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"content": "\u003cp>Lateefah Simon, a BART Board member, has a commanding lead to replace \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Rep. Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, who stepped down after 26 years representing Congressional District 12 in the East Bay. In initial results, Simon received 63% of the vote, while her opponent, Jennifer Tran, received 37%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon’s connections with the Democratic Party made her an early favorite to represent the district, which spans Alameda County and includes Oakland, Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont and San Leandro, with a population of more than 750,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She served as co-chair of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on police reform in 2020. U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla endorsed Simon. So did Lee, her longtime mentor. In August, Simon drew attention on the national stage when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eft_aVFw3cY\">she spoke about her friendship\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">Democratic National Convention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night, sent a video of encouragement to Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so honored to pass the baton to you,” she said. “Let us continue to stand up for the values of the 12th Congressional District and continue building a broad coalition, working together for a better world. Congratulations again, my sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lateefah Simon takes a selfie with a supporter at an election watch party at Town Fare in Oakland on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spirits were high at Simon’s election watch party at the Oakland Museum of California. She took the stage at 9:30 p.m. and thanked the crowded room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you send me to Washington D.C., understand that every single voice in this room and beyond — in the seven cities that we will represent — will be front and center,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran, a political newcomer and CSU East Bay ethnic studies professor, said the Democratic Party didn’t give her fair consideration. She aligned herself with the East Bay’s political moderates and wrongly accused Simon of supporting the movement to defund the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran speaks during a rally calling for the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DBkWyO7vSW8/\">In campaign ads\u003c/a>, Tran, who is president of Oakland’s Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, railed against what she called “the corporate mega party” and criticized Simon for not agreeing to debate with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon fundraised over $2 million, while Tran’s war chest never broke $300,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign event on Saturday, Lee and Simon cast their ballots together at Mills College, their shared alma mater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me just say the very first time I voted was in 1972 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001183/barbara-lee-on-protests-outside-dnc-their-voices-are-very-important\">for Shirley Chisholm for president\u003c/a>. And today I get to vote for Kamala Harris for president and Lateefah Simon for Congress. How good can it get?” Lee said, smiling in a black shirt that read “Trust Black Women” and featured photos of Harris, Simon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008296/mayor-london-breed-says-shes-just-getting-started\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilmember Treva Reid (left), Congressional candidate Lateefah Simon and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (center) at a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Mills College in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simon, like Lee, is a single mom and has long championed women. At 19, Simon became the executive director of the San Francisco-based Young Women’s Freedom Center, a nonprofit focused on ending the incarceration of young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/bayarea,Learn about the results for every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Bay-Area-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 26, Simon became the youngest woman to be selected for the MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the “Genius Grant.” Later, she worked in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009311/sf-shaped-pelosi-feinstein-newsom-harris-global-political-leaders\">San Francisco District Attorney’s Office under Harris\u003c/a>, directing the office’s anti-recidivism program for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She serves on a series of boards, including the Board of Trustees for the California State University system and the Akonadi Foundation, an Oakland-based racial justice philanthropic organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Simon pledged to close loopholes in federal gun laws, invest in mental healthcare and addiction treatment, decrease defense spending and push for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee is still, poll-wise, one of the most beloved electeds that we’ve had,” Simon said Saturday. “The folks here in the 12th district, they actually need someone to continue this legacy and shift material conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night at the Oakland Museum of California, Simon’s family showed up to support her, including her mother and her uncle, Timothy Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lateefah was born in the revolution,” Timothy Simon said. “She was born of parents who believed in a Black economic agenda. She was born of grandparents who were part of the great migration here to California, seeking opportunity and fleeing those red states that Lateefah is about to take on in the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nkhan\">Nisa Khan\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night, sent a video of encouragement to Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so honored to pass the baton to you,” she said. “Let us continue to stand up for the values of the 12th Congressional District and continue building a broad coalition, working together for a better world. Congratulations again, my sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-SIMON-PARTY-NK-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lateefah Simon takes a selfie with a supporter at an election watch party at Town Fare in Oakland on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spirits were high at Simon’s election watch party at the Oakland Museum of California. She took the stage at 9:30 p.m. and thanked the crowded room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you send me to Washington D.C., understand that every single voice in this room and beyond — in the seven cities that we will represent — will be front and center,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran, a political newcomer and CSU East Bay ethnic studies professor, said the Democratic Party didn’t give her fair consideration. She aligned herself with the East Bay’s political moderates and wrongly accused Simon of supporting the movement to defund the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-26-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran speaks during a rally calling for the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DBkWyO7vSW8/\">In campaign ads\u003c/a>, Tran, who is president of Oakland’s Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, railed against what she called “the corporate mega party” and criticized Simon for not agreeing to debate with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon fundraised over $2 million, while Tran’s war chest never broke $300,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign event on Saturday, Lee and Simon cast their ballots together at Mills College, their shared alma mater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me just say the very first time I voted was in 1972 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001183/barbara-lee-on-protests-outside-dnc-their-voices-are-very-important\">for Shirley Chisholm for president\u003c/a>. And today I get to vote for Kamala Harris for president and Lateefah Simon for Congress. How good can it get?” Lee said, smiling in a black shirt that read “Trust Black Women” and featured photos of Harris, Simon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008296/mayor-london-breed-says-shes-just-getting-started\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilmember Treva Reid (left), Congressional candidate Lateefah Simon and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (center) at a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Mills College in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simon, like Lee, is a single mom and has long championed women. