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Clinic volunteers were so worried police would shut the clinic down if people used drugs inside that the door was painted to read: “No dealing!/No holding drugs/No using drugs/No alcohol/No pets/Any of these can close the clinic/We Love You.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Summer of Love ended, many people went home, but generations of people searching for meaning stayed behind in San Francisco, where the hard drugs moved in and people’s health care needs overwhelmed the clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611310\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11611310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-160x361.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-240x541.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This painted door marked the entrance to the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“More than three years of life in the Haight, once the flower pot of America, now shattered into fragments of terror and despair, a ‘behavioral sink’ of pathologies feeding off the pill and the needle,” read a 1971 New York Times piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the philosophy of the clinic — not only that health care is a right but also that addiction can be treated with medicine — persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was harm reduction before there was such a term. It was never like, ‘When are you going to get your shit together?’ It was always, ‘Hey, can I see what’s going on?'” said Vitka Eisen, who was a patient at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, as it was called in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic smelled of patchouli, and a counselor walked around in a leather fringe jacket, Eisen recalled. She would go to the clinic before visiting her family in New York because she didn’t want to be strung out on heroin when she went to see them. She’d pick up a “kick pack” of medicine to fight stomach cramping and nausea, and to help her sleep during withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the seventh or eighth time, I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got treatment at Walden House, an addiction and mental health treatment program in San Francisco, and said she never used drugs again. Now she runs the treatment provider HealthRIGHT 360, the umbrella organization that includes what is known today as the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Carrying bleach was like having aspirin’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The philosophy of harm reduction spread internationally when activists and caregivers sought ways to reduce suffering and health risks during the AIDS crisis in the ’80s. Volunteers handed out clean needles and encouraged cleaning needles with bleach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maia Szalavitz, the author of “Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction,” says she was addicted to cocaine and heroin at the time. She was unaware that sharing needles put her at risk of contracting HIV until 1986, when she met Maureen Gammon with the San Francisco-based group Mid-City Consortium to Combat AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911096\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-800x846.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-800x846.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-1020x1079.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-160x169.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-1452x1536.jpeg 1452w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1.jpeg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maia Szalavitz, author of ‘Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction,’ in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maia Szalavitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She told me I shouldn’t share, but if you have to share, clean the needle with bleach and then with water,” Szalavitz said. “Shooting up is a pretty compulsive thing, so I immediately incorporated this into my compulsive routine and she probably saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gammon said carrying bleach was as common as having aspirin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just had [bleach], and it was not unusual to go into a corner store or taqueria or bar and ask for a bottle of beach and be able to get it,” Gammon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inside the Ambassador Hotel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The AIDS crisis also forged a new generation of physicians, said Joshua Bamberger, an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began his residency at San Francisco General Hospital in 1989, and said all his energy and focus went into caring for men who were dying of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of my work was really holding men in my arms as they died,” he said. “And as awful as that was, it also created an era of physicians and other healers who bonded over the important things in medicine, which isn’t necessarily slinging medication but providing love and care for people who are really suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hospices refused to take in people who had a history of drug use, or had clauses saying they’d only accept people on the condition they’d been sober for six months before being referred. But the people who needed to be referred often had two or three months left to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, many people found refuge at the Ambassador Hotel, an SRO in the Tenderloin run by gay rights activist Hank Wilson beginning in 1978. It became one of the few places where AIDS patients who used drugs could live without having to die on the streets. In the 1996 documentary “Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel,” the site is described as a model in harm-reduction housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ambassador was sort of a de facto AIDS hospital,” said Bamberger, who did rounds there, providing care alongside community members and friends of those dying. “When treatment options were limited, and [people] didn’t have a home, the Ambassador was a place where they could land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XiwqOu_R7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Val Robb, a nurse at the Ambassador Hotel, said she had to learn the culture of the people who stayed there. Many people who used drugs were distrustful of a health care system that considered them not worth treating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started speaking the language more, which is, ‘Let me work out a deal. You need me to do this. I want you to do that,'” Robb said. “I need you to go to the doctor. If you go to the doctor, if you let them examine you, then let’s get you some codeine. It wasn’t like, ‘I’m Nurse Nancy doing this thing for you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were times Robb had to go against what she knew about health, such as offering guests cigarettes if they would let her examine them. But she said she still had to draw the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another guy, he says, ‘Val, I’m trying to get high, and my partner couldn’t hit the vein. Can’t you?’ I said, ‘No, I’m a nurse with kids and a license, I can’t do that,'” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took years before the city approved or funded some of the harm-reduction practices happening underground. The AIDS crisis hit its peak in San Francisco in 1992, and the following year Mayor Frank Jordan declared a state of emergency and announced that San Francisco would back a program to give clean needles to people who used drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Call it Lazarus in a hypodermic’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, naloxone, the medication used to reverse overdoses, was still only widely available in medical settings. Rachel McLean, the outreach worker, said she and others attended a conference on drug policy reform in 1999 where an Italian man gave a presentation on naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us could even understand what he was saying because his accent was so strong. But we understood that he said that in Italy, community health workers give out naloxone on the street,” she said. “And all of us, our minds were just blown by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the conference, Dan Bigg with the Chicago Recovery Alliance brought a duffle bag full of naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And people would just come and take it, and that’s how underground naloxone started in San Francisco,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-800x454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-800x454.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-1020x579.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10.png 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naloxone education material used in San Francisco from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joshua Bamberger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s a mission that’s part Che Guevara, part Mother Teresa. The guerrillas aren’t doctors. Nonphysicians, obviously, are barred by law from handing out prescription drugs — it’s a felony that can carry up to 10 years in federal prison,” reads a 2003 article from A.C. Thompson in The San Francisco Bay Guardian on a visit to a San Francisco needle exchange site where volunteers were distributing naloxone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said providing people who used drugs with naloxone, more commonly known by the brand name Narcan, would encourage drug use. Clinicians worried about \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=286850\">liability\u003c/a> if people had an adverse reaction to the naloxone, or if they died even after naloxone was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While studying at San Francisco State University in the same year as the conference on drug policy reform, McLean was assigned to write a paper analyzing a public health problem. She drafted some ideas based on the knowledge she had absorbed from the community, and proposed opening safe injection rooms, testing drug supplies and training people who inject drugs in administering naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She presented the paper to members of a so-called “heroin subcommittee” created by the city to address overdose deaths, and members included the ideas in their final recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911100\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel McLean looks through her archive of flyers, zines, educational information, and research on harm reduction at her home on March 10, 2022. A photo of friend and colleague Pete Morse can be seen, as can a zine about Matty Luv, singer of the San Francisco punk band Hickey, who passed away from a heroin overdose in 2002. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after turning in her paper, McLean graduated from college, quit her job as an outreach worker and went to Mexico for three months, burned out by the trauma. But she would sometimes wake up at night to scribble notes about what an overdose prevention program would look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire was still there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Members of the heroin subcommittee ended up calling McLean. They remembered her recommendations from several years before and asked McLean if she would implement some of her ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a $30,000 annual budget, the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education (DOPE) Project began in a makeshift office in McLean’s kitchen in 2002. She started making phone calls to overdose prevention workers, and put together a curriculum to teach drug and alcohol treatment providers, sheriffs and deputies, the probation department, homeless shelter staff, and others how to reverse overdoses through rescue breathing. Without naloxone widely available, rescue breathing was something anyone could do to reverse overdoses, with some training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heroin overdose deaths plummet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alex Kral, then a researcher with the Urban Health Study at UCSF, conducted a pilot study with other researchers in 2001 to 2002, training 24 people to use naloxone. There were 20 overdoses during the study. Trainees reversed all of them, 15 with naloxone, and most of those with an additional rescue method. The researchers presented the findings to the county’s public health director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Look … you’ve got people dying of overdoses and you’re not able to do anything about that,'” said Kral, who is now an epidemiologist with the nonprofit health research institute RTI International. “‘Why don’t you do something about it?’ And [the director] said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year later, the San Francisco Department of Public Health partnered with the DOPE Project to distribute naloxone at syringe-exchange programs, SROs, reentry programs and other sites in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Bamberger, who oversaw the program with San Francisco’s DPH, said heroin overdose deaths dropped “unbelievably down,” plummeting from a peak of 155 in 1995 to 10 in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar includes a candle from a memorial for Pete Morse on the mantel of Rachel McLean’s home on March 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s gonna reduce death to the extent that getting 10,000 doses of naloxone out there in San Francisco in the early 2000s will ever do,” Bamberger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLean, who now works for the state health department, still keeps a picture on her mantel of Pete Morse, who was at the forefront of bringing naloxone to the streets of San Francisco. He died of a drug overdose in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about him all the time. I want to make sure that his contributions are remembered,” McLean said. “I don’t want to say that it broke my heart the most because I don’t want to compare it to all of the other deaths, but it’s still with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fentanyl overdose crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naloxone has become a key tool in reducing overdose deaths nationwide. For years, it helped stave off the worst of the opioid crisis in San Francisco. But geography also helped for a time. On the West Coast, black tar heroin was the most common type of heroin, and that black color made it more difficult to hide white-powdered fentanyl inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the number of people who injected drugs in San Francisco — mostly heroin — more than doubled early in this century, from 10,158 in 2005 to 22,000 in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2017, fentanyl had crept in to begin its rampage. That year, the city reported 36 deaths linked to fentanyl. That jumped to 90 in 2018. In 2020, the number of fentanyl-related deaths skyrocketed to 518.