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"content": "\u003cp>Nancy Harris does what many Americans do when appliances break — she throws them away. In particular, she has gone through four Magic Bullet blenders. When this happened again, she decided to try to save it and break the cycle of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire, mixed with frustration, motivated her to drive 25 miles of foggy roads from Moss Beach to the Redwood City Public Library one recent Saturday morning. There, she found a Fixit Clinic. It’s a bustling, pop-up workshop where around a dozen volunteers — called Fixit Coaches — were hunched over their projects. Wires splayed out from a toaster. There was a disassembled air purifier. A 1950s-era waffle iron was ready for dissection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Harris’s arrival, the group did a customary welcome ritual. A volunteer took the broken appliance and held it up in the air — like Simba in “The Lion King” — and shouted “Magic Bullet Blender!” Cheers ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter Mui, founder, Fixit Clinics\"]‘It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible.’[/pullquote]Harris was then thrown into the deep end of this grassroots repair subculture. A person acting as a sort of maitre d’ polled the room of waiting volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who wants to give fixing the blender a shot?” one of them asked.\u003cbr>\nWith a bewildered look on her face, Harris was whisked to a table where volunteer Alex Schmitt was stationed. Schmitt, whose day job is in software, said he likes to tinker in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, like a patient at a hospital, described her blender’s symptoms to Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I plug it in, it starts whirring. It’s just always on, and I can’t get it to turn off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmitt quickly diagnosed the problem. He said the machine probably hadn’t been cleaned in a while. Blended liquids and foods can leak, making the switch that turns the motor on and off permanently stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fixit Clinics are different in that they aren’t places where someone can just drop off an item and expect it to be fixed. At these events, the owners of the appliances are expected to roll up their sleeves and be the primary people enacting the repair, with the guidance of a coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Schmitt and Harris spent an hour or so working on the small appliance. Together, they manipulated small screwdrivers, removed protective panels to reveal the inner workings of the machine, and even discovered a family of small bugs that had made a home inside the motor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, Harris’s Magic Bullet was as good as new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves me $100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again,” she said. “I’m really happy about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron holds up a set of bells in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui celebrates an item being repaired by chiming tingsha bells at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Harris said her goodbyes, Peter Mui held up the blender in the air and initiated another Fixit Clinic ritual, yelling, “Magic Bullet Fixed!” This time, he rang a bell, the sonic signal of a victory. The workshop, like a set piece in a movie musical, erupted in cheers again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Roots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mui founded Fixit Clinics in Berkeley in 2009. The first one was at the UC Berkeley Albany Village Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really just to see if we could even fix anything,” Mui said. “And lo and behold, not only could we open them up, but we could fix a lot of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said since then, people have asked him and his fellow fixers to repair all sorts of things: broken washing machines, a Geiger counter, even a backpack to carry a parrot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like improv. You never know what the general public is going to present you with,” Mui said. “It speaks to our innate desire to want to fix and to be curious about why the thing broke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mui, Fixit Clinics have a dual purpose: They are places where people can learn critical thinking and troubleshooting skills through repair, and they’re designed to get people to think about how their buying habits affect the environment. He argues that getting people into the mindset of repairing before buying something new helps reduce waste, conserve resources, and lower their carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, these clinics have grown in popularity and expanded outside of the Bay Area. Mui said there were over 200 Fixit Clinics last year in the U.S. He has also built an international community on the social media platform Discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large room filled with groups of people clustered in groups around tables.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a Fixit clinic hosted by the County of San Mateo’s Office of Sustainability at the library in Millbrae, California, on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Mui has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring Fixit Clinics to a different San Mateo County Library each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has exploded,” said Shova Ale Magar, a sustainability specialist at the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability. “We have a lot more demand than what we can offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mui said the ultimate goal is to increase a local repair culture in the Bay Area and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to propagate these skills and that ethos,” he said. “It’s a hobby that has gotten way out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Right to Repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This community of passionate fixers has grown alongside a burgeoning right-to-repair movement in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, California will become the sixth state in the nation to enact a right-to-repair law. The new law will require manufacturers of appliances and electronics to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to fix their products broadly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people work closely on the inside of a wooden device.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Caughman (right) holds a clock while Charlie Kennedy (left) inspects it at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mui said this signals a turning of the tide in the fight for the right to repair, given the stiff opposition California and other states have been met with when attempting to pass right-to-repair legislation. Companies like Apple, John Deere, and T-Mobile have all lobbied against these laws in an attempt to keep information on how to make repairs secret or require that repairs only be made by the company itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in California alone fighting against right to repair and millions of dollars nationally,” said Liz Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability at iFixit, a website that sells repair guides and tools for electronics and appliances. (iFixit also co-sponsored California’s right-to-repair law.) “But at the last minute in California, right before the bill passed, they came on in support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2023, when California’s law was signed, Apple announced it would comply with the law nationally, not just in California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nancy Harris does what many Americans do when appliances break — she throws them away. In particular, she has gone through four Magic Bullet blenders. When this happened again, she decided to try to save it and break the cycle of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire, mixed with frustration, motivated her to drive 25 miles of foggy roads from Moss Beach to the Redwood City Public Library one recent Saturday morning. There, she found a Fixit Clinic. It’s a bustling, pop-up workshop where around a dozen volunteers — called Fixit Coaches — were hunched over their projects. Wires splayed out from a toaster. There was a disassembled air purifier. A 1950s-era waffle iron was ready for dissection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Harris’s arrival, the group did a customary welcome ritual. A volunteer took the broken appliance and held it up in the air — like Simba in “The Lion King” — and shouted “Magic Bullet Blender!” Cheers ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fixit Clinics are different in that they aren’t places where someone can just drop off an item and expect it to be fixed. At these events, the owners of the appliances are expected to roll up their sleeves and be the primary people enacting the repair, with the guidance of a coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Schmitt and Harris spent an hour or so working on the small appliance. Together, they manipulated small screwdrivers, removed protective panels to reveal the inner workings of the machine, and even discovered a family of small bugs that had made a home inside the motor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, Harris’s Magic Bullet was as good as new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves me $100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again,” she said. “I’m really happy about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron holds up a set of bells in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui celebrates an item being repaired by chiming tingsha bells at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Harris said her goodbyes, Peter Mui held up the blender in the air and initiated another Fixit Clinic ritual, yelling, “Magic Bullet Fixed!” This time, he rang a bell, the sonic signal of a victory. The workshop, like a set piece in a movie musical, erupted in cheers again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Roots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mui founded Fixit Clinics in Berkeley in 2009. The first one was at the UC Berkeley Albany Village Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really just to see if we could even fix anything,” Mui said. “And lo and behold, not only could we open them up, but we could fix a lot of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said since then, people have asked him and his fellow fixers to repair all sorts of things: broken washing machines, a Geiger counter, even a backpack to carry a parrot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like improv. You never know what the general public is going to present you with,” Mui said. “It speaks to our innate desire to want to fix and to be curious about why the thing broke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mui, Fixit Clinics have a dual purpose: They are places where people can learn critical thinking and troubleshooting skills through repair, and they’re designed to get people to think about how their buying habits affect the environment. He argues that getting people into the mindset of repairing before buying something new helps reduce waste, conserve resources, and lower their carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, these clinics have grown in popularity and expanded outside of the Bay Area. Mui said there were over 200 Fixit Clinics last year in the U.S. He has also built an international community on the social media platform Discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large room filled with groups of people clustered in groups around tables.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a Fixit clinic hosted by the County of San Mateo’s Office of Sustainability at the library in Millbrae, California, on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Mui has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring Fixit Clinics to a different San Mateo County Library each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has exploded,” said Shova Ale Magar, a sustainability specialist at the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability. “We have a lot more demand than what we can offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mui said the ultimate goal is to increase a local repair culture in the Bay Area and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to propagate these skills and that ethos,” he said. “It’s a hobby that has gotten way out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Right to Repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This community of passionate fixers has grown alongside a burgeoning right-to-repair movement in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, California will become the sixth state in the nation to enact a right-to-repair law. The new law will require manufacturers of appliances and electronics to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to fix their products broadly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people work closely on the inside of a wooden device.