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Some of the group's members are survivors of the church massacre, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are calling upon the government of Liberia to muster the courage to ensure justice will be served for war crimes,\" Tugbeh said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church massacre took place during Liberia's first civil war, a seven-year conflict that started in 1989 and is believed to have led to the deaths of some 200,000 people by the time the fighting ended in 1997. Just two years later, in 1999, the country erupted into a second civil war that lasted until 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Thomas say they witnessed their relatives killed during the church massacre and were forced to hide under dead bodies to survive. One was shot in the leg. 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The bureau hasn’t released any details of what led to the shooting, apart from saying that the person who was killed was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez's cousin Alexis Castillo said his family is now connected to the experience he’s seen other people go through who have family members killed by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call themselves the law, but act like a gang gunning down my little cousin in broad daylight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Nguyen was also among a group gathered at the vigil. She said Cortez was her boyfriend, and they met in San Francisco when she was 15 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wants to know why Cortez was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don't understand why it was handled the way it was, regardless of the criminal background or history of whatever happened. This is their job to protect us and do things the right way. And they did not do it the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed Aldahmi watched the vigil crowd from outside the Upstairs Underground Smoke Shop at the corner of Fruitvale Avenue and Blossom Street, where the shooting took place. Aldahmi was working inside during the shooting. He said Cortez was buying a drink and some snacks at the store when an officer wearing a bulletproof vest came into the store with his gun drawn, yelling, “Get down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said he and his 21-year-old cousin Issa, who was visiting him in the shop, ran into a storage area at the back of the store and laid on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just ran to the back to save my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was lying on the floor, Aldahmi said, he heard a gunshot. Some time after that he heard police knocking on the door between the cashiers area and the rest of the store telling him to come out. 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She was also the head of the correctional officers union, which had endorsed Smith in a contentious reelection bid that the sheriff won in November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facts, taken together with the unexplained closure of the Internal Affairs investigation, certainly raise the question of whether the officer’s position in the union and its support for the Sheriff’s political campaign played a role in the decision to deactivate the Internal Affairs investigation,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le resigned facing discipline for misconduct unrelated to the Hogan case in 2019. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A law enforcement oversight agency plans to subpoena the Santa Clara County sheriff to obtain records from an allegedly abandoned internal investigation in the case of a man with mental illness who was severely injured in 2018 while in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060938-attachment-217885\">A preliminary report\u003c/a> by the county Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring made public Friday evening questioned what it called the “highly irregular and problematic” decision to close the internal investigation into Andrew Hogan’s case before it was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of intervening as 24-year-old Andrew Hogan pleaded for help, Santa Clara County correctional officers and medical staff allegedly stood by and did nothing as he beat his head against the metal cage of a prisoner transport van until he knocked himself unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogan was in a coma for six weeks following the traumatic brain injury he suffered on Aug. 25, 2018, according to a legal claim. He lives today with long-term disabilities affecting his memory, movement and speech, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report from the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring, or OCLEM, says the public has a right to information about the case, which is at the center of county supervisors’ call last month for multiple investigations into longtime sheriff Laurie Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCLEM is an independent agency formed by Santa Clara County in 2018 to provide oversight over the sheriff. Its report mirrored concerns aired by politicians in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite repeated requests, “the Sheriff (through her attorney) has expressly declined to provide us any information relating to the Internal Affairs investigation that her agency appears to have initiated and then deactivated,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for comment Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unexplained and abrupt end to the internal probe also factored into the county’s decision to settle a lawsuit brought by Hogan and his parents for $10 million last year, according to a second bombshell document that also was made public Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Counsel James Williams wrote in a Feb. 10, 2020, memo to the Board of Supervisors that a jury could find that the sheriff essentially signed off on unconstitutional conduct by a jail supervisor at the scene of Hogan’s injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would open up the county to even greater liability, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogan, then 24, was arrested Aug. 10, 2018, on a minor offense in hopes, according to his attorney, that he would be treated in the psychiatric unit of the county’s Main Jail. Hogan has schizoaffective disorder and had been unable to get treatment, his attorney said. He ended up being held in the Elmwood Men’s Facility until Aug. 25, 2018, when he began to beat his head against the wall of a jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officers decided to transfer him, and coaxed him into a steel-caged prisoner transport van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were 10 million things they did wrong,” Hogan’s attorney Paula Canny said. “And Andy suffered 10 million dollars worth of injuries and profoundly impacted his life, his parents’ life, the life of his brothers, his grandmother, everybody that loved Andy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county plans to soon release video that captured different phases of the incident; some four hours of footage is still being redacted. Both the county counsel’s memo and the OCLEM report cite video that has yet to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the