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rent control has been central to this election, statewide and around the Bay Area, but early returns suggest voters have little appetite to strengthen rent regulations — with one exception: Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians seem to be voting down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008424/prop-33-rent-control-is-on-the-ballot-again-election-2024-california\">Proposition 33, \u003c/a>which would repeal a 1995 law, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, that limits how far local governments can go with their rent control laws. The state law prohibits cities and counties from imposing rent control on all single-family homes, condos and apartments built after 1995 and ensures landlords can bring rents up to market rate when a new tenant moves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is still too close to call late Tuesday night, but that didn’t stop o\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pponents from taking a victory lap. “For the THIRD time, Californians have said no to extreme rent control. This fight isn’t over — together with our coalition, we’ll work to actually make housing more accessible for Californians,” the No on Prop 33 campaign posted on X. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844438/californians-reject-rent-control-again-in-defeat-of-proposition-21\">In 2018 and 2020, voters rejected similar initiatives\u003c/a> that would have gutted Costa-Hawkins, but advocates and political leaders have increasingly turned to rent control as they struggle to rein in housing costs, and polling in California has shown an increase in support among likely voters. The policy is also gaining traction nationally, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/housing/365063/kamala-harris-housing-rent-control-landlords\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris embracing\u003c/a> it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, said Prop 33’s apparent defeat reflected the No campaign’s successful messaging. “We’re glad and relieved that the voters of California have not made our housing crisis worse,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raised about $3 million to support the No campaign, according to Lowery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also appear to be narrowly supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-34\">Proposition 34\u003c/a>, which on its face, has nothing to do with rent control. But really, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/prop34-aids-healthcare-foundation-rent-control\">all about the politics\u003c/a> of this controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict how certain health care providers can spend revenue from prescription drug sales. But the stipulations mean it would likely only apply to a single organization: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a major force in state and local housing policies and the group bankrolling Prop. 33 and the last two attempts to roll back Costa-Hawkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control appears to be faring somewhat better in the Bay Area, at least in Berkeley. Preliminary tallies show 51.79% of Berkeley voters narrowly supporting Measure BB, which would expand rent control and renter protections and 62.45 % shutting down Measure CC, which would rein in rent regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s really reassuring,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair of the Berkeley Rent Board. “I think the trend will continue to go that way as we know the even in Berkeley the early voters are more conservative.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County voters are a different story and appear to be pushing back on a range of rent control measures. Larkspur’s Measure K, a bid to expand rent control, is losing by 64% to 35.9%. An effort to repeal Fairfax’s rent cap, Measure I, is ahead 68% to 31.9%, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on local rent control, is down 65.9% to 34 %, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a>, to create new tenant protections, is down 69.3% to 30.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 34, whose primary sponsor is the California Apartment Association, is aimed at kneecapping the health care foundation’s political spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would work like this: Federal law allows health providers that serve lower-income patients to buy prescription drugs at a discount, sell them at retail rates and use the profits to expand services. Proposition 34 would require some providers to spend 98% of that net revenue on direct patient care or risk losing their licenses or tax-exempt status. It would only apply to health care providers who’ve spent at least $100 million on things other than patient care in the past decade and own apartment buildings that have been slapped with 500 or more health and safety violations. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is believed to be the only organization that fits the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-2024'] \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. 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A few turned violent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101857514/after-trump-victory-protest-conflict-at-bay-area-schools\">including at some schools across the region\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of vandalism, destruction, things set on fire, things like that,” said Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies are calling for peaceful demonstrations this week should there be similar unrest as election results roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers are out there to help make sure that every resident out there has the opportunity to express their First Amendment right, the freedom of speech,” Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012625\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people attended the anti-Trump protest in Oakland, California, on Nov. 9, 2016 \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, which \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/donald-trump-protest-oakland-protests/1599421/\">dealt with vandalism, Molotov cocktails and fires\u003c/a> in 2016, said it plans to provide extra staffing this year “to facilitate people’s rights to peaceful gatherings and to address any crime-related incidents.” The department also said it’s coordinating with law enforcement agencies in other cities, “enabling a regional response if needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some buildings in downtown Oakland were reportedly boarded up Monday night, and Oakland police headquarters was surrounded by barricades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Police Department declined to share its plans to address potential civil unrest, but a spokesperson said the department is unaware of any specific threats or large-scale events related to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the police department said its stations are fully staffed and prepared to respond to emergencies on the day and night of Tuesday’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are welcome to exercise their First Amendment rights. We will not tolerate acts of violence nor the destruction of property,” a spokesperson for SFPD said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SanJosePD/status/1851388772535132217\">In a statement on social media platform X\u003c/a>, the San José Police Department said it won’t be sending officers to polling locations but that it’s in close contact with the registrar of voters to ensure a safe voting environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area schools are also preparing for potential demonstrations in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Sonoma State University, school staff and campus police officers recently participated in a preparation exercise with local and state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/us/washington-oregon-nevada-national-guard-election/index.html\">National Guard troops on standby\u003c/a>, including Washington and Oregon, where officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011898/after-ballot-box-fires-elsewhere-bay-area-elections-officials-urge-trust-in-the-vote\">hundreds of ballots were damaged\u003c/a> or destroyed after three ballot boxes were set on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>If Californians vote to approve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007197/transcript-proposition-33-would-end-state-limits-on-rent-control\">a rent control measure on the ballot\u003c/a>, thousands of Berkeley tenants could immediately see new limits on how much their landlords can raise their rent each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who are living in units that aren’t right for them will have a chance to move without losing their affordability,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a