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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is officially in a state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Thursday night to approve \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Mayor London Breed’s order to declare a state of emergency\u003c/a> in the long-beleaguered city neighborhood, where the needs of people suffering and dying from poverty and substance use disorders have clashed with the needs of nearby families, who are demanding relief from the psychological toll of continuous open-air drug markets and unregulated use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the supervisors who voted to approve the declaration still expressed their concerns that the ordinance may condone the criminalization of those experiencing substance use disorders in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11899726\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_20191127_153031-e1574905962967-1020x802.jpg\"]“I will note, the mayor can crack down on the Tenderloin today no matter what we do,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, during the meeting, the mayor’s staff promised not to use the emergency powers to boost police funding, but instead to enable more services to help people with substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between now and January, if they use a cent to increase [the San Francisco Police Department budget], we can cancel this order on the spot,” Ronen said. “I’m going to vote to approve this order today, but I’m going to watch this thing like a hawk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors had seven days to approve Breed’s emergency declaration for the Tenderloin, which will last 90 days. Eight supervisors voted to approve the order, with Supervisors Dean Preston and Shamann Walton voting no, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen, District 9\"]‘Between now and January, if they use a cent to increase [the SFPD budget], we can cancel this order on the spot.’[/pullquote]In their vote to approve the measure, some members of the board cited a longstanding informal policy of voting alongside a supervisor on issues that affect the neighborhood that supervisor represents. Since Supervisor Matt Haney, who is running for State Assembly and represents the Tenderloin, backed the emergency order, other supervisors were swayed to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they did so amid publicly aired concerns. Breed spurred fears she would criminalize drug use when she announced earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899060/vowing-to-end-reign-of-criminals-destroying-our-city-sf-mayor-breed-announces-latest-tenderloin-crackdown\">a new public safety strategy in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, calling for a “tough love” approach that would have more cops on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her remarks, she said San Franciscans should be “less tolerant of all the bull— that has destroyed our city,” and suggested that people who did not accept services would be jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those words, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/12/san-francisco-tenderloin-matrix-declaration-of-emergency-london-breed/\">and others from Breed\u003c/a>, hung over the more than 10-hour-long meeting, as some of the supervisors argued people using drugs need care, not jail, to find healthier lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, city staff delivered a softened version of Breed’s message to the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11899060\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/20211214_115252-1020x771.jpg\"]“I can say unequivocally our office will not use authority in the emergency order to provide appropriations [of funding] to the police department,” Mayor’s Office Deputy Chief of Staff Andres Power told the board Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Power and other staff said, the state of emergency would cut red tape and enable San Francisco agencies to lease a location near the Tenderloin to establish a “linkage site” to help connect people who use drugs to health services and resources, staffed by social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the emergency order, it would take months, perhaps a year, to create such a site in the Tenderloin, city staff said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also would allow the city to more quickly hire 250 behavioral health staffers to help people with substance use disorders heal from their illnesses by blazing through “byzantine” civil-service rules, city staff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that can absolutely save lives,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those assurances, other supervisors said they were disappointed Breed didn’t attend the meeting herself to tell them how much, or how little, the police would be involved in her plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents Haight-Ashbury, the Fillmore and Japantown, among other neighborhoods, was openly critical of the emergency order, calling it a “publicity stunt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond neighborhood, also questioned the political nature of the declaration and asked why the mayor hadn’t taken similar action earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this declaration was truly about tackling the fentanyl crisis, where was this declaration when we voted to urge the mayor to do so in September of this year?” Chan said, referencing a resolution introduced by Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supervisors worried approving the emergency order would tacitly endorse Breed’s law-and-order messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a community market opening in the Tenderloin in mid-December,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1474166266797518888\"> Breed was recorded on video saying\u003c/a>, “We are going to make people who are dealing drugs, who are using drugs out in the open with no regard for the community, people who are assaulting and spitting on and stabbing and shooting and destroying this community, we are going to make life hell for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston called out those words in the meeting — making “life hell” for those who use drugs — when \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/news/headlines/its-time-to-treat-substance-abuse-like-a-chronic-disease/2021/12\">public health experts consider substance use disorder to be a disease that can be treated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, SFPD Chief Bill Scott expressed frustration at the position his officers are placed in when addressing the sale and consumption of drugs in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this ‘no-person’s-land’ where they’re being asked not to arrest, and they’re seeing people smoking fentanyl out on the streets,” Scott said. “What tools do they have to address this, if they’re not going to be arresting?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1474177258323546120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other critiques, Supervisor Shamann Walton questioned why there wasn’t an emergency order when homicides rose in the southeast of the city, which he represents, and Chan questioned why the mayor didn’t have similar urgency around attacks against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people called in to comment on the vote during the public meeting. Those supporting Breed’s emergency order ran the gamut: Some lauded Breed’s plan as compassionate for boosting access to services, while others embraced more police action, even going so far as to suggest jailing drug dealers on Alcatraz, or encouraging the police to commit violence against drug users and dealers alike. Callers often called the Tenderloin a “dystopia,” and called for “order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other callers lived with their families in the Tenderloin, and were calling for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t forget that children and young people are affected in their mental health directly. It’s a day-to-day situation where they’re offered drugs and are afraid of being shot,” said Norma Carrera, a 26-year Tenderloin resident who spoke in Spanish with the aid of an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Wolf, who previously struggled with substance abuse \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html\">and became notable in San Francisco for going sober after his arrest by city police\u003c/a>, told the board, “I’m alive today, and in recovery, because I was held accountable when I broke the law to support my addiction. Accountability is the cornerstone of recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People speaking publicly against Breed’s emergency order sometimes characterized it as police overreach, even though the mayor’s office pledged in the meeting not to add funding to policing by using the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers repeatedly described fear of the police, citing the police killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1000988747/george-floyds-murder-one-year-later\">George Floyd\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco\"> Alex Nieto\u003c/a>. They also often suggested officials boost funding for the Community Alternative Response Team (CART), a citywide program designed to connect unhoused people with community workers, as opposed to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Hernandez, an 18-year-old who said they were unhoused, said “instead of a police crackdown,” Breed should increase funding for housing initiatives to aid those living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to live in fear,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Murphy, a Tenderloin resident who works at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, said his agency opposes the emergency order and any measure that would criminalize substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I identify as an addict and an alcoholic. The only thing that’s worked for me is voluntary treatment,” he said, and suggested the city fund CART. “This is not the time to repeat the mistakes of the past, with over-policing the Tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deaths attributable to drug overdoses have increased more than 200% in San Francisco since 2018, and last year, more than 700 people died from drug overdoses in the city, more than the number who died from COVID-19, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Breed’s proclamation of a local emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894981\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-1-1020x766.jpg\"]Nearly 600 people have died of drug overdoses through November of this year, with nearly half the deaths occurring in the Tenderloin and the neighboring South of Market neighborhood, the proclamation said. These areas make up 7% of San Francisco’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined the city’s public defender Mano Raju at a news conference on Monday to denounce the mayor’s plan, saying that jailing people experiencing substance use disorders, mental health issues and homelessness would not work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If arrests and prosecutions alone could solve the drug crisis in this country or in this city, it would have been solved long ago,” Boudin said. “We’ve invested over a trillion dollars in fighting the so-called war on drugs, and where has it gotten us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1473064841568940034\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said the “raw human suffering” he sees in the neighborhood outrages him. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is officially in a state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Thursday night to approve \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Mayor London Breed’s order to declare a state of emergency\u003c/a> in the long-beleaguered city neighborhood, where the needs of people suffering and dying from poverty and substance use disorders have clashed with the needs of nearby families, who are demanding relief from the psychological toll of continuous open-air drug markets and unregulated use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the supervisors who voted to approve the declaration still expressed their concerns that the ordinance may condone the criminalization of those experiencing substance use disorders in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I will note, the mayor can crack down on the Tenderloin today no matter what we do,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, during the meeting, the mayor’s staff promised not to use the emergency powers to boost police funding, but instead to enable more services to help people with substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between now and January, if they use a cent to increase [the San Francisco Police Department budget], we can cancel this order on the spot,” Ronen said. “I’m going to vote to approve this order today, but I’m going to watch this thing like a hawk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors had seven days to approve Breed’s emergency declaration for the Tenderloin, which will last 90 days. Eight supervisors voted to approve the order, with Supervisors Dean Preston and Shamann Walton voting no, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In their vote to approve the measure, some members of the board cited a longstanding informal policy of voting alongside a supervisor on issues that affect the neighborhood that supervisor represents. Since Supervisor Matt Haney, who is running for State Assembly and represents the Tenderloin, backed the emergency order, other supervisors were swayed to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they did so amid publicly aired concerns. Breed spurred fears she would criminalize drug use when she announced earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899060/vowing-to-end-reign-of-criminals-destroying-our-city-sf-mayor-breed-announces-latest-tenderloin-crackdown\">a new public safety strategy in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, calling for a “tough love” approach that would have more cops on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her remarks, she said San Franciscans should be “less tolerant of all the bull— that has destroyed our city,” and suggested that people who did not accept services would be jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those words, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/12/san-francisco-tenderloin-matrix-declaration-of-emergency-london-breed/\">and others from Breed\u003c/a>, hung over the more than 10-hour-long meeting, as some of the supervisors argued people using drugs need care, not jail, to find healthier lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, city staff delivered a softened version of Breed’s message to the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I can say unequivocally our office will not use authority in the emergency order to provide appropriations [of funding] to the police department,” Mayor’s Office Deputy Chief of Staff Andres Power told the board Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Power and other staff said, the state of emergency would cut red tape and enable San Francisco agencies to lease a location near the Tenderloin to establish a “linkage site” to help connect people who use drugs to health services and resources, staffed by social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the emergency order, it would take months, perhaps a year, to create such a site in the Tenderloin, city staff said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also would allow the city to more quickly hire 250 behavioral health staffers to help people with substance use disorders heal from their illnesses by blazing through “byzantine” civil-service rules, city staff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that can absolutely save lives,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those assurances, other supervisors said they were disappointed Breed didn’t attend the meeting herself to tell them how much, or how little, the police would be involved in her plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents Haight-Ashbury, the Fillmore and Japantown, among other neighborhoods, was openly critical of the emergency order, calling it a “publicity stunt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond neighborhood, also questioned the political nature of the declaration and asked why the mayor hadn’t taken similar action earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this declaration was truly about tackling the fentanyl crisis, where was this declaration when we voted to urge the mayor to do so in September of this year?” Chan said, referencing a resolution introduced by Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supervisors worried approving the emergency order would tacitly endorse Breed’s law-and-order messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a community market opening in the Tenderloin in mid-December,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1474166266797518888\"> Breed was recorded on video saying\u003c/a>, “We are going to make people who are dealing drugs, who are using drugs out in the open with no regard for the community, people who are assaulting and spitting on and stabbing and shooting and destroying this community, we are going to make life hell for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston called out those words in the meeting — making “life hell” for those who use drugs — when \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/news/headlines/its-time-to-treat-substance-abuse-like-a-chronic-disease/2021/12\">public health experts consider substance use disorder to be a disease that can be treated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, SFPD Chief Bill Scott expressed frustration at the position his officers are placed in when addressing the sale and consumption of drugs in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this ‘no-person’s-land’ where they’re being asked not to arrest, and they’re seeing people smoking fentanyl out on the streets,” Scott said. “What tools do they have to address this, if they’re not going to be arresting?”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In other critiques, Supervisor Shamann Walton questioned why there wasn’t an emergency order when homicides rose in the southeast of the city, which he represents, and Chan questioned why the mayor didn’t have similar urgency around attacks against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people called in to comment on the vote during the public meeting. Those supporting Breed’s emergency order ran the gamut: Some lauded Breed’s plan as compassionate for boosting access to services, while others embraced more police action, even going so far as to suggest jailing drug dealers on Alcatraz, or encouraging the police to commit violence against drug users and dealers alike. Callers often called the Tenderloin a “dystopia,” and called for “order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other callers lived with their families in the Tenderloin, and were calling for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t forget that children and young people are affected in their mental health directly. It’s a day-to-day situation where they’re offered drugs and are afraid of being shot,” said Norma Carrera, a 26-year Tenderloin resident who spoke in Spanish with the aid of an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Wolf, who previously struggled with substance abuse \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html\">and became notable in San Francisco for going sober after his arrest by city police\u003c/a>, told the board, “I’m alive today, and in recovery, because I was held accountable when I broke the law to support my addiction. Accountability is the cornerstone of recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People speaking publicly against Breed’s emergency order sometimes characterized it as police overreach, even though the mayor’s office pledged in the meeting not to add funding to policing by using the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers repeatedly described fear of the police, citing the police killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1000988747/george-floyds-murder-one-year-later\">George Floyd\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco\"> Alex Nieto\u003c/a>. They also often suggested officials boost funding for the Community Alternative Response Team (CART), a citywide program designed to connect unhoused people with community workers, as opposed to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Hernandez, an 18-year-old who said they were unhoused, said “instead of a police crackdown,” Breed should increase funding for housing initiatives to aid those living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to live in fear,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Murphy, a Tenderloin resident who works at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, said his agency opposes the emergency order and any measure that would criminalize substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I identify as an addict and an alcoholic. The only thing that’s worked for me is voluntary treatment,” he said, and suggested the city fund CART. “This is not the time to repeat the mistakes of the past, with over-policing the Tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deaths attributable to drug overdoses have increased more than 200% in San Francisco since 2018, and last year, more than 700 people died from drug overdoses in the city, more than the number who died from COVID-19, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Breed’s proclamation of a local emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nStatewide, fatal crashes and victims increased steadily since 2018, according the CHP, and