,000 issued last December by California workplace health and safety regulators for \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1609228.015\">several violations\u003c/a>, after worker detainees filed a complaint and Cal/OSHA inspectors visited Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Freedom for Immigrants documented that at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hunger-strikes\">1,600 people went on hunger strike while held at 20 detention centers nationwide\u003c/a> between May 2015 and early 2020. The incidence of such actions surged early on in the pandemic, with nearly 2,500 detainees waging COVID-related hunger strikes between March and July 2020, according to Detention Watch Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials and facility staffers have commonly responded with abuse and retaliation against people protesting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cruelty-and-coercion-how-ice-abuses-hunger-strikers\">refusing to eat — a First Amendment-protected right\u003c/a>, according to a report by the ACLU and Physicians for Human Rights. The groups analyzed hundreds of hunger strikes in immigration detention between 2013 and 2017. The authors of the report said those responses included use of force, solitary confinement and involuntary medical procedures.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11924388,news_11934879\"]“Since the issuance of our report in 2021, ICE has not changed its policies or practices with respect to its treatment of hunger strikes. ICE’s failure to do so is of obvious concern,” said Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">Immigration detention\u003c/a> is legally classified as civil and should be nonpunitive, unlike in the criminal justice setting. ICE detains noncitizens to secure their presence for immigration proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people convicted of aggravated felonies or other crimes are subject to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/mandatory_detention_ice_hold_policy_handout.pdf\">mandatory detention (PDF)\u003c/a>,” ICE officials may still decide to free them from custody with conditions after a case-by-case review, according to immigration attorneys. 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Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups, Western States Center\"]‘There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence … The GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.’[/pullquote]The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors’ driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, ‘Let’s Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.’ The back of the flyer reads, ‘Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Minadeo, Wilson and a small group of supporters rented a U-Haul truck and covered it with antisemitic symbols and rhetoric. They drove to the Beverly Hilton, a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\">video posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism\u003c/a>, a group that calls out “antisemites” to hold them accountable, two men dressed as members of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi paramilitary group colloquially known as the brownshirts, paraded around the truck. Minadeo, who is wearing a black hat with fake side curls shouts, “The Nazis are coming!” Wilson also appears in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beverly Hills they drove to West Hollywood. “A group of Nazis have rampaged down Santa Monica Blvd from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood harassing Black people, gay people and Jewish people,” WeHo Social Justice Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528174801541419008\">tweeted in a video\u003c/a> that shows the U-Haul parked at a gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of queer activists \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528184993410781186\">posted another video of Wilson and Minadeo\u003c/a>, who wore a T-shirt with the Black Sun, a Nazi-era symbol now popular with neofascists, being confronted by onlookers. The pair allegedly harassed a Black woman at the gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you get the f— out of here,” one man says. “This isn’t your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man says to Wilson, “You’re a racist!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson replies, “Who taught you people to read and write?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were concerned about the real-world consequences of online antisemitism long before 2018 when a man shouting antisemitic slurs entered the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The perpetrator had been immersed in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracies on Gab, and was posting on the site just minutes before he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a 19-year-old man killed one woman and wounded three others at a synagogue in San Diego County. He had posted an antisemitic and racist letter in an online forum claiming Jewish people were planning the replacement of white people by genocide, a conspiracy theory that led white nationalists to march through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not folks just making disparaging remarks about Jews on the internet and laughing about it,” Piggott said, referring to Minadeo and Wilson. “They’re showing to the world they’re truly committed to this by going into the streets and getting in the face of people and publicly harassing them with all sorts of horrendous slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can certainly lead to escalations and can lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913965 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg']According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Renfro, yoga studio owner\"]‘You have to watch [the videos] to realize how evil they are. They were inciting violence. It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.”[/pullquote]When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors’ driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, ‘Let’s Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.’ The back of the flyer reads, ‘Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of an ongoing project with KQED in San Francisco and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California. There will be future reporting throughout the state published by the various newsrooms in the coming months.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prominent San Diego figure in an antisemitic extremist group has fled the country with no sign of returning, inewsource has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Wilson, a public face of the hate group known as the Goyim Defense League, was supposed to stand trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/content/office/newsroom/tempDownloads/255a9815-e2fe-4007-94b3-8a4cdc65d9e0_Hate%20Crime%20Charges%20Robert%20Wilson%2012-27-2021.pdf\">allegedly assaulting his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs (PDF)\u003c/a>. Court records and interviews indicate Wilson has fled prosecution and is continuing to spread white supremacist views on social media from Poland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal case was intended to be a high-profile victory for the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, which is prioritizing hate crime prosecutions due to the growing number of incidents nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Bay Area connections' link1='https://www.kqed.org/news/11940804,Read related coverage from KQED tracing the Bay Area roots of a neo-Nazi propaganda group' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/NeoNaziExtremistsmain-1020x570.jpg']District Attorney Summer Stephan \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/content/office/newsroom/tempDownloads/255a9815-e2fe-4007-94b3-8a4cdc65d9e0_Hate%20Crime%20Charges%20Robert%20Wilson%2012-27-2021.pdf\">released a statement when the charges against Wilson were first announced (PDF)\u003c/a> in December 2021, emphasizing the case’s importance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case and these events demonstrate that those who are motivated by prejudice often spread their hate around to various groups, attacking our neighbors on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation or other grounds,” Stephan said. “Hate against one group is a threat to everyone and we won’t tolerate these crimes in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost six months have passed since Wilson missed his last court appearance. DA spokesperson Tanya Sierra would not specify whether prosecutors are attempting to extradite Wilson, but said that “we never give up on bringing justice to victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that he is not in San Diego County means that our community is safer,” Sierra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is one of about six primary organizers and public figures in the Goyim Defense League, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which closely monitors the group’s activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hate group engages in internet trolling, flyer distribution, street demonstrations and other tactics to spread antisemitic, homophobic and white supremacist views. They are known for pedaling conspiracy theories centered on Jewish people and hanging derogatory banners on freeway overpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2022/10/23/united-states/kanye-was-right-about-the-jews-antisemitic-group-says-on-los-angeles-highway-banner\">banner the group displayed in October in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, which said, “Kanye Is Right About the Jews,” garnered widespread attention when images were circulated on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-800x728.png\" alt=\"A white man driving a van.\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-800x728.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2.png 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a video showing Robert Wilson, a member of the Goyim Defense League, driving a van covered with antisemitic messages through Beverly Hills. The video was posted to the Goyim Defense League’s online channels. \u003ccite>(inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is a small, loosely connected network of individuals who have dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers, according to the ADL. Their members are connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league\">11 arrests or criminal cases\u003c/a> across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s propaganda efforts are expanding. Data shows that members participated in more than 130 flyer campaigns last year, more than double than the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Wilson and others from the Goyim Defense League paraded around San Diego in a van \u003ca href=\"https://sandiego.adl.org/news/white-supremacist-propaganda-in-san-diego/\">covered with antisemitic messages\u003c/a>, shouting slurs through a megaphone. Months later, Wilson \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopantisemitism.org/press-6/anti-hate-group-speaks-out-against-antisemitic-incident-in-west-hollywood-and-beverly-hills\">did it again in Beverly Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly there is a growing sense of fear among the Jewish community in San Diego,” said Fabienne Perlov, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League for San Diego and Imperial counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that antisemitism has always been present, but it used to be more on the fringe,” she continued. “And now they have been mainstreamed by social media platforms, and, really, their antisemitic slurs are all over, and that’s a concern. We know that antisemitic words and slurs can turn into violent acts of hatred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An incident in Chula Vista\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a Canadian immigrant who moved to Chula Vista around 2016 and opened a business in his house, California Audio Video, that sold home theater and surveillance equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the business was later suspended by the state for delinquent paperwork, but its \u003ca href=\"https://calaudiovideo.com/\">website is still online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 41-year-old had several confrontations with his next-door neighbors, who are gay, prior to the alleged assault. Wilson’s neighbors filed a police report against him for using a homophobic slur and threatening them. Then, the neighbors sued him for doing construction on their shared driveway without permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"A view of a driveway leading up to a house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The driveway where Robert Wilson allegedly attacked his next-door neighbor in Chula Vista, as seen on Jan. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Wilson started appearing on the Goyim Defense League’s online platforms. The group reposted videos of him baiting people into conversations and spreading white supremacist messages under the pseudonym “Aryan Bacon.” He joined the group’s propaganda campaigns in Florida and Texas months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s issues at home soon escalated. According to court records, in November that year, he allegedly blocked his neighbor’s car, yelled anti-gay slurs at him and called him a “pedophile.” He then reached through the car window and struck his neighbor in the face — all while holding a small child of 2 to 3 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire incident was captured on tape, according to a Chula Vista police officer’s court declaration. Video footage shows a woman outside the vehicle trying to stop Wilson as the neighbor rolls up his car window, the officer wrote. Wilson then attempted to open the car door, but it was locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cb>What should I do if I see or experience a possible hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Call 911 in an emergency and obtain medical attention if needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Write down details of the incident. Take photographs if possible, and keep all the evidence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get contact information for other possible victims and witnesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report the incident to the authorities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How do I report a hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims and witnesses of possible hate crimes can report them through many channels. Here are some options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report an antisemitic or otherwise discriminatory incident to the Anti-Defamation League using their \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/report-incident\">online form\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report hate crimes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/report-hate-crimes-to-the-fbi/view\">Federal Bureau of Investigation\u003c/a> by calling (800) CALL-FBI or submitting an \u003ca href=\"http://tips.fbi.gov\">online tip\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report hate crimes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">San Diego County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a> non-emergency line at (858) 565-5200.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Report hate crimes to the San Diego District Attorney’s Hate Crimes Hotline at (619) 515-8805 or using their \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/helping/hate-crimes\">online form\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The victim said over the years they have attempted to obtain a restraining order against Wilson, which has been denied twice, so they do their absolute best to avoid Wilson,” the officer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies said there is a clear link between hate-based language and criminal activity, but some incidents may be protected as free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally speaking, speech alone, including hateful speech, does not constitute a crime,” the San Diego DA’s office said. “However, we still encourage the public to report hate incidents to law enforcement, as hate incidents usually are precursors to future hate crimes. Thus, documentation of prior hate incidents may serve as potentially powerful evidence in future hate crime prosecutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-800x432.png\" alt=\"Two men seen from behind in court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-800x432.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-1020x551.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-1536x830.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1.png 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of footage captured by CBS8 showing Robert Wilson (left) at his arraignment on Dec. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes targeted at all marginalized groups, including Jewish people, are climbing. California reported a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-releases-2021-hate-crime-report-highlights-resources\">33% increase in incidents\u003c/a> in 2021, reaching its highest level in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-339-percent-nationwide-last-year-repo-rcna14282\">hate-related events aimed at Asian American communities\u003c/a> hit an unprecedented high, prompting the San Diego DA’s office to launch a \u003ca href=\"http://sdcda.org/helping/hate-crimes\">hate crime hotline\u003c/a> to encourage more reporting of incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local police agencies are also prioritizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">hate crime investigations\u003c/a> and prevention efforts. Last month, the San Diego Police Department announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2023-01-24/san-diego-police-operation-takes-down-criminal-network-with-ties-to-white-supremacist-groups\">took down a large network of people\u003c/a> with ties to white supremacist gangs, making 71 arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hate crime is a criminal act motivated by prejudice based on a person’s perceived characteristics, including disability, gender, nationality, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To charge a hate crime, speech must threaten violence, and target a specific person or group, and the offender must have the apparent ability to carry out the threat, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">San Diego County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a hate incident?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hateful speech or activities may not rise to the level of a hate crime if their activities are protected as free speech, but they are still considered hate incidents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>Never again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors charged Wilson with felony battery and a hate crime allegation, which comes with a possible sentence of up to three years in prison. He was also charged with violating sign regulations for hanging an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2021-12-27/chula-vista-man-charged-with-anti-gay-hate-crime-attack-on-neighbor-hanging-antisemitic-banner\">antisemitic banner\u003c/a> over the I-805 freeway, but this was later dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson has denied the allegations against him. On the day of his arraignment, CBS8 reporter David Gotfredson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/crime/chula-vista-man-accused-homophobic-slurs-altercation-anti-semitic-banner-san-diego-overpass-hate-crimee/509-9d42e558-0be0-4eeb-824a-23cb627d1b7c\">spoke to him outside the courthouse\u003c/a> and asked if he yelled homophobic slurs at his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as homophobia,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/8lWJQmnhyEU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a phone call with an inewsource reporter, Wilson attempted to imitate his next-door neighbor, illegally recording the conversation without permission and posting it to his social media channels. He did not answer any of inewsource’s questions about his involvement in the Goyim Defense League or the alleged assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s next-door neighbors declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With charges against him pending, Wilson sold his Chula Vista home in January last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then tried to convince his girlfriend to flee with him to Poland before his trial, threatening her if she did not comply — an incident she later reported to the police, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s criminal case file says he took a flight from San Diego to Amsterdam in late May. There was no return flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Diego judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest when he failed to show up to a court hearing in August. But he didn’t keep a low profile. In a matter of weeks, a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jnewsgabe/status/1565506822617718784\">social media image went viral\u003c/a> showing Wilson standing outside the Auschwitz memorial in Poland holding a sign with an antisemitic message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png\" alt=\"Two white men smile and hold antisemitic signs under the Auschwitz gateway entrance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo showing Robert Wilson (left) and Jon Minadeo II holding signs outside the Auschwitz memorial in Poland went viral on social media in August 2022. \u003ccite>(inewssource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s founder, Bay Area native Jon Minadeo II, is also in the photo. Minadeo was arrested for violating Poland’s hate speech law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Wilson recorded himself accosting U.S. military officers in a Polish mall and using a racist slur. He continues to post to Goyim Defense League’s internet forums regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL said it believes Wilson has taken up permanent residence in Poland, with Minadeo’s help, and that he has no intention of returning to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, we don’t miss him in San Diego,” said Perlov, of the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is home to more than 100,000 Jewish people and 400 Holocaust survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, at least 35 antisemitic events were reported in the county, but the true number of incidents is likely much higher — \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/08/23/why-hate-crimes-are-underreported-and-what-police-departments-have-to-do-with-it/\">underreporting is a well-documented issue\u003c/a>, as victims often fear negative consequences for coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current climate is stoking fear in San Diego’s Jewish community, which had to grapple with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2021-12-28/poway-synagogue-shooter-federal-life-sentence\">mass shooting at a Poway synagogue\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/12713939/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a Jewish synagogue, a Jewish preschool, a JCC, a Jewish family service or a Jewish club that does not talk about security on a regular basis anymore,” said Darren Schwartz, chief planning and strategy officer for the Jewish Federation of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to think first about security and second about being welcoming,” he added. “That is the real implication right now with this rise in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation is currently hiring a security officer to perform threat assessments and trainings for Jewish community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also recently partnered with county Board of Supervisors member Nathan Fletcher to announce a proposal for a Holocaust remembrance exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are growing corners of far-right social media that traffic in conspiracy theories, many of them questioning the basic premise, did the Holocaust actually happen?” Fletcher said at a recent board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is offensive to the values that each and every one of us hold dear,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fletcher’s speech, the Board of Supervisors officially declared January 24 Holocaust Remembrance Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Holocaust survivor Ben Midler told the board that fellow residents in his independent living home didn’t know about the atrocities brought by the Nazi regime. He wrote \u003ca href=\"https://hillelsd.org/2020/02/holocaust-speaker-ben-midler-on-perseverence-and-survival/\">a book about his experience in Polish concentration camps as a teenager\u003c/a> to educate others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Midler was the only member of his family living in Poland during