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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get'um [sic] running!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the directives Berkeley police commanders gave officers before a protest march last December that led to repeated confrontations between officers and demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan delivered \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofberkeley.info/Police/Response-To-Civil-Unrest/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> on his department's handling of the protests to the city's police watchdog commission Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the meeting, the head of the Police Review Commission said the body would seek an explanation of what he called an \"extremely unfortunate\" choice of words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Perezvelez, acting chair of the Berkeley Police Review Commission, said he and other panel members will ask Meehan about the directive, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2015/06/07/documents-show-police-briefed-to-getum-running-when-encountering-protesters-in-december/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported\u003c/a> Monday in The Daily Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6gYgCVEtDRgGrf6jMbLMYvWymJVlLIMt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an unfortunate use of words. If the intent was, as the quote is, to 'get them running,' that is not the proper way to handle any demonstration in the city of Berkeley,” Perezvelez said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a better approach would have been to \"keep [protesters] moving, keep them safe, keep them on the streets, make sure they’re safe, make sure the demonstration keeps moving through the city. ... The usage of the words ‘get them running’ gives a much different perspective and definition to the action, and is extremely unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police spokeswoman Jenn Coats wrote in an email Thursday that the \"get'um running\" statement from notes delivered to officers at a pre-event briefing was a \"talking point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It references helping spread out those groups to be able to better identify specific individuals that were committing crimes,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department posted its own report on the December unrest on Tuesday. 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This review's recommendations will serve to positively impact similar future operations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meehan \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2094497-general-emails.html#document/p1/a222074\" target=\"_blank\">has praised\u003c/a> officers' \"professionalism, patience and courage\" in the face of what he characterized as an attack on police headquarters on the first night of the protests -- Dec. 6, 2014 -- and in responding to widespread vandalism the following night. Protest organizers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/08/berkeley-mayor-better-communications-needed-with-protesters\" target=\"_blank\">criticized police\u003c/a> for what they called an aggressive response that included batons, tear gas and the use of “less-lethal” munitions such as rubber bullets or beanbags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests were called in response to police violence in Ferguson, Missouri, New York City and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Daily Cal, UC Berkeley's independent, student-run paper, obtained the department documents from the Police Review Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2094496-incident-action-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">briefing notes\u003c/a>\" presented to department members in the hours before the first evening of protest, officers \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2094496-incident-action-plans.html#document/p1/a222076\" target=\"_blank\">were advised\u003c/a> that in handling demonstrators they should aim to, \"Get'um running! 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That set off a long evening of confrontation, complete with repeated volleys of smoke canisters, tear gas and \"less-lethal\" munitions fired as police moved a crowd of several hundred people south along Telegraph Avenue toward Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Daily Cal's story discloses that Berkeley police came close to exhausting their supply of gas and crowd-control munitions the first night of the protests. The paper published \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2094495-mutual-aid-emails.html#document/p1/a222080\" target=\"_blank\">an email\u003c/a> from Berkeley police Lt. 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This was recognized during the protests and changes were implemented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside got a somewhat more refined number from Wednesday night's Police Review Commission meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/berkeleyside/status/608862180637696002\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perezvelez of the Police Review Commission said his review of documents and video from the protests suggests the department's rules for handling protests need to be improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that the general orders are operationally adequate and they’re legally adequate, and they are in accordance to federal and state law,\" Perezvelez said. \"But they are not broad enough to include the nuances of crowd control and the nuances of use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This post has been revised to incorporate comments and material from the Berkeley Police Review Commission and Berkeley Police Department.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story has been updated with a \u003ca href=\"#clarification\">clarification\u003c/a> (see end of post). \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Berkeley High student yearbook was recalled Wednesday after an offensive comment about one of the campus's small schools, the \u003ca href=\"http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/communities/academy-of-medicine-and-public-serivce/\" target=\"_blank\">Academy of Medicine and Public Service (AMPS)\u003c/a>, was discovered on one of its pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text published in the yearbook describes AMPS, which has a high concentration of African-American and Hispanic students, as “a small learning community focus [sic] on medicine, making our future doctors, dentists, nurses, physicians, fire chiefs and trash collators [sic].