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He wears black and gold, traditional Lebanese garb.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAndrewJabara01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Jabara as a baby in traditional Lebanese garb in 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andrew Jabara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beside my younger brother, I didn’t know anyone quite like me growing up. Sure, I knew other Chinese American kids, but their parents emigrated from China in the 1990s, not the 1890s. Arab American identity at the turn of the 21st century meant defending pride in my heritage against a barrage of slurs and threats. English was my first language; I never learned Cantonese, and I barely knew any Levantine Arabic. At home, we made a variety of American staple dishes, but also folded pot stickers and wontons, cooked coosa rice and tabbouleh, turned leftover Thanksgiving turkey bones into jook, or packed a pita and lebni sandwich for lunch. We celebrated Chinese New Year and played Lebanese egg games on Easter. From a young age, even if I didn’t have the words to express it, my background made me aware of the wealth of cultures beyond homogeneous suburbia, how they were interwoven within me, and how they could intersect in the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sonia Dholakia, Atherton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m Indian on my dad’s side and white on my mom’s. I remember going to Benihana’s with my mom when I was in elementary school and starting a conversation with the woman sitting adjacent to us. She turned to my mom and asked, “And your husband is … ,” trailing off and waiting for her to complete the sentence. In that moment, I realized that being mixed was not the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling family of five sit on an outdoor planter with chubby, green bushes behind them. From left to right: A bald dad with glasses sits next to his daughter with long, brown hair and jeans. She, sits next to her brother who smiles holding a happy tan dog with floppy ears. He is seated next to his mother with blond hair and a gray, scoop-neck blouse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia Dholakia (center left) is a student at Menlo School in Atherton. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonia Dholakia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, being mixed has become a crucial part of my identity. I’ve been able to celebrate two very different cultures, enjoying both Diwali and Christmas traditions, but I also faced rejection from both sides of my identity. I often feel too white for my Indian friends, but too Indian for my white friends. I used to feel like I didn’t belong anywhere, like I was living in the middle.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonia Dholakia, Atherton\"]‘I often feel too white for my Indian friends, but too Indian for my white friends. I used to feel like I didn’t belong anywhere, like I was living in the middle.’[/pullquote]I knew there were other mixed kids at my school, but I didn’t have a place to share my experience and to learn from theirs. This upset me, and I created an affinity group for mixed students like myself. It has been so rewarding to have a place where I know I can be my true self and others can be theirs. At our first meeting, we all answered the question, “When did you first realize you were mixed?” Hearing everyone’s honest, vulnerable answers, I knew we had created that safe community I sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chanda Stacker-Chung, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a mixed kid, you can always feel the stares. Eyes would travel from me to my mom, to my dad, and then back down to me when I’d walk alongside my mom and dad. To this day, “What are you?” remains the most popular question I receive from strangers and acquaintances alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1884px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg\" alt=\"A family is pictured sitting inside a restaurant setting. A grandmother, two parental figures, and their young daughter all smile for the camera. The daughter wears a royal blue college graduation sash around her shoulders.\" width=\"1884\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg 1884w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanda Stacker-Chung (far right) with her grandmother and parents celebrating her college graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chanda Stacker-Chung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was a child, I always answered by telling people that I was Black and Filipino. Somewhere down the line, I started answering that I was half Black and half Filipino. I never realized how my language in identifying myself (from saying I was Black and Filipino to saying I was half Black and half Filipino) was influenced by others around me. Perhaps it was an attempt to preemptively answer the clarifying questions that always seemed to follow: “Oh, so you’re half-and-half?”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chanda Stacker-Chung, Oakland\"]‘To this day, ‘What are you?’ remains the most popular question I receive from strangers and acquaintances alike.’[/pullquote]At my father’s funeral in 2020, the hearse driver observed my blended family and was curious who he had the honor of driving to the service. “My dad,” I said. He followed up wanting to know more about my background. So I shared that I was half Black and half Filipino. He stopped me and said, “Now, wait a minute, you’re not half of anything.” I’ve been conscious of my language ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leo Bersamina, North Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I grew up with a German/French mother and a Mexican/Filipino dad in the ’60s and ’70s. After my father left when I was 4 years old, my mom raised us kids on her own until the age of 8. Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids. This continued when my white stepdad married my mother, but as I got older, it mattered less to me. Eventually, a few other mixed-race families moved into our community, which made me feel more connected and confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a bright, yellow, long-sleeved shirt smiles in front of a multicolored, funky-patterned mural. He stands with his hands on his hips.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Leo Bersamina in front of his mural on the side of the Adobe Founders Tower in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Leo Bersamina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it continues to be a confusing issue for me to choose an identity, I try to work through it in my art practice by celebrating all of my ancestral influences through the ideas I process visually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently created \u003ca href=\"https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/09/29/behind-the-brush-celebrating-art-community-leo-bersamina\">a large mural in San José for Adobe Inc.\u003c/a> that relates to the idea of being mixed. This project was a great way for me to convey what I have been feeling my whole life: that being mixed has been a rich experience.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leo Bersamina, North Bay\"]‘Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids.’[/pullquote]One aggravating aspect of being mixed is that most of the government forms are too limiting. While some have gotten a little better in regard to me choosing an identity, it is still a pretty difficult issue for me, as the questions about identity are mostly heavy-handed with not enough nuance. I often find myself having to choose “other” as an answer, which doesn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a college professor, being mixed has helped me make connections with many of my students, connections that may not have been available to me if I had not been of a mixed race. It has allowed me to have multidimensional perspectives that I can share with many students, creating a rich learning environment in my classes. Overall, it has been a blessing for me to have a mixed background. I feel comfortable with many types of people, and can relate to many types of perspectives. A bonus is that I often find myself at home whenever I travel to Latin America, Asia, Polynesia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maya Sisneros, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m of Chinese and Mexican descent. I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism. It’s a complicated identity that, in pop discourse, we’ve often conflated with a fantasy of racial progress and multicultural harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg\" alt=\"Two sisters wear large, straw sun hats and smile for the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Sisneros (left) with her sister. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maya Sisneros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing we don’t talk about enough that complicates the mixed-race umbrella is white privilege. Mixed-race people with a white parent get a significant amount of privilege because of their whiteness. Even if they don’t look white, they still benefit from other aspects of white privilege. People who are mixed minorities don’t have that same access to white privilege, and tend to have a very different lived experience.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maya Sisneros, Oakland\"]‘I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism.’[/pullquote]What many mixed-race people do share are questions of belonging, and not being “x” enough. But are these shared experiences of “not belonging” or “belonging to both” substantial enough to characterize a unified identity? Maybe instead of an identity, it’s a shared orientation, a unique position to make more choices around your relationship to your racial and ethnic identity. I’m always interested in reforming the question “Who are you?” to asking instead, “What choices are you making around your identity?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to see KQED complicate the narrative around mixed-race people as unique, by exploring the limits of today’s pop discourse around mixed people or by exploring the history of how the mixed-race identity became popularized and how this affects the distribution of race-based resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alexa Senter, Contra Costa County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing that sticks out from growing up mixed is that look from random elders. I grew up with a lot of narratives about my family’s identities. On my mom’s side, I heard about her maternal grandmother’s hidden Native American roots and my grandpa’s strict German uncles who didn’t approve of children playing when they could be working. On my dad’s side, the narrative was always “somos españoles” because one distant grandfather arrived in California with the first wave of colonizers and missionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While my grandma, who quietly claimed “Indian” heritage, looked much different than the rest of our family, I came to believe that she likely appropriated Native identity to establish some kind of belonging and ownership in the American West after migrating to Washington from Tennessee during WWI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01.jpg\" alt=\"A family of three is pictured inside a clothing store with T-shirts hanging in the background. To the left, a father wears a black bicycle helmet with tropical shirt. In the center, an older daughter wears an army green hat with blue tank top as she smiles. To her right, her mother wears a black tank top and smiles hugging her daughter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa Senter with her parents, Art and Carol. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alexa Senter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since my family is small and most of my elders have passed, I have always gotten so excited when strangers (usually older women) share a sly smile and speak to me in Spanish. And, while that excitement is usually quickly replaced by panic about my mediocre language skills, the joy of being seen helps balance out the “What are you?” and “Why do you talk like a white girl?” questions that I generally got from my peers. My first job here in the Bay Area had me doing a lot of promotional events in the South Bay. On multiple occasions, older South Asian aunties would approach me with incredible warmth and sometimes even ask me about my Indian heritage. I’d respond with happiness from just feeling included and say something along the lines of, “Oh, I am kind of a mutt but I am not South Asian, as far as I know.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alexa Senter, Contra Costa County\"]‘Since my family is small and most of my elders have passed, I have always gotten so excited when strangers (usually older women) share a sly smile and speak to me in Spanish.’[/pullquote]Since losing both my parents, I have spent a lot of my 30s digging deeper into the family archives and even exploring genetic testing to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. Family trees and genetic testing confirmed that my dad’s Spanish identity was, in reality, mostly Indigenous Mexican heritage. I also now know that those aunties I met in San José were on to something that none of my family realized. That grandma who claimed to be Indian? It turns out she was indeed Indian … just not the American kind. The aunties always know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ariane Li, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being mixed gives you the benefit of being able to engage with multiple cultures as part of your heritage. I’m Karen on my mom’s side (ethnic group from Myanmar) and Chinese/white on my dad’s side. I get to celebrate all the Western holidays like Christmas, Easter, etc., as well as Eastern holidays like Lunar New Year. I feel particularly lucky because all sides of my family like each other and enjoy celebrating with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01.jpg\" alt=\"A family of eight stand smiling outside of a house. There are two males and six females pictured.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariane Li (far right) and her cousins at Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ariane Li)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody can tell you what you are or are not. If and when you do get bullied or put down by other people for being mixed, it’s not just white people who do this, other people of color will absolutely put you down for being mixed, probably because it makes them feel better and more secure about their own identities. But people will judge you for engaging in a culture you’re part of if you don’t look (Asian, Latino, Black, etc.) enough to belong. Mixed people tend to get caught in the crossfire of calling out cultural appropriation, especially if they’re white passing. I think most mixed people have learned to give others the benefit of the doubt before calling out cultural appropriation because that other person wearing a kimono or using cultural slang might also be mixed.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ariane Li, San Francisco\"]‘Talking about growing up mixed is an easy way for mixed people to relate to each other, especially when they know the other person isn’t going to judge them for it.’