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For others, catching up on how to use the latest smartphones or understanding social media is a difficult adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ongoing discussions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828460/california-could-release-8000-people-in-state-prisons-by-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing incarcerated people early\u003c/a> to help curb the spread of the coronavirus inside prisons — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831812/even-in-pandemic-prison-releases-pose-political-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politics behind those discussions \u003c/a>— have shined a recent spotlight on the question of what happens when people leave prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to four men who paroled from San Quentin State Prison about their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Melendez has been out a few years and has a steady job. Sumit Lal came home last year and is teaching martial arts. More recently, Jonathan Chiu paroled in May, while Stephen Wilson paroled last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perspectives are not meant to be comprehensive, but aim to provide a closer look at some of the faces of reentry, mostly in their own words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Philip Melendez: Transformative Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Philip Melendez, 42, who was serving a life sentence, the parole board mandated that he stay in a transitional home for the first six months after getting out. The home was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/Reentry-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Geo Group\u003c/a> and located in a rough neighborhood in San Francisco, where he said syringes often littered the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “not conducive to the reentry,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now a program manager for \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/ourstory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a>, an organization working toward what they call restorative policy change. The group brings together those who have been convicted of homicide to meet with family members of homicide victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When survivors of crime or people who lost loved ones to violence want to talk to the person who did it — we facilitate the actual dialogue,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834793\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by Philip Melendez at his home on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dialogues are difficult, but Melendez says it can help people take steps toward healing — a process that’s often called transformative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very rewarding for folks inside [prison] to see the actual harm,” he said. “For me personally, it broke me down and sent me on a completely different path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Re:Store Justice also works with formerly incarcerated people and their family members to have a voice in policy discussions in the state Legislature on issues such as bail and parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the skills he learned inside, like tattoo art and being able to cut his own hair, have allowed Melendez to adapt to life during the pandemic, since he doesn’t need to leave his house to get a haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez touches up a haircut that he gave to himself at his home on July 25, 2020. He learned to cut his own hair while in prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Melendez, his work is a chance to make up for his past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have remorse and shame, and we want to show up in a world in a way that is restorative versus the way that we showed up harmfully in the community,” he said. “It becomes motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal at the home he shares with his family in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sumit Lal: Education in Prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sumit Lal, 24, paroled from San Quentin in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they give you is $200 and you’re pretty much on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that he had his freedom back, he said he had to ask permission from the parole board to go back to school and continue his education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a job in San Francisco and [the parole board was] really hesitant about letting me work there,” Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal practices taekwondo in his backyard on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he feels fortunate he was at San Quentin, where he had access to programs like The Last Mile and could attend college classes through the Prison University Project as part of a program for youth offenders at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are prisons all over California and some of them are out in the middle of the desert. These people, they’re coming home and they don’t have the same resources as San Quentin does,” Lal said, emphasizing that reentry is not always the same for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal works at his home office in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lal was released last year, but he said he still talks to people in San Quentin nearly every day, where one major worry has been how to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing for me was that people were asking me if I could send a package — they weren’t getting the soap that they were issued,” he said. “For me, it was just pretty sad to think about that unsanitary environment that they are living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal recently started working for the messaging platform Slack and works from home due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Jonathan Chiu: Best and Worst Things\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Chiu paroled from San Quentin in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really felt guilty when I left, because a lot of guys didn’t get the same luck that I got,” said Chiu, 37, of his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the reality of his release didn’t kick in until he saw his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been away for about 15 years now. I was glad I missed the whole social media thing … and the whole financial crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been volunteering at a food pantry and advocating for others inside, in addition to experimenting with stand-up comedy reflecting on his life — that he is now doing via Zoom open mics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get everybody out — I left my family back there,” he said, referring to his many friends who are still incarcerated at San Quentin. The COVID-19 case rate there \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rose steadily from June to August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chiu, who said he is trying to relearn how to do many things like ride a bike and take public transit, the transition hasn’t been too rough. In some ways, he said prison prepared him for sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter-in-place kind of worked well for me, we’re kind of trained [in prison] to be very vigilant about where we are and who is walking behind us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. He’s happy to be out and spends a lot of time thinking about his friends who are still inside and working on ways to help get them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu sees the COVID-19 outbreak in San Quentin as both the best and worst thing that could happen there, because people are “shining a light on mass incarceration” and advocating with renewed effort to improve conditions inside prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of San Quentin and its design — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90539380/bad-design-kills-why-covid-19-spread-like-wildfire-at-one-of-americas-worst-prisons?partner=feedburner\">with poor ventilation and even windows that are welded shut\u003c/a> — make the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak particularly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, whatever your neighbor is cooking — you are smelling, because all that air is circulating throughout the prison. Once one person gets [COVID-19] there’s no way you can stop that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu rides his bike near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. Chiu has family in Los Angeles but chose to stay in the Bay Area to be closer to the friends and community he made in San Quentin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, most of what Chiu is doing is trying to advocate for others inside. He sees it as a matter of life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look back on this, like 10 years from now, are we going to say, ‘Did we make the right choice by not doing anything and letting people die inside San Quentin?” he asked. “By not acting, the fact is that people in prison right now are basically being sentenced to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Stephen Wilson: COVID-19 Inside, Smartphones Outside\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephen Wilson, 75, is a veteran and was paroled from San Quentin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to transition. I thought I was going to die in prison and other people thought the same thing,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, who was serving a life sentence, said that when COVID-19 cases began climbing at San Quentin, social distancing was impossible, especially because of the size of the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so small that you can lay in your bunk and put your elbow against the wall — and reach out and touch the other bunk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got sick, but “weathered the storm in my cell,” he said of his own battle with COVID-19. “Because when you get sick in prison they punish you. A lot of us that got sick didn’t say anything, we just weathered the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said that when a doctor came to check on his shoulder from a previous surgery, Wilson told the doctor his symptoms — splitting headaches for two days, lost appetite, chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor told him, “You had the COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson estimated he got it around June 20 and had it for roughly the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on August 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on Aug. 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson added that most of the staff at San Quentin was courteous and respectful and “doing time there was way better than some of the other places — but it is just so filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he’s out, Wilson attributes a cough he acquired during his time at San Quentin to the mold there. He said his new doctor even asked him if was a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they're currently staying. The two met 38 years ago and were reunited at the Veterans Transition Center. They often go to one another's house for dinner, ride their bikes or take the bus to nearby towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they’re currently staying. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson has been riding his bicycle, getting acquainted with the bus schedule and adjusting to new methods of communication. The Veterans Transition Center, which helps formerly incarcerated veterans adjust after leaving prison, gave him a smart phone, but, for now, he prefers his flip phone, because it is easier to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still a little bit overwhelmed,” he said, but added that VTC case managers have helped him tremendously. “Today I was out most of the day with a friend of mine, who I have known for 38 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two were recently reunited at the VTC and now often go to one another’s houses for dinner, ride their bikes together or take the bus to nearby towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few organizations that offer reentry services and support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/restoreadvocates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://antirecidivism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Recidivism Coalition\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bayareafreedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Freedom Collective Reentry Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reentryprograms.com/go/berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Options, Berkeley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815458/how-can-you-help-people-in-prison-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Can You Help People in Prison Right Now?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years inside prison, the transition to life outside isn’t always easy. For many, the task of getting a job after being out of the workforce for several years is challenging. For others, catching up on how to use the latest smartphones or understanding social media is a difficult adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ongoing discussions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828460/california-could-release-8000-people-in-state-prisons-by-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing incarcerated people early\u003c/a> to help curb the spread of the coronavirus inside prisons — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831812/even-in-pandemic-prison-releases-pose-political-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politics behind those discussions \u003c/a>— have shined a recent spotlight on the question of what happens when people leave prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to four men who paroled from San Quentin State Prison about their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Melendez has been out a few years and has a steady job. Sumit Lal came home last year and is teaching martial arts. More recently, Jonathan Chiu paroled in May, while Stephen Wilson paroled last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perspectives are not meant to be comprehensive, but aim to provide a closer look at some of the faces of reentry, mostly in their own words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Philip Melendez: Transformative Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Philip Melendez, 42, who was serving a life sentence, the parole board mandated that he stay in a transitional home for the first six months after getting out. The home was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/Reentry-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Geo Group\u003c/a> and located in a rough neighborhood in San Francisco, where he said syringes often littered the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “not conducive to the reentry,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now a program manager for \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/ourstory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a>, an organization working toward what they call restorative policy change. The group brings together those who have been convicted of homicide to meet with family members of homicide victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When survivors of crime or people who lost loved ones to violence want to talk to the person who did it — we facilitate the actual dialogue,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834793\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by Philip Melendez at his home on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dialogues are difficult, but Melendez says it can help people take steps toward healing — a process that’s often called transformative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very rewarding for folks inside [prison] to see the actual harm,” he said. “For me personally, it broke me down and sent me on a completely different path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Re:Store Justice also works with formerly incarcerated people and their family members to have a voice in policy discussions in the state Legislature on issues such as bail and parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the skills he learned inside, like tattoo art and being able to cut his own hair, have allowed Melendez to adapt to life during the pandemic, since he doesn’t need to leave his house to get a haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez touches up a haircut that he gave to himself at his home on July 25, 2020. He learned to cut his own hair while in prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Melendez, his work is a chance to make up for his past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have remorse and shame, and we want to show up in a world in a way that is restorative versus the way that we showed up harmfully in the community,” he said. “It becomes motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal at the home he shares with his family in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sumit Lal: Education in Prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sumit Lal, 24, paroled from San Quentin in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they give you is $200 and you’re pretty much on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that he had his freedom back, he said he had to ask permission from the parole board to go back to school and continue his education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a job in San Francisco and [the parole board was] really hesitant about letting me work there,” Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal practices taekwondo in his backyard on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he feels fortunate he was at San Quentin, where he had access to programs like The Last Mile and could attend college classes through the Prison University Project as part of a program for youth offenders at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are prisons all over California and some of them are out in the middle of the desert. These people, they’re coming home and they don’t have the same resources as San Quentin does,” Lal said, emphasizing that reentry is not always the same for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal works at his home office in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lal was released last year, but he said he still talks to people in San Quentin nearly every day, where one major worry has been how to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing for me was that people were asking me if I could send a package — they weren’t getting the soap that they were