longtime tenant lawyer and chair of the city’s rent board. “For some people, it will keep them housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same scenario, in which the city could cap rent increases on single-family homes and apartments more than 20 years old and units with new tenants, is a nightmare for Krista Gulbransen, who heads the Berkeley Property Owners Association, representing the city’s landlords. “We would revert back to the 1980s, and it wouldn’t just be roller skates or rainbow headbands. It would be a lot worse,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008424]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 would repeal a state housing law limiting how cities can regulate rents, letting local governments make that decision. Most California cities wouldn’t see an immediate change. However, in a few cities like Berkeley, local laws already contain language, allowing much more sweeping regulation than current state law. In those cities and in others where left-leaning elected officials have expressed public support for expanding rent control, renters could see the soonest benefit from Proposition 33 — and landlords the soonest headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 30 cities in California already \u003ca href=\"https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-rent-control-law.html\">place some limits on rent increases\u003c/a>, with caps ranging from 3% to 10% annually for covered units, some pegged to inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, California caps rent increases for apartments and corporate-owned houses more than 15 years old at 10% per year — a rate that tenant advocates have said can still place a significant burden on tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those local ordinances were once much stricter. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, concern about soaring housing costs led a few cities to limit rent increases even when a new tenant moves in — known as vacancy control. However, the 1995 law that Proposition 33 would repeal, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, put a stop to that, along with any rent control on single-family homes or those built after 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the ban on rent control for single-family homes that most bothers Melvin Willis, a city council member in Richmond, one of the Bay Area’s few remaining solidly working-class cities. Many families in his district rent their houses, he said, and some complain to him about steep rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a hard conversation to have with someone when they say, ‘My rent increased, but we have rent control,’ ” he said. Willis recalled explaining to one family whose rent had doubled that the city’s 3% cap on rent bumps doesn’t apply to single-family homes. “I’ve had that conversation multiple times and it doesn’t feel good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s rent ordinance leaves out any housing “exempt from rent control pursuant to the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.” Willis and other affordable housing advocates take that to mean that if Costa-Hawkins goes away, single-family homes and other dwellings that the state law excluded would automatically fall under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolas Traylor, the executive director of Richmond’s rent program, was more cautious. The ordinance could be referring to units actually exempt under Costa-Hawkins, he said, or just the types of units, like single-family homes, that Costa-Hawkins excluded. If Proposition 33 passes, he said, the rent program’s general counsel would have to recommend how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city supervisors avoided that ambiguity by unanimously passing legislation that would kick in if Proposition 33 passes, bringing rent control to an estimated 16,000 additional units. Mayor London Breed has said \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/15/rent-control-san-francisco-prop-33-london-breed/\">she will sign it\u003c/a> if the proposition passes, the San Francisco Standard reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco belongs to a group of cities — along with Berkeley, Oakland, Los Angeles, and the southern California cities of West Hollywood and Santa Monica — with longstanding rent control that current state law especially constrains. That’s because Costa-Hawkins grandfathered in any exemptions they had for more newly built units. So, in San Francisco, apartments built after 1979 are considered “new construction” and exempt from rent control. In Los Angeles, it’s 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california,Learn about the California Propositions' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely arbitrary that we can create rent control for buildings from 1978, but we can’t do it for 1980,” said Los Angeles City Council member Hugo Soto-Martínez, pointing to the city’s homelessness crisis. “Every year, we continue to lose more of our rent-stabilized housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council last week passed a resolution, authored by Soto-Martínez, endorsing Proposition 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kinds of actions by cities trouble landlords, who point out that their costs for utilities and insurance are rising, in some cases, outpacing inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email newsletter sent to housing providers Friday, real estate firm Bornstein Law warned its clients that “there is a real possibility that Proposition 33 will pass because of the widespread belief that the rents are too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm urged landlords, in preparation for the potential policy shift, “to raise the rents to market rate if landlords are able to do so” and to consider offering voluntary buyouts to tenants paying below-market rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 opponents have also raised concerns that cities will enact rent control so strict it will stifle new housing construction at a time when the state desperately needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has done so much to remove barriers to building housing and to incentivize affordable housing construction, but Proposition 33 would give NIMBY cities a really powerful weapon to do an end run around those rules,” said Nathan Click, a spokesperson for the No on 33 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, San Francisco shows that, given the flexibility to craft new policies, even cities with strong histories of tenant advocacy might opt for more modest changes to rent control that can win broad political support. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had originally proposed that the city expand rent control to cover housing built before 2024 but walked that back to 1994, an idea that won backing from both the city government’s progressive and moderate wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rent control expansion “is also going to depend on not just tenant and housing organizations but other civil society organizations in those communities,” said Shanti Singh, legislative director for Tenants Together. “Are they going to be ready to or willing to push for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute, said his research shows that rent stabilization without vacancy control helps prevent displacement by keeping rents more affordable while avoiding slowing new construction since there are still incentives to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cities start capping rent increases when new tenants move in, he said, the effects become more difficult to predict. That’s in part because the last time California cities experimented with vacancy control was more than 30 years ago — back when more multifamily housing was being built and before the tech boom put unprecedented pressure on Northern California’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that is likely, he said: California would see geographic variation, with more progressive coastal cities putting in stricter rent caps while inland cities with moderate politics seek to lure development with looser rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the proponents of Prop. 33 think this will solve our housing crisis, they’re mistaken,” he said. “If the opponents of Prop. 33 think that this will result in housing armageddon, they’re mistaken as well.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 30 cities in California already \u003ca href=\"https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-rent-control-law.html\">place some limits on rent increases\u003c/a>, with caps ranging from 3% to 10% annually for covered units, some pegged to inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, California caps rent increases for apartments and corporate-owned houses more than 15 years old at 10% per year — a rate that tenant advocates have said can still place a significant burden on tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those local ordinances were once much stricter. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, concern about soaring housing costs led a few cities to limit rent increases even when a new tenant moves in — known as vacancy control. However, the 1995 law that Proposition 33 would repeal, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, put a stop to that, along with any rent control on single-family homes or those built after 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the ban on rent control for single-family homes that most bothers Melvin Willis, a city council member in Richmond, one of the Bay Area’s few remaining solidly working-class cities. Many families in his district rent their houses, he said, and some complain to him about steep rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a hard conversation to have with someone when they say, ‘My rent increased, but we have rent control,’ ” he said. Willis recalled explaining to one family whose rent had doubled that the city’s 3% cap on rent bumps doesn’t apply to single-family homes. “I’ve had that conversation multiple times and it doesn’t feel good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s rent ordinance leaves out any housing “exempt from rent control pursuant to the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.” Willis and other affordable housing advocates take that to mean that if Costa-Hawkins goes away, single-family homes and other dwellings that the state law excluded would automatically fall under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolas Traylor, the executive director of Richmond’s rent program, was more cautious. The ordinance could be referring to units actually exempt under Costa-Hawkins, he said, or just the types of units, like single-family homes, that Costa-Hawkins excluded. If Proposition 33 passes, he said, the rent program’s general counsel would have to recommend how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city supervisors avoided that ambiguity by unanimously passing legislation that would kick in if Proposition 33 passes, bringing rent control to an estimated 16,000 additional units. Mayor London Breed has said \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/15/rent-control-san-francisco-prop-33-london-breed/\">she will sign it\u003c/a> if the proposition passes, the San Francisco Standard reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco belongs to a group of cities — along with Berkeley, Oakland, Los Angeles, and the southern California cities of West Hollywood and Santa Monica — with longstanding rent control that current state law especially constrains. That’s because Costa-Hawkins grandfathered in any exemptions they had for more newly built units. So, in San Francisco, apartments built after 1979 are considered “new construction” and exempt from rent control. In Los Angeles, it’s 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely arbitrary that we can create rent control for buildings from 1978, but we can’t do it for 1980,” said Los Angeles City Council member Hugo Soto-Martínez, pointing to the city’s homelessness crisis. “Every year, we continue to lose more of our rent-stabilized housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council last week passed a resolution, authored by Soto-Martínez, endorsing Proposition 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kinds of actions by cities trouble landlords, who point out that their costs for utilities and insurance are rising, in some cases, outpacing inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email newsletter sent to housing providers Friday, real estate firm Bornstein Law warned its clients that “there is a real possibility that Proposition 33 will pass because of the widespread belief that the rents are too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm urged landlords, in preparation for the potential policy shift, “to raise the rents to market rate if landlords are able to do so” and to consider offering voluntary buyouts to tenants paying below-market rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 opponents have also raised concerns that cities will enact rent control so strict it will stifle new housing construction at a time when the state desperately needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has done so much to remove barriers to building housing and to incentivize affordable housing construction, but Proposition 33 would give NIMBY cities a really powerful weapon to do an end run around those rules,” said Nathan Click, a spokesperson for the No on 33 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, San Francisco shows that, given the flexibility to craft new policies, even cities with strong histories of tenant advocacy might opt for more modest changes to rent control that can win broad political support. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had originally proposed that the city expand rent control to cover housing built before 2024 but walked that back to 1994, an idea that won backing from both the city government’s progressive and moderate wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rent control expansion “is also going to depend on not just tenant and housing organizations but other civil society organizations in those communities,” said Shanti Singh, legislative director for Tenants Together. “Are they going to be ready to or willing to push for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute, said his research shows that rent stabilization without vacancy control helps prevent displacement by keeping rents more affordable while avoiding slowing new construction since there are still incentives to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cities start capping rent increases when new tenants move in, he said, the effects become more difficult to predict. That’s in part because the last time California cities experimented with vacancy control was more than 30 years ago — back when more multifamily housing was being built and before the tech boom put unprecedented pressure on Northern California’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that is likely, he said: California would see geographic variation, with more progressive coastal cities putting in stricter rent caps while inland cities with moderate politics seek to lure development with looser rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>David Hummel, a Berkeley City College student, attended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area#Campuslife\">pro-Palestinian demonstrations\u003c/a> that were part of a national protest movement on school campuses, and he was looking to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just about being human, really,” Hummel, 20, said. “To be blind to the suffering of people just because they happen to be born in other places in the world. If you do know about it and decide to just do nothing, then I don’t think I could live with myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s military assault on Gaza began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed roughly 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. In July, the International Court of Justice, the world court in The Hague that was first established in \u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/history\">San Francisco in 1945\u003c/a>, ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/19/israel-gaza-war-live-idf-explosion-tel-aviv-benjamin-netanyahu-visit-rafah\">Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories\u003c/a> violated international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007970 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/RS49114_037_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protective presence work is when basically activists accompany Palestinians in the West Bank,” explained Chase Carter, a San Francisco resident who works with the center. “The reason this accompanying work is needed is because these communities are really vulnerable to attacks from Israeli settlers, as well as harassment, arrests and violence from soldiers that are also trying to prevent them from living their daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UN, since Oct. 