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"content": "\u003cp>On the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-slash-workforce-by-15-cutting-dozens-of-jobs-in-latest-round-of-layoffs\">major layoffs at KQED\u003c/a>, Congress moved to claw back over a billion dollars in federal funding for public media, heightening financial uncertainty for some 1,500 radio and television stations across the country, including one of the system’s biggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the dominant narrative around the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cuts has centered on the existential danger for small, rural stations, KQED’s precarious situation suggests the consequences could ripple far wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [layoffs] announcement makes it clear that no one in public media is safe,” said Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University. “The threat to public media funding affects even the largest and strongest outlets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://radioinsight.com/headlines/303978/june-2025-5-29-6-25-nielsen-audio-ppm-ratings-day-1-kqed-fm-sets-new-high-rock-rises-in-los-angeles/\">posted record-high radio ratings\u003c/a> last month and has grown its digital and podcast audiences, but that hasn’t translated to financial stability. Earlier this week, the organization announced it would slash 15% of its staff, citing lower-than-expected revenue growth and economic volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of federal dollars will only deepen those challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most difficult, distressing moment in the nearly 60-year history of public broadcasting, in the 71-year history of KQED,” the organization’s President and CEO, Michael Isip, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910637/congress-votes-to-defund-public-media\">Friday morning on the program Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of KQED’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rescissions package that the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk late Thursday guts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public media that Congress previously approved, zeroing out that money for the next two years. CPB distributes the federal money to NPR, PBS and its member stations, which were expecting their next payments in the fall. Those will no longer come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The immediate response to this particular round of cuts will be that we are likely to see many stations … go dark,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said Friday on Morning Edition. “These are stations that serve rural communities. They are stations that receive, in the case of Alaska, up to 70% of their budget in federal funds. And we’re talking small budgets. We’re talking $500,000, $600,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED, meanwhile, receives close to $8 million a year in CPB funding, representing about 7% to 8% of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">annual revenue\u003c/a>. Like many large stations in major markets across the country, KQED’s budget includes significant revenue from donors and corporate sponsors, lessening its dependence on federal funding.[aside postID=news_12048122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240522-KQEDheadquarters-12-BL_qed.jpg']“We’re going to move forward, we have no choice but to,” Isip said. “We have a responsibility. Our community expects it from us, and we’ll find a way to preserve independent, noncommercial, public media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how the station will do that isn’t yet clear. Isip said KQED would tap reserves to cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and seek out new revenue sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be communities who are losing local news and information, so what can KQED do to fill those gaps around the state?” Isip said, noting that the outlet remains one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country. “We have the privilege and the resources to be able to think about how we can support the rest of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mission could draw in new philanthropic support, Isip said, and there is still a chance that Congress restores some funding in its upcoming regular budget process for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, station leaders have not ruled out the possibility of further cuts in a future without federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservative legislators have targeted public media funding for decades, the scale of the current campaign is unprecedented, said Mike Janssen, an editor at the industry publication \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>. “The number of attacks and the different directions they’re coming from all at once is what’s different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s newsroom at its San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The political push to defund public media includes not just the CPB rescission and \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Response-President-Trump-s-Proposed-Rescissions-Package-and-Budget\">elimination of funding in Trump’s proposed 2026 budget\u003c/a>, but also an executive order he signed in May to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS. The Department of Education also \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-US-Department-Education-Terminating-Ready-Learn-Grant\">ended its Ready to Learn grant\u003c/a>, which has funded educational TV programs, and the FCC opened an investigation into underwriting practices at public stations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These challenges arrive as public media organizations are already navigating a turbulent landscape of declining radio and TV audiences, weakening underwriting revenue from corporate sponsors, and a podcast market that has proved difficult to monetize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm,” said Janssen, who’s covered public media for more than two decades. “Traditional funding models are kind of falling apart, and there’s this big need to expand on digital platforms for new audiences, and those two things just aren’t a good combination.”[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']He pointed to other large public media outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2024/07/laist-cuts-28-positions-with-buyouts-layoffs/\">LAist in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/06/gbh-layoffs-hit-45-staffers-less-than-a-month-after-world-cuts/\">WGBH in Boston\u003c/a> that have made similar investments in innovation and also faced cuts. Since March 2023, \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> has tracked roughly 654 layoffs in public media and 73 buyout offers accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen and other experts are hard pressed to point to a model that’s working. Optimism about partnerships between local newspapers and public media stations has tempered after Chicago Public Media’s acquisition of the \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> failed \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/03/chicago-public-media-avoids-layoffs-as-35-employees-accept-buyouts/\">to fend off reductions there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to keep growing audience, but how do you do that in a lean way where you can also absorb the shock of what’s going on with underwriting and audience?” Janssen said. “It’s a very hard line to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, said medium-sized outlets like KQED are in a particularly difficult situation. They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. Just the right size to be screwed by the way that the attention economy works right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s lobby at its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these stations may get a relatively small portion of their overall funding from the federal government, losing it could hurt other revenue sources, such as shows that outlets like KQED produce and sell to other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts make it harder to do good work, and then that good work is less compelling and fewer people want to purchase it to rebroadcast,” Usher said. “It’s kind of got a potential to spiral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Pickard, a media policy scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, said the crisis at KQED underscores a larger reckoning with the country’s anemic support for public media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always impoverished our public media,” he said. “It’s a bit of a misnomer to call it public; it’s much more of a hybrid dependent on private capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Western European countries, public media is \u003ca href=\"https://www.internetvoices.org/sites/default/files/resources/public-media-and-political-independence.pdf\">funded at about $100 per capita\u003c/a> annually, according to a report from NYU’s Benson and a colleague. \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/reports/revenue/2020PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf\">In the United States, it receives\u003c/a> about $1.50 per capita in federal funding each year, and around $3 per capita in total public support, including state and local dollars. With private funding from corporations, foundations and individual donors factored in, the figure is still under $10 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-800x480.