[/pullquote]You also learn to recognize other mixed people really quickly. Talking about growing up mixed is an easy way for mixed people to relate to each other, especially when they know the other person isn’t going to judge them for it. I’ve been able to turn my mixed-ness into a fun guessing game when meeting new people because they always want to know what you are, but, being part of a minority ethnic group from a semi-obscure country in Southeast Asia, most people don’t know to guess “Karen.” I think if some people grow up with more connection to one culture early in life, they’ll try to reconnect with other parts of their identity when they’re older. For me, personally, I grew up surrounded mostly by the white side of my family. Now that I’m an adult, I try to connect more with the Chinese/Southeast Asian side by incorporating things from those cultures into my creative projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maria T. Allocco, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I never saw myself reflected in the world: this is something mixed-race people know. To never read a children’s book written for someone like you. To never see yourself in any school material. To never watch a film with actors who look like you. I never saw myself reflected in the collective reality. As a mixed-race Korean and Italian writer, I learned to trust and represent my own experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01.jpg\" alt=\"Two grandparents stand with their young granddaughter amid green trees and a pond of water. A ceramic statue of a saint is also in the background. The photo is old and has a classic patina to it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Allocco with her grandparents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maria Allocco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I felt what I imagine monoracial people may feel in the presence of other monoracial people like themselves was in a room full of only other mixed-race people at Oakland’s East Bay Meditation Center. In 2012, Michele Benzamin-Miki facilitated an all mixed-race meditation workshop.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Allocco, Oakland\"]‘The love mixed-race people have for our parents and extended families inspires and often requires multiple understandings. We carry them with us throughout our lives.’[/pullquote]My body received a mutual understanding. We shared a foundation of experiences and affirmed them for one another. Afterwards, I co-founded a mixed-race meditation group at the EBMC with four other mixed-race people. My wish was for others to also experience conscious community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The love mixed-race people have for our parents and extended families inspires and often requires multiple understandings. We carry them with us throughout our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the past eight weeks, the California Report Magazine has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mixedrace\">featured the voices of a diverse array of mixed-race Californians\u003c/a>. Musicians, teachers, activists, parents and teenagers described the joy of belonging to multiple ethnic groups and their ability to bridge divides because of their identities. But, they also shared feelings of loneliness and isolation, of not “being enough.” Now, we hear from members of KQED’s audience about their experiences, focusing on the question: “What’s something only fellow mixed folks understand about growing up mixed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Katie Andresen, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I tend to start my story of being multiracial with my hair. Growing up, it was the thing that defined me. In contrast to my classmates, who possessed a mostly straight assortment of blonds, browns and black, my hair sprung from the base of my head outwards and had a mind of its own. It was difficult to manage and never really sat the same way (many tears were shed as my mother combed my hair), despite the exact same methodology of styling. Multiple friends told me that they could pick me out from across the playground by recognizing my halo of curls that stood out in the sea of straight hair. Still, as I would learn later, my hair was considered the “good” type of hair — not overly kinky or coily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen.jpg\" alt=\"A woman smiles from a gray sofa. She has long, curly brown hair and a friendly face. She wears a gold necklace and a black, sleeveless dress. A happy, green house plant is positioned behind her and the light shines brightly on her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Andresen is the host of the podcast Mixed Kid Chronicles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Israel Alemu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would take many years later to realize that my combination of curly hair and light skin was confounding to many. I learned how to navigate the question of “What are you?” as a lesson in geography. Most people in California hadn’t heard of the small island country my mom was from called Cabo Verde. My dad, a white Californian, had a less exciting origin story, but was still an important factor for people getting an answer to their initial question. Years later, I would realize that question wasn’t about me. It was a reflection of how race in the U.S. is constructed as a binary — you are this or that. There is no in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was too white for the Black folks and too Black for the white folks. Or rather — it took too much explanation to both groups with whom I was supposed to be part of that I did, indeed, belong. It didn’t help that I routinely got mistaken as Latina. 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I also didn’t see a place to have an honest conversation about how structures of race and racism shaped these perceptions. I started \u003ca href=\"https://www.mixedkidchronicles.com/\">Mixed Kid Chronicles\u003c/a> to create that space for conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I knew there were other mixed kids at my school, but I didn’t have a place to share my experience and to learn from theirs. This upset me, and I created an affinity group for mixed students like myself. It has been so rewarding to have a place where I know I can be my true self and others can be theirs. At our first meeting, we all answered the question, “When did you first realize you were mixed?” Hearing everyone’s honest, vulnerable answers, I knew we had created that safe community I sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chanda Stacker-Chung, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a mixed kid, you can always feel the stares. Eyes would travel from me to my mom, to my dad, and then back down to me when I’d walk alongside my mom and dad. To this day, “What are you?” remains the most popular question I receive from strangers and acquaintances alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1884px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg\" alt=\"A family is pictured sitting inside a restaurant setting. A grandmother, two parental figures, and their young daughter all smile for the camera. The daughter wears a royal blue college graduation sash around her shoulders.\" width=\"1884\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg 1884w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanda Stacker-Chung (far right) with her grandmother and parents celebrating her college graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chanda Stacker-Chung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was a child, I always answered by telling people that I was Black and Filipino. Somewhere down the line, I started answering that I was half Black and half Filipino. I never realized how my language in identifying myself (from saying I was Black and Filipino to saying I was half Black and half Filipino) was influenced by others around me. Perhaps it was an attempt to preemptively answer the clarifying questions that always seemed to follow: “Oh, so you’re half-and-half?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At my father’s funeral in 2020, the hearse driver observed my blended family and was curious who he had the honor of driving to the service. “My dad,” I said. He followed up wanting to know more about my background. So I shared that I was half Black and half Filipino. He stopped me and said, “Now, wait a minute, you’re not half of anything.” I’ve been conscious of my language ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leo Bersamina, North Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I grew up with a German/French mother and a Mexican/Filipino dad in the ’60s and ’70s. After my father left when I was 4 years old, my mom raised us kids on her own until the age of 8. Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids. This continued when my white stepdad married my mother, but as I got older, it mattered less to me. Eventually, a few other mixed-race families moved into our community, which made me feel more connected and confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a bright, yellow, long-sleeved shirt smiles in front of a multicolored, funky-patterned mural. He stands with his hands on his hips.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Leo Bersamina in front of his mural on the side of the Adobe Founders Tower in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Leo Bersamina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it continues to be a confusing issue for me to choose an identity, I try to work through it in my art practice by celebrating all of my ancestral influences through the ideas I process visually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently created \u003ca href=\"https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/09/29/behind-the-brush-celebrating-art-community-leo-bersamina\">a large mural in San José for Adobe Inc.\u003c/a> that relates to the idea of being mixed. This project was a great way for me to convey what I have been feeling my whole life: that being mixed has been a rich experience.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One aggravating aspect of being mixed is that most of the government forms are too limiting. While some have gotten a little better in regard to me choosing an identity, it is still a pretty difficult issue for me, as the questions about identity are mostly heavy-handed with not enough nuance. I often find myself having to choose “other” as an answer, which doesn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a college professor, being mixed has helped me make connections with many of my students, connections that may not have been available to me if I had not been of a mixed race. It has allowed me to have multidimensional perspectives that I can share with many students, creating a rich learning environment in my classes. Overall, it has been a blessing for me to have a mixed background. I feel comfortable with many types of people, and can relate to many types of perspectives. A bonus is that I often find myself at home whenever I travel to Latin America, Asia, Polynesia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maya Sisneros, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m of Chinese and Mexican descent. I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism. It’s a complicated identity that, in pop discourse, we’ve often conflated with a fantasy of racial progress and multicultural harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg\" alt=\"Two sisters wear large, straw sun hats and smile for the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Sisneros (left) with her sister. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maya Sisneros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing we don’t talk about enough that complicates the mixed-race umbrella is white privilege. Mixed-race people with a white parent get a significant amount of privilege because of their whiteness. Even if they don’t look white, they still benefit from other aspects of white privilege. People who are mixed minorities don’t have that same access to white privilege, and tend to have a very different lived experience.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SoCalGas, the nation’s largest natural gas utility, initially billed a ratepayer account more than $1 million to support the law firm that successfully challenged Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation law banning gas hookups in new buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a California Public Utilities Commission filing released last week, \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ceja-seu-009-3rd-supplemental_q5b_12368.pdf\">the utility admitted it had paid the Redwood City-based law firm Reichman Jorgensen $1.14 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021 to address several legal issues, the most specific of which involved investigating the legality of “existing and proposed federal, state and local laws, and other government actions potentially affecting natural gas service,” and determining “whether they might be preempted by federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas claimed in the filing that “these costs do not include legal challenges to local gas bans for new construction,” like the Berkeley case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the firm’s attorneys, working on behalf of the California Restaurant Association, a trade group that sued Berkeley over the gas ban, went on to argue that the city’s law was preempted by — or in conflict with — federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/17/21-16278.pdf\">A three-judge panel\u003c/a> of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946999/court-strikes-down-berkeleys-landmark-ban-on-natural-gas-in-new-construction\">struck down Berkeley’s law\u003c/a>, overruling a lower court’s 2021 decision to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large building covered with black netting under construction.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A planned apartment complex under construction in downtown Berkeley on April 26, 2023. A recently struck down city law banned natural gas lines in most new residential and commercial buildings. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, Berkeley City Council member Kate Harrison, who co-sponsored the 2020 law barring the use of natural gas pipes in most new residential and commercial construction, announced this week she planned to ask the city attorney to request a rehearing of the case before an 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expect we will collectively mount a robust legal defense,” she said at a press conference on Thursday. “We know what this is really about: the dangerous idea that business profits trump local and state governments’ right to protect our community’s health and safety and a habitable climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison insisted the city’s ordinance remains in effect despite the recent ruling — as the court has yet to issue an injunction or stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Vespa, an attorney with Earthjustice who filed the CPUC motion requiring SoCalGas to disclose the purpose of the payment, said the revelation showed yet another brazen effort by the utility to influence local climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s fairly clear to us, [SoCalGas] is underwriting the cost of this litigation and helping support it,” he said. “It’s paying the same law firm to do the same research that otherwise would have been spent by the Restaurant Association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, he said, the company was forced to admit it had billed that payment to a ratepayer account, in violation of state and federal rules barring utilities from using customer funds for political and lobbying purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Improperly, they were trying to get away with making customers pay for that — for a lawsuit in Berkeley, by the way, and they’re in Southern California,” Vespa said. “They saw that Berkeley’s approach could impact them eventually with jurisdictions down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Vespa, attorney, Earthjustice\"]‘It’s a pattern of using customer money to obstruct climate action. If you get caught, it’s, ‘Oops, I made a mistake,’ which is what they did here.’