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Joe Biden to maintain the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is tragically obvious that the American soldiers are in harm’s way … so the sooner they’re out of there, the better,” Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the U.S., the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15 was something many feared in their worst nightmares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just in complete shock and complete despair. I can’t control my emotions,” Nahid Fattahi told KQED through tears, shortly after the Aug. 15 takeover. “My nightmare came true today with the collapse of the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi said she feels let down, especially by the American government and by President Biden. “It was literally a slap on every Afghan’s face. 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Herat is Afghanistan’s third-largest city and her birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely emotional because, for Afghans — we foresaw this,” she added.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mizgon Zahir Darby, freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine\"]‘My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Taliban tightened their grip on her hometown back in the mid-’90s, Fattahi says her parents made the agonizing choice to send her to Canada at the age of 14 to marry a man who promised to provide her a better life and an education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to the U.S., she’s been outspoken about the dangers of the extremist group and the importance of making sure women’s rights are included when negotiating peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We warned the American government about this,” she said through tears. “I and millions of Afghans around the world … we just feel betrayed, let down and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/pres-biden-and-congress-ensure-afghan-women-s-rights-alongside-peace-with-the-taliban?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change.org\u003c/a> petition over two years ago to ensure women’s rights were considered in discussions with the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Taliban cannot be trusted,” she said. “Women will pay a huge price for this, and for generations to come.” But she also said the impact will be felt globally. “I think the world will eventually pay a huge price for this because we are not separate — the world is very much connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward-based Mizgon Zahir Darby, a freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine, echoed Fattahi shortly after the Taliban takeover in saying that there’s a sense of hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women and girls have lost their rights, but in addition, they have lost their humanity,” Darby said. “My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Farhad Yousafzai, who came to Sacramento in 2014 after working for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, he’s worried neighboring countries will help fund proxy armies, which could lead to even more death. He told KQED he’s disappointed and mad. “What was the point of all the death?” he asked, of the many years of instability and war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell — who represents parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and one of the largest Afghan American populations in the Bay Area — said following the Taliban takeover, “right now, the best thing I believe we can do as leaders in the community is to help give comfort and support to families who are looking for answers over in Afghanistan.” He’s also been working to assist those with visa applications already in place. [aside tag=\"afghanistan, afghan\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell said he spoke with the secretaries of state and defense on Aug. 15, and they had pledged to look into ways of streamlining applications. “Of course, we want to honor the interpreters who worked with us on the battlefield through the special immigration visa,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/politics/afghan-interpreters-evacuated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18,000 Afghans have been caught “in bureaucratic limbo”\u003c/a> after applying for special immigrant visas — available to those facing threats as a result of working for the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 25, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maitelsadany/status/1427016158503477249\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee to Protect Journalists\u003c/a> has warned that journalists in Afghanistan face extreme dangers, specifically women who are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrified\u003c/a>” with the Taliban returning to power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The International Women’s Media Foundation offers an \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/emergency-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergency Fund\u003c/a> to assist journalists in distress.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediasupport.org/news/hundreds-of-afghan-media-workers-are-under-threat-support-afghanistans-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AJSC (Afghan Journalists Safety Committee)\u003c/a> provides shelters, safe houses and other support for journalists and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area individuals and organizations are encouraging people to call their congresspeople to provide emergency aid to support fleeing Afghan migrants. Reach out to your representative \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got something to add on how to help in the Bay Area? Let us know by sending an email to lsarah@kqed.org or tagging us on @kqednews.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Aug. 17. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Gabriella Frenes, The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a week after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, Afghan Americans in the Bay Area are feeling the toll. Many are asking elected officials and residents to support those seeking refuge in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have people contacting me just because I’m a lawyer,” Roya Massoumi said. She is an attorney and an Afghan American working on employment discrimination issues. For the past week, she’s barely slept and her phone has been inundated with messages from people attempting to leave Afghanistan. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Muzhdah Aziz, Fremont resident with relatives in Afghanistan\"]‘We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless … They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of sitting at home, she decided to organize a protest in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Afghan Americans and their allies showed up in Fremont on Saturday, demanding that local representatives pressure President Biden to ensure military-led evacuations from the Kabul airport continue beyond the expected Aug. 31 withdrawal date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high: People have told Massoumi, “‘I’m lesbian, I’m gay, I’m a musician, I’ve gotten death threats from the Taliban.’” Some are U.S. citizens, have green cards or qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/siv-iraqi-afghan-translators-interpreters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Immigrant Visa\u003c/a>, while others don’t qualify under the current visa system, yet fear for their lives. Massoumi would like to see a new visa category allowing more people to qualify for a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/5xLsX1IvEwPB9dUw3AuuTa\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Mayor Pro Tempore Aisha Wahab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/file/2021-08-19/first-afghan-american-woman-elected-public-office-us-speaks-afghan-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first Afghan American woman elected to public office in the U.S.\u003c/a>, said people can support by uplifting Afghan voices. “Repost what we’re sharing. Make sure our voice does not die,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also noted that it’s important to support people in the long term. “How are we going to make sure that the Afghans that do come here are still supported, not just dropped off here,” she said. [aside postID=news_11885170]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab believes everyone has a role to play. “It’s literally just being kind, compassionate and asking how you can help,” she said. “Sharing and understanding our pain and making sure that this conversation doesn’t die when the media stops paying attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage with information\u003c/a> on Afghan relief efforts, and residents of Fremont can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\">donate to a relief fund\u003c/a> to support new arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muzhdah Aziz, who lives and works in Fremont, also attended the march and rally to show support for her brother-in-law, who is currently stuck in Afghanistan. Her sister, who is four months pregnant, returned to the Bay Area from Afghanistan a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a long afternoon of marching in the sun, Layla, Ali, Aziza, Lina and Roshan (who did not give their last name) rest together in the shade at Thornton Jr. High in Fremont on Aug. 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has a baby on the way and he’s fighting every day, standing at the airport, getting beaten by the Taliban, just to come here to be with my sister,” she said. “We’re just trying to show our support.” Her parents left Afghanistan 20 years ago. But the stress of watching from afar has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless,” Aziz said. “They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Pak, who works for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a> in Oakland, also attended the march and said it’s important to support community members with loved ones in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to support our Afghan community,” Pak said. She emphasized ensuring protections for women, children and human rights defenders fleeing Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday afternoon, Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee briefly answered questions on the current situation in Afghanistan after an unrelated Berkeley event. “I’m very focused on evacuation, making sure that our diplomats, American citizens, Afghan allies, women and children are protected,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has the distinction of being the only member of Congress who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-08-20/road-to-vindication-for-barbara-lee-the-only-member-of-congress-to-vote-against-afghanistan-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected open-ended authorization\u003c/a> of military force in Afghanistan in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel almost the same way I felt 20 years ago, worried in many ways [and] sad from what I see taking place, but also recognizing that my job right now is to make sure that we save lives and get people out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Friday, U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell held a press conference moderated by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HarrisBknowin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris Mojadedi,\u003c/a> who has been working with the Afghan Coalition in the Bay Area to share information on what’s happening and advocate for Afghan Americans’ relatives abroad.