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 650 people overdosed and died in San Francisco last year, a spike driven by fentanyl, according to data from the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-800x384.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-800x384.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-1020x489.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-1536x737.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1.png 1626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data on fentanyl-related and non-fentanyl-related overdose deaths from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office. \u003ccite>(Chart by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I lost so many people to just fentanyl,” said Joel Webber, who goes by Turtle. He sat on a curb recently near Hotel Whitcomb, a city-run hotel on Market Street. People regularly gather nearby to use or sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webber said he received methadone treatment for 22 years, then started using fentanyl when he stopped his methadone treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could, I would blow up every f—ing fentanyl lab up with a button and end it. I’d get sick, but I’ll take it,” Webber said. “I just want it gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs like fentanyl are unlikely to disappear, and that means the city will need to try new strategies to prevent overdoses. A river of naloxone is not enough to confront the crisis, said Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dose of naloxone often is not enough to reverse a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we can’t make fentanyl use safe,” he said. “Let’s say you make it twice as safe. It’s still just so deadly it just overwhelms the capacity of what we know how to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community and trauma in harm-reduction work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2021, President Joe Biden became the first president to make expanding harm reduction one of his drug-policy priorities. But people still argue that harm reduction encourages drug use. Several city leaders in San Francisco have criticized an overreliance on harm-reduction services and a lack of abstinence-based treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Marshall and the Dope Project team pose for a portrait during Overdose Awareness Day in 2020. The event gathers providers and community members to hold space for those lost and celebrate people still with them. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kristen Marshall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristen Marshall was the program manager for the DOPE Project until last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you do this work, it’s your life, even if you try to fight it. It’s a lot of grief, it’s a lot of pain, it’s a lot of trauma. And that breaks a person down,” she said. “It feels really hard for me as someone who is in this position when suddenly people are like, ‘Well, this is your job. If overdose prevention is your job, what do you do? Harm reduction must not work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, because of the vast supply of naloxone in the community, people are reversing more drug overdoses, many fentanyl-related, in San Francisco than ever before. The DOPE Project reported 81 overdose reversals in 2006. In the year 2021 alone, the group reported 8,985 reversals. Many of those overdoses were reversed by people who use drugs. In comparison, San Francisco police, who by then were carrying naloxone, reversed 144 overdoses in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-800x581.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-1020x740.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-1536x1115.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco.png 1634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporting data from the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, as documented in a San Francisco Department of Public Health report. \u003ccite>(Chart by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marshall said the larger question she keeps asking herself is what happens after overdoses are reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they go to treatment, then what? Where’s their housing? So they go right back outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes overdose prevention efforts will inevitably fall short until root causes such as poverty, racism and isolation are addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving people Narcan and saying, ‘Live, live, live, live — you have to live,’” she said. “The question that I want to ask everyone is, ‘What are we living for? What is there for people to grasp?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Data Fellowship. KQED’s Kate Wolffe contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, the San Francisco Health Commission made harm reduction — a philosophy that advocates for making it safer to use drugs rather than criminalizing those who do — an official public health policy. It’s an approach with roots spanning from the Summer of Love in 1967, to the beginning of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, to the present-day fight to open sites in San Francisco for people to use drugs safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54198_007_KQED_VitkaEisenHealthRight360_03092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vitka Eisen, president and CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, poses for a portrait at the medical clinic in San Francisco on March 9, 2022. HealthRIGHT 360 is a health care provider for lower-income and otherwise marginalized Californians. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Inside a ‘hippie’ clinic, health care was a right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened its doors in 1967, committed to an ethos where health care was a right, not a privilege. Tens of thousands of flower children and teenage runaways were flocking to San Francisco to “drop out” of everyday society and experiment with drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic offered people who used drugs health care at a time when the city’s health department worried compassion would encourage the hippies to stay. It provided a safe space for people dealing with bad trips and heroin withdrawal and, later, for veterans returning from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founder Dr. David Smith said it was illegal for physicians to treat people with substance use disorder with prescription drugs in the 1960s. Clinic volunteers were so worried police would shut the clinic down if people used drugs inside that the door was painted to read: “No dealing!/No holding drugs/No using drugs/No alcohol/No pets/Any of these can close the clinic/We Love You.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Summer of Love ended, many people went home, but generations of people searching for meaning stayed behind in San Francisco, where the hard drugs moved in and people’s health care needs overwhelmed the clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611310\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11611310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-160x361.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26138_Detox-Door-Trimed-2-DSC_0018-qut-240x541.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This painted door marked the entrance to the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Smith archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“More than three years of life in the Haight, once the flower pot of America, now shattered into fragments of terror and despair, a ‘behavioral sink’ of pathologies feeding off the pill and the needle,” read a 1971 New York Times piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the philosophy of the clinic — not only that health care is a right but also that addiction can be treated with medicine — persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was harm reduction before there was such a term. It was never like, ‘When are you going to get your shit together?’ It was always, ‘Hey, can I see what’s going on?'” said Vitka Eisen, who was a patient at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, as it was called in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic smelled of patchouli, and a counselor walked around in a leather fringe jacket, Eisen recalled. She would go to the clinic before visiting her family in New York because she didn’t want to be strung out on heroin when she went to see them. She’d pick up a “kick pack” of medicine to fight stomach cramping and nausea, and to help her sleep during withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the seventh or eighth time, I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got treatment at Walden House, an addiction and mental health treatment program in San Francisco, and said she never used drugs again. Now she runs the treatment provider HealthRIGHT 360, the umbrella organization that includes what is known today as the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Carrying bleach was like having aspirin’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The philosophy of harm reduction spread internationally when activists and caregivers sought ways to reduce suffering and health risks during the AIDS crisis in the ’80s. Volunteers handed out clean needles and encouraged cleaning needles with bleach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maia Szalavitz, the author of “Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction,” says she was addicted to cocaine and heroin at the time. She was unaware that sharing needles put her at risk of contracting HIV until 1986, when she met Maureen Gammon with the San Francisco-based group Mid-City Consortium to Combat AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911096\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-800x846.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-800x846.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-1020x1079.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-160x169.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1-1452x1536.jpeg 1452w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Maia-wig-85-or-86-1.jpeg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maia Szalavitz, author of ‘Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction,’ in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maia Szalavitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She told me I shouldn’t share, but if you have to share, clean the needle with bleach and then with water,” Szalavitz said. “Shooting up is a pretty compulsive thing, so I immediately incorporated this into my compulsive routine and she probably saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gammon said carrying bleach was as common as having aspirin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just had [bleach], and it was not unusual to go into a corner store or taqueria or bar and ask for a bottle of beach and be able to get it,” Gammon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inside the Ambassador Hotel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The AIDS crisis also forged a new generation of physicians, said Joshua Bamberger, an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began his residency at San Francisco General Hospital in 1989, and said all his energy and focus went into caring for men who were dying of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of my work was really holding men in my arms as they died,” he said. “And as awful as that was, it also created an era of physicians and other healers who bonded over the important things in medicine, which isn’t necessarily slinging medication but providing love and care for people who are really suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hospices refused to take in people who had a history of drug use, or had clauses saying they’d only accept people on the condition they’d been sober for six months before being referred. But the people who needed to be referred often had two or three months left to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, many people found refuge at the Ambassador Hotel, an SRO in the Tenderloin run by gay rights activist Hank Wilson beginning in 1978. It became one of the few places where AIDS patients who used drugs could live without having to die on the streets. In the 1996 documentary “Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel,” the site is described as a model in harm-reduction housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ambassador was sort of a de facto AIDS hospital,” said Bamberger, who did rounds there, providing care alongside community members and friends of those dying. “When treatment options were limited, and [people] didn’t have a home, the Ambassador was a place where they could land.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5XiwqOu_R7I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5XiwqOu_R7I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Val Robb, a nurse at the Ambassador Hotel, said she had to learn the culture of the people who stayed there. Many people who used drugs were distrustful of a health care system that considered them not worth treating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started speaking the language more, which is, ‘Let me work out a deal. You need me to do this. I want you to do that,'” Robb said. “I need you to go to the doctor. If you go to the doctor, if you let them examine you, then let’s get you some codeine. It wasn’t like, ‘I’m Nurse Nancy doing this thing for you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were times Robb had to go against what she knew about health, such as offering guests cigarettes if they would let her examine them. But she said she still had to draw the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another guy, he says, ‘Val, I’m trying to get high, and my partner couldn’t hit the vein. Can’t you?’ I said, ‘No, I’m a nurse with kids and a license, I can’t do that,'” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took years before the city approved or funded some of the harm-reduction practices happening underground. The AIDS crisis hit its peak in San Francisco in 1992, and the following year Mayor Frank Jordan declared a state of emergency and announced that San Francisco would back a program to give clean needles to people who used drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Call it Lazarus in a hypodermic’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, naloxone, the medication used to reverse overdoses, was still only widely available in medical settings. Rachel McLean, the outreach worker, said she and others attended a conference on drug policy reform in 1999 where an Italian man gave a presentation on naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us could even understand what he was saying because his accent was so strong. But we understood that he said that in Italy, community health workers give out naloxone on the street,” she said. “And all of us, our minds were just blown by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the conference, Dan Bigg with the Chicago Recovery Alliance brought a duffle bag full of naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And people would just come and take it, and that’s how underground naloxone started in San Francisco,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-800x454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-800x454.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-1020x579.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-14-at-06.42.10.png 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naloxone education material used in San Francisco from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joshua Bamberger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s a mission that’s part Che Guevara, part Mother Teresa. The guerrillas aren’t doctors. Nonphysicians, obviously, are barred by law from handing out prescription drugs — it’s a felony that can carry up to 10 years in federal prison,” reads a 2003 article from A.C. Thompson in The San Francisco Bay Guardian on a visit to a San Francisco needle exchange site where volunteers were distributing naloxone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said providing people who used drugs with naloxone, more commonly known by the brand name Narcan, would encourage drug use. Clinicians worried about \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=286850\">liability\u003c/a> if people had an adverse reaction to the naloxone, or if they died even after naloxone was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While studying at San Francisco State University in the same year as the conference on drug policy reform, McLean was assigned to write a paper analyzing a public health problem. She drafted some ideas based on the knowledge she had absorbed from the community, and proposed opening safe injection rooms, testing drug supplies and training people who inject drugs in administering naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She presented the paper to members of a so-called “heroin subcommittee” created by the city to address overdose deaths, and members included the ideas in their final recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911100\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54296_009_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel McLean looks through her archive of flyers, zines, educational information, and research on harm reduction at her home on March 10, 2022. A photo of friend and colleague Pete Morse can be seen, as can a zine about Matty Luv, singer of the San Francisco punk band Hickey, who passed away from a heroin overdose in 2002. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after turning in her paper, McLean graduated from college, quit her job as an outreach worker and went to Mexico for three months, burned out by the trauma. But she would sometimes wake up at night to scribble notes about what an overdose prevention program would look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire was still there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Members of the heroin subcommittee ended up calling McLean. They remembered her recommendations from several years before and asked McLean if she would implement some of her ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a $30,000 annual budget, the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education (DOPE) Project began in a makeshift office in McLean’s kitchen in 2002. She started making phone calls to overdose prevention workers, and put together a curriculum to teach drug and alcohol treatment providers, sheriffs and deputies, the probation department, homeless shelter staff, and others how to reverse overdoses through rescue breathing. Without naloxone widely available, rescue breathing was something anyone could do to reverse overdoses, with some training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heroin overdose deaths plummet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alex Kral, then a researcher with the Urban Health Study at UCSF, conducted a pilot study with other researchers in 2001 to 2002, training 24 people to use naloxone. There were 20 overdoses during the study. Trainees reversed all of them, 15 with naloxone, and most of those with an additional rescue method. The researchers presented the findings to the county’s public health director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Look … you’ve got people dying of overdoses and you’re not able to do anything about that,'” said Kral, who is now an epidemiologist with the nonprofit health research institute RTI International. “‘Why don’t you do something about it?’ And [the director] said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year later, the San Francisco Department of Public Health partnered with the DOPE Project to distribute naloxone at syringe-exchange programs, SROs, reentry programs and other sites in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Bamberger, who oversaw the program with San Francisco’s DPH, said heroin overdose deaths dropped “unbelievably down,” plummeting from a peak of 155 in 1995 to 10 in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54290_003_KQED_RachelMcLeanHarmReduction_03102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar includes a candle from a memorial for Pete Morse on the mantel of Rachel McLean’s home on March 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s gonna reduce death to the extent that getting 10,000 doses of naloxone out there in San Francisco in the early 2000s will ever do,” Bamberger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLean, who now works for the state health department, still keeps a picture on her mantel of Pete Morse, who was at the forefront of bringing naloxone to the streets of San Francisco. He died of a drug overdose in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about him all the time. I want to make sure that his contributions are remembered,” McLean said. “I don’t want to say that it broke my heart the most because I don’t want to compare it to all of the other deaths, but it’s still with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fentanyl overdose crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naloxone has become a key tool in reducing overdose deaths nationwide. For years, it helped stave off the worst of the opioid crisis in San Francisco. But geography also helped for a time. On the West Coast, black tar heroin was the most common type of heroin, and that black color made it more difficult to hide white-powdered fentanyl inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the number of people who injected drugs in San Francisco — mostly heroin — more than doubled early in this century, from 10,158 in 2005 to 22,000 in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2017, fentanyl had crept in to begin its rampage. That year, the city reported 36 deaths linked to fentanyl. That jumped to 90 in 2018. In 2020, the number of fentanyl-related deaths skyrocketed to 518.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 650 people overdosed and died in San Francisco last year, a spike driven by fentanyl, according to data from the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-800x384.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-800x384.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-1020x489.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1-1536x737.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/n3ivi-sf-overdose-deaths-from-fentanyl-and-other-drugs-nbsp-__2_-1.png 1626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data on fentanyl-related and non-fentanyl-related overdose deaths from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office. \u003ccite>(Chart by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I lost so many people to just fentanyl,” said Joel Webber, who goes by Turtle. He sat on a curb recently near Hotel Whitcomb, a city-run hotel on Market Street. People regularly gather nearby to use or sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webber said he received methadone treatment for 22 years, then started using fentanyl when he stopped his methadone treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could, I would blow up every f—ing fentanyl lab up with a button and end it. I’d get sick, but I’ll take it,” Webber said. “I just want it gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs like fentanyl are unlikely to disappear, and that means the city will need to try new strategies to prevent overdoses. A river of naloxone is not enough to confront the crisis, said Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dose of naloxone often is not enough to reverse a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we can’t make fentanyl use safe,” he said. “Let’s say you make it twice as safe. It’s still just so deadly it just overwhelms the capacity of what we know how to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community and trauma in harm-reduction work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2021, President Joe Biden became the first president to make expanding harm reduction one of his drug-policy priorities. But people still argue that harm reduction encourages drug use. Several city leaders in San Francisco have criticized an overreliance on harm-reduction services and a lack of abstinence-based treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54382_TheDopeProjectSF2020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Marshall and the Dope Project team pose for a portrait during Overdose Awareness Day in 2020. The event gathers providers and community members to hold space for those lost and celebrate people still with them. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kristen Marshall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristen Marshall was the program manager for the DOPE Project until last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you do this work, it’s your life, even if you try to fight it. It’s a lot of grief, it’s a lot of pain, it’s a lot of trauma. And that breaks a person down,” she said. “It feels really hard for me as someone who is in this position when suddenly people are like, ‘Well, this is your job. If overdose prevention is your job, what do you do? Harm reduction must not work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, because of the vast supply of naloxone in the community, people are reversing more drug overdoses, many fentanyl-related, in San Francisco than ever before. The DOPE Project reported 81 overdose reversals in 2006. In the year 2021 alone, the group reported 8,985 reversals. Many of those overdoses were reversed by people who use drugs. In comparison, San Francisco police, who by then were carrying naloxone, reversed 144 overdoses in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11911286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-800x581.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-1020x740.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco-1536x1115.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/xHw1R-narcan-refills-and-reversals-in-san-francisco.png 1634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporting data from the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, as documented in a San Francisco Department of Public Health report. \u003ccite>(Chart by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marshall said the larger question she keeps asking herself is what happens after overdoses are reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they go to treatment, then what? Where’s their housing? So they go right back outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes overdose prevention efforts will inevitably fall short until root causes such as poverty, racism and isolation are addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving people Narcan and saying, ‘Live, live, live, live — you have to live,’” she said. “The question that I want to ask everyone is, ‘What are we living for? What is there for people to grasp?