approximately 12-minute drive between the two jails, Hogan started to bang his head on a steel beam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the deputies estimated that Mr. Hogan struck his head at least 50 times,” while en route, the county counsel’s memo says. After the van arrived at the main jail, video captured an unidentified sheriff’s supervisor peeking into the van while a nurse assessed Hogan and suggested he immediately be transported by ambulance to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first unnamed supervisor noticed “there was an extreme amount of blood coming from the top of his head dripping onto his face,” according to the OCLEM report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor then shut the door to the van and called for the jail’s emergency response team to suit up in protective gear to extract Hogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor can be heard on video saying that in the meantime “Hogan ‘will do all the damage he wants [to himself],’” according to the county counsel’s memo, which says the supervisor “appears harsh and insensitive to Hogan’s needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was horrifying,” Canny said about the sergeant’s statement. “There’s two things that are horrifying about that: One, that that was her perception, and two, as she said it, the nurse was standing right next to her and did nothing to correct her. To me it’s a double whammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several minutes passed while ambulance personnel and jail staff waited for the specialized jail team to arrive.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor 1 closed the doors of the van, leaving no one to monitor Mr. Hogan as he continued to bleed and decompensate,” the OCLEM report says. “On the recordings, Mr. Hogan can be heard yelling irrational statements with less and less vigor as he eventually lapses into unconsciousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel wrote that images of EMTs “standing around and casually chatting with jail staff” while Hogan lost consciousness “will not resonate well with a jury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specialized team removed Hogan, unconscious, from the van approximately 9 minutes after an ambulance first arrived, according to a timeline in the OCLEM report citing jail surveillance video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail had no policies on transporting mentally ill people when Hogan was injured, according to the county counsel. But that policy changed as a result of Hogan’s case, directing that people with mental illness only be transported in a sedan or ambulance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had absolutely no policy,” Canny said. “They had no training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCLEM report echoes suspicions first advanced by county supervisors Joe Simitian and Otto Lee last month about politics potentially influencing an internal investigation in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail’s watch commander at the time, then-Lt. Amy Le, who was present at the scene of Hogan’s injury, according to Canny and others familiar with the case, was promoted three months after Hogan was injured. She was also the head of the correctional officers union, which had endorsed Smith in a contentious reelection bid that the sheriff won in November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facts, taken together with the unexplained closure of the Internal Affairs investigation, certainly raise the question of whether the officer’s position in the union and its support for the Sheriff’s political campaign played a role in the decision to deactivate the Internal Affairs investigation,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le resigned facing discipline for misconduct unrelated to the Hogan case in 2019. She’s suing the county for wrongful termination alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oversight agency was granted subpoena power late last year under a new state law, and the office says it will now use that power to probe what happened to shut down the internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once an Internal Affairs investigation is initiated, it should be the extraordinary circumstance that would cause it to be closed without a finding,” the OCLEM report says. “The interruption of the fact-collection process means that leadership remains in the dark about precisely what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: Due to the stigma of domestic violence in tribal communities, KQED is not using Mark and Lydia’s real names, or disclosing their location or tribal affiliation. This story contains depictions of violence and a description of racial slurs.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a kid, Mark often came home to a racket on the block. Then the truth would sink in. The hitting and screaming was coming from his house. His dad’s drinking made the beatings worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He busted my mom’s teeth out with a rifle,” said Mark, who grew up in rural Northern California near the Oregon border. “I remember seeing this. So my first memories are of domestic violence. I was born into domestic violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark, now in his early fifties, found out later that his father had been abused, beaten as a child. His dad was repeating what he had learned. And after Mark fell in love and began a relationship with Lydia, it wasn’t long before he carried the behavior forward again, himself. “I’m a typical Native American man,” he said. “There’s a thousand of me all around the area right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia, who had also experienced intergenerational violence and abuse in her family, stayed in the relationship. In time, she’d wind up facing a domestic violence charge herself, just like Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mark\"]'I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better. But I didn’t know how to get there.'[/pullquote]A National Institute of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/violence-against-american-indian-and-alaska-native-women-and-men\">study from 2016\u003c/a> found that nearly 85% of American Indians and Alaska Natives had experienced violence in their lifetime, compared to a little over two-thirds for non-Hispanic whites. The rates of physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner were also markedly higher for Indigenous respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the root is trauma that dates back generations, all the way to colonizers' invasions. Mental health experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/stress-and-trauma/indigenous-people\">defined that historical trauma\u003c/a> as “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding, over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experiences.” In California, the forcible separation of Indigenous peoples from their lands, traditions and language are just some examples of the collective losses Native Americans have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Mark and Lydia’s journey eventually brought healing – thanks in part to an approach to justice rooted in the region’s Indigenous cultural values, restorative more than punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key, Lydia said: “Going back and really finding out, ‘Where did this start?