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Caughman (right) holds a clock while Charlie Kennedy (left) inspects it at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mui said this signals a turning of the tide in the fight for the right to repair, given the stiff opposition California and other states have been met with when attempting to pass right-to-repair legislation. Companies like Apple, John Deere, and T-Mobile have all lobbied against these laws in an attempt to keep information on how to make repairs secret or require that repairs only be made by the company itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in California alone fighting against right to repair and millions of dollars nationally,” said Liz Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability at iFixit, a website that sells repair guides and tools for electronics and appliances. (iFixit also co-sponsored California’s right-to-repair law.) “But at the last minute in California, right before the bill passed, they came on in support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2023, when California’s law was signed, Apple announced it would comply with the law nationally, not just in California. In January, Samsung announced it was broadly expanding its self-repair program for its phones, tablets and PCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Manufacturers can’t just stop selling in California and New York. So, if they want to keep the U.S. market, they have to comply,” Chamberlain said. “Manufacturers are interested in making money, but they’re also not interested in angering customers, and if customers tell them over and over again, ‘Hey, we don’t want this stuff to break after a year; we want to be able to fix it.’ Eventually, they will respond to that consumer demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chamberlain, California has the strongest right-to-repair law passed by any state so far, but it has some caveats. It only applies to products sold after 2021, and there is a limited time frame for when it applies. If an item costs between $50 and $99.99, manufacturers must make parts, tools and information to repair the item available for three years after the sale. If it is more than $100, manufacturers must make these repair assets available for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, 24 state Legislatures are considering their right-to-repair measures covering everything from farm equipment to cars to consumer electronics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people are fed up with disposable culture,” Chamberlain said. “They’re fed up with the idea that planned obsolescence has become status quo in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same people fed up with disposable culture are falling in love with the feeling of repair, Mui said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when the thing starts working again, and they’re the ones who fixed it, it’s like Easter,” he adds. “It’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The five Chinese farmworkers sitting together in Half Moon Bay Library on a foggy afternoon last month were there to receive information about their permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been almost a year since they were displaced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">mass shooting at two produce farms\u003c/a> in the small city on California’s coast. They lost more than their homes. They also lost their sense of community and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadliest shooting recorded in San Mateo County was the third in a week of gun violence that rocked California in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 16, six people, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">teenage mother and her infant son\u003c/a>, were massacred in a house in Goshen, an unincorporated community in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 21, a gunman opened fire in a Monterey Park dance studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">killing 11 people\u003c/a> celebrating the Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Jan. 23, seven people were killed across two mushroom farms about three miles apart in Half Moon Bay. Five of the victims were Chinese, and two were Latino. Almost 30 people who lived on the farms in sheds, shipping containers and converted trailers were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A candlelit vigil for the victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay says, ‘We Stand With You’ after a vigil in their honor at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mass shooting brought renewed attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">living and working conditions of California’s farmworkers\u003c/a>. Farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants and fear deportation, are less likely to report safety violations and wage theft. In the state where the national movement to organize farmworkers began more than five decades ago, agricultural laborers still face employer retaliation for unionizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who toil in fields for long hours and low wages struggle to afford housing and find themselves sleeping in unsafe structures on farms. But experts, community advocates and survivors interviewed by KQED for this story said the gun violence in Half Moon Bay exposed the emergent vulnerability of Chinese farmworkers, who are almost invisible because they represent a sliver of migrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yvonne Lee, a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission, said AAPI farmworkers are vulnerable because of isolation. The closest Chinatown to Half Moon Bay is in San Francisco, about an hour’s drive.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.’[/pullquote]“If you are in a farming industry — No. 1, it’s more fragmented — and farming, you tend to be in a rural area outside of the traditional Asian enclaves that you would find support,” Lee said. “Yes, Half Moon Bay is not that far, but if you’re talking about an immigrant who doesn’t own a car — even if they own a car, they have limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said very few Americans know of the legacy of AAPI farmworkers in the agricultural industry. In the 1850s, Chinese workers began migrating to America to work in California’s gold mines. Chinese immigrants were also instrumental in building the transcontinental railroad from 1863–69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese migrants also took agricultural jobs and introduced new farming techniques, including shifting California’s agricultural business from grain to vegetables and fruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concord Farms can be seen in the distance in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-Chinese racism festered among white laborers, particularly among unemployed European immigrants who refused to work in fields. The resentment culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the xenophobic 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. The law was repealed in 1943.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output.’[/pullquote]The agricultural jobs vacated by the Chinese were filled by Japanese workers until the incarceration of people of Japanese descent, many of whom were American citizens, disrupted California’s vegetable industry. Japanese farmers grew most of the state’s peppers, celery, tomatoes and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, about 96% of farmworkers in California identify as Hispanic, with \u003ca href=\"https://farmworkerfamily.org/information\">75% undocumented\u003c/a>, according to the Center for Farmworker Families. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Asian_Producers.pdf\">census (PDF)\u003c/a>, which is conducted every five years, found that Asian producers accounted for 0.7% of the country’s 3.4 million producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At roughly 7,000, California had the highest number of Asian farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a forever memory’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chunli Zhao opened fire at California Terra Garden, where he lived and worked as a forklift driver, killing four people and wounding Pedro Romero Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao then drove to Concord Farms, a farm he was reportedly fired from in 2015, and fatally shot three people. Zhao, 67, was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/half-moon-bay-shooting-suspect-interview/3140537/\">interview\u003c/a> three days after the shooting, Zhao told NBC Bay Area that he had endured years of bullying and long hours working at the two farms. According to Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, Zhao told investigators that he was angry at the time of the shootings because California Terra Garden demanded $100 to repair a damaged forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven victims were Jose Romero Pérez, 38; Zhishen Liu, 73; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50; Aixiang Zhang, 74; Qizhong Cheng, 66; Jingzhi Lu, 64; and Yetao Bing, 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large vigil with many bouquets of flowers, candles and handwritten signs in memory of those who were victims of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner lights a candle after a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting earlier in the week, which left 7 dead and 1 wounded, on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedro Romero Pérez, the younger brother of José Romero Pérez, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">learning to play accordion in a music therapy class\u003c/a> at another farm in Half Moon Bay, KQED reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were forced to move off the farms as the police and FBI conducted investigations. They’ve moved between hotels and short-term rentals. The rent will be paid by San Mateo County through March or April, according to a Half Moon Bay city official. The city will need to raise money for temporary housing, officials told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a December afternoon the week before Christmas, KQED interviewed a middle-aged Chinese couple through an interpreter at the Half Moon Bay Library. Before the mass shooting, they lived in a shed on Concord Farms without a kitchen or bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the library’s community room, an elderly Chinese couple never left each other’s side. The man walked with a hunch, and his wife clutched the handle of her cane with one hand and rested the other on his walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man joined the couple. In bits of English and Cantonese, he talked with a KQED reporter whose mother immigrated from China about how both of their families have roots in Guangdong, a coastal province in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speak with KQED, the younger of the two couples requested anonymity to maintain their privacy while discussing the massacre and their housing situation. Their case manager, Sao Leng U, translated from Mandarin to English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman made intense eye contact with Leng U during the interview. Her husband, a truck driver who was on his daily route when his coworkers and friends were fatally shot, kept his eyes glued to a handout printed in Mandarin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Half Moon Bay farmworker\"]‘We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?”