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-160x96.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s renovated headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of public media’s shaky government funding, Pickard said it now faces many of the same financial pressures as commercial outlets — shrinking ad revenue, market-driven content decisions, and the need to chase audiences with deep pockets. But that’s exactly what public media was meant to resist: a system that only serves those who can pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to guarantee that all members of society have access to a baseline level of news and information — not just wealthy audiences but everyone, not just people who live in cities, but people living in the hinterlands as well — then we need a public media system,” he said.[aside postID=news_12038583 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20240411_PressDemocratFile_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg']As stations look to make up for the loss of federal support, they’ll also find private funding sources facing their own challenges. Corporate sponsors are likely to be tested by economic uncertainty and the FCC’s investigation into underwriting practices. And foundations are seeing heightened demand for grants as wider government support for nonprofits evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that these are signals that it’s going to be more challenging moving forward,” KQED’s Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-level funding, meanwhile, doesn’t come close to replacing the hole left by CPB cuts. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/state-funding-guide/\">tracker compiled by \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 36 states provide some level of direct funding to broadcasters, but in most of those states, funding remained flat or decreased between the last two budget cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not directly fund public broadcasters as part of its state budget. In May, officials announced a partnership between the state and private donors, including Google, to distribute money for local news coverage, but it’s not clear whether public media stations will be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Benson cautioned that public media shouldn’t abandon hope for federal funding, for now, he said the path forward is paved with private dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is public media that is more fully in the nonprofit model,” he said in an email. “If anyone can make it work, stations like KQED can, but I would imagine that at least in the near term, budgets will be tight and these will not be the last layoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and written by KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> and edited by KQED senior editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a>, who contributed additional reporting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’re going to move forward, we have no choice but to,” Isip said. “We have a responsibility. Our community expects it from us, and we’ll find a way to preserve independent, noncommercial, public media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how the station will do that isn’t yet clear. Isip said KQED would tap reserves to cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and seek out new revenue sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be communities who are losing local news and information, so what can KQED do to fill those gaps around the state?” Isip said, noting that the outlet remains one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country. “We have the privilege and the resources to be able to think about how we can support the rest of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mission could draw in new philanthropic support, Isip said, and there is still a chance that Congress restores some funding in its upcoming regular budget process for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, station leaders have not ruled out the possibility of further cuts in a future without federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservative legislators have targeted public media funding for decades, the scale of the current campaign is unprecedented, said Mike Janssen, an editor at the industry publication \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>. “The number of attacks and the different directions they’re coming from all at once is what’s different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s newsroom at its San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The political push to defund public media includes not just the CPB rescission and \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Response-President-Trump-s-Proposed-Rescissions-Package-and-Budget\">elimination of funding in Trump’s proposed 2026 budget\u003c/a>, but also an executive order he signed in May to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS. The Department of Education also \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-US-Department-Education-Terminating-Ready-Learn-Grant\">ended its Ready to Learn grant\u003c/a>, which has funded educational TV programs, and the FCC opened an investigation into underwriting practices at public stations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These challenges arrive as public media organizations are already navigating a turbulent landscape of declining radio and TV audiences, weakening underwriting revenue from corporate sponsors, and a podcast market that has proved difficult to monetize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm,” said Janssen, who’s covered public media for more than two decades. “Traditional funding models are kind of falling apart, and there’s this big need to expand on digital platforms for new audiences, and those two things just aren’t a good combination.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He pointed to other large public media outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2024/07/laist-cuts-28-positions-with-buyouts-layoffs/\">LAist in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/06/gbh-layoffs-hit-45-staffers-less-than-a-month-after-world-cuts/\">WGBH in Boston\u003c/a> that have made similar investments in innovation and also faced cuts. Since March 2023, \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> has tracked roughly 654 layoffs in public media and 73 buyout offers accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen and other experts are hard pressed to point to a model that’s working. Optimism about partnerships between local newspapers and public media stations has tempered after Chicago Public Media’s acquisition of the \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> failed \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/03/chicago-public-media-avoids-layoffs-as-35-employees-accept-buyouts/\">to fend off reductions there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to keep growing audience, but how do you do that in a lean way where you can also absorb the shock of what’s going on with underwriting and audience?” Janssen said. “It’s a very hard line to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, said medium-sized outlets like KQED are in a particularly difficult situation. They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. Just the right size to be screwed by the way that the attention economy works right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s lobby at its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these stations may get a relatively small portion of their overall funding from the federal government, losing it could hurt other revenue sources, such as shows that outlets like KQED produce and sell to other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts make it harder to do good work, and then that good work is less compelling and fewer people want to purchase it to rebroadcast,” Usher said. “It’s kind of got a potential to spiral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Pickard, a media policy scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, said the crisis at KQED underscores a larger reckoning with the country’s anemic support for public media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always impoverished our public media,” he said. “It’s a bit of a misnomer to call it public; it’s much more of a hybrid dependent on private capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Western European countries, public media is \u003ca href=\"https://www.internetvoices.org/sites/default/files/resources/public-media-and-political-independence.pdf\">funded at about $100 per capita\u003c/a> annually, according to a report from NYU’s Benson and a colleague. \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/reports/revenue/2020PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf\">In the United States, it receives\u003c/a> about $1.50 per capita in federal funding each year, and around $3 per capita in total public support, including state and local dollars. With private funding from corporations, foundations and individual donors factored in, the figure is still under $10 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-800x480.