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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]pring and fall can be magical times along California’s coast. Gazing out to sea, you might glimpse a spout of seawater or a glistening fin slice through the waves — whales! It’s thrilling to spot these massive mammals as they migrate from Alaska to Mexico in the fall and back north in the spring. But gray whales, in particular, have been washing up dead on Bay Area beaches at alarming rates over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five-year-old Caleb Whan is \u003cem>very\u003c/em> interested in whales. He asked Bay Curious a bevy of questions about what they eat and where they live, which is how he ends up trudging across a windy Sausalito beach with a veterinary pathologist, his dad and me. We soon reach the large, smelly marine mammal carcass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11896373 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground on a dark gray pebbly beach lies a long, crumpled orange-and-black strip of dried skin, with a hump in the middle of what could be ribs. In the distance, a rocky outcropping rises, almost completely blurred, from the white surf.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/whale-carcass-w-ocean-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This whale carcass on Rodeo Beach likely washed ashore some days after the animal died. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hey, that whale looks so funny,” says Caleb. The whale carcass has decomposed so much that it’s difficult for us to identify its parts, but the Marine Mammal Center’s Pádraig Duignan points out where the gray whale’s bones are broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray whales can sometimes be spotted in San Francisco Bay, though Duignan says this isn’t usually one of their stops along their long migration route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But last year, or last season, several did [enter the bay],” he says. “They were looking for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do they eat?” Caleb asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will eat these guys,” Duignan says, pointing to tiny oysters in his hand as he lets sand filter through his fingers. “Shellfish and little shrimp, all sorts of little creatures that live on the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at the damaged body, Caleb has another question: “What happened to this whale?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, it was hit by a ship and the ship broke some of its bones,” Duignan says, adding the animal likely died at sea and only washed ashore some days later. When it did, Duignan and his colleagues performed a necropsy — that’s an animal autopsy — as they do whenever whales or other dead marine mammals wash ashore in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11896366 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Five year old child in green jacket poses on a pebbly beach with older man in a blue vest, white baseball cap, and knee high rubber boots. Behind them is the decomposing carcass of a whale.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco kindergartner Caleb Whan (left) and veterinary pathologist Pádraig Duignan from the Marine Mammal Center pose in front of a decomposing whale carcass on a foggy day. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We collect a lot of samples, run a lot of laboratory tests,” he says. “This one was convenient for us in that it was literally right beside our center, but often we have to travel to where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marine Mammal Center is just half a mile up the hill from Rodeo Beach and responds to whale deaths from Pacifica to Point Reyes, with occasional trips as far north as Mendocino County and as far south as San Luis Obispo. Whales that die within San Francisco Bay are generally towed to Angel Island, where the necropsies are performed. In 2021, gray whale deaths occurred at Crissy Field and Ocean Beach in the city, Muir Beach and McClures Beach in Marin County, and the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in San Mateo County, among other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to see the blunt trauma that killed the Rodeo Beach whale, but other animals present more of a mystery to Duignan and his colleagues. The recent uptick in whale deaths has even prompted an international investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen gray whales have washed up on California’s coast this year, and in many cases there were no clear signs of what killed them. Communities all along the whales’ long migration route are noticing a similar trend, and whale deaths have been above normal for the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duignan says about a third of the gray whales have been hit by ships. But that leaves a lot more fatalities unexplained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not seeing any one particular cause of death in all of these whales that we see, some of them in San Francisco Bay, some of them outside the bay,” says Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences. She’s also been looking into the spate of gray whale deaths, what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls an “unusual mortality event.” In fact, scientists from Alaska to Mexico are working together to unravel the mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Woman looks at piece of whale bone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences, tugs at dried tissue clinging to a whale bone left on the museum’s roof. She says sometimes her team leaves bones out for the weather, and critters, to clean and dry. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a dead whale is reported in the Bay Area, the necropsy team heads out to take photos, measurements and samples. Flannery’s group focuses on bones and muscle systems, while the folks from the Marine Mammal Center look at stomach contents and test for diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing some [whales] that are showing signs of malnutrition or emaciation,” Flannery says. “We are seeing some that are showing signs of trauma from, like, an orca predation. We are seeing some with signs of trauma from possibly a ship strike. And there are a lot of them that we just don’t know why they died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crabbers team up with scientists\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ven as the scientists puzzle out what’s going on, there is some good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2016, there was a spike in West Coast whale entanglements — 48 of the big animals got caught in fishing lines and gear, some of them fatally. Of those, 19 were traced to commercial Dungeness crab gear. So the state worked with fishermen to try to understand what was happening, and what they could all do to prevent the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dick Ogg is a commercial Dungeness crab fisherman who got involved with the state effort. On a clear morning, with the sun just rising, Ogg maneuvers his boat out of the harbor in Bodega Bay. He’s been fishing these waters for more than two decades, captaining his small boat with two hired workers. He says he often sees whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11896369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Three fisherman pose on a pier with their crab pots in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat captain Dick Ogg (center) with his crabbing team, Blair Wilmer (left) and Zach Herbert. Ogg helped develop new crab gear recommendations after studying how whales may have gotten tangled up in the old system. The crabbing gear was implicated in many deaths in 2016, but in zero gray whale deaths this year. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would say 99.9% of the time you’ll see whales at one point or another,” he says. He claims he can even smell a whale, noting that what comes out their blowholes can be rather pungent. But there are no breeches or other obvious whale sightings on this Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2016 data implicating crabbers in whale deaths came out, he and others started taking a closer look at their setups. Ogg explains that the standard crab gear kit used to include lead weights that would cause the lines to form a W-shape in the water as the crab pots sank to the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We began to think that that might be a potential place where interaction could occur,” he says. The looping line “could wrap around an animal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogg and other crabbers voluntarily switched to a system that allows the lines to run taught from the 100-pound crab pot to a buoy floating on the water’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a whale hits that, he says, “it tends to want to roll off rather than whip around with the lead.” That means the whale is more likely to safely swim away rather than getting so tangled that it’s either injured or killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in orange raincoat holds up two crabs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Wilmer, a crew member on Dick Ogg’s boat, shows off a few of their Dungeness crab. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The switch seems to be helping. This year’s gray whale necropsies in California have not found any evidence implicating crab gear. However, the Dungeness fishery can still be subject to delays or closures if whales or other protected species are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery, at the Cal Academy, says there are still many hypotheses about why the gray whales are dying. Maybe it’s climate change: Gray whales typically eat a year’s worth of nutrition in Alaska, but it’s possible the waters there have become too warm to support the food they need. Or, it could be a natural population cycle: Flannery says scientists saw a similar sudden increase in deaths about 20 years ago, also for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall 2021 has not been as bad as last year, and 2019 was the worst. The international network of pathologists and scientists continues to look for answers to gray whale deaths. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But last year, or last season, several did [enter the bay],” he says. “They were looking for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do they eat?” Caleb asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will eat these guys,” Duignan says, pointing to tiny oysters in his hand as he lets sand filter through his fingers. “Shellfish and little shrimp, all sorts of little creatures that live on the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at the damaged body, Caleb has another question: “What happened to this whale?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, it was hit by a ship and the ship broke some of its bones,” Duignan says, adding the animal likely died at sea and only washed ashore some days later. When it did, Duignan and his colleagues performed a necropsy — that’s an animal autopsy — as they do whenever whales or other dead marine mammals wash ashore in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11896366 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Five year old child in green jacket poses on a pebbly beach with older man in a blue vest, white baseball cap, and knee high rubber boots. Behind them is the decomposing carcass of a whale.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Caleb-Duignan-carass-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco kindergartner Caleb Whan (left) and veterinary pathologist Pádraig Duignan from the Marine Mammal Center pose in front of a decomposing whale carcass on a foggy day. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We collect a lot of samples, run a lot of laboratory tests,” he says. “This one was convenient for us in that it was literally right beside our center, but often we have to travel to where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marine Mammal Center is just half a mile up the hill from Rodeo Beach and responds to whale deaths from Pacifica to Point Reyes, with occasional trips as far north as Mendocino County and as far south as San Luis Obispo. Whales that die within San Francisco Bay are generally towed to Angel Island, where the necropsies are performed. In 2021, gray whale deaths occurred at Crissy Field and Ocean Beach in the city, Muir Beach and McClures Beach in Marin County, and the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in San Mateo County, among other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to see the blunt trauma that killed the Rodeo Beach whale, but other animals present more of a mystery to Duignan and his colleagues. The recent uptick in whale deaths has even prompted an international investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen gray whales have washed up on California’s coast this year, and in many cases there were no clear signs of what killed them. Communities all along the whales’ long migration route are noticing a similar trend, and whale deaths have been above normal for the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duignan says about a third of the gray whales have been hit by ships. But that leaves a lot more fatalities unexplained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not seeing any one particular cause of death in all of these whales that we see, some of them in San Francisco Bay, some of them outside the bay,” says Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences. She’s also been looking into the spate of gray whale deaths, what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls an “unusual mortality event.” In fact, scientists from Alaska to Mexico are working together to unravel the mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Woman looks at piece of whale bone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Moe-Flannery-on-roof-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences, tugs at dried tissue clinging to a whale bone left on the museum’s roof. She says sometimes her team leaves bones out for the weather, and critters, to clean and dry. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a dead whale is reported in the Bay Area, the necropsy team heads out to take photos, measurements and samples. Flannery’s group focuses on bones and muscle systems, while the folks from the Marine Mammal Center look at stomach contents and test for diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing some [whales] that are showing signs of malnutrition or emaciation,” Flannery says. “We are seeing some that are showing signs of trauma from, like, an orca predation. We are seeing some with signs of trauma from possibly a ship strike. And there are a lot of them that we just don’t know why they died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crabbers team up with scientists\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ven as the scientists puzzle out what’s going on, there is some good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2016, there was a spike in West Coast whale entanglements — 48 of the big animals got caught in fishing lines and gear, some of them fatally. Of those, 19 were traced to commercial Dungeness crab gear. So the state worked with fishermen to try to understand what was happening, and what they could all do to prevent the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dick Ogg is a commercial Dungeness crab fisherman who got involved with the state effort. On a clear morning, with the sun just rising, Ogg maneuvers his boat out of the harbor in Bodega Bay. He’s been fishing these waters for more than two decades, captaining his small boat with two hired workers. He says he often sees whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11896369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Three fisherman pose on a pier with their crab pots in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ogg-crab-team-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat captain Dick Ogg (center) with his crabbing team, Blair Wilmer (left) and Zach Herbert. Ogg helped develop new crab gear recommendations after studying how whales may have gotten tangled up in the old system. The crabbing gear was implicated in many deaths in 2016, but in zero gray whale deaths this year. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would say 99.9% of the time you’ll see whales at one point or another,” he says. He claims he can even smell a whale, noting that what comes out their blowholes can be rather pungent. But there are no breeches or other obvious whale sightings on this Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the 2016 data implicating crabbers in whale deaths came out, he and others started taking a closer look at their setups. Ogg explains that the standard crab gear kit used to include lead weights that would cause the lines to form a W-shape in the water as the crab pots sank to the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We began to think that that might be a potential place where interaction could occur,” he says. The looping line “could wrap around an animal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogg and other crabbers voluntarily switched to a system that allows the lines to run taught from the 100-pound crab pot to a buoy floating on the water’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a whale hits that, he says, “it tends to want to roll off rather than whip around with the lead.” That means the whale is more likely to safely swim away rather than getting so tangled that it’s either injured or killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in orange raincoat holds up two crabs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/crabs-sized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Wilmer, a crew member on Dick Ogg’s boat, shows off a few of their Dungeness crab. \u003ccite>(Amy Mayer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The switch seems to be helping. 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They understood how angry our members were.’[/pullquote]The work stoppage would have canceled as much as a third of undergraduate instruction at the nation’s premier public university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials released a statement Wednesday morning, describing the tentative deal as a positive development that will particularly benefit students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe this contract addresses key issues, and honors the vital role you and your colleagues play in supporting UC’s educational mission and delivering high quality instruction,” Letitia Silas, UC’s executive director of labor relations, said in the statement .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials called for the strike over the weekend to mount pressure on UC’s negotiators. Numerous state lawmakers have been urging UC officials to settle the labor dispute, blaming the university for the impasse. Aiding the union was a commitment from more than 800 senior faculty to cancel classes in solidarity with the striking lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UCAFT/status/1460952943826329600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expected today to come here and speak with anger and with disappointment in the way that bargaining had taken so long for us to get a good contract, but I was pleased to show up and have a success under our belt in such a historic contract for contingent faculty here at UC Berkeley,” Annie Danis, a UC Berkeley Anthropology Department lecturer, said at a Wednesday victory rally on campus. “I’ve been a lecturer for a year only, so I’m new to this profession, but I understand having been a graduate student here how overall the University of California has a long way to go in terms of supporting its workers. And this contract really makes me feel like I can make a living teaching the best students in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, the union and UC management signed a summary document outlining the details of the new contract. Union members will then vote within the next two weeks on whether to approve it. If ratified, the contract will run through March 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers typically have doctorate degrees but lack the job stability and pay that tenured and tenure-track faculty receive. A CalMatters investigation found that a quarter of lecturers leave their jobs every year, due in large part to their tenuous employment conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",{},\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p4-0\"}]'>Josh Brahinsky, UC-AFT’s vice president for organizing,\u003c/span> says the agreement was crucial for lecturers and will have a lasting impact, especially around job security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just came to an agreement that changes the fundamental nature of what it’s like to be a lecturer in the UC system,” said \u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",{},\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p4-0\"}]'>Brahinsky.\u003c/span> “Up until now, people in their first six years had no job security. Most of us are part time and our jobs are supremely insecure. Around 75% of us have no job security at all. And that means we tend to work at three to five other institutions so we can have something that’ll stick around for the next little while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/dbd28745-c6b9-4c2a-829b-74d7e4789360?src=embed\" title=\"More than a quarter of UC lecturers don't return to their jobs each year\" width=\"800\" height=\"1130\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers’ short-term contracts often last just a few months and their pay averages around $32,000 a year because of limited work opportunities. 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That distinction is important: By law the union couldn’t strike over the contract because they were in state-led mediation with UC. Adding to the confusion, UC and lecturers have also been negotiating behind closed doors through a state mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturer union and UC settled a key unfair labor practice gripe. Lecturers will now get four weeks of paid family leave at 100% of pay; previously UC was offering paid leave at 70% and only for lecturers who worked more than 1,250 hours in a year, which excluded most of the workforce because so many work part time. The union was asking for eight weeks of paid leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers didn’t win everything they wanted. UC still won’t pay into a lecturer’s Social Security if the lecturer works less than 50% of what’s considered full-time. Lecturers in that situation also don’t receive UC retirement contributions. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Citizens Redistricting Commission took a key step Wednesday night toward setting the state's future political lines, approving a first draft of maps for state Senate, Assembly and U.S. House districts after three days of marathon meetings that came after months of public deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the panel will take at least two weeks of public comment on their plans before making any changes. Final maps, which set in place district boundaries for the next decade, will need to be approved by Dec. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some takeaways on how the commission's lines could affect the political representation of Bay Area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458651754443120641\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Congressional musical chairs \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The volunteer commissioners are responsible for drawing district lines that contain equal populations, protect the political voice of communities of color and language minorities and take into account \"communities of interest,\" such as cities, neighborhoods, demographic groups\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>or clusters of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895797\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg\"]They do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> consider the current location (or feelings) of incumbent politicians. That's why the proposed lines fracture some current districts — like the one with the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County cities currently represented by Garamendi like Vacaville and Dixon are now joined in a district with Napa and Sonoma county cities represented by fellow Democrat Mike Thompson. That could lead Garamendi to run against Thompson or shift to a different district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, a lot could change to avoid an incumbent-vs.-incumbent clash. For one, congressmembers don't have to live in the district they serve, so an incumbent could theoretically run in a more favorable district. And if any member of the Bay Area congressional delegation were to retire, another safe Democratic seat would open for the taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1479px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg 1479w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-800x448.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-1020x571.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1479px) 100vw, 1479px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The draft redistricting maps no longer split San Francisco's Assembly district into clean east-west lines. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Assembly split\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The maps split San Francisco into two Assembly districts, but instead of a straight east-west split, the western district forms a \"v\" shape, from the Richmond District south to Daly City and back north into the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894003\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg\"]These lines were informed by testimony to the commission that uniting Chinese communities in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley and Bayview with Filipino neighborhoods in Daly City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would result in a strong voice for working-class communities and their shared needs\u003c/a>, such as culturally specific social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the maps said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consolidation of those diverse Asian communities is to the detriment\u003c/a> of Asian, Black and Latino residents in San Francisco's other Assembly district.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In that east SF seat, the white citizens-of-voting-age population would jump from 39% under the current lines to 56% in the draft map, according to data provided by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tri-Valley splintered \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission has struggled with how to group the Tri-Valley, a handful of towns and cities spanning eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Curious gets a lot of questions about why various landmarks and streets are named the way they are. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837958/berkeley-renames-downtown-street-kala-bagai-way-after-south-asian-immigrant-activist\">Recent renaming of streets\u003c/a> and controversies over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857527/san-francisco-may-rename-schools-named-after-washington-lincoln-and-others\">school names\u003c/a> have shown us, there’s a lot wrapped up in a name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Hewlett lives in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood and wondered about a rumor he’s heard about a cluster of streets nearby that feature women’s names: Could it be that some of the alleys like Natoma and Clementina are named for Gold Rush-era sex workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron isn’t the only one who’s heard this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to pin down the origin of why we want to believe in a romantic myth that early San Francisco lives on through its debauchery,” says LisaRuth Elliott, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.shapingsf.org/\">Shaping San Francisco\u003c/a>, a community history project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the appeal of the sex worker theory — she even believed it herself for the first decade and a half she lived in San Francisco — but then she started asking where the myth originated and why it has persisted. If these women were that popular, she figured there would be more stories about them in the historical record. But there really aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Elliott says, \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=BARBARY_COAST\">the Barbary Coast\u003c/a>, which holds romantic appeal in the modern day, was dirty and unsafe for most citizens. While the early days of San Francisco life did include many saloons and brothels, she thinks it’s unlikely that the city’s founders would memorialize that aspect of life in its formal names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LisaRuth Elliott, co-director of Shaping San Francisco, points out large areas of San Francisco that used to be marshy waterways before being filled with landfill. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Miño-Bucheli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are three main reasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=SOMA_Side_Streets_Named_After_Ladies\">Elliott suspects the “ladies of the night” theory is wrong\u003c/a>. First, San Francisco in the 1840s and 1850s was a transient place. People were coming in and out of the city all the time and it’s unlikely that any one woman would have been around long enough to gain the notoriety required for a street to be named after her. Second, many of the names in question appear to be first names, an odd choice at any time. Most eponymous places and things are given the last names of people. Third, and most compelling to Elliott, is that when San Francisco first began booming, the entire city would have been oriented toward shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of old shipbuilding operation and San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"494\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Steamboat Point in 1870, looking north. Tichenor’s Shipway, erected in 1859, at what is now 2nd + King Streets. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=%22Tichenor%27s%22+Shipway&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=X%22steamboat%22+point%26SORT%3DD\">Courtesy San Francisco History Center\u003c/a>, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of ships coming into Yerba Buena Cove and a lot of ship traffic and trade,” Elliott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there may have been more ships than women in San Francisco in the mid-1840s. That got Elliott thinking about the fact that boats are often given women’s first names. It’s common even now. So she started looking at old newspaper records, searching for names like “Jessie” and “Clementina,” two names often cited as potential sex workers. She didn’t find every name, but about 90% of the female first names on the South of Market streets seemed to be associated with ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1851 the Daily Alta California published this announcement: “Starkey Brothers and Co., offer for sale the entire cargo of the ship Jessie, from Liverpool, in lots to suit purchasers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 590px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590.jpg\" alt=\"Old timey newspaper announcement of the ship Jesse and her cargo.\" width=\"590\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590.jpg 590w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590-160x76.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the Daily Alta California from March 14, 1851 that proclaims the goods for sale on the ship “Jesse.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And what was also common in my research among the ship names that matched the street names is that they all came in around the same time,” Elliott says. One of the earliest records was from 1847, and the later ones she found came from around 1851.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they were all centered in the time period when shipbuilding was the main industry of South of Market, when it drove industry around that area, when people would have been thinking very regularly about ships as ways to get in and out of the city, as ways to procure what they needed within the city, as the places they were working themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also about the time period when city founders were naming streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LisaRuth Elliott shows Katrina Schwartz a public art installation on King Street across from Oracle Park. The bronze line in the sidewalk shows where the shoreline used to be when this area was dedicated to shipbuilding before the bay was filled in to create more land. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Miño-Bucheli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elliott is careful to say that hers is just a theory, not proven fact, but she thinks there’s far more evidence to support the idea that SOMA’s alleys are named for ships than that they were named for sex workers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/slideshow/San-Francisco-streets-named-after-gold-rush-era-201481.php\">Efforts to corroborate the sex worker theory fall short\u003c/a>, she says, because they rely on photographic evidence from the 1870s, which would have been long after these streets were named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the earliest maps of this part of the city were made in 1854, and street names like “Jessie,” “Minna,” “Tehama” and “Clementina” already appear on them. That makes the ship narrative a compelling alternative theory based on what life really would have been like in San Francisco at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are so interested in getting into the fabric, the texture of how life was. And I think that this story really does that,” Elliott says. “Beyond that Barbary Coast nostalgia, you really get a sense of what it would have been like if ships were our main source of transportation, and our main source of news and goods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Curious gets a lot of questions about why various landmarks and streets are named the way they are. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837958/berkeley-renames-downtown-street-kala-bagai-way-after-south-asian-immigrant-activist\">Recent renaming of streets\u003c/a> and controversies over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857527/san-francisco-may-rename-schools-named-after-washington-lincoln-and-others\">school names\u003c/a> have shown us, there’s a lot wrapped up in a name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Hewlett lives in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood and wondered about a rumor he’s heard about a cluster of streets nearby that feature women’s names: Could it be that some of the alleys like Natoma and Clementina are named for Gold Rush-era sex workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron isn’t the only one who’s heard this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to pin down the origin of why we want to believe in a romantic myth that early San Francisco lives on through its debauchery,” says LisaRuth Elliott, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.shapingsf.org/\">Shaping San Francisco\u003c/a>, a community history project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the appeal of the sex worker theory — she even believed it herself for the first decade and a half she lived in San Francisco — but then she started asking where the myth originated and why it has persisted. If these women were that popular, she figured there would be more stories about them in the historical record. But there really aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Elliott says, \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=BARBARY_COAST\">the Barbary Coast\u003c/a>, which holds romantic appeal in the modern day, was dirty and unsafe for most citizens. While the early days of San Francisco life did include many saloons and brothels, she thinks it’s unlikely that the city’s founders would memorialize that aspect of life in its formal names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/SOMA-map-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LisaRuth Elliott, co-director of Shaping San Francisco, points out large areas of San Francisco that used to be marshy waterways before being filled with landfill. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Miño-Bucheli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are three main reasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=SOMA_Side_Streets_Named_After_Ladies\">Elliott suspects the “ladies of the night” theory is wrong\u003c/a>. First, San Francisco in the 1840s and 1850s was a transient place. People were coming in and out of the city all the time and it’s unlikely that any one woman would have been around long enough to gain the notoriety required for a street to be named after her. Second, many of the names in question appear to be first names, an odd choice at any time. Most eponymous places and things are given the last names of people. Third, and most compelling to Elliott, is that when San Francisco first began booming, the entire city would have been oriented toward shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of old shipbuilding operation and San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"494\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/steamboat-point-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Steamboat Point in 1870, looking north. Tichenor’s Shipway, erected in 1859, at what is now 2nd + King Streets. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=%22Tichenor%27s%22+Shipway&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=X%22steamboat%22+point%26SORT%3DD\">Courtesy San Francisco History Center\u003c/a>, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of ships coming into Yerba Buena Cove and a lot of ship traffic and trade,” Elliott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there may have been more ships than women in San Francisco in the mid-1840s. That got Elliott thinking about the fact that boats are often given women’s first names. It’s common even now. So she started looking at old newspaper records, searching for names like “Jessie” and “Clementina,” two names often cited as potential sex workers. She didn’t find every name, but about 90% of the female first names on the South of Market streets seemed to be associated with ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1851 the Daily Alta California published this announcement: “Starkey Brothers and Co., offer for sale the entire cargo of the ship Jessie, from Liverpool, in lots to suit purchasers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 590px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590.jpg\" alt=\"Old timey newspaper announcement of the ship Jesse and her cargo.\" width=\"590\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590.jpg 590w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Daily_Alta_California_March_14_1851_Vol._2_No._95_Jessie-590-160x76.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the Daily Alta California from March 14, 1851 that proclaims the goods for sale on the ship “Jesse.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And what was also common in my research among the ship names that matched the street names is that they all came in around the same time,” Elliott says. One of the earliest records was from 1847, and the later ones she found came from around 1851.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they were all centered in the time period when shipbuilding was the main industry of South of Market, when it drove industry around that area, when people would have been thinking very regularly about ships as ways to get in and out of the city, as ways to procure what they needed within the city, as the places they were working themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also about the time period when city founders were naming streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/old-shoreline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LisaRuth Elliott shows Katrina Schwartz a public art installation on King Street across from Oracle Park. The bronze line in the sidewalk shows where the shoreline used to be when this area was dedicated to shipbuilding before the bay was filled in to create more land. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Miño-Bucheli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elliott is careful to say that hers is just a theory, not proven fact, but she thinks there’s far more evidence to support the idea that SOMA’s alleys are named for ships than that they were named for sex workers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/slideshow/San-Francisco-streets-named-after-gold-rush-era-201481.php\">Efforts to corroborate the sex worker theory fall short\u003c/a>, she says, because they rely on photographic evidence from the 1870s, which would have been long after these streets were named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the earliest maps of this part of the city were made in 1854, and street names like “Jessie,” “Minna,” “Tehama” and “Clementina” already appear on them. 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"content": "\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zeUjeOeM24s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUjeOeM24s\">recording of a recent city council meeting\u003c/a> to Chevron executives documenting the concerns local residents have about a significant malfunction the oil giant's refinery recently experienced that has led the facility to send gases to its flares on and off for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to send the video to the company, which passed unanimously last Tuesday night, came after two Chevron officials gave a presentation to the city council about the accident that took place during last month's massive storm, which triggered the facility to belch out flames and smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the city council and local residents said at the meeting they were dissatisfied by the explanation and are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Chevron presentation was a lot of talk and nothing was learned,\" said Randy Joseph, who lives in Richmond. \"There were a bunch of non-answers. We've learned nothing about what happened during the flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">problems began Oct. 4\u003c/a>, when an \"atmospheric river\" brought strong rain and wind to the Bay Area. The refinery says it lost some power and steam production, leading to a small fire and several process units going offline. That triggered a safety technique, known as flaring, in which the facility sends gases to its flares to relieve pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Richmond resident Floy Andrews said she could smell what seemed like fuel from her porch. \"I was basically slammed with this petroleum odor. It was overwhelming,\" she told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11860400 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\" alt=\"View from a rocky shoreline across the bay to a refinery spewing a massive plume of smoke.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaring at Chevron's Richmond refinery as seen from Berkeley's César Chávez Park on Nov. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Queena Kim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several days after the refinery lost steam and power, the company sent a \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County health officials that revealed that, in the first two days of flaring, the facility released close to 17 tons of sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report to the county, during last Tuesday's presentation and in multiple statements, Chevron has emphasized that the air quality tests it took — and ones that local agencies conducted — did not detect any violations of health standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local air regulators are investigating whether Chevron's flaring led to a series of odors in the area, according to Ralph Borrmann, a representative of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the storm, the West Contra Costa Unified School District closed Richmond High along with Ford and Peres elementary schools because of a strong fuel-like odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Oct. 28, teachers and students at Richmond High smelled gas again and were briefly evacuated.[aside postID=news_11894150,news_11893678,news_11894079 label='Related Posts']It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tom Butt, mayor of Richmond\"]'I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this.'[/pullquote]Councilmember Nate Bates proposed that the city send a recording of the meeting to Chevron executives so they could see and hear the concerns from members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to understand how serious this community is about flaring,\" Bates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city then sent a link of a one-hour portion of the meeting to Chevron. A top company executive said he watched the video and would share it with others at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After decades working in refining, I understand that flaring can be a concern to some that aren't familiar with its essential function in protecting people and the environment,\" Chris Cavote, a Chevron executive, wrote to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote said a key refinery official, a facility manager, couldn't make it to the meeting because the closed session of the hearing ran longer than expected and the manager had to leave for a personal matter. He said that the company plans to respond to some of the questions the council posed that the two other refinery officials couldn't answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we would rather not flare, it is sometimes necessary to relieve pressure or combust gases we can't recover so that they aren't vented into the atmosphere,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote then warned that as the refinery ramped up to full operations over several days, there could be more intermittent flaring on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has had more flaring operations than any other refinery in the county the last five years, according to data from the health department. The recent round, though, has increased worries from Contra Costa's top refinery regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Contra Costa Health Services is extremely concerned with the increased number of flaring incidents at [the] Chevron Richmond refinery,\" Matthew Kaufmann, director of the county's hazardous materials program, wrote in an email last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agency has asked Chevron to provide more details about its recent problems, with \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\">a response due later this month and set to be posted here\u003c/a>. The air district also requires the company to submit a causal report 60 days after the initial incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/research-and-data/flare-data/flare-causal-reports\">which is expected to be posted here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Demonstrators outlined a list of demands in solidarity with \u003ca href=\"https://cop26coalition.org/about/the-coalition/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP26 Coalition\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gcclp.org/\">Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy\u003c/a>, according to one \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPXZMXdw3X-Aa_kUyHyD4uGvRpyhdqXA_9RBJPynBW0/edit#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toolkit\u003c/a> shared in advance of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPXZMXdw3X-Aa_kUyHyD4uGvRpyhdqXA_9RBJPynBW0/edit#\">Berkeley march laid out a more specific set of local demands\u003c/a>, including closing the Richmond Chevron refinery; calling on CalSTRS, the second largest pension fund in the U.S. to divest from fossil fuels; ending development at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley shellmound\u003c/a> and returning the area to “the care and vision of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan”; and investing in communities disproportionately affected by climate change and pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already starting to see some of the really bigger effects of climate change,” said Aniya Butler, a 15-year-old Oakland activist with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Vs. 