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ngûyen Pham remembers where he was on March 16, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was at his house in San José when he got a call from his workplace. “I was told to stay home and work from home,” he said. Santa Clara County had just ordered all residents to shelter in place for the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham works with the \u003ca href=\"https://varoundtable.org/\">Vietnamese American Roundtable\u003c/a>, a group that promotes workers’ rights and cultural programs for the Vietnamese community in the South Bay — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Vietnamese-American_populations#Cities_with_more_than_10,000_Vietnamese_Americans\">one of the biggest Vietnamese enclaves in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As nonprofits, churches and libraries closed their physical doors and turned online to keep operating, Pham realized that thousands in his community could potentially lose access to food and other essential services these places provided them with. And he knew elders in the Vietnamese community with limited access to the internet were especially vulnerable to losing this aid when they needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started making calls. He reached out to friends and old colleagues he knew from years of being involved in social work across Santa Clara County to figure out exactly what families and elderly neighbors would need during lockdown, and how to get these services out in the spirit of mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends were delivering hot meals to the elderly and translating critical information about the coronavirus into Vietnamese. They were even collecting funds to build coffins, for those who lost their lives to COVID-19 but whose families had limited financial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngûyen Pham pictured at a desk in the Vietnamese American Service Center on March 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mutual aid, historically — it’s been there in the community,” Pham said. And in the Vietnamese community, he notes, “the mutual aid effort really started out from helping underprivileged folks here and in Vietnam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After North Vietnamese forces took control in Vietnam in 1975, the Bay Area saw an influx of Vietnamese migrants. But traditional financial institutions like banks made it difficult for recent arrivals to access credit when they needed it the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Small groups would … put money together to fundraise,” said Pham. “They would request from members a donation monthly and would use that money for scholarships, to build houses and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These strategies employed by Vietnamese families to survive tough times in the U.S. served as the blueprint for young people like Pham to organize at the start of the pandemic — a time when the Bay Area saw many mutual aid efforts spring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jarring nature of a global pandemic, paired with an economic downturn that left millions unemployed and unable to pay for basic necessities, left many to turn to mutual aid when local, state and federal governments fell short of providing the kind of support they needed. Many of these efforts received widespread media attention and subsequent financial support throughout 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic really taught us a lesson that everybody really needs to rely on one another,” Pham said. “When one person is hurt, the rest of the community is in pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time went on, though, organizers say that mainstream coverage — and funding — slowly started to fizzle out in many ways. But those involved in mutual aid work, like Pham and his friends, haven’t stopped organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Romanticized’ vs. reality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid is work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers invest countless hours each week to raise funds, find food and other essential goods, and maintain an online presence to let folks know what resources are available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Alemán, alongside a group of volunteers, packs bread, fruit, vegetables, eggs and milk into boxes during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one knows that as well Gabriela Alemán, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://missionmealscoalition.org/\">Mission Meals Coalition\u003c/a> (MMC), a mutual aid network created in San Francisco’s Mission District a few weeks after city officials announced its shelter-in-place order in March 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see the pictures and they like to hear the updates. But the reality is mutual aid is really, really hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alemán, along with her sister Xiomara and her friend María Castro Noboa, began MMC by connecting immigrant families and seniors across the Bay Area to free warm meals and fresh groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They later opened up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853703/support-is-the-force-at-family-led-mission-meals-coalition-serving-the-community-runs-deep\">a free fridge in the Mission where residents could drop off food so others could take what they needed\u003c/a> — at a time when many residents had lost their jobs, and were struggling to keep up with expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group started MMC while they were holding down full-time jobs. They were doing all of this in their free time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the fridge opened, news outlets across the region — including KQED — were drawn to MMC. Alemán acknowledges that media coverage played a big role in spreading the word about the group, but says there’s a lot more to the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mutual aid was really romanticized, especially with the fridge program,” she said. “Across the country, people were covering these fridges. They had gorgeous images of the fridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the reality is it’s really hard to maintain a free fridge. There’s so many safety concerns around fridges — and I like to use that kind of as a metaphor for what mutual aid is,” said Alemán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the group still operates the fridge, they’ve grown to now distribute boxes of food to hundreds of families and workers in San Francisco and the North Bay. This also includes boxes catered specifically to folks with diabetes or prediabetes; baby food for new parents; and dental kits to promote oral health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members repack food boxes into bags they can carry home during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues, in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food justice goes beyond providing a single meal, Alemán explains. While folks could signal what their food needs are by what they take from the fridge, there’s a lot groups like MMC could miss. Who doesn’t have access to a kitchen? Who doesn’t have time to cook a healthy meal because they work two or three jobs to make rent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the preestablished connections within the community came in. “Our community engagement comes from our señoras,” she said. “The relationships they have built across the neighborhood and WhatsApp groups is incredible. You can’t find that anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s some of the critical work that was left out during the flurry of media coverage in 2020, says Alemán. And it hasn’t gotten better since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like people have moved on from the pandemic, from talking about food equity and food work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘An undying love for our people’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid must also be a revolutionary act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to Yemi Belachew, director of operations for \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesprograms.com/\">People’s Programs\u003c/a> — a West Oakland-based group founded by Delency Parham and Blake Simons in 2017 that provides free meals, organizes political education workshops and organizes bail funds for detained Black protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When many homeless shelters closed at the start of the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137476/for-peoples-breakfast-black-liberation-food-access-and-bail-funds-intersect\">People’s Programs quickly organized to get food, shelter supplies and other goods to unhoused residents across the East Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-800x795.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-1020x1013.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the West Oakland-based mutual aid organization People’s Programs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yemi Belachew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re organizing for independence,” Belachew said. And each of the resources offered by People’s Programs plays a role in the group’s goal of securing Black liberation in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there are people who are hungry. Yes, there are people who need these material needs,” she explained. “But we’re doing that with a political objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Programs’ efforts to bail out Black people arrested in the summer of 2020 during protests following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer garnered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/09/18/914028936/local-mutual-aid-groups-face-dwindling-funds-and-burnout-months-into-the-pandemic\">widespread attention across social media\u003c/a>. That visibility helped raise awareness about the food distribution work the group was doing — and folks outside of West Oakland started volunteering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers and donations from outside the community have shifted in the past two years, but Belachew says that the support from within West Oakland among residents has stayed strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you build with us, you’re not here for one summer, one event, one moment. You’re here for the entirety of the organization,” she said. “And we’re investing in you as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, People’s Programs has envisioned creating permanent support networks for Black people in the Bay Area, Belachew says. And the media buzz around mutual aid efforts during 2020 — amplified by protests after George Floyd’s murder and the accompanying reckoning with racial justice in the country — did introduce this work to a wider audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the West Oakland-based mutual aid organization People’s Programs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yemi Belachew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Belachew says that this profile also made it easier for institutions like governments and corporations to appropriate the term, and use it for purposes that weren’t necessarily rooted in community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"bayareabites_139183\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/10/iStock-1165146004-1020x574.jpg\"]“Mutual aid as a concept has been co-opted by the state, by the media and other organizations,” she said. “Originally, the idea of mutual aid was that we were creating systems of support outside of this genocidal government — that we were supporting each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that she’s continuing to learn what mutual aid can look like from other folks doing the work on the ground around the Bay Area and the country. Ultimately, a love for one’s people is why you do this work, said Belachew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An undying love for our people and our people’s liberation. It fuels you in times where your body might not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Adapting — and partnering — to survive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As inflation rapidly drives up the cost of food and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908640\">COVID-19 public benefits like eviction protections and unemployment benefits come to an end\u003c/a>, the need for mutual aid keeps growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families in San Francisco are turning to Mission Meals as they once again have to decide between buying groceries or making rent. Alemán makes it clear that the collective will always find a way to fill these needs — but stresses that with limited budgets, it’s not easy keeping up with the growing needs of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers help keep a long line moving during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues, in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were times last year where the group was not sure whether they’d make it to the next week, Alemán says. Neighbors and friends would pitch in when they could, and donations would come in through social media, but it was a constant battle to stay afloat and have enough food available for everyone who needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11910942\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/gettyimages-1239161116-b8a59eaa6f071f0d7d4d3c37a8b5d53b308502e9-1020x764.jpg\"]Alemán says that stress, along with all their other personal and work responsibilities, was very difficult for the group to manage. “Managing burnout in mutual aid is very real,” said Alemán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the group sought out help themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They formed a partnership last year with \u003ca href=\"https://www.homey-sf.org/\">HOMEY, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the Mission that offers social services with a focus on violence prevention\u003c/a>. Thanks to this collaboration, MMC has found a much bigger base to collect and distribute food for, along with mentorship on how to navigate funding and community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mission Meals are the next generation of organizers and leaders in our community,” said Roberto Alfaro, executive director of HOMEY. He’s been involved in organizing spaces in the Mission for three decades and says that “it’s our duty and responsibility to support them and to show as much love as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to physical space and guidance, HOMEY provides a stable source of financial support for Mission Meals. Funds granted by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) finance biweekly meal distributions held at HOMEY’s offices on Mission Street that are organized and led by Mission Meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the collective still prioritizes community fundraising, Alemán shares that members of the collective had several conversations before establishing a partnership with HOMEY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers pack bread, fruit, vegetables, eggs and milk into boxes during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alemán echoes Belachew from People’s