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Swalwell said that as of Thursday approximately 6,000 U.S. military personnel were at the airport to provide peacekeeping and safe passage for Americans and that, as of Thursday evening, there were approximately 4,000 to 5,000 people inside the airport waiting for their flights to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday morning, a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s airport killed seven Afghan civilians, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/22/british-military-7-afghans-killed-chaos-kabul-airport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British military reported\u003c/a>, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military is considering “creative ways” to get Americans and others into the airport for evacuation from Afghanistan amid “acute” security threats, Biden administration officials said, and the Pentagon on Sunday ordered six U.S. commercial airlines to help move evacuees from temporary sites outside of Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1429505174733721605\">23 U.S. military flights\u003c/a> have evacuated around 3,900 people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/22/1030127858/biden-address-to-nation-tropical-storm-henri-afghanistan-evacuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This brings the total evacuations to over 25,000\u003c/a> since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people come here,” Swalwell said, “I think that’s where we can show the best of our community to people who are going through the worst experience of their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Additional resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some attendees of the Fremont march and rally recommend contacting Congress with specific policy recommendations through \u003ca href=\"https://mobilize4change.org/PKOgZbZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobilize4Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell recommends that those who have already filed paperwork reach out to his office at CA15afghancases@mail.house.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those wishing to bring a relative to the United States, information can be found on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/i-130\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara and Beth LaBerge contributed to this report. 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But the stress of watching from afar has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless,” Aziz said. “They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Pak, who works for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a> in Oakland, also attended the march and said it’s important to support community members with loved ones in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to support our Afghan community,” Pak said. 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She also suggested the FBI should investigate her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also voted for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884772/horrific-incidents-in-jails-prompt-santa-clara-county-supervisors-call-for-investigations-of-sheriff\">public release of information related to the case of Andrew Hogan\u003c/a>, a man with schizoaffective disorder who in 2018 suffered a traumatic brain injury in sheriff’s custody. The county settled a legal claim in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21041082-2020-0316-hogan-andrew-settlement-agreement\">for over $10 million last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21041080-2021-08-17-public-safety-and-justice-referral\">legislative referral passed on Tuesday\u003c/a>, supervisors question the “appearance of impropriety” in the aftermath of Hogan’s injuries. It notes the promotion of former sheriff’s Captain Amy Le three months after she was present at the Hogan incident. She was also president of the correctional officers union at the time, which raised over $300,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703698/incumbent-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-takes-big-lead-in-early-returns\">Smith’s 2018 reelection campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Joe Simitian criticized a lack of transparency in that and other cases, calling for “a fuller understanding of what is and isn’t happening, what consequences there have or have not been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the sheriff’s office has stonewalled the county’s relatively new oversight office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Otto Lee, Santa Clara County Supervisor\"]‘Change is long overdue. 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Liccardo said that alone should raise red flags to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That should disqualify anyone from serving in any law enforcement capacity, let alone the highest ranking,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she does not plan to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or to quote a general, ‘Nuts,’” she said. “There’s a lot still to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith defended her refusal to testify before the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my right, and I’m glad that I did it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that probe undersheriff Rick Sung and Captain James Jensen were indicted, as were others outside the sheriff’s office. Smith has not been charged in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, Smith defended jail reforms instituted under a pair of court-ordered consent decrees and in the aftermath of the 2015 murder of Michael Tyree in a jail cell by three sheriff’s officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11777176,news_11285099,news_10875665\" Label=\"Santa Clara County Jails\" target=\"blank\"]“We have made meaningful change,” she said, citing millions of dollars spent to upgrade facilities, decreased use of solitary confinement and an updated use-of-force policy. She said construction of a new jail, as well as more staffing, is needed to better care for people with mental illness who are arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Paula Canny, who represents Andrew Hogan and his parents, joined the sheriff at the press conference to caution against the immediate release of video from the case. 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That order will expire on Sept. 3 at 5 p.m., after which the board of trustees (which governs the college) would be able to proceed with a vote on the merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, the Alameda County Superior Court has intervened and ruled in favor of truth and transparency about the future of Mills College, which otherwise would continue moving forward with a merger that’s been shrouded in secrecy,” said Alexa Pagonas, vice president of the Alumnae Association of Mills College (AAMC) Board of Governors in a press release. “I’m thankful the Court realized the important and historic nature of this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release late Monday, Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman said the school would provide the financial records per Judge Pulido’s decision, and called “the continued pursuit” of a merger with Northeastern “vital to advancing the mission of Mills and to ensuring opportunities for our students, our faculty and staff, our alumnae and the broader Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Access to financial documents\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in March, Hillman said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865408/mills-college-to-stop-offering-degrees-cites-low-enrollment-financial-woes\">in a letter\u003c/a> that the college would cease to be a degree-granting institution in 2023, citing “the economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, structural changes across higher education, and Mills’ declining enrollment and budget deficits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later — after Hillman announced that Mills would \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/announcement/index.php\">seek a merger with the Boston-based Northeastern University\u003c/a> — some alumnae members of the board of trustees filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court to get more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They allege, in court documents, that the college is denying them access to crucial financial documents that are essential in exercising their “fiduciary duties” to Mills. And that there should be a review of that information before any merger is considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the college was originally willing to allow the plaintiff and AAMC President Nakka-Cammauf to review the documents, it was only under very limited circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Judge Stephen Pulido\"]‘I’ll tell you right now, to tell a trustee that they’ve got to go alone into some room and review [these documents] without assistance from a professional … That’s not going to work.’[/pullquote]“The [AAMC] president was told she could basically sit in a room by herself with a ton of documents, thousands and thousands of pages printed out, but not make any copies and not discuss them with a lawyer or accountant,” Pagonas told KQED. “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is aimed at allowing Nakka-Cammauf to review the documents in the presence of an expert. 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So talking about new suitors seems to assume that there’s a \u003cem>reason\u003c/em> we need to talk about new suitors,” Pagonas said. “My analogy to that is somebody asking me, you know, where in Los Angeles I would like to buy a house when I sell mine? I haven’t decided to sell my house. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Perigo\"]'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'[/pullquote]Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"sexual-assault, domestic-violence\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bay’s How-To newsletter series (\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform\">sign up here\u003c/a>) is an extension of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bythepeople\">By The People\u003c/a> episodes that looks into how democracy functions in the spaces around us – and where, exactly, each of us can plug in. These features include changemakers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guide with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"A horizontal banner that on one end says, 'How to use digital spaces for advocacy.' In the middle, there is a circle with the image of three people inside looking at the camera. On the right side, there is more text that says, '18 million rising. For 18MR the Internet is a place where community comes together to create culture, collaborate and build power.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner.jpg 1282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-800x199.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-1020x254.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-160x40.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer of 2020 has been given many names, including the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/summer-digital-protest-how-2020-became-summer-activism-both-online-n1241001\">summer of digital protest\u003c/a>.” The pandemic forced people to connect with one another through online mediums, and as a result, social movements and protests unfolded in real time. The shift to digital and online interactions also changed how people learned about social justice issues and helped determine the ways they chose to get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Twitter users raised millions of dollars for the \u003ca href=\"https://mnfreedomfund.org/\">Minnesota Freedom Fund\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://brooklynbailfund.org/\">Brooklyn Community Bail Fund\u003c/a> for people participating in George Floyd protests. Black creators on TikTok called out the platform for \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/\">removing, muting or hiding content\u003c/a> related to Black Lives Matter. And K-pop TikTok users \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html\">registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets\u003c/a> for Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a prank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the internet has become a way to show up, especially when being outside is not an option. “The internet is a place, and the internet has neighborhoods,” said Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, Director of Design & Product at \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/\">18 Million Rising\u003c/a> (18MR).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18MR is a digital-first Asian American advocacy organization that has used online spaces as a place for community, campaigning, and making change. The organization was founded in 2012, and the name “18 Million Rising” was inspired by the number of Asian Americans living in the U.S. at the time. Since then, Asian Americans continue to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/09/asian-americans-are-the-fastest-growing-racial-or-ethnic-group-in-the-u-s/\">one of the fastest growing racial groups\u003c/a> in the country, but 18MR leaders say, are consistently politically underrepresented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal image that one one side features screen grabs of the zines 18MR have worked on, including 'Call on Me, Not the Cops,' and on the right side, three people are featured. Two of them have short hair and one has long hair. All are wearing dark or light blue colors. They are all looking at the camera.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's actually really difficult to organize Asian Americans on a national scale,” said Laura Li, Campaign Manager for 18MR. “We're just scattered all over the place, aside from a few major hubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18MR’s ongoing work in racial justice activism and movement technologies spans across digital content and cultural production. They organize actions, campaigns, technology for social justice, and even zines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unmasking Yellow Peril” and “Call On Me, Not the Cops” \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2021/02/zinefundraiser.html\">are two zines\u003c/a> created by the organization in response and in collaboration with their community needs — addressing anti-Asian racism and educating family members about prison abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just 40 zines, 18MR managed to raise over $350, which was given back to communities in the Bay Area and Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal image showing some of the zines that members of 18MR have produced, including 'Unmasking Yellow Peril,'\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Zine is shorthand for “magazine” but they are much more than a shorter version of the publication. Zines have historically been published as pamphlets, hand-sewn books or even photocopies, while magazines are usually published by a company or group. Usually, zines are often self-published by individuals or small collectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, zines have taken on a new digital form with publishing websites like \u003ca href=\"https://issuu.com/segments/issuu/zines\">Issuu\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://gumroad.com/\">Gumroad\u003c/a> or smaller publications like \u003ca href=\"https://www.lanehahouse.com/\">Laneha House\u003c/a>. Their purpose and creative expression carries on and led to a zine boom in the 1970’s with the rise of punk rock music. Today, zines are created by creatives like the poet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yesikastarr/status/1334388440440295425\">Yesika Salgado\u003c/a>, cartoonist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/breenache/\">Breena Nuñez\u003c/a>, and youth activists from \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/unquiet/\">March For Our Lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three 18MR staff were essential to the zine’s creations: Nozaki-Nasser, Li, and Turner Willman, social media organizer. They each contributed their digital expertise and personal inspirations to craft the zines, collaborations, and it’s ultimate success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In an effort to understand more about what exactly it means to be a digital organizer, KQED spoke with the 18MR team.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>1. Repeat After Me: Digital Organizing Is Community Organizing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Organizing and advocacy are usually thought of as in-person actions, such as protest, petitions, boycotts or door-knocking, but bringing people together for a shared cause across distances can take many forms. For 18MR, whose membership spans over 120,000 people across the country, their zine project allowed them to reach more people through collaboration and to connect online conversations with historical context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, Director of Design & Product, 18MR\"]'A lot of times digital versus field is pitted against each other, but we see it in relationship with one another.'[/pullquote]“When we’re thinking about a field organizer their goal might be, ‘OK, I’m going door to door in this neighborhood,’” Nozaki-Nasser said. “A lot of times digital versus field is pitted against each other, but we see it in relationship with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field organizers contemplate what action best supports their goals which can vary from town halls, protests, sit-ins or strikes. So how does 18MR do it for their online community? Through what inspires them and their own experiences. For example, Willman, the social media organizer, was first introduced to zines through listening to punk music and observing how subcultures were able to self-publish and tell their own narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 18MR, one of our goals is to create new narratives about who Asian Americans are, and counter the harmful narratives,” Willman said. “In that spirit we looked at zines as helping create the representation that we're not seeing elsewhere.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Build Together\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t feel pressure to be creative all on your own. If you want to support a cause or contribute to a conversation, reach out to those who moved you to care in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 18MR, attending a livestream community town hall aimed at addressing anti-Asian violence planted the seeds for their zines “\u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2021/02/zinefundraiser.html\">Unmasking Yellow Peril\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2021/02/zinefundraiser.html\">Call On Me, Not the Cops\u003c/a>.” This was back in March of 2020, at the start of the pandemic, when the anti-Asian narratives that continue today were just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, 18MR saw discussions and definitions about \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2020/04/unmasking_yp.html\">Yellow Peril\u003c/a> but they wanted to connect it to the present — to the news headlines and experiences of the Asian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/21-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/21-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/21-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/21-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/21-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the event, University of Connecticut’s Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies \u003ca href=\"https://history.uconn.edu/faculty-by-name/chang-jason-oliver/\">Jason Oliver Chang\u003c/a> was a guest. He was able to ground the audience in a deep historical analysis of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia, which Willman said, felt empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18MR partnered with Professor Chang and in four days, they wrote and designed the zine, and the accompanying social media posts to create “\u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2020/04/unmasking_yp.html\">Unmasking Yellow Peril\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2021/02/zinefundraiser.html\">Call On Me, Not the