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cycles of abuse\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Mark, the racial slurs began in elementary school. 'Wagon burner.' 'Dirty Indian.' He said he came home crying nearly every day. By now, his mom had left his dad and Mark had a step-father, who “taught me most of all the cultural things that I know,” he said. “He taught me how to fish. He taught me how to take care of my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also signed Mark up for boxing lessons, so he could learn to fight his bullies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started busting people's noses and giving them black eyes, and they quit teasing me. That power was intoxicating,” he said. “Like a drug. It was addicting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Lydia, also contended with trauma. Her dad had abused her mom, who left with Lydia when she was a baby to move in with her own mother. But Lydia’s grandma – who herself had been beaten and molested as a child, Lydia later learned – could be cruel, locking Lydia in a back room in the dark. Denying her food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mom was around, Lydia said, but had different priorities: “Drugs and alcohol and partying.” By age 15, Lydia was doing drugs, too, and couch surfing. She found a boyfriend – who beat her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really wanted to be loved,” she said, “and of course when they tell you, ‘I love you,’ you really want to believe it, even if you know it’s not true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Historical trauma\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands in California stretch from Humboldt to Del Norte County near the Oregon border. In 1974, she became the \u003ca href=\"https://trellis.law/judge/abby.abinanti\">first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abby Abinanti, chief justice of the Yurok Tribe\"]'People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language. Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe... And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.'[/pullquote]Legends and parables make it clear that domestic violence was not tolerated in traditional Yurok culture, said Abinanti, 73. Rather, it’s a relatively recent symptom of the wound of colonization. Treating that symptom without addressing the cause gets you nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have to do is look at the context and where it came from,” she said. And in Northern California, “it came from things \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/memorial.htm\">like boarding school, massacres and the Indian Slave Act\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official title of the latter was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/IB.pdf\">The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians\u003c/a>.” Passed at California’s first Constitutional Convention in 1850, it allowed Indigenous children – and adults – to be indentured to white settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many were captured in the North and sold down into the middle of the state and to the South,” Abinanti said, in many cases after witnessing the murder of their parents. Many escaped and ran home. But “the problem is they were adults,” she said, “and then they got into adult relationships and had children and had no idea how to parent. And had a lot of anger, frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg\" alt=\"Profile shot of Judge Abby Abinanti standing outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1536x1055.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretch through Humboldt and Del Norte counties, near the Oregon border. In 1974 she became the first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California. Her court’s approach to substance abuse and domestic violence is restorative more than punitive, and emphasizes cultural values as a key to healing offenders and the communities they’ve harmed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the mid-19th Century through the 1960s, more trauma: U.S. officials forced Native American children across the country to attend government-run boarding schools designed, as one historian explains, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/10/native-american-boarding-schools-shadows-of-sherman-institute/\">to destroy that which was Indian and re-create people in the image of White America\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language,” said Abinanti. And with cultural amnesia came pain and self-denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe,” she said. “And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Love and violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time Lydia turned 18 she’d been on her own for a while, walking four miles each way to a fast food job. But she cherished one cultural tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/features/klamath-salmon-yurok-tribe\">Salmon fishing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I go down there,” she said. To the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this beautiful girl step out of this truck,” Mark recalled. “And I thought, Oh man! There she is...I’m gonna marry that girl. But it was scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an automatic connection,” said Lydia. “I wanted this picture-perfect life. I knew there was a life without abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok citizen Tasheena Natt fishes for salmon in the Klamath River. Salmon fishing is central to the Yurok culture and economy, and is considered a deeply spiritual practice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, they were like glue on glue. They moved in together and decided to have a baby. Lydia quit drinking, drugs, cigarettes. She gave birth to a girl, and a couple of years later, a boy. But Mark was still partying. The fights began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About five years in, it got physical. Mark slapped Lydia during an argument in the kitchen, giving her a fat lip. She ran to a neighbor’s apartment. And to her horror, that neighbor dialed 911. Lydia didn’t trust law enforcement. She said she’d learned that from her mom and grandmother. But the wheels were in motion. Police arrested Mark, and state prosecutors offered him a deal: If he attended a 52-week batterers intervention program, the charges would be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark said he “participated fully.” He learned to walk away from a fight, to take a time out. It was progress. But he’d realize later how much he still didn’t know – about himself and the roots of his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better,” Mark said. “But I didn’t know how to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Addiction in Indian Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Mark completed his program, he said he “continued to work on myself and work on myself.” But, for four more years, he “was still using meth.” In the late '90s, he managed to quit. Then came the opioid explosion, “when the doctors were basically giving away, just as many as you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a laborer with regular