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to Berkeley High families Wednesday night -- the school's third email of the day on the subject -- Interim Principal Kristin Glenchur wrote: “As you may know, an offensive and racist phrase was discovered on the AMPS page of the BHS yearbook. Our investigation to this point indicates that the original text of the page was maliciously replaced. ” She continued, saying it had been difficult to pinpoint who was responsible, as so many people were involved in the compilation of the yearbook. The entire yearbook staff has assumed collective responsibility for the incident. (Read her \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Email-from-Kristin-Glenchur-7-50pm-6.3.15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full email\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community was first alerted to the yearbook page by an email sent out around 2 p.m. Wednesday by BHS Vice Principal Daniel Nube, who said the 2015 yearbook was being recalled. He requested that students turn in their copies to the front desk with their names written in them. 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No personal information will be looked at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour after Nube’s email went out, Glenchur also sent out an email through the Berkeley High e-tree, saying that the school would be removing the offending page and would meet with the AMPS community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve met with Yearbook staff and are investigating how unedited and inflammatory language about AMPS appeared in the yearbook,” Glenchur wrote. “Staff is recalling all yearbooks, replacing the text, and organizing a time to meet with the AMPS community next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve stopped production of the rest of the books,” said Mark Coplan, spokesman for the Berkeley Unified School District. “I’m not exactly sure what the resolution will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yearbook is compiled by a student staff with the help of a faculty adviser, Gabriel Berent. Glenchur mentioned him in her email without explaining his position as the yearbook’s faculty adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know Gabe Berent is devastated by the error that has caused pain to so many and, though nothing can undo what was done, he and his staff are working very hard on a response and a process that will keep this from happening in the future,” Glenchur wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside was unable to reach Berent for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to the yearbook comment on Twitter, Kadijah Means, president of the Berkeley High Black Student Union, wrote: “There is no excuse for this honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Errors in the yearbook are not uncommon, but generally don’t extend beyond spelling mistakes or the occasional switching of one student’s photo with another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to note that, prior to Gabe’s work with the yearbook, an even more egregious and base level lack of editing existed,” Glenchur said in the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school will be moving forward with a “restorative justice process,” Glenchur wrote, and each AMPS senior will receive a free edited yearbook. 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But since around 2010, “I’ve been putting in 65-hour weeks, and we haven’t been earning anything out of it … so when the previous owners decided to put the building on the market in March of 2014, I had to step back and say, ‘Whatever’s going on here, this is not a sustainable formula.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building at 2499 Telegraph had been owned by successive generations of one family — the Kesslers — since 1915. 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This would have meant Shakespeare closing for six to nine months, something Wobber felt the store could not withstand financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wobber says he understands the owners’ predicament, and is friendly with the landlord. “[Ripsteen] would like to have me there, I completely understand, but it’s just not practical.” Wobber said he believes the landlord is “committed to retail,” but otherwise couldn’t speculate on the fate of the building. Ripsteen was not immediately available for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for dwindling business, Wobber points to both e-books and the rise of online giants like Amazon (which “seems to have a goal of driving the hard copy book out of existence,” he says), as well as “a changing culture” and shifts in Berkeley’s landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want things to be a lot more immediate, and I’m afraid we’re living in a kind of soundbite culture … there’s also just not as much foot traffic on Telegraph as there used to be. Berkeley’s more focused toward downtown now, maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wobber put the bookstore on the market in August of last year, but said he hadn’t gotten any solid offers until he made a call late last week to Powell’s Books, the Portland, Oregon-based store that bills itself as “the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buyers from Powell’s flew down within days; after surveying the store Tuesday afternoon, they made Wobber an offer for his entire stock, and Shakespeare and Co. closed for good at 8pm last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovers of actual physical books will note that this is hardly an isolated event, especially in Berkeley: Cody’s Books, another independent Telegraph Ave. stalwart since 1956, shut down in 2008, facing similar financial pressures. Though a few other booksellers remain nearby — the tiny Revolution Books is tucked into a small shopping center off Channing — Shakespeare and Co.’s closure means that Moe’s Books, which has been in business just across the street from Shakespeare since the mid-’60s, is technically the last bookstore on the Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to writer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Cometbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Elliott\u003c/a>, who published an entire issue of his \u003ci>Cometbus \u003c/i>zine dedicated to the history of Telegraph Avenue, Moe’s maintained a bitter, long-running feud with Shakespeare & Co. One anecdote in \u003ci>Cometbus \u003c/i>recounts the one and only time Moe’s Books owner Moe Moskowitz set foot inside the competing store: Moskowitz chased a shoplifter across the street and into Shakespeare & Co., looked around, realized where he was and walked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wobber shows no signs of such bitterness, however. “Moe’s is a great place,” he said. “I’ve been friendly with them. They were among the first to hear, and a couple [employees] came right over to wish me well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for him, he plans to focus on Vicarious Experience, a store he’s owned — in a building he also owns — since 1979. He closed it temporarily when