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties\">more than 700 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed\u003c/a> in the West Bank, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-27704/west-bank-palestinians-violence-israel-settlers\">increased instances\u003c/a> of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. Eygi was working with the \u003ca href=\"https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/https:/palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/\">International Solidarity Movement\u003c/a>, which also does protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Levy outside his home in Oakland on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sydney Levy was preparing to go to the West Bank when he heard about Hummel’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to discuss it with my husband just before going, saying, ‘Hey, you know, what do you think? What should I do?’” Levy, an Oakland resident, recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for more than two decades and has lived in Jerusalem. He ultimately decided to go through the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and was there for over a week in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981941 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. In July, the International Court of Justice, the world court in The Hague that was first established in \u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/history\">San Francisco in 1945\u003c/a>, ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/19/israel-gaza-war-live-idf-explosion-tel-aviv-benjamin-netanyahu-visit-rafah\">Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories\u003c/a> violated international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. Eygi was working with the \u003ca href=\"https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/https:/palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/\">International Solidarity Movement\u003c/a>, which also does protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Levy outside his home in Oakland on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sydney Levy was preparing to go to the West Bank when he heard about Hummel’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to discuss it with my husband just before going, saying, ‘Hey, you know, what do you think? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:25 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walkout at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> in support of the Palestinian people, one year into the deadly siege that followed Hamas’ surprise attacks in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/israel\">Israel\u003c/a> last October, grew tense on Tuesday afternoon amid a standoff with pro-Israel counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hundreds of people gathered at Sproul Plaza, the site of last school year’s pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of about half a dozen counterprotesters draped in Israeli flags walked across the steps behind the speakers and started shouting things like, “Bring them home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pro-Palestinian protesters formed a circle around them, and both sides shouted at each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the tense mood, students like Yousuf Abubakr of Students for Justice in Palestine were undeterred. He said although he doesn’t believe student protests will be enough to “free Palestine,” he believes it will help move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We enjoy the fact that, you know, we piss off university officials,” Abubakr said. “The fact that they had these new encampment and new masking policies, I smile because it’s like … we have their attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008683 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cheer at a rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a man chanted, “No Zionist racists,” Jewish transfer student Ethan Tallman said he came out to show his support for the Israeli community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[My] reasons are for the hostages, for their families, and for the world to see that they matter,” Tallman said, adding that he found the crowd overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs carried by the protesters included messages like “No Votes for Genocide,” featuring the image of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008657 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendees hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sameeha Ahmed, who studies cognitive science and public health at Berkeley, said Tuesday morning that she planned to take time away from the busy midterm season to participate in the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve gotten to a point in the movement where I think people are able to sort of turn a blind eye toward the horrors that are happening in Gaza just because this has been going on for so long. People are becoming so desensitized to all of the injustice that’s been occurring,” said Ahmed, who added that she is focused on the call for the University of California to divest from Israel and its war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes it all the more imperative for us to … continue showing that we are not going to stand for this any longer,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1CDoLPVJa/?img_index=1\">post\u003c/a>, a group calling itself UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine wrote “The university, too, has blood on its hands. The University of California system has long committed to war and destruction through research and development of nuclear weapons, drones and other military technologies — as well as investments in weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel, and settler industries profiting from this atrocity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cited accusations that the UC has supported the firing, arrests and investigations of professors, the approval of military surplus for UC police forces, and the chilling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">free speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stett Holbrook, a UC Office of the President spokesperson, said while most protests over the past year were peaceful and lawful, administrators have had to take steps to address some that were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some instances, campuses faced significant disruptions due to protests that resulted in violence, vandalism, class and research interruption, and restricted access to public spaces,” he said. “While we provide many opportunities and venues for the expression of diverse viewpoints at UC campuses, activities that violate the law, University policy, or both, will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook added that UCPD’s equipment is not military surplus, military-grade nor designed for military use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University’s use of this equipment provides UC police officers with non-lethal alternatives to standard-issue firearms, enabling them to de-escalate situations and respond without the use of deadly force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008658 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Tallman (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus had been planning for walkouts and other events since July. “We’re aware what moment in time we’re in,” said Mogulof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at San Francisco State University, protesters were back at the picket lines and faculty-led teachouts after a midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, a crowd of about 200 broke into chants like, “Not another penny, not another dollar, we won’t pay for Israel’s slaughter,” and “I can’t even pay my rent; still more bombs are being sent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008656 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaker Omar Zahzah told the demonstrators that enough was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because we feel the connection because we’re suffering through the connections,” Zahzah said. “So long as they keep putting money towards genocide, we say no. We are here to do a critical education project where all of us are united as students and as teachers and as people embodying multiple roles. And this work that we’re starting today on Oct. 8 is just the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFSU student Rithik Hemanth came to support the Students for Gaza picket, in part because he sees conditions for Palestinians and students on campus as connected. He cited Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent signing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/newsom-approves-bill-to-prevent-hostile-protest-environments-on-college-campuses/article_c5316348-8217-11ef-8828-5bba697a269a.html\">SB1287\u003c/a>, the “Equity in Higher Education Act: prohibition on violence, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,” which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\">some see\u003c/a> as an assault on free speech and student protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re out here to demand that our money, our taxpayer dollars goes to our education, towards these classrooms that are falling apart — every single one that have mold in them and everything — instead of the genocide that’s currently occurring and the war machine across the world,” Hemanth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, pro-Palestinian student organizers announced they had worked with SFSU to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">identify for divestment\u003c/a> four companies tied to weapons manufacturing or the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby King, an SFSU spokesperson, said the university was not engaged