Programs: Mutual aid is meant to be the antithesis to institutions. With this in mind, members of the collective discussed whether working with financial resources provided to HOMEY by HSA would alter the foundation or independence of Mission Meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of conversations with our elders,” she said, “and came to the conclusion after seeing the corruption happening in local politics: Would we rather see this money go towards those hands, or for tax dollars to be put back into the community and in the hands of the people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiences of these past two years have transformed Alemán’s understanding of what mutual aid can look like — and what it takes to make sure this work continues to flourish. For her, a mutual aid network for the Mission should be powered by both the needs and dreams of the Mission’s residents, she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen kids grow up … they’re 3 years old now. When they were infants we provided them with their first foods, and now they’re eating solids,” she said. “That’s been a really beautiful thing to see [despite these] circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What keeps me going’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the Friday morning that San José’s Ngûyen Pham spoke with KQED, he was working on behalf of the Vietnamese American Roundtable at the \u003ca href=\"https://vasc.sccgov.org/home\">Vietnamese American Service Center\u003c/a> — a resource hub opened last fall by Santa Clara County that serves as a one-stop shop for Asian and Latino residents in the area to connect with a variety of health and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham sat at a booth near the lobby, where he offered information on what additional rights workers have during the pandemic. Switching to Vietnamese, he listened to questions folks have about their jobs. He noted that there are many words and phrases in English that do not have a direct translation in Vietnamese — just one reason these conversations are critical for monolingual residents to feel fully prepared when standing up for themselves at their workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about mutual aid, it’s not just putting funds together, but also putting our heads together … to get accurate information to the community so that they can understand the pandemic,” Pham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngûyen Pham of the Vietnamese American Roundtable, pictured at work in the Vietnamese American Service Center on March 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When translating complicated labor laws, it’s not easy to balance both the original meaning in English \u003cem>and\u003c/em> cultural or linguistic cues in Vietnamese. But Pham and his colleagues at the Vietnamese American Roundtable have gotten a lot of practice in the past two years from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872941/cultural-brokers-for-our-families-young-vietnamese-americans-fight-online-misinformation-for-the-community\">translating public health updates on COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also using these skills to tackle tough conversations with older generations. “The younger Vietnamese generations who were born here, or who came here at a young age — there is some misunderstanding between them and the seniors who came here after 1975 with a lot of trauma from the war,” Pham explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you even explain racial equity in Vietnamese?” he asks. “How do you bridge that gap?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham remains hopeful that mutual aid has the power to change how many in his community think. His elders who first set up the first mutual aid networks in the South Bay Vietnamese community taught him that this work can take years, decades and even generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now mentors high school students to pass on this knowledge, to make this work easier for younger folks. “It’s just a labor of love,” Pham said. “They are what keeps me going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ngûyen Pham remembers where he was on March 16, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was at his house in San José when he got a call from his workplace. “I was told to stay home and work from home,” he said. Santa Clara County had just ordered all residents to shelter in place for the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham works with the \u003ca href=\"https://varoundtable.org/\">Vietnamese American Roundtable\u003c/a>, a group that promotes workers’ rights and cultural programs for the Vietnamese community in the South Bay — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Vietnamese-American_populations#Cities_with_more_than_10,000_Vietnamese_Americans\">one of the biggest Vietnamese enclaves in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As nonprofits, churches and libraries closed their physical doors and turned online to keep operating, Pham realized that thousands in his community could potentially lose access to food and other essential services these places provided them with. And he knew elders in the Vietnamese community with limited access to the internet were especially vulnerable to losing this aid when they needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started making calls. He reached out to friends and old colleagues he knew from years of being involved in social work across Santa Clara County to figure out exactly what families and elderly neighbors would need during lockdown, and how to get these services out in the spirit of mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends were delivering hot meals to the elderly and translating critical information about the coronavirus into Vietnamese. They were even collecting funds to build coffins, for those who lost their lives to COVID-19 but whose families had limited financial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55311_RS54092_VASC_MutualAid-11-qut-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngûyen Pham pictured at a desk in the Vietnamese American Service Center on March 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mutual aid, historically — it’s been there in the community,” Pham said. And in the Vietnamese community, he notes, “the mutual aid effort really started out from helping underprivileged folks here and in Vietnam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After North Vietnamese forces took control in Vietnam in 1975, the Bay Area saw an influx of Vietnamese migrants. But traditional financial institutions like banks made it difficult for recent arrivals to access credit when they needed it the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Small groups would … put money together to fundraise,” said Pham. “They would request from members a donation monthly and would use that money for scholarships, to build houses and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These strategies employed by Vietnamese families to survive tough times in the U.S. served as the blueprint for young people like Pham to organize at the start of the pandemic — a time when the Bay Area saw many mutual aid efforts spring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jarring nature of a global pandemic, paired with an economic downturn that left millions unemployed and unable to pay for basic necessities, left many to turn to mutual aid when local, state and federal governments fell short of providing the kind of support they needed. Many of these efforts received widespread media attention and subsequent financial support throughout 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic really taught us a lesson that everybody really needs to rely on one another,” Pham said. “When one person is hurt, the rest of the community is in pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time went on, though, organizers say that mainstream coverage — and funding — slowly started to fizzle out in many ways. But those involved in mutual aid work, like Pham and his friends, haven’t stopped organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Romanticized’ vs. reality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid is work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers invest countless hours each week to raise funds, find food and other essential goods, and maintain an online presence to let folks know what resources are available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54181_038_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Alemán, alongside a group of volunteers, packs bread, fruit, vegetables, eggs and milk into boxes during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one knows that as well Gabriela Alemán, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://missionmealscoalition.org/\">Mission Meals Coalition\u003c/a> (MMC), a mutual aid network created in San Francisco’s Mission District a few weeks after city officials announced its shelter-in-place order in March 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see the pictures and they like to hear the updates. But the reality is mutual aid is really, really hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alemán, along with her sister Xiomara and her friend María Castro Noboa, began MMC by connecting immigrant families and seniors across the Bay Area to free warm meals and fresh groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They later opened up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853703/support-is-the-force-at-family-led-mission-meals-coalition-serving-the-community-runs-deep\">a free fridge in the Mission where residents could drop off food so others could take what they needed\u003c/a> — at a time when many residents had lost their jobs, and were struggling to keep up with expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group started MMC while they were holding down full-time jobs. They were doing all of this in their free time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the fridge opened, news outlets across the region — including KQED — were drawn to MMC. Alemán acknowledges that media coverage played a big role in spreading the word about the group, but says there’s a lot more to the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mutual aid was really romanticized, especially with the fridge program,” she said. “Across the country, people were covering these fridges. They had gorgeous images of the fridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the reality is it’s really hard to maintain a free fridge. There’s so many safety concerns around fridges — and I like to use that kind of as a metaphor for what mutual aid is,” said Alemán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the group still operates the fridge, they’ve grown to now distribute boxes of food to hundreds of families and workers in San Francisco and the North Bay. This also includes boxes catered specifically to folks with diabetes or prediabetes; baby food for new parents; and dental kits to promote oral health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54171_028_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members repack food boxes into bags they can carry home during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues, in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food justice goes beyond providing a single meal, Alemán explains. While folks could signal what their food needs are by what they take from the fridge, there’s a lot groups like MMC could miss. Who doesn’t have access to a kitchen? Who doesn’t have time to cook a healthy meal because they work two or three jobs to make rent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the preestablished connections within the community came in. “Our community engagement comes from our señoras,” she said. “The relationships they have built across the neighborhood and WhatsApp groups is incredible. You can’t find that anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s some of the critical work that was left out during the flurry of media coverage in 2020, says Alemán. And it hasn’t gotten better since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like people have moved on from the pandemic, from talking about food equity and food work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘An undying love for our people’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid must also be a revolutionary act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to Yemi Belachew, director of operations for \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesprograms.com/\">People’s Programs\u003c/a> — a West Oakland-based group founded by Delency Parham and Blake Simons in 2017 that provides free meals, organizes political education workshops and organizes bail funds for detained Black protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When many homeless shelters closed at the start of the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137476/for-peoples-breakfast-black-liberation-food-access-and-bail-funds-intersect\">People’s Programs quickly organized to get food, shelter supplies and other goods to unhoused residents across the East Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-800x795.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-1020x1013.