though numbers are down so far this year, they are expected to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deadly crashes statewide rose from 700 in 2018 to 720 in 2019 and 824 last year, according to the figures compiled for The Associated Press. There were 519 reported so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, fatality victims ticked up from 816 in 2018 to 818 in 2019 but jumped to 941 last year, with 579 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statistics seem to indicate more deadly results in recent years, though the CHP couldn’t provide an explanation. Both the number of injury crashes and injury victims declined over the four-year period, even as the number of fatalities increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were nearly 14,000 injury crashes and nearly 21,000 injured victims in 2018. They fell to 12,602 injury crashes and 18,344 injured victims by last year, though those figures are still considered to be preliminary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 38 people were killed in crashes in California during the 78-hour period surrounding last year’s Christmas holiday, the CHP said. It didn’t say how many were considered to be the result of DUIs, but noted CHP officers made 573 arrests for driving under the influence during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn’t get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. “That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she’s been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">‘\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We’re Not a Monolith’: Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us’: Scenes From Bloody Island’s Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘This Is American History’: Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley’s garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area’s Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California’s Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.’ An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again’: New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it’s hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it’s very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn’t have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘I Know Exactly What You Feel’: Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area’s Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose’s wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln’s Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood’s Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘To Also Celebrate the Living’: Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it’s a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. “The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,” she said. “We’re in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897041/were-in-a-new-era-on-52nd-anniversary-of-alcatraz-occupation-biden-administration-commits-to-native-american-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We’re in a New Era’: On 52nd Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation, Biden Administration Commits to Native American Inclusion\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn’t get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. “That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she’s been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">‘\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We’re Not a Monolith’: Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us’: Scenes From Bloody Island’s Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘This Is American History’: Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley’s garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area’s Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California’s Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.’ An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again’: New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it’s hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it’s very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn’t have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘I Know Exactly What You Feel’: Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area’s Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose’s wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln’s Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood’s Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘To Also Celebrate the Living’: Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it’s a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. “The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,” she said. “We’re in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#locations\">How to help, and how to find help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Over four months since the fall of Kabul, some Afghan evacuees are still working to find a sense of stability here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some families, it’s an ongoing search for an affordable home and a job. For others, like Sadaat, it’s fighting with bureaucracy to obtain the necessary paperwork for their loved ones in Afghanistan to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadaat arrived in the Bay Area on Oct. 21 — flying from Abu Dhabi with her three children, ages 8, 10 and 12. She preferred to use a pseudonym for fear of Taliban retaliation against her husband and other family members who are still in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sadaat, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘It’s not easy to survive in this country. We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.’[/pullquote]Before leaving her country, Sadaat worked for a U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, project on agricultural development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received her visa in August before Kabul fell to the Taliban, but her husband was still waiting for his paperwork. She waited another two months, leaving the country with her children. Now she’s in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here with my three children, I’m just struggling with that — finding resources and finding different sources to help me out. How can I get him out of there?” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her husband had previously worked with the U.S. government, and now he has to live in hiding from the Taliban regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not living a normal life,” Sadaat said. But she acknowledges that caring for three kids by herself in the U.S. is also far from normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she has to take her kids to school and pick them up, Sadaat hasn’t been able to find a job. Her brother lives in Fremont and has been helping her move around the city until she can get her own license and car to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy to survive in this country,” she said. “We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pending situation is very frustrating for me,” Sadaat said. Her kids are having trouble focusing as well, living in a new country without their father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890467\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg\"]Aminah Abdullah, who is the charity coordinator at the Pleasanton \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Community Center in the East Bay\u003c/a> (MCC), says that for many recently arrived evacuees, the biggest challenge is housing, and once housing is secured, everything else becomes easier. To help bridge the gap and provide food, MCC has been \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/event/afghan-refugee-food-drive/2021-11-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coordinating food drop-offs\u003c/a> for families who are in need of support, many of whom are waiting for state benefits to kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdullah said they’re also asking for used cars so they can fix them up for families. “A lot of people are working from home now. They might have an extra vehicle they no longer need. They could donate it to MCC and we would fix it up if needed and pass it along to a refugee family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MCC works with refugee resettlement organizations like the International Rescue Committee and Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay who assist with housing and support in the first few months of arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Searching for stability\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For M. Shakir, who left Kabul with her husband and 4-year-old son, the journey since mid-August has been long and slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping on the floor overnight at the airport in Kabul, they left Afghanistan Aug. 17, landed in Qatar and were then moved to Germany. After five days, Shakir said, they arrived in Washington, D.C., and from there were moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2021-09-23/fort-bliss-builds-village-for-afghan-evacuees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Bliss in Texas\u003c/a>, where about 10,000 evacuees were placed, with 100 people to a tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really hard … I must say terrible,” she said. At Fort Bliss they lived in a tent with several families, but she said that hygiene was very poor. After staying there for two and a half months, they left to move in with relatives in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887630\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\"]But within the first week of their arrival, they were told by a manager of the building complex that there was an occupancy limit and they would need to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they have to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the financial support they receive from the government is not enough to provide a security deposit, and some places ask for a credit history, something they also don’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are totally lost in this situation,” she said and added that some landlords were asking for a five-month deposit on a one-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Afghanistan, Shakir said, her husband was a contract worker for U.S.-based companies and they were in the process of applying for a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> (SIV) when they left, but she said they applied for humanitarian parole and have received approval to stay for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/explainer-humanitarian-parole-and-the-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> was seen as a temporary workaround that would allow individuals to enter and stay in the U.S. without a visa for “urgent humanitarian reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and community groups say they expect to file at least 30,000 humanitarian parole applications, but nationwide only about 100 applications have been approved since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Shakir, who received temporary status under humanitarian parole, it hasn’t solved all of the challenges. Her CalFresh card stopped working, so the family needs help with food in addition to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We waited for four weeks and it didn’t arrive at our mail address. Then they said, ‘Wait, one week more.’ We waited one week more. Still, it didn’t arrive,” she explained. “Then they said, ‘OK, you apply for replacement.’ We applied for a replacement again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shakir, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘We don’t want to be a load on the government. We have experience. We can work, you know?’[/pullquote]For now, this has meant they are forgoing meals so their son has enough to eat and they rely on family members for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are affected and sometimes we feel very heavy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a good life there back in Kabul, in Afghanistan … life before was quite amazing. Like my husband was a civil engineer. And also he had his own business,” she said. Shakir was a professor at a university, teaching management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to be a load on the government. We have experience. We can work, you know?” she said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ongoing humanitarian parole backlog\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasirilaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spojmie Nasiri\u003c/a>, an immigration attorney in the Bay Area, said she began frantically filing humanitarian parole petitions for people seeking to evacuate Afghanistan soon after the Taliban takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those in Afghanistan, “humanitarian parole is the last resort,” she said. “The unicorn of seeking relief into the U.S. The criteria has always been very stringent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the U.S. embassy in Kabul is closed down, Afghans need to travel to another country with an operating American embassy or consulate to be approved for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885170\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]“And we all know that with the dire situation in Afghanistan, particular minority groups, women judges, lawyers, other groups that are targeted by the Taliban are in dire danger right now and are living in Afghanistan either in safe houses or in hiding,” Nasiri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And how are they going to possibly go to a third country that is not issuing visas?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys working with clients in Afghanistan are calling for the U.S. government to lower the requirements for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paris Etemadi Scott, the legal director of the Pars Equality Center in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>, said one of her clients in Afghanistan has been moving constantly to stay safe because his experience as a contractor for the American government and education in the U.S. puts him at imminent risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott explains that even this client is likely to have his application for humanitarian parole denied because it would be so difficult to get a third party to corroborate that he is at risk of imminent harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very high evidentiary standard, basically asking Afghans who are in hiding, who don’t have enough to eat, to try to find a person to write a statement specifically naming them and the risk of harm they’re suffering,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Potentially going to Taliban and asking them to notarize the statement. And that’s just, that’s basically tantamount to abandoning our Afghan allies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/project_anar/status/1470834153146904579\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other advocates are calling for an Afghan parole program with a criteria based on general risk rather than showing evidence for individual harm. “At this stage, it just seems like the U.S. is washing its hands of Afghanistan and just moving on,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyra Lilien, director of the immigration legal services program at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, said while the organization has resettled 300 people in the Bay Area over the last four months, none of her clients has been approved for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jane Pak, co-executive director, Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\"]‘What’s been beautiful is how the communities have been coming together in solidarity … doing everything they can to volunteer, to raise resources, to welcome people.’[/pullquote]“The question of the hour is, what other option is there? And really, there is none,” Lilien said. “There’s sort of the false option that the U.S government is advancing, which is that Afghans should find their own way out of Afghanistan somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 13, over 200 organizations sent \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TchmLvdvWUwQlUsblvNd_65TahuAkTSKlKcpKCfOBSI/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a> to the Biden administration regarding humanitarian parole denials for Afghans. The letter, spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/225-organizations-slam-uscis-policy-on-afghans-seeking-humanitarian-protections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project ANAR\u003c/a> (Afghan Network for Advocacy and Resources), marks the second appeal by the group to the White House and members of Congress. 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Workers there built huge cargo ships, known as “liberty ships,” as well as tankers to carry fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 327px\">\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search?/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&stype=X&SUBKEY=%22marinship%22/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of huge wooden scaffolding in the foreground with a long track leading to a huge ship in the background.\" width=\"327\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship.jpg 327w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SS Escambia, an oceangoing tanker, slides down the ways at Marinship’s Sausalito yard in front of a crowd of workers. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search?/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&stype=X&SUBKEY=%22marinship%22/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C\">Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m new to Sausalito,” Lise said, “and I wanted to know how the liberty ships produced in Sausalito affected the outcome of World War II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberty ships were massive cargo ships modeled after a British design commonly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/blog/2015/12/9/liberty-ship-history\">known as ocean ships\u003c/a>. 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Without the extra ships quickly manufactured at shipyards like Marinship and the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, among others, U.S. allies would have starved, explained Keizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We overwhelmed the enemy with volume of material,” he said. “That was the purpose of the ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/9344/636326254065130000\">Marinship alone manufactured over 90 vessels in a few short years.\u003c/a> At the peak of its production, workers were cranking out a massive new boat every 10 days. Not only were the shipyards crucial to winning the war, but they changed the culture and society of the Bay Area in other ways as well. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans migrated to the Bay Area from the South, fleeing racism and looking for better-paying jobs. 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The Marinovators, led by hip-hop educator \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mrjahiofficial/\">MC Jahi\u003c/a>, wrote and produced an album called “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5eq0retGOvx5vmTf4PM9hN?autoplay=true\">A Way Out of No Way\u003c/a>,” which highlights the contributions of Black workers at Marinship and celebrates local heroes like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns/2019/2/13/joseph-james-entertainer\">Joseph James\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2018/08/14/rodessa-battle-a-marin-city-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-97/\">Rodessa Battle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A23265\">Reverend Leon Samuels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyQdXEpRQuA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Pendarvis Harshaw and Marisol Medina-Cadena from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">KQED podcast Rightnowish\u003c/a> put it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These unsung heroes helped the fight abroad by constructing wartime ships, and championing civil rights on the home front. 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Without the extra ships quickly manufactured at shipyards like Marinship and the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, among others, U.S. allies would have starved, explained Keizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We overwhelmed the enemy with volume of material,” he said. “That was the purpose of the ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/9344/636326254065130000\">Marinship alone manufactured over 90 vessels in a few short years.\u003c/a> At the peak of its production, workers were cranking out a massive new boat every 10 days. Not only were the shipyards crucial to winning the war, but they changed the culture and society of the Bay Area in other ways as well. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans migrated to the Bay Area from the South, fleeing racism and looking for better-paying jobs. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#watch\">Where can I watch the reparations task force sessions?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#comment\">What should I do if I want to share my experience?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#local\">How can I take action in reparations efforts where I live? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#signup\">Where can I get updates on the state reparations effort?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>December 7 and 8 mark the third substantive set of meetings for California's reparations task force. Participation is easy for now — it's as simple as logging into the conference — but it could become more difficult to access as the nine members are slated to begin meeting in person next February. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kamilah Moore, chair of California's reparations task force\"]'All interested Californians should participate no matter their identity.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established with the passage of AB 3121, authored by former Assemblymember Shirley Weber and passed in 2020, the group is tasked with studying slavery and its lingering impact on the lives of African Americans. The group also is charged with exploring remedies of \"compensation, rehabilitation, and restitution\" for Black Americans, with special consideration for descendants of persons enslaved in the United States. Under the bill, the task force must issue a report to the state's Legislature by June 1, 2022. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891771/californias-reparations-task-force-to-hear-testimony-on-anti-black-housing-and-education-discrimination-this-week\">Read more of our previous coverage here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all interested Californians should participate no matter their identity,\" said task force chair Kamilah Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said she also has been asking people who have experienced the effects of homelessness and gentrification to reach out to the task force. \"Black Californians who were pushed out of the major cities like LA or San Francisco, or even pushed out of the state in general because of issues of affordability and gentrification — we definitely want to hear from people like that because that ties into our conversation on the community of eligibility,\" she said. The question of who might be eligible for reparations is one the task force began discussing in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkolboJEG8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The above video is a reparations task force meeting originally livestreamed by Emend the Mass Media Group.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Precision early on is always best,” said task force member Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, in the October meeting. Lewis is associate professor and chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography. “I wanted us to make sure that we were very clear about who we were talking about and what kinds of injuries we were tracing.” He zeroed in on questions they've yet to answer: What is the cutoff point to award reparations? How long do you have to have lived in California to qualify? At what point do you have to have had arrived in the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Black Californians who were born and raised in the state, but had to leave, would they still be eligible for reparations? \"That's an open question,\" Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, the task force will host a panel focusing on entertainment, arts and culture, so those with experience in those industries are especially welcome to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few different ways to get involved. Here's how to watch, and how to participate through public comment, and some tips for finding even more opportunities to plug into local and national conversations on reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What's on the agenda for December?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before looking at how you can participate, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the agenda\u003c/a> is a great place to start to understand the broader topics that will be discussed. For those interested in the meeting materials, these are also available on the California Department of Justice website and link to an \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">848-page document\u003c/a> (which includes meeting minutes of the October meeting) and two more documents (\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials%20p2-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">64 pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials-p3-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">68 pages\u003c/a>) that include some testimony from experts who will also provide their perspective live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comment period for Dec. 7 is 9:05 a.m.-10:05 a.m., followed by a panel on infrastructure from 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m. with expert testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sdsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/gibbons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Gibbons\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bruceappleyard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Appleyard\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/meet-deborah-archer-aclu-national-board-president/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deborah Archer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://usp.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/profiles/martin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaac Martin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the afternoon, a panel on gentrification and homelessness from 1:50 p.m.-3:00 p.m. will feature expert testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/staff/brandon-greene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Greene\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darrell Owens\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crenshawsubway.org/executivedirector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damien Goodmon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantsincommon.org/zertia-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zerita Jones\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, the public comment period is again from 9:05 a.m.-10:05 a.m., followed by a panel on entertainment, arts/culture and sports with testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.annenberglab.com/employees/arianne-edmonds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arianne Edmonds\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://soc.ucla.edu/faculty/darnell-hunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darnell Hunt\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.colorfarmmedia.com/congressional-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erika Alexander\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://alisonrosejefferson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison R. Jefferson\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Once you have the agenda and decide to tune in, here's how to watch and make your voice heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"watch\">\u003c/a>Watch: Live on YouTube or the CA Department of Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/ETMMediaGroup/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emend the Mass Media Group\u003c/a>, a Black media outlet that self-identifies as \"laser-focused on political advocacy for reparations,\" will continue to livestream the task force meetings. Previous meetings are available on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/ETMMediaGroup/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube\u003c/a> page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Justice\u003c/a> also will be livestreaming the meetings as of December. For those who prefer to watch afterward, or watch the two days' worth of meetings all at once, previous meetings are available on the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Justice website\u003c/a>, which links to the DOJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjXa1XmcH3HxoriWp6B7TSg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube\u003c/a> page.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"comment\">\u003c/a>Ensure your voice is heard — make a public comment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The task force uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluejeans.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueJeans\u003c/a>, a desktop application similar to Zoom that can be accessed through a mobile app or on a desktop computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give public comment, join the meeting through the BlueJeans app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, public comment takes place at the beginning of each day on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click the \"raise your hand\" button when prompted. Each person has up to three minutes to make a comment, after which the microphone is turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"local\">\u003c/a>Find reparations-related initiatives locally\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While California is discussing reparations on the statewide level, many cities are considering their own initiatives. [aside tag=\"reparations\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872266/san-francisco-approves-task-force-to-study-reparations-for-black-residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco supervisors\u003c/a> appointed 15 people to the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee in May. Just weeks ago, actor Danny Glover and NAACP San Francisco chapter President Rev. Amos Brown, who is also vice chair of the state's task force, asked the city of San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-first-reparations-for-Blacks-residents-16623294.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">give the Fillmore Heritage Center to a nonprofit\u003c/a> to rebuild a Black business center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org/city-fund-reallocation-dream-keeper-initiative\">follow the Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a> for its next meetings on reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2020 the Alameda County board of supervisors adopted a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/alameda-county-supervisors-adopt-reparations-resolution-for-african-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling for reparations for African Americans\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/02/23/state-of-black-berkeley-ca-points-to-challenges-new-and-old-for-black-residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reparations were discussed\u003c/a> in Berkeley in February 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/charles-p-henry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles P. Henry\u003c/a>, author of \"Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations\" and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, said he’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hopeful California will ”be a pioneer path-setter in what can happen in a positive way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry also noted how it's become easier to get involved at the local level: \"In almost any community in the United States and certainly in any state in the United States, you can find a reparations issue and you can find a reparations group — and actively work with that group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry said this could mean getting involved with local \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/uc-berkeleys-leconte-and-barrows-halls-lose-their-names/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">renaming\u003c/a> initiatives like the one to rename buildings on UC Berkeley's campus. But involvement in reparations is part of a broader movement, he said, and getting involved will broaden people's curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to meet people who are interested in other issues, around Native American sovereignty or land rights or repatriation of remains,\" he said. \"There are issues where you can get involved and help try to heal the polarization that's going on — that all of us are sort of upset about — but don't find ways of connecting to help overcome it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reparations as an issue has been seen as divisive, he said, it's actually an effort that means to repair relationships. \"That should be seen as a very positive thing to do,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"signup\">\u003c/a>Sign up for more communications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An occasional reminder of what's happening with California's reparations task force may be useful for many. For notifications on upcoming meetings, anyone can sign up for the AB 3121 \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mailing list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the mailing list is from the Department of Justice, their communications tend to be simple and to the point, without much flourish. The agenda for upcoming meetings is sent out 10 days prior to each meeting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Lewis is associate professor and chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography. “I wanted us to make sure that we were very clear about who we were talking about and what kinds of injuries we were tracing.” He zeroed in on questions they've yet to answer: What is the cutoff point to award reparations? How long do you have to have lived in California to qualify? At what point do you have to have had arrived in the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Black Californians who were born and raised in the state, but had to leave, would they still be eligible for reparations? \"That's an open question,\" Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, the task force will host a panel focusing on entertainment, arts and culture, so those with experience in those industries are especially welcome to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few different ways to get involved. Here's how to watch, and how to participate through public comment, and some tips for finding even more opportunities to plug into local and national conversations on reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What's on the agenda for December?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before looking at how you can participate, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the agenda\u003c/a> is a great place to start to understand the broader topics that will be discussed. For those interested in the meeting materials, these are also available on the California Department of Justice website and link to an \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">848-page document\u003c/a> (which includes meeting minutes of the October meeting) and two more documents (\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials%20p2-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">64 pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-materials-p3-120721-120821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">68 pages\u003c/a>) that include some testimony from experts who will also provide their perspective live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comment period for Dec. 7 is 9:05 a.m.-10:05 a.m., followed by a panel on infrastructure from 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m. with expert testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sdsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/gibbons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Gibbons\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bruceappleyard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Appleyard\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/meet-deborah-archer-aclu-national-board-president/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deborah Archer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://usp.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/profiles/martin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaac Martin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the afternoon, a panel on gentrification and homelessness from 1:50 p.m.-3:00 p.m. will feature expert testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/staff/brandon-greene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Greene\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darrell Owens\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crenshawsubway.org/executivedirector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damien Goodmon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantsincommon.org/zertia-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zerita Jones\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, the public comment period is again from 9:05 a.m.-10:05 a.m., followed by a panel on entertainment, arts/culture and sports with testimony from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.annenberglab.com/employees/arianne-edmonds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arianne Edmonds\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://soc.ucla.edu/faculty/darnell-hunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darnell Hunt\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.colorfarmmedia.com/congressional-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erika Alexander\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://alisonrosejefferson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison R. Jefferson\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Once you have the agenda and decide to tune in, here's how to watch and make your voice heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"watch\">\u003c/a>Watch: Live on YouTube or the CA Department of Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/ETMMediaGroup/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emend the Mass Media Group\u003c/a>, a Black media outlet that self-identifies as \"laser-focused on political advocacy for reparations,\" will continue to livestream the task force meetings. Previous meetings are available on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/ETMMediaGroup/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube\u003c/a> page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Justice\u003c/a> also will be livestreaming the meetings as of December. For those who prefer to watch afterward, or watch the two days' worth of meetings all at once, previous meetings are available on the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Justice website\u003c/a>, which links to the DOJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjXa1XmcH3HxoriWp6B7TSg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube\u003c/a> page.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"comment\">\u003c/a>Ensure your voice is heard — make a public comment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The task force uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluejeans.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueJeans\u003c/a>, a desktop application similar to Zoom that can be accessed through a mobile app or on a desktop computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give public comment, join the meeting through the BlueJeans app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, public comment takes place at the beginning of each day on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click the \"raise your hand\" button when prompted. Each person has up to three minutes to make a comment, after which the microphone is turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"local\">\u003c/a>Find reparations-related initiatives locally\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While California is discussing reparations on the statewide level, many cities are considering their own initiatives. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872266/san-francisco-approves-task-force-to-study-reparations-for-black-residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco supervisors\u003c/a> appointed 15 people to the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee in May. Just weeks ago, actor Danny Glover and NAACP San Francisco chapter President Rev. Amos Brown, who is also vice chair of the state's task force, asked the city of San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-first-reparations-for-Blacks-residents-16623294.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">give the Fillmore Heritage Center to a nonprofit\u003c/a> to rebuild a Black business center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org/city-fund-reallocation-dream-keeper-initiative\">follow the Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a> for its next meetings on reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2020 the Alameda County board of supervisors adopted a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/alameda-county-supervisors-adopt-reparations-resolution-for-african-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling for reparations for African Americans\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/02/23/state-of-black-berkeley-ca-points-to-challenges-new-and-old-for-black-residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reparations were discussed\u003c/a> in Berkeley in February 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/charles-p-henry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles P. Henry\u003c/a>, author of \"Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations\" and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, said he’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hopeful California will ”be a pioneer path-setter in what can happen in a positive way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry also noted how it's become easier to get involved at the local level: \"In almost any community in the United States and certainly in any state in the United States, you can find a reparations issue and you can find a reparations group — and actively work with that group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry said this could mean getting involved with local \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/uc-berkeleys-leconte-and-barrows-halls-lose-their-names/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">renaming\u003c/a> initiatives like the one to rename buildings on UC Berkeley's campus. But involvement in reparations is part of a broader movement, he said, and getting involved