[/pullquote]“I was at the farm, but the farm is quite loud and noisy,” the woman told KQED. “I didn’t know anything had happened until we went outside and saw [the farmworkers who had been shot] and called the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, they’ve been burdened with lingering trauma, the fear of losing pay, and the uncertainty of where they’ll live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the shooting happened, we are kind of moving from place to place, and we’re feeling insecure,” the woman said. “We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about returning to work a week after the shooting, the man looked up and spoke for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we might have a little bit of PTSD,” he said through the interpreter. “It’s not like a sickness or something, but every time we go back, we’re thinking of the incident. It’s no longer like before. Because before, even though we were working really hard, we were happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they are unsure if they will ever truly move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a forever memory,” the woman said. “Especially now, we’re still working at the farm. Because all the farmworkers are living together, we have different sheds, but we have lots of memories. Especially because I am a witness, it’s really difficult to move on, and it’s not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A community overlooked\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just a turn off Highway 92 is Spanish Town Shops, where a metal T. rex sculpture, intricate water fountains and handcrafted pottery greet visitors. Nestled between the shops is a narrow, rutted road and a creek bridge that leads to California Terra Garden, formerly known as Mountain Mushroom Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a greenhouse to the right, and on a recent visit, there were about a dozen cars in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple signs tell lurkers to “Keep Out” and to not take photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concord Farms is down Highway 1, a 10-minute drive with ocean views. After a stretch of unpaved road, the farm appears with tractors on one side and rolling hills in the distance. Trucks drive in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half Moon Bay’s reputation as a picturesque oceanside getaway known for its quaint pumpkin festival and big wave surfing was jolted by the shooting. A year ago, the farmworker community was overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/halfmoonbaycitycalifornia\">2023 U.S. Census data\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay, with a population of roughly 11,000, is 65.8% white, 24.5% Hispanic or Latino and 5.1% Asian. The median household income is $149,000, and only 6.8% live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The farms are] driven by frequently. Lots of people drive on Highway 92,” said Karen Decker, Half Moon Bay’s economic and city vitality manager. “You pass these landmarks, but just past those recognizable landmarks, there are really insular communities, and you have isolation within isolation.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Karen Decker, economic and city vitality manager, Half Moon Bay\"]‘Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew.’[/pullquote]Decker was at the community center that was converted to a reunification site on Jan. 23, 2023. She recalled a large crowd of Spanish-speaking farmworkers on one side and, on another, a group of six to eight Chinese farmworkers huddled together, speaking Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled asking one Chinese woman about her biggest need, expecting to hear water or food. Instead, Decker said the woman conveyed a “great anxiety about missing work” the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so frantic that they’re going to lose their housing if they can’t work,” Decker said. “They’re terrified about missing, like, an hour of wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Decker and other volunteers went to pick up the farmworkers from their hotels on Jan. 24, 2023, no one was eating the continental breakfast. They didn’t know it was included, Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became clear to us that the people we work with who were displaced hadn’t stayed in a hotel before,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leng U, the director of social services at Self-Help for the Elderly, a San Francisco Chinatown nonprofit that provides case management to Chinese farmworkers, said many Chinese immigrants rely on family to house them after arriving in the U.S. That’s not the case for the Half Moon Bay farmworkers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to California Terra Garden farm in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said most of the affected Chinese farmworkers did not have family support. Advertisements for farms in publications like Sing Tao, a Bay Area Chinese newspaper, offer on-site housing. That’s what drew the workers to Half Moon Bay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, they are stationed at the farm. They live at the farm. They eat at the farm,” Leng U added. “They get along with each other like family because most of them have very limited social interaction with the people outside. There is no agency that specifically works with the Chinese population. They don’t have any community connection.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in. Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.’[/pullquote]Leng U visited both farms after the shooting. The sheds used as homes had plastic sheets for insulation and just enough room for a mattress and personal belongings. There were makeshift outdoor kitchens. During the winter months, cold temperatures caused the farmworkers to lose sleep, according to Leng U.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Jan. 24, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fD7JYgh1wI'\">press conference\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay. “Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a Jan. 28, 2023, story in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farms-were-not-17747665.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, San Mateo County officials did not find records of housing permits or inspection records for either farm. In June 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">Cal/OSHA cited both farms\u003c/a> for failure to secure labor camp permits for onsite worker housing, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/01/governor-newsom-announces-16-million-to-support-farmworker-homeownership/\">$16 million\u003c/a> to increase homeownership for California farmworkers, $5 million of which would be allocated to Half Moon Bay to purchase 28 housing units, in June 2023. The city has set aside $1 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/881/880-Stone-Pine---Frequently-Asked-Questi\">to plan a development\u003c/a> slated to be completed in 2025.[aside postID=news_11941716 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2540-1-1020x765.jpeg']Wei-ting Chen, the executive director of community engagement at the Stanford School of Medicine, volunteered to translate for the Chinese farmworkers in the immediate aftermath. She routinely goes to Half Moon Bay to deliver supplies and texts the farmworkers using WeChat, a Chinese messaging app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the farmworkers feel that the temporary housing, while comfortable, doesn’t feel like their homes. They will sleep there, but they still cook on the farm because the smoke from their woks fills the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They still do most of their living on the farm,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, most of the employees work six days a week. Their one day off is used to run errands. One older couple decided to retire, but the rest of the Chinese workers returned to work almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were eager to go back to work because if they didn’t work, they didn’t get paid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If you are in a farming industry — No. 1, it’s more fragmented — and farming, you tend to be in a rural area outside of the traditional Asian enclaves that you would find support,” Lee said. “Yes, Half Moon Bay is not that far, but if you’re talking about an immigrant who doesn’t own a car — even if they own a car, they have limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said very few Americans know of the legacy of AAPI farmworkers in the agricultural industry. In the 1850s, Chinese workers began migrating to America to work in California’s gold mines. Chinese immigrants were also instrumental in building the transcontinental railroad from 1863–69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese migrants also took agricultural jobs and introduced new farming techniques, including shifting California’s agricultural business from grain to vegetables and fruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concord Farms can be seen in the distance in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-Chinese racism festered among white laborers, particularly among unemployed European immigrants who refused to work in fields. The resentment culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the xenophobic 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. The law was repealed in 1943.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is attached to several motors that push her to bend forward at the waist move her shoulders, head, and hands that glide across the keyboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard even programmed the puppet’s singing, rigging up Vanessa’s mouth to mimic his own as he sang “A Thousand Miles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa seems to operate on her own. 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They mounted a spotlight on the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been making projects of increasing degrees of ridiculousness for 20 years now,” Klugman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, Powell, who is an attorney and is married to Klugman, entered the mix of creatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971417\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11971417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a purple top hat stands next to a large inflatable character with a Jack-O-Lantern head in an urban setting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240102-VANESSA-PUPPET-05-KQED.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Howard stands next to the Halloween monster he created, along with Noah Klugman and Lane Powell. 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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, fishers have earned a living selling Dungeness crab out of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. But many, like Shawn Chen Flading, have struggled over the last five years as the state has consecutively delayed the commercial season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman,” Flading said. He told KQED that he’s been working side jobs to financially stay afloat. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco\"]‘Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman.’[/pullquote]The season, which has historically started on Nov. 15, is delayed until at least New Year’s Day to protect migrating humpback whales. Crabbers like Flading hope to catch the tail end of the holidays to recoup what they’ve lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also primetime for crab sales as many San Franciscans prepare festive meals that feature the crustacean as opposed to turkey or ham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something people like to splurge on to create a feast,” Flading said. “But with the delay, we’ve lost all the holiday markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Dungeness crab sales topped $20 million in California. The state also exports Dungeness crab to neighboring states and abroad (last year, the state sold $4 million worth of Dungeness crab to China). But this season’s delay has hampered the export market, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of Washington importing California crabs, they’re selling crabs to California,” said John Barnett, president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970016 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large red crabs sit in ice.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab sits in a display case at The Crab Station in Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imported crabs from Washington currently sold on the Wharf are about twice as expensive as local ones — up to $27 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave,” said Timothy But, who works at the Crab Station, a restaurant on the Wharf. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Timothy But, employee, The Crab Station, a restaurant at Fisherman’s Wharf\"]‘Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave.’