[/pullquote]It remains unclear how the 9th Circuit’s ruling against Berkeley will affect the mounting number of new gas restrictions in other cities, but it could prove detrimental if upheld on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the decision is creating significant uncertainty for cities today, it doesn’t immediately impact the majority of local governments who have passed measures to cut pollution from buildings,” said Emeryville Mayor John Bauters, whose city enacted a gas ban largely modeled on Berkeley’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment SoCalGas made to Reichman Jorgensen from a ratepayer account comprises roughly a third of the nearly $3.5 million the utility has paid the firm since it took up the case, according to company financial records from \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/SoCalGas_Annual_2020_REDACTED_GO-77-M.pdf\">2020 (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/2021_REDACTED_SCG_GO-77-M_Final.pdf\">2021 (PDF)\u003c/a> that Vespa, working with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, obtained through CPUC data requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reichman Jorgensen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the filing, SoCalGas said it “unintentionally” attributed the payment to a ratepayer account and had since corrected the oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Guthrie, a SoCalGas spokesperson, denied that the payment to the firm had anything to do with the Berkeley lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Reichman Jorgensen costs referenced in your question are not being funded by ratepayers and are unrelated to the CRA’s legal challenge to the Berkeley ordinance,” Guthrie said in an email. He did not respond when asked to elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such tactics are part and parcel of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945910/socalgas-admits-funding-front-group-in-fight-for-its-future\">the utility’s longstanding playbook of aggressively fighting state and local electrification efforts\u003c/a>, Vespa and other environmental advocates argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pattern of using customer money to obstruct climate action,” he said. “If you get caught, it’s, ‘Oops, I made a mistake,’ which is what they did here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1945910 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1-1020x680.jpg']Mike Campbell, program manager with the Public Advocates Office, which represents California ratepayers, says the utility is notorious for inappropriately using ratepayer funds to pay for its various lobbying campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have found it multiple times,” he said. “It’s more [times] than fits in a handful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when required by the commission to detail its spending activities, “the utility really stonewalls responses and in some instances provides answers that are flat-out incorrect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s push for electrification, Campbell argues, poses an “existential threat” to a utility that distributes natural gas to some 21 million customers. And unlike PG&E, which supported Berkeley’s ordinance, SoCalGas does not sell electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell’s office has accused SoCalGas of a litany of transgressions, including lying to regulators, undermining energy efficiency standards and funding seemingly independent advocacy groups to push its agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vespa and other advocates say CRA fits squarely in that latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788199/environmentalists-say-natural-gas-industry-behind-restaurant-groups-challenge-to-berkeley-gas-ban\">CRA filed suit against Berkeley in 2019\u003c/a>, SoCalGas has given the group’s nonprofit foundation at least $725,000, steadily increasing its contributions, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/SoCalGas%20Annual%20GO%2077M%20Report%20-%202019%20Redacted.pdf\">$24,000 in 2019 (PDF)\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/2021_REDACTED_SCG_GO-77-M_Final.pdf\">more than $555,000 in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the utility’s annual financial filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRA spokesperson Sharokina Shams denied any connection between SoCalGas and her group’s litigation against Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reichman Jorgensen LLP are representing CRA in this matter because they are experts in this area of litigation,” she said in a statement. “We have not and do not coordinate with SoCal Gas on our litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its lawsuit, CRA argued that Berkeley’s gas ban posed a major threat to the region’s restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indeed, restaurants specializing in international foods so prized in the Bay Area will be unable to prepare many of their specialties without natural gas,” the suit stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the ban only impacts restaurants in new buildings, the association warned it could spark efforts to limit the use of natural gas in older ones as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s law, which the City Council unanimously approved in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761889/berkeley-becomes-first-city-in-california-to-ban-natural-gas-in-most-new-buildings\">has been hailed by health advocates and environmentalists\u003c/a>, who argue that scaling back the use of the planet-warming fossil fuels in buildings — a significant but largely overlooked source of emissions — is essential to fighting climate change and reducing exposure to harmful pollutants inside homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the law took effect in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2021/07/californias-cities-lead-way-pollution-free-homes-and-buildings\">more than 70 other cities in California\u003c/a>, including several dozen in the Bay Area, have adopted building codes to reduce the use of natural gas, according to the Sierra Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all just slightly different. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Vespa, an attorney with Earthjustice who filed the CPUC motion requiring SoCalGas to disclose the purpose of the payment, said the revelation showed yet another brazen effort by the utility to influence local climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s fairly clear to us, [SoCalGas] is underwriting the cost of this litigation and helping support it,” he said. “It’s paying the same law firm to do the same research that otherwise would have been spent by the Restaurant Association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, he said, the company was forced to admit it had billed that payment to a ratepayer account, in violation of state and federal rules barring utilities from using customer funds for political and lobbying purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Improperly, they were trying to get away with making customers pay for that — for a lawsuit in Berkeley, by the way, and they’re in Southern California,” Vespa said. “They saw that Berkeley’s approach could impact them eventually with jurisdictions down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It remains unclear how the 9th Circuit’s ruling against Berkeley will affect the mounting number of new gas restrictions in other cities, but it could prove detrimental if upheld on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the decision is creating significant uncertainty for cities today, it doesn’t immediately impact the majority of local governments who have passed measures to cut pollution from buildings,” said Emeryville Mayor John Bauters, whose city enacted a gas ban largely modeled on Berkeley’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment SoCalGas made to Reichman Jorgensen from a ratepayer account comprises roughly a third of the nearly $3.5 million the utility has paid the firm since it took up the case, according to company financial records from \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/SoCalGas_Annual_2020_REDACTED_GO-77-M.pdf\">2020 (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/2021_REDACTED_SCG_GO-77-M_Final.pdf\">2021 (PDF)\u003c/a> that Vespa, working with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, obtained through CPUC data requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reichman Jorgensen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the filing, SoCalGas said it “unintentionally” attributed the payment to a ratepayer account and had since corrected the oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Guthrie, a SoCalGas spokesperson, denied that the payment to the firm had anything to do with the Berkeley lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Reichman Jorgensen costs referenced in your question are not being funded by ratepayers and are unrelated to the CRA’s legal challenge to the Berkeley ordinance,” Guthrie said in an email. He did not respond when asked to elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such tactics are part and parcel of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945910/socalgas-admits-funding-front-group-in-fight-for-its-future\">the utility’s longstanding playbook of aggressively fighting state and local electrification efforts\u003c/a>, Vespa and other environmental advocates argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pattern of using customer money to obstruct climate action,” he said. “If you get caught, it’s, ‘Oops, I made a mistake,’ which is what they did here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mike Campbell, program manager with the Public Advocates Office, which represents California ratepayers, says the utility is notorious for inappropriately using ratepayer funds to pay for its various lobbying campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have found it multiple times,” he said. “It’s more [times] than fits in a handful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when required by the commission to detail its spending activities, “the utility really stonewalls responses and in some instances provides answers that are flat-out incorrect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s push for electrification, Campbell argues, poses an “existential threat” to a utility that distributes natural gas to some 21 million customers. And unlike PG&E, which supported Berkeley’s ordinance, SoCalGas does not sell electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell’s office has accused SoCalGas of a litany of transgressions, including lying to regulators, undermining energy efficiency standards and funding seemingly independent advocacy groups to push its agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vespa and other advocates say CRA fits squarely in that latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788199/environmentalists-say-natural-gas-industry-behind-restaurant-groups-challenge-to-berkeley-gas-ban\">CRA filed suit against Berkeley in 2019\u003c/a>, SoCalGas has given the group’s nonprofit foundation at least $725,000, steadily increasing its contributions, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/SoCalGas%20Annual%20GO%2077M%20Report%20-%202019%20Redacted.pdf\">$24,000 in 2019 (PDF)\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/2021_REDACTED_SCG_GO-77-M_Final.pdf\">more than $555,000 in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the utility’s annual financial filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRA spokesperson Sharokina Shams denied any connection between SoCalGas and her group’s litigation against Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reichman Jorgensen LLP are representing CRA in this matter because they are experts in this area of litigation,” she said in a statement. “We have not and do not coordinate with SoCal Gas on our litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its lawsuit, CRA argued that Berkeley’s gas ban posed a major threat to the region’s restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indeed, restaurants specializing in international foods so prized in the Bay Area will be unable to prepare many of their specialties without natural gas,” the suit stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the ban only impacts restaurants in new buildings, the association warned it could spark efforts to limit the use of natural gas in older ones as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s law, which the City Council unanimously approved in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761889/berkeley-becomes-first-city-in-california-to-ban-natural-gas-in-most-new-buildings\">has been hailed by health advocates and environmentalists\u003c/a>, who argue that scaling back the use of the planet-warming fossil fuels in buildings — a significant but largely overlooked source of emissions — is essential to fighting climate change and reducing exposure to harmful pollutants inside homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the law took effect in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2021/07/californias-cities-lead-way-pollution-free-homes-and-buildings\">more than 70 other cities in California\u003c/a>, including several dozen in the Bay Area, have adopted building codes to reduce the use of natural gas, according to the Sierra Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all just slightly different. The main point is that this started a movement,” said Harrison. “The culture has changed and people see the benefits of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Erin Baldassari contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to clarify that payments made from SoCalGas in 2019 and 2021 to the CRA were made to the group’s nonprofit foundation. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sunny spring morning in Riverside, and Jen Larratt-Smith is walking through a field of yellow and purple wildflowers behind the home she shares with her husband and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place near and dear to us,” she said, recalling how her family used the space constantly during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020. “I would do my ‘science class’ with my son out here. He’d get his mountain bike and we’d come out here, and he would have to draw pictures of flowers that he saw or animals that he saw, and he took pictures of wildlife tracks.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jen Larratt-Smith, Riverside resident\"]‘With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land.’