issued,” he said. “For me, it was just pretty sad to think about that unsanitary environment that they are living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal recently started working for the messaging platform Slack and works from home due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Jonathan Chiu: Best and Worst Things\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Chiu paroled from San Quentin in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really felt guilty when I left, because a lot of guys didn’t get the same luck that I got,” said Chiu, 37, of his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the reality of his release didn’t kick in until he saw his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been away for about 15 years now. I was glad I missed the whole social media thing … and the whole financial crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been volunteering at a food pantry and advocating for others inside, in addition to experimenting with stand-up comedy reflecting on his life — that he is now doing via Zoom open mics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get everybody out — I left my family back there,” he said, referring to his many friends who are still incarcerated at San Quentin. The COVID-19 case rate there \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rose steadily from June to August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chiu, who said he is trying to relearn how to do many things like ride a bike and take public transit, the transition hasn’t been too rough. In some ways, he said prison prepared him for sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter-in-place kind of worked well for me, we’re kind of trained [in prison] to be very vigilant about where we are and who is walking behind us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. He’s happy to be out and spends a lot of time thinking about his friends who are still inside and working on ways to help get them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu sees the COVID-19 outbreak in San Quentin as both the best and worst thing that could happen there, because people are “shining a light on mass incarceration” and advocating with renewed effort to improve conditions inside prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of San Quentin and its design — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90539380/bad-design-kills-why-covid-19-spread-like-wildfire-at-one-of-americas-worst-prisons?partner=feedburner\">with poor ventilation and even windows that are welded shut\u003c/a> — make the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak particularly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, whatever your neighbor is cooking — you are smelling, because all that air is circulating throughout the prison. Once one person gets [COVID-19] there’s no way you can stop that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu rides his bike near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. Chiu has family in Los Angeles but chose to stay in the Bay Area to be closer to the friends and community he made in San Quentin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, most of what Chiu is doing is trying to advocate for others inside. He sees it as a matter of life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look back on this, like 10 years from now, are we going to say, ‘Did we make the right choice by not doing anything and letting people die inside San Quentin?” he asked. “By not acting, the fact is that people in prison right now are basically being sentenced to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Stephen Wilson: COVID-19 Inside, Smartphones Outside\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephen Wilson, 75, is a veteran and was paroled from San Quentin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to transition. I thought I was going to die in prison and other people thought the same thing,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, who was serving a life sentence, said that when COVID-19 cases began climbing at San Quentin, social distancing was impossible, especially because of the size of the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so small that you can lay in your bunk and put your elbow against the wall — and reach out and touch the other bunk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got sick, but “weathered the storm in my cell,” he said of his own battle with COVID-19. “Because when you get sick in prison they punish you. A lot of us that got sick didn’t say anything, we just weathered the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said that when a doctor came to check on his shoulder from a previous surgery, Wilson told the doctor his symptoms — splitting headaches for two days, lost appetite, chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor told him, “You had the COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson estimated he got it around June 20 and had it for roughly the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on August 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on Aug. 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson added that most of the staff at San Quentin was courteous and respectful and “doing time there was way better than some of the other places — but it is just so filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he’s out, Wilson attributes a cough he acquired during his time at San Quentin to the mold there. He said his new doctor even asked him if was a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they're currently staying. The two met 38 years ago and were reunited at the Veterans Transition Center. They often go to one another's house for dinner, ride their bikes or take the bus to nearby towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they’re currently staying. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson has been riding his bicycle, getting acquainted with the bus schedule and adjusting to new methods of communication. The Veterans Transition Center, which helps formerly incarcerated veterans adjust after leaving prison, gave him a smart phone, but, for now, he prefers his flip phone, because it is easier to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still a little bit overwhelmed,” he said, but added that VTC case managers have helped him tremendously. “Today I was out most of the day with a friend of mine, who I have known for 38 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two were recently reunited at the VTC and now often go to one another’s houses for dinner, ride their bikes together or take the bus to nearby towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few organizations that offer reentry services and support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/restoreadvocates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://antirecidivism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Recidivism Coalition\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bayareafreedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Freedom Collective Reentry Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reentryprograms.com/go/berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Options, Berkeley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815458/how-can-you-help-people-in-prison-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Can You Help People in Prison Right Now?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the CZU Lightning Complex fires ripped through the Santa Cruz mountains, triggering widespread mandatory evacuations, a patchwork army of civilians created their own impromptu firefighting team in Bonny Doon, defying county orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no Cal Fire up here for two and a half days,” said Mark Kuchler, a longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler and his husband Glen Hanson say they felt they didn’t have a choice but to stay and fight as the fire quickly approached their home early last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple’s Bonny Doon home has been in Kuchler’s family since 1975. The mountain hamlet community sits northwest of Santa Cruz and is traditionally home to hippies and farmers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler used to be the neighborhood groundskeeper, taking care of thousands of acres of land. That deep understanding and knowledge of how to protect properties from fire damage, Kuchler said, helped him attack the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the couple is patrolling, surveying damage, wetting down smoldering embers and putting out spot fires here and there. They’re also stripping brush and clearing roofs, trying to create natural fire barriers for their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler use a fire hose to put out a hot spot on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, after the fires receded from their neighborhood, Kuchler and Hanson drove past some of the homes that survived, amid charred manzanitas and madrones. A blanket of gray-white ash covers the ground where fire-resistant redwoods still stand tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t here, these houses that are here, none of them would be here,” Kuchler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler successfully defended their neighbor’s cabin, pictured. (Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During those first days of the firefight, the couple used their tractor to clear brush and cut fire lines. They also commandeered their neighbor’s fully outfitted fire truck to quench the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they saved 10 homes in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effort wasn’t without major risk. Hanson recounted a particularly perilous moment on a nearby hillside when they sprang into action to protect a group of vulnerable properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was all a wall of fire. The smoke was so thick, it was like acid,” he said, gesturing to the area. “I could just feel my skin singeing, and my eyelashes burning, that’s when I said we can’t be here. I thought that we would die in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the kind of scenario that Cal Fire is most worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation that they put themselves in, it’s a very dangerous position,” Edwin Zuniga, a Cal Fire spokesperson said. “We prioritize life over property. We don’t want anyone being trapped in a fire situation like that. We want them to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the frustration people had during that time,” Zuniga added, “and we were just completely stripped across the state. We’re sorry we couldn’t be there all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dave Gillotte, a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department who’s been in Bonny Doon working the blaze with his crew, said they’ve been able to collaborate with citizen firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brigades that were here from the neighborhood had already put in lines,” he said. “They had tanks and pumps and they were working to do what they could. And they were, of course, overwhelmed in certain areas. So when we came in, we already had something to work with and we improved what they did, and we didn’t have any issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the danger, Kuchler and Hanson say they were protecting more than just homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a hold of the school teacher to say that ‘we saved your house,’ ” Kuchler recounted. “And she was just so joyful and happy. She was crying. And it was just like, ‘Wow, you know, we did that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without her home, Kuchler asks, “Would she have been able to stay a teacher in this area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left of one property is a walkway and remnants of a garden. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s something the couple, who met at San Francisco Pride over 20 years ago, is worried about: that the fabric of their tight-knit community will be changed by this fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://sccgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5461c7f372e24ab68ca386e73d58e35a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary damage map\u003c/a> shows that more than 100 homes in Bonny Doon were likely destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the teacher’s house, the fire tore through two properties off of Shake Mill Road. All that’s left on one parcel is a lone chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left on one parcel is a chimney, which rises into the sky, meeting towering redwoods and Douglas fir. Pictured on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a cute little cabin,” Hanson said, pointing to the remains, “No one’s really doing that anymore. There’s not little old woodworkers up here building their place in the ’70s, and having weird hippie drum circles.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Glen Hanson, Bonny Doon resident\"]‘If you get out of Santa Cruz County, you really can’t get back in — unless you’re really rich … So, there’s a lot of people living out here that when they lose that [their home], it’s done for them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple says over the years they’ve seen the neighborhood shift; increasingly it’s those who work in tech and commute over the hill buying properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, the average home price was $501,000 in 2012, as compared to $947,000 today, according to the real estate site Redfin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As housing prices skyrocket, the couple says they’re concerned that the fire will displace renters and long-time locals who live on family property. Those people, they say, likely won’t be able to afford to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get out of Santa Cruz County, you really can’t get back in — unless you’re really rich,” Hanson said. “So, there’s a lot of people living out here that when they lose that [their home], it’s done for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120114308-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kuchler surveys part of a property that didn’t make it on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kuchler and Hanson say that in battling the fire, they’re also fighting to keep the soul of Bonny Doon alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half of our community is going to be gone. We do have a community here and we have a community spirit, and we could possibly lose that,” Kuchler said, “There’s not too many places like that left in California that have that community spirit close to the ocean.” [aside tag=\"wildfire\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting off tears, Hanson considered how many community members would be displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the most beautiful place on earth. Every time I leave I say, ‘I just want to go home, I don’t need to be anywhere else,’ ” he said. “Everyone else here feels that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, roads into and out of the couple’s Bonny Doon neighborhood are blocked off. Once residents leave, they are unable to come back in until evacuation orders are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler only has a few days of his medication left. The couple is trying to figure out how to get a refill. Besides that, they say they’re doing OK on supplies for the time being and plan to stay up on the mountain to help gradually rebuild their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the kind of neighbors we are, we really do care about each other,” Kuchler said. “Some of us may not agree with this, that and the other thing. But at the end of the day, we love our neighbors. We love all of them. You know, even the ones we don’t love, we still kind of love them.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the couple is patrolling, surveying damage, wetting down smoldering embers and putting out spot fires here and there. They’re also stripping brush and clearing roofs, trying to create natural fire barriers for their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler use a fire hose to put out a hot spot on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, after the fires receded from their neighborhood, Kuchler and Hanson drove past some of the homes that survived, amid charred manzanitas and madrones. A blanket of gray-white ash covers the ground where fire-resistant redwoods still stand tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t here, these houses that are here, none of them would be here,” Kuchler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler successfully defended their neighbor’s cabin, pictured. (Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During those first days of the firefight, the couple used their tractor to clear brush and cut fire lines. They also commandeered their neighbor’s fully outfitted fire truck to quench the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they saved 10 homes in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effort wasn’t without major risk. Hanson recounted a particularly perilous moment on a nearby hillside when they sprang into action to protect a group of vulnerable properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was all a wall of fire. The smoke was so thick, it was like acid,” he said, gesturing to the area. “I could just feel my skin singeing, and my eyelashes burning, that’s when I said we can’t be here. I thought that we would die in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the kind of scenario that Cal Fire is most worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation that they put themselves in, it’s a very dangerous position,” Edwin Zuniga, a Cal Fire spokesperson said. “We prioritize life over property. We don’t want anyone being trapped in a fire situation like that. We want them to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the frustration people had during that time,” Zuniga added, “and we were just completely stripped across the state. We’re sorry we couldn’t be there all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dave Gillotte, a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department who’s been in Bonny Doon working the blaze with his crew, said they’ve been able to collaborate with citizen firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brigades that were here from the neighborhood had already put in lines,” he said. “They had tanks and pumps and they were working to do what they could. And they were, of course, overwhelmed in certain areas. So when we came in, we already had something to work with and we improved what they did, and we didn’t have any issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the danger, Kuchler and Hanson say they were protecting more than just homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a hold of the school teacher to say that ‘we saved your house,’ ” Kuchler recounted. “And she was just so joyful and happy. She was crying. And it was just like, ‘Wow, you know, we did that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without her home, Kuchler asks, “Would she have been able to stay a teacher in this area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left of one property is a walkway and remnants of a garden. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s something the couple, who met at San Francisco Pride over 20 years ago, is worried about: that the fabric of their tight-knit community will be changed by this fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://sccgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5461c7f372e24ab68ca386e73d58e35a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary damage map\u003c/a> shows that more than 100 homes in Bonny Doon were likely destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the teacher’s house, the fire tore through two properties off of Shake Mill Road. 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She asked about her visitation options and was told that UCSF was providing Zoom visits because in-person visits were prohibited due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDCR and UCSF policy, incarcerated patients who wish to have Zoom visitations must have authorization from CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833231\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1920_young-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1920_young-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1920_young-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1920_young-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1920_young.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Beisel was transferred from the California Institution for Men in Chino to San Quentin State Prison. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of D'Wanda Schwarz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwarz said her father’s first doctor went out of his way to connect with the correct personnel at San Quentin to receive authorization for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my first Zoom visit with my father — first and last visit with my father at UCSF — at midnight on that Saturday, July 4, or morning of July 5,” Schwarz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that Sunday, her father’s kidneys began to fail, so doctors placed him on dialysis. When he got out of the procedure, Schwarz said he was transferred to another ICU unit. That’s when things changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The staff immediately let me know that they were no longer going to be providing me with any of his updates, and nor would I be able to access any Zoom visits,” Schwarz explained. “Of course, I was very confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spent the following Monday calling San Quentin, in an attempt to get answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it would just ring and nobody would answer, or sometimes somebody would answer and then transfer me to a voicemail, or sometimes it would transfer me to a recording that this was not a mailbox that would receive voicemails,” Schwarz said. The process was exhausting, but she persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"D'Wanda Schwarz\"]‘Sometimes it would just ring and nobody would answer, or sometimes somebody would answer and then transfer me to a voicemail, or sometimes it would transfer me to a recording that this was not a mailbox that would receive voicemails.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, Schwarz said she received a call from a lieutenant at San Quentin. He told her he had given UCSF the authorization for her to speak with her father, but UCSF was “denying the authorization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Schwarz, the lieutenant said he also contacted the warden, who gave UCSF authorization for Schwarz to receive both updates of her father and video visitations with him. 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A grievance coordinator from that department had informed her that UCSF would not be providing her any more updates on her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarz was told contact between inmate patients and family members goes against UCSF policy and she would need to go through San Quentin, but Schwarz knew that wasn’t correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recorded call obtained by KQED, Schwarz asked the UCSF representative how her father was getting care without her permission. [aside tag=\"cdcr, san-quentin\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The representative replied that decisions about care for forensic patients — patients who are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections — are made by the institution they are incarcerated in. In this case, that would be San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated, Schwarz added San Quentin Chief Medical Executive Dr. Elaine Tootell to the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tootell asked the same question Schwarz had posed: “How do you make decisions for the patient?” Based on the recording, the UCSF representative said the decisions were “made by San Quentin, in this particular case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tootell, who’s been in her position for more than a decade, said, “Never will we ever make a decision for a patient, they have autonomy. And we’re not allowed to.” She added that “in every case, we always get the surrogate decision maker and we discuss with our incapacitated patients … and we always ask the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tootell also said they’ve been asking for updates on Schwarz’s father every day but had yet to receive any from UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference call ended with UCSF and Tootell agreeing to reconnect on their own to discuss matters. But the UCSF representative told Schwarz specifically not to reach out, saying UCSF officials “will not speak to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Securing Approval from San Quentin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF resident Anjali Jacob was working in the ICU at the same time that Beisel was a patient there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said navigating the authorization process for other patients was difficult, and she was continually referred to different people within CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"UCSF resident Anjali Jacob \"]‘It makes no sense that there are guards there, and it makes complete sense that these people should have Zoom visits.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob said she couldn’t understand why CDCR wouldn’t just require outside hospitals to provide Zoom visitations, especially when the state agency would go to great lengths to monitor incarcerated patients — referring to the handcuffs used to shackle inmates to their beds and the number of guards overcrowding the ICU unit, two per patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes no sense that there are guards there, and it makes complete sense that these people should have Zoom visits,” she said. “Why is one thing so heavily enforced? And one thing is just, there are no consequences if we don’t do it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/\">the Hippocratic Oath\u003c/a>, doctors swear to treat all patients equally in care, but the handcuffs and the guards create a culture of fear in hospitals against incarcerated patients and their families, Jacob said, which can potentially lead to unequal treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re essentially asked to see them as dangerous,” Jacob said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their guards are watching their every move, even when they’re clearly very sick,” Jacob explained. “We’re told that we can’t tell them or their families when their discharge date will be for fear that they’ll plot an escape attempt. These are all things that are required by law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jacob said there’s no medical evidence to prove that Zoom calls aid in the recovery process, she said virtual visits are “especially meaningful” for families during the pandemic. Many “want to spend as much time as possible with their loved one in case this hospitalization does represent the end of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether CDCR fights for incarcerated patients to have video visitations, CDCR said they couldn’t comment on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833232\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad-800x1191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad-1020x1519.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad-160x238.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad-1032x1536.jpg 1032w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/crop_fancy-dad.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Beisel died Thursday, Aug. 6. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of D'Wanda Schwarz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Last Transfer — Seton Medical Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around mid-July, Schwarz was able to get her father transferred to Seton Medical Center, where she was able to communicate with him through Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Schwarz, doctors said her father was “incoherent and nonresponsive” during the 17 days he was intubated, but when he heard her voice through their first call at Seton, she said he opened his eyes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He blinked when I asked him to blink,” Schwartz said. “And when I had to tell him goodbye, he moved his lips as though he were trying to speak to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her father’s time at Seton, Schwarz learned his body had become dependent on the machines, and when she asked him if he wanted to remain on them he shook his head no. “I asked him if he understood that meant he would not survive,” she said. “He shook his head yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Alan Beisel, died Thursday, Aug. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s something special about the little beach off the southern side of Point Isabel in Richmond, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to miss — tucked in below the Costco and hidden from the bike path that runs around the point jutting out into the bay. I’ve passed it dozens of times and never thought much about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you walk down onto the beach, you’ll notice shards of broken pottery, not sand or rocks. It’s an odd feeling, like you’ve stumbled on some kind of archaeological site right next to the Costco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locals affectionately call this place TEPCO beach after the Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company that used to operate in nearby El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Jo Anne Yada visited TEPCO beach for the first time a few months ago with a friend. She soon found some treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found some pieces that I took home with me and one of the pieces was a mug that said Papagayo Room,” Yada said. She looked it up when she got home, and discovered that the Papagayo Room was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Katharine-Hyde-Williams-ran-famous-Papagayo-2610408.php\">restaurant located in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel\u003c/a>. Famous people like Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Nat King Cole used to hang out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole experience of visiting TEPCO beach and finding some local lore there got Jo Ann wondering about the history of this bizarre ceramic-strewn beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What is TEPCO?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO Factory Production Line circa 1955.\" width=\"600\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Factory Production Line circa 1955. A worker airbrushes rim pattern design on plates in the upstairs decorating shop, with 12 spray booths. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company ran a factory that pumped out tens of thousands of pieces of handmade pottery every day. At one point, it was the largest employer in El Cerrito, employing more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Italian immigrant by the name of John Pagliero started the company in 1918 in his backyard as a side project. Eventually he quit his “day job” to devote all his time to the new company, moving it to El Cerrito, near the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, in 1930. When the factory was first built, there wasn’t much else nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The front of the TEPCO factory, taken in 1955.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Built in 1947, this TEPCO factory building, located in El Cerrito, California, consisted of a brick front office (shown) and a barrel-vaulted, concrete-reinforced production factory. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/3187948249/in/album-72157612445162322/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pagliero originally made porcelain appliances like sinks and toilets, but soon discovered he could make more money manufacturing everyday items like plates and mugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Heaven talked to John Pagliero’s nephew, Eddie Pagliero, and another longtime TEPCO worker for an American Craft \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/ecprintfiles/Tepco1.pdf\">article\u003c/a> about the company. They described John Pagliero this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They all described John Pagliero as an energetic, good-natured ‘hands-on’ potter with a strong back and sure hands. He spent his workday on the production line, and left the paperwork to his family. ‘The old man could do any job,’ Eckman told me, ‘and do it right.’ Eddie agreed. ‘He came from a time when potters did everything by hand from start to finish.’”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many local Bay Area restaurants like Louie’s Restaurant Club, Doggie Diner and Spenger’s Fish Grotto used TEPCO dishes in their restaurants. They were thick, glossy and durable. Pagliero would make custom designs for restaurants he liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Bergeron — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755932/an-island-drink-with-california-roots-the-mai-tai-turns-75\">inventor of the Mai Tai\u003c/a> — ordered his original ware for Trader Vic’s from TEPCO, and in honor of Mark Twain, a Calaveras County hotel ordered custom tableware with jumping frogs on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, John Pagliero was a good salesman because TEPCO plates were all over California. During World War II, TEPCO sold its dishes to the U.S. Army and Navy, who used full sets of TEPCO dishes in their mess halls and on ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Panas at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/\">El Cerrito Historical Society\u003c/a> has a particular interest in what happened to the area’s Japanese community during World War II. Most Japanese Americans living in West Contra Costa County were sent to Topaz internment camp in Utah. Panas has visited the site of the camp, where very little remains. However, near a garbage site, Panas found a piece of TEPCO pottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If TEPCO dishes were so popular, what happened to the company?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11831238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Factory – Production Line – 1955. Sanding wares. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TEPCO suffered several fires over the course of its history. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/ecprintfiles/Tepco1.pdf\">big one in 1946\u003c/a> burned the original factory down, but Pagliero replaced it and kept pumping out pottery. John Pagliero died in 1968, and Panas says rumor has it that his two sons couldn’t decide who would take over the company. Also, El Cerrito was changing rapidly by then. It was becoming more residential, and the TEPCO factory sat right in the middle of the town. Panas thinks some neighbors were ready to have a less noisy and intrusive neighbor. Whatever the reason, the factory closed in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But why does the beach have so much pottery on it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beach is a treasure trove of broken plates, mugs and bowls. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjgehling/10320782876/in/photolist-gJ1Hbm-kmuDyy-kpqTAb-kmt63n-kmsdhM-kmt5Cz-kmscSP-kmt4mr-kmt536-kmt4zH-e2eNHV-5RMoFG-9PJAo6-9vX4Vu-giWhHx-aa5hv-ktTMMi-giWh6R-kvMM18-aa5hw\">TJ Gehling/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TEPCO used to dump its chipped and damaged dishes on the beach off Point Isabel. That may seem crazy now, but back then there weren’t many environment regulations. Even Point Isabel itself looked different. It was a hill with trees on it! The shoreline was owned by Santa Fe Railroad and its development arm was considering filling in part of the bay near Point Isabel to build an industrial park. A little bit of pottery most likely didn’t bother them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the late 1960s, through the advocacy of the organization \u003ca href=\"https://savesfbay.org/who-we-are/a-brief-history\">Save The Bay\u003c/a>, that lawmakers began considering what should and shouldn’t be dumped in the Bay. The organization’s founders — Sylvia McLaughlin, Kay Kerr and Esther Gulick — were concerned about the amount of infill going on around the Bay and fought to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened to the Pagliero family?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2.jpg\" alt=\"John Pagliero & Crew - 1955\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Pagliero and crew – 1955. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom Panas at the El Cerrito Historical Society didn’t know much about what happened to Pagliero’s children after he died. A few relatives came to an exhibit of TEPCO pottery the historical society put on a few years back, and a cousin made an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jhZdoFyEbQ&feature=youtu.be\">amateur documentary\u003c/a> about TEPCO, but that’s about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jhZdoFyEbQ&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why are we still talking about TEPCO if it hasn’t existed since the 1960s?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11679711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1020x636.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Maack and his late wife Sandi Genser Maack pose with their TEPCO collection at the Richmond Museum's TEPCO exhibition in 2011.