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Newsom’s senior climate adviser, also sees climate as a multilayered issue. “Truly tackling this crisis means integrating this issue into everything we do: the governor’s entire agenda on health care, on immigration, on education, and so much more,” she said. “We know that climate justice can deliver social and economic justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez told KQED on Wednesday through a recorded message from Glasgow that her top agenda item is “to save the planet from our certain doom.” Sanchez said the state of California brings two important messages to the global stage and world leaders in Scotland: “One is around hope and the other around the urgency of this crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said she’s been to many of these conferences, this one “feels different,” because of the sense of urgency. 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The governor and the whole state are balancing the immediate emergency response to wildfires and heat waves alongside tackling the root causes of climate change, “and we need to do it really, really quickly,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/\">Many of the changes to the climate are unprecedented\u003c/a>, and some changes — like sea-level rise — are irreversible in our lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade Crowfoot, California’s natural resources secretary, who spoke with KQED just before leaving for Scotland, put it in slightly starker terms: “This is an all-hands-on-deck response to a five-alarm fire, and that’s the level of urgency that we’re bringing from California to Scotland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to maintain hope and we maintain hope through taking action,” he said. 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However, it turned out that he was unknowingly consuming fentanyl as well. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco has among the highest per capita drug overdose death rates of any city in the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Faced with a stunning rise in drug overdose deaths the last few years, the vast majority tied to fentanyl, San Francisco has launched mobile teams made up of paramedics and nurses. The new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT), a collaboration between the city’s health and fire departments, aims to deliver a broad range of support and care directly following an overdose.[aside postID=\"news_11890421\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/fentanylteststrips_annelisefinney-1020x765.jpg\"]“Fentanyl is a game changer,” \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-new-director-behavioral-health-services-and-mental-health-sf\">Dr. Hillary Kunins\u003c/a>, the city’s director of behavioral and mental health services, says of the opioid that’s 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. “It requires a new way of thinking and resourcing.” It also, she says, “requires people to learn to work across disciplines and sometimes across organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunins previously led New York City’s response to its overdose and substance abuse crisis. She concedes they aren’t sure what combination of tools, ultimately, will work best here to not only reduce fentanyl- and other drug-related deaths but also to boost treatment success rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the street overdose pilot project is part of a broad and ambitious strategy of interventions across city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no single approach that’s going to solve this complex problem,” Kunins says. “What’s exciting and important about the work is that it is really part of a movement across the country to rethink how we address people who are at risk of overdose, who have ongoing other challenges: mental health, housing, food. And we must do this work to scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fentanyl forced city officials to change how they approached harm reduction\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Capt. Michael Mason, a paramedic, is the fire department’s point person on the new program. As he races to the call for Nicholas’s overdose, he’s simultaneously coordinating with other paramedics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting directly at the scene of this overdose, we can start trying to direct this guy’s care in the best direction possible,” Mason says.[aside postID=\"news_11874651\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48996_006_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg\"]That direct engagement could include helping to find a shelter bed, reaching out to friends or a doctor, helping with food or, most importantly, seeing if a person wants to start treatment with buprenorphine or suboxone, a medication-assisted therapy for opioid dependence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get this individual suboxone, stabilize him at the [emergency department], by that afternoon they can be in a treatment program,” Mason says, “All in the context of a 911 incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years San Francisco has championed a harm-reduction public health approach to lowering drug deaths and injury. The city, known for its relative tolerance of illicit drug use, was a trailblazer of clean syringe access and distribution of life-saving naloxone kits, as well as boosting access to the treatment drugs methadone and buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when fentanyl hit hard here starting a few years ago, the overdose crisis spiraled and the city was forced to rethink its approach. Free Narcan and syringes weren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fentanyl is in the drugs that you’re using, your risk of overdose triples,” Capt. Mason says, adding that the drug is now tainting most every street narcotic here: meth, cocaine, heroin and fake opioid pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1228px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895039 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg\" alt=\"A person knocks on the front door of an apartment on the second, outdoor floor of a multistory building.\" width=\"1228\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses with the city’s new mobile outreach teams say following up with people who’ve recently survived a drug overdose is a key part of the program. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Surviving an overdose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation and lockdowns — people using alone with no one to administer life-saving Narcan — only partially explain the historic rise in overdose deaths here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">drug death rate, in fact, had been trending higher\u003c/a> well before that, city medical examiner data show. In mid-2018 the numbers began to skyrocket, reaching 441 deaths in 2019. And in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths#total-cases-and-deaths\">a whopping 712 people fatally overdosed\u003c/a>, more than double the number of people here who died from COVID-19 during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of those deaths — almost three-quarters —involved fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death toll would have been even higher if not for \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">the wide availability of Narcan here\u003c/a>. Well over 3,000 people said they used Narcan in the city in 2020, a self-reported figure. Officials say the real figure is probably far higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health and fire department officials here, Mason says, noticed something else important: Almost half of all who died of an overdose were treated or revived by a paramedic crew in the days or weeks before their deaths, a big signal they were headed for repeat trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Surviving a nonfatal overdose is one of the best predictors of future mortality. Anyone who survives a nonfatal overdose is a huge red flag for us, and that is what this program is about,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key goal is trying to bring the clinic to the patients: rapid, face-to-face follow-up outreach on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out, we look for them, we say, ‘Hey, let’s talk about yesterday,'” says city health department nurse practitioner Kevin Lagor, as he drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood, where many of his clients live. He’s a program lead with SORT’s outreach arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to reach back out within 24 to 72 hours of an overdose to try to assist the person with everything from housing to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could be providing medical care to address their mental illness. Maybe they’re out of their meds, or maybe they want to start something to address their substance use disorder,” he says. “Just kind of, basically, meeting them where they are and seeing what they need and how we can help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to meet them where they are, the nurse teams first have to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. Many of them are unhoused, living in tents on the street or in and out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose and substance use disorder crisis is directly linked to the city’s epic struggles with homelessness and related challenges including mental illness. Almost 30% of all overdose deaths here are among people experiencing homelessness or people “with no fixed address.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">SORT collaborates closely with the city’s other programs\u003c/a>, including street medicine and new mental health and homeless street crisis response units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in the middle of a crosswalk looking up the street and at a row of tents on each sidewalk.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People live in tents that line a side street in the Tenderloin District. More than 40% of all drug overdoses are in the Tenderloin and neighboring SoMa districts, according to city data. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City data shows that men were almost four times more likely to die of an accidental overdose than women. And unhoused people, older San Franciscans and communities of color were disproportionately affected by the death rate: Almost a quarter of all overdose deaths were among Black San Franciscans, who make up just under 6% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of all overdose deaths in the last year have been concentrated in two neighborhoods: the South of Market area and the Tenderloin, according to data from the city and county chief medical examiner’s office. Those areas make up just 7% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While drug deaths hit every sector of society, many who overdosed were found in city-funded hotel rooms for unhoused residents and in apartment buildings for those with low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that this is a social crisis at the intersection, particularly in San Francisco, of a housing crisis, of a mental health crisis, of people living at the margins of society,” says Dr. Dan Ciccarone, a professor and researcher at University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open-air drug use and dealing in the Tenderloin, an area long challenged by poverty, homelessness and addiction crises, has only worsened during the pandemic. It’s common, day or night, to see people smoking or shooting up opioids or nodding out from drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 32-year-old man named Neil (we’re not using his last name because of the stigma of addiction) says he’s been living on the streets, mainly in the Tenderloin, for three years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he uses fentanyl “to take the edge off” of his depression and chronic stomach pain. He occasionally sells drugs, he says, to get money to support his habit. He soon crushes a small amount of fentanyl into a piece of tinfoil and begins to smoke the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1229px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895055 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing face masks stand outside a white van parked alongside a mural as they look through papers and plastic bags in their hands. It looks like early morning.\" width=\"1229\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1229px) 100vw, 1229px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City public health department nurses Kevin Lagor and Louise Bisby, part of new mobile outreach teams, get supplies out of their SUV to bring to people who have recently survived a drug overdose. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Follow-up work by nurses is full of challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, nurse Lagor has half a dozen clients listed on his clipboard. He can’t find a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’ll just kind of keep following up with the staff at the shelter,” he says in the lobby of one facility, having been unable to find a client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same happens at a makeshift tent encampment behind a local Best Buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside another shelter, Lagor and his team strike out again trying to find a young man they thought they were making progress with. They’d recently written him a prescription for a supply of buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hasn’t been here in a couple of days,” Lagor says, disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a bad sign. Sometimes folks disappear for a couple days and then resurface,” he says. “Then they disappear, or it just falls apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it all falls apart, it can hit Lagor and the rest of his team hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of death and they’re not strangers. You know, we’ve had a couple of deaths this week and we’ve, we shed tears together,” Lagor says. “It’s hard not to care about someone when you’re really trying to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction and public health experts say these mobile, nonpolice teams mark a much-needed pivot for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bold and it’s innovative. I like it,” says Ciccarone, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and a leading expert on drug use, people who use drugs and heroin. “We need to bring in some innovations here because fentanyl is a wild card and it has caught us all by surprise. That’s what we need to do in a crisis situation: Think creatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ciccarone cautions that the ravages of fentanyl and its complex stew of related challenges mean the city needs to scale up this new street overdose response program and continue to try to break down obstacles to treatment that include bureaucratic silos, turf battles and funding woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely not enough,” he says. “We have to make sure that harm reduction is adequately funded, that our mental health system, our substance treatment system, our housing systems are adequately funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, just two months since the program’s launch, 10% of those encountered by the SORT teams who’ve overdosed are now getting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. That includes buprenorphine or suboxone in collaboration with city’s street medicine nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud of that number,” Capt. Mason says, “and I very much look forward to increasing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get that number even higher, the fire department has applied to the state EMS agency to allow paramedics to more easily administer and prescribe those treatment drugs directly in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a recent slight drop in monthly fatalities the city looks to end 2021 with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%2010_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">more than 700 overdose deaths for the second year in a row.\u003c/a> Unfortunately, Kunins, the city’s director of behavioral health services, says San Francisco is “on track to continue this really tragic loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895040 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg\" alt=\"A uniformed man in black pants, black boots, and a white short-sleeved shirt with a red-and-yellow insignia sewn on the sleeve opens the back door of an ambulance parked in the middle of a street.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Department Capt. Michael Mason with the city’s Street Overdose Response Team arrives at the scene of a reported drug overdose in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Paramedics on the team look for small victories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back on the street, another call comes in from the 911 dispatcher for a possible overdose. A middle-aged woman has been found slumped over in a McDonald’s bathroom across town in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Mason’s occasional staccato siren squawks aren’t working on a handful of drivers and pedestrians in heavy rush-hour traffic. So he hits his lights and sirens full bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrive, the woman tells the paramedics she has relapsed after several months of sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heroin she bought, Mason says, was likely laced with fentanyl. Narcan saved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the ambulance, Mason says, the woman handed paramedics a crumpled, greasy brown fast-food bag and asked that they get rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some clean syringes in there and what appeared to be small bags of heroin,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason finds out she was already part of a medication-assisted treatment program using suboxone. He says she told them that she wants to get sober again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was feeling extreme shame from experiencing a relapse,” he says. “Substance use disorder impacts millions of Americans. There’s no shame in having a relapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes she restarts her suboxone treatment quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for today,” Mason says, “and as for surrendering those items and requesting they be disposed of, my hat’s off to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paramedics and nurses involved in this pilot project are dedicated to this difficult work. But all say working across multiple city agencies, treatment centers, health providers and nonprofits can be exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complicated,” Mason says with a sigh, “it takes work from dozens of folks in a single encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does he handle the strain of 12-hour shifts filled racing from overdose to overdose, including to some who seemingly don’t want help and others who don’t survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my own mental health, I have to kind of remain an optimistic warrior,” he says, driving his fire department pickup through rush hour traffic. “There’s a quote in the Talmud that says — I won’t get it exactly right — but essentially says, ‘You don’t have to end this work, but you do have to start it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That direct engagement could include helping to find a shelter bed, reaching out to friends or a doctor, helping with food or, most importantly, seeing if a person wants to start treatment with buprenorphine or suboxone, a medication-assisted therapy for opioid dependence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get this individual suboxone, stabilize him at the [emergency department], by that afternoon they can be in a treatment program,” Mason says, “All in the context of a 911 incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years San Francisco has championed a harm-reduction public health approach to lowering drug deaths and injury. The city, known for its relative tolerance of illicit drug use, was a trailblazer of clean syringe access and distribution of life-saving naloxone kits, as well as boosting access to the treatment drugs methadone and buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when fentanyl hit hard here starting a few years ago, the overdose crisis spiraled and the city was forced to rethink its approach. Free Narcan and syringes weren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fentanyl is in the drugs that you’re using, your risk of overdose triples,” Capt. Mason says, adding that the drug is now tainting most every street narcotic here: meth, cocaine, heroin and fake opioid pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1228px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895039 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg\" alt=\"A person knocks on the front door of an apartment on the second, outdoor floor of a multistory building.\" width=\"1228\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses with the city’s new mobile outreach teams say following up with people who’ve recently survived a drug overdose is a key part of the program. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Surviving an overdose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation and lockdowns — people using alone with no one to administer life-saving Narcan — only partially explain the historic rise in overdose deaths here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">drug death rate, in fact, had been trending higher\u003c/a> well before that, city medical examiner data show. In mid-2018 the numbers began to skyrocket, reaching 441 deaths in 2019. And in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths#total-cases-and-deaths\">a whopping 712 people fatally overdosed\u003c/a>, more than double the number of people here who died from COVID-19 during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of those deaths — almost three-quarters —involved fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death toll would have been even higher if not for \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">the wide availability of Narcan here\u003c/a>. Well over 3,000 people said they used Narcan in the city in 2020, a self-reported figure. Officials say the real figure is probably far higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health and fire department officials here, Mason says, noticed something else important: Almost half of all who died of an overdose were treated or revived by a paramedic crew in the days or weeks before their deaths, a big signal they were headed for repeat trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Surviving a nonfatal overdose is one of the best predictors of future mortality. Anyone who survives a nonfatal overdose is a huge red flag for us, and that is what this program is about,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key goal is trying to bring the clinic to the patients: rapid, face-to-face follow-up outreach on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out, we look for them, we say, ‘Hey, let’s talk about yesterday,'” says city health department nurse practitioner Kevin Lagor, as he drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood, where many of his clients live. He’s a program lead with SORT’s outreach arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to reach back out within 24 to 72 hours of an overdose to try to assist the person with everything from housing to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could be providing medical care to address their mental illness. Maybe they’re out of their meds, or maybe they want to start something to address their substance use disorder,” he says. “Just kind of, basically, meeting them where they are and seeing what they need and how we can help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to meet them where they are, the nurse teams first have to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. Many of them are unhoused, living in tents on the street or in and out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose and substance use disorder crisis is directly linked to the city’s epic struggles with homelessness and related challenges including mental illness. Almost 30% of all overdose deaths here are among people experiencing homelessness or people “with no fixed address.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">SORT collaborates closely with the city’s other programs\u003c/a>, including street medicine and new mental health and homeless street crisis response units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in the middle of a crosswalk looking up the street and at a row of tents on each sidewalk.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People live in tents that line a side street in the Tenderloin District. More than 40% of all drug overdoses are in the Tenderloin and neighboring SoMa districts, according to city data. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City data shows that men were almost four times more likely to die of an accidental overdose than women. And unhoused people, older San Franciscans and communities of color were disproportionately affected by the death rate: Almost a quarter of all overdose deaths were among Black San Franciscans, who make up just under 6% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of all overdose deaths in the last year have been concentrated in two neighborhoods: the South of Market area and the Tenderloin, according to data from the city and county chief medical examiner’s office. Those areas make up just 7% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While drug deaths hit every sector of society, many who overdosed were found in city-funded hotel rooms for unhoused residents and in apartment buildings for those with low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that this is a social crisis at the intersection, particularly in San Francisco, of a housing crisis, of a mental health crisis, of people living at the margins of society,” says Dr. Dan Ciccarone, a professor and researcher at University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open-air drug use and dealing in the Tenderloin, an area long challenged by poverty, homelessness and addiction crises, has only worsened during the pandemic. It’s common, day or night, to see people smoking or shooting up opioids or nodding out from drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 32-year-old man named Neil (we’re not using his last name because of the stigma of addiction) says he’s been living on the streets, mainly in the Tenderloin, for three years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he uses fentanyl “to take the edge off” of his depression and chronic stomach pain. He occasionally sells drugs, he says, to get money to support his habit. He soon crushes a small amount of fentanyl into a piece of tinfoil and begins to smoke the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1229px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895055 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing face masks stand outside a white van parked alongside a mural as they look through papers and plastic bags in their hands. It looks like early morning.\" width=\"1229\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1229px) 100vw, 1229px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City public health department nurses Kevin Lagor and Louise Bisby, part of new mobile outreach teams, get supplies out of their SUV to bring to people who have recently survived a drug overdose. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Follow-up work by nurses is full of challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, nurse Lagor has half a dozen clients listed on his clipboard. He can’t find a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’ll just kind of keep following up with the staff at the shelter,” he says in the lobby of one facility, having been unable to find a client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same happens at a makeshift tent encampment behind a local Best Buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside another shelter, Lagor and his team strike out again trying to find a young man they thought they were making progress with. They’d recently written him a prescription for a supply of buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hasn’t been here in a couple of days,” Lagor says, disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a bad sign. Sometimes folks disappear for a couple days and then resurface,” he says. “Then they disappear, or it just falls apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it all falls apart, it can hit Lagor and the rest of his team hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of death and they’re not strangers. You know, we’ve had a couple of deaths this week and we’ve, we shed tears together,” Lagor says. “It’s hard not to care about someone when you’re really trying to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction and public health experts say these mobile, nonpolice teams mark a much-needed pivot for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bold and it’s innovative. I like it,” says Ciccarone, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and a leading expert on drug use, people who use drugs and heroin. “We need to bring in some innovations here because fentanyl is a wild card and it has caught us all by surprise. That’s what we need to do in a crisis situation: Think creatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ciccarone cautions that the ravages of fentanyl and its complex stew of related challenges mean the city needs to scale up this new street overdose response program and continue to try to break down obstacles to treatment that include bureaucratic silos, turf battles and funding woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely not enough,” he says. “We have to make sure that harm reduction is adequately funded, that our mental health system, our substance treatment system, our housing systems are adequately funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, just two months since the program’s launch, 10% of those encountered by the SORT teams who’ve overdosed are now getting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. That includes buprenorphine or suboxone in collaboration with city’s street medicine nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud of that number,” Capt. Mason says, “and I very much look forward to increasing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get that number even higher, the fire department has applied to the state EMS agency to allow paramedics to more easily administer and prescribe those treatment drugs directly in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a recent slight drop in monthly fatalities the city looks to end 2021 with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%2010_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">more than 700 overdose deaths for the second year in a row.\u003c/a> Unfortunately, Kunins, the city’s director of behavioral health services, says San Francisco is “on track to continue this really tragic loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895040 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg\" alt=\"A uniformed man in black pants, black boots, and a white short-sleeved shirt with a red-and-yellow insignia sewn on the sleeve opens the back door of an ambulance parked in the middle of a street.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Department Capt. Michael Mason with the city’s Street Overdose Response Team arrives at the scene of a reported drug overdose in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Paramedics on the team look for small victories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back on the street, another call comes in from the 911 dispatcher for a possible overdose. A middle-aged woman has been found slumped over in a McDonald’s bathroom across town in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Mason’s occasional staccato siren squawks aren’t working on a handful of drivers and pedestrians in heavy rush-hour traffic. So he hits his lights and sirens full bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrive, the woman tells the paramedics she has relapsed after several months of sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heroin she bought, Mason says, was likely laced with fentanyl. Narcan saved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the ambulance, Mason says, the woman handed paramedics a crumpled, greasy brown fast-food bag and asked that they get rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some clean syringes in there and what appeared to be small bags of heroin,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason finds out she was already part of a medication-assisted treatment program using suboxone. He says she told them that she wants to get sober again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was feeling extreme shame from experiencing a relapse,” he says. “Substance use disorder impacts millions of Americans. There’s no shame in having a relapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes she restarts her suboxone treatment quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for today,” Mason says, “and as for surrendering those items and requesting they be disposed of, my hat’s off to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paramedics and nurses involved in this pilot project are dedicated to this difficult work. But all say working across multiple city agencies, treatment centers, health providers and nonprofits can be exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complicated,” Mason says with a sigh, “it takes work from dozens of folks in a single encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does he handle the strain of 12-hour shifts filled racing from overdose to overdose, including to some who seemingly don’t want help and others who don’t survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my own mental health, I have to kind of remain an optimistic warrior,” he says, driving his fire department pickup through rush hour traffic. “There’s a quote in the Talmud that says — I won’t get it exactly right — but essentially says, ‘You don’t have to end this work, but you do have to start it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Starting at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31, Ziad Reslan began walking nearly 40 miles from San Francisco to Mountain View to raise money for LGBTQ+ Afghans and refugees who have been affected by the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a coalition of U.S. troops and their allies airlifting over 100,000 people out of Afghanistan in August, many Afghans who identify as LGBTQ+ were unable to flee and remain in the country fearing persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the bad news we’ve gotten over the last two years, nothing has been harder to hear than what happened in Afghanistan,” Reslan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Asylum-LGBT-Claims-Mar-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2021 report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law\u003c/a>, consensual same-sex conduct is criminalized in as many as 69 countries, and when people are convicted, at least 10 countries still use the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reslan, who grew up in Beirut with a Syrian father and Lebanese mother, came to the U.S. at age 17. As an out gay man, he said he’s been thinking of the LGBTQ+ refugees whose experiences have been much harder, “with so many countries criminalizing their very existence.” His walk he said, is an “ode” to the many miles refugees must cross every day to get to safety. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ziad Reslan, San Francisco resident walking to Mountain View\"]‘We complain about traffic. We complain about staying on 101, but people who don’t have a choice have to run from their country and have to walk many, many, many more miles just to get to safety.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a gay Arab man who grew up in the Middle East, I honestly cannot think of a better place to be out and gay than San Francisco,” Reslan said. For him, it’s this dichotomy that prompted him to bring attention to the many members of the LGBTQ+ community around the world who don’t enjoy the same freedoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many tech workers and Googlers like Reslan, the commute along the peninsula to Mountain View is a familiar journey. “We complain about traffic. We complain about staying on 101, but people who don’t have a choice have to run from their country and have to walk many, many, many more miles just to get to safety,” Reslan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea started just 10 days ago, but already he’s raised over $3,500 through his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/walking-for-lgbtqplus-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> campaign and $22,000 internally through Google matching grants. All proceeds will go to a San Francisco-based organization called \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.rainbow-street.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.rainbow-street.org/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Rainbow Street\u003c/a> that works specifically with LGBTQ+ refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as an organization envision a world where queer people everywhere can live with dignity,” said Alex Sayde, who is on the board of the organization. Rainbow Street partners with activists and care providers in the region to provide immediate and long-term solutions for queer and trans people “experiencing persecution or disenfranchisement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually we work with people who are in crisis or those who face immediate danger,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Rainbow Street doesn’t have staff on the ground in Afghanistan, they have received requests for assistance from those fleeing Afghanistan, Sayde said. And while he noted that there are many organizations focusing on migration assistance and resettlement, one of the reasons Rainbow Street exists is to fill the gap in providing support for those “first steps when a queer person in the region is in crisis,” he said. “Many people will eventually need to speak to a lawyer if they want to migrate, but that first night they may not even know where to find a lawyer.” Sayde will join Reslan for part of the walk. [aside tag=\"refugee, afghanistan\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Reslan’s walk comes in the wake of efforts by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a> to bring attention to the plight of Afghans following the Taliban’s takeover. At the end of October HRC, along with several other human rights organizations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-and-national-advocacy-partners-galvanize-10-000-supporters-urging-biden-harris-administration-to-protect-lgbtqi-afghans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presented the Biden-Harris administration with 10,500 signatures on a petition\u003c/a> urging the adoption of a \u003ca href=\"https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/LGBTQI-Afghan-Refugee-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10-point action\u003c/a> plan on behalf of LGBTQ+ Afghans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first point asks the administration to prioritize the evacuation and resettlement of “vulnerable refugee populations, including LGBTQI people” and ensure that short stays in other countries are temporary by speeding up the refugee process. Thousands of Afghan refugees are \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/22728486/afghanistan-evacuation-us-military-bases-refugee-resettlement-fort-bliss-fort-pickett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still on U.S. military bases\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Climate demonstrators gathered outside the San Francisco headquarters of investment management company BlackRock on Friday, as part of a global day of action demanding financial institutions “\u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund climate chaos\u003c/a>” — end funding of corporations that perpetuate climate destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day of action, which took place in at least 100 cities around the world, was timed ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-change-conference-october-november-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP26\u003c/a>, the United Nations climate conference beginning in Glasgow on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A drawn picture of a fist with a carrot can be seen, and several people paint and do art on the street \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Urban Tilth paint a mural on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank on Our Future\u003c/a> campaign says that stopping the funding of asset managers like BlackRock would help stop the flow of funding for oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 200 kids left school in a climate strike, joined by survivors of wildfires across the state and Indigenous leaders. Eight demonstrators blocked the entrances to BlackRock’s building throughout the day, and two were arrested after hanging a banner saying, “Investments set the world on fire from CA to Amazon #DefundClimateChaos” from the nearby Salesforce Transit Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a march and rally, participants painted a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ash. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Vs. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Solwazi Allah, Richmond resident who works for Urban Tilth\"]‘The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally,” Allah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BlackRock representatives did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many young people decided to take the day to strike, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\">organizers included a school excusal notice on their website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asthma is the most common reason for school absences, and climate change is linked to several well-known asthma triggers, including extreme heat, air pollution, allergies, and mold,” the note reads. “Students around the world are asserting their right to inherit a livable planet, and we stand with them in this fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen-year-old Lizbeth Ibarra, a high school student and organizer with Youth vs. Apocalypse, said, “Investments in the fossil fuel industry are also investments in the destruction of my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loryan Boyette Tindall, a fifth grader at Manzanita SEED Elementary School in Oakland, said he has asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t help when there are smoky days,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyette Tindall came with parent chaperones and classmates to send the message that young people are invested in keeping fossil fuels in the ground. He said he plans to be a climate activist for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in a purple skirt paints with green on a San Francisco street as part of a climate rally\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Hoover paints a mural that says ‘Water Is Life,’ along with the group Idle No More SF Bay, on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many demonstrators took aim at BlackRock, where CEO Larry Fink helms \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/top-three-asset-managers-fossil-fuel-investments\">one of the world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, worth $87 billion\u003c/a>. Fink pushed BlackRock to vote against shareholder resolutions that were pro-climate, according to The Guardian. Other reports say the company has\u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-larry-fink-climate-letter-greenwashing-reclaim-finance-urgewald-070023916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $85 billion invested in coal\u003c/a>. As of 2019, BlackRock also was one of the the largest investors in PG&E.[aside tag=\"climate-change\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By now, it should be no surprise to Larry Fink that we are at the doorsteps of BlackRock here in San Francisco,” said Isabella Zizi of \u003ca href=\"http://www.idlenomoresfbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idle No More SF Bay\u003c/a>, in a press release ahead of the event. “Yet again, we continue to demand he take initiative on climate change and make immediate and needed decisions that are going to ensure a clean and safe future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink has been called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/dealbook/blackrock-shareholder-voting-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the world’s most powerful investor\u003c/a> as well as one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America’s top climate villains\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors of California’s many wildfires made their voices heard at the protest. “How many more disasters must we witness, must our kids witness?” asked Wendy McCall, who said she lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894464\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894464 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands back to camera with a \"youth vs apocalypse\" sign on her back and holding a bullhorn.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people, primarily youth, march through downtown San Francisco in a youth-led protest against fossil fuels on Oct. 29, 2021, as a part of a global day of climate action in advance of COP26, the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allen Myers, who was born and raised in Paradise and who founded an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.regeneratingparadise.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regenerating Paradise\u003c/a> in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, also turned out in support. 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