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-160x96.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s renovated headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of public media’s shaky government funding, Pickard said it now faces many of the same financial pressures as commercial outlets — shrinking ad revenue, market-driven content decisions, and the need to chase audiences with deep pockets. But that’s exactly what public media was meant to resist: a system that only serves those who can pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to guarantee that all members of society have access to a baseline level of news and information — not just wealthy audiences but everyone, not just people who live in cities, but people living in the hinterlands as well — then we need a public media system,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As stations look to make up for the loss of federal support, they’ll also find private funding sources facing their own challenges. Corporate sponsors are likely to be tested by economic uncertainty and the FCC’s investigation into underwriting practices. And foundations are seeing heightened demand for grants as wider government support for nonprofits evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that these are signals that it’s going to be more challenging moving forward,” KQED’s Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-level funding, meanwhile, doesn’t come close to replacing the hole left by CPB cuts. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/state-funding-guide/\">tracker compiled by \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 36 states provide some level of direct funding to broadcasters, but in most of those states, funding remained flat or decreased between the last two budget cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not directly fund public broadcasters as part of its state budget. In May, officials announced a partnership between the state and private donors, including Google, to distribute money for local news coverage, but it’s not clear whether public media stations will be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Benson cautioned that public media shouldn’t abandon hope for federal funding, for now, he said the path forward is paved with private dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is public media that is more fully in the nonprofit model,” he said in an email. “If anyone can make it work, stations like KQED can, but I would imagine that at least in the near term, budgets will be tight and these will not be the last layoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and written by KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> and edited by KQED senior editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a>, who contributed additional reporting. Under KQED’s standard practices for reporting on itself, no member of KQED management or its news executives reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward Thursday to California’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, this time more than 500 miles away from the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">ordered federal immigration agents\u003c/a> to temporarily stop the “roving patrols” in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/07/patterns-in-california-immigration-raids/\">heavily armed agents\u003c/a> have aggressively detained immigrants and U.S. citizens throughout Southern California during a month-long crackdown. They targeted car washes, construction jobs, and Home Depots, arresting mostly Latino men who were longtime residents of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared agents had stopped the warrantless, aggressive sweeps through Los Angeles since the court ruling, which only applied to the state’s Central District. However, Border Patrol has been under a separate court order to stop similar warrantless raids in the state’s Eastern District — which includes Sacramento — after agents raided a Home Depot and other worksites in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The architect of both the Central Valley and Los Angeles operations, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">Gregory Bovino\u003c/a>, stood in front of the State Capitol Building on Thursday for \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billmelugin_/status/1945902933813690454?s=46\">an interview with Fox News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no sanctuary city. Sacramento is not a sanctuary city. The state of California is not a sanctuary state. There is no sanctuary anywhere,” the El Centro sector’s chief patrol agent said. “We’re here to stay. We’re not going anywhere. We’re going to affect this mission and secure the homeland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, a federal appeals court denied on procedural grounds the Department of Homeland Security’s request to pause the temporary restraining order won last week by civil rights groups, who argued that the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-raids-lawsuit/\">brazen, midday kidnappings\u003c/a>” violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches. The government was illegally \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\">denying detainees access to an attorney\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048135 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents guard outside of a federal building and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in downtown Los Angeles as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday, on June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard and the Marines against the wishes of city leaders. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Kern County case, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in April \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">barring agents from using racial profiling\u003c/a> in the Eastern District of California, which includes Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court paperwork, the federal government maintains that its tactics are legitimate while \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-to-retrain-hundreds-of-california-agents-on-how-to-comply-with-the-constitution/\">vowing to retrain agents\u003c/a> on the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bovino publicly said that Border Patrol went after a list of specific criminal targets, but the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/\">agency’s own documents\u003c/a> later showed that it only had a previous record on one of the 78 people it arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that court ruling, Border Patrol agents moved districts and became more aggressive, fanning out, while wearing masks, across Southern California.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']Not only do Thursday’s activities mark a return to the Eastern District, but they went right to the heart of California’s government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Border Patrol is trying to escape a court order, and said they should get out of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Border Patrol should do their jobs — at the border — instead of continuing their tirade statewide of illegal racial profiling and illegal arrests,” said Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a Newsom spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested about 10 people at the Home Depot in Sacramento on Thursday, according to Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/border-patrol-raid-home-depot-florin-road-sacramento/65440117\">In a video shared by KCRA\u003c/a>, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, a woman identified as Andrea Castillo can be heard shouting, “Leave him alone! He’s a U.S. citizen!” as masked agents chase a man running across a parking lot. An agent wearing a mask momentarily turns and points a can of mace at the person filming the video. Another armed man, in a full-face mask and wearing a green vest labeled only “police,” could be seen joining in the chase. Castillo continues shouting, “He’s my husband.