will broaden people's curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to meet people who are interested in other issues, around Native American sovereignty or land rights or repatriation of remains,\" he said. \"There are issues where you can get involved and help try to heal the polarization that's going on — that all of us are sort of upset about — but don't find ways of connecting to help overcome it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reparations as an issue has been seen as divisive, he said, it's actually an effort that means to repair relationships. \"That should be seen as a very positive thing to do,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"signup\">\u003c/a>Sign up for more communications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An occasional reminder of what's happening with California's reparations task force may be useful for many. For notifications on upcoming meetings, anyone can sign up for the AB 3121 \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mailing list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The descendants of a once vibrant, tight-knit community in the East Bay that was wiped off the map to make way for an industrial park in the early 1960s received some positive news recently, when the city of\u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/nov21/hayward-city-council-issues-formal-apology-city%E2%80%99s-role-racial-discrimination-0\"> Hayward issued a formal apology\u003c/a> on Nov. 16 for its past racist policies and the role it played in demolishing Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once home to around 1,400 predominantly Black and Latino residents in an unincorporated 12-block area of Hayward, Russell City was a cultural hub for blues music, where legends like Ray Charles and Etta James performed in clubs when they toured the West Coast. The community saw much of its growth during and after World War II, in part because of African Americans migrating from southern states to work in shipyards and factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established in 1853 and named after a teacher who moved to California during the Gold Rush, Russell City at its peak in the post-World War II years “was more of a community and not a city. It was kind of a town in a way,” said Diane Curry, executive director and curator at the Hayward Area Historical Society. “The title of ‘city’ is a misnomer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 850px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/790337790.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/790337790.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photograph of an airport and town.\" width=\"850\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/790337790.jpg 850w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/790337790-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/790337790-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-and-white aerial photograph from 1948 of Hayward Airport and Russell City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The community was home to numerous businesses, a hog ranch, sheep herders, nightclubs, a church, a library, a school and its own fire department. In the 1950s, however, all that changed when Alameda County and Hayward city officials declared Russell City a “blight” and decided to transform the area into an industrial business park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sam Nava, former Russell City resident\"]‘People lived and worked together, and watched out for each other’s children. Russell City is a good example of showing that people, no matter their race or creed, could get along. Those people were down to earth. We all saw each other as equal.’[/pullquote]Despite pushback from residents who had unsuccessfully petitioned officials to provide sewage and electricity and to pave the dirt roads, local governments began forcibly relocating residents and bulldozed the entire community in 1963. Many families ended up in Kelly Hill, East Oakland and other neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it cultural genocide. They took all the street names of Russell City and put in names like ‘Industrial Avenue,'” said Ronnie Stewart, executive director and founder of the West Coast Blues Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community had no understanding about lobbying,” Stewart said. “When redevelopment happened, they bought people’s property well below market rate. Homes were burned down. They didn’t want it tied up in court even if residents filed an injunction, which could take over 10 years. They wanted to make sure they didn’t have a place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a city report included with Hayward’s apology resolution, racist, discriminatory \u003ca href=\"https://hayward.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=9957852&GUID=B5709B92-34CB-4807-BC70-49503D4BFD36\">housing practices such as redlining and “racial steering” were a big reason\u003c/a> so many Black and Latino residents wound up in Russell City in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redlining, a government-sanctioned racist practice that started in the 1930s, encouraged segregation across the nation by applying stricter mortgage requirements for African American homebuyers and other communities of color. It pushed many families to seek refuge in unincorporated areas like Russell City. That discrimination went further with racial steering, where real estate agents and developers actively directed people of color away from white neighborhoods, with prohibitions against the sale of property to non-white homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=lowdown_18486 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/07/OaklandBerkeleyHOLCmap-MED-1180x871.jpg']When homes and businesses in Russell City were demolished, residents lost more than just their property. An entire community was uprooted as families were scattered across the Bay Area. Some who were able to resettle relatively close made a concerted effort to keep the bonds forged alive through ongoing gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People lived and worked together, and watched out for each other’s children that would play in the surrounding open fields,” said Sam Nava, a former Russell City resident. Nava, the grandson of Pancho Villa, moved to Russell City with his family in 1942, when he was 2 years old, and fondly remembers the strong sense of community and pride among residents, as well as the nightclub near his house where he would get ice cream during the day as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava, now 82, remains in close contact with other former residents and their descendants through an annual picnic celebration at Kennedy Park in Hayward where families gather and reflect on the good times in Russell City. The annual picnic had been going on for over 20 years until 2018, when renovations began at the park. The park was scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2021 but was delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava created a wall-size cardboard sign filled with photos submitted from former residents and a hand-drawn map of Russell City where descendants could write their names by the streets where they used to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell City is a good example of showing that people, no matter their race or creed, could get along,” said Nava. “Those people were down to earth. We all saw each other as equal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1930px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1930\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg 1930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-800x708.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1020x903.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1536x1360.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1920x1700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1930px) 100vw, 1930px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a hand-drawn map from former Russell City resident Sam Nava displaying the neighborhood layout he made around 1970. Nava and other former residents marked where they lived at an annual picnic that year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aisha Knowles, 44, who was born and raised in Hayward and is a descendant of Russell City residents, remembers attending the annual picnic at Kennedy Park every year since she was a child and learning more about the history of the community. Her family owned an auto shop called Honest Abe and Sons, and her grandmother and great-uncle, Fannie Knowles and Bill Eastland, helped found the First Baptist Church of Russell City in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up hearing so many different stories and loved meeting other people from Russell City,” said Knowles. “I was pleased to see the commission’s work. It was one step and component that makes sure Russell City is never forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Frances Doyal, Winny Knowles and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, other Bay Area cities have been grappling with their own discriminatory pasts, and in recent months have shown a willingness to acknowledge and apologize for damage done. On Sept. 29, the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span> City Council held a ceremony at the Circle of Palms Plaza to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890341/san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown\">apologize to Chinese immigrants and their descendants\u003c/a> for deliberately setting fire to San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span>’s Chinatown in 1887, destroying businesses and displacing over 1,000 people. Over the summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886267/california-cities-apologize-for-historical-wrongs-against-chinese-community\">Antioch City Council apologized to the Chinese community\u003c/a> for burning down its Chinatown in 1876.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Artavia Berry, chair, Hayward Community Services Commission\"]‘We wanted the city to apologize, but we also want solutions.’