Cops\u003c/a>”, Willman says, is “A letter to our families who may not even speak English at all, who don't necessarily have a political analysis around race or the police.” The zine is available in 13 languages, and focuses on politicizing family members about prison abolition and Asian Americans' relationship to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B_54GOagyID/\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Treat Creatives & Community Organizers As Political Strategists\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bring in your community members early on. It's a chance to foster creativity rooted in the community, and offers a chance to pay it forward. For 18MR, this intention manifested in their mutual aid support of the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedla.org/about-us.html\">Chinatown Community for Equitable Development in Los Angeles\u003c/a> (CCEDLA), whose small business owners have been heavily affected by widespread housing displacement and a drop in business due to racist tropes in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11881651\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/alexlee_horizontal-copy-1020x574.jpg\"]18MR asked the community how they could help with mutual aid efforts. CCEDLA supports seniors with limited English proficiency, so 18MR decided that it would print and sell English-only zines, with all proceeds going to CCEDLA and their meal-delivery program for Chinatown elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, they said if you are an artist, know that you belong at the strategizing table. Although you may be approached at the later stages of a campaign or project, don’t be afraid to ask to get in much earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have line item budgets all the time for printing, for ad space, or paying the engineer,” Nozaki-Nasser said. But, she says creatives sometimes aren’t paid or are only being asked to create visual assets without being part of the conversation on strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li and Nozaki-Nasser actually put together a workshop (and zine) on media based organizing to learn and share best practices and how to integrate creatives into movements. \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/MBO_ZINE/\">Check them out here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Whatever Your Medium, Shift the Culture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='labor-unions']Since we’re talking about the internet, we can’t ignore the digital divide. If you’re considering online advocacy, there are free programs you can use for your work. For example, 18MR suggested \u003ca href=\"https://www.audacityteam.org/\">Audacity\u003c/a> for audio editing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.canva.com/\">Canva\u003c/a> for graphics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on what your goal is, it also informs which social media platform you should use. “Some people think Facebook is dead, but that's not true,” Nozaki-Nasser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's just that there are different demographics on Instagram versus Facebook versus our newsletter that have come from direct actions or work with other partners. So even though we have a huge membership, we are aware that every platform has a different audience on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perk of existing online means to a certain extent, you can see how far and wide your work has impacted others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 18MR team they were able to see their zines mentioned on podcasts, listed on websites, mentioned in interviews, appear in university write-ups and training curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Internet is a scary place because of surveillance,” Nozaki-Nasser said. “But also the fact that we can see how far it's gone and where it continues to live is like, wow!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-42-1.png\" alt=\"A graph with four parts, titled, 'Tips on Using Tech and Digital Spaces for Advocacy.' The first section says, 'Digital Organizing is Community Organizing: We need all of our imaginations to create the world we know is possible.' The second says, 'Build Together: Reach out to people who move you and stay rooted in community.' The third says, 'Treat Creatives and Community Organizers as Political Strategists: Pay them and pay it forward.' The fourth says, 'Whatever Your Medium, Shift the Culture: Let your goals guide you and take advantage of free programs.'\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-42-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-42-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-42-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-42-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Isabeth Mendoza is the engagement producer for The Bay, a podcast that explores local news every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We launched a newsletter and episode series called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bythepeople\">By The People\u003c/a> shortly after the U.S. Election Day in 2020. The purpose of the series was to look into how democracy functions in the spaces around us and by extension, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform'\">the newsletter\u003c/a> continued the conversation focusing on how to plug in. We looked at how to run for office, how to use digital spaces for advocacy and how to get a measure on a ballot. If any of these spark your curiosity, keep reading because we break it down for you in simple how-to guides.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bay’s How-To newsletter series (\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform\">sign up here\u003c/a>) is an extension of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bythepeople\">By The People\u003c/a> episodes that looks into how democracy functions in the spaces around us – and where, exactly, each of us can plug in. These features include changemakers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guide with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"A horizontal banner that on one end says, 'How to use digital spaces for advocacy.' In the middle, there is a circle with the image of three people inside looking at the camera. On the right side, there is more text that says, '18 million rising. For 18MR the Internet is a place where community comes together to create culture, collaborate and build power.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner.jpg 1282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-800x199.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-1020x254.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/18MR-Banner-160x40.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer of 2020 has been given many names, including the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/summer-digital-protest-how-2020-became-summer-activism-both-online-n1241001\">summer of digital protest\u003c/a>.” The pandemic forced people to connect with one another through online mediums, and as a result, social movements and protests unfolded in real time. The shift to digital and online interactions also changed how people learned about social justice issues and helped determine the ways they chose to get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Twitter users raised millions of dollars for the \u003ca href=\"https://mnfreedomfund.org/\">Minnesota Freedom Fund\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://brooklynbailfund.org/\">Brooklyn Community Bail Fund\u003c/a> for people participating in George Floyd protests. Black creators on TikTok called out the platform for \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/\">removing, muting or hiding content\u003c/a> related to Black Lives Matter. And K-pop TikTok users \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html\">registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets\u003c/a> for Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a prank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the internet has become a way to show up, especially when being outside is not an option. “The internet is a place, and the internet has neighborhoods,” said Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, Director of Design & Product at \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/\">18 Million Rising\u003c/a> (18MR).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18MR is a digital-first Asian American advocacy organization that has used online spaces as a place for community, campaigning, and making change. The organization was founded in 2012, and the name “18 Million Rising” was inspired by the number of Asian Americans living in the U.S. at the time. Since then, Asian Americans continue to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/09/asian-americans-are-the-fastest-growing-racial-or-ethnic-group-in-the-u-s/\">one of the fastest growing racial groups\u003c/a> in the country, but 18MR leaders say, are consistently politically underrepresented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal image that one one side features screen grabs of the zines 18MR have worked on, including 'Call on Me, Not the Cops,' and on the right side, three people are featured. Two of them have short hair and one has long hair. All are wearing dark or light blue colors. They are all looking at the camera.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-43-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's actually really difficult to organize Asian Americans on a national scale,” said Laura Li, Campaign Manager for 18MR. “We're just scattered all over the place, aside from a few major hubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18MR’s ongoing work in racial justice activism and movement technologies spans across digital content and cultural production. They organize actions, campaigns, technology for social justice, and even zines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unmasking Yellow Peril” and “Call On Me, Not the Cops” \u003ca href=\"https://18millionrising.org/2021/02/zinefundraiser.html\">are two zines\u003c/a> created by the organization in response and in collaboration with their community needs — addressing anti-Asian racism and educating family members about prison abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just 40 zines, 18MR managed to raise over $350, which was given back to communities in the Bay Area and Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11883298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal image showing some of the zines that members of 18MR have produced, including 'Unmasking Yellow Peril,'\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/20-1-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Zine is shorthand for “magazine” but they are much more than a shorter version of the publication. 