[/pullquote]But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. They argue that the warehouses have not brought an economic boom, but rather low-paying, sometimes dangerous and often seasonal jobs. And they say the trucks bringing goods to and from the warehouses around the clock are emitting dangerous chemicals that are making people here sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land,” said Larratt-Smith, who has created a group called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/rivnow/home?authuser=0&pli=1\">R-NOW\u003c/a>, or Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pay the price of the traffic and the air quality and aesthetics and quality of life, but we don’t really reap any of the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers agree. Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in the nearby city of Claremont, has been studying the impact of warehouses for over two decades.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"inland-empire\"]She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis, Pitzer College\"]‘There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up. It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.’[/pullquote]“There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up,” she said. “It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the coalition in support of more development is large and powerful and is using its muscle to oppose the 1,000-foot buffer bill, which also would allow people to sue the government agency that approves a project in conflict with the bill’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Regele, vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships at the California Chamber of Commerce, says the 1,000-foot buffer proposal is based on old science that fails to take into account that air quality regulators have required truck fleets to become cleaner in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits and costs of ‘unprecedented’ growth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regele also notes the economic benefit to the region: 1.6 million union jobs in Southern California alone directly associated with the ports — and millions more connected to the warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says AB 1000 would discourage job creation, housing construction and the state’s ability to move goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Inland Empire doesn’t host these warehouses, Regele argues, they will simply be built further from coastal ports — and the trucks will still be using the same highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will drive through those communities, pass those jobs and keep going to where the warehouses are ultimately allowed to be permitted, only to then truck all those goods back in for retail distribution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips acknowledges that trucks have gotten cleaner in recent years, but says those improvements have been outweighed by the pace of growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman are seen from afar, their backs to the camera, walking down a long dirt road alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith walk down a path, alongside a fenced-off area, on the open space land they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Individual warehouses are getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where they’re being constructed as megawarehouses,” she said. “Even though the fleet is greener than it was 20 years ago, the growth is unprecedented and the proximity to homes and schools is continuing. And so … whereas people should be benefiting from cleaner air because the fleet is cleaner, our communities aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some neighbors, like Larratt-Smith, argue that many of the economic benefits that come from these warehouses are flowing to company executives and workers who live and work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the junk store of the U.S. Basically, we are storing the goods for them so that we can send it out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I don’t think we need more warehouse land in this area, given how oversaturated we already are,” Larratt-Smith added, acknowledging that her goal of having a complete moratorium is a long shot. “But at least put some guardrails on it. Like at least if you’re going to be building, consider the community and the impacts before you do it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/\">FentCheck\u003c/a> brings Narcan and fentanyl test strips to bars and other community spaces, and bars are stocking the life-saving medication, as well as hosting trainings on how to administer it. Those promoting harm reduction in the nightlife community say the effort has also opened up a necessary conversation about the risks and realities of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harm-reduction boxes offer ‘a beacon for conversation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That push to reduce stigma and save lives is why Josh Yule has been building harm-reduction boxes and delivering them to bars since December. The bright, medical-white boxes contain Narcan; a neon pink, three-step guide to administering it; and fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule, a former bartender at The Knockout who still books shows there, makes the boxes at a friend’s woodshop in San Leandro. Nine San Francisco establishments house the boxes so far, including The Knockout, The Phone Booth, The Make Out Room and Mothership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses looks at the camera as he gestures toward three white boxes with asterisk logos on them lined up next to each other in a bar.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule shows a group of bar employees gathered for a Narcan training session the harm-reduction boxes he hopes to distribute to other Bay Area bars, at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each box is dedicated to Yule’s mother, Roberta Damron, who fatally overdosed on fentanyl in 2021. He signs the inside doors of the boxes “For Mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is there to save a life. First and foremost, that’s what it does,” Yule said. “But it’s also there so people can talk to one another. People can feel safe that they know it’s there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule said his mother’s death, at age 66, was a shock. His mother was religious, straightlaced and hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was awesome,” Yule said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembered how, when he was in middle school, his mom tore down a poster in his room of Sid Vicious, the bassist for The Sex Pistols who died of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would be really embarrassed that this is how she passed away. I just know that. And I think about that often,” Yule said. “I never really understood what was going on. Maybe I didn’t really want to understand. I’m still figuring that one out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule had been studying graphic design at California College of the Arts, when he decided to pour his energy into work focused on destigmatizing opioid use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands holding a few photos, with a mother and child in the topmost photo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule looks through the few photos he has of his mother, at his home in San Francisco on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He designed posters and stickers, but also wanted to create something physical that could become a “beacon for conversation.” The harm-reduction boxes became his thesis project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his mother’s death, Yule had also lost two friends to fatal overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be destigmatizing this disorder. It’s the only way to get anywhere. We’re just taking baby steps,” Yule said. “I wish that there was something that beckoned me to talk to my friend, or something I had seen. Maybe he would still be around. Maybe I would have put two and two together about my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bar staff train and prepare for emergencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Then, last winter, bar staff and community members were pushed to action after a string of near fatal overdoses in Mission District bars. Anita Ellis, a bartender at The Phone Booth and Pop’s Bar, organized a training for any interested bartenders in learning about Narcan as well as fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman stands behind a dimly lit bar as an older white man with a white beard speaks smilingly to her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction box made by Josh Yule and painted by artist Chelsea Wong hangs at the end of the bar at the Phone Booth while Anita Ellis bartends. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least 50 people showed up at The Knockout for the December training, many more than a similar training Ellis had organized years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of community spirit, this feeling of, ‘Let’s take care of one another.’” Ellis said. “The idea of somebody losing their life because they want to do a little blow in the bathroom because it’s their birthday or whatever occasion, or no occasion at all, I find that to be ludicrous. That shouldn’t be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule talked about the harm-reduction boxes during the event, and about 20 people signed up for them. He’s still working through that list, and more people have signed up since then. He’s also looking to expand to restaurants, and hopes to gain enough traction that the city or state takes over to continue the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People stand and listen at a bar\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of bar employees gathered for a Narcan training session listen to Josh Yule discuss harm reduction boxes he created to help prevent fentanyl overdoses in bars at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joanna Lioce, staff manager at Vesuvio Cafe in North Beach, picked up one of the harm-reduction boxes during that training. Years before, in response to overdoses in the alley outside the bar, Vesuvio staff were trained in administering Narcan. Lioce was able to reverse an overdose in the alleyway with Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like anything — if you see someone fall in a pool and you can get out and save them, you’re going to do it,” Lioce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Narcan is essential for bars in the age of fentanyl, like carrying a fire extinguisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule’s boxes alert patrons that Narcan is available in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all kind of sound like grandmas now. Like, at least me and my friends are like, ‘Back in my day, you could buy cocaine in the Tenderloin and didn’t even have to worry about it.’ Now it’s like, ‘No, you can’t do anything like that,’” Lioce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947459\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses and a sweater opens a white wooden box with "How to Administer Naloxone" written in red on the inside of the box lid, as two women look on from the man's left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule shows local bar employee Joanna Lioce a harm-reduction box he created to help prevent fentanyl overdoses, after a Narcan training session at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are still barriers to accessing Narcan for free, and Yule said one of the biggest challenges in completing his project was figuring out where to get Narcan. Now he goes to the city’s Community Behavioral Health Services pharmacy, where the public can get Narcan for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A potential policy solution, and barriers in supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB24/2023#:~:text=California%20Assembly%20Bill%2024&text=Bill%20Title%3A%20Emergency%20response%3A%20opioid%20antagonist%20kits.&text=An%20act%20to%20add%20Chapter,Code%2C%20relating%20to%20emergency%20response\">Assembly Bill 24\u003c/a>, could require libraries, gas stations, residential hotels and bars in areas hardest hit by drug overdoses to carry Narcan, or face $100 fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is enough Narcan to put in all of these establishments and also get into the hands of organizations who work directly with people who are using drugs. They really need to be in both places,” Haney said in an interview. “And we have to stop nickel-and-diming this if we are going to save lives.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11944267,science_1982214,news_11945418\"]In a statement, San Francisco Entertainment Commission Senior Analyst Dylan Rice said the commission is identifying policy, supply chain and consumer price considerations that would make it possible to achieve a vision for Narcan to be available behind every bar in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some harm reduction advocates remain worried about resources. Laura Guzman, acting executive director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, said their organization primarily distributes overdose reversal medication to syringe exchange programs that serve residents most vulnerable to overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, we are still waiting to see if there will be additional allocation of naloxone that we could be distributing throughout all of the supportive housing, shelters, etcetera,” Guzman said. “There hasn’t been in San Francisco or in the state yet an amplification of naloxone access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944267/newsom-doubles-down-on-naloxone-distribution-in-new-master-plan-to-curb-overdose-deaths\">$79 million to go toward distributing Narcan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medication could also become available over the counter later this year, though the manufacturer has said it could cost as much as $50 per kit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/20/narcan-price-over-the-counter/\">a price tag advocates say puts it out of reach for people who need it most\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Thomas, director of HIV and harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation who also sits on the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, said she wants to see a day where all venues have Narcan, but is also concerned about diverting scarce resources. She said the AIDS Foundation uses its own organizational funds to buy Narcan because it does not get enough supplies from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that is a huge problem because we are distributing Narcan to people who are the most likely to be at the scene of an overdose and the most likely to reverse an overdose,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community continues to educate each other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to access Narcan or learn how to use it, you could also try \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/princess\">Princess\u003c/a>, the weekly Saturday night dance party and drag spectacular at Oasis.