in any unusual planning for Tuesday’s events but said he had not heard of any disruptions to operations at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF State has a long tradition of honoring the rights of its community members to peacefully protest while preserving a safe campus environment, and we expect that will continue today,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and Samantha Kennedy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the tense mood, students like Yousuf Abubakr of Students for Justice in Palestine were undeterred. He said although he doesn’t believe student protests will be enough to “free Palestine,” he believes it will help move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We enjoy the fact that, you know, we piss off university officials,” Abubakr said. “The fact that they had these new encampment and new masking policies, I smile because it’s like … we have their attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008683 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cheer at a rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a man chanted, “No Zionist racists,” Jewish transfer student Ethan Tallman said he came out to show his support for the Israeli community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[My] reasons are for the hostages, for their families, and for the world to see that they matter,” Tallman said, adding that he found the crowd overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs carried by the protesters included messages like “No Votes for Genocide,” featuring the image of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008657 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendees hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sameeha Ahmed, who studies cognitive science and public health at Berkeley, said Tuesday morning that she planned to take time away from the busy midterm season to participate in the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve gotten to a point in the movement where I think people are able to sort of turn a blind eye toward the horrors that are happening in Gaza just because this has been going on for so long. People are becoming so desensitized to all of the injustice that’s been occurring,” said Ahmed, who added that she is focused on the call for the University of California to divest from Israel and its war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes it all the more imperative for us to … continue showing that we are not going to stand for this any longer,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1CDoLPVJa/?img_index=1\">post\u003c/a>, a group calling itself UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine wrote “The university, too, has blood on its hands. The University of California system has long committed to war and destruction through research and development of nuclear weapons, drones and other military technologies — as well as investments in weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel, and settler industries profiting from this atrocity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cited accusations that the UC has supported the firing, arrests and investigations of professors, the approval of military surplus for UC police forces, and the chilling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">free speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stett Holbrook, a UC Office of the President spokesperson, said while most protests over the past year were peaceful and lawful, administrators have had to take steps to address some that were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some instances, campuses faced significant disruptions due to protests that resulted in violence, vandalism, class and research interruption, and restricted access to public spaces,” he said. “While we provide many opportunities and venues for the expression of diverse viewpoints at UC campuses, activities that violate the law, University policy, or both, will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook added that UCPD’s equipment is not military surplus, military-grade nor designed for military use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University’s use of this equipment provides UC police officers with non-lethal alternatives to standard-issue firearms, enabling them to de-escalate situations and respond without the use of deadly force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008658 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Tallman (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus had been planning for walkouts and other events since July. “We’re aware what moment in time we’re in,” said Mogulof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at San Francisco State University, protesters were back at the picket lines and faculty-led teachouts after a midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, a crowd of about 200 broke into chants like, “Not another penny, not another dollar, we won’t pay for Israel’s slaughter,” and “I can’t even pay my rent; 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We are here to do a critical education project where all of us are united as students and as teachers and as people embodying multiple roles. And this work that we’re starting today on Oct. 8 is just the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">\u003cem>Click here to subscribe.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2012 to 2022, 2.1 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/latinos\">Latinos\u003c/a> in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\"> California\u003c/a> became eligible to vote, according to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, an advocacy and research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group estimates that 4.8 million Latines will vote in the state in November, a whopping 200% jump from the 1.6 million who voted in 2000. The Latinx electorate is growing in California, but what about our political influence and representation in elected offices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the NALEO counted 1,786 Latinos serving in local elected offices in 2021 — more than double the 734 it counted in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has roughly 62% people of color. Yet people of color hold just 37% of top local elected offices, \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/diversity-of-electeds\">according to the Bay Area Equity Atlas\u003c/a>, a data resource produced by the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian Americans and Latinos continue to be underrepresented among local electeds. Researchers found that while Latinos and Asian Americans make up half of the region’s population, they are just 25% of top local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Latinos accounted for 13.6% of elected officials in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen Kamei, Mountain View Councilmember (left), and mother Rosemary Kamei, San José Vice Mayor representing District 1, walk through San José City Hall on Oct. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wanted to learn more about the experience of Bay Area Latines serving in elected office, so I sat down with Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín. I also spoke with Rosemary Kamei and Ellen Kamei, a mother and daughter who are city council representatives in San José and Mountain View, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Kameis, serving their neighbors while representing the Asian and Latino communities has been important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosemary Kamei grew up in the Bronx, New York, in a working-class family with a Chinese father and a Puerto Rican mother. She is the only Latina and woman of Asian descent on the San José City Council. Previously, she was on the Santa Clara Valley County Water Board, among other positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me she hadn’t planned to run for city council but believed she could elevate cultural and linguistic understanding in the Bay Area’s largest city. San José is about 38% Asian and 30% Latino, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an important perspective and lens to have when you’re making decisions,” Kamei, 65, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she began her term in 2023, she noticed the city didn’t provide translations for meetings, so she worked to change that. She’s \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/the-first-six-months-san-jose-vice-mayor-rosemary-kamei/\">gained a reputation\u003c/a> for focusing on housing and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Kamei, elected to the Mountain View City Council in 2018, didn’t have to look far for a role model. She spent hours of her youth accompanying her mother to public meetings and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that women in leadership and women of color in leadership was really natural,” said Ellen Kamei, who recalled accompanying her mother to public meetings and events growing up. “I always thought I would run for office, but I would run for office later when I was older and maybe when my kids were grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she joined the city’s planning commission in 2012. She unsuccessfully ran for a council seat in 2014 before winning four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impetus for running for office came from her desire to address housing affordability and the rising cost of living for low-income residents. The city’s population of about 86,000 people is roughly 17% Hispanic and 35% Asian, according to census data. The median household income in Mountain View is $182,000 — twice the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized early on in my career that people usually interface with the government in a negative way,” Ellen Kamei, 40, said. “Those who have the resources can usually manage and find the answers, but there’s a large swath of the population who can’t do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, representation is about who are those people who don’t have the luxury of sitting there and emailing or calling me or coming to a council meeting that’s at night?