\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1180x736.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-375x234.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn Maack and his late wife Sandi Genser Maack pose with their TEPCO collection at the Richmond Museum’s TEPCO exhibition in 2011. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lynn Maack)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673009/tepco-the-defunct-ceramics-factory-that-still-dishes-out-nostalgia\">avid community of TEPCO collectors\u003c/a> out there. It’s fairly easy to find dishes at flea markets around the state, although less common to see the dishes used “in the wild,” at real diners. But, every once in a while, you can spot them. Look for the telltale green stamp on the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Jo Anne Yada, may now count herself among those collectors. She and her friends like to cook vintage dishes around Christmas time and serve them up on authentic cookware. This Christmas dinner just might be served on TEPCO.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found some pieces that I took home with me and one of the pieces was a mug that said Papagayo Room,” Yada said. She looked it up when she got home, and discovered that the Papagayo Room was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Katharine-Hyde-Williams-ran-famous-Papagayo-2610408.php\">restaurant located in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel\u003c/a>. Famous people like Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Nat King Cole used to hang out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole experience of visiting TEPCO beach and finding some local lore there got Jo Ann wondering about the history of this bizarre ceramic-strewn beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What is TEPCO?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO Factory Production Line circa 1955.\" width=\"600\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-4-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Factory Production Line circa 1955. A worker airbrushes rim pattern design on plates in the upstairs decorating shop, with 12 spray booths. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company ran a factory that pumped out tens of thousands of pieces of handmade pottery every day. At one point, it was the largest employer in El Cerrito, employing more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Italian immigrant by the name of John Pagliero started the company in 1918 in his backyard as a side project. Eventually he quit his “day job” to devote all his time to the new company, moving it to El Cerrito, near the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, in 1930. When the factory was first built, there wasn’t much else nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The front of the TEPCO factory, taken in 1955.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Built in 1947, this TEPCO factory building, located in El Cerrito, California, consisted of a brick front office (shown) and a barrel-vaulted, concrete-reinforced production factory. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/3187948249/in/album-72157612445162322/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pagliero originally made porcelain appliances like sinks and toilets, but soon discovered he could make more money manufacturing everyday items like plates and mugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Heaven talked to John Pagliero’s nephew, Eddie Pagliero, and another longtime TEPCO worker for an American Craft \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/ecprintfiles/Tepco1.pdf\">article\u003c/a> about the company. They described John Pagliero this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They all described John Pagliero as an energetic, good-natured ‘hands-on’ potter with a strong back and sure hands. He spent his workday on the production line, and left the paperwork to his family. ‘The old man could do any job,’ Eckman told me, ‘and do it right.’ Eddie agreed. ‘He came from a time when potters did everything by hand from start to finish.’”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many local Bay Area restaurants like Louie’s Restaurant Club, Doggie Diner and Spenger’s Fish Grotto used TEPCO dishes in their restaurants. They were thick, glossy and durable. Pagliero would make custom designs for restaurants he liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Bergeron — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755932/an-island-drink-with-california-roots-the-mai-tai-turns-75\">inventor of the Mai Tai\u003c/a> — ordered his original ware for Trader Vic’s from TEPCO, and in honor of Mark Twain, a Calaveras County hotel ordered custom tableware with jumping frogs on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, John Pagliero was a good salesman because TEPCO plates were all over California. During World War II, TEPCO sold its dishes to the U.S. Army and Navy, who used full sets of TEPCO dishes in their mess halls and on ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Panas at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/\">El Cerrito Historical Society\u003c/a> has a particular interest in what happened to the area’s Japanese community during World War II. Most Japanese Americans living in West Contra Costa County were sent to Topaz internment camp in Utah. Panas has visited the site of the camp, where very little remains. However, near a garbage site, Panas found a piece of TEPCO pottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If TEPCO dishes were so popular, what happened to the company?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11831238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-3-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Factory – Production Line – 1955. Sanding wares. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TEPCO suffered several fires over the course of its history. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/ecprintfiles/Tepco1.pdf\">big one in 1946\u003c/a> burned the original factory down, but Pagliero replaced it and kept pumping out pottery. John Pagliero died in 1968, and Panas says rumor has it that his two sons couldn’t decide who would take over the company. Also, El Cerrito was changing rapidly by then. It was becoming more residential, and the TEPCO factory sat right in the middle of the town. Panas thinks some neighbors were ready to have a less noisy and intrusive neighbor. Whatever the reason, the factory closed in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But why does the beach have so much pottery on it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/10320782876_b1a59d0eea_c-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beach is a treasure trove of broken plates, mugs and bowls. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjgehling/10320782876/in/photolist-gJ1Hbm-kmuDyy-kpqTAb-kmt63n-kmsdhM-kmt5Cz-kmscSP-kmt4mr-kmt536-kmt4zH-e2eNHV-5RMoFG-9PJAo6-9vX4Vu-giWhHx-aa5hv-ktTMMi-giWh6R-kvMM18-aa5hw\">TJ Gehling/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TEPCO used to dump its chipped and damaged dishes on the beach off Point Isabel. That may seem crazy now, but back then there weren’t many environment regulations. Even Point Isabel itself looked different. It was a hill with trees on it! The shoreline was owned by Santa Fe Railroad and its development arm was considering filling in part of the bay near Point Isabel to build an industrial park. A little bit of pottery most likely didn’t bother them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the late 1960s, through the advocacy of the organization \u003ca href=\"https://savesfbay.org/who-we-are/a-brief-history\">Save The Bay\u003c/a>, that lawmakers began considering what should and shouldn’t be dumped in the Bay. The organization’s founders — Sylvia McLaughlin, Kay Kerr and Esther Gulick — were concerned about the amount of infill going on around the Bay and fought to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened to the Pagliero family?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11831240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2.jpg\" alt=\"John Pagliero & Crew - 1955\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/TEPCO-2-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Pagliero and crew – 1955. \u003ccite>(Flickr/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/12820606@N04/sets/72157612445162322/with/3187948249/\">r_leontiev\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom Panas at the El Cerrito Historical Society didn’t know much about what happened to Pagliero’s children after he died. A few relatives came to an exhibit of TEPCO pottery the historical society put on a few years back, and a cousin made an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jhZdoFyEbQ&feature=youtu.be\">amateur documentary\u003c/a> about TEPCO, but that’s about it.\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/9jhZdoFyEbQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9jhZdoFyEbQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Why are we still talking about TEPCO if it hasn’t existed since the 1960s?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11679711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1020x636.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Maack and his late wife Sandi Genser Maack pose with their TEPCO collection at the Richmond Museum's TEPCO exhibition in 2011.\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-1180x736.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-375x234.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31277_Plotnick_SandiLynn_TEPCO-qut-1200x748-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn Maack and his late wife Sandi Genser Maack pose with their TEPCO collection at the Richmond Museum’s TEPCO exhibition in 2011. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lynn Maack)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673009/tepco-the-defunct-ceramics-factory-that-still-dishes-out-nostalgia\">avid community of TEPCO collectors\u003c/a> out there. It’s fairly easy to find dishes at flea markets around the state, although less common to see the dishes used “in the wild,” at real diners. But, every once in a while, you can spot them. Look for the telltale green stamp on the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Jo Anne Yada, may now count herself among those collectors. She and her friends like to cook vintage dishes around Christmas time and serve them up on authentic cookware. This Christmas dinner just might be served on TEPCO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more housing coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the deals that I’ve seen are just about extending payments later, but not actually forgiving rent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this may seem like a gift for cash-strapped tenants who have lost income due to the pandemic, tenant advocates say the offer doesn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also comes after three months of heated negotiations between Veritas and a coalition including the Veritas Tenants Association and San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations, which represents mom and pop shops across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups argued for Veritas to offer 100% rent forgiveness for both residential and commercial tenants from the beginning of shelter-in-place orders in March through Aug. 31, which they estimated would cost the company between $3 million and $4 million. That’s according to emails between Veritas and the tenants and merchant groups obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veritas confirmed the emails and offer but declined to comment directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Veritas Tenants Association is deeply disappointed in Veritas’ refusal to engage us on the pressing issue of rent relief,” Debbie Nunez, a Veritas tenant who represents the Veritas Tenants Association, wrote in a statement. “For three months, we have been asking for a seat at the table on the issues affecting our lives. It’s a simple request. But Veritas has ignored our voices and created a program that is inadequate for the times we’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who mediated negotiations between Veritas and the Veritas Tenants Association, said the landlord should “stop dehumanizing” its tenants and sit down at the negotiating table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me looks like a first offer. Three of the four points in the offer are already the law,” Peskin said, including an eviction moratorium, not raising rents and not passing through costs of construction to tenants. He added that even if the 50% forgiveness is sizable, negotiating terms of rent repayment is vital to tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without negotiation, Peskin said, “Fundamentally, they dictate everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants also called on Veritas to contribute $3.6 million to a small business relief fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that number sounds familiar, it’s the same amount Veritas received as a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan earlier this year. Advocates and elected officials —\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818895/pelosi-calls-on-sfs-largest-landlord-veritas-to-return-3-6-million-covid-19-small-business-loan\"> including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> — lambasted Veritas for accepting the loan, saying it seriously stretched the definition of a “small business,” the intended recipients of those loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Debbie Nunez']‘For three months, we have been asking for a seat at the table on the issues affecting our lives. It’s a simple request. But Veritas has ignored our voices and created a program that is inadequate for the times we’re in.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au wrote in a June letter to the Veritas Tenants Association, “While we are not going to engage in a debate over Veritas’ qualifications for the PPP loan, it is important to restate that we are, in fact, a small business with many front-line workers who would have lost their jobs without the loan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryo Mogannam, president of the council of merchants associations, said he was “concerned” about Veritas’ “approach” with his group. “Their lack of equitable relief for small businesses which are suffering the lion’s share of the COVID-19 pandemic is alarming,” he said, “particularly” in light of the PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veritas did not agree to pay into the small business relief fund in any of its correspondence with the groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7016735-2-VTA-SFCDMA-Counter-Proposal-1.html\" responsive=true height=400]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Au’s final response to the groups, which was sent Thursday, he also said no matter what happens with state and local eviction moratoriums, Veritas would honor its own eviction moratorium through the end of 2020 and place a moratorium on rental increases through the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunez, the Veritas tenant, said her fellow tenants are in dire financial straits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty percent relief is not enough for tenants who have lost jobs and are now depleting their savings or taking out loans to keep their homes,” she said. “Fifty percent is not enough for a real-estate investment firm with documented access to millions of dollars in capital and whose CEO alone is reported to be worth more than $100 million. Fifty percent is not enough, and the Veritas Tenants Association will continue to fight alongside local merchants for our homes and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Veritas’ rent forgiveness may seem generous, Quinn from JLL said the company has less leverage in these negotiations due to San Francisco’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may take time to recoup revenue,” Quinn said, since Veritas cannot simply evict its tenants and find new ones. Asking tenants to agree to rental plans may, therefore, be one of its only options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If their revenue isn’t realized, they can’t pay their mortgage,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7016737-3-Veritas-Response-8-6-2020.html\" responsive=true height=400]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a PPP loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was first published on Aug. 24, 2017.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco you’ll see naked people on bike rides, lounging on Baker Beach, running in the Bay to Breakers or walking around at the Folsom Street Fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago Bay Curious listener Kelly Hardesty was walking in the Castro with her daughter when they saw a naked man, who wore nothing but white tennis shoes. 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If you’re just hanging out naked minding your own business, California leaves that up to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting Closer to Nature\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first half of the 20th century, San Francisco didn’t have public nudity laws. In that era, local people weren’t walking around nude much, so it was a non-issue. But then the ’60s arrived, and many saw nudity as a form of political, artistic or personal expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College students streaked across the nation. In San Francisco, hippie culture was thriving, and Golden Gate Park became a favorite spot for nudists looking to get closer to nature. According to police patrolling the area, there was also a decent amount of public sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”AAAlF27iNlymAdOrEv6mbB1WrTiqe13Y”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t uncommon for a gal to come out of the bushes there in the Panhandle without a damn stitch and stand right in front of you with her hands up,” said Thomas J. Cahill, who was chief of police at the time. “I was out in the park and two started going to it on the lawn beside me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, sex is \u003cem>sexual\u003c/em>, and thus already illegal according to California law. But conservative San Franciscans wanted tougher laws to prevent this kind of behavior, and they eventually got public nudity banned in the parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the parks, nudity wasn’t regulated and considered fair game.