injuries, he had access to that open tap. They both did. Addiction followed, \u003ca href=\"https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma14-4866.pdf\">another symptom of historical trauma\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/americanindian/mentalhealth/\">often goes hand in hand with domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11883520 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/634_original-1180x887.jpg']“I would grab her by her arm and I would shake her and I’d do these things and I knew better,” Mark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They split up, on and off, for years. Then, in 2013, Mark quit the opioids. And they reunited, both of them clean and sober. Then, a few years later, a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their adult daughter died in a single-vehicle accident. Mark and Lydia sank into depression and isolation. Complicating matters, Mark said, they’d been trying to persuade their daughter to leave an abusive partner, and she was resisting. That caused a rift in their relationship with her, so “we didn’t get to spend the last years with her. It started creating this hell, this guilt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Sunday argument, Lydia scratched Mark’s nose while trying to knock a cigarette from his mouth. He called 911. This time, Lydia was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It just so happened, the couple’s adult son had a court date the next day – on a domestic violence charge. Lydia had planned to be there to support him. Instead, she showed up as another defendant in a jail jumpsuit. Charged with domestic abuse, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just can’t imagine how he must have felt,” Lydia said of her son, “to see me walk in there the next morning, on the other side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A path to healing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/02/cover-healing-heritage\">growing consensus\u003c/a> in Indian Country across the nation that the most effective way to alleviate symptoms of historical trauma like domestic violence and substance abuse is to incorporate traditional cultural values and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/restorative-justice-in-indian-country\">forms of justice\u003c/a>. Thanks to a cultural renaissance, that is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abby Abinanti, chief justice of the Yurok Tribe\"]'If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based. Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.'[/pullquote]Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation returned home to mine the stories of elders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-feb-06-la-me-yurok-language-20130207-story.html\">revive the language\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060208-the-yurok-tribe-welcomes-you#document/p5/a2053772\">master the wisdom needed to bring back ceremonial dances\u003c/a>. Yurok Judge Abby Abinanti was among them, and decades later she would deepen her commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, she began to expand the Yurok tribal justice system, launching a dedicated court docket to help tribal members struggling with substance abuse. To help participants repair the harm they’ve caused, so they could heal. So the community could heal. She called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yurok-tribal-judge-20140305-dto-htmlstory.html\">Wellness Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based,” Abinanti said. “Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State court judges started releasing Yurok defendants to Abinanti’s court – and seeing results. So in 2015, she decided it was time to reach more tribal members cycling through county jail. A laborious rolling cross-tally of two separate databases revealed which Yurok members were incarcerated and why. The most common offense: domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Walking the path\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many defendants, it turned out, were in county jail for violating probation. For not completing the state’s 52 week batterer’s intervention program – the same one Mark had attended. One barrier was financial. Even at the lowest end of the sliding scale, the state program cost $1,000. There were transportation and child care problems, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Abinanti’s team decided to create their own 52-week batterers’ program, one that drew on core cultural values, and get the state to certify it as an option for state court defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of domestic violence was startling yet unsurprising. Surveys and focus groups conducted a few years earlier by the \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> – a collective of tribal judges – revealed the scope of the crisis. Nearly half the women and a fifth of the men who \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/NCTCC_Responses_D_V.pdf\">responded\u003c/a> said they’d been abused by a partner. Drugs and alcohol played a role about two-thirds of the time. Lack of trust in law enforcement and state court systems was common. So was a lack of awareness of services at the county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And participants “generally believed that these services lacked a necessary cultural component to ensure they were appropriate for a Native American population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court coalition stepped up to help build the Yurok batterers program, funding the training for two facilitators. It launched in 2016, with state certification, the first of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum includes the basics: Take full responsibility for your actions and identify your triggers. Specific Yurok cultural practices aren’t on the agenda. Because, the only way to make the program pencil out was to open it to everyone – tribal members from throughout the region and non-tribal members, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok tribal member Lori Nesbitt was the founding facilitator of the Yurok Batterers Intervention Program, which takes a restorative approach to healing and emphasizes the roots of intergenerational trauma. It rolled out in 2016 and is certified by the state as one of the 52-week programs available to domestic violence offenders in Northern California. Here, Nesbitt presents details of the program at a 2019 conference in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Lori Nesbitt, the founding facilitator, said the whole approach stems from Yurok-style justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are they and who is their family,” she explained, “and how can we walk the path with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost is $30, for a book. All participants make a family tree, and conduct an interview with a community elder outside their immediate family about that generation’s experiences with domestic abuse. Participants are pressed to identify not just the family members that led them astray, but the ones who taught them cultural practices and helped root them to a sense of self – whatever their culture. Most of all, Nesbitt said she acknowledges past pain as the deep generational roots of family violence come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you've