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55312_Image-from-iOS-23-qut-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the West Oakland-based mutual aid organization People’s Programs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yemi Belachew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re organizing for independence,” Belachew said. And each of the resources offered by People’s Programs plays a role in the group’s goal of securing Black liberation in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there are people who are hungry. Yes, there are people who need these material needs,” she explained. “But we’re doing that with a political objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Programs’ efforts to bail out Black people arrested in the summer of 2020 during protests following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer garnered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/09/18/914028936/local-mutual-aid-groups-face-dwindling-funds-and-burnout-months-into-the-pandemic\">widespread attention across social media\u003c/a>. That visibility helped raise awareness about the food distribution work the group was doing — and folks outside of West Oakland started volunteering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers and donations from outside the community have shifted in the past two years, but Belachew says that the support from within West Oakland among residents has stayed strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you build with us, you’re not here for one summer, one event, one moment. You’re here for the entirety of the organization,” she said. “And we’re investing in you as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, People’s Programs has envisioned creating permanent support networks for Black people in the Bay Area, Belachew says. And the media buzz around mutual aid efforts during 2020 — amplified by protests after George Floyd’s murder and the accompanying reckoning with racial justice in the country — did introduce this work to a wider audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55313_Image-from-iOS-22-qut-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the West Oakland-based mutual aid organization People’s Programs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yemi Belachew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Belachew says that this profile also made it easier for institutions like governments and corporations to appropriate the term, and use it for purposes that weren’t necessarily rooted in community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Mutual aid as a concept has been co-opted by the state, by the media and other organizations,” she said. “Originally, the idea of mutual aid was that we were creating systems of support outside of this genocidal government — that we were supporting each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that she’s continuing to learn what mutual aid can look like from other folks doing the work on the ground around the Bay Area and the country. Ultimately, a love for one’s people is why you do this work, said Belachew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An undying love for our people and our people’s liberation. It fuels you in times where your body might not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Adapting — and partnering — to survive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As inflation rapidly drives up the cost of food and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908640\">COVID-19 public benefits like eviction protections and unemployment benefits come to an end\u003c/a>, the need for mutual aid keeps growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families in San Francisco are turning to Mission Meals as they once again have to decide between buying groceries or making rent. Alemán makes it clear that the collective will always find a way to fill these needs — but stresses that with limited budgets, it’s not easy keeping up with the growing needs of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54175_032_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers help keep a long line moving during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues, in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were times last year where the group was not sure whether they’d make it to the next week, Alemán says. Neighbors and friends would pitch in when they could, and donations would come in through social media, but it was a constant battle to stay afloat and have enough food available for everyone who needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alemán says that stress, along with all their other personal and work responsibilities, was very difficult for the group to manage. “Managing burnout in mutual aid is very real,” said Alemán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the group sought out help themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They formed a partnership last year with \u003ca href=\"https://www.homey-sf.org/\">HOMEY, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the Mission that offers social services with a focus on violence prevention\u003c/a>. Thanks to this collaboration, MMC has found a much bigger base to collect and distribute food for, along with mentorship on how to navigate funding and community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mission Meals are the next generation of organizers and leaders in our community,” said Roberto Alfaro, executive director of HOMEY. He’s been involved in organizing spaces in the Mission for three decades and says that “it’s our duty and responsibility to support them and to show as much love as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to physical space and guidance, HOMEY provides a stable source of financial support for Mission Meals. Funds granted by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) finance biweekly meal distributions held at HOMEY’s offices on Mission Street that are organized and led by Mission Meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the collective still prioritizes community fundraising, Alemán shares that members of the collective had several conversations before establishing a partnership with HOMEY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54185_042_KQED_HomeyFoodDistribution_03052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers pack bread, fruit, vegetables, eggs and milk into boxes during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at Homey, a nonprofit focused on social and community justice issues in San Francisco’s Mission District on March 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alemán echoes Belachew from People’s Programs: Mutual aid is meant to be the antithesis to institutions. With this in mind, members of the collective discussed whether working with financial resources provided to HOMEY by HSA would alter the foundation or independence of Mission Meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of conversations with our elders,” she said, “and came to the conclusion after seeing the corruption happening in local politics: Would we rather see this money go towards those hands, or for tax dollars to be put back into the community and in the hands of the people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiences of these past two years have transformed Alemán’s understanding of what mutual aid can look like — and what it takes to make sure this work continues to flourish. For her, a mutual aid network for the Mission should be powered by both the needs and dreams of the Mission’s residents, she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen kids grow up … they’re 3 years old now. When they were infants we provided them with their first foods, and now they’re eating solids,” she said. “That’s been a really beautiful thing to see [despite these] circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What keeps me going’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the Friday morning that San José’s Ngûyen Pham spoke with KQED, he was working on behalf of the Vietnamese American Roundtable at the \u003ca href=\"https://vasc.sccgov.org/home\">Vietnamese American Service Center\u003c/a> — a resource hub opened last fall by Santa Clara County that serves as a one-stop shop for Asian and Latino residents in the area to connect with a variety of health and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham sat at a booth near the lobby, where he offered information on what additional rights workers have during the pandemic. Switching to Vietnamese, he listened to questions folks have about their jobs. He noted that there are many words and phrases in English that do not have a direct translation in Vietnamese — just one reason these conversations are critical for monolingual residents to feel fully prepared when standing up for themselves at their workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about mutual aid, it’s not just putting funds together, but also putting our heads together … to get accurate information to the community so that they can understand the pandemic,” Pham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55310_RS54088_VASC_MutualAid-10-qut-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngûyen Pham of the Vietnamese American Roundtable, pictured at work in the Vietnamese American Service Center on March 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When translating complicated labor laws, it’s not easy to balance both the original meaning in English \u003cem>and\u003c/em> cultural or linguistic cues in Vietnamese. But Pham and his colleagues at the Vietnamese American Roundtable have gotten a lot of practice in the past two years from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872941/cultural-brokers-for-our-families-young-vietnamese-americans-fight-online-misinformation-for-the-community\">translating public health updates on COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also using these skills to tackle tough conversations with older generations. “The younger Vietnamese generations who were born here, or who came here at a young age — there is some misunderstanding between them and the seniors who came here after 1975 with a lot of trauma from the war,” Pham explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you even explain racial equity in Vietnamese?” he asks. “How do you bridge that gap?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham remains hopeful that mutual aid has the power to change how many in his community think. His elders who first set up the first mutual aid networks in the South Bay Vietnamese community taught him that this work can take years, decades and even generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now mentors high school students to pass on this knowledge, to make this work easier for younger folks. “It’s just a labor of love,” Pham said. “They are what keeps me going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A fight for maintaining a standard of living,” White said in a text message to KQED Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron executives say their contract offer is fair, competitive and responsive to the union’s concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, the union’s demands exceeded what the company believes to be reasonable and beyond what was agreed to as part of the national pattern bargaining agreement,” said Chevron spokesperson Linsi Crain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is taking place amid significant increases in gasoline prices nationwide, particularly in California, where the cost at the pump is higher than in any other state. The average price per gallon of gasoline in the state \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">reached $5.85 on Monday\u003c/a>, according to AAA. 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The event was unusual for her daughter, Shieh said, because she’s spent over half of her life in some kind of quarantine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a while since we’ve come out to things like this, and it’s really, really nice to be able to come out and celebrate,” Shieh added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Kim, \u003ca href=\"https://www.missasianglobal.com/legacy/\">a “Miss Asian Global” 2019 pageant winner\u003c/a>, said it was awesome to see everyone celebrating their heritage and their culture, after being isolated for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, there’s so much more energy … in the city in general, and I feel like there’s a lot more excitement. Everyone’s just kind of looking forward to doing this [parade],” Kim said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Li, who was named Miss Asian Best in Cultural Attire and Miss Asian Charity in 2020, said some pageants weren’t held the past few years and it is nice to see more people in Chinatown. The pageant community is like a family to her, she added: “I am able to meet a lot of successful women, and also the pageant leadership really cares about mentoring us and helping us develop our leadership skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bethlaberge/status/1495224961098678272\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li said it was also nice to see many more people in the area. “There has been a lot of reduced business in Chinatown because of the pandemic, and it’s really great to have these community events to draw a lot of more traffic for people to come to San Francisco and to Chinatown,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Phil Ting told KQED that two years ago, restaurants in Chinatown saw their business plummet. “We were wondering how we were going to weather the storm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this weekend’s Chinese New Year Parade, and the fairs leading up to it, brought some of the largest crowds he has seen — and he’s been attending this parade for 20 years. That’s a big boon to local merchants represented by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the organizers of the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve masked, we vaccinated, we’ve tested. And I think we’ve demonstrated how to get through a pandemic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1495232710431821826\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said, the community is not completely safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have seniors who are afraid to do their morning walk, ride the bus and go the grocery store,” he said.