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Repeat After Me: Digital Organizing Is Community Organizing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Organizing and advocacy are usually thought of as in-person actions, such as protest, petitions, boycotts or door-knocking, but bringing people together for a shared cause across distances can take many forms. For 18MR, whose membership spans over 120,000 people across the country, their zine project allowed them to reach more people through collaboration and to connect online conversations with historical context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Luis Grijalva — the first known DACA recipient to qualify for the Olympics — headed to Tokyo Friday to compete in next week's 5,000 meter-race, representing Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this time last week, the \u003ca href=\"https://nauathletics.com/sports/cross-country/roster/luis-grijalva/4953\">Northern Arizona University track star\u003c/a> wasn’t sure if U.S. immigration authorities would grant him permission to travel, despite qualifying for the race last month at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, where \u003ca href=\"https://nauathletics.com/news/2021/6/11/track-field-grijalva-grabs-second-garners-first-team-all-american-honors-in-ncaa-mens-5k.aspx\">he ran\u003c/a> an impressive 13:13.14. Only on Monday was Grijalva granted emergency permission to leave the country, after showing up in person with his attorney at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Luis Grijalva, student at Northern Arizona University\"]'My advice to people who are in similar situations as I am, is to keep believing. Keep fighting, because even though it might seem like a big step forward ... keep working hard and believing in yourself.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to represent Guatemala and where I was born and started — and to represent my family and generations of families born in Guatemala is pretty awesome,” said Grijalva, who came to the United States with his family when he was still a baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grijalva lived in New York before moving to Fairfield, California at age three. He has fond memories of running throughout the Bay Area as a member of the track team at Armijo High School, and has dreamed of competing in the Olympics ever since joining the team his freshman year, in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palo Alto, Stanford, Cal Berkeley — all these different places as a high schooler. It’s awesome, just thinking about it,” Grijalva told KQED this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the Bay Area was “pretty special,” he said. Currently a senior at Northern Arizona University, he plans to eventually move back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dilemma: As a DACA recipient, Grijalva would technically be considered as self-deporting if he were to leave the U.S. without a special permit, and would likely not be allowed to come back. But the process of obtaining the necessary permissions, known as advance parole, can take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Grijalva’s situation was first reported last week by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2021/07/23/why-luis-grijalva-may-not-make-olympics-despite-qualifying/8065828002/\">Visalia Times Delta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11882831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/gettyimages-1316117823-9785a1244672d5f43cda9117af525aa5bf6a225e-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Grijalva of the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks finishes in ninth place during the Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships held at the OSU Cross Country Course on March 15, 2021 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Smith Bobadilla, Grijalva’s Fresno-based attorney, helped make his Olympic trip possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobadilla, who has been representing immigrants and refugees for over 20 years, said Grijalva came to her for help in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We quickly filed as soon as we had the paperwork from his coaches and from the delegation,” she said, noting the emergency process they needed to go through to expedite his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they hadn’t heard anything by late June, Bobadilla decided she needed to do everything she could to push his application forward. 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"content": "\u003cp>In Daly City, looking down a block of manicured lawns and “cookie cutter houses,” it’s easy to feel like you’re in the heart of suburbia. That’s why listener Nick Crescenzi was surprised when a few years ago he read that Daly City is one of the densest cities in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick, who works for the city’s parks and recreation department, wanted to know how this suburb, with its malls, cineplex and drive-through restaurants came to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1142.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rank alongside places like Boston, Chicago and, yes, San Francisco\u003c/a>, in terms of the number of residents per square mile. According to a 2015 analysis of U.S. cities with populations over 100,000 people, Daly City is the 6th most densely populated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer leads to a history unknown to many who haven’t lived it, or to those who mistakenly choose to brush Daly City off like a B-side of a chart-topping single. And perhaps most importantly, the history shines light on some of America’s cruelest policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smaller Lots but Lots of Them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daly City came to be densely populated for four main reasons, says Tatum Mothershead, director of economic and community development for Daly City: A relatively high percentage of land in Daly City is used for housing; on average, families in Daly City have more people in them than families in other places; the average lot size in Daly City is small; and lastly, the architecture of the homes that were built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of land used in Daly City for residential purposes is apparent to anyone who has driven through the city. If you’re driving on the freeway or staring out a BART window, hill after hill reveals itself, each one dotted with lines of houses, like cars on an endless train. Those rows of houses are said to have inspired Malvina Reynolds’ anti-conformity song, “Little Boxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average lot size for a house in Daly City is well below that in the rest of San Mateo County. If you drive down Mission Street, through the neighborhood that long-time residents call “Top of the Hill” and take a left on any of the side streets, many of the houses you’ll see are either connected or within an arm’s length of one another. Most of those residences were built before World War II, and on lots around 2,500 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when Daly City expanded in the the post-World War II housing boom, Daly City’s parcel size stayed small, in large part because of the success of a housing developer named Henry Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For decades, a homeowners association enforced limits on the type of exterior changes that could be made to houses in Westlake, including what kind of trees could be planted. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Henry Ford of Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Daly City owes \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/DUiay1VPHUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its founding to John Daly\u003c/a>, it owes its expansion to Henry Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Henry Doelger was a very smart man and he could see the World War II housing boom coming,” says Rob Keil, author of the book “Little Boxes: The Architecture of a Classic Midcentury Suburb,” which was also made into a movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger built a lot of military housing — very quickly — in the Bay Area during World War II. He also built about 11,000 homes in San Francisco, largely in the Sunset and Richmond districts. There’s even a section deemed Doelger City, and Herb Caen, the former San Francisco Chronicle columnist, jokingly called the city’s western coast line “the white cliffs of Doelger.” But land in San Francisco was starting to be in short supply and Doelger was able to secure 1,350 acres of land just to the south of the city for a good price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/nsPO8-CXpM0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Doelger aimed to build Westlake, a city unto itself, that would be affordable for first-time homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From an economic standpoint, you obviously want to build as many homes on a piece of land as you can because you make money by selling homes,” says Keil. “However, he had to give people a reason to leave [San Francisco.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reason for many customers was a yard and the opportunity to own a stand-alone house that didn’t share walls with the neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-160x85.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Westlake while under construction, near the intersection of Higate Drive and Southdale Avenue. The undeveloped area would become Westmoor High School. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp25.6643)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Westlake, Doelger gave people \u003cem>juuust\u003c/em> enough room for a lawn and a bit of privacy. But not much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lotting size attributed to the homes that Doelger built … was 3,300 square feet, which is still significantly smaller than what we’re seeing in other communities down the peninsula,” says Mothershead. The tendency toward smaller parcels was continued by developers like the Gellert Brothers who began building in Daly City after Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As decades passed and Bay Area wealth grew, houses and their yards did, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty typical that some of our neighboring communities have lots that are 5,000 square feet or greater,” Mothershead said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 40% of Daly City’s housing stock was built before 1950, before a super-sized McMansion was even something one might aspire to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in Daly City’s Westlake neighborhood. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The nickname “The Henry Ford of Housing” was given to Doelger because he created so many ways to streamline the building process, saving himself time and money. Those innovations, coupled with the small houses and yards, allowed Doelger to make high-quality houses that first-time buyers could afford … but that still made him a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger’s innovations ran the gamut, from process to plumbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting for trucks to be fixed could stall operations, so Doelger included a car repair shop in his operations. He built with redwood, but to keep costs down, he put his own lumber mill on what is now John Daly Boulevard. That mill would cut wood into pre-labeled components that were delivered straight to the worksites, where workers could start framing houses right away. Doelger even manufactured his own windows and doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-800x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1536x899.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-2048x1198.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1920x1124.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today The Boulevard Cafe sits on the location where Henry Doelger built a former lumber yard to help streamline the construction of the Westlake subdivision. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The quest for efficiency carried into the floor plans that Doelger created. He was one of the first West Coast developers to use sheetrock, and because sheetrock came in 8-foot pieces, Doelger rarely incorporated ceilings that were taller than 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bathrooms shared walls with kitchens to centralize a house’s plumbing, a big cost cutter, says Keil. And the houses were “designed in such a way that they were easy to build.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those easy-to-build floor plans often put all of the living space upstairs while the downstairs remained open as a basement or a garage. That design, in turn, contributes to how Daly City became so densely populated (and to the city’s propensity for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812554/how-daly-citys-filipino-mobile-dj-scene-changed-hip-hop-forever\">garage parties\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, people were finding that they could add habitable space at the ground floor level and they could do it for a very low cost,” says Mothershead. “You can drive by a modest-looking house in Daly City and, you know, it probably doesn’t look any different than a home you might see somewhere else that’s three bedrooms, two baths, but [in Daly City] you could easily have six bedrooms in that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s space that families can use for bedrooms as they grow, or rent out for supplemental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A City Within a City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doelger’s vision for Westlake was much grander than what he had built before; he imagined a city within a city, and in many ways delivered on that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a bank, there was a post office, there were grocery stores,” says Keil. “All the stuff was planned in advance so that the people who moved in right from the beginning had access to these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger planned for parks and schools, and an outdoor shopping mall, a novelty at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you lived out there, you were not in no man’s land,” says Keil. “You could go out and buy things you needed and not have to travel into San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Daly City was getting noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ladies’ Home Journal magazine put it on its list of Top Ten Suburbs in America in 1975. Its schools were designed by architect Mario Ciampi and were featured in LIFE magazine. Community gatherings were held at the mall. Though many architects derided Doelger’s designs, his attention to detail shone through — and still does — when one walks through Westlake. The corner windows, slanted roofs, detailed facades — buyers loved it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>White\u003c/em> buyers that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Westlake entry sign near Eastgate Drive and John Daly Boulevard. Black, Indigenous and other people of color were banned from owning houses in Westlake, as in most suburbs built during the post-World War II housing boom. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Discrimination by Law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The federal government required Doelger not only to refuse to sell homes to African Americans, but to put a clause in every deed that prohibited the owner from reselling to African Americans or renting to African Americans,” said Richard Rothstein, author of “The Color of Law,” on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101866675/from-historical-redlining-to-modern-day-discrimination-how-race-affects-homeownership\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” is devoted to housing policy, with post-war housing developments like New York’s Levittown and Daly City’s Westlake serving as Rothstein’s evidence that federal policy — not personal preference or economic differences — is largely what segregated America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothstein focuses on African Americans in his book, because in a lot of places, that’s who racial covenants and deeds specified. But in Daly City, and across the Bay Area, it wasn’t just African Americans who were excluded — it was anyone who couldn’t pass as white. That included Filipinos — who make up about 30% of Daly City’s current population — as well as Latinos and Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way someone like Doelger could have gotten the capital to build that subdivision was by going to the federal government and getting a guarantee loan,” said Rothstein. And that was true for almost any developer who wanted to build on a large scale at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “The Color of Law,” Rothstein discusses two attempts to build integrated housing developments in the Bay Area, one by the writer Wallace Stegner and the other by a local union. Both failed, Rothstein writes, as just about all attempts to build integrated housing did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than architect and developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635574/how-joseph-eichler-introduced-stylish-housing-for-the-masses\">Joseph Eichler (the subject of another Bay Curious episode\u003c/a>), Keil doesn’t know of a housing developer who would sell to buyers of color. He adds that discrimination was so prevalent that even Willie Mays, the beloved Say Hey Kid, was barred from buying a house in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racist policies not only kept families of color out of suburban neighborhoods like Westlake, they blocked families of color from one of the most consistent ways to build wealth in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daly City is said to have inspired the singer Malvina Reynolds to write “Little Boxes.” \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rothstein notes that white families that bought homes in the mid-20th century used their equity and earnings to great advantage: “They used it to send their children to college. They use that to take care of emergencies and they use it to bequeath it to their children, who [use it for] down payments for their own homes. African Americans were explicitly denied those opportunities by federal government, not by banks, but by federal government in the mid-20th century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, in 1968, the Fair Housing Act outlawed denying housing to someone based on their race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week on the Bay Curious podcast, we’ll look into how Daly City went from a predominantly whites-only population, to having a thriving Filipino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In Daly City, looking down a block of manicured lawns and “cookie cutter houses,” it’s easy to feel like you’re in the heart of suburbia. That’s why listener Nick Crescenzi was surprised when a few years ago he read that Daly City is one of the densest cities in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick, who works for the city’s parks and recreation department, wanted to know how this suburb, with its malls, cineplex and drive-through restaurants came to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1142.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rank alongside places like Boston, Chicago and, yes, San Francisco\u003c/a>, in terms of the number of residents per square mile. According to a 2015 analysis of U.S. cities with populations over 100,000 people, Daly City is the 6th most densely populated.\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>The answer leads to a history unknown to many who haven’t lived it, or to those who mistakenly choose to brush Daly City off like a B-side of a chart-topping single. And perhaps most importantly, the history shines light on some of America’s cruelest policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smaller Lots but Lots of Them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daly City came to be densely populated for four main reasons, says Tatum Mothershead, director of economic and community development for Daly City: A relatively high percentage of land in Daly City is used for housing; on average, families in Daly City have more people in them than families in other places; the average lot size in Daly City is small; and lastly, the architecture of the homes that were built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of land used in Daly City for residential purposes is apparent to anyone who has driven through the city. If you’re driving on the freeway or staring out a BART window, hill after hill reveals itself, each one dotted with lines of houses, like cars on an endless train. Those rows of houses are said to have inspired Malvina Reynolds’ anti-conformity song, “Little Boxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average lot size for a house in Daly City is well below that in the rest of San Mateo County. If you drive down Mission Street, through the neighborhood that long-time residents call “Top of the Hill” and take a left on any of the side streets, many of the houses you’ll see are either connected or within an arm’s length of one another. Most of those residences were built before World War II, and on lots around 2,500 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when Daly City expanded in the the post-World War II housing boom, Daly City’s parcel size stayed small, in large part because of the success of a housing developer named Henry Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0333-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For decades, a homeowners association enforced limits on the type of exterior changes that could be made to houses in Westlake, including what kind of trees could be planted. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Henry Ford of Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Daly City owes \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/DUiay1VPHUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its founding to John Daly\u003c/a>, it owes its expansion to Henry Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Henry Doelger was a very smart man and he could see the World War II housing boom coming,” says Rob Keil, author of the book “Little Boxes: The Architecture of a Classic Midcentury Suburb,” which was also made into a movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger built a lot of military housing — very quickly — in the Bay Area during World War II. He also built about 11,000 homes in San Francisco, largely in the Sunset and Richmond districts. There’s even a section deemed Doelger City, and Herb Caen, the former San Francisco Chronicle columnist, jokingly called the city’s western coast line “the white cliffs of Doelger.” But land in San Francisco was starting to be in short supply and Doelger was able to secure 1,350 acres of land just to the south of the city for a good price.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nsPO8-CXpM0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nsPO8-CXpM0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There, Doelger aimed to build Westlake, a city unto itself, that would be affordable for first-time homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From an economic standpoint, you obviously want to build as many homes on a piece of land as you can because you make money by selling homes,” says Keil. “However, he had to give people a reason to leave [San Francisco.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reason for many customers was a yard and the opportunity to own a stand-alone house that didn’t share walls with the neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction-160x85.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/WestlakeConstruction.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Westlake while under construction, near the intersection of Higate Drive and Southdale Avenue. The undeveloped area would become Westmoor High School. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp25.6643)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Westlake, Doelger gave people \u003cem>juuust\u003c/em> enough room for a lawn and a bit of privacy. But not much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lotting size attributed to the homes that Doelger built … was 3,300 square feet, which is still significantly smaller than what we’re seeing in other communities down the peninsula,” says Mothershead. The tendency toward smaller parcels was continued by developers like the Gellert Brothers who began building in Daly City after Doelger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As decades passed and Bay Area wealth grew, houses and their yards did, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty typical that some of our neighboring communities have lots that are 5,000 square feet or greater,” Mothershead said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 40% of Daly City’s housing stock was built before 1950, before a super-sized McMansion was even something one might aspire to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0427-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in Daly City’s Westlake neighborhood. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The nickname “The Henry Ford of Housing” was given to Doelger because he created so many ways to streamline the building process, saving himself time and money. Those innovations, coupled with the small houses and yards, allowed Doelger to make high-quality houses that first-time buyers could afford … but that still made him a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger’s innovations ran the gamut, from process to plumbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting for trucks to be fixed could stall operations, so Doelger included a car repair shop in his operations. He built with redwood, but to keep costs down, he put his own lumber mill on what is now John Daly Boulevard. That mill would cut wood into pre-labeled components that were delivered straight to the worksites, where workers could start framing houses right away. Doelger even manufactured his own windows and doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-800x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1536x899.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-2048x1198.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0431-1920x1124.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today The Boulevard Cafe sits on the location where Henry Doelger built a former lumber yard to help streamline the construction of the Westlake subdivision. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The quest for efficiency carried into the floor plans that Doelger created. He was one of the first West Coast developers to use sheetrock, and because sheetrock came in 8-foot pieces, Doelger rarely incorporated ceilings that were taller than 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bathrooms shared walls with kitchens to centralize a house’s plumbing, a big cost cutter, says Keil. And the houses were “designed in such a way that they were easy to build.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those easy-to-build floor plans often put all of the living space upstairs while the downstairs remained open as a basement or a garage. That design, in turn, contributes to how Daly City became so densely populated (and to the city’s propensity for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812554/how-daly-citys-filipino-mobile-dj-scene-changed-hip-hop-forever\">garage parties\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, people were finding that they could add habitable space at the ground floor level and they could do it for a very low cost,” says Mothershead. “You can drive by a modest-looking house in Daly City and, you know, it probably doesn’t look any different than a home you might see somewhere else that’s three bedrooms, two baths, but [in Daly City] you could easily have six bedrooms in that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s space that families can use for bedrooms as they grow, or rent out for supplemental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A City Within a City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doelger’s vision for Westlake was much grander than what he had built before; he imagined a city within a city, and in many ways delivered on that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a bank, there was a post office, there were grocery stores,” says Keil. “All the stuff was planned in advance so that the people who moved in right from the beginning had access to these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doelger planned for parks and schools, and an outdoor shopping mall, a novelty at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you lived out there, you were not in no man’s land,” says Keil. “You could go out and buy things you needed and not have to travel into San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Daly City was getting noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ladies’ Home Journal magazine put it on its list of Top Ten Suburbs in America in 1975. Its schools were designed by architect Mario Ciampi and were featured in LIFE magazine. Community gatherings were held at the mall. Though many architects derided Doelger’s designs, his attention to detail shone through — and still does — when one walks through Westlake. The corner windows, slanted roofs, detailed facades — buyers loved it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>White\u003c/em> buyers that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0376-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Westlake entry sign near Eastgate Drive and John Daly Boulevard. Black, Indigenous and other people of color were banned from owning houses in Westlake, as in most suburbs built during the post-World War II housing boom. \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Discrimination by Law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The federal government required Doelger not only to refuse to sell homes to African Americans, but to put a clause in every deed that prohibited the owner from reselling to African Americans or renting to African Americans,” said Richard Rothstein, author of “The Color of Law,” on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101866675/from-historical-redlining-to-modern-day-discrimination-how-race-affects-homeownership\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” is devoted to housing policy, with post-war housing developments like New York’s Levittown and Daly City’s Westlake serving as Rothstein’s evidence that federal policy — not personal preference or economic differences — is largely what segregated America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothstein focuses on African Americans in his book, because in a lot of places, that’s who racial covenants and deeds specified. But in Daly City, and across the Bay Area, it wasn’t just African Americans who were excluded — it was anyone who couldn’t pass as white. That included Filipinos — who make up about 30% of Daly City’s current population — as well as Latinos and Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way someone like Doelger could have gotten the capital to build that subdivision was by going to the federal government and getting a guarantee loan,” said Rothstein. And that was true for almost any developer who wanted to build on a large scale at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “The Color of Law,” Rothstein discusses two attempts to build integrated housing developments in the Bay Area, one by the writer Wallace Stegner and the other by a local union. Both failed, Rothstein writes, as just about all attempts to build integrated housing did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than architect and developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635574/how-joseph-eichler-introduced-stylish-housing-for-the-masses\">Joseph Eichler (the subject of another Bay Curious episode\u003c/a>), Keil doesn’t know of a housing developer who would sell to buyers of color. He adds that discrimination was so prevalent that even Willie Mays, the beloved Say Hey Kid, was barred from buying a house in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racist policies not only kept families of color out of suburban neighborhoods like Westlake, they blocked families of color from one of the most consistent ways to build wealth in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/07272021_MinoBucheli_DalyCity-0102-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daly City is said to have inspired the singer Malvina Reynolds to write “Little Boxes.” \u003ccite>((Sebastian Miño-Bucheli/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rothstein notes that white families that bought homes in the mid-20th century used their equity and earnings to great advantage: “They used it to send their children to college. They use that to take care of emergencies and they use it to bequeath it to their children, who [use it for] down payments for their own homes. 