gone through this program, you can kind of acknowledge that, ‘Yeah some things happened. And I've repaired those. I've forgiven myself,’ ” she said. “However they choose to find that forgiveness, to me, is their pathway to healing for the rest of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-forgiveness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Lydia’s arrest, state prosecutors offered her the same deal as Mark. Complete a 52-week batterers intervention program and her charge would disappear. She chose the Yurok one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of me being the victim all the time, I learned that I was also abuser,” she said. “I learned that I did that to my children. Because I had the choice to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turning point: understanding the context of her trauma and the chain of traumas that came before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned how to love myself,” she said. “I’m just now feeling like I don’t walk around in shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple separated after Lydia’s arrest. But while she worked her program, Mark went to counseling and to a Christian faith-based recovery program that, he said, flooded him with “realizations and epiphanies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started learning about what PTSD was,” he said, \"and what it does to your body and the fear and how it paralyzes you...just understanding my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have now reunited, and both say a big part of their healing is participating in their own tribal community, giving back. Each has an idea that they believe would help tribal members affected by domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia’s is for a safe house for women and children, \"but it would have to be way up in the mountains, gated, with security. It would be a home with programs for them to heal, and the children to heal too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark’s idea is specifically for men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go into an isolated place where they're taught their culture, where they're taught to fish, to dance, to sing, to give to your elders. And then I want them to come out as a dance crew to show that strength,” he said. “There's going to be so much power, to recover those men. I just feel that so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a> at 1-800-799-7233\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strongheartshelpline.org/\">StrongHearts Native Helpline\u003c/a> at 1-844-7NATIVE)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> mobile app\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccuih.org/red-women-rising-program/\">Red Women Rising\u003c/a>, for Native Americans living in urban areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible by Yurok tribal member \u003ca href=\"https://www.pli.edu/faculty/laura--woods-30562\">Laura Woods\u003c/a>, and documentary filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/219880229\">Luisa Conlon\u003c/a>. This story was produced by The California Report Magazine courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm\">The Judicial Council of California\u003c/a>, which commissioned the \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/14851.htm\">original version\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A National Institute of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/violence-against-american-indian-and-alaska-native-women-and-men\">study from 2016\u003c/a> found that nearly 85% of American Indians and Alaska Natives had experienced violence in their lifetime, compared to a little over two-thirds for non-Hispanic whites. The rates of physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner were also markedly higher for Indigenous respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the root is trauma that dates back generations, all the way to colonizers' invasions. Mental health experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/stress-and-trauma/indigenous-people\">defined that historical trauma\u003c/a> as “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding, over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experiences.” In California, the forcible separation of Indigenous peoples from their lands, traditions and language are just some examples of the collective losses Native Americans have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Mark and Lydia’s journey eventually brought healing – thanks in part to an approach to justice rooted in the region’s Indigenous cultural values, restorative more than punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key, Lydia said: “Going back and really finding out, ‘Where did this start?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cycles of abuse\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Mark, the racial slurs began in elementary school. 'Wagon burner.' 'Dirty Indian.' He said he came home crying nearly every day. By now, his mom had left his dad and Mark had a step-father, who “taught me most of all the cultural things that I know,” he said. “He taught me how to fish. He taught me how to take care of my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also signed Mark up for boxing lessons, so he could learn to fight his bullies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started busting people's noses and giving them black eyes, and they quit teasing me. That power was intoxicating,” he said. “Like a drug. It was addicting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Legends and parables make it clear that domestic violence was not tolerated in traditional Yurok culture, said Abinanti, 73. Rather, it’s a relatively recent symptom of the wound of colonization. Treating that symptom without addressing the cause gets you nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have to do is look at the context and where it came from,” she said. And in Northern California, “it came from things \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/memorial.htm\">like boarding school, massacres and the Indian Slave Act\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official title of the latter was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/IB.pdf\">The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians\u003c/a>.” Passed at California’s first Constitutional Convention in 1850, it allowed Indigenous children – and adults – to be indentured to white settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many were captured in the North and sold down into the middle of the state and to the South,” Abinanti said, in many cases after witnessing the murder of their parents. Many escaped and ran home. But “the problem is they were adults,” she said, “and then they got into adult relationships and had children and had no idea how to parent. And had a lot of anger, frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg\" alt=\"Profile shot of Judge Abby Abinanti standing outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1536x1055.