[/pullquote]Don MacFarlane, owner of Sabella and La Torre, a 96-year-old seafood restaurant on the Wharf, said his business also relies on the holidays to make extra cash by selling crab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a ripple effect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed the season in recent years due to the presence of humpback whales off California waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab traps pose a threat to humpback whales, blue whales, and leatherback sea turtles — all animals listed under the Endangered Species Act. Commercial Crab fishing gear, which consists of a trap that rests on the ocean floor and is connected by a line that leads to a buoy, can entangle these animals and cause injury or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of crab pots are seen stacked up beside a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty crab pots sit outside of Flannery Seafood on Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2015–16 season, a noted rise in entanglements of mostly humpback whales prompted the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity to sue the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged that the organizations failed to prevent the animals from becoming entangled. The parties eventually settled in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the department must delay the season if the animals are found swimming off the coast in high enough numbers or if too many animals get entangled in fishing gear over a set period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since the settlement agreement was enacted, the start of every commercial Dungeness Crab season in the state has been delayed. [aside label='More Stories on Dungeness Crab' tag='dungeness-crab']Migrating humpback whales are now starting their southward journey later in the year and coming closer to shore than before. In previous decades, they headed south by the start of the crab season, but climate change is affecting the timing of that migration, according to Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications, education and outreach for the Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traverso said the spike in entanglements seen in 2015 and 2016 was, in part, caused by abnormally warm waters bringing whales closer to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a number of things going on that are making it so that our seasons don’t really match up with the calendar year that they have been expected to for a really long time,” Traverso said. “Nov. 15 is a lot warmer than it has been. There’s different food sources in the ocean than we were normally expecting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/marine-mammal-stock-assessment-reports-species-stock\">reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> show humpback whale populations have steadily increased in recent decades, recovering from when they were nearly hunted to extinction by the commercial whaling industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boat docked in a harbor is seen through a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Fisherman’s Wharf from Shawn Chen Flading’s boat near Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More whales, combined with their changing migration patterns, have crabbers worried that a crab season that opens in time for the holidays is now a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whales are doing fantastic. It’s the commercial fishermen that are really becoming extinct,” Flading said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flading is also a member of the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group, a group of fishermen, environmentalists, scientists, and state officials that guides the state on how to best prevent whale entanglements. That includes changing crabbing practices, like keeping lines taut, retrieving gear promptly, and avoiding areas where whales are spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a commercial fleet feel very comfortable doing our best practices to limit the interactions and not have any kind of bad effect on the growing population,” Flading said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco\"]‘I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it., it’s something I love to do. And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.’[/pullquote]To change this, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife could submit a conservation plan, called an Incidental Take Permit, to the federal government. This permit would allow for a small number of humpbacks to be unintentionally killed by commercial crabbing — as long as the state can show it would have a negligible impact on the overall whale population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working on an application but has not yet submitted it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Fish and Wildlife Spokesperson Traverso told KQED in an email that the department expects the conservation plan to resemble the current management plan responsible for the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crabbers are hopeful that as Humpback populations continue to increase, the regulations will no longer be necessary. In the meantime, crabbers like Flading want to get back out on the water and pursue their passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it, it’s something I love to do,” he said. “And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary assessment and management recommendation by \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=218183&inline\">the California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday\u003c/a> recommended that the commercial crab season open on Jan. 5, north of Sonoma County, with a 50% reduction in the amount of traps crabbers can use. From Sonoma County south to the border with Mexico, the Department recommends delaying the season further, citing the ongoing presence of humpback whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Don MacFarlane, owner of Sabella and La Torre, a 96-year-old seafood restaurant on the Wharf, said his business also relies on the holidays to make extra cash by selling crab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a ripple effect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed the season in recent years due to the presence of humpback whales off California waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab traps pose a threat to humpback whales, blue whales, and leatherback sea turtles — all animals listed under the Endangered Species Act. Commercial Crab fishing gear, which consists of a trap that rests on the ocean floor and is connected by a line that leads to a buoy, can entangle these animals and cause injury or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of crab pots are seen stacked up beside a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty crab pots sit outside of Flannery Seafood on Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2015–16 season, a noted rise in entanglements of mostly humpback whales prompted the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity to sue the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged that the organizations failed to prevent the animals from becoming entangled. The parties eventually settled in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the department must delay the season if the animals are found swimming off the coast in high enough numbers or if too many animals get entangled in fishing gear over a set period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since the settlement agreement was enacted, the start of every commercial Dungeness Crab season in the state has been delayed. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse and may be disturbing to some readers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Mateo priest accused of molestation in a lawsuit is one of two accused clergy who remain in active ministry with the Archdiocese of San Francisco as the church faces renewed questions over how it responds to sexual abuse allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County in November 2022, alleges Father Linh Tien Nguyen sexually abused a former altar boy and student of St. Pius Catholic Church and School in Redwood City between approximately 2005 and 2008\u003c/span>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan McNevin, Oakland leader, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests\"]‘If there’s any good news in this, it’s that this survivor had the courage at a very young age to come forward and has probably expedited the healing of a lot more kids.’[/pullquote]The plaintiff in the case, identified as “M.S.,” alleges he was between 10 and 13 years old. He is now in his late 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This young person has got a lot of courage,” said Dan McNevin, Oakland leader of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. “If there’s any good news in this, it’s that this survivor had the courage at a very young age to come forward and has probably expedited the healing of a lot more kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official Catholic Church records show Nguyen worked as a pastor at St. Pius from 2005 through 2009. He is currently an associate pastor at St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen and other staff members of St. Bartholomew did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment on the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second priest, Father David Ghiorso, faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse of young boys at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael and a Sonoma County summer camp in the 1980s and ’90s, according to court records and a source familiar with one of the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of the accusations are laid out in documents from two lawsuits filed in Alameda County — one in 2020 and another in 2022. Today, Ghiorso is the pastor of St. Charles Parish in San Carlos and St. Matthias Church in Redwood City. [aside postID=news_11957801 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Oakland-Diocese-Sexual-Abuse-MHN-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The allegations in the lawsuits have not been proven. The plaintiffs either declined or did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you that the Archdiocese followed its procedures in the instances you raised and that Fr. Ghiorso and Fr. Nguyen are priests in good standing and have faculties to minister in the Archdiocese,” Peter Marlow, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s executive director of communications and media relations, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Archdiocese also denies the allegations in legal filings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">News of the allegation against Nguyen comes as the Archdiocese is pressed for details in bankruptcy proceedings about how it handles sexual abuse allegations, and which priests it has deemed credibly accused.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which represents survivors, requested the court’s authorization to subpoena the Archdiocese for documents on the church’s finances and allegations of abuse dating back multiple decades. The Archdiocese objected, calling the request “excessively overbroad, vague and harassing.” A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1679px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen.jpg\" alt=\"A man poses for a portrait looking at the camera with his hand on his chin.\" width=\"1679\" height=\"1119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen.jpg 1679w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1679px) 100vw, 1679px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A newsletter for St. Veronica’s Parish includes a welcome note and a photo of Father Linh Tien Nguyen. \u003ccite>(St. Veronica’s Parish Newsletter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Archdiocese \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958733/sf-archdiocese-files-for-bankruptcy\">sought Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court\u003c/a> in August as it faced more than 530 lawsuits filed by individuals alleging sexual abuse by clergy or others associated with the Archdiocese under a 2019 state law, Assembly Bill 218, or the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB218\">California Child Victims Act\u003c/a>. The law waived all time limits for abuse claims from 2020 through the end of last year, and it permanently extended age limits to sue for childhood molestation — from age 26 to 40 years old or within five years after the discovery of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bankruptcy proceedings effectively froze all the state court cases filed against the San Francisco Archdiocese, its institutions and clergy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent back-to-back legal calls in the bankruptcy case, representatives of the Archdiocese answered questions under oath from the Office of the U.S. Trustee and the committee about the church’s financial situation and knowledge of abuse allegations. Officials said the church had found no accusations against clergy to be credible in the past decade, but has become aware of multiple allegations in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sept. 28 meeting of creditors, the Archdiocese’s Vicar General, Father Patrick Summerhays, disclosed that two active priests and two retired priests had been accused of abuse. Each has been exonerated by the church’s internal process, according to the Archdiocese. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco\"]‘I have not yet received a credible allegation against a priest, although I have received allegations.’[/pullquote]“I have not yet received a credible allegation against a priest, although I have received allegations,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said two weeks later in a continuation of the hearing, referring to his 11 years as Archbishop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how many cases the Archdiocese has received in that time, Cordileone said there have been seven or eight accusations the church has had to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Archdiocese’s process for responding to an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor involves reporting the allegation to civil authorities and removing the accused priest from active ministry while an investigation is conducted by a qualified investigator. A report on the findings of that investigation are handed over to the Archdiocese’s Independent Review Board, a panel of lay people who issues a recommendation to the Archbishop as to whether the allegation is ‘sustained’ or ‘not sustained,’ according to the Archdiocese’s website and church representatives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard different theories as to what credibly accused means,” Cordileone said. “I try not to use that term and rather use [the] term ‘sustained’ or ‘not sustained.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What standard the Independent Review Board, or IRB, uses to determine if an allegation is sustained is unclear, James Stang, an attorney for the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee, later told KQED in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A building on a city street with the words \"Archdiocese of San Francisco\" written over the entrance.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seen on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t find anything that defines it in what the public can see on the website,” Stang said. “In other words, if I go to the website, and they discuss the review board process, I don’t see a definition of what constitutes a sustained claim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “I think the public should know what it means to have a sustained accusation. There has to be a definition somewhere. It can’t just be a gut check. There must be some standard that these review board people are using.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Stang, attorney, Unsecured Creditors’ Committee\"]‘I think the public should know what it means to have a sustained accusation. There has to be a definition somewhere. It can’t just be a gut check. There must be some standard that these review board people are using.’[/pullquote]While there isn’t a single, uniform definition of what constitutes a “credible accusation” against a priest that is shared across all Catholic dioceses, many have publicly shared their interpretations alongside published lists of credibly accused priests in their jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Archdiocese of San Francisco is the only diocese in California that, to date, has not published such a list. Instead, the Archdiocese maintains a \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PRIESTS-AND-DEACONS-WITH-FACULTIES-IN-THE-ARCHDIOCESE-OF-SAN-FRANCISCO-10-09-2023.pdf\">public list of priests and deacons in good standing\u003c/a> who are approved for ministry in the Archdiocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its Nov. 8 filing, the creditors’ committee asked for records related to abuse claims dating back to as early as 1941. Among them: personnel files of accused priests, communication between the Archdiocese and law enforcement agencies over the years, and documents explaining the church’s interpretation of “credibly accused.” It also requests documents from the paper trail of the church’s evaluation of sexual abuse allegations, including IRB meeting minutes, interview notes and recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what standard of proof the IRB uses to determine if an allegation is “sustained” or not, Marlow said, “The process is for the Independent Review Board to review a claim and the investigator’s report and any other relevant information that can support a recommendation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When pressed for more details, he declined to clarify that aspect of the process further. In a subsequent email, Marlow elaborated on what happens when the IRB determines that an allegation is sustained. If the IRB finds that there is sufficient evidence to warrant a canonical trial and the trial results in a conviction, then the accused priest would be permanently removed from ministry. If the IRB finds that an accusation is not sustained, then the priest is reinstated to active ministry and damage to his reputation is remediated.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02.jpg\" alt=\"Lines of text between two people.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02-800x455.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Summerhays-341-meeting-02-1536x874.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a Sept. 28 meeting of creditors, the Archdiocese of San Francisco Vicar General, Father Patrick Summerhays, disclosed that two active priests and two retired priests have been accused of abuse.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The IRB was established in 2002, the same year that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops established the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, a set of procedures for addressing allegations of sexual abuse of minors by clergy often referred to as the Dallas Charter. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jim Jenkins, retired East Bay psychologist and former chairman of the Independent Review Board\"]‘Review boards were strangled in the crib before they could do something.’[/pullquote]“Review boards were strangled in the crib before they could do something,” said Jim Jenkins, a retired East Bay psychologist who was the IRB’s first chairman at its inception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins resigned in 2004 over concerns about the board’s integrity and ability to investigate independently. During his time on the panel, it was the Archbishop who decided what to do with an allegation, not the IRB, Jenkins told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they say the review board reviewed this and did not find anything sustained, that may be true,” Jenkins said. “But the fact that father so and so is recommended to be suspended — that is completely up to the Archbishop. They would never allow anyone else to make that decision. Certainly not lay people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins acknowledged that nearly 20 years have passed since he served on the board, which may have different processes today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Archdiocese stated that Cordileone has always followed the IRB’s guidance. Three IRB members contacted by KQED did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A cross atop a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231019-Archdiocese-Priests-015-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Charles Parish is seen in San Carlos, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nguyen was placed on administrative leave in October 2022 and returned to ministry two months later, according to the Archdiocese. Ghiorso went on leave for around two months in late 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlow declined to say what information the Archdiocese found in its investigations that resulted in Nguyen and Ghiorso both returning to ministry. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Spencer Lucas, attorney representing the complainant identified as M.S.\"]‘We do know that the Catholic Church, on a very broad scale, has done an inadequate investigation into many, many of these claims.’[/pullquote]“While IRB investigations and recommendations are not shared with the media, I can tell you that the Archdiocese followed its procedures in the instances you raised and that Fr. Ghiorso and Fr. Nguyen are priests in good standing and have faculties to minister in the Archdiocese,” Marlow told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spencer Lucas, the attorney representing the complainant identified as M.S. in the lawsuit accusing Nguyen, expressed skepticism about the church’s processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know that the Catholic Church, on a very broad scale, has done an inadequate investigation into many, many of these claims,” he said. “We should all be concerned that the church has not taken adequate steps to properly investigate claims and to institute appropriate training to raise awareness about this ongoing problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We have our own list’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Survivors and advocates have been calling on the Archdiocese of San Francisco to release a list of priests who have been credibly accused under its watch for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oct. 12 meeting of creditors, Cordileone disclosed that while the list hasn’t been released to the public, it does exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A sign on a wall beside a building reading \"St. Pius Church\".' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mass schedule is posted outside St. Pius Catholic Church and School in Redwood City, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Does the Archdiocese have a list of clergy where the [Independent] Review Board has made a determination that the accusation is sustained?” Stang asked the Archbishop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know which ones those are, yeah,” Cordinelone replied. “We have our own list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why the Archdiocese has not published the list, Cordileone said that no one has given him a reason for doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is that our young people are being protected and that those who abuse are kept out of ministry for doing that,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Stein, an attorney with Jeff Anderson & Associates, which represents over 400 alleged survivors with claims in Northern California, the majority of whom are in the Bay Area, was listening. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer Stein, attorney, Jeff Anderson & Associates\"]‘This is an ongoing and recurring theme that is self-serving to the Archdiocese. It puts children and the public in great peril by keeping that information secret.’[/pullquote]“This is an ongoing and recurring theme that is self-serving to the Archdiocese,” Stein said. “It puts children and the public in great peril by keeping that information secret.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2022, SNAP \u003ca href=\"https://assets.nationbuilder.com/snap/pages/11958/attachments/original/1663596454/UPDATED_San_Francisco_Archdiocese_Accused_List.pdf?1663596454\">published its own list\u003c/a> of 312 priests who have been publicly accused of abuse and were associated at one point or another with the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Nguyen’s name is not included on the list as the M.S. lawsuit was filed two months after publication. Ghiorso’s name, however, is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2021, parishioners of both churches where Ghiorso currently works \u003ca href=\"https://www.bishop-accountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/news-2021-10-20-archdiocese-of-san-francisco-Dear-Parishioners.pdf\">were notified\u003c/a> via a letter that he had been named in filed claims and would be temporarily restricted from exercising public ministry while an investigation was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement came nearly a year after a lawsuit was filed in Alameda Superior Court by two men alleging they had been sexually abused while they were living at St. Vincent’s School for Boys, a residential program for disadvantaged boys in San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records from the lawsuit, plaintiff Gary Johnson alleges that he and other boys from St. Vincent’s were molested by priests at a summer camp in Sonoma County for several years in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges several priests began showing up at St. Vincent’s weekly to take the boys off-campus to Camp Armstrong, where they were given alcohol and molested or forced to engage in sex acts with one another, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1567px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967288 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01.jpg\" alt=\"A newspaper clipping with a photo of a priest smiling while talking to a person facing him.