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The pandemic caused a “she-cession” rather than a recession, by disproportionately pulling women out of the workforce for lack of child care, said Democratic state Sen. 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Gavin Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about fundamental infrastructure — the human capital — that’s as important as roads and bridges,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884471/next-steps-for-a-childcare-system-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal\u003c/a> spoke with the following guests to gain a better understanding of some of the child care issues facing the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin\u003c/strong>, executive director, UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Eileen Boris\u003c/strong>, Hull professor and distinguished professor of feminist studies, UC Santa Barbara\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Deborah Stipek\u003c/strong>, professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Education\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Micaela Mota\u003c/strong>, mother, parent leader, Parent Voices California\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>What ugly truth did the pandemic reveal about America’s child care system?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin: \u003c/strong>It really revealed just how fragile and broken our child care system is. We had a system coming into the pandemic where we didn’t have enough child care available for families. It’s incredibly expensive for families, but that still doesn’t actually cover the full cost of what it takes to provide early care and education services. We’re relying on a market and the market doesn’t work. So what that means is the system gets subsidized on the backs of the people doing the work — with incredibly low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The True Cost of Child Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your center has done some research into the true cost of child care for very young children. Could you walk us through what those estimates showed?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin:\u003c/strong> If we were covering the full cost of early care and education in California on the low end, that’s about $30 billion a year for child care and early learning. That’s a system that is acceptable for families, that is universal and a system that is paying the people, mostly women, living wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today we have a system where our workforce in child care is 80% of what it was in March of 2020. We didn’t have enough before. We don’t have enough now. And there’s just not enough incentive for people to stay doing this work and to support the robust system that we need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have we ever done child care well in the United States?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eileen Boris:\u003c/strong> WWII. War has a way of people focusing on what the government can do. It was during WWII, in 1943, that federal money for public facilities was used for child care. After the war, these funds dissipated from the federal government. But California parents and teachers and public organizations running the gamut came together to continue these child care centers in California. In 1957, they actually became part of the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a hitch. Once you move from a program, which could benefit us all, to a program that is targeted for those of us with the least resources, then the program becomes stigmatized and it becomes associated not with education, but with uplifting of the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As a parent, from your perspective, what would you like to see done?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Micaela Mota: \u003c/strong>What I would like to see done is that our country is able to see the importance of what child care means for our nation. I am now a school psychologist and continue to be a mental health provider and child care actually provides the foundation for all of the necessary skills that our children need once they enter school. I want for us to all know the importance of child care. I want us to all to be able to afford child care and see that it’s a necessity — it’s essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What California Is Currently Doing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deborah Stipek, a professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, can you to talk briefly about what California is doing at this moment in time?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deborah Stipek:\u003c/strong> This is really a wonderful time in California because we have a Legislature and governor who I think really appreciates the importance of those early years and the value in investing in the high-quality experiences for children in those early years. The current budget has a number of funding that it points to addressing some of the access problems that we’ve been talking about and also some strategies for increasing quality. These early years in children’s development are laying the foundation for their future social and academic emotional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now with the research, that an enormous amount of brain development occurs in those first five years. The other thing that points to the importance of quality is that if you look at all of the evidence on the long-term benefits of preschool, it comes from very high-quality preschool programs. We can’t assume that just increasing preschool or increasing child care is necessarily going to promote better experiences or long-term benefits for children. We really need to invest also in the quality of that care and those educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Important Is Early Childhood Education?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One thing we haven’t touched on is the importance of this kind of early childhood education for educational and life outcomes for kids. How big of a lever is this?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deborah Stipek:\u003c/strong> It can be a pretty big lever. One thing I wanted to mention that I don’t think many people know, is that the achievement gap that we worry about for children in K-12 actually exists before they enter kindergarten. California has a larger achievement gap than most other states in K-12. But the reason it is larger than most other states is that it has an unusually large gap between lower-income children and middle- and upper-income children when they enter kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By providing high-quality early childhood educational opportunities, we can actually reduce those costs. Not only is the individual benefiting, but society is benefiting. Every dollar we invest in those first five years comes back to us multiple times. It’s just hard to make an argument, I think, for people, for legislators who tend to think short term to get them focused on the long term. 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And when the studies have compared children who are in transitional kindergarten to same-age children who are in preschool settings, transitional kindergarten children actually are better prepared academically and they’re no different socially and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, I go back to the training and support of the teachers right now. As you all know, 4-year-olds are very different from 11-year-olds. People need to be well prepared to meet their developmental needs and to provide an appropriate and developmentally appropriate program. I would prefer having what most states have, which is an early childhood teacher credential that really prepares people to focus on young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shifting Value\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s the way out of this logjam?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin:\u003c/strong> It’s not that hard. The problem is a commitment and a valuing of early care and education in California and in this country. 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They’ve estimated that parents are foregoing $30-$35 billion in income and lost household income because they either have to leave the labor force, or reduce their hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot that we’re losing now, there’s ways in which people are harmed and there’s a lot we can be doing to make change and improve the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884471/next-steps-for-a-childcare-system-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> to hear the full episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting from The Associated Press’s Don Thompson used in this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We had a system coming into the pandemic where we didn’t have enough child care available for families. It’s incredibly expensive for families, but that still doesn’t actually cover the full cost of what it takes to provide early care and education services. We’re relying on a market and the market doesn’t work. So what that means is the system gets subsidized on the backs of the people doing the work — with incredibly low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The True Cost of Child Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your center has done some research into the true cost of child care for very young children. Could you walk us through what those estimates showed?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin:\u003c/strong> If we were covering the full cost of early care and education in California on the low end, that’s about $30 billion a year for child care and early learning. 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