he took over Shakespeare in 2004, but with that store closing, he’ll be back in Cotati full-time, full steam ahead. If people miss the Shakespeare & Co. experience, they should come see him in Cotati, he said. “It’s still the same person selling books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he acknowledges Shakespeare’s closing is “a big event” — for him personally, as well as for Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a good bookstore,” he says. “I had a lot of good relationships there with people from all walks of life. Some of our best customers didn’t have a home and just needed a place to read … it was a community. And I’ll miss being part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late January, Daniel Moore came home to his apartment in a 12-unit complex on College Avenue to find there was a new keypad lock on the front gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who had been living at 3100 College for 12 years, didn’t have the combination to the keypad. He was locked out of his own building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the first of a series of mysterious changes to the apartment complex, alterations that his landlords never told him about. Suddenly, washer and dryer units were installed on every landing. New couches appeared in the hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Moore started hearing loud noises from the unit above him. It appeared as if a family of five had moved in suddenly, and the kids were stomping on the new stone kitchen floor. That family moved out, but was replaced by others, people who stayed up until 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that three units in Moore’s rent-controlled building had been converted into short-term rentals through online rental company Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support independent local journalism by \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\">\u003cb>becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley is moving ahead to ban the sale of e-cigarettes and flavored tobacco products within 1,000 feet of parks or schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after hearing from numerous business owners Tuesday night who said they’d fold without tobacco sales, the City Council dialed back a proposal to ban all tobacco sales in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2015/05_May/Documents/2015-05-12_Item_26a_Amendment_to_BMC.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">original proposal\u003c/a> would have affected 63 stores, out of 84 that sell tobacco in the city. About a dozen store owners told the City Council their families’ livelihoods would be threatened by a ban on tobacco sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10523928\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10523928\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shop owners waiting to testify as Berkeley City Council weighed strict limits on tobacco sales in the city. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/storeowners-wait-to-speak.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shop owners waiting to testify as Berkeley City Council weighed strict limits on tobacco sales in the city. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It will shut me down,” said Zeaad Handoush, who has owned Whelan’s Smoke Shop, on Bancroft Way across the street from UC Berkeley, for the past 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came here to Berkeley to do business,\" Handoush said. \"We’ve done business exactly like you’ve told us you’d like it to be run. I’ve never sold to minors ... so I’m up here to defend myself for doing everything right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How am I to raise my two kids? Do you want me to become homeless? How can I live?” asked Ziada Araya, who came to the United States in 1979 as a refugee from Eritrea and now owns U.S. Liquor at Ashby Avenue and Sacramento Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shop owners were responding to a barrage of public comment in favor of more stringent restrictions on tobacco sales. Numerous people stated that 80 percent of smokers start before they turn 18 years old and that easy access to tobacco products helps lead to addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleychamber.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>’s Kirsten MacDonald said most of the 63 stores that would be affected by a 1,000-foot ban get more than half their business from tobacco products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance will not stop smoking,\" said MacDonald. \"It will only cause job loss, tax loss to the city and exacerbate the problem of food deserts in neighborhoods that depend on their existence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley NAACP’s Carol McGruder, who also serves as co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.savingblacklives.org/\" target=\"_blank\">African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council\u003c/a>, said she sympathizes with store owners -- up to a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re weighing the health of our kids against the livelihood of these families.'\u003ccite>Berkeley Councilwoman Linda Maio\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I frankly feel very sorry for them because they are decent people, they are not rich, they are trying to support their families,\" said McGruder. \"But I feel more sorry of the people who become addicted to tobacco, which usually starts under the age of 18.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re weighing the health of our kids against the livelihood of these families,” said Councilwoman Linda Maio, one of several council members who referenced their own personal and family battles with smoking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Max Anderson, who says he quit smoking 41 years ago and has worked as a respiratory therapist, reluctantly voted along with seven other council members to send the original proposal to the city manager for more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The right to poison people, whether it’s been legal for years or not, is not something you want to sustain, add to, temporize about, and back away from controls on,” Anderson said. “How can it be that the health of this community is less important that somebody making money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ban on all tobacco products being sold near parks or schools will likely include a grace period of one to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilwoman Susan Wengraf said a 600-foot buffer, in line with regulations for the location of medical marijuana businesses, might be more appropriate. 