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five men surround the man, who is face-down on the blacktop, while screaming at the person filming the video to stay back. “His brother is a Marine Corps officer,” she shouts while several more armed and masked men join in on the arrest. “Stand back or you will be maced,” another agent screams at her. The woman filming asks one of the agents for his badge number, and he responds: “Google me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another photo shared to social media shows the man — identified in media reports as Jose Castillo — being arrested with a badly stained face, presumably from mace, and what appears to be a bruise under his left eye. His wife told KCRA he is a U.S. citizen. The Border Patrol said he slashed one of their tires in the Home Depot parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican government interviewed 330 Mexican nationals who were arrested by immigration officials in Los Angeles between June 6 and July 6, finding more than half had lived in the U.S. for at least a decade. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After wrapping up an early morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">boat ride to Alcatraz, where he touted \u003c/a>President Trump’s plan to once again put people behind bars there, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took a stroll on Thursday around another famed San Francisco national park site that Trump has had his eye on: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-presidio\">the Presidio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His take? The former Army base-turned-park should be an inspiration for the National Park Service as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a model where they’re using private sector tools and market tools with no subsidy and they’ve achieved profitability,” he told reporters outside the Presidio’s visitor center. The Presidio Trust, the federal agency that manages the space, is financially self-sufficient and relies on revenue from leasing historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re a great example of how we can do a great of job of collaborating with the tools to help manage federal resources,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though earlier Thursday he advocated for turning Alcatraz back into a federal prison — a move that would require transferring it out of the park system — Burgum had praise for the Presidio’s 1,500 acres of hiking trails, green space and restaurants on the northwest edge of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors gather at Outpost Meadow in the Presidio of San Francisco on July 17, 2025, as the new park officially opens to the public. The expansion offers picnic areas, BBQ grills and views of the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the Tunnel Tops project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a far cry from how Trump described the park’s operation in an executive order he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">penned in February\u003c/a>, which could have made the midday tour with the CEO of the Presidio Trust pretty awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary,” the order reads. It applied to the Presidio Trust and three other agencies that Trump’s order suggested were causing government “waste and abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Jean Fraser, the Trust’s CEO, guided Burgum around the fire pit, picnic area and low-back lounge chairs that look out on the Presidio’s premier view of Crissy Field, the secretary seemed to disagree with Trump.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When asked if he would be reporting his positive experience back to the president, Burgum didn’t give a direct answer but said that within the Department of the Interior, the model the Presidio uses to fundraise and function “is something we have to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress created the Presidio Trust in 1996, it provided federal money to aid the property’s transition from an Army base but required it to become financially independent by 2013. That public-private partnership lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior, helping it garner bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgum said the National Park Service has a lot of deferred maintenance that needs to be addressed and could benefit from private sector support to do so. The park service manages 85 million acres of land across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the 15 or so minute walk through the Presidio, he complimented the red, movable chairs that tourists and locals sat in drinking coffee, gave the park’s landscape designers kudos for the trees and native plants lining its gravel walkways and applauded the recently debuted expansion of the Tunnel Tops picnic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National parks have been called America’s best idea, and we need to invest in that,” he said as the tour wrapped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration, however, has overseen a shrinking National Park Service as it takes a hatchet to federal agencies. Since Trump took office, the NPS has lost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">24% of its permanent staff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation that would make the feat possible, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans’ tax proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Trump announced his desire to re-open the federal prison in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>, saying he would direct the Bureau of Prisons and federal safety agencies to reopen “a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters Thursday morning that the Trump administration had no “feasible plan” to reopen the prison.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">status as a sanctuary city\u003c/a> goes back to 1989. The city prides itself as a haven for immigrants, regardless of legal status, and a place where local law enforcement is sharply restricted from cooperating with or assisting federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, the implementation of the policy is facing pressure from Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district represents parts of the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola. Fielder is concerned by two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">report\u003c/a> that SFPD accessed information from Oakland’s license plate reader database to share with federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Statements made by Deputy Chief Derrick Lew at a town hall in the Castro last week regarding what he described as SFPD’s obligation to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfpd-ice-protesters/\">protect ICE agents\u003c/a> from protesters, to keep them out of harm’s way.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who called ICE “a fascist agency doing Trump’s bidding,” \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/687554cccdab921972c25b38/1752519885394/LOI+to+SFPD+Protocols+for+ICE+and+protests.pdf\">sent a letter \u003c/a>to interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Lurie and the city controller demanding answers about policies that may conflict with the city’s sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and one of the Board of Supervisors’ most liberal members, Fielder pledged to keep an open mind to Lurie’s programmatic priorities. But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. And according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">reporting by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, protesters were being put in danger as they were trying to basically block ICE agents from coming into or out of the building — to the point where ICE agents used pepper spray, shoved people to the ground and in one instance brandished a rifle on protesters as well as a reporter with \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came to light through a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>Standard\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> that SFPD has been requesting data from automatic license plate readers in Oakland on behalf of federal law enforcement agencies, which is a violation of state law. And so I have a lot of questions related to all of these different issues that I’d like answers to very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. Would you say that his comments are disqualifying for him to be the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. Huerta was arrested by federal agents on June 6 in Los Angeles while serving as a community observer during a workplace Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>I would hope that the next chief takes seriously what they say and communicate around our sanctuary city policies. It’s baffling to me that anyone in leadership would equate our protesters with Trump’s armed ICE agents. They should be seen as an extension of Trump himself. They are carrying out his agenda. And their agenda is to instill fear, is to run roughshod over due process and basic constitutional protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> It seems like Lurie has been very \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">cautious about even mentioning Trump’s name\u003c/a>. He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As she gets older, she said, eating healthy, locally grown food is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.