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bans Up and Down the Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As time passed, nearby cities made public nudity illegal — among them, San Jose and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is interesting because its ban is mostly due to one naked guy — \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naked.t.html?mcubz=1\">Andrew Martinez\u003c/a> was a student at UC Berkeley. He believed that society was sexually repressed and, to address this, he decided to undress. He went to classes, parties and did errands wearing nothing but a pair of sandals and a backpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his fellow students he was known as “the Naked Guy.” In 1992, the university implemented a dress code policy and found Martinez in violation of it. When he showed up naked to his disciplinary hearing, he was expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez stayed in Berkeley, continuing to walk around nude. But then in 1993, the City Council decided to discuss whether public nudity should be allowed. When Martinez showed up naked to speak against it, he was flanked by nude friends. The council was sufficiently offended and voted to make public nudity a misdemeanor crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco in the Buff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, nudists were enjoying their time in the sun. The city developed a reputation for bodies in the buff. Especially at certain public events like the Folsom Street Fair, a leather fetish festival, and the Bay To Breakers, a rambunctious 12K race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Pasco, coordinator of the Bay Area Naturists, a nudist group, has been running in the race since 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11613525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Pasco\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Pasco \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a group of people who believe that the human body is God’s divine creation, nothing to be ashamed of, and that our interaction with Mother Nature is enhanced by removing the barrier of clothing,” Pasco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it wasn’t just public events where people could let it all hang out. There were nudity-approved beaches, and certain neighborhoods where nudists would congregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a group of people in San Francisco who thought going to Jane Warner Plaza would be a good idea. It’s a little urban park, and this urban park became an urban nude beach,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11613636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Warner Plaza in The Castro became a popular spot for nudists.\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-520x371.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro became a popular spot for nudists. \u003ccite>(Emeritus Professor Max Kirkeberg, Department of Geography, San Francisco State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wiener Bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the tides of the urban nude beach began to change in 2011 when then-Supervisor Scott Wiener began focusing on “quality of life” issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener started off by trying to ban nudity in restaurants and requiring naked people to put a buffer between themselves and public seating — like sitting on a newspaper when riding the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener didn’t stop there. He felt the men in Jane Warner Plaza were still taking it too far by wearing genital jewelry designed to maintain erections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t buy the freedom of expression argument here,” said Wiener in an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2012/10/18/banning-nudity-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with KQED Forum\u003c/a> at the time. “Freedom of expression is not about taking your pants off at Castro and Market and showing your genitals to passing traffic and pedestrians. That’s not freedom of expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent this, Wiener wrote up a bill banning public nudity on streets, plazas, sidewalks and on public transit, though there was a blanket exemption for street fairs and festivals, and no impact on nude beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s campaign received coverage from national news outlets. While some people supported the ban, others felt it was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Nudists in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-960x669.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-375x261.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-520x363.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nudists in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A KQED listener at the time said, “We do have laws already that enforce lewd behavior. Castro has always been an adult neighborhood. We have smoke shops, porn stores, probably 15 gay bars alone …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime residents felt the proposed nudity ban was due to demographic shifts and catered to the new wealthier residents, some who had children and wanted a more family-friendly atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, the nudists were not fans of Wiener’s proposal. There were a number of public meetings about the ban, where nudists made their thoughts known, sometimes by taking their clothes off in opposition. Among the most vocal was longtime nudist Oxane “Gypsy” Taub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11613519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-1020x712.jpg\" alt=\"Gypsy Taub who disrobed inside City Hall during a meeting is escorted away on November 20, 2012 in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-240x168.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-520x363.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gypsy Taub, who disrobed inside City Hall during a meeting, is escorted away on Nov. 20, 2012, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taub had a public access television show where she and her interviewees were always naked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say that somehow public nudity hurts children. I would say to the contrary. Because children who grew up without ever seeing a naked body grow up extremely insecure about their own body because all they see is commercials and porn,” Taub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life After the Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite nudist activists like Taub, the anti-nudity bill, also called the Wiener bill, was passed in November 2012 by a 6-5 vote. It became illegal to show your genitals, perineum or anal region in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new law, the first violation is a $100 fine, the second a $200 fine and the third violation results in either jail time “not to exceed one year” or a fine “not to exceed $500”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some loopholes. To appease people concerned about events like the Bay to Breakers and the Folsom Street Fair, the bill says that the ban does not apply to permitted events like parades, fairs and festivals. So as long as the event organizers don’t mind, you should be able to be nude at any permitted event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it didn’t exactly work out like that. Taub says she ran into trouble when she applied to get permits for nude-specific events after the ban took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went and applied for parade permits, we were denied over 20 times,” Taub says. “Every single one of them was either ignored or denied, every time with a new flimsy excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taub and other nudists lawyered up, and filed a complaint against the San Francisco Police Department for infringing on their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nudists also held nude protests against the ban, and Taub even got married nude on the steps of City Hall, after which she was arrested. She says she was arrested about seven or eight times in the first year of the ban. The district attorney never imprisoned Taub for her nude protests. In 2015, a federal judge ordered the city to give a permit to the nudists for a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Nude activist Gypsy Taub is arrested by San Francisco police officers as he protests San Francisco's new ban on nudity at San Francisco City Hall on February 1, 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-1920x1296.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-960x648.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/gypsy-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nude activist Gypsy Taub is arrested by San Francisco police officers as she protests San Francisco’s new ban on nudity at San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 1, 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean it’s still not as good as having public nudity be legal, which is our goal, but it’s way better than what we had before, where we couldn’t even have an event without everybody being arrested or cited,” Taub says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you need a permit to get fully naked in San Francisco. Or, if you’re not into paperwork, you can always go to a nude-approved park, like the north end of Baker Beach, where the National Park Service has said it’s legal to be naked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was first published on Aug. 24, 2017.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco you’ll see naked people on bike rides, lounging on Baker Beach, running in the Bay to Breakers or walking around at the Folsom Street Fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago Bay Curious listener Kelly Hardesty was walking in the Castro with her daughter when they saw a naked man, who wore nothing but white tennis shoes. Her daughter said, “Mommy, Mommy he’s naked.” She replied, “Yeah, he is.”\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>Kelly didn’t want to make a big deal about it, since it wasn’t exactly the most unusual sight in the city, but then a mailman looked at her and said, “I remember when I first started my route, and that used to shock me, too, but now I don’t think anything of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That got Kelly wondering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Is it legal to be naked in San Francisco … and if so, has it always been that way?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California has indecent exposure laws, making it illegal if someone is naked with the intent of being sexual (like masturbating in public), or intentionally offensive (like flashing someone). If you’re just hanging out naked minding your own business, California leaves that up to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting Closer to Nature\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first half of the 20th century, San Francisco didn’t have public nudity laws. In that era, local people weren’t walking around nude much, so it was a non-issue. But then the ’60s arrived, and many saw nudity as a form of political, artistic or personal expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College students streaked across the nation. In San Francisco, hippie culture was thriving, and Golden Gate Park became a favorite spot for nudists looking to get closer to nature. According to police patrolling the area, there was also a decent amount of public sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t uncommon for a gal to come out of the bushes there in the Panhandle without a damn stitch and stand right in front of you with her hands up,” said Thomas J. Cahill, who was chief of police at the time. “I was out in the park and two started going to it on the lawn beside me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, sex is \u003cem>sexual\u003c/em>, and thus already illegal according to California law. But conservative San Franciscans wanted tougher laws to prevent this kind of behavior, and they eventually got public nudity banned in the parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the parks, nudity wasn’t regulated and considered fair game.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bans Up and Down the Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As time passed, nearby cities made public nudity illegal — among them, San Jose and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is interesting because its ban is mostly due to one naked guy — \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naked.t.html?mcubz=1\">Andrew Martinez\u003c/a> was a student at UC Berkeley. He believed that society was sexually repressed and, to address this, he decided to undress. He went to classes, parties and did errands wearing nothing but a pair of sandals and a backpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his fellow students he was known as “the Naked Guy.” In 1992, the university implemented a dress code policy and found Martinez in violation of it. When he showed up naked to his disciplinary hearing, he was expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez stayed in Berkeley, continuing to walk around nude. But then in 1993, the City Council decided to discuss whether public nudity should be allowed. When Martinez showed up naked to speak against it, he was flanked by nude friends. The council was sufficiently offended and voted to make public nudity a misdemeanor crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco in the Buff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, nudists were enjoying their time in the sun. The city developed a reputation for bodies in the buff. Especially at certain public events like the Folsom Street Fair, a leather fetish festival, and the Bay To Breakers, a rambunctious 12K race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Pasco, coordinator of the Bay Area Naturists, a nudist group, has been running in the race since 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11613525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Pasco\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_6311-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Pasco \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a group of people who believe that the human body is God’s divine creation, nothing to be ashamed of, and that our interaction with Mother Nature is enhanced by removing the barrier of clothing,” Pasco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it wasn’t just public events where people could let it all hang out. There were nudity-approved beaches, and certain neighborhoods where nudists would congregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a group of people in San Francisco who thought going to Jane Warner Plaza would be a good idea. It’s a little urban park, and this urban park became an urban nude beach,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11613636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Warner Plaza in The Castro became a popular spot for nudists.\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner-520x371.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/warner.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro became a popular spot for nudists. \u003ccite>(Emeritus Professor Max Kirkeberg, Department of Geography, San Francisco State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wiener Bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the tides of the urban nude beach began to change in 2011 when then-Supervisor Scott Wiener began focusing on “quality of life” issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener started off by trying to ban nudity in restaurants and requiring naked people to put a buffer between themselves and public seating — like sitting on a newspaper when riding the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener didn’t stop there. He felt the men in Jane Warner Plaza were still taking it too far by wearing genital jewelry designed to maintain erections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t buy the freedom of expression argument here,” said Wiener in an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2012/10/18/banning-nudity-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with KQED Forum\u003c/a> at the time. “Freedom of expression is not about taking your pants off at Castro and Market and showing your genitals to passing traffic and pedestrians. That’s not freedom of expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent this, Wiener wrote up a bill banning public nudity on streets, plazas, sidewalks and on public transit, though there was a blanket exemption for street fairs and festivals, and no impact on nude beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s campaign received coverage from national news outlets. While some people supported the ban, others felt it was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Nudists in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-960x669.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-375x261.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874-520x363.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-478933874.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nudists in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A KQED listener at the time said, “We do have laws already that enforce lewd behavior. Castro has always been an adult neighborhood. We have smoke shops, porn stores, probably 15 gay bars alone …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime residents felt the proposed nudity ban was due to demographic shifts and catered to the new wealthier residents, some who had children and wanted a more family-friendly atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, the nudists were not fans of Wiener’s proposal. There were a number of public meetings about the ban, where nudists made their thoughts known, sometimes by taking their clothes off in opposition. Among the most vocal was longtime nudist Oxane “Gypsy” Taub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11613519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-1020x712.jpg\" alt=\"Gypsy Taub who disrobed inside City Hall during a meeting is escorted away on November 20, 2012 in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-240x168.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034-520x363.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/GettyImages-156776034.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gypsy Taub, who disrobed inside City Hall during a meeting, is escorted away on Nov. 20, 2012, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taub had a public access television show where she and her interviewees were always naked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say that somehow public nudity hurts children. I would say to the contrary. Because children who grew up without ever seeing a naked body grow up extremely insecure about their own body because all they see is commercials and porn,” Taub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life After the Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite nudist activists like Taub, the anti-nudity bill, also called the Wiener bill, was passed in November 2012 by a 6-5 vote. It became illegal to show your genitals, perineum or anal region in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new law, the first violation is a $100 fine, the second a $200 fine and the third violation results in either jail time “not to exceed one year” or a fine “not to exceed $500”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some loopholes. To appease people concerned about events like the Bay to Breakers and the Folsom Street Fair, the bill says that the ban does not apply to permitted events like parades, fairs and festivals. So as long as the event organizers don’t mind, you should be able to be nude at any permitted event.