the Holocaust to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should never forget,” he said. “Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>District Attorney Summer Stephan \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/content/office/newsroom/tempDownloads/255a9815-e2fe-4007-94b3-8a4cdc65d9e0_Hate%20Crime%20Charges%20Robert%20Wilson%2012-27-2021.pdf\">released a statement when the charges against Wilson were first announced (PDF)\u003c/a> in December 2021, emphasizing the case’s importance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case and these events demonstrate that those who are motivated by prejudice often spread their hate around to various groups, attacking our neighbors on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation or other grounds,” Stephan said. “Hate against one group is a threat to everyone and we won’t tolerate these crimes in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost six months have passed since Wilson missed his last court appearance. DA spokesperson Tanya Sierra would not specify whether prosecutors are attempting to extradite Wilson, but said that “we never give up on bringing justice to victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that he is not in San Diego County means that our community is safer,” Sierra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is one of about six primary organizers and public figures in the Goyim Defense League, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which closely monitors the group’s activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hate group engages in internet trolling, flyer distribution, street demonstrations and other tactics to spread antisemitic, homophobic and white supremacist views. They are known for pedaling conspiracy theories centered on Jewish people and hanging derogatory banners on freeway overpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2022/10/23/united-states/kanye-was-right-about-the-jews-antisemitic-group-says-on-los-angeles-highway-banner\">banner the group displayed in October in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, which said, “Kanye Is Right About the Jews,” garnered widespread attention when images were circulated on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-800x728.png\" alt=\"A white man driving a van.\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-800x728.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-van-2.png 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a video showing Robert Wilson, a member of the Goyim Defense League, driving a van covered with antisemitic messages through Beverly Hills. The video was posted to the Goyim Defense League’s online channels. \u003ccite>(inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is a small, loosely connected network of individuals who have dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers, according to the ADL. Their members are connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league\">11 arrests or criminal cases\u003c/a> across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s propaganda efforts are expanding. Data shows that members participated in more than 130 flyer campaigns last year, more than double than the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Wilson and others from the Goyim Defense League paraded around San Diego in a van \u003ca href=\"https://sandiego.adl.org/news/white-supremacist-propaganda-in-san-diego/\">covered with antisemitic messages\u003c/a>, shouting slurs through a megaphone. Months later, Wilson \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopantisemitism.org/press-6/anti-hate-group-speaks-out-against-antisemitic-incident-in-west-hollywood-and-beverly-hills\">did it again in Beverly Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly there is a growing sense of fear among the Jewish community in San Diego,” said Fabienne Perlov, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League for San Diego and Imperial counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that antisemitism has always been present, but it used to be more on the fringe,” she continued. “And now they have been mainstreamed by social media platforms, and, really, their antisemitic slurs are all over, and that’s a concern. We know that antisemitic words and slurs can turn into violent acts of hatred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An incident in Chula Vista\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a Canadian immigrant who moved to Chula Vista around 2016 and opened a business in his house, California Audio Video, that sold home theater and surveillance equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the business was later suspended by the state for delinquent paperwork, but its \u003ca href=\"https://calaudiovideo.com/\">website is still online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 41-year-old had several confrontations with his next-door neighbors, who are gay, prior to the alleged assault. Wilson’s neighbors filed a police report against him for using a homophobic slur and threatening them. Then, the neighbors sued him for doing construction on their shared driveway without permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"A view of a driveway leading up to a house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/KCarreon-inewsource-1.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The driveway where Robert Wilson allegedly attacked his next-door neighbor in Chula Vista, as seen on Jan. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Wilson started appearing on the Goyim Defense League’s online platforms. The group reposted videos of him baiting people into conversations and spreading white supremacist messages under the pseudonym “Aryan Bacon.” He joined the group’s propaganda campaigns in Florida and Texas months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s issues at home soon escalated. According to court records, in November that year, he allegedly blocked his neighbor’s car, yelled anti-gay slurs at him and called him a “pedophile.” He then reached through the car window and struck his neighbor in the face — all while holding a small child of 2 to 3 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire incident was captured on tape, according to a Chula Vista police officer’s court declaration. Video footage shows a woman outside the vehicle trying to stop Wilson as the neighbor rolls up his car window, the officer wrote. Wilson then attempted to open the car door, but it was locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cb>What should I do if I see or experience a possible hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Call 911 in an emergency and obtain medical attention if needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Write down details of the incident. Take photographs if possible, and keep all the evidence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get contact information for other possible victims and witnesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report the incident to the authorities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How do I report a hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims and witnesses of possible hate crimes can report them through many channels. Here are some options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report an antisemitic or otherwise discriminatory incident to the Anti-Defamation League using their \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/report-incident\">online form\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report hate crimes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/report-hate-crimes-to-the-fbi/view\">Federal Bureau of Investigation\u003c/a> by calling (800) CALL-FBI or submitting an \u003ca href=\"http://tips.fbi.gov\">online tip\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report hate crimes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">San Diego County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a> non-emergency line at (858) 565-5200.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Report hate crimes to the San Diego District Attorney’s Hate Crimes Hotline at (619) 515-8805 or using their \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/helping/hate-crimes\">online form\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The victim said over the years they have attempted to obtain a restraining order against Wilson, which has been denied twice, so they do their absolute best to avoid Wilson,” the officer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies said there is a clear link between hate-based language and criminal activity, but some incidents may be protected as free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally speaking, speech alone, including hateful speech, does not constitute a crime,” the San Diego DA’s office said. “However, we still encourage the public to report hate incidents to law enforcement, as hate incidents usually are precursors to future hate crimes. Thus, documentation of prior hate incidents may serve as potentially powerful evidence in future hate crime prosecutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-800x432.png\" alt=\"Two men seen from behind in court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-800x432.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-1020x551.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1-1536x830.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-1.png 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of footage captured by CBS8 showing Robert Wilson (left) at his arraignment on Dec. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes targeted at all marginalized groups, including Jewish people, are climbing. California reported a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-releases-2021-hate-crime-report-highlights-resources\">33% increase in incidents\u003c/a> in 2021, reaching its highest level in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-339-percent-nationwide-last-year-repo-rcna14282\">hate-related events aimed at Asian American communities\u003c/a> hit an unprecedented high, prompting the San Diego DA’s office to launch a \u003ca href=\"http://sdcda.org/helping/hate-crimes\">hate crime hotline\u003c/a> to encourage more reporting of incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local police agencies are also prioritizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">hate crime investigations\u003c/a> and prevention efforts. Last month, the San Diego Police Department announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2023-01-24/san-diego-police-operation-takes-down-criminal-network-with-ties-to-white-supremacist-groups\">took down a large network of people\u003c/a> with ties to white supremacist gangs, making 71 arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a hate crime?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hate crime is a criminal act motivated by prejudice based on a person’s perceived characteristics, including disability, gender, nationality, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To charge a hate crime, speech must threaten violence, and target a specific person or group, and the offender must have the apparent ability to carry out the threat, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdsheriff.gov/resources/hate-crimes\">San Diego County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a hate incident?