[aside tag=\"lunar-new-year, chinese\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Cynthia Choi with Stop AAPI Hate echoed this sentiment on a call with KQED before the event. Her organization continues to receive incident reports of hate and discrimination. “Over 60% of our respondents are women who report the harassment and discrimination,” she said. “What’s also notable is that a majority of the incidents are taking place in public spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat that, Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/california-bills-aim-curb-anti-asian-attacks-women-vulnerable-groups-rcna16571\">introduced a bill this past week\u003c/a> to require 10 of California’s largest transit districts to study commuter harassment, and use that data to find solutions for more safety aboard transit. That’s key in San Francisco, as the Chinese community depends heavily on Muni, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885947/survey-most-sf-families-living-in-chinatown-communal-housing-dont-want-their-kids-back-in-school\">fear of assaults aboard buses and trains has dissuaded some from riding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another legislative effort to support the Asian community came from Assemblymember Evan Low, D-Campbell, and \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/lunar-new-year-a-state-holiday-in-california-bay-area-legislator-evan-low-introduces-bill/\">aims to make Lunar New Year’s Day a state holiday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choi said it’s important to recognize that hate against the AAPI community is not new, acknowledging the historical precedent of an entire ethnic or racial group being scapegoated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this moment in history, Choi said there’s a general sense of pandemic fatigue: “What we are seeing everywhere is the mental health toll that this is taking on our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the organization has held several meetings to process grief, sadness, anger and the horror communities are experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, she said, it’s so important to come together as a community and celebrate and experience joy “especially during an extended period of what we’ve felt like is a never-ending crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Healing actually happens when we’re in community, and this has never been more true,” Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Heads of brightly colored lion costums sit on the cement sidewalk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lion dance costume heads line Market Street before the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group prepare for their performance in the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group make their way through Chinatown to the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People walk down the street in bright colors with Chinatown in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group make their way through Chinatown to the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905935\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a bright pink sweater walks while waving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants walk down Kearny Street in San Francisco during the Chinese New Year Parade on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow-colored dragon head glows with light against a dark background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group performs a dragon dance during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905936\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Participants march down the road holding a 'we are one' sign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the organization We Are One march in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand holding a match.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed helps light fireworks at the finale of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Someone stands holding a lion costume with a mask on their face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants perform a lion dance during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman smiles while slightly pulling her mask down with a lantern in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Lem sits on the back of a parade float during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A lion costume looks into a bright fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53810_033_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lion dance team performs while 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the first time in two years, the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade saw acrobats and small children alike leaping across the city as they celebrated the Year of the Tiger, on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And much like that striped predator from the zodiac calendar, the community roared back with joy and love over the two-year din of rising anti-AAPI hate and pandemic fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that being able to start the tiger year with something bold like a parade is really significant,” said Connie Shieh, a parade attendee who was born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She brought her 3-year-old daughter alongside her. The event was unusual for her daughter, Shieh said, because she’s spent over half of her life in some kind of quarantine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a while since we’ve come out to things like this, and it’s really, really nice to be able to come out and celebrate,” Shieh added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Kim, \u003ca href=\"https://www.missasianglobal.com/legacy/\">a “Miss Asian Global” 2019 pageant winner\u003c/a>, said it was awesome to see everyone celebrating their heritage and their culture, after being isolated for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, there’s so much more energy … in the city in general, and I feel like there’s a lot more excitement. Everyone’s just kind of looking forward to doing this [parade],” Kim said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Li said it was also nice to see many more people in the area. “There has been a lot of reduced business in Chinatown because of the pandemic, and it’s really great to have these community events to draw a lot of more traffic for people to come to San Francisco and to Chinatown,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Phil Ting told KQED that two years ago, restaurants in Chinatown saw their business plummet. “We were wondering how we were going to weather the storm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this weekend’s Chinese New Year Parade, and the fairs leading up to it, brought some of the largest crowds he has seen — and he’s been attending this parade for 20 years. That’s a big boon to local merchants represented by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the organizers of the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve masked, we vaccinated, we’ve tested. And I think we’ve demonstrated how to get through a pandemic,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Still, he said, the community is not completely safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have seniors who are afraid to do their morning walk, ride the bus and go the grocery store,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cynthia Choi with Stop AAPI Hate echoed this sentiment on a call with KQED before the event. Her organization continues to receive incident reports of hate and discrimination. “Over 60% of our respondents are women who report the harassment and discrimination,” she said. “What’s also notable is that a majority of the incidents are taking place in public spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat that, Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/california-bills-aim-curb-anti-asian-attacks-women-vulnerable-groups-rcna16571\">introduced a bill this past week\u003c/a> to require 10 of California’s largest transit districts to study commuter harassment, and use that data to find solutions for more safety aboard transit. That’s key in San Francisco, as the Chinese community depends heavily on Muni, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885947/survey-most-sf-families-living-in-chinatown-communal-housing-dont-want-their-kids-back-in-school\">fear of assaults aboard buses and trains has dissuaded some from riding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another legislative effort to support the Asian community came from Assemblymember Evan Low, D-Campbell, and \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/lunar-new-year-a-state-holiday-in-california-bay-area-legislator-evan-low-introduces-bill/\">aims to make Lunar New Year’s Day a state holiday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choi said it’s important to recognize that hate against the AAPI community is not new, acknowledging the historical precedent of an entire ethnic or racial group being scapegoated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this moment in history, Choi said there’s a general sense of pandemic fatigue: “What we are seeing everywhere is the mental health toll that this is taking on our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the organization has held several meetings to process grief, sadness, anger and the horror communities are experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, she said, it’s so important to come together as a community and celebrate and experience joy “especially during an extended period of what we’ve felt like is a never-ending crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Healing actually happens when we’re in community, and this has never been more true,” Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Heads of brightly colored lion costums sit on the cement sidewalk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_Image-from-iOS-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lion dance costume heads line Market Street before the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/02_RS53779_004_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group prepare for their performance in the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53782_001_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group make their way through Chinatown to the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People walk down the street in bright colors with Chinatown in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53783_002_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yau Kung Moon martial arts group make their way through Chinatown to the staging area for the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905935\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a bright pink sweater walks while waving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53786_009_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants walk down Kearny Street in San Francisco during the Chinese New Year Parade on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow-colored dragon head glows with light against a dark background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/01_Feature_RS53805_031_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group performs a dragon dance during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905936\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Participants march down the road holding a 'we are one' sign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53791_012_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the organization We Are One march in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand holding a match.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53809_035_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed helps light fireworks at the finale of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Someone stands holding a lion costume with a mask on their face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53799_023_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants perform a lion dance during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman smiles while slightly pulling her mask down with a lantern in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53807_026_KQED_LunarNewYearSF_02192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Lem sits on the back of a parade float during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director\"]‘We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you’re about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I’m in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it’s a beautiful thing, but that hasn’t always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don’t get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. 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People have been using drugs on the center property in a fenced-off area outside the building and have not been asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think linking people to services is great and it’s way past time,” said Gina McDonald, a former heroin user whose daughter is in treatment for addiction. “If you want to open a safe consumption site, don’t do it here. You don’t offer services and allow open-air drug dealing in the same place. 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The idea of low barriers to service and “meeting people where they’re at” is a core harm reduction practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treating people with dignity and respect is more of a value issue than an evidence issue, but the evidence backs that up,” she said. When you meet people where they are, they are able to make positive steps, she added. “The linkage center is being effective at connecting people to services, whether that’s showers or laundry or housing or substance use treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas worried that because of the protest and the increased police presence, less people were showing up for services. Few people entered the site during the protest.[aside tag=\"tenderloin\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]But before the linkage center opened and the protest started, about six people waited in line to get in. Willie Penilton had come to the linkage center to sleep and get some breakfast. He uses crystal meth, and says he’s seen too many people overdose. 