\" width=\"1567\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01.jpg 1567w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01-800x980.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01-1020x1250.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-Ghiorso-Examiner-2-01-1254x1536.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1567px) 100vw, 1567px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father David Ghiorso, who faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse of young boys at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael and a Sonoma County summer camp in the 1980s and 1990s, was profiled in the San Francisco Examiner on Oct. 23, 1994. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Examiner clipping from October 23, 1994.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When not participating, perpetrator defendants would also watch the boys abuse one another and would masturbate as they watched,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reporting the abuse to an athletic coach at the school, who notified the school’s front office, Johnson was removed from St. Vincent’s and placed in a foster home, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second plaintiff in the same lawsuit alleges a priest abused him for a year, shortly after he arrived at St. Vincent’s in 1989 at the age of 9 and became an altar boy. Marcus Raymond Hill alleges that on one occasion, when he and other boys were invited to the rectory for doughnuts after mass, he was asked to stay longer, given wine and forced to masturbate the priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On three other occasions, the complaint states the priest allegedly plied Hill with wine and anally penetrated and raped him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghiorso, who is not named in the lawsuit, is identified as the alleged perpetrator in the case on a matrix filed in Alameda Superior Court. The matrix is a chart that displays data from hundreds of Northern California clergy sex abuse cases filed under AB 218, including case numbers, attorney names, alleged perpetrator names, dates of alleged abuse and other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person familiar with the case confirmed to KQED that Ghiorso is an alleged perpetrator in the lawsuit. NBC Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/four-bay-area-priests-still-on-the-job-despite-new-sex-abuse-allegations/2927084/\">previously reported\u003c/a> the allegations. [aside postID=news_11958733 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1310855004-1020x680.jpg']Ghiorso was ordained in 1981 and worked as a pastor at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Novato through 1985, according to the Official Catholic Directory. From 1986-1990, he was the associate director of St. Vincent’s. Ghiorso went on to fill leadership roles with the Catholic Youth Organization and CYO Archbishop McGucken Youth Retreat and Conference Center, the location of Camp Armstrong, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghiorso returned to the ministry in December 2021 following his temporary leave, according to Marlow. Four months later, court records show, he was accused in a new lawsuit of ongoing abuse of another altar boy at St. Vincent’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From around 1988 through 1991, an unnamed plaintiff alleges, he was “continuously anally raped and sexually assaulted” by Ghiorso when he was 10-13 years old. The plaintiff alleges Ghiorso began sexually abusing him in an area of the church that altar boys used to change. The abuse escalated to mutual oral sex and penetration in the church and at Ghiorso’s office, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several times, the plaintiff attempted to run away from St. Vincent’s and was heavily medicated by staff at the facility in an attempt to control his behavioral outbursts, the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiff first reported the alleged abuse to a private investigator hired by the Archdiocese, who contacted him in late 2021, according to the complaint. The investigator had “been previously told by one of the plaintiff’s classmates that the plaintiff may have been one of Father Ghiorso’s many victims,” the document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not until the plaintiff was contacted by the investigator that his memories of what Father Ghiorso did to him as a child resurfaced,” according to the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghiorso and his attorney did not respond to KQED’s multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if Ghiorso was removed from ministry a second time pending an investigation into the new claim, Marlow declined to specify and instead restated that the Archdiocese’s procedures were followed in each case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are good reasons why Fr. Ghiorso is a priest in good standing with faculties to serve in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The allegations in the lawsuits have not been proven. The plaintiffs either declined or did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you that the Archdiocese followed its procedures in the instances you raised and that Fr. Ghiorso and Fr. Nguyen are priests in good standing and have faculties to minister in the Archdiocese,” Peter Marlow, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s executive director of communications and media relations, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Archdiocese also denies the allegations in legal filings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">News of the allegation against Nguyen comes as the Archdiocese is pressed for details in bankruptcy proceedings about how it handles sexual abuse allegations, and which priests it has deemed credibly accused.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which represents survivors, requested the court’s authorization to subpoena the Archdiocese for documents on the church’s finances and allegations of abuse dating back multiple decades. The Archdiocese objected, calling the request “excessively overbroad, vague and harassing.” A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1679px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen.jpg\" alt=\"A man poses for a portrait looking at the camera with his hand on his chin.\" width=\"1679\" height=\"1119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen.jpg 1679w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/FrLinhTienNguyen-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1679px) 100vw, 1679px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A newsletter for St. Veronica’s Parish includes a welcome note and a photo of Father Linh Tien Nguyen. \u003ccite>(St. Veronica’s Parish Newsletter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Archdiocese \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958733/sf-archdiocese-files-for-bankruptcy\">sought Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court\u003c/a> in August as it faced more than 530 lawsuits filed by individuals alleging sexual abuse by clergy or others associated with the Archdiocese under a 2019 state law, Assembly Bill 218, or the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB218\">California Child Victims Act\u003c/a>. The law waived all time limits for abuse claims from 2020 through the end of last year, and it permanently extended age limits to sue for childhood molestation — from age 26 to 40 years old or within five years after the discovery of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bankruptcy proceedings effectively froze all the state court cases filed against the San Francisco Archdiocese, its institutions and clergy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent back-to-back legal calls in the bankruptcy case, representatives of the Archdiocese answered questions under oath from the Office of the U.S. Trustee and the committee about the church’s financial situation and knowledge of abuse allegations. Officials said the church had found no accusations against clergy to be credible in the past decade, but has become aware of multiple allegations in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sept. 28 meeting of creditors, the Archdiocese’s Vicar General, Father Patrick Summerhays, disclosed that two active priests and two retired priests had been accused of abuse. Each has been exonerated by the church’s internal process, according to the Archdiocese. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“While IRB investigations and recommendations are not shared with the media, I can tell you that the Archdiocese followed its procedures in the instances you raised and that Fr. Ghiorso and Fr. Nguyen are priests in good standing and have faculties to minister in the Archdiocese,” Marlow told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spencer Lucas, the attorney representing the complainant identified as M.S. in the lawsuit accusing Nguyen, expressed skepticism about the church’s processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know that the Catholic Church, on a very broad scale, has done an inadequate investigation into many, many of these claims,” he said. “We should all be concerned that the church has not taken adequate steps to properly investigate claims and to institute appropriate training to raise awareness about this ongoing problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We have our own list’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Survivors and advocates have been calling on the Archdiocese of San Francisco to release a list of priests who have been credibly accused under its watch for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oct. 12 meeting of creditors, Cordileone disclosed that while the list hasn’t been released to the public, it does exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A sign on a wall beside a building reading \"St. Pius Church\".' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231017-Archdiocese-Priests-008-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mass schedule is posted outside St. Pius Catholic Church and School in Redwood City, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Does the Archdiocese have a list of clergy where the [Independent] Review Board has made a determination that the accusation is sustained?” Stang asked the Archbishop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know which ones those are, yeah,” Cordinelone replied. “We have our own list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why the Archdiocese has not published the list, Cordileone said that no one has given him a reason for doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is that our young people are being protected and that those who abuse are kept out of ministry for doing that,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Stein, an attorney with Jeff Anderson & Associates, which represents over 400 alleged survivors with claims in Northern California, the majority of whom are in the Bay Area, was listening. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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These perks are part of the public library’s mission to serve the \u003ca href=\"https://newamericans.ala.org/white-paper/part-2/assess-community-needs/\">needs of the local community\u003c/a>, says \u003ca href=\"https://milwaukeenns.org/2020/12/28/5-things-to-know-about-joan-johnson-milwaukees-new-library-director/\">Joan Johnson\u003c/a>, library director at Milwaukee Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Libraries are one of the most important parts of the social infrastructure. The possibilities for how you explore are endless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To take advantage of these money-saving benefits, sign up for a library card, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@mychal3ts\">Mychal Threets\u003c/a>, the supervising librarian at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Fairfield. 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Some libraries have \u003ca href=\"https://nolalibrary.org/location-specific-services/cake-pans/\">bakeware collections\u003c/a> where you can get baking pans,” says Threets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akhila Bhat, branch manager at Harris County Public Library in Katy, Texas, says her library system has a \u003ca href=\"https://hcpl.net/blogs/post/seed-libraries-and-gardening-resources/\">seed library\u003c/a>. “Patrons can pick up seeds to start a garden and drop off seeds for others to take home and plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, libraries like the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island \u003ca href=\"https://www.provlib.org/using-the-library/tools/\">have tools you can check out\u003c/a>. That includes a cordless drill, safety goggles and a laser level.