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her accomplishments include helping secure rental and financial assistance programs for residents and business owners who struggled during the pandemic. She established a maternity leave policy for the city council because she was the first council member to give birth while in office. She now has a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s connected with the Latinx community through her regular “cafecito” meetups with residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of her Japanese surname, Ellen Kamei said some people often dismiss her Latina identity — or expect her to pick one part of her heritage over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t own your own story, somebody else will try to tell it for you,” she said. “My father is Japanese American, born at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. My mother is Chinese and Puerto Rican from New York City. And that’s how I lead my story. It avoids the ‘Where are you really from?’ question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Kamei’s second and final term expires in January 2026. She told me she’s not sure if she will pursue another office. She has been working on reviving the Bay Area Association of Latino Elected Officials, a local version of the NALEO, in hopes of building a support system for those already in office as well as a robust pipeline of future candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Latino community, you’re so busy doing the work that it’s hard to create the infrastructure,” she said. “What are we doing to support those Latino electeds now, but also identify elected officials for the future? Where’s that Latinx person who’s just looking to be asked to run for office?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín in his office at Berkeley City Hall in Berkeley on Sept. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing Arreguín has learned about running for public office is that “you’re never ready,” he said. In 2008, he was 23 when he was elected as the youngest person and first Latino to the Berkeley City Council. He served two terms before running for mayor, a post he’s held for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 39, he has his sights set on District 7’s state Senate seat, representing a large portion of the East Bay. If elected next month, he would be the only Latino in the chamber from Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín made his heritage and youth a cornerstone for his first campaign, which he said worked because his story resonated with non-Latinos seeking a change in Berkeley, where Latinos are 14% of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is a largely affluent, white city, and there is not a large Latino and organized Latino political constituency,” he said. “But I felt it was important to step forward. And we really leaned into my Latino heritage. Our campaign signs said, ‘Viva Jesse.’ It really was people embracing change and embracing new leadership and wanting diverse representation in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos have made significant progress in pursuing public office and tackling issues the Latinx community cares about, like increasing housing, tenants’ rights and immigrant rights. But for Latines to be less of an afterthought in California politics, “We have a lot of work to do,” Arreguín said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not enough of Latinos are in positions of leadership and we have to change that,” he said. “There is real power in organizing. We’ve seen that a lot of critical victories in California around raising wages and labor rights have happened because of organizing. And it’s extremely important that people get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a saying that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has roughly 62% people of color. Yet people of color hold just 37% of top local elected offices, \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/diversity-of-electeds\">according to the Bay Area Equity Atlas\u003c/a>, a data resource produced by the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian Americans and Latinos continue to be underrepresented among local electeds. Researchers found that while Latinos and Asian Americans make up half of the region’s population, they are just 25% of top local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Latinos accounted for 13.6% of elected officials in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-EllenandRosemaryKamei-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen Kamei, Mountain View Councilmember (left), and mother Rosemary Kamei, San José Vice Mayor representing District 1, walk through San José City Hall on Oct. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wanted to learn more about the experience of Bay Area Latines serving in elected office, so I sat down with Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín. I also spoke with Rosemary Kamei and Ellen Kamei, a mother and daughter who are city council representatives in San José and Mountain View, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Kameis, serving their neighbors while representing the Asian and Latino communities has been important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosemary Kamei grew up in the Bronx, New York, in a working-class family with a Chinese father and a Puerto Rican mother. She is the only Latina and woman of Asian descent on the San José City Council. Previously, she was on the Santa Clara Valley County Water Board, among other positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me she hadn’t planned to run for city council but believed she could elevate cultural and linguistic understanding in the Bay Area’s largest city. San José is about 38% Asian and 30% Latino, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an important perspective and lens to have when you’re making decisions,” Kamei, 65, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she began her term in 2023, she noticed the city didn’t provide translations for meetings, so she worked to change that. She’s \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/the-first-six-months-san-jose-vice-mayor-rosemary-kamei/\">gained a reputation\u003c/a> for focusing on housing and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Kamei, elected to the Mountain View City Council in 2018, didn’t have to look far for a role model. She spent hours of her youth accompanying her mother to public meetings and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that women in leadership and women of color in leadership was really natural,” said Ellen Kamei, who recalled accompanying her mother to public meetings and events growing up. “I always thought I would run for office, but I would run for office later when I was older and maybe when my kids were grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she joined the city’s planning commission in 2012. She unsuccessfully ran for a council seat in 2014 before winning four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impetus for running for office came from her desire to address housing affordability and the rising cost of living for low-income residents. The city’s population of about 86,000 people is roughly 17% Hispanic and 35% Asian, according to census data. The median household income in Mountain View is $182,000 — twice the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized early on in my career that people usually interface with the government in a negative way,” Ellen Kamei, 40, said. “Those who have the resources can usually manage and find the answers, but there’s a large swath of the population who can’t do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, representation is about who are those people who don’t have the luxury of sitting there and emailing or calling me or coming to a council meeting that’s at night?