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hateful speech or activities may not rise to the level of a hate crime if their activities are protected as free speech, but they are still considered hate incidents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>Never again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors charged Wilson with felony battery and a hate crime allegation, which comes with a possible sentence of up to three years in prison. He was also charged with violating sign regulations for hanging an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2021-12-27/chula-vista-man-charged-with-anti-gay-hate-crime-attack-on-neighbor-hanging-antisemitic-banner\">antisemitic banner\u003c/a> over the I-805 freeway, but this was later dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson has denied the allegations against him. On the day of his arraignment, CBS8 reporter David Gotfredson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/crime/chula-vista-man-accused-homophobic-slurs-altercation-anti-semitic-banner-san-diego-overpass-hate-crimee/509-9d42e558-0be0-4eeb-824a-23cb627d1b7c\">spoke to him outside the courthouse\u003c/a> and asked if he yelled homophobic slurs at his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as homophobia,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8lWJQmnhyEU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8lWJQmnhyEU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a phone call with an inewsource reporter, Wilson attempted to imitate his next-door neighbor, illegally recording the conversation without permission and posting it to his social media channels. He did not answer any of inewsource’s questions about his involvement in the Goyim Defense League or the alleged assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s next-door neighbors declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With charges against him pending, Wilson sold his Chula Vista home in January last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then tried to convince his girlfriend to flee with him to Poland before his trial, threatening her if she did not comply — an incident she later reported to the police, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s criminal case file says he took a flight from San Diego to Amsterdam in late May. There was no return flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Diego judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest when he failed to show up to a court hearing in August. But he didn’t keep a low profile. In a matter of weeks, a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jnewsgabe/status/1565506822617718784\">social media image went viral\u003c/a> showing Wilson standing outside the Auschwitz memorial in Poland holding a sign with an antisemitic message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png\" alt=\"Two white men smile and hold antisemitic signs under the Auschwitz gateway entrance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo showing Robert Wilson (left) and Jon Minadeo II holding signs outside the Auschwitz memorial in Poland went viral on social media in August 2022. \u003ccite>(inewssource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s founder, Bay Area native Jon Minadeo II, is also in the photo. Minadeo was arrested for violating Poland’s hate speech law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Wilson recorded himself accosting U.S. military officers in a Polish mall and using a racist slur. He continues to post to Goyim Defense League’s internet forums regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL said it believes Wilson has taken up permanent residence in Poland, with Minadeo’s help, and that he has no intention of returning to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, we don’t miss him in San Diego,” said Perlov, of the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is home to more than 100,000 Jewish people and 400 Holocaust survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, at least 35 antisemitic events were reported in the county, but the true number of incidents is likely much higher — \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/08/23/why-hate-crimes-are-underreported-and-what-police-departments-have-to-do-with-it/\">underreporting is a well-documented issue\u003c/a>, as victims often fear negative consequences for coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current climate is stoking fear in San Diego’s Jewish community, which had to grapple with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2021-12-28/poway-synagogue-shooter-federal-life-sentence\">mass shooting at a Poway synagogue\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/12713939/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a Jewish synagogue, a Jewish preschool, a JCC, a Jewish family service or a Jewish club that does not talk about security on a regular basis anymore,” said Darren Schwartz, chief planning and strategy officer for the Jewish Federation of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to think first about security and second about being welcoming,” he added. “That is the real implication right now with this rise in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation is currently hiring a security officer to perform threat assessments and trainings for Jewish community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also recently partnered with county Board of Supervisors member Nathan Fletcher to announce a proposal for a Holocaust remembrance exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are growing corners of far-right social media that traffic in conspiracy theories, many of them questioning the basic premise, did the Holocaust actually happen?” Fletcher said at a recent board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is offensive to the values that each and every one of us hold dear,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fletcher’s speech, the Board of Supervisors officially declared January 24 Holocaust Remembrance Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Holocaust survivor Ben Midler told the board that fellow residents in his independent living home didn’t know about the atrocities brought by the Nazi regime. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. On weekends, she traveled around the country teaching sewing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail, June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trail’s relationship with sewing drastically changed when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083233572/trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter\">was shot in 2012\u003c/a>. Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. The group also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/memorial-quilts\">memorial quilts\u003c/a> as gifts for victims’ families and published an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/antiracist-guidebook\">Anti-Racist Guidebook.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance banner with images stretched across a street at night time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA Remembrance Project banners on display under the lights of downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SJSA remains completely volunteer-run, and workshops are still at the center of their work. But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. Political quilts by artists like \u003ca href=\"https://quiltcon.com/featured-lecturer-exhibit/\">Chawne Kimber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisabutler.com/\">Bisa Butler\u003c/a> are getting more attention. \u003ca href=\"https://simplicity.com/\">Garment patterns\u003c/a> now feature more racially diverse models and come in a wider range of sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for me, the motivating factor is, I want to see this industry change,” Trail said. “The more little hurdles we knock over, that’s what keeps me going for months on end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. On weekends, she traveled around the country teaching sewing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail, June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trail’s relationship with sewing drastically changed when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083233572/trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter\">was shot in 2012\u003c/a>. Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. The group also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/memorial-quilts\">memorial quilts\u003c/a> as gifts for victims’ families and published an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/antiracist-guidebook\">Anti-Racist Guidebook.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance banner with images stretched across a street at night time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA Remembrance Project banners on display under the lights of downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SJSA remains completely volunteer-run, and workshops are still at the center of their work. But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. Political quilts by artists like \u003ca href=\"https://quiltcon.com/featured-lecturer-exhibit/\">Chawne Kimber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisabutler.com/\">Bisa Butler\u003c/a> are getting more attention. \u003ca href=\"https://simplicity.com/\">Garment patterns\u003c/a> now feature more racially diverse models and come in a wider range of sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for me, the motivating factor is, I want to see this industry change,” Trail said. “The more little hurdles we knock over, that’s what keeps me going for months on end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Chevron has fired five workers who went on strike at the oil giant’s Richmond refinery last spring, according to their union. The apparent termination of United Steelworkers Local 5 employees at one of the West Coast’s major oil refining facilities prompted the union to file complaints with federal labor regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers Chevron fired — two during the walkout and three in the months that followed — were mostly safety operators at the refinery who played leadership roles in the strike, according to union president Tracy Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1386907574-800x534.jpg\" alt='Strikers hold placards that feature words \"strike\" and \"Chevron\"' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1386907574-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1386907574-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1386907574-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1386907574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking Chevron refinery union workers hold signs as they picket outside the Chevron refinery on March 21, 2022, in Richmond. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The firings “were unjust,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those fired was B.K. White, a top union negotiator who became the face of the labor action and had worked at the refinery for nearly three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just tell it was retaliatory or punitive in nature,” said White, vice president of USW Local 5. “It appears there’s a concerted effort to break the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board, the union alleges that Chevron ordered its members to train contractors to do union-covered work and then punished them for their labor activities. The NLRB has deferred action on the Local 5’s unfair labor practice charges pending arbitration of a grievance the union had already filed with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the firings comes months after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915426/chevron-richmond-refinery-workers-ok-deal-to-end-first-strike-in-over-40-years\">10-week-long strike\u003c/a> by hundreds of USW workers. It was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908916/a-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\">first walkout at Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 40 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marathon labor action ended up delivering only modest gains to workers. The contract, approved by a slim majority of union members, gave a small bump in pay and medical benefits to refinery employees who went without paychecks for more than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You were just asking for a little dignity and little relief from a corporation that’s raking in billions of dollars and not sharing it with its workers but sharing it with their board of directors or their stockholders on Wall Street,” White said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"BK White, vice president, USW Local 5\"]‘You were just asking for a little dignity and little relief from a corporation that’s raking in billions of dollars and not sharing it with its workers but sharing it with their board of directors or their stockholders on Wall Street.’[/pullquote]Chevron earned $35.5 billion last year, the company said in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/stories/documents/4Q22-earnings-press-release.pdf\">recent fourth-quarter earnings report (PDF)\u003c/a>. In a report to shareholders last year, the company reported that the total 2021 compensation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/-/media/shared-media/documents/chevron-proxy-statement-2022.pdf\">CEO Michael Wirth was $37.8 million (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says when he and his members returned to work in late spring, Chevron managers told them to leave the labor dispute behind and work together. But replacement employees brought in during the strike remained at the refinery. Some were living at the facility, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says he was fired in October after working for 29 years at the Richmond refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me to believe such a heinous company would treat me any other way, I would be the fool to be surprised,” White said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understood that taking a position and fighting such a big company, there would be repercussions. I wasn’t happy with it, but I’ve never been a victim a day in my life,” he said. “I willfully went in to represent my people. I didn’t think I did anything wrong. I didn’t think I did anything worthy of termination. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2017, about a week after the massive Tubbs wildfire destroyed parts of Santa Rosa, house cleaner Socorro Diaz got a call from one of her clients. They asked her to work at their home, which was still standing next to incinerated buildings in the Fountaingrove neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Diaz arrived, she found the house full of ash. She said she didn’t have a proper mask or gloves to clean what she would soon realize was toxic residue. And after days of handling and breathing it in, her skin itched, her head hurt and her nose bled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11810305,news_11886628,news_11900049\"]“The sensation of the air, of breathing, hurt inside my nose,” said Diaz, 42, a mother of three children. “The smell was toxic, harmful, and I didn’t really have the right equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state \u003ca href=\"https://www.easylawlookup.com/California-Law/Labor-Code/par-6114/_easylookup.blp?GO=Prepare&site=easy&print=&data=labor&p_start=319&p_end=339&p_para=6114&p_epara=7598&par=6114&displayer=YES#:~:text=6303.,agency%20other%20than%20the%20division.\">labor law\u003c/a>, employers of domestic service workers are not required to provide equipment or other conditions for a safe workplace, as is the case in other industries. That’s because household domestic service is not legally considered a form of “employment” — a remnant of slavery and sexist policies, according to historians. But stories like Diaz’s propelled a multiyear effort to gain full protections for this workforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">estimated at more than 358,000 people (PDF)\u003c/a>, most of whom are immigrant women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical step to eventually end the exclusion of cleaners, nannies, home care aides and day laborers — who work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">over 2 million California households (PDF)\u003c/a> — from bedrock workplace regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">safety guidance (PDF)\u003c/a>, published on Jan. 20, is the first in the nation to specifically cover the home as a workplace, say occupational health and safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recognizing paid household labor as work worthy of protections, which is very historic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/eileen-boris\">Eileen Boris\u003c/a>, an author of several history books on home caregivers and other domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a Latina woman in a pink shirt and vest with her hair pulled back, sitting with serious look on her face at an outdoor table\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz sits outside a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boris and house cleaner Diaz both were part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/advisory-comm.html\">statewide advisory committee\u003c/a> made up of employers, workers, advocates and occupational safety experts who worked alongside state regulators to produce the official guidelines. The committee’s task was mandated by a recent law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB321\">SB 321\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic service employees \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=gc_pubs\">often report job-related sickness or injury\u003c/a> from exposure to toxic cleaning chemicals, contagious illnesses like COVID-19 and ergonomic hazards. Because of back injuries, home attendants have injury rates comparable to those of construction workers, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidelines outline best practices for employers — including not to expect domestic workers to clean ash from wildfires, fix roofs, trim tall trees, clear out pest infestations or do any work that requires specialized equipment or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers also are urged to prevent injuries and illness by labeling toxic substances in a language the worker understands; creating an emergency preparedness plan for earthquakes or wildfires; offering puncture-resistant gloves to caregivers who handle needles; and removing electrical cords, wrinkled carpets and other tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not anti-employer guidelines,” said Boris, who has hired a house cleaner for many years. “These guidelines are to make a safe home space for all who live or work within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people is seen protesting, with a woman in the foreground holding an orange sign that reads 'Domestic workers are essential'\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1020x661.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-160x104.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1536x995.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic workers march to amplify their demands for health and safety protections in the workplace via Senate Bill 321 in Los Angeles on May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson/California Domestic Worker Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, any complaints by domestic workers that reach state job safety and health regulators will likely not be pursued, said a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees those regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, has jurisdiction over most workers — but not those engaged in domestic work. The exclusion is baked into the definition of “employment” in the state’s Labor Code 6303, which defines it as any trade, enterprise or occupation in which a person works for hire, “except household domestic service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the work is household domestic service, Cal/OSHA lacks the jurisdiction to issue citations,” said the DIR spokesperson, who declined to be named. “If the work is outside the household domestic service exception — for example, major construction work that includes adding a new bedroom — the Division would have jurisdiction to investigate and issue citations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal OSHA does cover some domestic service employees: those who are hired by a company, but not those \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1975/1975.6\">hired privately by an individual\u003c/a> to work at their residence. In California, covered employees could report problems to that agency, but only if they work in areas of federal jurisdiction, such as U.S. military installations or national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees hired by a company which is employing them in areas of federal jurisdiction in California can complain to federal OSHA about accidents or hazards and we will evaluate the info and take appropriate action, which could include an investigation,” said Mike Petersen, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various exemptions of domestic workers from basic health and safety protections at the federal level and in most states is a legacy of slavery, when African American people were made to do unpaid domestic labor, and of sexism, which devalues work traditionally done by women, said Boris, a UC Santa Barbara professor of feminist studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the waist down wearing blue rubber gloves picking up cleaning supplies from a red bucket\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz grabs cleaning solution during a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domestic workers were excluded from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. law that granted workers the nation’s first minimum wage and overtime pay. That omission continued into the early 1970s, when federal OSHA and its counterpart Cal/OSHA were created. It wasn’t until 1976 that the state began granting minimum wage and other labor protections to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadomesticworkers.org/about/our-history/#:~:text=In%201976%2C%20California%20passed%20a,seniors%20and%20people%20with%20disabilities.\">some categories of domestic employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California domestic workers have gained rights to overtime pay, paid sick leave and worker’s compensation benefits if they get injured on the job. But they continue to be excluded from state health and safety rules. Major obstacles to changing that have been concerns about privacy and anxiety over the weight of government regulation in the home, said Boris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">SB 1257\u003c/a>, that would have extended state occupational health and safety protections to domestic workers. In his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">veto message\u003c/a>, Newsom cited concerns that the proposed legislation would add millions of homes to the jurisdiction of Cal/OSHA — a severely understaffed agency — and would be too onerous for employers.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kimberly Alvarenga, director, California Domestic Workers Coalition\"]‘California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today’s world.’[/pullquote]“I strongly share the belief of the bill’s author and proponents that, like all other California workers, domestic service employees deserve protections to ensure that their workplaces are safe and healthy,” Newsom said. “However, new laws in this area must recognize that the places where people live cannot be treated in the exact same manner as a traditional workplace or worksite from a regulatory perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Republican state senators who voted against that bill, including Sens. Brian Dahle, Scott Wilk and Shannon Grove, declined requests for comment about their concerns with the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, workers and advocates tried again to get legislators to strike the exemption from state law. After negotiations with Newsom, the measure that was ultimately enacted created the new voluntary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates wanted a law with more teeth, but they say they hope the voluntary guidance will be a first step toward allowing domestic workers to enjoy protections equal to those of other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the guidelines identify which labor standards apply to the home and how, said Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today’s world,” said Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a blazer and sunglasses is seen clapping outside at a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. María Elena Durazo, seen here at a rally in support of striking fast-food cooks and cashiers in Los Angeles and Orange counties, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SB 321 advisory committee that developed the safety guidelines also issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Policy-Recommendations-SB-321.pdf\">policy recommendations (PDF)\u003c/a> for the state Legislature and workplace regulators. Those include removing the household domestic services exclusion from the California Labor Code and establishing financial assistance for lower-income employers to get equipment they need to improve safety for workers, such as mechanical lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles, whose roots are in the labor movement, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. She plans to introduce another bill next month that would fulfill those recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s confident that this bill will pass, now that the building blocks have been laid by the newly issued guidelines and policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to adjust. We can’t be living in the past. And this is definitely a legacy of slavery,” said Durazo. “We’ve got to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The sensation of the air, of breathing, hurt inside my nose,” said Diaz, 42, a mother of three children. “The smell was toxic, harmful, and I didn’t really have the right equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state \u003ca href=\"https://www.easylawlookup.com/California-Law/Labor-Code/par-6114/_easylookup.blp?GO=Prepare&site=easy&print=&data=labor&p_start=319&p_end=339&p_para=6114&p_epara=7598&par=6114&displayer=YES#:~:text=6303.,agency%20other%20than%20the%20division.