\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 What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it didn’t exactly work out like that. Taub says she ran into trouble when she applied to get permits for nude-specific events after the ban took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went and applied for parade permits, we were denied over 20 times,” Taub says. “Every single one of them was either ignored or denied, every time with a new flimsy excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taub and other nudists lawyered up, and filed a complaint against the San Francisco Police Department for infringing on their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nudists also held nude protests against the ban, and Taub even got married nude on the steps of City Hall, after which she was arrested. She says she was arrested about seven or eight times in the first year of the ban. The district attorney never imprisoned Taub for her nude protests. 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The COVID-19 case rate is \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five times higher\u003c/a> in state and federal prisons compared to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaty did not expect to experience first-hand the unsafe conditions incarcerated people are facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was shocking and a really awful experience for us,” said Beaty, an immigration attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four undocumented organizers, eight immigration attorneys and two community supporters were arrested. They were taken to Sacramento County Jail where they were booked and spent a total of about 16 hours while waiting to be bailed out and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaty said social distancing was non-existent. The organizers were given limited protective equipment and were stripped of their own masks, face shields and gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, everything we witnessed were things that our loved ones and our clients who are incarcerated have been telling us about, and have been trying to tell the public for months,” Beaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers were made to wear prison uniforms and at one point were made to sit on a bench side-by-side with other people. When one person pointed to a sign that read, “Keep six feet apart,” the booking officer “shook his head and told us to stop being ‘cute,’ ” according to a report the group released on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the public health nightmare that is occurring during this pandemic in every jail, prison and detention center in this country,” Beaty said, adding that it was just a taste of what many of their clients endure for months.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Susan Beaty, immigration attorney\"]‘Honestly, everything we witnessed were things that our loved ones and our clients who are incarcerated have been telling us about, and have been trying to tell the public for months.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaty said they were denied food and water for more than 12 hours and several in the group felt sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My toilet in a tiny cell I was in was clogged with food when I arrived,” Beaty said. They used the toilet to vomit in and notified an official when it was clogged. “She told me to reach into the toilet and unclog it with my hand,” Beaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another immigration lawyer said she had a fever at the time of booking. Jail staff took her temperature and the thermometer showed she had a fever. Afterward, the staff made her drink cold water, lowering her temperature, she said. They took her temperature again and it was normal. Immigration attorneys say \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/whistleblowers-say-ice-detention-center-used-deceptive-tricks-to-conceal-covid-outbreak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this is the same tactic\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have used in other facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Prieto, an undocumented organizer with the Oakland-based California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance said, “I was standing behind her,” and verified that staff took her temperature multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions the group experienced were precisely what they had come to Newsom’s house to protest against. Prieto said he had met with representatives from the governor’s office once before in March to alert Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829449/forced-to-breathe-the-same-air-a-look-inside-ca-prisons-during-a-pandemic\">to the unsafe conditions in jails and prisons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to make sure he took action immediately. All of us who had been in conversation with people in these facilities,” Prieto said. With outbreaks in both prisons and immigration detention centers escalating, the situation has only more gotten dire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prieto said the fear among those incarcerated in ICE facilities, as well as state jails, has led to waves of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/100-immigrant-detainees-hold-hunger-strike-at-mesa-verde-in-response-to-covid-19-measures/article_4bc2c88e-7b88-11ea-bf82-c3fcec598e57.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hunger strikes\u003c/a> and work stoppages. In May, ICE reported that an immigrant detained in one of its facilities died of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the lawyers and organizers have been writing letters and calling on elected officials to release those incarcerated and to address unsafe conditions since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that led to Thursday’s protest. “We needed to bring these demands to his [Newsom’s] house,” Prieto said. “Trying to avoid contracting COVID-19 while incarcerated is impossible unless we take drastic steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to Gov. 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Lewis had encouraged activists to keep fighting and to get into “good trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did was good trouble,” Prieto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said actions, such as work stoppages and hunger strikes by those incarcerated in both public jails and prisons, have continued at other California facilities\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read an account from protest organizers and immigration attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://ciyja.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FreeThemAll14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 30 at 4:45 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When José G. González, the founder of Latino Outdoors, was on a panel recently, he heard one of the organization’s local leaders explaining how she’d first found the group. She’d typed “outdoor” and “Latino” into Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I did that six or seven years ago, that wasn’t \u003cem>there\u003c/em>,” González says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the whole reason González created Latino Outdoors in 2013: to fill a need. According to its mission statement, the organization wants to \u003ca href=\"https://latinooutdoors.org/about-us/\">create a space\u003c/a> in which “all Latino communities enjoy nature as a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their work includes the provision of inclusive programs and resources for those camping for the first time, as well as for those with more experience. It also furthers understanding of ecological history, alongside human history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is essential,” says González. “We really need to see it as a necessity rather than just a nicety.” He’s now a consultant and advisor, serving on different boards and working to increase equitable access for communities of color to nature and the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he and his colleagues have been advocating in this space for years, it’s a wider issue that recently made headlines when the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830300/sierra-club-apologizes-for-founder-john-muirs-racist-views\">apologized for the racist views\u003c/a> perpetuated by the organization’s founder: iconic environmentalist John Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793084\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11793084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can outdoor spaces like Muir Woods be made more welcoming spaces for communities of color? \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Natural Reckoning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Muir had, wrote Brune in a letter on the Sierra Club’s website, made “derogatory comments about Black people and Indigenous peoples that drew on deeply harmful racist stereotypes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir’s words on the environment and nature can be found on gift shop paraphernalia around the U.S. National Parks network. One such quotation: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe,” Muir said\u003ca href=\"https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 1911\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For González, there’s a particular irony in these words. For him, they also apply to the very history of conservation in the U.S. — and its relationship to race. As the Sierra Club’s apology spotlighted, Muir’s own image of pristine wilderness unshaped by humans only existed if Indigenous people weren’t part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parks system, much like the founding of the U.S. itself, was designed by a specific demographic — landowning white males and after WWII served “a primarily white middle class,” González said. “We’re now facing the question of: what does that look like, and how does it need to be different, with a different demographic in mind?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can debate whether or not Muir was racist, says González says, but it “only gets us so far.” For him, it’s more about rethinking of the future of conservation with our current — and future demographics — at its heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at the demographics of the new world in 2050, compared to 1950, they’re very different,” González says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11830711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Mendoza on Mount Umunhum in Santa Clara County \u003ccite>(Francis Mendoza )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>Doing the Work\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There’s a history of racism that you can’t erase” says Francis Mendoza, a Filipinx naturalist and park ranger, about the current reckoning within the conservation movement’s regarding its \u003cem>whole\u003c/em> past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to people like Muir, says Mendoza, “it is important to look at him and other figures with a whole view — not just his racism. We have to look at the whole person and decide for ourselves what that person has contributed to and what they have taken \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from, in our social movements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Mendoza wrote \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/2018/11/27/feeling-like-an-outsider-in-an-outside-world/\">an online essay\u003c/a> about often feeling “like an outsider in the outdoors world.” He felt privileged, he wrote, to be part of an inclusion movement that was “shifting the narrative, helping to remove exclusionary barriers, and conserving and protecting these beautiful open spaces that we can all enjoy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza applauds others currently doing important work to confront some of the racist history within organizations: like Teresa Baker, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.diversifyoutdoors.com/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge\u003c/a> , which \u003ca href=\"https://www.insolidarityproject.com/the-pledge\">aims to connect\u003c/a> “leading outdoor brands with inclusion advocates to advance representation for people of color across the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also folks like Corinna Gould working to counteract the structures of the past. Gould co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sogorea Te Land Trust\u003c/a>, with a mission to return indigenous ownership of Bay Area land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also about \u003cem>who\u003c/em> gets celebrated from the past. During John Muir’s time, there were also people like \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ynes-mexia-accomplished-latina-botanist-k6bggm/13948/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ynés Mexía\u003c/a> (1870-1938) a botanist and plant collector. Mexía contributed greatly to the fields of conservation and environmentalism, but people aren’t taught about her, says José G. González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the history that gets shared when we learn about conservation — because we idolize John Muir so much,” González said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about “unearthing our conservation \u003cem>cultura,\u003c/em>” he says: “acknowledging that while so much of this is ‘new,’ it’s rooted in the work of a lot of other organizations and individuals throughout our history that have been buried, excluded, and ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nature as Essential\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spending time in nature has clear, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50949/suffering-from-nature-deficit-disorder-try-forest-bathing\">proven benefits\u003c/a> for physical \u003cem>and\u003c/em> mental health. And it’s especially crucial to be able to access nature during the COVID-19 pandemic, says González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is health,” he confirms. “It supports our mental cognitive health, our emotional health. For some people, it’s a spiritual connection as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the coronavirus crisis has amplified existing social inequities means it’s even more crucial to see regular time in nature as “part of well-being and a healthy lifestyle,” says González. “When we close parks, or when we already have access issues, that only gets amplified — especially for Black and Indigenous communities of color who already may be facing some lack of access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González emphasizes the need for people in the United States to regard nature and its associated access issues as a \u003cem>public system\u003c/em>: the same way we talk about public education, or public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, the public land component, the nature component — it’s essential,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resource: Inclusive Environmental Groups\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are several organizations working nationally and locally to further diversity and inclusion outdoors, and to make natural spaces welcoming for everyone. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://latinooutdoors.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latino Outdoors\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OutdoorAfro/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outdoor Afro\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NativeWomensWilderness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Native Women Wilderness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OutdoorAsian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outdoor Asian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://jennybruso.com/unlikelyhikers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unlikely Hikers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LEJyouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literacy for Environmental Justice\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Bayview\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.yesfamilies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yes Nature to Neighborhoods\u003c/a> in Richmond\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youthoutside.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pgmone.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PGM One\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.girlventures.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GirlVentures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know another group we should mention? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqednews\">Tweet us at @kqednews\u003c/a>!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It also furthers understanding of ecological history, alongside human history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is essential,” says González. “We really need to see it as a necessity rather than just a nicety.” He’s now a consultant and advisor, serving on different boards and working to increase equitable access for communities of color to nature and the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he and his colleagues have been advocating in this space for years, it’s a wider issue that recently made headlines when the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830300/sierra-club-apologizes-for-founder-john-muirs-racist-views\">apologized for the racist views\u003c/a> perpetuated by the organization’s founder: iconic environmentalist John Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793084\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11793084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can outdoor spaces like Muir Woods be made more welcoming spaces for communities of color? \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Natural Reckoning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Muir had, wrote Brune in a letter on the Sierra Club’s website, made “derogatory comments about Black people and Indigenous peoples that drew on deeply harmful racist stereotypes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir’s words on the environment and nature can be found on gift shop paraphernalia around the U.S. National Parks network. One such quotation: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe,” Muir said\u003ca href=\"https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 1911\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For González, there’s a particular irony in these words. For him, they also apply to the very history of conservation in the U.S. — and its relationship to race. As the Sierra Club’s apology spotlighted, Muir’s own image of pristine wilderness unshaped by humans only existed if Indigenous people weren’t part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parks system, much like the founding of the U.S. itself, was designed by a specific demographic — landowning white males and after WWII served “a primarily white middle class,” González said. “We’re now facing the question of: what does that look like, and how does it need to be different, with a different demographic in mind?