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Reserve free tickets to local museums and attractions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some places, you can get free or discounted tickets to local attractions in your city or town. The Nashville Public Library, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://library.nashville.org/services/community-passports\">offers free passes\u003c/a> to the Cheekwood Estate and Gardens (saving patrons $29 in admission fees), the Country Music Hall of Fame (saving about $28) and the National Museum of African American Music (saving about $27). And \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30806\">library card holders in California\u003c/a> can gain free entry to over 200 state parks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23887\">saving patrons $20 in entry fees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Print out your documents at a discount\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can use the computers to print documents like plane tickets, concert tickets or shipping labels. There’s usually a small fee, but it’s often cheaper than printing at an office supply store or a shipping center, says Threets. 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That usually starts in May or June. [And] taking a location, beginning of August, in order to prepare the location, decorate the location, set up all of the goods, and then, you need two weeks after Halloween to break it all down, get everything set up [and] leave the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tried to do Christmas stores at one point, but it was way too competitive. Gas stations did Christmas. Everybody did Christmas. So I gave that up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just living Halloween things for 10 months strikes me as a lot.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I think they’re doing a lot of online selling — they’ll do it all year round for costumes, makeup, masks, parties [and] events. And so, they’re keeping busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When I was working for another radio station in Los Angeles, and we were coming up on Halloween, we noticed these stores. I talked to one guy who was a manager of one of these stores. 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The master-planned community is the largest residential project under construction in Oakland and promises to add up to 3,700 homes on the site of a former shipping dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But building any new housing in the Bay Area is challenging, let alone a whole neighborhood from the ground up the way developers are doing at Brooklyn Basin. Megaprojects require years, if not decades, of planning and face challenges such as regulatory hurdles, complex environmental cleanup and difficulty lining up financing. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dayona Johnson, resident, Brooklyn Basin\"]‘I’m a strong believer that your environment and where you live really sets the tone for how your day is going to go.’[/pullquote]After two decades, Brooklyn Basin is only about one-third of the way through development. 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[aside postID=news_11956396 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66358_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-24-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg']“It shouldn’t be this hard to produce housing for our children and grandchildren. And it shouldn’t be this hard to create places where people want to stay and call home,” Ghielmetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooklyn Basin is slated to include up to 200,000 square feet of commercial space and 30 acres of parks and open space. A total of 13 residential buildings are planned — four of which will be for residents with lower income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Township Commons, a former shipping facility repurposed into a park, draws people from inside and outside the neighborhood for activities ranging from picnics to salsa dancing. The historic Ninth Avenue Terminal building was refurbished into a retail hall for restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small grocery store, Rocky’s Market, opened in April 2020 but closed two years later citing complications from the pandemic and a lack of foot traffic. The former space, inside the terminal building, will be taken over by The Lumpia Company, a Filipino-inspired restaurant backed by Bay Area rapper E-40. The terminal building also houses an Oaklandish boutique and a California Canoe and Kayak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large sunny plaza with a smattering of people set beside a body of water with a sail boat floating in it and others docked on the opposite shore.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from one of the apartments in Brooklyn Basin. The project includes redeveloping the former shipping buildings and terminals. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Zocalo Coffee and Kitchen opened on the ground floor of one of the apartment buildings. Owner Sara Ubelhart said the shop does have some regulars, but weekday mornings are lighter than she would like. The shop is an expansion of Zocalo’s original coffee shop and roastery in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually didn’t want to open up a new cafe,” she said. “But what really attracted me was the Commons — so much space outside, people outside using it, kids skating and on their bikes, and just all this community happening outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe fills up on weekends when people from outside the neighborhood come to hang out along the water. She expects it will take time to build up a larger customer base and is working on hosting more events in the cafe to draw crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting up in Brooklyn Basin “was definitely risky, is feeling risky. Not felt — \u003cem>feeling,\u003c/em>” she said. “We’ve got the water on one side and the freeway on the other, and then all of our neighborhood and community members are above us. So we’re really trying to figure out how to connect with those folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, builders have constructed six mid-rise buildings with more than 1,000 apartments — three market-rate buildings and three of the affordable subsidized housing buildings. About 1,500 residents have moved in since leasing began in late 2019.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sara Ubelhart, owner, Zocalo Coffee and Kitchen\"]‘What really attracted me was the Commons — so much space outside, people outside using it, kids skating and on their bikes, and just all this community happening outside.’[/pullquote]The first was the 241-unit Orion building, which opened just months before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Last year, tenants began filling up the 241-unit Artizan Apartments. This month, the first phase of the 378-unit Caspian will welcome its first residents. Rents start around $2,000 per month for a studio and range up to $5,300 for a three-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that the project is successful, people say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve always loved that project,’” Ghielmetti said. “But there were a group of folks that didn’t and sued and delayed it. Those parks could have been opened five, eight years earlier. And the housing should have been there five, eight years earlier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has not built nearly enough housing to keep up with job and population growth for the past few decades, according to Sarah Karlinsky, a housing and land use policy expert with SPUR, a San Francisco-based planning and urban development think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/SPUR_What_It_Will_Really_Take_To_Create_An_Affordable_Bay_Area_Report.pdf\">2021 report from SPUR (PDF)\u003c/a> found that the nine-county Bay Area added about 360,000 homes between 2000 and 2018, about one-third of what was needed. The organization estimates that the Bay Area needs to produce at least 2.2 million more homes by 2070, or roughly 45,000 units per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a megaproject can add thousands of homes to a city’s inventory, Karlinsky said, that is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if our future population growth is not as strong as our prior population growth, we still have an affordability crisis, we still have incredibly expensive housing,” she said. “We’ve actually pushed out a lot of our low- and middle-income households to either far-flung portions of the region, outside of the region to the Central Valley or to other states entirely. And that is not healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over the Bay Area, developers and city planners are reimagining numerous sites, including former industrial parks, military bases or massive parking lots. Treasure Island, a former naval station, is slated for more than 8,000 homes. Google is crafting plans for about 5,900 homes in downtown San José near Diridon Station. The San Francisco Giants are converting 28 acres of former surface parking in Mission Bay into 1,200 homes and 1.7 million square feet of commercial space. In San Mateo, developers have turned the former Bay Meadows Racetrack into an urban village now home to tech company offices, 1,000 homes, parks, restaurants and breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Megaprojects] are not going to solve our housing crisis. But without them, we have no chance of solving our housing crisis,” said Matt Regan, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s lengthy and complicated development process could be faster for smaller projects, Karlinsky said, but megaprojects are a different category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are going to be people’s homes for generations, right? So you really want to make sure you get the environmental right. You want to make sure that you get the planning right,” she said. “They are the sort of projects that I would say are deserving of more community input and more scrutiny. And so, they do take a really long time to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, nonprofit developer MidPen Housing signed on to build the affordable housing component of Brooklyn Basin, including four subsidized buildings for older adults with lower-income, families and formerly unhoused people. Those units will make up around 14% of all the homes in Brooklyn Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of these affordable housing projects, including the one where Johnson lives, are completed and have added 341 homes that are now occupied. The fourth, a 124-unit building, is under construction. The cost of all four buildings, funded by a combination of local, state and federal grants and loans, is around $340 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a plaid sport coat leans on a railing while standing in front of the bright green exterior paneling of a building and large windows.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66339_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-08-ks-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MidPen Housing President Matt Franklin stands for a portrait on the rooftop patio of an affordable housing complex in Brooklyn Basin on June 15, 2023. MidPen has signed on to build 4 buildings of subsidized housing. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel really fortunate to be able to do 465 units in a new neighborhood in this central location in Oakland,” said Matt Franklin, head of MidPen. “We got over 13,000 applications for the three phases that we have done here. That’s just a small representation of how deep the need is here in Oakland and really throughout the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MidPen was drawn in by the waterfront and park space, but also the density of the buildings, Franklin said. Building up to seven or eight stories allows for more residents to access the neighborhood’s views and amenities. [aside label='More on Affordable Housing' tag='affordable-housing']“We’ve done a really nice job collectively for this to really feel like a neighborhood,” Franklin said. “All of the buildings are distinct from one another, but all are of a similar high quality. It’s indistinguishable, what’s a market rate unit or what’s an affordable unit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Johnson relaxed on a navy sofa in her living room that overlooks a playground she frequents with her son. Her apartment was adorned in soothing blue hues with tasteful decor akin to a Pinterest inspiration board. She gushed over the spaciousness of her two-bedroom unit and the waterfront park where she and her son spend hours walking, biking and riding scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before moving here, Johnson rented a cramped, one-bedroom in East Oakland for several years. The area was noisy thanks in part to frequent sideshows. The worst part was the violence, she said. She packed up and left after a shooting in her building. She and her son were staying in a hotel when she received a call that she had been selected for a home eight months after she put her name on the list. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dayona Johnson, resident, Brooklyn Basin\"]‘This community has enhanced our overall wellness, mentally and spiritually — just everything. It’s been a great adjustment to our lives.’[/pullquote]“This environment has been a blessing to us,” Johnson said. “I want my son to be very well-rounded. I want him to be a grounded young man. I want him to be a kind person, a mindful person. And it’s difficult to do that in neighborhoods where there’s so much going on. You see so many things — homelessness — and just people not living their best lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is focused on completing an associate’s degree at Laney College, about a half-mile from Brooklyn Basin. Johnson, who has dabbled in podcasting, has three semesters to go. She dreams of working in media production, and eventually becoming a homeowner. For now, she’s grateful she can make a home in Brooklyn Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel safe and comfortable,” Johnson said. “This community has enhanced our overall wellness, mentally and spiritually — just everything. It’s been a great adjustment to our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve driven south on Interstate 880 past downtown Oakland, you’ve likely seen the cluster of apartment buildings sprouting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959720/millions-earmarked-for-affordable-housing-in-california\">Brooklyn Basin\u003c/a>, a 64-acre peninsula that juts out into the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dayona Johnson leased one of the new apartments, she hadn’t even heard the name Brooklyn Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her first visit, the neighborhood felt bare, but she loved the waterfront views, the quiet and the feeling that the area was “up and coming.” Moving to Brooklyn Basin for her 7-year-old son “has been life-changing,” Johnson, 34, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a strong believer that your environment and where you live really sets the tone for how your day is going to go,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a white baseball cap leans against a wall in a kitchen and smiles at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66352_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-17-ks-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dayona Johnson stands for a portrait in her new kitchen at an affordable housing complex in the Brooklyn Basin neighborhood of Oakland on June 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a time when the Bay Area faces a major housing shortage, megaprojects like Brooklyn Basin create large-scale, high-density housing tucked into an urban area. The master-planned community is the largest residential project under construction in Oakland and promises to add up to 3,700 homes on the site of a former shipping dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But building any new housing in the Bay Area is challenging, let alone a whole neighborhood from the ground up the way developers are doing at Brooklyn Basin. Megaprojects require years, if not decades, of planning and face challenges such as regulatory hurdles, complex environmental cleanup and difficulty lining up financing. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It shouldn’t be this hard to produce housing for our children and grandchildren. And it shouldn’t be this hard to create places where people want to stay and call home,” Ghielmetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooklyn Basin is slated to include up to 200,000 square feet of commercial space and 30 acres of parks and open space. A total of 13 residential buildings are planned — four of which will be for residents with lower income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Township Commons, a former shipping facility repurposed into a park, draws people from inside and outside the neighborhood for activities ranging from picnics to salsa dancing. The historic Ninth Avenue Terminal building was refurbished into a retail hall for restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small grocery store, Rocky’s Market, opened in April 2020 but closed two years later citing complications from the pandemic and a lack of foot traffic. The former space, inside the terminal building, will be taken over by The Lumpia Company, a Filipino-inspired restaurant backed by Bay Area rapper E-40. The terminal building also houses an Oaklandish boutique and a California Canoe and Kayak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large sunny plaza with a smattering of people set beside a body of water with a sail boat floating in it and others docked on the opposite shore.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66345_230615-brooklyn-basin-239-ks.NEF-04-ks-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from one of the apartments in Brooklyn Basin. The project includes redeveloping the former shipping buildings and terminals. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Zocalo Coffee and Kitchen opened on the ground floor of one of the apartment buildings. Owner Sara Ubelhart said the shop does have some regulars, but weekday mornings are lighter than she would like. The shop is an expansion of Zocalo’s original coffee shop and roastery in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually didn’t want to open up a new cafe,” she said. “But what really attracted me was the Commons — so much space outside, people outside using it, kids skating and on their bikes, and just all this community happening outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe fills up on weekends when people from outside the neighborhood come to hang out along the water. She expects it will take time to build up a larger customer base and is working on hosting more events in the cafe to draw crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting up in Brooklyn Basin “was definitely risky, is feeling risky. Not felt — \u003cem>feeling,\u003c/em>” she said. “We’ve got the water on one side and the freeway on the other, and then all of our neighborhood and community members are above us. So we’re really trying to figure out how to connect with those folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, builders have constructed six mid-rise buildings with more than 1,000 apartments — three market-rate buildings and three of the affordable subsidized housing buildings. About 1,500 residents have moved in since leasing began in late 2019.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> screenwriter Charlie Brooker created San Junipero, a fictional California coastal town, he used a few tricks to clue viewers into the era: the cars were old, there was a billboard advertising the movie \u003cem>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/em>, and when Yorkie, the young and awkward protagonist walked into a bar, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/AsbSoNEjpow?feature=shared\">she went straight to the arcade machines\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Simon Pyle, visitor, Pacific Pinball Museum\"]‘I’ve been a pinball fan since I was a kid, so it’s really cool to get my fix. And then, also to bring my kids here. My dad always brought me to play pinball, so it’s cool to pass that along, too.’[/pullquote]To say that arcades were the hallmark of entertainment in the ’80s is probably an overstatement, but they did represent a certain cultural moment in American history. A central component of any arcade is the pinball machine. Those can be hard to find these days unless one visits the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificpinball.org/\">Pacific Pinball Museum\u003c/a>, where nostalgia reigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit interactive museum in Alameda has nine different rooms and over 100 pinball machines, spanning the history of this game from its early ancestor, bagatelle, through modern times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661662/\">President Lincoln even played bagatelle\u003c/a>, one of many times when Americans would go through a pinball craze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a pinball fan since I was a kid, so it’s really cool to get my fix,” said Simon Pyle, a visitor to the museum. “And then, also to bring my kids here. My dad always brought me to play pinball, so it’s cool to pass that along, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11962029 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230921-BAGATELLE-Getty-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man at his workstation hammers nails into a bagatelle board. 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That’s because the early pinball machines didn’t have bumpers or flippers. There was also no way for a player to control the ball’s trajectory. Flippers weren’t introduced until 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1940s, politicians across the United States took a stance against pinball because of its supposed ties to gambling. Most notably, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made a big show of confiscating and dumping thousands of pinball machines as part of his campaign against organized crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those laws banning pinball stayed on the books for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first opened, that was 2002, and it was illegal to have an arcade in Alameda,” said Michael Schiess, executive director and founder of the Pacific Pinball Museum. “And so, it basically became a little speakeasy and people just would come in through the back door.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Schiess, executive director and founder, Pacific Pinball Museum\"]‘When I first opened, that was 2002, and it was illegal to have an arcade in Alameda. … it basically became a little speakeasy and people just would come in through the back door.’[/pullquote] Schiess bought his first pinball machine with the intention of taking it apart and making kinetic art out of it. But once he started playing, he got hooked and started buying more and more machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get around the ban and operate legally, Schiess removed the coin slots in the machines and displayed his collection as a nonprofit museum, where people pay an admission fee and can play as long as they want. In 2014, Alameda changed its law banning pinball, but by then the museum was already established.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pinball art through the ages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Art is also an important part of pinball nostalgia. Pinball artists \u003ca href=\"https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/roy-parker\">Roy Parker\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/george-molentin\">George Molentin\u003c/a> were among the most well-known. The art on the first pinball machine with flippers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinballartusa.com/product-page/humpty-dumpty-1947-gottlieb-1\">Humpty Dumpty\u003c/a>, was done by Roy Parker. In it, a king sits on a throne surrounded by beautiful women; high scores are displayed on the tower and rampart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11961873 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The lighted up display of a vintage pinball machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230917-PacificPinball-20-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parts of a vintage pinball machine are seen at the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1960s, pinball art took a turn toward the contemporary. Known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificpinball.org/exhibition/pointy-people\">Pointy People\u003c/a>,” this new art style is characterized by angular strokes and pointy articulations. A prime example is the 1965 pinball machine \u003ca href=\"https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/pot-o-gold\">Pot ‘O’ Gold\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housed in the \u003cem>Pointy People\u003c/em> exhibition room at the museum, it depicts a pot of lost treasure buried under the sea. It was the very first artwork from pinball artist Jerry K. Kelley, who developed this style. [aside label='More on Arts and Culture' tag='arts'] “[The museum] wasn’t ever supposed to be an amusement arcade,” Schiess said. “It was supposed to be a place where you learn about art and about technology and about history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A history lesson may be Schiess’ intention, but the thrill of playing is what draws most visitors here. 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