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Collected by the Downtown Berkeley Association once a week, the donations will go into a bank account from which the \u003ca href=\"http://bfhp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Food and Housing Project\u003c/a> can allocate funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donations will go toward transportation assistance in the form of bus or BART fares; ID card and housing application fees; supplies, such as socks, underwear and toiletries; and the Homeward Bound program, which pays for long-distance bus tickets to reunite with family members in another California city, according to a statement released by the Downtown Berkeley Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were all things people come to us and ask for,” said Terrie Light, executive director for the Berkeley Food and Housing Project. “When people come for help, we will track the funds from the donations very specifically. There will be a ledger to keep track of these expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by Berkeley City Councilman Jesse Arreguín and Vice Mayor Linda Maio, the motion to implement Positive Change was passed with eight in favor and one abstention — by Max Anderson — at the March 17 council meeting. Arreguín has been working for three years with the Downtown Berkeley Association to implement the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar public donation programs have been adopted throughout the country in cities like San Diego and Louisville over the past few years. 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He also expressed shock and remorse over the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeless people have said that pattern of behavior is typical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Caner of the DBA says that this is contrary to his organization’s goals,” Ninja Kitty, a homeless man who has lived in Berkeley for over a decade, said in a press release. “But part of ambassadors’ job is to intimidate homeless people off of Shattuck Avenue. People are only intimidated if the violence is sometimes real. This brutality is a part of what the DBA does. This isn’t the first time that ambassadors have assaulted homeless people — it’s just the first time it’s been caught so well on camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault happened around 7 p.m. on March 19 in an alleyway behind the downtown Berkeley CVS, at Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way. Two Downtown Ambassadors, Bailey and his partner, Carmen Francios, approached two homeless men, Cocklereese, 30, and Nathan Swor, 23. Cocklereese became upset and shouted invectives at Bailey, who then \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/26/video-downtown-berkeley-worker-assaults-homeless-man/\">punched him at least 10 times,\u003c/a> forcing him to the ground. Swor pulled out a weapon — a 6-foot-long pole with a 4-inch blade attached at the end — and started swinging it to prevent the attack. Bailey was cut in the arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Cocklereese and Swor, and they entered no contest pleas on March 23 to misdemeanor battery. Authorities said they would be sentenced to two years of probation, but that was before the video became public. The district attorney’s office has said they will take a look at the new evidence. Francios has been suspended pending a DBA investigation into why she did not intervene in the fight, said Caner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Bryan Hamilton \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQ8nNr03cU\">posted the video on You Tube\u003c/a>. It went viral as newspapers and television stations around the country reported on the assault. The video has now been viewed more than 49,000 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The altercation came just a few days after the Berkeley City Council asked the city manager \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/18/berkeley-council-approves-proposal-to-curb-impacts-of-homelessness/\">to look at new rules\u003c/a> that would make it harder for the many people who camp out on Shattuck Avenue to occupy the sidewalk and sleep there. The proposal includes everything from preventing panhandling within 10 feet of parking pay stations to asking for recommendations to curb public urination and defecation. Other items limit the placement of “personal objects” in public space; prohibit lying down on or near planters; restrict the hours people can put out bedding to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.; and prevent cooking on sidewalks. The new rules were first proposed by the DBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proposed rules, combined with the video, led activists to hold a protest to highlight their contention that Berkeley seeks to penalize the homeless rather than help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a coincidence,” Osha Neumann, an attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center and a longtime homeless advocate, said in a press release. “When the DBA pushes for criminalization, police and ambassadors feel pressured to use force to push homeless citizens out of public spaces. We don’t want to see just the one guy who got caught fired: We want the DBA to end its campaign of criminalization and brutality against homeless people. 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"content": "\u003cp>At a community forum held in the wake of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/29/comedian-w-kamau-bell-reports-being-subject-of-racism-at-berkeleys-elmwood-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a well-publicized accusation\u003c/a> of racism at a Berkeley cafe, a new initiative was announced to help train local businesses in handling implicit bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 300 people turned up to Willard Middle School Friday night to take part in the public discussion prompted by the Jan. 26 incident at the Elmwood Cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comedian, who is African-American, wrote on his blog how he was asked to leave the College Avenue cafe while he was talking at an outdoor table to his wife, Melissa Hudson Bell, and her friends, who are all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading Bell’s blog post, Michael Pearce, the owner of the Elmwood Cafe and a social justice activist, reached out to the Bells and they agreed a public conversation would be a way to turn a negative experience into a teaching opportunity. Their goal was to achieve a broader understanding of racial issues, in particular the implicit bias that can explain micro-aggressions inflicted on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implicit bias is defined as a positive or negative mental attitude toward a person, thing or group that a person holds at an unconscious level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk, in which audience members were asked to participate, was facilitated by Pamela Harrison-Small, former executive director of the Berkeley Alliance. Joining the Bells and Pearce on the panel were