[/pullquote]Hayward’s formal apology to Russell City residents and their descendants was spurred on by the actions of residents like Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berry, who helped draft Hayward’s apology, said the commission has been pushing the city to improve equity, add new training for the police department and talk about how governments and institutions can engage communities of color. Along with the formal apology is an 10-part plan to address the many concerns of Hayward’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many other communities have received reparations and apologies, but I haven’t seen many institutions apologize to Black people for anything,” said Berry. “We wanted the city to apologize, but we also want solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission, near her home in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposed solutions include financial resources being allocated for a Black homeowner business fund, supporting an annual Juneteenth citywide celebration in Hayward, providing culturally relevant educational tools for Black students and developing Black businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the commission made a presentation to Hayward’s city council on potential restitution and how to incorporate their recommendations into the city’s strategic plan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When homes and businesses in Russell City were demolished, residents lost more than just their property. An entire community was uprooted as families were scattered across the Bay Area. Some who were able to resettle relatively close made a concerted effort to keep the bonds forged alive through ongoing gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People lived and worked together, and watched out for each other’s children that would play in the surrounding open fields,” said Sam Nava, a former Russell City resident. Nava, the grandson of Pancho Villa, moved to Russell City with his family in 1942, when he was 2 years old, and fondly remembers the strong sense of community and pride among residents, as well as the nightclub near his house where he would get ice cream during the day as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava, now 82, remains in close contact with other former residents and their descendants through an annual picnic celebration at Kennedy Park in Hayward where families gather and reflect on the good times in Russell City. The annual picnic had been going on for over 20 years until 2018, when renovations began at the park. The park was scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2021 but was delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava created a wall-size cardboard sign filled with photos submitted from former residents and a hand-drawn map of Russell City where descendants could write their names by the streets where they used to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell City is a good example of showing that people, no matter their race or creed, could get along,” said Nava. “Those people were down to earth. We all saw each other as equal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1930px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1930\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg 1930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-800x708.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1020x903.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1536x1360.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1920x1700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1930px) 100vw, 1930px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a hand-drawn map from former Russell City resident Sam Nava displaying the neighborhood layout he made around 1970. Nava and other former residents marked where they lived at an annual picnic that year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aisha Knowles, 44, who was born and raised in Hayward and is a descendant of Russell City residents, remembers attending the annual picnic at Kennedy Park every year since she was a child and learning more about the history of the community. Her family owned an auto shop called Honest Abe and Sons, and her grandmother and great-uncle, Fannie Knowles and Bill Eastland, helped found the First Baptist Church of Russell City in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up hearing so many different stories and loved meeting other people from Russell City,” said Knowles. “I was pleased to see the commission’s work. It was one step and component that makes sure Russell City is never forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Frances Doyal, Winny Knowles and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, other Bay Area cities have been grappling with their own discriminatory pasts, and in recent months have shown a willingness to acknowledge and apologize for damage done. 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"content": "\u003cp>For parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the fear of dying with no solid plan in place for their children’s care runs deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clawing specter — that haunting, grinding specter — in your mind: What’s going to happen when you pass?” said Jeff Peck, founder and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/farm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Wave Project\u003c/a>, a community led by parents for their adult children in Half Moon Bay.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michelle Garcia Winner, speech language pathologist\"]‘Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began two decades ago, with Peck and his son starting Special Olympics basketball teams in this small coastal community a half hour’s drive south of San Francisco. Peck’s daughter, Elizabeth, has emotional and intellectual disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing over six feet tall, silver hair under his baseball cap, Peck has an easy but direct way of coaching. On a foggy Saturday on a field in Half Moon Bay, Peck instructs a small group of adults huddled around him to protect the ball. Then he tells them, “When I say rebound … ,” and everyone — including his daughter — screams, “Rebound!” at the tops of their lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea with these teams was for everyone to get a chance to hold the ball, to pass the ball, to aim for the backboard and, generally, have a good time with each other. The Pecks started with seven basketball players; now there are around 60, on four teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young men play basketball on a field on a foggy day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1834\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-800x573.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1020x731.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-160x115.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1536x1100.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-2048x1467.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Daniel-and-Matt-playing-basketball-1-1920x1376.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel (with the ball) and Matthew Hearn play basketball on a field at Big Wave. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They started when they were 8. Some of them are 30. Some of them started when they were 20. Now they’re in their 40s, but they keep coming back because that’s the community which they created,” Peck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As families sat in the bleachers over the years, the parents began to wonder whether these friendships could develop into something more permanent, a self-sustaining community of some kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all different levels of ability on the basketball court, and the higher, better players would help the lesser players. That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? What is Down syndrome?” he asks. “These [are] things that affect the community and shouldn’t be hidden away, you know? Something that’s so public … and accepting and welcoming [like Big Wave] is just so awesome,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave, Daniel said, has given Matthew an opportunity to explore and grow as a member of a community. “Matt has his own social circle here, people asking for advice and him really just holding his own audience when talking to a group of people. It was cool to walk into a situation where it’s not, ‘Oh, this is Daniel’s brother.’ It’s like, ‘No, I’m Matt’s brother. This is his space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave meets people where they are. It’s OK here for Matthew to work out issues he’s struggling with, without being condemned or dismissed or patronized, said Daniel. “He’s started a bad habit of slapping his forehead when playing basketball. He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? Why are you doing that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A weather beaten sign outdoors says, \"Welcome to Bid Wave: Join Us Saturday Mornings, 2nd + 4th\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave has been a place for members to gather for two decades. The farm portion of the land sells eggs, lavender, vegetables and cut flowers. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel said he’s grateful to Matthew for teaching him more empathy and patience. But it’s also important, Daniel said, that Matthew have a space where he gets to be the big brother. Matthew has training as a peer counselor, something he uses with this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if someone’s having a bad day, he’ll go over and chat with them,” Daniel said. “He’ll usually take them aside or have that kind of conversation to see how they’re doing and see how they’re feeling and talk it out, help them kind of process what they’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers share a lot of history, much of it traumatic. Their mother died of brain cancer in 2009. Daniel guides Matthew through the grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He still feels that same kind of guilt, like, ‘Oh, I wish I could have been more supportive of things,’ and I just have to reinforce that ‘I feel the same way. You know, it’s totally fine that you feel that way. And that just means that you’re a good person.’” [aside tag=\"disability, community\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew gets philosophical when thinking about his mother. “Not that I’m a big religion person, but I do like to think that some part of us that makes us unique does move on when our time here passes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their mother died, their father went through alcohol and opioid addiction. He was eventually institutionalized. And then, he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matthew has similar guilt [about] my mom [and] my dad of, ‘Oh, maybe I could have talked him out of drinking,’” Daniel said. “We did the best we could. And it’s stuff we talk about, you know? Guilt is there. And it’s OK to be guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave has been a critical solace and support to the brothers, and Daniel said he hopes to move into one of the planned caretaker apartments, to help his brother transition to independent living. He’s looking forward to helping Matthew do things like navigate his first fire drill, and cooking for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Matthew hope for, as he gets ready to move into Big Wave once construction is finished?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just hoping I can be a part of a community that accepts me for what I am, and not having me be something I am not,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? 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He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? 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