\">labor law\u003c/a>, employers of domestic service workers are not required to provide equipment or other conditions for a safe workplace, as is the case in other industries. That’s because household domestic service is not legally considered a form of “employment” — a remnant of slavery and sexist policies, according to historians. But stories like Diaz’s propelled a multiyear effort to gain full protections for this workforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">estimated at more than 358,000 people (PDF)\u003c/a>, most of whom are immigrant women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical step to eventually end the exclusion of cleaners, nannies, home care aides and day laborers — who work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">over 2 million California households (PDF)\u003c/a> — from bedrock workplace regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">safety guidance (PDF)\u003c/a>, published on Jan. 20, is the first in the nation to specifically cover the home as a workplace, say occupational health and safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recognizing paid household labor as work worthy of protections, which is very historic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/eileen-boris\">Eileen Boris\u003c/a>, an author of several history books on home caregivers and other domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a Latina woman in a pink shirt and vest with her hair pulled back, sitting with serious look on her face at an outdoor table\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz sits outside a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boris and house cleaner Diaz both were part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/advisory-comm.html\">statewide advisory committee\u003c/a> made up of employers, workers, advocates and occupational safety experts who worked alongside state regulators to produce the official guidelines. The committee’s task was mandated by a recent law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB321\">SB 321\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic service employees \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=gc_pubs\">often report job-related sickness or injury\u003c/a> from exposure to toxic cleaning chemicals, contagious illnesses like COVID-19 and ergonomic hazards. Because of back injuries, home attendants have injury rates comparable to those of construction workers, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidelines outline best practices for employers — including not to expect domestic workers to clean ash from wildfires, fix roofs, trim tall trees, clear out pest infestations or do any work that requires specialized equipment or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers also are urged to prevent injuries and illness by labeling toxic substances in a language the worker understands; creating an emergency preparedness plan for earthquakes or wildfires; offering puncture-resistant gloves to caregivers who handle needles; and removing electrical cords, wrinkled carpets and other tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not anti-employer guidelines,” said Boris, who has hired a house cleaner for many years. “These guidelines are to make a safe home space for all who live or work within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people is seen protesting, with a woman in the foreground holding an orange sign that reads 'Domestic workers are essential'\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1020x661.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-160x104.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1536x995.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic workers march to amplify their demands for health and safety protections in the workplace via Senate Bill 321 in Los Angeles on May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson/California Domestic Worker Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, any complaints by domestic workers that reach state job safety and health regulators will likely not be pursued, said a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees those regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, has jurisdiction over most workers — but not those engaged in domestic work. The exclusion is baked into the definition of “employment” in the state’s Labor Code 6303, which defines it as any trade, enterprise or occupation in which a person works for hire, “except household domestic service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the work is household domestic service, Cal/OSHA lacks the jurisdiction to issue citations,” said the DIR spokesperson, who declined to be named. “If the work is outside the household domestic service exception — for example, major construction work that includes adding a new bedroom — the Division would have jurisdiction to investigate and issue citations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal OSHA does cover some domestic service employees: those who are hired by a company, but not those \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1975/1975.6\">hired privately by an individual\u003c/a> to work at their residence. In California, covered employees could report problems to that agency, but only if they work in areas of federal jurisdiction, such as U.S. military installations or national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees hired by a company which is employing them in areas of federal jurisdiction in California can complain to federal OSHA about accidents or hazards and we will evaluate the info and take appropriate action, which could include an investigation,” said Mike Petersen, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various exemptions of domestic workers from basic health and safety protections at the federal level and in most states is a legacy of slavery, when African American people were made to do unpaid domestic labor, and of sexism, which devalues work traditionally done by women, said Boris, a UC Santa Barbara professor of feminist studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the waist down wearing blue rubber gloves picking up cleaning supplies from a red bucket\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz grabs cleaning solution during a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domestic workers were excluded from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. law that granted workers the nation’s first minimum wage and overtime pay. That omission continued into the early 1970s, when federal OSHA and its counterpart Cal/OSHA were created. It wasn’t until 1976 that the state began granting minimum wage and other labor protections to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadomesticworkers.org/about/our-history/#:~:text=In%201976%2C%20California%20passed%20a,seniors%20and%20people%20with%20disabilities.\">some categories of domestic employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California domestic workers have gained rights to overtime pay, paid sick leave and worker’s compensation benefits if they get injured on the job. But they continue to be excluded from state health and safety rules. Major obstacles to changing that have been concerns about privacy and anxiety over the weight of government regulation in the home, said Boris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I strongly share the belief of the bill’s author and proponents that, like all other California workers, domestic service employees deserve protections to ensure that their workplaces are safe and healthy,” Newsom said. “However, new laws in this area must recognize that the places where people live cannot be treated in the exact same manner as a traditional workplace or worksite from a regulatory perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Republican state senators who voted against that bill, including Sens. Brian Dahle, Scott Wilk and Shannon Grove, declined requests for comment about their concerns with the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, workers and advocates tried again to get legislators to strike the exemption from state law. After negotiations with Newsom, the measure that was ultimately enacted created the new voluntary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates wanted a law with more teeth, but they say they hope the voluntary guidance will be a first step toward allowing domestic workers to enjoy protections equal to those of other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the guidelines identify which labor standards apply to the home and how, said Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today’s world,” said Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a blazer and sunglasses is seen clapping outside at a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. María Elena Durazo, seen here at a rally in support of striking fast-food cooks and cashiers in Los Angeles and Orange counties, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SB 321 advisory committee that developed the safety guidelines also issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Policy-Recommendations-SB-321.pdf\">policy recommendations (PDF)\u003c/a> for the state Legislature and workplace regulators. Those include removing the household domestic services exclusion from the California Labor Code and establishing financial assistance for lower-income employers to get equipment they need to improve safety for workers, such as mechanical lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles, whose roots are in the labor movement, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. She plans to introduce another bill next month that would fulfill those recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s confident that this bill will pass, now that the building blocks have been laid by the newly issued guidelines and policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to adjust. We can’t be living in the past. And this is definitely a legacy of slavery,” said Durazo. “We’ve got to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first time it happened to Courtney Abrams, hardly anyone believed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone had drained the more than $700 in cash aid and nearly $200 in food stamps from the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card the 33-year-old single mother received from the state, just minutes after those monthly payments appeared in her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams never got to spend a dime of it, though she hadn’t lost her card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams, a West Los Angeles College student, called the card company’s customer service line that day to dispute the mystery transactions. She got a replacement card from the county and filed a police report. It took a couple of weeks for money to be loaded onto her new card. She also changed the PIN.