Berkeley High School senior and president of the Berkeley High Black Student Union, Kadijah Means; ACLU-Northern California staff attorney Novella Coleman; Nikki Jones, associate professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of African-American Studies; and Jamie Almanzán, design and leadership coach at The Equity Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation was wide-ranging, engaging and sometimes provocative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison-Small opened the discussion by saying the evening was “a landmark event.” “What we do tonight will be the legacy for our children and it will help show how we move forward around racial issues for the city of Berkeley,” she said. Referring to racism, she added: “The elephant is always in the room — it can’t stay here any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Hudson Bell recounted what had happened on that Monday, which happened to be Kamau Bell’s birthday. She concluded by saying that the way her husband had been treated “absolutely has everything to do with race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he looked different, he would not have been treated the way he was,” she said\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10457694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10457694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the 300-strong audience were asked to talk to each other and consider some the issues under consideration\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the 300-strong audience were asked to talk to each other and consider some the issues under consideration \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bell concurred and explained why the couple decided to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was so blatant I couldn’t let it go,” he said. He described how he had moved to the Bay Area from New York because of its liberal values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose to move back here — this is my home. I rep it hard — I am happy to be a part of it.” He said that the fact the incident involved his wife and young child prompted him to write about it rather than turn it into a joke in his act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This happened to my family. I want to be able to talk about this apocryphal moment,” Bell said. “If I don’t do this, I’m not living up to the principles that I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell, a standup comic prominent on the San Francisco comedy scene, is the former host of the FX television series, “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.” CNN has recently picked up his new TV series, “United Shades of America.” Bell will travel to different parts of the country to explore its subcultures, according to CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadijah Means spoke about how she had been challenged to fight for social justice and equity from a young age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been black,” she said to laughter, “so race has always affected me. I learned from dad that ‘white’ was a racial construct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Jones talked about research on “white and black spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university where I teach is a white space; movie theaters, cafes are white spaces,” she said. “In these white spaces, black people have a special burden. Somehow they have a provisional status position. They have to prove they belong there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novella Coleman said the law does a poor job of dealing with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the huge failures of the law is that it doesn’t recognize implicit bias,” she said. “The law requires that you prove [an act of racism] is intentional. The law doesn’t recognize that biases are harbored without people knowing about them. People see themselves as progressive but they still buy into those racial biases, and situations can trigger them.” She said that if employees accused of racism can provide a race-neutral explanation for their acts, “then the law is good with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the evening’s discussion about implicit bias, Bell spoke about how he himself had had “homophobia in him” before he moved to the Bay Area, but that it was “worked out of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, Hudson Bell questioned the ubiquitous use of the term “implicit bias,” however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We white people don’t want to say ‘racism ‘— a lot of those biases exist on the axis of race,” she said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almanzán, who is Mexican, cautioned against downplaying the importance of race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My skin color plays a part in my identity — I’m not advocating color-blindness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10457696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10457696\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell, Melissa Hudson Bell and Michael Pearce.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell, Melissa Hudson Bell and Michael Pearce. \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Means concurred: “When you say you’re color-blind you’re denying the struggle — you’re saying that it’s easy if you work hard. Stop trying to erase color because you think it’s rude. Be more color-competent — be more color-aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce said the incident that triggered the event had made him feel ashamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Elmwood Cafe was closed Friday night so that all its staff could come to the forum. Pearce said he had met with the Bells at their home, and that they had agreed to jointly launch an implicit-bias training program for the local service industry — both restaurants and retail stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no training for implicit bias. We are going to start a program for the service industry here in Berkeley — we may be the first city in the U.S. that will have that curriculum,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce told Berkeleyside that they would be working in collaboration with experts, such as Race Forward, to devise the program, and they would start on his cafe’s doorstep, going door-to-door to Elmwood neighborhood businesses to talk about what could be achieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A website for the program is under development. Pearce said they are actively seeking input from the community — he asked that everyone with ideas email info@implicitbiastraining.com\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe in the school auditorium was upbeat and the audience was receptive and generally positive. Harrison-Small asked people to engage in conversation with one another, using prompts such as “What do you think is the definition of a micro-aggression?” and “When was the last time you interrupted a racist act?