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretch through Humboldt and Del Norte counties, near the Oregon border. In 1974 she became the first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California. Her court’s approach to substance abuse and domestic violence is restorative more than punitive, and emphasizes cultural values as a key to healing offenders and the communities they’ve harmed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the mid-19th Century through the 1960s, more trauma: U.S. officials forced Native American children across the country to attend government-run boarding schools designed, as one historian explains, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/10/native-american-boarding-schools-shadows-of-sherman-institute/\">to destroy that which was Indian and re-create people in the image of White America\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language,” said Abinanti. And with cultural amnesia came pain and self-denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe,” she said. “And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Love and violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time Lydia turned 18 she’d been on her own for a while, walking four miles each way to a fast food job. But she cherished one cultural tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/features/klamath-salmon-yurok-tribe\">Salmon fishing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I go down there,” she said. To the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this beautiful girl step out of this truck,” Mark recalled. “And I thought, Oh man! There she is...I’m gonna marry that girl. But it was scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an automatic connection,” said Lydia. “I wanted this picture-perfect life. I knew there was a life without abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok citizen Tasheena Natt fishes for salmon in the Klamath River. Salmon fishing is central to the Yurok culture and economy, and is considered a deeply spiritual practice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, they were like glue on glue. They moved in together and decided to have a baby. Lydia quit drinking, drugs, cigarettes. She gave birth to a girl, and a couple of years later, a boy. But Mark was still partying. The fights began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About five years in, it got physical. Mark slapped Lydia during an argument in the kitchen, giving her a fat lip. She ran to a neighbor’s apartment. And to her horror, that neighbor dialed 911. Lydia didn’t trust law enforcement. She said she’d learned that from her mom and grandmother. But the wheels were in motion. Police arrested Mark, and state prosecutors offered him a deal: If he attended a 52-week batterers intervention program, the charges would be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark said he “participated fully.” He learned to walk away from a fight, to take a time out. It was progress. But he’d realize later how much he still didn’t know – about himself and the roots of his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better,” Mark said. “But I didn’t know how to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Addiction in Indian Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Mark completed his program, he said he “continued to work on myself and work on myself.” But, for four more years, he “was still using meth.” In the late '90s, he managed to quit. Then came the opioid explosion, “when the doctors were basically giving away, just as many as you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a laborer with regular injuries, he had access to that open tap. They both did. Addiction followed, \u003ca href=\"https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma14-4866.pdf\">another symptom of historical trauma\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/americanindian/mentalhealth/\">often goes hand in hand with domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation returned home to mine the stories of elders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-feb-06-la-me-yurok-language-20130207-story.html\">revive the language\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060208-the-yurok-tribe-welcomes-you#document/p5/a2053772\">master the wisdom needed to bring back ceremonial dances\u003c/a>. Yurok Judge Abby Abinanti was among them, and decades later she would deepen her commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, she began to expand the Yurok tribal justice system, launching a dedicated court docket to help tribal members struggling with substance abuse. To help participants repair the harm they’ve caused, so they could heal. So the community could heal. She called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yurok-tribal-judge-20140305-dto-htmlstory.html\">Wellness Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based,” Abinanti said. “Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State court judges started releasing Yurok defendants to Abinanti’s court – and seeing results. So in 2015, she decided it was time to reach more tribal members cycling through county jail. A laborious rolling cross-tally of two separate databases revealed which Yurok members were incarcerated and why. The most common offense: domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Walking the path\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many defendants, it turned out, were in county jail for violating probation. For not completing the state’s 52 week batterer’s intervention program – the same one Mark had attended. One barrier was financial. Even at the lowest end of the sliding scale, the state program cost $1,000. There were transportation and child care problems, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Abinanti’s team decided to create their own 52-week batterers’ program, one that drew on core cultural values, and get the state to certify it as an option for state court defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of domestic violence was startling yet unsurprising. Surveys and focus groups conducted a few years earlier by the \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> – a collective of tribal judges – revealed the scope of the crisis. Nearly half the women and a fifth of the men who \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/NCTCC_Responses_D_V.pdf\">responded\u003c/a> said they’d been abused by a partner. Drugs and alcohol played a role about two-thirds of the time. Lack of trust in law enforcement and state court systems was common. So was a lack of awareness of services at the county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And participants “generally believed that these services lacked a necessary cultural component to ensure they were appropriate for a Native American population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court coalition stepped up to help build the Yurok batterers program, funding the training for two facilitators. It launched in 2016, with state certification, the first of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum includes the basics: Take full responsibility for your actions and identify your triggers. Specific Yurok cultural practices aren’t on the agenda. Because, the only way to make the program pencil out was to open it to everyone – tribal members from throughout the region and non-tribal members, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok tribal member Lori Nesbitt was the founding facilitator of the Yurok Batterers Intervention Program, which takes a restorative approach to healing and emphasizes the roots of