[aside postID=news_11956856 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67156_230721-CoastMiwokLandMarin-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.[aside postID=news_11966087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With shaking hands, Rolla Alaydi flipped through the stack of papers she received in the mail in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of her nieces — Haya, 6; Alma, 6; and Ola, 4 — topped each letter. What followed were nearly identical denials of humanitarian parole from the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government\">government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carefully reviewed your application in accordance with the law, regulation, and USCIS policy and determined that parole is not warranted for the following reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">USCIS website\u003c/a>, “petitioners should expect processing delays. It will take time for us to work through the unprecedented number of parole requests we have received since Fall 2021 and return to normal processing times.” In the fall of 2021, the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040425/bay-area-afghans-allies-decry-trumps-end-of-tps-theyre-terrified\">withdrew from Afghanistan\u003c/a> and the Taliban took over its capital, Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS data shows that 80% of I-131 applications in California’s service center take \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">12 months to process\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12028230 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Panetta1-1020x765.jpeg']That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11997602 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-39_qed-1020x680.jpg']Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Senate is moving to vote this week on the Trump administration’s request to claw back federal funding for public media and foreign assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-72223/public-media-funding-up-in-the-air-as-house-prepares-to-vote-on-claw-backs\">approved\u003c/a> the package last month in a largely party-line vote, but several GOP senators are pressing for changes in the $9.4 billion in spending cuts the Office of Management and Budget asked Congress to eliminate. Some proposed cuts could be scaled back or new parameters could be added by Congress for the way funds are distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters last week he expected the Senate would clear a procedural vote, which leaders are planning for Tuesday, to begin debating the measure. GOP leaders can only afford to lose three votes to pass the measure using a process that allows the Senate to get around a filibuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445236/senate-hearing-rescissions-international-aid-npr-pbs\">recent Senate Appropriations hearing\u003c/a> about the rescissions package, several GOP senators raised concerns about the impact of the cuts on public radio and television stations in their states, and warned that zeroing out federal support would turn many communities into news deserts. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5418080/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-public-broadcasting\">administration proposal\u003c/a> eliminates $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the full amount Congress already approved for the private, nonprofit agency for the next two fiscal years. Some Senate Republicans, like Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, have criticized NPR, arguing that its news coverage is ideologically biased, but suggested the Senate should tweak the bill to continue supporting local public media stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told reporters he’s working to ensure that stations that serve Native Americans in his state continue to receive federal resources. “This has got to be resolved because this is where — in these rural areas — they get their emergency services, they get their announcements. They’re not political in nature,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds, said on X today that the Trump administration has agreed to find money outside the rescissions package to fund tribal radio stations. Rounds said that move would allow him to vote in favor of the funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenatorRounds/status/1945145431916233064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1945145431916233064%7Ctwgr%5E05d1bb3af368987f536dc35a4410251e6ee61137%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fg-s1-77572%2Fnpr-pbs-funding-rescission-congress\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins and other Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have also raised concerns with the cuts to foreign assistance programs like PEPFAR, a global health initiative set up by former President George W. Bush to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, noting the program has saved millions of lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, President Trump threatened to withhold his endorsement for any Republican who opposed the rescissions package. In a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114831435031070955\">message on his social media platform\u003c/a>, he said, “It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oklahoma GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin told reporters the president doesn’t want changes to the package, but he didn’t know if it could pass in its current form. Referring to some of his GOP colleagues, he said, “We have some unique personalities we’ve got to deal with, like the House does.” But Mullin said he believed the Senate would pass something this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package is the first attempt by the Trump administration to formally adopt some of the cuts that the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” the effort to slash federal spending, announced on its own. OMB Director Russ Vought also said the administration was considering additional rescissions packages to submit in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vought is expected to attend the weekly closed-door Senate GOP lunch on Tuesday to discuss the requests and concerns from individual senators. “I think it will be very helpful,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who sponsored the bill, told reporters. He said the original mission of the CPB “may have been laudable at the time. There’s such a greater diffusion of media now and personally I don’t feel the need and I don’t think the broad swath of our conference does either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday the package “suffocates public broadcasting” and warned it “sets the stage for even more party line cuts in the future.” He has also warned that if Senate Republicans move ahead with rescissions packages that undo funding levels set in bipartisan spending bills, Democrats could walk away from future talks on upcoming spending bills, increasing the odds of a government shutdown this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any proposed changes to the package would need to be vetted first by the Senate parliamentarian because of the process Republicans are using to pass the bill with a simple majority. If leaders secure the votes to begin debating the measure, senators can offer an unlimited number of amendments in a vote-a-rama, which could last hours. The amendments would also need to be approved by the parliamentarian, who decides whether they are germane to the legislation. But it’s unlikely many, if any, of those amendments other than the one negotiated by GOP leaders will have the votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Senate modifies the package the House passed, it would need to go back to the House for a vote on the new package, but it will be a tight window. Congress needs to complete action on this measure by July 18 to meet the 45-day deadline specified in the law. If it fails to act in time, the funds for the targeted programs must be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclosure: This story was written and reported by NPR Congressional Correspondent Deirdre Walsh and edited by Managing Editors Vickie Walton-James and