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11885417,news_11934613\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was last March. In September it happened again. This time it took a month to get her money back, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November it happened again. Now she changes her PIN every month, the night before she gets her benefits, hoping to outsmart the thieves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was, like, maxing out credit cards, doing promise-to-pay, talking to my landlord, letting him know my money got stolen,” she said. “It was a lot of exposure … having to plead your case with these people in a situation that sounds kind of far-fetched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not so far-fetched now: State and county officials say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/scam-alerts\">a rash of thefts is wiping out the cash and food benefits from thousands of lower-income families’ electronic benefits cards\u003c/a> in California and nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Millions gone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The thefts, which cost the state tens of millions of dollars to replace each year, have sent recipients scrambling to pay bills and household expenses, and flooding social services departments with reimbursement requests. The state proposes to upgrade the cards’ security features at a cost of $50 million in next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses EBT cards to deliver financial assistance for several programs, including CalFresh, which gives food aid to 2.8 million families a year, and CalWORKs, which gives cash to more than 300,000 families a year. Smaller programs include assistance grants to refugees and immigrant crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income Californians reported $29.7 million in cash welfare stolen and $4.7 million in food aid stolen in the 14 months from July 2021 through last September, the latest month for which statewide data was available, according to the Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CalWORKs, the theft amounted to less than $100,000 a month in mid-2021 and then rose to more than $4 million a month by last fall. The department is estimating an average of $6 million a month will be stolen this fiscal year, rising to $8 million a month in the year that begins in July, according to the California Department of Social Services budget documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been stolen in California so far amounts to a sliver of the total benefits California issued to all recipients — less than 1% of the cash benefits and less than a tenth of 1% of food aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the amount of EBT theft has nearly doubled since 2019, budget documents state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Minutes to lose\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what prompted a nationwide spike in benefits theft last year. The consequences are particularly acute in California, which provides more generous cash grants than many other states. Advocates say pandemic-era boosts in food aid also meant bigger losses than usual from recipients’ accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often the theft occurs minutes after the benefits are transferred to their cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two hands hold a plastic card that reads 'golden state advantage'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Esteban Vasquez holds his Golden State Advantage electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card. A lack of security features has made it easy for thieves to target EBT cards for theft. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It takes much longer to be made whole. Several recipients told CalMatters it took weeks, or even more than a month, to get benefits reimbursed amid the rising theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state social services department in 2013 instructed counties to replenish money to victims within 10 days of a theft report, but exceptions meant to catch fraud can slow that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if an aid recipient reports more than one theft within six months, social workers must flag their next claim for investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many recipients say they have been victims of theft more than once in recent months. Giovanna Roman, a Ventura County mother and community college student, said it happened to her three months in a row last year. She now receives her benefits through direct deposit, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vulnerability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One reason safety-net benefits are vulnerable to electronic theft, advocates say, is that the cards have long lacked a security feature banks began putting on their credit and debit cards in late 2015: security chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chipped card doesn’t come in contact with hidden, illegal “skimming” devices, which are designed to copy information from the card’s strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make purchases or withdraw money, EBT card users must swipe the cards’ magnetic strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/opg52FxKoSo\">A state public service video\u003c/a> demonstrates how thieves can install skimming devices onto card readers to steal card numbers from the cards’ magnetic strips, and the thieves use hidden cameras to capture the cardholders entering their PINs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thieves can then \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8hk1VmYYuQ\">create counterfeit cards\u003c/a> to access the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lena Silver, associate director, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County\"]‘I feel that the EBT system was like the last place where things are so unsafe and so poor in terms of consumer protection.’[/pullquote]Until last June, the state’s EBT cards didn’t even include the three-digit “CVV” security codes typically on the back of credit and debit cards that banks use for an additional layer of fraud prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state added those codes, but the three months of data afterward show that benefits theft continued to rise, according to state figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state social services department is proposing to spend $76.5 million over the next three years to upgrade EBT cards with “enhanced security features,” according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal. Department spokesperson Jason Montiel did not answer a question about whether that means chip cards specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent motion, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are joining advocates in urging the state to go that route.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consumer standards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“To improve the security of the EBT system itself, so that people who rely on this very minimal food and cash assistance to survive, to bring their EBT system up to the same consumer standards that everyone else enjoys [are] the ultimate goalposts that we all need to be reaching for,” said Lena Silver, associate director at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, which has been flooded with calls from clients whose benefits were stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver pointed out that, in contrast to cards sent to lower-income Californians receiving assistance, the state intended to send chipped cards to the recipients of its tax refunds to relieve inflation and high gas prices last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that the EBT system was like the last place where things are so unsafe and so poor in terms of consumer protection,” Silver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recently issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/middle-class-tax-refund/index.html\">middle class tax refund\u003c/a> cards were issued by a different department, the Franchise Tax Board. Spokesperson Andrew LePage said the agency chose its debit card vendor, Money Network, partly because it could provide some chipped cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October the board has sent out 9.4 million debit cards, though many of those were issued without chips due to supply chain shortages. The agency has received reports of fraud and theft of those benefits, too, but it won’t say how much or how many cards lacked chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LePage said the vendor reports that the fraud rate is “well below” 1% of the money issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxpayers pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While most of the benefits on EBT cards come from federal funds, California taxpayers foot the bill to reimburse victims of theft. California has reimbursed CalWORKs recipients for stolen funds for years, and in November 2021 the state became the first to do the same for CalFresh food aid recipients, after advocates sued the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Congress approved a spending bill allowing states to use federal funds to reimburse victims of food stamp theft that happened after Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, California is blocking suspicious EBT transactions, including those made from out of state, state officials told advocates in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social services department also is helping counties process reimbursement claims more quickly, and “multiple investigations are ongoing,” Montiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Los Angeles prosecutors announced they charged 16 people in an alleged EBT fraud ring after they were caught with 300 cloned EBT cards, amounting to $400,000 in stolen benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County prosecutors in December charged two men with burglary and theft after they were arrested with 50 fraudulent cards and card-skimming equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Clearing hurdles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state also plans to reduce the number of hurdles theft victims must clear to make a claim and get their benefits replaced. Cash welfare recipients previously had to dispute transactions with the card company and file a police report before filling out a theft claim form with the county welfare department, which advocates said was burdensome for some clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social services department in late January issued \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2023/23-13.pdf?ver=2023-01-27-165817-090\">a new policy removing requirements to call the card company and file a police report (PDF)\u003c/a>, adding that card theft victims are “strongly encouraged” to report the theft to police and prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams said she would feel more secure if the cards were chipped. Beyond all that, she wants to get her money back with less scrutiny. The numerous calls and rounds of paperwork she had to file made her feel like she was being accused of fraud, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my bank card gets stolen and someone uses it, I don’t feel like a criminal, calling and saying, ‘Hey, my bank card was stolen, can you turn it off and reimburse me?’” she said. “They have protection against that thing specifically. It happens all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Now she changes her PIN every month, the night before she gets her benefits, hoping to outsmart the thieves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was, like, maxing out credit cards, doing promise-to-pay, talking to my landlord, letting him know my money got stolen,” she said. “It was a lot of exposure … having to plead your case with these people in a situation that sounds kind of far-fetched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not so far-fetched now: State and county officials say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/scam-alerts\">a rash of thefts is wiping out the cash and food benefits from thousands of lower-income families’ electronic benefits cards\u003c/a> in California and nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Millions gone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The thefts, which cost the state tens of millions of dollars to replace each year, have sent recipients scrambling to pay bills and household expenses, and flooding social services departments with reimbursement requests. The state proposes to upgrade the cards’ security features at a cost of $50 million in next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses EBT cards to deliver financial assistance for several programs, including CalFresh, which gives food aid to 2.8 million families a year, and CalWORKs, which gives cash to more than 300,000 families a year. Smaller programs include assistance grants to refugees and immigrant crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income Californians reported $29.7 million in cash welfare stolen and $4.7 million in food aid stolen in the 14 months from July 2021 through last September, the latest month for which statewide data was available, according to the Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CalWORKs, the theft amounted to less than $100,000 a month in mid-2021 and then rose to more than $4 million a month by last fall. The department is estimating an average of $6 million a month will be stolen this fiscal year, rising to $8 million a month in the year that begins in July, according to the California Department of Social Services budget documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been stolen in California so far amounts to a sliver of the total benefits California issued to all recipients — less than 1% of the cash benefits and less than a tenth of 1% of food aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the amount of EBT theft has nearly doubled since 2019, budget documents state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Minutes to lose\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what prompted a nationwide spike in benefits theft last year. The consequences are particularly acute in California, which provides more generous cash grants than many other states. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Until last June, the state’s EBT cards didn’t even include the three-digit “CVV” security codes typically on the back of credit and debit cards that banks use for an additional layer of fraud prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state added those codes, but the three months of data afterward show that benefits theft continued to rise, according to state figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state social services department is proposing to spend $76.5 million over the next three years to upgrade EBT cards with “enhanced security features,” according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal. Department spokesperson Jason Montiel did not answer a question about whether that means chip cards specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent motion, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are joining advocates in urging the state to go that route.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consumer standards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“To improve the security of the EBT system itself, so that people who rely on this very minimal food and cash assistance to survive, to bring their EBT system up to the same consumer standards that everyone else enjoys [are] the ultimate goalposts that we all need to be reaching for,” said Lena Silver, associate director at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, which has been flooded with calls from clients whose benefits were stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver pointed out that, in contrast to cards sent to lower-income Californians receiving assistance, the state intended to send chipped cards to the recipients of its tax refunds to relieve inflation and high gas prices last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that the EBT system was like the last place where things are so unsafe and so poor in terms of consumer protection,” Silver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recently issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/middle-class-tax-refund/index.html\">middle class tax refund\u003c/a> cards were issued by a different department, the Franchise Tax Board. Spokesperson Andrew LePage said the agency chose its debit card vendor, Money Network, partly because it could provide some chipped cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October the board has sent out 9.4 million debit cards, though many of those were issued without chips due to supply chain shortages. The agency has received reports of fraud and theft of those benefits, too, but it won’t say how much or how many cards lacked chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LePage said the vendor reports that the fraud rate is “well below” 1% of the money issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxpayers pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While most of the benefits on EBT cards come from federal funds, California taxpayers foot the bill to reimburse victims of theft. California has reimbursed CalWORKs recipients for stolen funds for years, and in November 2021 the state became the first to do the same for CalFresh food aid recipients, after advocates sued the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Congress approved a spending bill allowing states to use federal funds to reimburse victims of food stamp theft that happened after Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, California is blocking suspicious EBT transactions, including those made from out of state, state officials told advocates in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The announcement comes after Breen, who worked for the district for 24 years, was accused of uttering a racist, sexist slur during a confrontation with a security guard at the agency's headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica Eady, the district's senior deputy executive officer of policy and equity, is now overseeing operations and enforcement duties, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Dec. 6, 2022:\u003c/strong> One of the top officials at the agency that regulates Bay Area pollution is on paid leave after he allegedly used a racist, sexist slur in a confrontation with a security official at the district’s headquarters in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Breen, senior deputy executive officer of operations at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, told the official during a brief exchange Oct. 5, “I don’t have time for this, you Black b----,\" according to documents obtained by KQED through a California Public Records Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the alleged incident involving Breen, who is white, and the security employee, who is Black, an air district representative confirmed he was on leave. The agency has declined to provide more information, citing policy not to comment on personnel matters except to confirm employment status. In response, KQED filed the records request, and has since learned details of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode involving Breen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/air-district-leadership\">whom the district lists among its half-dozen top executives\u003c/a>, comes after a series of changes in the agency's senior leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, the air district fired Jeff McKay, its chief financial officer. Along with Breen, the agency’s chief administrative officer, Rex Sanders, is currently on leave. Jack Broadbent, the district’s long-time executive officer, retired in June. Last year Brian Bunger, the agency's top lawyer for more than 20 years, also retired, leaving the agency in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen played a leading role in two of the agency’s higher-profile pollution enforcement actions this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January the air district disclosed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">Valero’s Benicia refinery released excessive levels of hazardous chemicals\u003c/a> for more than 15 years before the agency discovered the emissions. Breen was the agency’s main voice when it disclosed the releases to the public. He also apologized to Benicia city officials, who were upset it took the agency three years to tell them about the emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the district moved to shut down a set of giant diesel generators that had been used for more than a year and a half to power a major cannabis growing facility in East Oakland, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911263/regulator-moves-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-east-oakland-cannabis-facility\">Green Sage\u003c/a>. Breen was quoted multiple times in news stories and the agency’s press release about its enforcement actions against the company.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932420,news_11928625,news_11920452\"]The alleged October incident involving Breen was recounted in several documents released in response to KQED's records request. The Oct. 5 encounter, which lasted about 20 seconds, was captured on a building security camera. The video, also obtained through a records request, does not include audio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents include brief incident reports from the security firm serving the \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/authorities/bay-area-headquarters-authority/bay-area-metro-center\">Bay Area Metro Center\u003c/a>, a Beale Street building that houses the air district and several other regional agencies, and emails from Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate company that manages the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those accounts say Breen and an unidentified woman were walking through a security checkpoint at around 3 p.m. on Oct. 5 when a security guard asked the woman for her badge. Breen showed the guard his badge and told the officer, “She’s with me.” The two then continued down a hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security director noticed the interaction and told the unidentified woman she had to check in with security on the first floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And who the hell are you to tell me anything?” Breen asked, according to the director’s email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stated to him that I am the security director, and your visitor must check in with security if you would like to show her around the building,” the unidentified director wrote, adding that the woman with Breen said she would leave and started walking away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked the employee his name and he stated ‘I don’t have time for this you black bitch’ as he was walking to badge his badge on the Harrison garage door leading out near FasTrak hallway,” the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Damien [sic] was exceptionally rude,” one incident report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, a Cushman & Wakefield employee emailed facilities staff about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an incident a little while ago with an BAAQMD employee Damien [sic] Breen,” the email said. The incident was also referred to the air district’s head of human resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long pressured the air district to do more to fight environmental racism and support Bay Area communities of color that have been disproportionately affected by pollution. The district has adopted a resolution supporting racial justice and established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\">Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion \u003c/a>that says the air district is committed to “zero tolerance of all forms of discrimination and harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, an air district representative declined to answer several questions about the incident involving him and the causes for changes in agency leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All personnel matters are confidential,” said spokesperson Kristine Roselius, adding that the district would not make any staff members, including Breen, available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The air district’s commitment to public health, air quality, the global climate and the vigorous enforcement of all air quality regulations continues unabated,” Roselius said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is getting close to the end of its recruitment process for a new executive officer. 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These are incredibly volatile situations and any could lead to horrific and tragic results.’[/pullquote]San Francisco and San Diego are two cities trying to boost utilization of red flag laws to help get guns out of potentially dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Red flag laws are an incredibly important tool,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, whose office processes requests for gun violence restraining orders. “In our first few years, we have removed firearms in several dozen highly dangerous circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California became one of the first states to enact a red flag law, following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/137287/can-legislation-prevent-mass-shootings\">the 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista that killed seven people\u003c/a>. 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In some cases, anger management or mental health treatment might be more appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are only dealing with the threat and not what led to it, we could miss something really important,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials in San Francisco said the request alone can provide a useful heads-up about behaviors before a violent incident occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have people who purchased guns legally but may be in crisis or experiencing a mental health issue that may not have come up in the background process. So it’s literally a red flag to us to take that firearm out of their possession,” said San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Dudley, a former deputy chief with the San Francisco Police Department, now teaches criminal justice at San Francisco State University. 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