intergenerational trauma. It rolled out in 2016 and is certified by the state as one of the 52-week programs available to domestic violence offenders in Northern California. Here, Nesbitt presents details of the program at a 2019 conference in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Lori Nesbitt, the founding facilitator, said the whole approach stems from Yurok-style justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are they and who is their family,” she explained, “and how can we walk the path with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost is $30, for a book. All participants make a family tree, and conduct an interview with a community elder outside their immediate family about that generation’s experiences with domestic abuse. Participants are pressed to identify not just the family members that led them astray, but the ones who taught them cultural practices and helped root them to a sense of self – whatever their culture. Most of all, Nesbitt said she acknowledges past pain as the deep generational roots of family violence come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you've gone through this program, you can kind of acknowledge that, ‘Yeah some things happened. And I've repaired those. I've forgiven myself,’ ” she said. “However they choose to find that forgiveness, to me, is their pathway to healing for the rest of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-forgiveness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Lydia’s arrest, state prosecutors offered her the same deal as Mark. Complete a 52-week batterers intervention program and her charge would disappear. She chose the Yurok one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of me being the victim all the time, I learned that I was also abuser,” she said. “I learned that I did that to my children. Because I had the choice to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turning point: understanding the context of her trauma and the chain of traumas that came before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned how to love myself,” she said. “I’m just now feeling like I don’t walk around in shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple separated after Lydia’s arrest. But while she worked her program, Mark went to counseling and to a Christian faith-based recovery program that, he said, flooded him with “realizations and epiphanies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started learning about what PTSD was,” he said, \"and what it does to your body and the fear and how it paralyzes you...just understanding my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have now reunited, and both say a big part of their healing is participating in their own tribal community, giving back. Each has an idea that they believe would help tribal members affected by domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia’s is for a safe house for women and children, \"but it would have to be way up in the mountains, gated, with security. It would be a home with programs for them to heal, and the children to heal too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark’s idea is specifically for men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go into an isolated place where they're taught their culture, where they're taught to fish, to dance, to sing, to give to your elders. And then I want them to come out as a dance crew to show that strength,” he said. “There's going to be so much power, to recover those men. I just feel that so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a> at 1-800-799-7233\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strongheartshelpline.org/\">StrongHearts Native Helpline\u003c/a> at 1-844-7NATIVE)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> mobile app\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccuih.org/red-women-rising-program/\">Red Women Rising\u003c/a>, for Native Americans living in urban areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible by Yurok tribal member \u003ca href=\"https://www.pli.edu/faculty/laura--woods-30562\">Laura Woods\u003c/a>, and documentary filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/219880229\">Luisa Conlon\u003c/a>. 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The rule is set to take effect in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878624/a-pivotal-moment-for-regulating-the-bay-areas-oil-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the lead-up to the July vote\u003c/a>, both companies slammed the rule and threatened legal action.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Andres Soto, Richmond community activist\"]'Chevron and PBF would rather spend endless dollars on their army of lawyers rather than implement a hard-won victory by frontline polluted communities to improve their health.'[/pullquote]Chevron says the air district overstated the public health benefits of the new rule and underestimated the costs of implementing it at the company's Richmond refinery. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that’s too much to ask when you’re an Afghan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla’s office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003ca href=\"#help\">How to help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Two explosions outside the international airport in Kabul on Thursday\u003c/a> left dozens of people dead and injured, including members of the U.S. military and Afghan civilians. The attacks, which occurred at one of the gates to the airport and at a nearby hotel, came less than a day after the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens to get out of the area. ISIS-K, the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, has said it carried out the attack, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. In an afternoon address, President Joe Biden vowed to “hunt down” the attackers and “make [them] pay.” \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Follow NPR’s ongoing coverage\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mishkan Zahir Darbi, program manager of Fremont’s Afghan Coalition, told KQED on Thursday that the group had been bracing for the possibility of an attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that the behavior of this terrorism group is such that they will make certain to keep these individuals inside the country to torture essentially,” Darbi said. “It wasn’t a surprise, but it is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Aug. 15, when Taliban soldiers took over Kabul, thousands of people have continued to make their way to the airport hoping to flee the country. On Aug. 16, some rushed the airport and were so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off, and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people were reported dead in that chaos, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-gunmen-killed-by-us-forces-kabul-airport-past-24-hours-official-2021-08-16/\">two people shot by the U.S. military\u003c/a> trying to control the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area lawmakers are responding to the attacks, calling them “horrific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our urgent priority must be the safe and immediate evacuation of Americans and those who demonstrated allegiance to the U.S. during the war or are at risk if they remain in the