Gerry Holmes. Under NPR’s protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> Chancellor Rich Lyons’ turn in the hot seat on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as he testified on the school’s efforts to prevent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">antisemitic discrimination and harassment\u003c/a> on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons appeared before the Committee on Education and Workforce, in a hearing titled: “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology.” The committee has held a number of hearings with university leaders since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed. The interim president of Georgetown University and the Chancellor of the City University of New York also testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This hearing will focus on the underlying factors instigating antisemitic upheaval and hatred on campus,” committee chair Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, said in a press release, “Until these factors — such as foreign funding and antisemitic student and faculty groups — are addressed, antisemitism will persist on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the meeting, Walberg identified a number of groups that he said “incite antisemitism on college campuses,” including faculty and student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, faculty unions and Middle East Studies centers, as well as DEI policies and funding sources from outside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walberg said the hearing marked the “next phase” of the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons was questioned by the committee on several issues, including collective bargaining with pro-Palestinian labor groups, foreign investments in the university, progressive leanings in higher education, doxxing and student safety. He was also repeatedly asked about Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor who was made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003861/uc-berkeley-launches-new-palestinian-studies-program-this-fall\">inaugural chair of Palestinian and Arab Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sofia Liashcheva via UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing is part of a crusade by the Trump administration to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at some of the top universities in the country. UC Berkeley now joins a list of schools that have appeared before the committee, which includes Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, both of whose presidents resigned after their hearings in December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these and other hearings, the Republican House majority has also threatened to revoke federal funding if some schools don’t comply with requested reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also comes at a time when institutions of higher education are under a flurry of investigations by the administration — not just for antisemitism, but also for race and sex based hiring practices, and other programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Critics of the administration see it as a thinly veiled attempt to exert influence on higher education and an attack on academic freedoms.[aside postID=news_12034707 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) characterized diversity, equity and inclusion practices as fundamentally divisive. He questioned the chancellors about whether a practice that categorizes people on the basis of “oppressor or oppressed” makes college campuses safer for Jewish students. Similar language appeared in President Donald Trump’s executive order on so-called “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This whole crusade against antisemitism is a Trojan horse,” said Amanda Goldstein, a Jewish associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and a member of the group \u003ca href=\"https://speaklearnteach.org/2025/04/16/about-bff2l/\">Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom to Learn\u003c/a>. “ They feel threatened by our form of free inquiry and free thought, and they’re using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on very many aspects of our legitimate and rigorous research and teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said BFF2L formed in the spring in response to what she calls an escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, including revoking student visas based on their perceived political views and making federal funding contingent on things like the “severe curtailment of faculty input and governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Jewish faculty members from UC Berkeley has penned an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVjAp1A88aXlahHxCtKEqHvy2UQFH_zW7CUlP96dLvvkpTpQ/viewform\">open letter\u003c/a> to Lyons ahead of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold up homemade signs and shirts to protest against UC Berkeley during the 2024 commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This letter does not dismiss the real challenges Jewish students, staff, and faculty have faced, including moments of unease and, at times, physical threats. Isolated incidents of hostile speech and even acts of violence have occurred,” the letter said. “However, as Jewish faculty who frequently engage with campus leadership and remain vigilant about the well-being of the Jewish campus community, we reject the claim that Berkeley is an antisemitic campus or that widespread antisemitism exists here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein called the previous hearings by the Committee on Education and Workforce a “bad-faith show trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that that capitulation has not worked to protect the important work of education and research that we do in our universities, and we hope that our chancellor will continue to clearly and forcefully defend the research, teaching and scholarship that we do at UC Berkeley.”[aside postID=news_11985335 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2152066925-1020x680.jpg']In a reflection of the tensions that have existed on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023, the hearing was punctuated by multiple interruptions from pro-Palestinian protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chancellor Lyon, you are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Free Palestine, free Palestine,” shouted one protester, who was quickly removed from the room. Another shouted, “You’re burning children alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Justice Department employees are alarmed at how the Trump administration is using its authority to extract concessions out of universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that the Trump administration is doing right now is subverting institutional norms,” said Jen Swedish, a former lawyer with the employment litigation section of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ. “It’s weaponizing the department and in this situation, it’s using civil rights laws as a way to bully employers and other entities into doing what it wants them to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish pointed to a recent example: the Trump administration successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html\">demanded the resignation\u003c/a> of the president of the University of Virginia as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of threatening a university president to resign as a way to settle a Title VII case is completely out of the norm,” Swedish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ is currently investigating whether the UC system allowed an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">antisemitic hostile work environment\u003c/a>” to exist for professors, staff and other employees, while UC Berkeley itself is one of 60 schools being \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigated\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly failing to “fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons is the second Berkeley education official to be called before the committee to testify about antisemitism in schools. In May 2024, Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985335/berkeley-schools-chief-rejects-allegations-of-pervasive-antisemitism-in-capitol-hill-testimony\">firmly denied accusations\u003c/a> that antisemitism had become “pervasive” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons took the helm as chancellor of Berkeley just over a year ago in July 2024. He inherited a UC system that has beefed up rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000770/uc-president-orders-new-rules-on-encampments-masks-as-students-return-to-school\">preventing student encampments\u003c/a> and restricted how students can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">protest on campuses\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12047925 