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For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11938267 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/026_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. But it still hasn't been hooked up to the grid, and Moss isn't sure when it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the uncertainty that's the hardest thing to deal with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include responses from PG&E representatives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. There has to be an actual time line and consequences for failing to meet that time line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo shows primarily a wooden power pole with utility lines crossing the sky, and the outline of the top of a building that looks like a San Francisco victorian in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E utility poles in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynsey Paulo, spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement the company is committed to working with policymakers on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with lawmakers to ensure the right policy and regulatory frameworks are included to support the state's goals,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A problem of their own making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2022, Southern California Edison and PG&E connected just over 10,000 commercial and residential buildings, according to self-reported data both investor-owned utilities provided to Wiener's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E took nearly six times as long: Southern California Edison took an average of nine days to turn on the lights after a building finished construction. For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Calling Huntington Beach “Exhibit A in what’s wrong with housing in California,” Gov. Gavin Newsom joined Attorney General Rob Bonta in filing a lawsuit against the oceanside community in Orange County for flouting laws designed to ease the state’s affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta called the city’s actions “blatant, egregious, brazen” and said his office is also filing a motion for a preliminary injunction to block it from imposing bans on certain types of new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city had ample notice and time to course correct. Instead, they chose a path that led us right where we are today,” Bonta said during a livestreamed press conference Thursday. “They have asked for this, and they have earned this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalation comes as Newsom and his administration are ramping up efforts to hold cities accountable for reaching the state’s housing goal of 2.5 million new homes and apartments by 2031. But getting there requires overcoming backlash from some local leaders, who must implement the laws locally.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11937777,news_11929505,news_11938267\"]Santa Monica land use attorney Dave Rand compared Huntington Beach to the Confederacy — acting like it wants to secede from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not a solution,” Rand said, adding that he thought the city’s legal claim was unwinnable. “They will be forced to submit to the same laws that they’re attempting to fight now, except pay fines and be embarrassed and held out as a pariah when it comes to trying to house people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the state’s action Thursday, Huntington Beach filed its own lawsuit against California in federal court. The city’s 59-page complaint challenges California’s right to force them to build more housing, a move UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf called “frivolous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there is maybe an argument you could make about the state constitution, there’s really no argument you can make that there’s anything the state is doing that violates any federal law, even if you get a rogue judge,” Elmendorf said. “I think it’s political posturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state first sued the city in 2019 for failing to adopt a state-approved housing plan, which is required every eight years. 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His family took out a loan in excess of $250,000 for the project and was preparing architectural designs when he learned of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is his family paying interest on the loan with no guarantee they’ll be able to build, but he said the uncertainty has added considerable stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is … 82 years old,” he said. “We thought it was a good idea that I try to get back home to be able to support her as she gets older. And this decision by the City Council … it was nonsensical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backyard cottages and duplexes are part of a broader campaign by Newsom and lawmakers to reverse decades of underproduction in housing, which they said has led to some of the highest home prices and rents in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize we need to do more, better as a state to address the original sin that is affordability,” Newsom said Thursday. “It’s directly connected with the issues that drive so much of our frustration with the Golden State.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Attorney General Rob Bonta\"]‘The city had ample notice and time to course correct. Instead, they chose a path that led us right where we are today. 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"content": "\u003cp>As an orphaned child in rural southern Mexico, Abraham Salazar said he began working when he was just 10 years old. He helped to plow fields and grow corn and beans in the municipality of Constancia del Rosario, in the state of Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he settled in California’s wine country in 1990, Salazar kept toiling in agriculture. He tore roots and rocks out to prepare fields for planting. He pruned and harvested miles of vines, sometimes during grueling all-night shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 62 years old, Salazar said his lower back hurts, sometimes intensely. His heavily calloused hands are becoming arthritic. But he can’t afford to stop working, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may be 80 or 90, but I won’t get anything of what I paid into Social Security during all those years of work,” said Salazar, who is turning 63 next week, in Spanish. “Absolutely nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar is part of a growing wave of hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers who are reaching or past retirement age in the U.S. but who are ineligible to receive Social Security benefits, even though many paid automatic payroll taxes into that system for years.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11940706,news_11941716,news_11939848\"]A new state bill in California proposes to offer undocumented older adults an economic safety net when they can no longer work. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">AB 1536\u003c/a> would expand a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/capi\">cash assistance program\u003c/a>, which currently offers individuals about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACINs/2022/I-71_22.pdf?ver=2022-11-08-131239-837\">$1,100 per month (PDF)\u003c/a>, to cover undocumented residents aged 65 and older as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would give them a monthly stipend, so that they can age with dignity and justice,” said Angelica Salas, who directs the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, after rallying for the bill with its author, Assemblymember Juan Carrillo (D-Palmdale), in Sacramento last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not create a [safety net] system for this population, we are going to have a severe crisis of individuals who have labored and contributed to California, but who will then live in severe poverty in the very same state where they left their youth,” Salas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are hired without valid work authorization in industries like construction and food services \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-do-undocumented-immigrants-pay-federal-taxes-an-explainer/\">often provide a Social Security number that is fake, expired or not their own\u003c/a>. Most employers in California and other states, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/presentations/EVerifyPresentation.pdf\">not required to check the validity of the nine-digit number (PDF)\u003c/a>, deduct Social Security, federal, state and other taxes from the workers’ paychecks, like with any other employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is that nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf\">unauthorized immigrant workers contributed a whopping $13 billion in automatic payroll taxes to the Social Security system\u003c/a> in a single year, according to the most recent estimates by the Social Security Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of that money was a “net positive” to the program’s cash flow, said the agency’s chief actuary, Stephen Goss. That means undocumented workers help fund the monthly retirement checks of U.S. citizens and legal residents, but likely won’t receive the payments when they themselves become seniors.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Angelica Salas, director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\"]‘If we do not create a system for this population, we are going to have a severe crisis of individuals who have labored and contributed to California, but who will then live in severe poverty in the very same state where they left their youth.’[/pullquote]“It’s tragic, it’s unjust,” said Salas. “They worked hard in some of the hardest and most backbreaking jobs in this country. They contributed. And now they’re completely locked out of benefits as they reach their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar, who worked in agriculture for about three decades, said it was impossible to save any money on the low wages he earned, while taking care of his family and bills. Getting access to a regular stipend as he ages would be a “huge help” to reach his dream of retiring one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be magnificent because we work a lot but don’t get any help,” said Salazar, who recently launched a landscaping business. He hopes that, by working for himself, he’ll earn enough to start saving for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11943071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits on a bet facing toward a window, smiling, with light on his face. He wears a button down collared shirt with a long sleeve underneath and dark pants. 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Salazar, 62, is one of thousands of undocumented California farmworkers who are reaching or past retirement age but must continue working because they are ineligible for Social Security benefits. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Growing number of undocumented workers reaching retirement age\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">165,000 undocumented workers in California were age 55 and older in 2019\u003c/a>, according to an analysis of census figures published Tuesday by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. That figure is about 680,000 across the country, said the center’s co-director, Edward Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these workers were unable to legalize their status because they arrived in the U.S. in the years after eligibility for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890914/out-of-the-shadows-explores-the-complicated-history-of-the-1986-amnesty-law-that-changed-the-lives-of-millions\">last federal amnesty for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, which passed during the Reagan administration in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said the statistics point to a growing demographic wave, and that the country has not yet begun to reckon with the implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do with a significant proportion of our workforce who has been laboring for decades, without access to a social and economic safety net?” he asked. “Now that they are aging and can’t work, they will be in a much more vulnerable position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Abraham Salazar\"]‘I may be 80 or 90, but I won’t get anything of what I paid into Social Security during all those years of work. Absolutely nothing.’[/pullquote] In California’s agricultural industry, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/10cafacts_v3.pdf\">most productive in the nation (PDF)\u003c/a> with about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/\">$50 billion in annual revenue\u003c/a>, almost 85% of crop workers were born in Mexico. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/blog/post/?id=2770\">half don’t have legal authorization to work\u003c/a>, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor. As migration flows from Mexico slowed down in the mid-2000s, the age distribution of California agricultural workers shifted, with farmworkers age 55 to 64 increasing by 64% over the last decade, the UC Merced analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aging workforce has left agricultural employers grappling with a shortage of labor for years, especially in areas like the state’s Central Coast, where strawberries, lettuce and other top crops are not harvested mechanically, said Norm Groot, executive director at the Monterey County Farm Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not replacing those who are aging out of the workforce with new immigrant labor. Nor are we seeing that the children of the current farmworkers are interested in working in the fields,” said Groot. “So we are rapidly coming to a tipping point where we are not going to have enough labor supply on hand to harvest our crops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I still feel like I have the strength to do this work’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One older farmworker who continues to see demand for his services is Asuncion Ponce, who lives in Fresno. The 77-year-old said he still wakes up at 4:30 to calmly drink his coffee and get a ride to seasonal jobs pruning orchard trees or harvesting nectarines, peaches and pears in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still feel like I have the strength to do this work,” said Ponce proudly, in Spanish. “In Mexico, I was a farmworker and here I’m still doing the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naturalized U.S. citizen said he worries that the Social Security benefits he’s eligible for won’t cover all of his expenses once he retires. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s tragic, it’s unjust,” said Salas. “They worked hard in some of the hardest and most backbreaking jobs in this country. They contributed. And now they’re completely locked out of benefits as they reach their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar, who worked in agriculture for about three decades, said it was impossible to save any money on the low wages he earned, while taking care of his family and bills. Getting access to a regular stipend as he ages would be a “huge help” to reach his dream of retiring one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be magnificent because we work a lot but don’t get any help,” said Salazar, who recently launched a landscaping business. He hopes that, by working for himself, he’ll earn enough to start saving for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11943071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits on a bet facing toward a window, smiling, with light on his face. He wears a button down collared shirt with a long sleeve underneath and dark pants. Next to him is a cluttered nightstand. \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abraham Salazar sits for a portrait at his home in Healdsburg, on Feb. 24, 2023. Salazar, 62, is one of thousands of undocumented California farmworkers who are reaching or past retirement age but must continue working because they are ineligible for Social Security benefits. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Growing number of undocumented workers reaching retirement age\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">165,000 undocumented workers in California were age 55 and older in 2019\u003c/a>, according to an analysis of census figures published Tuesday by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. That figure is about 680,000 across the country, said the center’s co-director, Edward Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these workers were unable to legalize their status because they arrived in the U.S. in the years after eligibility for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890914/out-of-the-shadows-explores-the-complicated-history-of-the-1986-amnesty-law-that-changed-the-lives-of-millions\">last federal amnesty for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, which passed during the Reagan administration in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said the statistics point to a growing demographic wave, and that the country has not yet begun to reckon with the implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do with a significant proportion of our workforce who has been laboring for decades, without access to a social and economic safety net?” he asked. “Now that they are aging and can’t work, they will be in a much more vulnerable position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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GDL members participated in at least 450 antisemitic campaigns across 42 states last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and are connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league\">11 arrests or criminal cases\u003c/a> nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 41-year-old Wilson, who is originally from Canada, was supposed to stand trial in San Diego County for allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/content/office/newsroom/tempDownloads/255a9815-e2fe-4007-94b3-8a4cdc65d9e0_Hate%20Crime%20Charges%20Robert%20Wilson%2012-27-2021.pdf\">assaulting his next-door neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs in late 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. inewsource reported in February that Wilson \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/\">escaped prosecution and fled to Poland last year\u003c/a>, where he has continued to spread white supremacist messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jnewsgabe/status/1565506822617718784\">social media image went viral\u003c/a> showing Wilson standing outside the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland while holding a sign with an antisemitic statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png\" alt='Two white men wearing sun glasses, a sleeveless t shirt and shorts hold signs while standing outside in the street with buildings to the left and trees to the right. 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In the Netherlands, laser displays featuring white supremacist messages started appearing on buildings a few months ago. One of the first incidents occurred during a nationally televised New Year’s Eve celebration, when the text “White Lives Matter” was \u003ca href=\"https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/01/racist-messages-projected-erasmus-bridge-rotterdam-new-years-fest\">projected on the Erasmus Bridge\u003c/a> in Rotterdam, along with antisemitic language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Bay Area connections' link1='https://www.kqed.org/news/11940804,Read related coverage from KQED tracing the Bay Area roots of a neo-Nazi propaganda group' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/NeoNaziExtremistsmain-1020x570.jpg']On Feb. 6, blue lasers were used to display a message on the house in Amsterdam where 13-year-old Anne Frank chronicled her experience during the Holocaust. The antisemitic text, appearing on the building in Dutch and English, stated that Frank was the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2023/2/10/antisemitic-projection-anne-frank-house/\">inventor of the ballpoint pen\u003c/a>.” The message referenced a false conspiracy theory that \u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenticity-diary-anne-frank/\">alleges Frank’s diary was a forgery\u003c/a>, claiming it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, a video of the incident appeared in a Telegram group that included members of the Goyim Defense League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png\" alt='A screenshot from video showing a laser projection on a building wall that says \"Ballp.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-800x445.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1020x567.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1536x854.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-672x372.png 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1038x576.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from a video showing part of a laser projection of an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Feb. 6. The video garnered widespread condemnation and was referenced in high-profile news articles in several countries.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for citizen sleuths to start digging for possible perpetrators. A research group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which uses digital forensic techniques to track down right-wing extremists, unearthed what they believe to be an original video of the incident, which was posted by “Aryan Bacon” — the name Robert Wilson uses online. The video also includes footage from what appears to be a road trip to Amsterdam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founder of Capitol Terrorists Exposers said she used videos posted to Wilson’s social media channels to trace the path she believes he took from Poland through Germany to Amsterdam shortly before the incident. One video features a person believed to be Wilson looking at magazines inside a German gas station the day before the Anne Frank House message was displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a person who is known who has a lot of footage, then it’s very easy,” said Mary, with Capitol Terrorists Exposers. “You’re gonna look at, what does he look like? What kind of clothes does he wear? You know, you try to profile somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>inewsource has agreed to use only Mary’s first name to protect her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and her group also used the road trip footage to identify the type of van the suspect was driving as a black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, most likely with a Polish license plate. The footage shows the van parked outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Amsterdam and reveals the reflection of the videographer in a car window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person filming was wearing a plaid sweater that resembled what Wilson had worn in another video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I was like, OK, now it’s getting interesting,” Mary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg\" alt=\"A collage showing different photos of a white man, from headshots to full body pictures with arrows and green squares pointing to different pictures.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage shows how citizen sleuths compared a video from the antisemitic broadcast in Amsterdam with online footage of Robert Wilson, including a recording captured by CBS8 outside a San Diego County courthouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mary sent her research and findings to the Amsterdam police linking Wilson to the events at the Anne Frank House, she received a message in response: “An amazing piece of work! Compliments,” a police officer wrote to her in Dutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also very busy with this investigation and had ended up with the same suspect, van and route. Without revealing too much about the research, I can tell you that it is progressing very well. Every bit of information we get helps us, of course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, police told the \u003cem>Volkskrant\u003c/em> newspaper in the Netherlands that they had reviewed the report by Capitol Terrorists Exposers and are happy with “citizens conducting their own investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, that did not lead to new information,” the spokesperson told the newspaper, adding that the police “indeed have the impression” the suspect is not residing in The Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he shows up within our borders, we will arrest him,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amsterdam police would not confirm the identity of the suspect in the case for inewsource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of four photos showing with green squares and red circles highlighting different parts of a vehicle.