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her accomplishments include helping secure rental and financial assistance programs for residents and business owners who struggled during the pandemic. She established a maternity leave policy for the city council because she was the first council member to give birth while in office. She now has a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s connected with the Latinx community through her regular “cafecito” meetups with residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of her Japanese surname, Ellen Kamei said some people often dismiss her Latina identity — or expect her to pick one part of her heritage over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t own your own story, somebody else will try to tell it for you,” she said. “My father is Japanese American, born at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. My mother is Chinese and Puerto Rican from New York City. And that’s how I lead my story. It avoids the ‘Where are you really from?’ question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Kamei’s second and final term expires in January 2026. She told me she’s not sure if she will pursue another office. She has been working on reviving the Bay Area Association of Latino Elected Officials, a local version of the NALEO, in hopes of building a support system for those already in office as well as a robust pipeline of future candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Latino community, you’re so busy doing the work that it’s hard to create the infrastructure,” she said. “What are we doing to support those Latino electeds now, but also identify elected officials for the future? Where’s that Latinx person who’s just looking to be asked to run for office?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240930-JESSE-ARREGUIN-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín in his office at Berkeley City Hall in Berkeley on Sept. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing Arreguín has learned about running for public office is that “you’re never ready,” he said. In 2008, he was 23 when he was elected as the youngest person and first Latino to the Berkeley City Council. He served two terms before running for mayor, a post he’s held for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 39, he has his sights set on District 7’s state Senate seat, representing a large portion of the East Bay. If elected next month, he would be the only Latino in the chamber from Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín made his heritage and youth a cornerstone for his first campaign, which he said worked because his story resonated with non-Latinos seeking a change in Berkeley, where Latinos are 14% of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is a largely affluent, white city, and there is not a large Latino and organized Latino political constituency,” he said. “But I felt it was important to step forward. And we really leaned into my Latino heritage. Our campaign signs said, ‘Viva Jesse.’ It really was people embracing change and embracing new leadership and wanting diverse representation in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos have made significant progress in pursuing public office and tackling issues the Latinx community cares about, like increasing housing, tenants’ rights and immigrant rights. But for Latines to be less of an afterthought in California politics, “We have a lot of work to do,” Arreguín said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not enough of Latinos are in positions of leadership and we have to change that,” he said. “There is real power in organizing. We’ve seen that a lot of critical victories in California around raising wages and labor rights have happened because of organizing. And it’s extremely important that people get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a saying that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> is set to take a more aggressive approach to homeless encampments as soon as next month after the City Council approved legislation on Tuesday allowing sweeps even when shelter isn’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who represents northwest Berkeley, authored the resolution in response to two persistent homeless encampments in her district. It passed on an 8-1 vote, with only Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a camping ban citywide,” Kesarwani said. “It is saying that we will enforce specific encampments when they pose a fire, serious health or safety risk. And we had to put forward a policy if we want our city staff to have the direction that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked during the meeting, homeless services coordinator Peter Radu said there is nowhere in Berkeley where camping would be legal under the resolution language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesarwani’s proposal allows the city to authorize sweeps without shelter offers if an encampment poses a fire or health hazard or sits in the way of traffic or maintenance work. Previously, Berkeley had to provide shelter before being able to clear an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came just hours after attorneys for a group of businesses and property owners filed \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25119695/fieldwork-et-al-v-city-of-berkeley-street-camp-lawsuit.pdf\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging the city has created a public nuisance by allowing several large encampments in West Berkeley — including those cited by Kesarwani in introducing her legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It responds directly to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">recent Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that allows cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">fine or jail people\u003c/a> for camping on public property, even if there isn’t enough shelter available. While the number of shelter beds in Berkeley fluctuates, Radu said there were fewer than 20 available beds as of Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg\" alt=\"tents along a street\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents on 8th Street at a homeless encampment near Harrison Street in Berkeley in June 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/point-in-time-count-2024/\">450 Berkeley residents\u003c/a> remain unsheltered in 2024, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesarwani amended a portion of the resolution on Tuesday night to remove language that explicitly refers to arrests and citations of unhoused individuals — though those options are still available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not support arresting or citing people for sleeping on the street, but I do believe we should hold everyone to the same standards,” said Councilmember Igor Tregub, who voted in favor of the resolution. He added that experiencing homelessness doesn’t automatically shield someone “from the consequences of unlawful behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The near-unanimous vote came over the fierce opposition of dozens of unhoused residents and their advocates, who condemned the council’s actions as essentially criminalizing sleeping outside. 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After state legislators decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/state-withholds-25m-from-uc-until-systemwide-free-speech-rules-enforced/article_7d1339d4-44db-11ef-bc87-d33ae1af64bb.html\">withhold $25 million in funding\u003c/a> from the UC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\">university leaders announced policy changes to campus free speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historians understand that there’s a desperate need to provide our students a better sense of what’s going on now,” Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s also important to provide what Berkeley is all about — a first-class education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Unhoused residents could also face citation or arrest if the resolution passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our staff to continue to make a shelter offer when practicable,” Kesarwani said. “But sometimes, we have encampments that have created a fire or health risk for neighboring businesses or residents, and we need to be able to address those health and safety issues by enforcing our state and local laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Kesarwani’s proposal, encampments could be cleared if they pose a fire or health hazard, constitute a “public nuisance,” or sit in the way of traffic, construction or maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those exceptions are broad enough to apply to every encampment in the city, according to Andrea Henson, who provides legal counsel to the homeless advocacy group Where Do We Go Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to sweep all these camps, where’s everyone going to go? 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