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/RobBontaSFAP-1020x680.jpg']“In universities, there is a freedom to express one’s views — even if there’s some learning that needs to happen through that process,” Lyons said during his testimony. “If somebody is expressing pro-Palestine views, that’s not necessarily antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Michigan) and several other representatives questioned Lyons on statements Makdisi had made regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. McClain said the professor previously described the attack as an act of “resistance” and said he could have been one of the people “who broke through on the siege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a celebration of the terrorist attack on Oct. 7,” Lyons said after being questioned by McClain on the subject for several minutes. He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. During the 2023–24 school year, students led monthslong encampments calling for divestment from companies that supported Israel’s military, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish students and allies on those same campuses responded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978998/uc-berkeley-jewish-community-members-march-on-campus-amid-rising-tensions\">marches and demonstrations\u003c/a> of their own, claiming they felt unsafe at school due to outspoken activism against Israel and Israeli soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first month in office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at fighting antisemitism, particularly on college campuses. The administration’s DOJ formed a multi-agency task force to combat antisemitism shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Lyon’s testimony isn’t explicitly linked to the multitude of investigations into the UC System and UC Berkeley itself, it certainly is related, according to Swedish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish said if the UC system is found to have engaged in a pattern or practice of workplace discrimination against Jewish employees, the DOJ would enter into a settlement agreement with the UC System “ to take certain measurable steps that we believe would prevent it from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on Harvard University may foreshadow other potential impacts upon the UC system or UC Berkeley itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, the DOJ’s joint antisemitism task force notified Harvard that its investigation found that the university was in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act for failing to adequately protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.” The task force said in a press release that “failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice does not currently have an open investigation into whether the UC system or UC Berkeley has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to prevent antisemitism on campus. But if it were to open one, “revocation of federal funds is a potential remedy,” according to Swedish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley received $419 million in research funding from the federal government for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024, according to Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof, a university spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the meeting, Walberg identified a number of groups that he said “incite antisemitism on college campuses,” including faculty and student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, faculty unions and Middle East Studies centers, as well as DEI policies and funding sources from outside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walberg said the hearing marked the “next phase” of the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons was questioned by the committee on several issues, including collective bargaining with pro-Palestinian labor groups, foreign investments in the university, progressive leanings in higher education, doxxing and student safety. He was also repeatedly asked about Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor who was made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003861/uc-berkeley-launches-new-palestinian-studies-program-this-fall\">inaugural chair of Palestinian and Arab Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sofia Liashcheva via UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing is part of a crusade by the Trump administration to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at some of the top universities in the country. UC Berkeley now joins a list of schools that have appeared before the committee, which includes Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, both of whose presidents resigned after their hearings in December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these and other hearings, the Republican House majority has also threatened to revoke federal funding if some schools don’t comply with requested reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also comes at a time when institutions of higher education are under a flurry of investigations by the administration — not just for antisemitism, but also for race and sex based hiring practices, and other programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Critics of the administration see it as a thinly veiled attempt to exert influence on higher education and an attack on academic freedoms.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) characterized diversity, equity and inclusion practices as fundamentally divisive. He questioned the chancellors about whether a practice that categorizes people on the basis of “oppressor or oppressed” makes college campuses safer for Jewish students. Similar language appeared in President Donald Trump’s executive order on so-called “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This whole crusade against antisemitism is a Trojan horse,” said Amanda Goldstein, a Jewish associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and a member of the group \u003ca href=\"https://speaklearnteach.org/2025/04/16/about-bff2l/\">Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom to Learn\u003c/a>. “ They feel threatened by our form of free inquiry and free thought, and they’re using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on very many aspects of our legitimate and rigorous research and teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said BFF2L formed in the spring in response to what she calls an escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, including revoking student visas based on their perceived political views and making federal funding contingent on things like the “severe curtailment of faculty input and governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Jewish faculty members from UC Berkeley has penned an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVjAp1A88aXlahHxCtKEqHvy2UQFH_zW7CUlP96dLvvkpTpQ/viewform\">open letter\u003c/a> to Lyons ahead of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold up homemade signs and shirts to protest against UC Berkeley during the 2024 commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This letter does not dismiss the real challenges Jewish students, staff, and faculty have faced, including moments of unease and, at times, physical threats. Isolated incidents of hostile speech and even acts of violence have occurred,” the letter said. “However, as Jewish faculty who frequently engage with campus leadership and remain vigilant about the well-being of the Jewish campus community, we reject the claim that Berkeley is an antisemitic campus or that widespread antisemitism exists here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein called the previous hearings by the Committee on Education and Workforce a “bad-faith show trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that that capitulation has not worked to protect the important work of education and research that we do in our universities, and we hope that our chancellor will continue to clearly and forcefully defend the research, teaching and scholarship that we do at UC Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In universities, there is a freedom to express one’s views — even if there’s some learning that needs to happen through that process,” Lyons said during his testimony. “If somebody is expressing pro-Palestine views, that’s not necessarily antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Michigan) and several other representatives questioned Lyons on statements Makdisi had made regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. McClain said the professor previously described the attack as an act of “resistance” and said he could have been one of the people “who broke through on the siege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a celebration of the terrorist attack on Oct. 7,” Lyons said after being questioned by McClain on the subject for several