country,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San José, said in a statement. “Today, we mourn the U.S. military men and women who lost their lives. Their bravery and sacrifices must not be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) said in a statement that he is continuing to monitor the situation in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that we do all we can to secure the area so we can prioritize the safe and swift rescue of U.S. citizens, diplomatic personnel, U.S. servicemembers, as well other individuals at imminent risk, such as journalists, women, civil servants and Afghan allies,” Swalwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) said in an interview with KQED Thursday there needs to be a review of U.S. evacuation operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we could have started the evacuation earlier,” he said. “I do think when we have those oversight questions in Congress we should look not just at the last 20 days but at the last 20 years of went wrong in the war in Afghanistan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Garamendi (D-Davis) urged Pres. Joe Biden to maintain the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is tragically obvious that the American soldiers are in harm’s way … so the sooner they’re out of there, the better,” Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the U.S., the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15 was something many feared in their worst nightmares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just in complete shock and complete despair. I can’t control my emotions,” Nahid Fattahi told KQED through tears, shortly after the Aug. 15 takeover. “My nightmare came true today with the collapse of the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi said she feels let down, especially by the American government and by President Biden. “It was literally a slap on every Afghan’s face. It’s a very dark day for me — and millions of Afghans,” she said. “This is a dark day for anyone who believes in freedom and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi, a human rights activist, said she’s been in disbelief since the collapse of Herat. Herat is Afghanistan’s third-largest city and her birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely emotional because, for Afghans — we foresaw this,” she added.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mizgon Zahir Darby, freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine\"]‘My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Taliban tightened their grip on her hometown back in the mid-’90s, Fattahi says her parents made the agonizing choice to send her to Canada at the age of 14 to marry a man who promised to provide her a better life and an education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to the U.S., she’s been outspoken about the dangers of the extremist group and the importance of making sure women’s rights are included when negotiating peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We warned the American government about this,” she said through tears. “I and millions of Afghans around the world … we just feel betrayed, let down and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/pres-biden-and-congress-ensure-afghan-women-s-rights-alongside-peace-with-the-taliban?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change.org\u003c/a> petition over two years ago to ensure women’s rights were considered in discussions with the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Taliban cannot be trusted,” she said. “Women will pay a huge price for this, and for generations to come.” But she also said the impact will be felt globally. “I think the world will eventually pay a huge price for this because we are not separate — the world is very much connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward-based Mizgon Zahir Darby, a freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine, echoed Fattahi shortly after the Taliban takeover in saying that there’s a sense of hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women and girls have lost their rights, but in addition, they have lost their humanity,” Darby said. “My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Farhad Yousafzai, who came to Sacramento in 2014 after working for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, he’s worried neighboring countries will help fund proxy armies, which could lead to even more death. He told KQED he’s disappointed and mad. “What was the point of all the death?” he asked, of the many years of instability and war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell — who represents parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and one of the largest Afghan American populations in the Bay Area — said following the Taliban takeover, “right now, the best thing I believe we can do as leaders in the community is to help give comfort and support to families who are looking for answers over in Afghanistan.” He’s also been working to assist those with visa applications already in place. [aside tag=\"afghanistan, afghan\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell said he spoke with the secretaries of state and defense on Aug. 15, and they had pledged to look into ways of streamlining applications. “Of course, we want to honor the interpreters who worked with us on the battlefield through the special immigration visa,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/politics/afghan-interpreters-evacuated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18,000 Afghans have been caught “in bureaucratic limbo”\u003c/a> after applying for special immigrant visas — available to those facing threats as a result of working for the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 25, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maitelsadany/status/1427016158503477249\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee to Protect Journalists\u003c/a> has warned that journalists in Afghanistan face extreme dangers, specifically women who are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrified\u003c/a>” with the Taliban returning to power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The International Women’s Media Foundation offers an \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/emergency-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergency Fund\u003c/a> to assist journalists in distress.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediasupport.org/news/hundreds-of-afghan-media-workers-are-under-threat-support-afghanistans-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AJSC (Afghan Journalists Safety Committee)\u003c/a> provides shelters, safe houses and other support for journalists and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area individuals and organizations are encouraging people to call their congresspeople to provide emergency aid to support fleeing Afghan migrants. Reach out to your representative \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got something to add on how to help in the Bay Area? Let us know by sending an email to lsarah@kqed.org or tagging us on @kqednews.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Aug. 17. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Gabriella Frenes, The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. 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