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anita Ellis, bartender\"]‘The idea of somebody losing their life because they want to do a little blow in the bathroom … That shouldn’t be happening.’[/pullquote]Virtually every weekend for about 18 months, Cary Escovedo has offered overdose prevention education during the show, usually for about five minutes after intermission. Escovedo, whose drag name is Kochina Rude and who co-hosts the event with Lisa Frankenstein, has partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">Drug Overdose Prevention and Education\u003c/a> Project on the effort, and distributes about 24 doses of Narcan per show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She starts off by asking the audience if they know what Narcan is, and then outlines a scenario that could happen in any club where a hypothetical person is found unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the scenario, friends call 911, administer Narcan and provide rescue breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the overdose is reversed, the audience cheers. Kochina Rude ends on a high note, focusing on how queer people are in a unique position to take care of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because historically we have had to do so out of necessity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two white men with glasses talk over a white box in process of completion in a furniture store with carpentry equipment around them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule (left) and Jeremiah Nielsen work to make harm-reduction boxes at the Oakland handmade furniture manufacturing shop Jeremiah Collection, on Dec. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even if some bar owners may want to pretend drug use does not happen, bartenders can still come to Kochina Rude and access Narcan on their own, she said. During the weekly shows, she reminds the audience that they should not be scared to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By taking this Narcan today, you now are serving as a community first responder in the event of an overdose, wherever you are,” she tells the audience. “And it can happen anytime and anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tika Hall was at a music show in San Francisco’s Mission District in February when around 10 p.m. someone yelled out, “Does anyone have Narcan?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, who is an artist, a musician and a longtime San Francisco resident, understood this meant someone had overdosed, and that their survival could depend on finding Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall and a friend ran to the nearest bar, one of the few places still open that might carry it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I go into crisis mode, I get a lizard brain, and I was like, ‘What we have to do is go get this thing,’” Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the first bar did not have Narcan, they tried the next one, The Eagle, which did. The bartender gave them the medicine, no questions asked, and the Narcan was used to revive the person who had overdosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closed white box with a pink asterisk logo hangs on a wall in a dimly lit bar with a bar counter further back and a bartender and two patrons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64549_006_KQED_MothershipHarmReduction_04112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm-reduction box created by Josh Yule hangs on the wall at Mothership bar in San Francisco on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If this had happened somewhere there wasn’t a bar that had Narcan nearby, or if this had happened during the day when a bar wasn’t open, I don’t know what would have happened,” Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hall carries Narcan with her everywhere, and the incident underscores the importance of making the antidote available for the public in places like bars. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/2023%2004_OCME%20Overdose%20Report_0.pdf\">Two hundred people have fatally overdosed in San Francisco in the first three months of this year (PDF)\u003c/a>, and nationwide there has been a steep \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-opioids-synthetic-government-and-politics-8f64b776b82d6e8bc2e324b732e4b6e2\">rise in accidental overdoses\u003c/a>, as other illicit drugs — like cocaine and methamphetamines — have been increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl\">laced with fentanyl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area bar owners, staff and advocates are taking the initiative to keep patrons and the community safe. The nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/\">FentCheck\u003c/a> brings Narcan and fentanyl test strips to bars and other community spaces, and bars are stocking the life-saving medication, as well as hosting trainings on how to administer it. Those promoting harm reduction in the nightlife community say the effort has also opened up a necessary conversation about the risks and realities of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harm-reduction boxes offer ‘a beacon for conversation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That push to reduce stigma and save lives is why Josh Yule has been building harm-reduction boxes and delivering them to bars since December. The bright, medical-white boxes contain Narcan; a neon pink, three-step guide to administering it; and fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule, a former bartender at The Knockout who still books shows there, makes the boxes at a friend’s woodshop in San Leandro. Nine San Francisco establishments house the boxes so far, including The Knockout, The Phone Booth, The Make Out Room and Mothership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses looks at the camera as he gestures toward three white boxes with asterisk logos on them lined up next to each other in a bar.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62179_002_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule shows a group of bar employees gathered for a Narcan training session the harm-reduction boxes he hopes to distribute to other Bay Area bars, at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each box is dedicated to Yule’s mother, Roberta Damron, who fatally overdosed on fentanyl in 2021. He signs the inside doors of the boxes “For Mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is there to save a life. First and foremost, that’s what it does,” Yule said. “But it’s also there so people can talk to one another. People can feel safe that they know it’s there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule said his mother’s death, at age 66, was a shock. His mother was religious, straightlaced and hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was awesome,” Yule said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembered how, when he was in middle school, his mom tore down a poster in his room of Sid Vicious, the bassist for The Sex Pistols who died of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would be really embarrassed that this is how she passed away. I just know that. And I think about that often,” Yule said. “I never really understood what was going on. Maybe I didn’t really want to understand. I’m still figuring that one out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule had been studying graphic design at California College of the Arts, when he decided to pour his energy into work focused on destigmatizing opioid use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands holding a few photos, with a mother and child in the topmost photo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64677_004_KQED_JoshYuleMomPhotos_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule looks through the few photos he has of his mother, at his home in San Francisco on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He designed posters and stickers, but also wanted to create something physical that could become a “beacon for conversation.” The harm-reduction boxes became his thesis project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his mother’s death, Yule had also lost two friends to fatal overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be destigmatizing this disorder. It’s the only way to get anywhere. We’re just taking baby steps,” Yule said. “I wish that there was something that beckoned me to talk to my friend, or something I had seen. Maybe he would still be around. Maybe I would have put two and two together about my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bar staff train and prepare for emergencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Then, last winter, bar staff and community members were pushed to action after a string of near fatal overdoses in Mission District bars. Anita Ellis, a bartender at The Phone Booth and Pop’s Bar, organized a training for any interested bartenders in learning about Narcan as well as fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman stands behind a dimly lit bar as an older white man with a white beard speaks smilingly to her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64686_007_KQED_HarmReductionPhoneBooth_04172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction box made by Josh Yule and painted by artist Chelsea Wong hangs at the end of the bar at the Phone Booth while Anita Ellis bartends. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least 50 people showed up at The Knockout for the December training, many more than a similar training Ellis had organized years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of community spirit, this feeling of, ‘Let’s take care of one another.’” Ellis said. “The idea of somebody losing their life because they want to do a little blow in the bathroom because it’s their birthday or whatever occasion, or no occasion at all, I find that to be ludicrous. That shouldn’t be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule talked about the harm-reduction boxes during the event, and about 20 people signed up for them. He’s still working through that list, and more people have signed up since then. He’s also looking to expand to restaurants, and hopes to gain enough traction that the city or state takes over to continue the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People stand and listen at a bar\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64693_018_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of bar employees gathered for a Narcan training session listen to Josh Yule discuss harm reduction boxes he created to help prevent fentanyl overdoses in bars at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joanna Lioce, staff manager at Vesuvio Cafe in North Beach, picked up one of the harm-reduction boxes during that training. Years before, in response to overdoses in the alley outside the bar, Vesuvio staff were trained in administering Narcan. Lioce was able to reverse an overdose in the alleyway with Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like anything — if you see someone fall in a pool and you can get out and save them, you’re going to do it,” Lioce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Narcan is essential for bars in the age of fentanyl, like carrying a fire extinguisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yule’s boxes alert patrons that Narcan is available in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all kind of sound like grandmas now. Like, at least me and my friends are like, ‘Back in my day, you could buy cocaine in the Tenderloin and didn’t even have to worry about it.’ Now it’s like, ‘No, you can’t do anything like that,’” Lioce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947459\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses and a sweater opens a white wooden box with "How to Administer Naloxone" written in red on the inside of the box lid, as two women look on from the man's left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62181_012_KQED_KnockoutNarcanTraining_12152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule shows local bar employee Joanna Lioce a harm-reduction box he created to help prevent fentanyl overdoses, after a Narcan training session at The Knockout in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are still barriers to accessing Narcan for free, and Yule said one of the biggest challenges in completing his project was figuring out where to get Narcan. Now he goes to the city’s Community Behavioral Health Services pharmacy, where the public can get Narcan for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A potential policy solution, and barriers in supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB24/2023#:~:text=California%20Assembly%20Bill%2024&text=Bill%20Title%3A%20Emergency%20response%3A%20opioid%20antagonist%20kits.&text=An%20act%20to%20add%20Chapter,Code%2C%20relating%20to%20emergency%20response\">Assembly Bill 24\u003c/a>, could require libraries, gas stations, residential hotels and bars in areas hardest hit by drug overdoses to carry Narcan, or face $100 fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is enough Narcan to put in all of these establishments and also get into the hands of organizations who work directly with people who are using drugs. They really need to be in both places,” Haney said in an interview. “And we have to stop nickel-and-diming this if we are going to save lives.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Virtually every weekend for about 18 months, Cary Escovedo has offered overdose prevention education during the show, usually for about five minutes after intermission. Escovedo, whose drag name is Kochina Rude and who co-hosts the event with Lisa Frankenstein, has partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">Drug Overdose Prevention and Education\u003c/a> Project on the effort, and distributes about 24 doses of Narcan per show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She starts off by asking the audience if they know what Narcan is, and then outlines a scenario that could happen in any club where a hypothetical person is found unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the scenario, friends call 911, administer Narcan and provide rescue breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the overdose is reversed, the audience cheers. Kochina Rude ends on a high note, focusing on how queer people are in a unique position to take care of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because historically we have had to do so out of necessity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two white men with glasses talk over a white box in process of completion in a furniture store with carpentry equipment around them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS62150_020_KQED_HarmReductionBoxes_12072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Yule (left) and Jeremiah Nielsen work to make harm-reduction boxes at the Oakland handmade furniture manufacturing shop Jeremiah Collection, on Dec. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even if some bar owners may want to pretend drug use does not happen, bartenders can still come to Kochina Rude and access Narcan on their own, she said. During the weekly shows, she reminds the audience that they should not be scared to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By taking this Narcan today, you now are serving as a community first responder in the event of an overdose, wherever you are,” she tells the audience. “And it can happen anytime and anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Trader Joe’s store in Oakland became the chain’s first in California to choose to unionize in a 73–53 vote, according to federal regulators who supervised the two-day election that closed Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several employees, also known as “crew members,” reacted to the tally results by cheering in the parking lot of the Rockridge neighborhood supermarket, as others jumped with joy and pumped their fists on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/renepakmorrison/status/1649247774498779139\">videos posted on social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It plants a seed not only in our state but everywhere in the country that you can do this,” Dominique Bernardo, 39, a Trader Joe’s Rockridge worker who pushed for the union campaign, told KQED. “Just regular old crew members who never organized a day in their life could still manage to pull it off against a huge company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as pro-union workers in Oakland celebrated, some lamented an election outcome at another Trader Joe’s store, this one in New York City, on the same day. Employees at the Manhattan location \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/case/02-RC-314585\">tied on a 76–76 vote\u003c/a>, the National Labor Relations Board confirmed, which means that store narrowly missed the majority required to opt for representation by Trader Joe’s United, an independent union founded by workers at the grocery store giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was heartbreaking,” said Bernardo, who has worked at the chain for 18 years. “But it’s clear how close the vote was in New York, and I think the company knows that the path they are going on is unsustainable and they need to start listening to their employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both parties have up to five business days to file any objections to the vote. If none are received, the NLRB certifies the results. And if the results are in favor of union representation, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/bargaining-in-good-faith-with-employees-union-representative\">the employer must begin bargaining in good faith\u003c/a> after the results are certified,” said Kayla Blado, spokesperson with the agency.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dominique Bernardo, Trader Joe’s employee\"]‘It plants a seed not only in our state but everywhere in the country that you can do this. Just regular old crew members who never organized a day in their life could still manage to pull it off against a huge company.’[/pullquote]The votes in Oakland and New York come amid several complaints of unfair labor practices filed with regulators, alleging that managers surveilled and threatened employees with negative consequences, including the loss of flexible schedules, if they joined the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Labor Relations Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/interfering-with-employee-rights-section-7-8a1\">prohibits employers\u003c/a> from interfering with, restraining or coercing employees to prevent them from joining a union. But even when regulators find that employers break labor laws, the agency does not have the ability to issue fines and is limited to sending a “cease and desist” letter in most cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/search/case/Trader%20Joe%27s\">dozens of cases of unfair labor practice cases related to Trader Joe’s\u003c/a> with the NLRB, most of which remain open, according to Blado. Last month, an agency administrative judge found that the company unlawfully disciplined and fired a worker in Houston, who had raised concerns about workplace conditions, and ordered reinstatement and backpay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Trader Joe’s is the fourth location of six nationwide to vote for union representation. Last summer, two stores — one in western Massachusetts and the other in Minneapolis — were the first to successfully join Trader Joe’s United. The third location, in Louisville, Kentucky, is awaiting certification by the NLRB, while another store in Brooklyn turned down union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which is headquartered in Monrovia, in Southern California, did not return requests for comment on the recent union votes or on the charges of union-busting tactics. But the chain, which has cultivated a values-based progressive brand, has said \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trader-joes-crew-members-vote-in-union-election-301595728.html\">its package of pay, benefits and working conditions\u003c/a> is “among the best in the grocery business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are dedicated to doing the work, every single day, to make sure Trader Joe’s is an environment that is safe, welcoming, inclusive, and respectful for all Crew Members and customers,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.traderjoes.com/home/careers/who-we-are\">says the chain on its website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since opening its first branded store in Pasadena in 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/albrecht-family-aldi-fortune-heirs-net-worth-secretive-lifestyle-photos-2019-3\">the subsequently German-owned company\u003c/a> has grown to more than 535 locations nationwide, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-trader-joes-shopper-demographic-younger-married-earning-80k-income-2021-9#:~:text=Trader%20Joe's%20average%20customer%20is,44%20years%20old%2C%20earning%20%2480%2C000.\">sales reaching an estimated $16.5 billion\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland store’s pro-union vote is “a huge deal” that energizes a mostly grassroots, worker-led movement for higher pay at large corporations staunchly opposed to unions, like Starbucks and Amazon, said John Logan, who chairs the Labor and Employment Studies Department at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the often \u003ca href=\"https://towardsdatascience.com/are-you-a-trader-joes-democrat-or-a-walmart-republican-a7b156131435\">liberal-leaning customer base\u003c/a> at Trader Joe’s, he said, the company risks a hit to its business if it were to be perceived as unlawfully quashing workers’ attempts to improve conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge amount of reputational risk involved if they seem to be committing dozens or even hundreds — in the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/howard-schultz-testimony-starbucks/index.html\">Starbucks\u003c/a> — of unlawful labor practices, if they seem to be deliberately refusing to bargain with the union,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months now, the grocery chain has been negotiating with union representatives for its Hadley, Massachusetts, and Minneapolis locations, but no agreement has been reached, according to Maeg Yosef, a worker at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/business/economy/trader-joes-union.html\">the Massachusetts store\u003c/a> with Trader Joe’s United. The Oakland location is expected to join the union at the bargaining table, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947295 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters gathered outside a Trader Joe's store on a city street.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trader Joe’s employees and union activists hold a rally at a Trader Joe’s in lower Manhattan in support of forming a union at the grocery store, on April 18, 2023, in New York City. Workers at the store have complained of slashed benefits, stagnant wages and a lack of concern for health and safety. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, employees said they started organizing last summer to gain a greater say at a company they see as growing financially while slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/business/economy/trader-joes-union.html\">retirement contributions\u003c/a> and making it more difficult for part-timers to get full health benefits in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers are hopeful that the union can help make the process for promotions more transparent, and address health and safety concerns on the job, said Nava Rosenthal, 23, a crew member for nearly five years at the Rockridge location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to build something from scratch, and it’s something that we are all going to have a say in,” said Rosenthal. “And so making sure that the floor is open to everyone, no matter how they vote, is going to be super important moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some co-workers in Oakland were opposed to the campaign in part because they worried membership dues would be too costly, she said. But one of the goals of forming a union unaffiliated with established labor organizations is to keep dues as low as possible, Rosenthal added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-scaled.jpg\" alt='A sign up in a window that says \"Voting Place\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trader Joe’s grocery store in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland on April 19, 2023, during a union vote. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours before the polls closed at the Rockridge store, operations seemed as busy as usual, with dozens of shoppers cruising the aisles packed with fig jam jars, organic flaxseed granola boxes, frozen pizzas with uncured salami and other groceries. But several crew members told KQED their working environment felt tense in the weeks leading to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-time employee pushing carts across the parking lot said he didn’t believe a union was needed, but declined to give his full name out of fear it would lead to more division among staffers. He said that working conditions at Trader Joe’s were better than at previous jobs he’d held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve formed a community here,” he said. “I haven’t seen any catastrophic problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A Trader Joe’s store in Oakland became the chain’s first in California to choose to unionize in a 73–53 vote, according to federal regulators who supervised the two-day election that closed Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several employees, also known as “crew members,” reacted to the tally results by cheering in the parking lot of the Rockridge neighborhood supermarket, as others jumped with joy and pumped their fists on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/renepakmorrison/status/1649247774498779139\">videos posted on social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It plants a seed not only in our state but everywhere in the country that you can do this,” Dominique Bernardo, 39, a Trader Joe’s Rockridge worker who pushed for the union campaign, told KQED. “Just regular old crew members who never organized a day in their life could still manage to pull it off against a huge company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as pro-union workers in Oakland celebrated, some lamented an election outcome at another Trader Joe’s store, this one in New York City, on the same day. Employees at the Manhattan location \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/case/02-RC-314585\">tied on a 76–76 vote\u003c/a>, the National Labor Relations Board confirmed, which means that store narrowly missed the majority required to opt for representation by Trader Joe’s United, an independent union founded by workers at the grocery store giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was heartbreaking,” said Bernardo, who has worked at the chain for 18 years. “But it’s clear how close the vote was in New York, and I think the company knows that the path they are going on is unsustainable and they need to start listening to their employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both parties have up to five business days to file any objections to the vote. If none are received, the NLRB certifies the results. And if the results are in favor of union representation, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/bargaining-in-good-faith-with-employees-union-representative\">the employer must begin bargaining in good faith\u003c/a> after the results are certified,” said Kayla Blado, spokesperson with the agency.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland store’s pro-union vote is “a huge deal” that energizes a mostly grassroots, worker-led movement for higher pay at large corporations staunchly opposed to unions, like Starbucks and Amazon, said John Logan, who chairs the Labor and Employment Studies Department at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the often \u003ca href=\"https://towardsdatascience.com/are-you-a-trader-joes-democrat-or-a-walmart-republican-a7b156131435\">liberal-leaning customer base\u003c/a> at Trader Joe’s, he said, the company risks a hit to its business if it were to be perceived as unlawfully quashing workers’ attempts to improve conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge amount of reputational risk involved if they seem to be committing dozens or even hundreds — in the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/howard-schultz-testimony-starbucks/index.html\">Starbucks\u003c/a> — of unlawful labor practices, if they seem to be deliberately refusing to bargain with the union,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months now, the grocery chain has been negotiating with union representatives for its Hadley, Massachusetts, and Minneapolis locations, but no agreement has been reached, according to Maeg Yosef, a worker at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/business/economy/trader-joes-union.html\">the Massachusetts store\u003c/a> with Trader Joe’s United. The Oakland location is expected to join the union at the bargaining table, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947295 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters gathered outside a Trader Joe's store on a city street.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1483112532-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trader Joe’s employees and union activists hold a rally at a Trader Joe’s in lower Manhattan in support of forming a union at the grocery store, on April 18, 2023, in New York City. Workers at the store have complained of slashed benefits, stagnant wages and a lack of concern for health and safety. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, employees said they started organizing last summer to gain a greater say at a company they see as growing financially while slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/business/economy/trader-joes-union.html\">retirement contributions\u003c/a> and making it more difficult for part-timers to get full health benefits in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers are hopeful that the union can help make the process for promotions more transparent, and address health and safety concerns on the job, said Nava Rosenthal, 23, a crew member for nearly five years at the Rockridge location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to build something from scratch, and it’s something that we are all going to have a say in,” said Rosenthal. “And so making sure that the floor is open to everyone, no matter how they vote, is going to be super important moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some co-workers in Oakland were opposed to the campaign in part because they worried membership dues would be too costly, she said. But one of the goals of forming a union unaffiliated with established labor organizations is to keep dues as low as possible, Rosenthal added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-scaled.jpg\" alt='A sign up in a window that says \"Voting Place\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/007_KQED_TraderJoesUnionVote_04192023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trader Joe’s grocery store in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland on April 19, 2023, during a union vote. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours before the polls closed at the Rockridge store, operations seemed as busy as usual, with dozens of shoppers cruising the aisles packed with fig jam jars, organic flaxseed granola boxes, frozen pizzas with uncured salami and other groceries. But several crew members told KQED their working environment felt tense in the weeks leading to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-time employee pushing carts across the parking lot said he didn’t believe a union was needed, but declined to give his full name out of fear it would lead to more division among staffers. He said that working conditions at Trader Joe’s were better than at previous jobs he’d held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve formed a community here,” he said. “I haven’t seen any catastrophic problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More people are identifying as mixed race than ever before in the U.S. — the 2020 census showed a 256% jump in people identifying as multiracial over the previous 10 years. Mixed-race kids are a growing part of that demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist Jenn Noble has been helping mixed-race kids and their parents navigate issues of identity and belonging for over 15 years. Through the online community she’s created with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.drjennpsych.com/\">Mixed Life Academy\u003c/a>, she works to set kids up for success in a world that is often uncomfortable with liminality, and that prefers to put people in neat little boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Sasha Khokha and Marisa Lagos spoke with Noble about her tips for parents as part of the California Report Magazine series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mixed-race\">Mixed: Stories from Mixed-Race Californians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Don’t be afraid to talk about race with your child\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of parents are hesitant to address race directly with their young children out of a desire to protect them from the ugliness of the world. Instead, they may use phrases like, “There’s only one race — the human race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is going to be more harmful, because the kid is like, No, I know something is different here. I see you, and I see my dad and I see the mirror and my friends are saying, ‘Why do I look like this?’” Noble said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hard as it might be to talk about race, ignoring the conversation means kids will encounter questions about their racial identity for the first time not in the safety of their own family, but at school or on the playground, and often in ways that are scary or unpleasant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Read books and watch films about mixed-race characters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of great books that introduce the idea of the mixed-race experience to a child,” Noble said. “You can do it as young as 3 and 4 years old. And sometimes, that allows the parents to find more words because if the parent is sitting there and reading the book, [they’ll realize], ‘Oh, is this what my kid is feeling or could be experiencing at some point? Or will their peers say this to them?’ I think that’s a great place to start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble also recommends families watching films and shows together that feature racially mixed families, like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encanto\">Encanto\u003c/a>\u003c/em> or the Netflix series \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaba_Masaba\">Masaba Masaba\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble said the best place for kids to learn to talk about race and identity is at home, with their parents. Then, when the child goes out into the world and someone asks, “What are you?,” that child will be less likely to be hurt or surprised. Rather, they’ll be ready with answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You protect them more by doing it this way,” Noble said. “Rather than, ‘Oh, let me go talk to that teacher. Let me go talk to that kid so they never say that to you again,’ the kid’s like, ‘No, just help me understand why they even said that, and then I’ll take it from here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Expose your kids to their cultural backgrounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Noble said she hears a lot of mixed-race kids saying that different parts of their identity are validated in different spaces, leaving them feeling fractured, like their entire self is never fully acknowledged. She says helping them to connect to the language, food and cultural practices of all their various heritages can help mitigate that feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Parents-option-2-for-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"A family with an older mother and father stand on a boat with their grown-up daughter as they pose barefoot making silly faces. The boat looks as though it's inside a cave-like environment on the water.\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Parents-option-2-for-graphic.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Parents-option-2-for-graphic-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, Noble’s dad, Noble and Noble’s mom pose for a silly photo together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jenn Noble)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Worlds are not split. I’m me everywhere I go. So, if I’m with one family and they’re saying, ‘You’re this,’ and I’m with another family and they’re saying, ‘You’re that,’ I’m still the same person in both environments. They may be acknowledging just one portion, but I’m always one person. And then stepping into that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Be bold\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Noble says it’s easy for mixed-race kids to feel they don’t belong anywhere, when actually they are members of more communities than many other people. The trick is to boldly step into those spaces and own the right to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jenn Noble, psychologist\"]‘Worlds are not split. I’m me everywhere I go. So, if I’m with one family and they’re saying, ‘You’re this,’ and I’m with another family and they’re saying, ‘You’re that,’ I’m still the same person in both environments.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When your phenotype really doesn’t match one of the groups you belong to, you develop that skill of being like, ‘Well, I’m going to enter this space anyway and y’all are going to be all right and we’ll figure it out together,’” she said. “You should be there, and you should participate and you should feel comfortable to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Don’t use fractions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parents have many opportunities to name their child’s multiple heritages and model the normalcy of that. If a nosy neighbor asks, “What’s your kid’s background?,” answer by naming all their racial identities, but not breaking them into fractions. “Ands” and commas will be your friends. For example, say, “My kid is Black and Filipino and Chinese,” not, “She’s a quarter Black, a quarter Chinese and half Filipino.”[aside label='More from the 'Mixed Series' tag='mixed']“The more you model that, your kid is going to hear you,” Noble said. “Because your little child could be standing there when you assert their identity to someone else and they’re going to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s right. I am all those things.’ [Modeling that] full embracing of identity is going to be helpful for that child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday morning, fans of the Oakland Technical High School’s girls and Oakland High School’s boys varsity basketball teams filled the streets at a downtown parade and rally to celebrate both winning state championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman points to rings on her fingers while another young Black woman holds a trophy with several medals around her neck, surrounded by people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jada Williams (left) and Erin Sellers (right) carry the California Interscholastic Federation DI girls state championship trophy. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the first-ever state title for the Oakland High School boys, as the Wildcats sealed a 59–43 victory over Buena High School of Ventura in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division III championship game at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on March 10. On the very same night, Oakland Tech’s Lady Bulldogs secured their third consecutive championship — this time in Division I — after a 75–52 win over Santiago High School of Corona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946893 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four Black male teenagers wearing blue clothing look around and at their phones on top of a bus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Money Williams, Couraji West, Ja’shaun Jackson and Anthony Lacy stand atop the parade bus. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ever since we won, it just feels like a movie,” said Wildcats co-captain Josh Clark. “It means a lot, because for us to see how we started our first year of varsity and the whole organization change from going 5–23 [in the 2018–2019 season] to win a state championship, it just means that we put in the hard work, effort and dedication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11:30 a.m., the parade started at 699 Bellevue Avenue by Children’s Fairyland and continued east around Lake Merritt past the Lakeview Branch Library, making a right onto Lakeshore Avenue and eventually turning left on 14th Street to City Hall on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. The rally featured live music, food trucks and games that lasted until 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946892 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of teenage girls wearing purple and white stand on the top of a red double-decker bus driving down a city street, with parked cars and trees in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech’s girls and Oakland High’s boys basketball teams celebrate with a parade bus driving down Lakeshore Avenue. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do this for the city of Oakland, so for them to support us like that, it means everything to us,” said Lady Bulldogs co-captain Mari Somvichian. “I have not been [on a doubler-decker bus]. It was crazy, I almost got hit by a couple of tree branches, almost fell off a couple times. But these are the stories that we’re going to tell our kids. So it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somvichian is a senior and has committed to play at Loyola Marymount University. She says she hopes her team continues the tradition of winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black teenager wearing blue clothing and a streak of blue in his hair holds a necklace with a medal in his right hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaymani Mitchell dances his way through Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Players from both teams rode on a double-decker bus and received a police escort through downtown Oakland, followed closely by cheerleader teams and local politicians including Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. Former WNBA Phoenix Mercury and Cal player Alexis Gray-Lawson was also in attendance and congratulated the teams on their wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, California state Senator Nancy Skinner, Taliyah Logwood, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Assemblymember Mia Bonta on stage at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Growing up with nothing, I know what it means to have to be celebrated for the little things that we do win,” said Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. “And it’s huge. There are winners on the court and off the court, so I want this to be their special day. If the Warriors could have a parade, my babies are going to have a parade, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHrxDmL9WQ/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in a time where it seems like everything is in chaos, especially in the city of Oakland, where we’re facing some of the most challenging aspects of governance that we’ve ever seen,” said Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife. “I’m excited that so many elected officials are out here, the mayor, City Council members, school district members, to lift up what is hopeful about the city. And that’s about our young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946896 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people of all ages sit in an outdoor amphitheater amid high-rise buildings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators, families and fans seated at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Oakland Tech and Oakland High shared a downtown parade after each won girls basketball state titles, Oakland Tech in Division IV and Oakland High in Division III.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pride is at a whole new level,” said Lady Bulldogs coach Leroy Hurt. “Honestly, a lot of bad comes out of Oakland and we don’t celebrate the good. So I think that makes me more proud than anything that when I go somewhere, [someone says], ‘You’re the coach at Oakland Tech.’ I always got on my purple … it’s no better place to do it at home.” [aside postID=\"news_11943132,news_11941158\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors at Oakland Tech have never lost a CIF postseason game and have secured three state crowns and three Northern California titles. The Lady Bulldogs have won an astonishing 25 playoff games in a row since 2019, and are considered a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/11/oakland-tech-girls-win-third-consecutive-basketball-state-championship-cif-2023/\">dynasty team\u003c/a>. They won the DIV title in 2019, and after the pandemic shutdown in 2020 (when their championship game was heartbreakingly canceled) and a total season shutdown in 2021, they came back to win the DIII title in 2022, and are now the reigning DI champions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946894 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of multiple medals around a young woman's neck, which she holds with a hand that sports a championship ring, against a bright purple varsity jacket with white sleeves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Askew-Goncalves shows off her numerous basketball medals. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the boys DIII, Oakland High had three losses to Oakland Tech, including one in the Oakland Section championship game. However, the team was able to overcome Oakland Tech in their fourth matchup during the semifinals, leading them to the championship and eventual win against Buena High School of Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, the teams have received attention from NBA stars, including legendary player and civil rights activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who congratulated the players on their championship wins. Damian Lillard, NBA All-Star and Portland Trail Blazers point guard from Oakland, also reached out to Oakland High players before they played in the state title game. The Golden State Warriors honored both teams before their games against the New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs. And after Oakland Tech’s girls won the 2022 DIII title, the Warriors’ Klay Thompson came to the ring ceremony, and teammate Stephen Curry sent the team a congratulatory video for their banner ceremony. NFL star and Oakland Tech alum \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/24/oakland-tech-high-school-honors-inaugural-sports-hall-of-fame/\">Marshawn Lynch is a regular visitor\u003c/a> at the school gym, as are some 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946900 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of female teenagers, all or mostly Black, stand with hands raised on the top of a red double decker bus, wearing purple T-shirts and varsity jackets and smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech’s girls and Oakland High’s boys basketball teams celebrate their 2023 CIF State Basketball Championships with a parade and rally in downtown Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was good to see [the Bulldogs] just get better, build their chemistry as new players started to come in, and it was fun to see that they get to be celebrated as much as the boys do,” said Anisa Walden, who plays point guard and guard for the Lady Bulldogs’ junior varsity team. “Hopefully, I’m able to fill the big shoes that they fill in and we can be here again next year. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Annelise Finney, Raphael Timmons, Attila Pelit and Lakshmi Sarah.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sunday morning, fans of the Oakland Technical High School’s girls and Oakland High School’s boys varsity basketball teams filled the streets at a downtown parade and rally to celebrate both winning state championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman points to rings on her fingers while another young Black woman holds a trophy with several medals around her neck, surrounded by people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64506_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-46-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jada Williams (left) and Erin Sellers (right) carry the California Interscholastic Federation DI girls state championship trophy. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the first-ever state title for the Oakland High School boys, as the Wildcats sealed a 59–43 victory over Buena High School of Ventura in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division III championship game at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on March 10. On the very same night, Oakland Tech’s Lady Bulldogs secured their third consecutive championship — this time in Division I — after a 75–52 win over Santiago High School of Corona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946893 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four Black male teenagers wearing blue clothing look around and at their phones on top of a bus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64499_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-40-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Money Williams, Couraji West, Ja’shaun Jackson and Anthony Lacy stand atop the parade bus. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ever since we won, it just feels like a movie,” said Wildcats co-captain Josh Clark. “It means a lot, because for us to see how we started our first year of varsity and the whole organization change from going 5–23 [in the 2018–2019 season] to win a state championship, it just means that we put in the hard work, effort and dedication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11:30 a.m., the parade started at 699 Bellevue Avenue by Children’s Fairyland and continued east around Lake Merritt past the Lakeview Branch Library, making a right onto Lakeshore Avenue and eventually turning left on 14th Street to City Hall on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. The rally featured live music, food trucks and games that lasted until 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946892 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of teenage girls wearing purple and white stand on the top of a red double-decker bus driving down a city street, with parked cars and trees in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64497_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-39-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech’s girls and Oakland High’s boys basketball teams celebrate with a parade bus driving down Lakeshore Avenue. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do this for the city of Oakland, so for them to support us like that, it means everything to us,” said Lady Bulldogs co-captain Mari Somvichian. “I have not been [on a doubler-decker bus]. It was crazy, I almost got hit by a couple of tree branches, almost fell off a couple times. But these are the stories that we’re going to tell our kids. So it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somvichian is a senior and has committed to play at Loyola Marymount University. She says she hopes her team continues the tradition of winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black teenager wearing blue clothing and a streak of blue in his hair holds a necklace with a medal in his right hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64511_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-51-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaymani Mitchell dances his way through Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Players from both teams rode on a double-decker bus and received a police escort through downtown Oakland, followed closely by cheerleader teams and local politicians including Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. Former WNBA Phoenix Mercury and Cal player Alexis Gray-Lawson was also in attendance and congratulated the teams on their wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64514_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-55-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, California state Senator Nancy Skinner, Taliyah Logwood, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Assemblymember Mia Bonta on stage at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Growing up with nothing, I know what it means to have to be celebrated for the little things that we do win,” said Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. “And it’s huge. There are winners on the court and off the court, so I want this to be their special day. If the Warriors could have a parade, my babies are going to have a parade, too.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“We’re living in a time where it seems like everything is in chaos, especially in the city of Oakland, where we’re facing some of the most challenging aspects of governance that we’ve ever seen,” said Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife. “I’m excited that so many elected officials are out here, the mayor, City Council members, school district members, to lift up what is hopeful about the city. And that’s about our young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946896 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people of all ages sit in an outdoor amphitheater amid high-rise buildings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64513_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-56-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators, families and fans seated at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Oakland Tech and Oakland High shared a downtown parade after each won girls basketball state titles, Oakland Tech in Division IV and Oakland High in Division III.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pride is at a whole new level,” said Lady Bulldogs coach Leroy Hurt. “Honestly, a lot of bad comes out of Oakland and we don’t celebrate the good. So I think that makes me more proud than anything that when I go somewhere, [someone says], ‘You’re the coach at Oakland Tech.’ I always got on my purple … it’s no better place to do it at home.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors at Oakland Tech have never lost a CIF postseason game and have secured three state crowns and three Northern California titles. The Lady Bulldogs have won an astonishing 25 playoff games in a row since 2019, and are considered a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/11/oakland-tech-girls-win-third-consecutive-basketball-state-championship-cif-2023/\">dynasty team\u003c/a>. They won the DIV title in 2019, and after the pandemic shutdown in 2020 (when their championship game was heartbreakingly canceled) and a total season shutdown in 2021, they came back to win the DIII title in 2022, and are now the reigning DI champions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946894 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of multiple medals around a young woman's neck, which she holds with a hand that sports a championship ring, against a bright purple varsity jacket with white sleeves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64504_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-49-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Askew-Goncalves shows off her numerous basketball medals. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the boys DIII, Oakland High had three losses to Oakland Tech, including one in the Oakland Section championship game. However, the team was able to overcome Oakland Tech in their fourth matchup during the semifinals, leading them to the championship and eventual win against Buena High School of Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, the teams have received attention from NBA stars, including legendary player and civil rights activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who congratulated the players on their championship wins. Damian Lillard, NBA All-Star and Portland Trail Blazers point guard from Oakland, also reached out to Oakland High players before they played in the state title game. The Golden State Warriors honored both teams before their games against the New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs. And after Oakland Tech’s girls won the 2022 DIII title, the Warriors’ Klay Thompson came to the ring ceremony, and teammate Stephen Curry sent the team a congratulatory video for their banner ceremony. NFL star and Oakland Tech alum \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/24/oakland-tech-high-school-honors-inaugural-sports-hall-of-fame/\">Marshawn Lynch is a regular visitor\u003c/a> at the school gym, as are some 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946900 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of female teenagers, all or mostly Black, stand with hands raised on the top of a red double decker bus, wearing purple T-shirts and varsity jackets and smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/RS64498_OaklandHighSchoolBasketballParade-4_16_23-KQED-44-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech’s girls and Oakland High’s boys basketball teams celebrate their 2023 CIF State Basketball Championships with a parade and rally in downtown Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was good to see [the Bulldogs] just get better, build their chemistry as new players started to come in, and it was fun to see that they get to be celebrated as much as the boys do,” said Anisa Walden, who plays point guard and guard for the Lady Bulldogs’ junior varsity team. “Hopefully, I’m able to fill the big shoes that they fill in and we can be here again next year. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Annelise Finney, Raphael Timmons, Attila Pelit and Lakshmi Sarah.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But the undergraduates involved in the California State University Employees Union organizing effort are doing work that’s arguably less related to their studies — such as filing office paperwork, helping with print jobs and assisting in checking out books at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More students are organizing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a recent wave of campus labor activism that includes the largest higher education strike in history, in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job in November, eventually winning raises, transit passes and child care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters of all ages hold blue and white picket signs as they chant on a college campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members during a strike among some 48,000 academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022. The California State University Employees Union, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, filed petitions with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants into its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since fall 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Dartmouth University \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/02/college-swcd-reach-tentative-agreement-to-21-base-pay-proposal\">agreed to pay its student dining hall workers\u003c/a> a base wage of $21 per hour after they voted to authorize a strike — less than a year after being recognized as a union. And last month, undergraduate residential advisors at the University of Pennsylvania filed for representation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most fundamental demand that people on college campuses are making right now is honor the principles that you say you are committed to,” said Caroline Luce, labor historian at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a member of the university’s lecturers’ union. “You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal State undergraduates have been inspired by the gains made by graduate student organizing, Luce said, they face an uphill battle if the university continues to oppose the effort, because of the high turnover in their ranks.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Caroline Luce, labor historian, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\"]‘You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.’[/pullquote]“If [Cal State officials] draw things out, they will win basically because the students who [are organizing] will go on to bigger and better things and it might fall apart,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\">Public Employment Relations Board\u003c/a> hearings to determine whether the California State University Employees Union can expand its bargaining units to include student assistants began in March and will resume June 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either the union or the university could appeal the judge’s decision to the full board and then to a state court of appeal. 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