minutes. He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I met Rostyslav Fedorko in Kyiv, he was wearing military fatigues and a soft smile. Fatigues, because after three years on the front lines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">defending Ukraine from Russian attacks\u003c/a>, he said he doesn’t have many civilian clothes left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smile because he was playing mahjong. Fedorko, 28, is one of a group of some 25 Ukrainian game enthusiasts who gather at a cozy club called Japan Dojo to play Riichi mahjong, a Japanese variant of the tile-based game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene at the club was lighthearted on a Saturday in late April, during a friendly tournament. Little bursts of laughter rose above clacking tiles in a soothing rhythmic polyphony. Everyone had traded their shoes for slippers. Someone had brought a cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just days after an April 24 Russian missile attack leveled an apartment building in central Kyiv, \u003ca href=\"https://kyivindependent.com/death-toll-of-russias-april-24-strike-on-kyiv-rises-to-13/\">killing 13 civilians\u003c/a> and injuring almost 90 more. But no one was talking about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in Kyiv thanks to a reporting fellowship with the International Women’s Media Foundation. Over the years, I’d produced many Forum segments on the war in Ukraine, and I jumped at the chance to report from the ground to better understand what daily life is like in a country under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also wanted to know how people find laughter and distraction amid war, which is how I ended up at Japan Dojo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged residential building is pictured at the site of an air strike in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10, 2025. Russia’s overnight strike on Kyiv on Thursday killed at least two people and injured 16 others, local authorities said. The attack damaged eight of Kyiv’s 10 districts, hitting residential buildings, along with medical, educational, commercial and transport infrastructure. \u003ccite>(Peter Druk/Xinhua via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fedorko wasn’t having his best game, but that wasn’t the point. He said he plays mahjong to relax, “but in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He serves under near-constant Russian bombardment in the eastern province of Donetsk with Ukraine’s International Defense Legion. He had lost many friends in combat. At the time, he was on a two-month break from active duty at a base near Lviv, about 350 miles from Kyiv. Every Friday, he told me, he takes the overnight train from Lviv to play at the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., like all day,” he said. “I’m here playing mahjong and just talking with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the impulse to de-stress and connect through mahjong. For years, I’ve played the American version of the game with the same group of San Francisco friends. Mahjong is a great social game — challenging enough to keep us off our phones, but not so challenging that we can’t dish about the world while we play.[aside postID=forum_2010101908775 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/PW_Photo-19-1-1020x538.jpg']As we slap down tiles, my friends and I talk about movies, books, our kids, our jobs, our problems. We tackle national politics — or avoid it entirely. And the collective physical rituals involved — the mixing, stacking and laying down of tiles — unite our table of four in common purpose, at least for a couple of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Japan Dojo, Polina Suprunenko, 17, had thought a lot about the sense of peace games could bring. Her eyes twinkled as she sat wrapped in a bright pink fuzzy blanket. She had come to the club with her older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But even if I come up here alone,” she said, “I always have something to do, and I don’t just end up sitting in the corner and crying and stuff like that. There’s always someone who can play with me, who can help me, who can talk to me. It’s a very open space, and that’s wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polina hadn’t seen her father in a year. A doctor, he chose to stay in their hometown of Kherson to treat soldiers on the front lines. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and occupied Kherson, Polina, her mom and her brother fled to Kyiv. They are among the nearly 4 million Ukrainians that \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/ukraine/\">the United Nations estimates\u003c/a> have been internally displaced by war. She said that although Kherson is under constant missile attack, her father is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Riichi mahjong table at Japan Dojo. \u003ccite>(Susan Britton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He understands that he’s helping more people and he’s dedicated to it,” Polina said. “His life has meaning for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if any of the players felt conflicted about detaching from the war when they immersed themselves in a game. A player named Rina Honcharova, who is also a co-founder of Japan Dojo, said Ukrainians were divided on the subject.[aside postID=news_12042147 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1030-1020x765.jpg']Some people, she said, “don’t feel like they can just relax and forget that the war is going on, and they feel guilty when they’re just taking some breaks and just trying to relax on weekends.” Others, she added, criticized those who sought out distraction. But to her, “most people, they don’t understand that you really need some breaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polina may have understood the importance of finding room for breaks better than most. She does not strive to be a doctor like others in her family. Instead, she wants to pursue art and open a cafe where you could relax, sip a coffee and play a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, she felt unsure about her ambition because it didn’t involve saving lives. But then she realized that creating such a space “is what actually saves people,” because it could help reduce the need for mental health care later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all types of mahjong, Riichi is part skill and part luck. To win a hand, players assemble 14 tiles into four groups of straights or triplets, plus a pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also need a \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em>, a special pattern that determines how high you’ll score. Some \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em> are more valuable than others; the rarest are called \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em>. A regular player could go for a year or more without getting one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japan Dojo member Yevhen Kolodko displays his fingernails, painted to resemble Riichi mahjong tiles, in April 2025. \u003ccite>(Susan Britton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Japan Dojo member named Yevhen Kolodko, whose fingernails were exquisitely painted to look like Riichi tiles, said he got a \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em> a few months earlier: “It was hilarious.” I think he meant it was both thrilling and wildly lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started talking about luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kolodko told me his family has been fortunate. His brother was drafted but works in tech on a base. His family had to leave their life in Luhansk after Russia seized the Donbas region in 2014, but now they’re OK. Kolodko, a data scientist, thinks about statistics a lot — in mahjong and in war. He reminded me that the chances of being killed in a missile attack in Kyiv, like the one a few days before, remained low in a city with a population of nearly 3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Ukraine, he added, “We play the lottery every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was at Japan Dojo, a few players taught me the basics of Riichi. Later, I showed a group how to play American mahjong with a set I’d brought from California. They were quick studies and peppered me with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to say I had profound thoughts about the irony of our easy collaboration while the U.S. government’s support for Ukraine wavered. But we were all too caught up in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The reporting for this essay was supported by the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/\">\u003cem>International Women’s Media Foundation’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines Initiative in partnership with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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