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can debate whether or not Muir was racist, says González says, but it “only gets us so far.” For him, it’s more about rethinking of the future of conservation with our current — and future demographics — at its heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at the demographics of the new world in 2050, compared to 1950, they’re very different,” González says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11830711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/nature-1-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Mendoza on Mount Umunhum in Santa Clara County \u003ccite>(Francis Mendoza )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>Doing the Work\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There’s a history of racism that you can’t erase” says Francis Mendoza, a Filipinx naturalist and park ranger, about the current reckoning within the conservation movement’s regarding its \u003cem>whole\u003c/em> past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to people like Muir, says Mendoza, “it is important to look at him and other figures with a whole view — not just his racism. We have to look at the whole person and decide for ourselves what that person has contributed to and what they have taken \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from, in our social movements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Mendoza wrote \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/2018/11/27/feeling-like-an-outsider-in-an-outside-world/\">an online essay\u003c/a> about often feeling “like an outsider in the outdoors world.” He felt privileged, he wrote, to be part of an inclusion movement that was “shifting the narrative, helping to remove exclusionary barriers, and conserving and protecting these beautiful open spaces that we can all enjoy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza applauds others currently doing important work to confront some of the racist history within organizations: like Teresa Baker, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.diversifyoutdoors.com/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge\u003c/a> , which \u003ca href=\"https://www.insolidarityproject.com/the-pledge\">aims to connect\u003c/a> “leading outdoor brands with inclusion advocates to advance representation for people of color across the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also folks like Corinna Gould working to counteract the structures of the past. Gould co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sogorea Te Land Trust\u003c/a>, with a mission to return indigenous ownership of Bay Area land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Celebrities like Beyoncé and former President Bill Clinton have talked publicly about the benefits of eating a meat- and dairy-free diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit,” Clinton said in an interview on CNN. “And it changed my whole metabolism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"bill clinton on eating a plant based, whole foods diet\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/sNh1ICGNpbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, vegan eating habits have been popular for a long time. There are vegan caterers who will feed your wedding guests and vegan chefs who will deliver meals right to your door. Companies like \u003ca href=\"https://buy.impossiblefoods.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Impossible Foods\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.memphismeats.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memphis Meats\u003c/a> — both big names in the meatless protein business — are headquartered here. And just last year, San Francisco came out as the nation’s most vegan-friendly city, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/11/15/peta-san-francisco-most-vegan-friendly-city/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately, as you can imagine, things have been pretty challenging for the Bay Area’s vegan businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before coronavirus happened, business was fantastic. And that has obviously changed very significantly,” said Christina Stobing, co-owner of the Berkeley vegan deli \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebutchersveganson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Butcher’s Son\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, I’m just trying to hang in there,” said Samuel Wong, the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/layonna-vegetarian-health-food-market-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layonna Vegetarian Health Food Market, \u003c/a> a vegan market in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These times are about surviving,” said Alejandro Morgan, head of culinary of the Bay Area restaurant group \u003ca href=\"https://backofthehouseinc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back of the House\u003c/a>, which owns the plant-based eatery \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildseedsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildseed\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. “These times are about being able to keep as many people you can employed, and pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED listener Mishi Ramos’ question, “What is the vegan food scene in the Bay Area like today?” came across the Bay Curious desk not long before the pandemic hit. Since then, the story of how vegan food businesses are faring today has become one that’s very much aligned with the fate of \u003cem>most\u003c/em> small, local restaurants during COVID-19 times. So, while we tackled the question by focusing on Bay Area vegan businesses, the answer applies more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Growth of Vegan Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though vegans only make up about 5-6% of the U.S. population, their numbers are growing, and more and more omnivores are starting to take an interest in vegan foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the trend is the perception that eating a plant-based diet is healthy. People claim cutting out meat and dairy cleared their skin, upped their energy levels and helped them lose weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s growing public awareness around the meat industry’s treatment of animals and its environmental footprint. A \u003ca href=\"https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent analysis from the journal Science\u003c/a> shows 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from meat and dairy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside Meat Processing Plant Linked To Nearly 900 Coronavirus Cases | NBC Nightly News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZOT9YOtl0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, recent news headlines about the heavy impact of COVID-19 on the meat production industry have made more \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/05/04/850066429/the-pandemic-has-people-rethinking-their-relationship-with-food-especially-meat\">people question how much meat they should have in their diet\u003c/a> — even though meat scandals in the past haven’t had long-term sticking power, and the overwhelming majority of Americans will continue to eat meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helps the plant-based cause that vegan foods have become ubiquitous at grocery stores, restaurants and cafes, especially in the Bay Area, and that the region is well-known for its year-round abundance of produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, non-vegans in particular are gravitating towards the new, high-tech wave of meatless proteins, from companies like Impossible Foods and \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyondmeat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Meat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fooddive.com/news/study-consumers-try-plant-based-meat-because-theyre-curious/571615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A recent study from the food industry publication Food Dive\u003c/a> shows the number one factor driving non-vegans to eat products like meatless burgers is that they’re starting to taste more like meat. (Traditional veggie patties, which many vegans still prefer, taste more like nuts, grains and seeds.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vegan Food Businesses Struggle in the Pandemic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing popularity of meatless proteins is what’s driving business at many of the newer vegan eateries in the Bay Area, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebutchersveganson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Butcher’s Son\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829827 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butcher’s Son’s take on a chicken and bacon sandwich — without meat. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The restaurant opened early in 2016, and co-owner Christina Stobing said it was an immediate hit with vegans and non-vegans alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going vegan, there’s not a lot of options,” Stobing said, who’s also vegan. “Like, you can’t just go and get a Philly cheesesteak sandwich or a Reuben. We wanted to provide all those things that we were missing in a restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stobing said business was going so well, and they were planning to expand. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, they were forced to shrink. The restaurant let go of roughly two-thirds of its employees. A small business loan from the federal government has helped tide them over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to to step back and say, ‘OK, can we stay open this week? Can we stay open next week?’ ” Stobing said. “Because things are changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just popular vegan restaurants that now find themselves facing an unpredictable future. Vegan grocery stores are also having a hard time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/layonna-vegetarian-health-food-market-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layonna\u003c/a> Vegetarian Health Food Market in Oakland’s Chinatown has been around since the 1990s. The store’s owner, Samuel Wong, said the market has a loyal following. He counts meat-abstaining members of the nearby Buddhist temple among his customers, as well as people who drive in from places like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829830 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Layonna owner Layonna Wang (left), present owner Samuel Wong, and store employee Jenny Liang pose outside the front of Layonna, a vegan market in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Layonna’s customers include other vegan businesses, such as restaurants. Wong said the margins are normally pretty good. But that’s changed lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business, it dropped a lot,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store laid off three of its seven workers and is operating at reduced hours. Wong said he’s had to make some adjustments to survive, like delivering to restaurant clients himself, and signing up for a food delivery service to get Layonna’s products out to individual customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t want to go out,” Wong said. “So I have to sign up for this kind of service, even though they charge 30%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenge of Running \u003cem>Any\u003c/em> Small Food Business Right Now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at the best of times, the restaurant industry — no matter the cuisine — is a hard game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime Bay Area food writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.theperfectspotsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia Miller\u003c/a> said the margins are almost always on the thin side, and that’s particularly the case for independent businesses and small local chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829864 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area food and drink journalist Virginia Miller. \u003ccite>(Daniel Stumpf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they have any profit at all, usually 10% max, is the best most restaurants do,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between line items like rent, labor and sourcing high-quality produce, Miller said the cost of feeding people in the Bay Area is especially high. Vegan outlets are no different from other kinds of small food businesses. They’ve all been hit by the pandemic in similar ways and are all trying to figure out how to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard predictions of anywhere from 30% to 80% of our restaurants will not reopen,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Thomas, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://ggra.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, a San Francisco restaurant industry advocacy group, said reopening a restaurant is a long and complex process. Restaurant owners have to weigh many different factors as they consider how and when to reopen — or whether it’s worth reopening at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think restaurants can turn on a dime,” Thomas said. “It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to get your employees. You’ve got to pay back your vendors. You’ve got about a week to two weeks of ordering the food and getting everything going again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they do decide to fully reopen, restaurants are having to come to grips with a bunch of unforeseen factors to do with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The walk-up window at Wildseed in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildseedsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildseed\u003c/a>, an upscale, plant-based restaurant in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, director of culinary Alejandro Morgan said it’s been tough to entice workers back at a time when many are making more money claiming unemployment benefits than from working their old jobs. Plus, they’re staying safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I got my job back, then I would have to weigh things, you know, and say, ‘OK, well, do I risk getting sick and getting my family sick for a job that probably won’t pay as much as before?’ ” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s navigating all the new health and safety restrictions, such as limiting the seating capacity to allow for physical distancing. Morgan said Wildseed has applied for a permit to put in extra outdoor seating. But even with the additional outdoor seating, they’ll still be operating at around 30% capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s only so long that it makes sense to carry on that way, and many Bay Area counties have put reopening plans on hold for indoor dining. Given all the variables, Morgan said it’s hard to predict what it will take to reopen properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made plans, but, you know, usually we scratch those plans and restart,” Morgan said. “There could be something tomorrow, like, ‘You guys gotta close back again.’ I’m really hoping that’s not the case, because that would be very devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Creative in Order to Survive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With profits disappearing and things being so unpredictable right now, restaurants are having to get creative if they want to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takeout has obviously taken on a much larger role in restaurants’ core business as a result of the pandemic. That’s true for many high-end restaurants that would never have dreamed of boxing up their fancy dishes in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend towards takeout means adjusting — not everything travels well in a box — and figuring out more efficient ways to work in the kitchen so restaurants can meet the demand for takeout as well as serve customers on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With people preferring to eat at home, delivery services like \u003ca href=\"https://www.doordash.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DoorDash\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.grubhub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grubhub\u003c/a> are also becoming a must for restaurants, even though several owners interviewed for this story complained about the high fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the new advances in technology, which allow diners to do things like order meals from their tables using their phones. Wildseed’s Morgan said these systems appeal to restaurants because they reduce labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And maybe for the guests, too, right, to feel comfortable,” he added. “They want to limit the amount of interaction they have with another person at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s wary of going with the technology because he said human interaction is still a key part of good hospitality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big problems with this whole COVID-19 era is that we are going to lose a lot of human elements to everything that we do,” Morgan said. “I have passion for hospitality. And that’s something that is going to hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not to Be Underestimated: The Human Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some chefs are making personal connections the cornerstone of their new business model, even if it means lowering production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One small food business KQED spoke with for this story, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Vegetarian-Vegan-Restaurant/The-Presumptuous-Pepita-101321621272290/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Presumptuous Pepita, \u003c/a>relies entirely on building long-term, one-on-one relationships with customers — and it seems to be flourishing in spite of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829833 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vegan personal chef Victoria Aguilar of the Presumptuous Pepita (left) delivers lunch to San Francisco resident Mary Samson. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The force behind The Presumptuous Pepita is personal vegan chef Victoria Aguilar, who describes themself as a “queer, non-binary, brown business owner who was born and raised on Ohlone Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said they launched The Presumptuous Pepita last December after tiring of the fixed hours and limited menus that usually come with restaurant work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the intimacy of being able to cook for folks and then to bring it to them, especially during this time when folks really can’t see many people,” Aguilar said. “And so we’ve already built relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar is The Presumptuous Pepita’s sole employee. So their overhead is low. And the chef said business has been booming since the stay-at-home orders went into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making a good amount of money,” they said. “I’m profiting more than I thought I would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar is proud of the fact that small, niche businesses like The Presumptuous Pepita are building community, even in the middle of a global pandemic. During the recent Black Lives Matter protests, Aguilar said they delivered free meals to protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of small businesses like myself, and other vegan small businesses, are doing the work of supporting protesters who are on the front lines,” they said. “We’re feeding compassionately and giving the best that we can right now.”\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, vegan eating habits have been popular for a long time. There are vegan caterers who will feed your wedding guests and vegan chefs who will deliver meals right to your door. Companies like \u003ca href=\"https://buy.impossiblefoods.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Impossible Foods\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.memphismeats.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memphis Meats\u003c/a> — both big names in the meatless protein business — are headquartered here. And just last year, San Francisco came out as the nation’s most vegan-friendly city, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/11/15/peta-san-francisco-most-vegan-friendly-city/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately, as you can imagine, things have been pretty challenging for the Bay Area’s vegan businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before coronavirus happened, business was fantastic. And that has obviously changed very significantly,” said Christina Stobing, co-owner of the Berkeley vegan deli \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebutchersveganson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Butcher’s Son\u003c/a>.\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>“Right now, I’m just trying to hang in there,” said Samuel Wong, the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/layonna-vegetarian-health-food-market-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layonna Vegetarian Health Food Market, \u003c/a> a vegan market in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These times are about surviving,” said Alejandro Morgan, head of culinary of the Bay Area restaurant group \u003ca href=\"https://backofthehouseinc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back of the House\u003c/a>, which owns the plant-based eatery \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildseedsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildseed\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. “These times are about being able to keep as many people you can employed, and pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED listener Mishi Ramos’ question, “What is the vegan food scene in the Bay Area like today?” came across the Bay Curious desk not long before the pandemic hit. Since then, the story of how vegan food businesses are faring today has become one that’s very much aligned with the fate of \u003cem>most\u003c/em> small, local restaurants during COVID-19 times. So, while we tackled the question by focusing on Bay Area vegan businesses, the answer applies more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Growth of Vegan Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though vegans only make up about 5-6% of the U.S. population, their numbers are growing, and more and more omnivores are starting to take an interest in vegan foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the trend is the perception that eating a plant-based diet is healthy. People claim cutting out meat and dairy cleared their skin, upped their energy levels and helped them lose weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s growing public awareness around the meat industry’s treatment of animals and its environmental footprint. A \u003ca href=\"https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent analysis from the journal Science\u003c/a> shows 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from meat and dairy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside Meat Processing Plant Linked To Nearly 900 Coronavirus Cases | NBC Nightly News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZOT9YOtl0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, recent news headlines about the heavy impact of COVID-19 on the meat production industry have made more \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/05/04/850066429/the-pandemic-has-people-rethinking-their-relationship-with-food-especially-meat\">people question how much meat they should have in their diet\u003c/a> — even though meat scandals in the past haven’t had long-term sticking power, and the overwhelming majority of Americans will continue to eat meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helps the plant-based cause that vegan foods have become ubiquitous at grocery stores, restaurants and cafes, especially in the Bay Area, and that the region is well-known for its year-round abundance of produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, non-vegans in particular are gravitating towards the new, high-tech wave of meatless proteins, from companies like Impossible Foods and \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyondmeat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Meat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fooddive.com/news/study-consumers-try-plant-based-meat-because-theyre-curious/571615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A recent study from the food industry publication Food Dive\u003c/a> shows the number one factor driving non-vegans to eat products like meatless burgers is that they’re starting to taste more like meat. (Traditional veggie patties, which many vegans still prefer, taste more like nuts, grains and seeds.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vegan Food Businesses Struggle in the Pandemic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing popularity of meatless proteins is what’s driving business at many of the newer vegan eateries in the Bay Area, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebutchersveganson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Butcher’s Son\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829827 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/chicken-and-bacon-sandwich.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butcher’s Son’s take on a chicken and bacon sandwich — without meat. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The restaurant opened early in 2016, and co-owner Christina Stobing said it was an immediate hit with vegans and non-vegans alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going vegan, there’s not a lot of options,” Stobing said, who’s also vegan. “Like, you can’t just go and get a Philly cheesesteak sandwich or a Reuben. We wanted to provide all those things that we were missing in a restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stobing said business was going so well, and they were planning to expand. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, they were forced to shrink. The restaurant let go of roughly two-thirds of its employees. A small business loan from the federal government has helped tide them over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to to step back and say, ‘OK, can we stay open this week? Can we stay open next week?’ ” Stobing said. “Because things are changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just popular vegan restaurants that now find themselves facing an unpredictable future. Vegan grocery stores are also having a hard time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/layonna-vegetarian-health-food-market-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layonna\u003c/a> Vegetarian Health Food Market in Oakland’s Chinatown has been around since the 1990s. The store’s owner, Samuel Wong, said the market has a loyal following. He counts meat-abstaining members of the nearby Buddhist temple among his customers, as well as people who drive in from places like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829830 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Layonna-crew.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Layonna owner Layonna Wang (left), present owner Samuel Wong, and store employee Jenny Liang pose outside the front of Layonna, a vegan market in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Layonna’s customers include other vegan businesses, such as restaurants. Wong said the margins are normally pretty good. But that’s changed lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business, it dropped a lot,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store laid off three of its seven workers and is operating at reduced hours. Wong said he’s had to make some adjustments to survive, like delivering to restaurant clients himself, and signing up for a food delivery service to get Layonna’s products out to individual customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t want to go out,” Wong said. “So I have to sign up for this kind of service, even though they charge 30%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenge of Running \u003cem>Any\u003c/em> Small Food Business Right Now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at the best of times, the restaurant industry — no matter the cuisine — is a hard game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime Bay Area food writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.theperfectspotsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia Miller\u003c/a> said the margins are almost always on the thin side, and that’s particularly the case for independent businesses and small local chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829864 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Virginia-Miller-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area food and drink journalist Virginia Miller. \u003ccite>(Daniel Stumpf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they have any profit at all, usually 10% max, is the best most restaurants do,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between line items like rent, labor and sourcing high-quality produce, Miller said the cost of feeding people in the Bay Area is especially high. Vegan outlets are no different from other kinds of small food businesses. They’ve all been hit by the pandemic in similar ways and are all trying to figure out how to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard predictions of anywhere from 30% to 80% of our restaurants will not reopen,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Thomas, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://ggra.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, a San Francisco restaurant industry advocacy group, said reopening a restaurant is a long and complex process. Restaurant owners have to weigh many different factors as they consider how and when to reopen — or whether it’s worth reopening at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think restaurants can turn on a dime,” Thomas said. “It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to get your employees. You’ve got to pay back your vendors. You’ve got about a week to two weeks of ordering the food and getting everything going again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they do decide to fully reopen, restaurants are having to come to grips with a bunch of unforeseen factors to do with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/wildseed-window-e1595288832681.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The walk-up window at Wildseed in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildseedsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildseed\u003c/a>, an upscale, plant-based restaurant in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, director of culinary Alejandro Morgan said it’s been tough to entice workers back at a time when many are making more money claiming unemployment benefits than from working their old jobs. Plus, they’re staying safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I got my job back, then I would have to weigh things, you know, and say, ‘OK, well, do I risk getting sick and getting my family sick for a job that probably won’t pay as much as before?’ ” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s navigating all the new health and safety restrictions, such as limiting the seating capacity to allow for physical distancing. Morgan said Wildseed has applied for a permit to put in extra outdoor seating. But even with the additional outdoor seating, they’ll still be operating at around 30% capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s only so long that it makes sense to carry on that way, and many Bay Area counties have put reopening plans on hold for indoor dining. Given all the variables, Morgan said it’s hard to predict what it will take to reopen properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made plans, but, you know, usually we scratch those plans and restart,” Morgan said. “There could be something tomorrow, like, ‘You guys gotta close back again.’ I’m really hoping that’s not the case, because that would be very devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Creative in Order to Survive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With profits disappearing and things being so unpredictable right now, restaurants are having to get creative if they want to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takeout has obviously taken on a much larger role in restaurants’ core business as a result of the pandemic. That’s true for many high-end restaurants that would never have dreamed of boxing up their fancy dishes in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend towards takeout means adjusting — not everything travels well in a box — and figuring out more efficient ways to work in the kitchen so restaurants can meet the demand for takeout as well as serve customers on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With people preferring to eat at home, delivery services like \u003ca href=\"https://www.doordash.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DoorDash\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.grubhub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grubhub\u003c/a> are also becoming a must for restaurants, even though several owners interviewed for this story complained about the high fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the new advances in technology, which allow diners to do things like order meals from their tables using their phones. Wildseed’s Morgan said these systems appeal to restaurants because they reduce labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And maybe for the guests, too, right, to feel comfortable,” he added. “They want to limit the amount of interaction they have with another person at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s wary of going with the technology because he said human interaction is still a key part of good hospitality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big problems with this whole COVID-19 era is that we are going to lose a lot of human elements to everything that we do,” Morgan said. “I have passion for hospitality. And that’s something that is going to hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not to Be Underestimated: The Human Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some chefs are making personal connections the cornerstone of their new business model, even if it means lowering production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One small food business KQED spoke with for this story, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Vegetarian-Vegan-Restaurant/The-Presumptuous-Pepita-101321621272290/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Presumptuous Pepita, \u003c/a>relies entirely on building long-term, one-on-one relationships with customers — and it seems to be flourishing in spite of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829833 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Victoria-and-Mary.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vegan personal chef Victoria Aguilar of the Presumptuous Pepita (left) delivers lunch to San Francisco resident Mary Samson. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The force behind The Presumptuous Pepita is personal vegan chef Victoria Aguilar, who describes themself as a “queer, non-binary, brown business owner who was born and raised on Ohlone Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said they launched The Presumptuous Pepita last December after tiring of the fixed hours and limited menus that usually come with restaurant work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the intimacy of being able to cook for folks and then to bring it to them, especially during this time when folks really can’t see many people,” Aguilar said. “And so we’ve already built relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar is The Presumptuous Pepita’s sole employee. So their overhead is low. And the chef said business has been booming since the stay-at-home orders went into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making a good amount of money,” they said. “I’m profiting more than I thought I would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar is proud of the fact that small, niche businesses like The Presumptuous Pepita are building community, even in the middle of a global pandemic. During the recent Black Lives Matter protests, Aguilar said they delivered free meals to protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of small businesses like myself, and other vegan small businesses, are doing the work of supporting protesters who are on the front lines,” they said. “We’re feeding compassionately and giving the best that we can right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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