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone who has learned about the Bell incident thinks it was a clear-cut case of racial profiling, however. Among the 1,152 comments left on Berkeleyside’s coverage of the case, some have suggested the waitress may have assumed Bell was soliciting and he would have been asked to move on regardless of his color. Others criticized the comedian for grandstanding in his blog post detailing the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the forum, an audience member asked Bell, via a written question, what made him so sure the Jan. 26 incident was a racially motivated act, and not one directed at the homeless population that is to be found around the cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell responded: “So what if I was homeless? Even if I’m homeless, I’m a black homeless person — you can’t take that part away from me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if someone you know says they were subject to racism and you question them, “You have just lost a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another participant asked why the waitress who tried to shoo Bell away was fired. Was there not a way to repair her attitude?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce, who spoke last month to Berkeleyside about why he made the decision, reiterated that “someone left the cafe feeling uncomfortable — I don’t want to be part of an organization where that happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re the nerdiest people in Berkeley — militant nerds who don’t have Friday night plans. … You’re damn right this is so Berkeley: Let’s take this out there.’\u003ccite>W. Kamau Bell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But he admitted it was a tough call, and asked the audience for a show of hands as to whether she should have been fired. The response was roughly 50-50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamau Bell said he would like to meet the waitress to talk to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t pulling for this woman to be fired,” he said. He said he had worked in retail jobs where he was told to “watch the black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s institutionalized, it’s not just this incident,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indicating an envelope in his hand, Bell said he had just been handed an apology from the waitress, which he had not read yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to scapegoat her. I wish she was here — I hope she still has a job. She’s still in the community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coleman perhaps best articulated the significance of the evening. She applauded Bell and Pearce for coming together and organizing the forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone was brave enough to say this was about race and have people listen to them,” she said referring to Bell. “And Michael Pearce stopped — he didn’t wave this away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Together they] created a space to acknowledge that we are not in a post-racial society,” Coleman said. “We can sit in that awkwardness for a bit and deal with those emotions. Then we can take that experience and carry it to our workplaces — and to different walks of life. We can influence people and challenge ourselves to do better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the warm relationship that appeared to have been established between Pearce and the Bells, Kamau Bell said he and his family were not yet ready to revisit the place where it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t make a business safe for the entire community, you’re losing business,” he said. “We were talking to Michael today. We’re still not in a place when we’re ready to go back to the Elmwood Cafe. We’re still negotiating that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quipped that the business had probably lost “hundreds hundreds of dollars,” as his wife loves the cafe’s scones and runny eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell — a comedian, after all — did end the evening on a light note. He said friends who had heard of Friday’s event had ribbed him, saying “that sounds so Berkeley.” Bell said he agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the nerdiest people in Berkeley — militant nerds who don’t have Friday night plans,” he said. ” ‘This is so Berkeley?’ — you’re damn right this is so Berkeley: Let’s take this out there.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk, in which audience members were asked to participate, was facilitated by Pamela Harrison-Small, former executive director of the Berkeley Alliance. Joining the Bells and Pearce on the panel were Berkeley High School senior and president of the Berkeley High Black Student Union, Kadijah Means; ACLU-Northern California staff attorney Novella Coleman; Nikki Jones, associate professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of African-American Studies; and Jamie Almanzán, design and leadership coach at The Equity Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation was wide-ranging, engaging and sometimes provocative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison-Small opened the discussion by saying the evening was “a landmark event.” “What we do tonight will be the legacy for our children and it will help show how we move forward around racial issues for the city of Berkeley,” she said. Referring to racism, she added: “The elephant is always in the room — it can’t stay here any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Hudson Bell recounted what had happened on that Monday, which happened to be Kamau Bell’s birthday. She concluded by saying that the way her husband had been treated “absolutely has everything to do with race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he looked different, he would not have been treated the way he was,” she said\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10457694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10457694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the 300-strong audience were asked to talk to each other and consider some the issues under consideration\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the 300-strong audience were asked to talk to each other and consider some the issues under consideration \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bell concurred and explained why the couple decided to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was so blatant I couldn’t let it go,” he said. He described how he had moved to the Bay Area from New York because of its liberal values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose to move back here — this is my home. I rep it hard — I am happy to be a part of it.” He said that the fact the