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage created by citizen sleuths shows how they identified the vehicle they believe was driven by a suspect. The material was shared with the Amsterdam police. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson did not respond to requests for comment. He has previously denied assaulting his neighbor in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warrant is still out for Wilson’s arrest in San Diego County. The district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether they are attempting to extradite him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary said she was very encouraged by the response she received from the Amsterdam police and was glad her research on Wilson was in the right hands. She also credited inewsource’s prior coverage on Wilson as a key part of her investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitol Terrorists Exposers has helped perform research in high-profile cases in the U.S., Mary said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-fbi-capitol-attack-manhunt-online-sleuths_n_60479dd7c5b653040034f749\">including tracing the identities of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mary learned about the incident at the Anne Frank House, the latest of several antisemitic incidents occurring in her home country, she felt compelled to get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t a joke. This is serious what they’re doing,” she said. “I cannot sit still. I cannot let it go if I’m able to do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Feb. 6, blue lasers were used to display a message on the house in Amsterdam where 13-year-old Anne Frank chronicled her experience during the Holocaust. The antisemitic text, appearing on the building in Dutch and English, stated that Frank was the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2023/2/10/antisemitic-projection-anne-frank-house/\">inventor of the ballpoint pen\u003c/a>.” The message referenced a false conspiracy theory that \u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenticity-diary-anne-frank/\">alleges Frank’s diary was a forgery\u003c/a>, claiming it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, a video of the incident appeared in a Telegram group that included members of the Goyim Defense League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png\" alt='A screenshot from video showing a laser projection on a building wall that says \"Ballp.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-800x445.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1020x567.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1536x854.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-672x372.png 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1038x576.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from a video showing part of a laser projection of an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Feb. 6. The video garnered widespread condemnation and was referenced in high-profile news articles in several countries.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for citizen sleuths to start digging for possible perpetrators. A research group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which uses digital forensic techniques to track down right-wing extremists, unearthed what they believe to be an original video of the incident, which was posted by “Aryan Bacon” — the name Robert Wilson uses online. The video also includes footage from what appears to be a road trip to Amsterdam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founder of Capitol Terrorists Exposers said she used videos posted to Wilson’s social media channels to trace the path she believes he took from Poland through Germany to Amsterdam shortly before the incident. One video features a person believed to be Wilson looking at magazines inside a German gas station the day before the Anne Frank House message was displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a person who is known who has a lot of footage, then it’s very easy,” said Mary, with Capitol Terrorists Exposers. “You’re gonna look at, what does he look like? What kind of clothes does he wear? You know, you try to profile somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>inewsource has agreed to use only Mary’s first name to protect her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The footage shows the van parked outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Amsterdam and reveals the reflection of the videographer in a car window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person filming was wearing a plaid sweater that resembled what Wilson had worn in another video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I was like, OK, now it’s getting interesting,” Mary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg\" alt=\"A collage showing different photos of a white man, from headshots to full body pictures with arrows and green squares pointing to different pictures.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage shows how citizen sleuths compared a video from the antisemitic broadcast in Amsterdam with online footage of Robert Wilson, including a recording captured by CBS8 outside a San Diego County courthouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mary sent her research and findings to the Amsterdam police linking Wilson to the events at the Anne Frank House, she received a message in response: “An amazing piece of work! Compliments,” a police officer wrote to her in Dutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also very busy with this investigation and had ended up with the same suspect, van and route. Without revealing too much about the research, I can tell you that it is progressing very well. Every bit of information we get helps us, of course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, police told the \u003cem>Volkskrant\u003c/em> newspaper in the Netherlands that they had reviewed the report by Capitol Terrorists Exposers and are happy with “citizens conducting their own investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, that did not lead to new information,” the spokesperson told the newspaper, adding that the police “indeed have the impression” the suspect is not residing in The Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he shows up within our borders, we will arrest him,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amsterdam police would not confirm the identity of the suspect in the case for inewsource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of four photos showing with green squares and red circles highlighting different parts of a vehicle.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage created by citizen sleuths shows how they identified the vehicle they believe was driven by a suspect. The material was shared with the Amsterdam police. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson did not respond to requests for comment. He has previously denied assaulting his neighbor in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warrant is still out for Wilson’s arrest in San Diego County. The district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether they are attempting to extradite him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary said she was very encouraged by the response she received from the Amsterdam police and was glad her research on Wilson was in the right hands. She also credited inewsource’s prior coverage on Wilson as a key part of her investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitol Terrorists Exposers has helped perform research in high-profile cases in the U.S., Mary said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-fbi-capitol-attack-manhunt-online-sleuths_n_60479dd7c5b653040034f749\">including tracing the identities of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mary learned about the incident at the Anne Frank House, the latest of several antisemitic incidents occurring in her home country, she felt compelled to get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t a joke. This is serious what they’re doing,” she said. “I cannot sit still. I cannot let it go if I’m able to do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Newborns. Formerly incarcerated people. College students. Pregnant people. People with disabilities. Foster kids. Unhoused people. Single dads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your neighbor. Your co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, serves a whopping 15.4 million people, offering care from cradle to grave: \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2021-edition-medi-cal-facts-figures/\">Half of all births are covered by Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, as are more than half of all stays in nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything about Medi-Cal is massive, from its \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">upcoming fiscal year budget of $139 billion (PDF)\u003c/a> to the expansive list of benefits and services it offers. The way the program works — or doesn’t — could spell life or death for many enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical, from the single pregnant mom, to the extremely frail elderly population that needs a nursing home,” said Jennifer Kent, former director of the state Department of Health Care Services, which administers Medi-Cal. “If it weren’t for Medi-Cal, so many people would either be dead or would be severely compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new series, California Healthline will shed light on Medi-Cal’s successes and failures through the experiences of its enrollees. They include Stephanie Lammers, who can’t get her troubling abdominal symptoms checked at a clinic 50 miles from her small Calaveras County town because the transportation Medi-Cal is supposed to provide isn’t trustworthy; Carolina Morga Tapia, a Fresno woman who credits Medi-Cal with helping her have five healthy children; and Lucas Moreno Ramirez, a Los Angeles County man with stage 4 lung cancer who had to fight to keep his treatment going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is at a critical juncture as it attempts to serve the needs of a diverse patient population with a dizzying array of medical needs — from childhood vaccinations and cancer screenings to state-of-the-art care for rare genetic disorders. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/statistics/Documents/FastFacts-March2022.pdf\">Roughly half of enrollees are Hispanic (PDF)\u003c/a>, and, next year, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/covered-california-bill-undocumented-immigrant-health-insurance/\">California will become the first state to expand eligibility to all immigrants who qualify, regardless of their legal status\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11926757 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1340030341.jpg']Medi-Cal is also undertaking several new initiatives that aim to save taxpayer money and improve quality. State \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/californias-reboot-of-troubled-medi-cal-puts-pressure-on-health-plans/\">officials are demanding that the 23 health insurers that serve most Medi-Cal patients provide better care\u003c/a> — or face significant penalties, including potential expulsion from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-medicaid-makeover-newsom-california-medi-cal-homeless-public-funds/\">adding innovative social services\u003c/a> that fall outside the traditional realm of medicine, including helping some enrollees pay for rent and buy groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are watching California,” said Cindy Mann, who served as federal Medicaid director under former President Barack Obama. “What the state is doing is ambitious and very aggressive. It makes a significant mark on health care and health policy, not just because of the size and breadth of its program, but by being very comprehensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a sliver of enrollees will get the new social services, even as \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-governor-newsom-pricey-medicaid-reforms-leave-most-patients-behind/\">many patients struggle to obtain basic care\u003c/a> or get in to see their doctors. In reality, the type of care you get in Medi-Cal depends on where you live and which insurer provides your benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the program is working for some, but failing for many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are in Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/faces-of-medi-cal-submissions/\">we would like to hear from you\u003c/a>, whether you live in a big city or a rural region, regardless of your age, race or ethnicity, and whatever your medical, dental or mental health condition. Have you had difficulty seeing the right doctor for what ails you, even to the point of putting your life at risk? Or did Medi-Cal provide good care, perhaps sparing you serious harm or disability? Either way, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/faces-of-medi-cal-submissions/\">please consider sharing your experience with us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are snapshots of patients who have used the program at a critical time in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I just don't go to the doctor anymore'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Stephanie Lammers leans over to put on her shoes, it feels as if she’s squishing something inside her abdomen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers, 53, has been suffering from frequent bouts of nausea, pain and bloating for six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her gastroenterologist wants to perform diagnostic procedures, including a colonoscopy and, if anything shows up, a biopsy. But Lammers, who lives in a motel with her boyfriend and teenage daughter in the Gold Rush town of San Andreas, doesn’t have a working car and can’t readily get to the clinic — which is 50 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942519 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal blue-and-white stripes, with one shoulder pulled down to reveal a tattoo of an eye, looks at the camera as she leans against a door jamb. To her left, a white husky dog looks out from a window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-2048x1402.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Lammers says the ride service provided by her Medi-Cal health plan is so bad that she stopped trying to use it about a year ago, after it left her in the lurch multiple times. 'I just don't go to the doctor anymore,' she says. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lammers, like many Medi-Cal enrollees who live in rural areas, lack of transportation is a major impediment to obtaining care. The problem is particularly acute for patients who need to see specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers’ dermatologist and eye doctor are over an hour away from San Andreas, the county seat of Calaveras County, about 125 miles northeast of San Francisco. She isn’t seeing a neurologist, despite a series of mini-strokes and stress-related seizures. And she hasn’t been to a podiatrist in two years, even though her toes are twisted over one another and hang down, causing her to trip. She’s often in excruciating pain when she walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is supposed to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/Pages/Transportation.aspx\">free transportation to enrollees\u003c/a> who can’t otherwise get to their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lammers — whose health plan is California Health and Wellness, owned by Centene, \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/centene-political-donations-medicaid-contracts-overbilling-allegations/\">the nation’s largest commercial Medicaid insurer\u003c/a> — stopped using its ride service nearly a year ago, after she missed dozens of appointments because drivers just didn’t show up, she said. She was getting threatening letters from doctors’ offices over the no-shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, she had to hitchhike more than 30 miles home from a counseling appointment. On other occasions, Lammers said, she did not receive the reimbursement she was owed for arranging her own rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t go to the doctor anymore,” Lammers said. “If I go to the doctor, my boyfriend has to take the day off work, and if he takes the day off work, we have no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last three months of 2022, Lammers canceled five appointments she had scheduled for the diagnostic abdominal procedures because her boyfriend had to work each time and couldn’t take her. She finally stopped rescheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Wellness contracts with ModivCare, a Denver-based medical transportation company that is no stranger to \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/medicaid-transportation-nonemergency-benefit-patients-stranded/\">patient complaints and lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she gave up on the ride service, Lammers said, she would call California Health and Wellness to try to resolve the issue, only to be told that ModivCare was a separate company. “I’m like, ‘If you guys hired them and put them in charge of transportation, who oversees their screwups?,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942520 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman, standing in a crowded room of unmade beds, dishes potatoes onto a plate of biscuits and gravy from a hot plate on a cabinet next to a fridge. \" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1536x1180.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-2048x1573.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1920x1475.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Lammers has serious abdominal symptoms, and her gastroenterologist wants to run diagnostic tests, but she had to cancel five appointments in the last three months of 2022 because she didn't have transportation. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Courtney Schwyzer, a member of a legal aid team representing Lammers on various Medi-Cal matters, said the failure of medical ride services is a systemic problem. In late February, Schwyzer and her fellow attorneys filed a petition in court that she hopes will force the state Department of Health Care Services to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Wellness spokesperson Darrel Ng said the company monitors the quality of its contractors, but a shortage of transportation providers in rural areas “has created unique challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ModivCare provides more than 4 million rides for Medi-Cal recipients annually, and more than 99% are without complaint, said Melody Lai, a company spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers, who is unemployed and trying to start a custom craft business called Stuff by Steph, said doctors have warned her that if she doesn’t reduce her stress level, it could shorten her life. But arranging medical care is the most stressful thing in her life right now, so she doesn’t try anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to keep from dying, I have to not go to the doctor,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'It's a blessing'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal helped save the life of Carolina Morga Tapia, a 30-year-old full-time mother of five who lives with her family amid almond groves in an agricultural enclave of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine years ago, a bacterial infection triggered premature labor during the 25th week of her second pregnancy, and Morga Tapia almost died. She spiked a fever, bled profusely and needed immediate transfusions and emergency surgery. After several days in critical care, she fully recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942521 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman with a blue cardigan and a black shirt looks at the camera, arms akimbo, standing in a leafless orchard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Morga Tapia stands amid almond trees outside her home in Fresno. She, her husband and their five children are enrolled in Medi-Cal, and she says she is very happy with the care it has provided, including emergency surgery that saved her life after she fell gravely ill during her second pregnancy. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the doctors could not stop the premature birth, and her baby came out weighing just 1 pound. She and her husband, David Nuñez, named her Milagros Guadalupe, and she died four days later, on Sept. 13, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of her subsequent pregnancies, Medi-Cal paid for Morga Tapia to get shots of synthetic progesterone, intended to prevent another preterm birth. Those shots — one a week for about 20 weeks — can cost an average of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/24/798731110/drug-to-prevent-premature-birth-divides-doctors-insurers-and-fda-experts\">more than $10,000 per pregnancy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morga Tapia and Nuñez, a construction worker, signed up for Medi-Cal when she was pregnant with her first child more than a decade ago. They’ve been on the same Anthem Blue Cross Medi-Cal plan ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan paid for prenatal care through all six of Morga Tapia’s pregnancies, and it has provided all the medical and dental care the family needs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without Medi-Cal, we would have to be paying for all of our children,” said Morga Tapia. “It saves a lot of money, and it’s a blessing to have that extra help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her children, four girls and a boy, range in age from 1 to 10. They all go to the same children’s clinic and see the same pediatrician.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Carolina Morga Tapia\"]'Without Medi-Cal, we would have to be paying for all of our children. It saves a lot of money, and it's a blessing to have that extra help.'[/pullquote]The kids, all in good health, get routine checkups, vaccinations and other preventive care, Morga Tapia said. She gets appointment reminders via text and cards in the mail notifying her when it’s time for the kids’ vaccinations and wellness checks, as well as her Pap smears, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family’s experience contrasts sharply with the state’s assessment of their health plan, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/reports/Documents/Enhancing-Quality-for-Medi-Cal-Members.pdf\">report on quality of care in Medi-Cal issued late last year (PDF)\u003c/a>. The report, which evaluated Medi-Cal health plans on pediatric care, women’s health and chronic disease management, put Anthem Blue Cross in the lowest tier, and below par on multiple measures in numerous counties, including Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another state report, released in late January, detailed how quickly insurers provide appointments for their patients, and put \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPM/MY2021TAR.pdf\">Anthem Blue Cross’ Medi-Cal plan near the bottom of the heap (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem Blue Cross spokesperson Michael Bowman said in a statement that the period covered in the reports coincide with the COVID-19 pandemic, “when our safety net providers dealt with significant challenges with workforce and appointment availability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morga