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That in turn led to a small fire and prompted the refinery to flare off gases for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says it plans to look into building a stronger roof and improving its backup power supply, but the incident has raised concerns with a leading refinery safety expert and a top climate scientist, as well as the county agency tasked with regulating the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failures led the Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program to send letters to more than 30 industrial facilities in the county asking them to outline how their plants would run if they lost power during significant weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron should have been able to better protect the Richmond refinery from the storm, according to Bill Hoyle, a retired senior investigator at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron is a major corporation with extensive experience, with lessons that should have been learned over many years regarding heavy rain events, in particular at their Pascagoula refinery in Mississippi,\" Hoyle said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said the roof failure is worrisome given the future potential for stronger storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is somewhat alarming that basic infrastructural components of a facility like this are not designed to handle heavy precipitation just slightly beyond historical bounds, especially since we're going to see events like this, and larger, in the coming years,\" Swain said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a common thread across petrochemical facilities all around the world,\" Swain said. \"They both facilitate our fossil fuel-dependent economy but also appear to be quite vulnerable to the increasingly extreme weather and climate conditions brought about by global warming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of the cause of the October power failure comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1488620221682253826?s=20&t=JSghp-Ju87k57e04qdtnAA\">labor dispute between Chevron management and the union\u003c/a> representing its employees, in which worker safety is one of the key issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Chevron: 'Robust efforts' to prepare for storm \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893553/historic-rain-drenches-bay-area-amid-evacuations-and-power-outages\">storm that slammed into the Bay Area in October\u003c/a> toppled trees and caused power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of local residents. Some locations experienced their rainiest day on record on Oct. 24.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chevron\"]Chevron says it made \"robust efforts\" to prepare for the storm but the rain that fell on Oct. 24 — a refinery weather station recorded 4.2 inches of rain that day — was too much for a key part of the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roof on the building housing critical electrical components for the [cogeneration plant] was not able to handle the severe weather that occurred,\" \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-30day-followup-2022-0114.pdf\">Chevron said in its report\u003c/a> to the county's hazardous materials program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, water from the leaking roof caused an electrical ground fault, which led to the shutdown of several parts of one of the cogeneration plants. Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. Flaring can help prevent catastrophic failures in refinery units, but major incidents like the one in October release large volumes of toxic material into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and refinery experts have emphasized that flaring is a necessary safety feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the ability to flare hot, high-pressure gases, the whole site would have become a smoldering ruin\" during the October incident, Tulane's Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron reported months after the incident that the Richmond refinery's flares released at least 23,800 pounds of sulfur dioxide during the three-day incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials said they were investigating to determine whether Chevron's flaring created a strong fuel-like odor that prompted the West Contra Costa Unified School District to close three schools the day after the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials have said their testing did not suggest the releases led to violations of air quality standards. County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. The other four refineries had a combined total of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October's storm came nearly a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860389/chevron-says-flawed-electrical-diagram-triggered-major-flaring-incident\">another power problem at Chevron\u003c/a> triggered a series of flaring incidents. The refinery blamed an incorrectly labeled electrical diagram for causing an outage in November 2020 that led to the release of 100,000 pounds of toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents, environmentalists and public health advocates have expressed concern about refinery flaring and have called on Chevron, air district officials and industrial regulators to provide more timely and detailed information about refinery problems that lead to the pollution releases.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last October's prolonged heavy rain leaked through a roof into a key part of Chevron's Richmond refinery, leading to several days of pollution releases, according to reports the company recently filed with local regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water pouring through the leaky roof triggered a series of problems at the plant, including the sudden shutdown of an on-site unit that generates electricity and steam and the loss of a backup power supply. Those malfunctions knocked half a dozen of the facility's petroleum processing units offline. That in turn led to a small fire and prompted the refinery to flare off gases for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says it plans to look into building a stronger roof and improving its backup power supply, but the incident has raised concerns with a leading refinery safety expert and a top climate scientist, as well as the county agency tasked with regulating the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failures led the Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program to send letters to more than 30 industrial facilities in the county asking them to outline how their plants would run if they lost power during significant weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron should have been able to better protect the Richmond refinery from the storm, according to Bill Hoyle, a retired senior investigator at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. Flaring can help prevent catastrophic failures in refinery units, but major incidents like the one in October release large volumes of toxic material into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and refinery experts have emphasized that flaring is a necessary safety feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the ability to flare hot, high-pressure gases, the whole site would have become a smoldering ruin\" during the October incident, Tulane's Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron reported months after the incident that the Richmond refinery's flares released at least 23,800 pounds of sulfur dioxide during the three-day incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials said they were investigating to determine whether Chevron's flaring created a strong fuel-like odor that prompted the West Contra Costa Unified School District to close three schools the day after the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials have said their testing did not suggest the releases led to violations of air quality standards. County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. 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"content": "\u003cp>The tech industry is intricately linked to California’s identity and economy, bringing in an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cyberstates.org/#interactiveMap?geoid=6__california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$520 billion\u003c/a> per year according to the Computing Technology Industry Association, a nonprofit trade association specializing in IT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 2 million Californians have jobs because of the state’s tech economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of Black representation in technology jobs has long been a point of contention for racial equity advocates, and claims of racial bias and discrimination within the industry remain persistent. In recent years, technology experts have raised alarms about racism being baked into the algorithms that determine credit worthiness, health treatments, job application status and more.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yeshimabeit Milner, co-founder of Data for Black Lives\"]‘Data has been weaponized against Black communities, because the bullets, police dogs and fire hoses of the past have become the predictive policing, data-driven voter suppression and facial recognition of the present.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discrimination in technology was featured at the January meetings of California’s Reparations Task Force, a nine-member body assigned the daunting job of conducting public meetings to study and develop reparation proposals for Black Californians. The task force, established by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 3121\u003c/a>, held meetings on Jan. 27 and 28 focused on public health and eligibility, in addition to technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their scope of work, the task force is examining discriminatory practices in the public and private sectors, such as redlining and predatory lending, from 1868 to the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expert technology panel included Yeshimabeit Milner, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://d4bl.org/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data for Black Lives\u003c/a>, a organization that seeks to use data science to improve the lives of Black people; Vinhcent Le and Debra Gore-Mann from \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based public policy and advocacy group focused on the economic empowerment of people of color; and \u003ca href=\"https://safiyaunoble.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safiya U. Noble\u003c/a>, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many ways the technology industry perpetuates the wealth gap, the experts told the task force. But, as Le and Gore-Mann said, harnessing technology may also be used as a reinvestment tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before testifying about racism and discrimination in the tech industry, Noble, the author of “Algorithms of Oppression,” shared an anecdote about her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a descendant of enslaved Black Americans,” she said. “My paternal grandmother was born into sharecropping, and she and my grandfather bought many of our relatives out of this de facto system of slavery in Mississippi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble spoke about how algorithms used in criminal justice, resource allocation and surveillance can often lead to disparate outcomes for Black people.[aside postID=\"news_11898258,forum_2010101887335,news_11897977\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“Each of these types of carceral technology are unfairly pointed at vulnerable Black people,” she said. “California is central to the origin story of the tech industry, and so it must be understood as a powerful element in California history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology often allows systems to operate at a much faster speed and at a much higher scale, while also making the ability to intervene and question more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milner explained some of the nuances of algorithms to the task force and the audience watching from their computer screens. A simple definition for algorithms, Milner said, is that they are “a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A recipe is an algorithm, a list of instructions … the result is based on what we define from the beginning of the recipe as a success,” she added. “Data has been weaponized against Black communities, because the bullets, police dogs and fire hoses of the past have become the predictive policing, data-driven voter suppression and facial recognition of the present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/670990780\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of transparency, accountability and clarity on what exactly goes into algorithms that are used to determine outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it is in violation of federal law to deny people housing, employment and education based on race, you can’t sue an algorithm,” Milner said. “You don’t even need to use race as a variable. The legacy of slavery [has] made ZIP codes proxies for race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le and Gore-Mann pointed out how racism in the tech industry can be traced back to redlining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redlining lives on in the data that determines which neighborhoods get good access to the internet or new services and technologies,” Le said. “This is why the reparations work is so important. It gives us a chance to change the data points that give rise to data-driven discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without proper oversight, systems can embed the history of discrimination and redlining into decisions, Le added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need race-aware data so we can test these systems that control access to economic opportunity for bias and discrimination,” he said. “The housing discrimination and the redlining of the past is still quite well and alive today. Our anti-discrimination laws have not kept pace with these technologies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One solution Gore-Mann and Le recognized is a mapping tool designed with social equity in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/about-calenviroscreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalEnviroScreen\u003c/a> uses equity indicators like poverty, unemployment and exposure to pollution to identify marginalized communities that are eligible for increased investment from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. With the help of this algorithm, over $4.5 billion in state funding has gone toward investments in Black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This program is a potential template to undo past discrimination and drive more investments into communities to improve economic opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reparations solutions will not close the gap if we’re continually allowing technology to widen the gap,” Gore-Mann said. “We see our praxis as the intersection between that economic equity, racial equity and building wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data goes both ways — to help us analyze and create good policies and remove disparate impacts, but also to hold companies accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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