incident involved his wife and young child prompted him to write about it rather than turn it into a joke in his act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This happened to my family. I want to be able to talk about this apocryphal moment,” Bell said. “If I don’t do this, I’m not living up to the principles that I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell, a standup comic prominent on the San Francisco comedy scene, is the former host of the FX television series, “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.” CNN has recently picked up his new TV series, “United Shades of America.” Bell will travel to different parts of the country to explore its subcultures, according to CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadijah Means spoke about how she had been challenged to fight for social justice and equity from a young age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been black,” she said to laughter, “so race has always affected me. I learned from dad that ‘white’ was a racial construct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Jones talked about research on “white and black spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university where I teach is a white space; movie theaters, cafes are white spaces,” she said. “In these white spaces, black people have a special burden. Somehow they have a provisional status position. They have to prove they belong there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novella Coleman said the law does a poor job of dealing with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the huge failures of the law is that it doesn’t recognize implicit bias,” she said. “The law requires that you prove [an act of racism] is intentional. The law doesn’t recognize that biases are harbored without people knowing about them. People see themselves as progressive but they still buy into those racial biases, and situations can trigger them.” She said that if employees accused of racism can provide a race-neutral explanation for their acts, “then the law is good with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the evening’s discussion about implicit bias, Bell spoke about how he himself had had “homophobia in him” before he moved to the Bay Area, but that it was “worked out of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, Hudson Bell questioned the ubiquitous use of the term “implicit bias,” however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We white people don’t want to say ‘racism ‘— a lot of those biases exist on the axis of race,” she said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almanzán, who is Mexican, cautioned against downplaying the importance of race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My skin color plays a part in my identity — I’m not advocating color-blindness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10457696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10457696\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell, Melissa Hudson Bell and Michael Pearce.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/berkeleyraceforum3-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell, Melissa Hudson Bell and Michael Pearce. \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Means concurred: “When you say you’re color-blind you’re denying the struggle — you’re saying that it’s easy if you work hard. Stop trying to erase color because you think it’s rude. Be more color-competent — be more color-aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce said the incident that triggered the event had made him feel ashamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Elmwood Cafe was closed Friday night so that all its staff could come to the forum. Pearce said he had met with the Bells at their home, and that they had agreed to jointly launch an implicit-bias training program for the local service industry — both restaurants and retail stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no training for implicit bias. We are going to start a program for the service industry here in Berkeley — we may be the first city in the U.S. that will have that curriculum,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce told Berkeleyside that they would be working in collaboration with experts, such as Race Forward, to devise the program, and they would start on his cafe’s doorstep, going door-to-door to Elmwood neighborhood businesses to talk about what could be achieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A website for the program is under development. Pearce said they are actively seeking input from the community — he asked that everyone with ideas email info@implicitbiastraining.com\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe in the school auditorium was upbeat and the audience was receptive and generally positive. Harrison-Small asked people to engage in conversation with one another, using prompts such as “What do you think is the definition of a micro-aggression?” and “When was the last time you interrupted a racist act?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone who has learned about the Bell incident thinks it was a clear-cut case of racial profiling, however. Among the 1,152 comments left on Berkeleyside’s coverage of the case, some have suggested the waitress may have assumed Bell was soliciting and he would have been asked to move on regardless of his color. Others criticized the comedian for grandstanding in his blog post detailing the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the forum, an audience member asked Bell, via a written question, what made him so sure the Jan. 26 incident was a racially motivated act, and not one directed at the homeless population that is to be found around the cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell responded: “So what if I was homeless? Even if I’m homeless, I’m a black homeless person — you can’t take that part away from me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if someone you know says they were subject to racism and you question them, “You have just lost a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another participant asked why the waitress who tried to shoo Bell away was fired. Was there not a way to repair her attitude?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce, who spoke last month to Berkeleyside about why he made the decision, reiterated that “someone left the cafe feeling uncomfortable — I don’t want to be part of an organization where that happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re the nerdiest people in Berkeley — militant nerds who don’t have Friday night plans. … You’re damn right this is so Berkeley: Let’s take this out there.’\u003ccite>W. Kamau Bell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But he admitted it was a tough call, and asked the audience for a show of hands as to whether she should have been fired. 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