Tapia doesn’t give the insurer low marks. “It’s different for everybody. I have a good, healthy family, and what Medi-Cal covers is really fortunate for us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I don't want to die yet'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In late 2021, doctors gave Lucas Moreno Ramirez a few months to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Struggling with diabetes and late-stage lung cancer, Moreno Ramirez suffered debilitating pain as he hacked and labored for breath. His doctors recommended that he stop treatment and start hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He felt as if they were giving up on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said they’re going to give me opioids for my pain and help me have a comfortable death,” said Moreno Ramirez, 68, who lives in Norwalk, in Los Angeles County. “I told them I don’t believe in that. I don’t want to die yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942525\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942525 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man, with a bushy gray mustache and thick gray hair combed back from his forehead, sits at a long table along a wall, on the other side of which a gauzy white curtain blows inward. He rests his right arm on the table, holding a blue-and-white mug. He looks at the camera, and is surrounded by cabinets with CDs, a massive water bottle, salt-and-pepper shakers, a clock on the wall and a nearby wind chime, and other homey detritus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/lucas_ramirez-3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucas Moreno Ramirez, a former landscaper and factory worker, has been diagnosed with both diabetes and lung cancer. Working alongside a care manager through his Medi-Cal managed-care plan, he has fought for better care and treatment for both conditions. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A former landscaper and factory worker, Moreno Ramirez learned he had to be his own advocate, fighting for the care he believed he deserved from Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his Christian faith gave him strength, and over the next few months, he pushed the program and his doctors to keep battling his cancer, using a different treatment with fewer side effects than chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in prayer,” he said. “But I believe in science and medication, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno Ramirez is one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/in-alignment-calaims-plan-coordinate-care-dual-enrollees-medicare-medi-cal/\">roughly 1.6 million Californians enrolled in both Medicare, which covers people who are 65 and older or have disabilities, and Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-profile-of-medicare-medicaid-enrollees-dual-eligibles/?utm_campaign=KFF-2023-Medicaid&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=243959452&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--_YdJIpoiPQ6BsTqKV7XWKRpOoR_sJTFFsZI7MrJWw-BvXTcEh0PRgAq42XpbIvOpISMXOG8GW_lDUH-w2IgL2Syf6YA&utm_content=243959452&utm_source=hs_email\">kicks in to cover the costs and benefits that Medicare doesn’t\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also relies on his Medi-Cal insurer to help him navigate the Byzantine system. L.A. Care, the largest Medi-Cal plan with nearly 2.6 million members, connected him with a care manager who worked with him to identify \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/tagrisso\">a different treatment called Tagrisso\u003c/a> and advocated for him to get it.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11940023,news_11941075,news_1981588\"]Even with the new medication, Moreno Ramirez’s coughing fits returned last year, and his symptoms grew so painful he suspected the cancer was growing. He asked to see his pulmonologist but was told the first appointment would be in June 2023. So he switched doctors and scored an appointment nearly six months sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My old doctor didn’t help me. I didn’t trust him,” Moreno Ramirez said. “He was always too busy for me. I told my doctors, ‘Give me a chance.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having taken his care into his own hands, he says he’s not in pain, his cough has subsided and he feels hopeful for the future. “Now I feel good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has also sought more attention for his diabetes and received a continuous glucose monitor to measure his blood sugar. It’s better controlled now than it has been in decades, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to stand up for yourself and advocate,” said Joann Pacelo, the care manager who helped Moreno Ramirez change doctors, get quicker referrals to specialists and get approved for in-home nursing visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, it’s difficult with Medi-Cal because the doctors are busy and the reimbursements are so low, but no one should be denied the care they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Healthline is a service of the California Health Care Foundation produced by Kaiser Health News.\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>Newborns. Formerly incarcerated people. College students. Pregnant people. People with disabilities. Foster kids. Unhoused people. Single dads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your neighbor. Your co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, serves a whopping 15.4 million people, offering care from cradle to grave: \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2021-edition-medi-cal-facts-figures/\">Half of all births are covered by Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, as are more than half of all stays in nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything about Medi-Cal is massive, from its \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">upcoming fiscal year budget of $139 billion (PDF)\u003c/a> to the expansive list of benefits and services it offers. The way the program works — or doesn’t — could spell life or death for many enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical, from the single pregnant mom, to the extremely frail elderly population that needs a nursing home,” said Jennifer Kent, former director of the state Department of Health Care Services, which administers Medi-Cal. “If it weren’t for Medi-Cal, so many people would either be dead or would be severely compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new series, California Healthline will shed light on Medi-Cal’s successes and failures through the experiences of its enrollees. They include Stephanie Lammers, who can’t get her troubling abdominal symptoms checked at a clinic 50 miles from her small Calaveras County town because the transportation Medi-Cal is supposed to provide isn’t trustworthy; Carolina Morga Tapia, a Fresno woman who credits Medi-Cal with helping her have five healthy children; and Lucas Moreno Ramirez, a Los Angeles County man with stage 4 lung cancer who had to fight to keep his treatment going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is at a critical juncture as it attempts to serve the needs of a diverse patient population with a dizzying array of medical needs — from childhood vaccinations and cancer screenings to state-of-the-art care for rare genetic disorders. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/statistics/Documents/FastFacts-March2022.pdf\">Roughly half of enrollees are Hispanic (PDF)\u003c/a>, and, next year, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/covered-california-bill-undocumented-immigrant-health-insurance/\">California will become the first state to expand eligibility to all immigrants who qualify, regardless of their legal status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Medi-Cal is also undertaking several new initiatives that aim to save taxpayer money and improve quality. State \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/californias-reboot-of-troubled-medi-cal-puts-pressure-on-health-plans/\">officials are demanding that the 23 health insurers that serve most Medi-Cal patients provide better care\u003c/a> — or face significant penalties, including potential expulsion from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-medicaid-makeover-newsom-california-medi-cal-homeless-public-funds/\">adding innovative social services\u003c/a> that fall outside the traditional realm of medicine, including helping some enrollees pay for rent and buy groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are watching California,” said Cindy Mann, who served as federal Medicaid director under former President Barack Obama. “What the state is doing is ambitious and very aggressive. It makes a significant mark on health care and health policy, not just because of the size and breadth of its program, but by being very comprehensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a sliver of enrollees will get the new social services, even as \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-governor-newsom-pricey-medicaid-reforms-leave-most-patients-behind/\">many patients struggle to obtain basic care\u003c/a> or get in to see their doctors. In reality, the type of care you get in Medi-Cal depends on where you live and which insurer provides your benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the program is working for some, but failing for many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are in Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/faces-of-medi-cal-submissions/\">we would like to hear from you\u003c/a>, whether you live in a big city or a rural region, regardless of your age, race or ethnicity, and whatever your medical, dental or mental health condition. Have you had difficulty seeing the right doctor for what ails you, even to the point of putting your life at risk? Or did Medi-Cal provide good care, perhaps sparing you serious harm or disability? Either way, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/faces-of-medi-cal-submissions/\">please consider sharing your experience with us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are snapshots of patients who have used the program at a critical time in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I just don't go to the doctor anymore'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Stephanie Lammers leans over to put on her shoes, it feels as if she’s squishing something inside her abdomen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers, 53, has been suffering from frequent bouts of nausea, pain and bloating for six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her gastroenterologist wants to perform diagnostic procedures, including a colonoscopy and, if anything shows up, a biopsy. But Lammers, who lives in a motel with her boyfriend and teenage daughter in the Gold Rush town of San Andreas, doesn’t have a working car and can’t readily get to the clinic — which is 50 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942519 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal blue-and-white stripes, with one shoulder pulled down to reveal a tattoo of an eye, looks at the camera as she leans against a door jamb. To her left, a white husky dog looks out from a window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-2048x1402.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_04-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Lammers says the ride service provided by her Medi-Cal health plan is so bad that she stopped trying to use it about a year ago, after it left her in the lurch multiple times. 'I just don't go to the doctor anymore,' she says. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lammers, like many Medi-Cal enrollees who live in rural areas, lack of transportation is a major impediment to obtaining care. The problem is particularly acute for patients who need to see specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers’ dermatologist and eye doctor are over an hour away from San Andreas, the county seat of Calaveras County, about 125 miles northeast of San Francisco. She isn’t seeing a neurologist, despite a series of mini-strokes and stress-related seizures. And she hasn’t been to a podiatrist in two years, even though her toes are twisted over one another and hang down, causing her to trip. She’s often in excruciating pain when she walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal is supposed to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/Pages/Transportation.aspx\">free transportation to enrollees\u003c/a> who can’t otherwise get to their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lammers — whose health plan is California Health and Wellness, owned by Centene, \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/centene-political-donations-medicaid-contracts-overbilling-allegations/\">the nation’s largest commercial Medicaid insurer\u003c/a> — stopped using its ride service nearly a year ago, after she missed dozens of appointments because drivers just didn’t show up, she said. She was getting threatening letters from doctors’ offices over the no-shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, she had to hitchhike more than 30 miles home from a counseling appointment. On other occasions, Lammers said, she did not receive the reimbursement she was owed for arranging her own rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t go to the doctor anymore,” Lammers said. “If I go to the doctor, my boyfriend has to take the day off work, and if he takes the day off work, we have no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last three months of 2022, Lammers canceled five appointments she had scheduled for the diagnostic abdominal procedures because her boyfriend had to work each time and couldn’t take her. She finally stopped rescheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Wellness contracts with ModivCare, a Denver-based medical transportation company that is no stranger to \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/medicaid-transportation-nonemergency-benefit-patients-stranded/\">patient complaints and lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she gave up on the ride service, Lammers said, she would call California Health and Wellness to try to resolve the issue, only to be told that ModivCare was a separate company. “I’m like, ‘If you guys hired them and put them in charge of transportation, who oversees their screwups?,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942520 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman, standing in a crowded room of unmade beds, dishes potatoes onto a plate of biscuits and gravy from a hot plate on a cabinet next to a fridge. \" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1536x1180.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-2048x1573.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Lammers_09-1920x1475.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Lammers has serious abdominal symptoms, and her gastroenterologist wants to run diagnostic tests, but she had to cancel five appointments in the last three months of 2022 because she didn't have transportation. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Courtney Schwyzer, a member of a legal aid team representing Lammers on various Medi-Cal matters, said the failure of medical ride services is a systemic problem. In late February, Schwyzer and her fellow attorneys filed a petition in court that she hopes will force the state Department of Health Care Services to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Wellness spokesperson Darrel Ng said the company monitors the quality of its contractors, but a shortage of transportation providers in rural areas “has created unique challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ModivCare provides more than 4 million rides for Medi-Cal recipients annually, and more than 99% are without complaint, said Melody Lai, a company spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lammers, who is unemployed and trying to start a custom craft business called Stuff by Steph, said doctors have warned her that if she doesn’t reduce her stress level, it could shorten her life. But arranging medical care is the most stressful thing in her life right now, so she doesn’t try anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to keep from dying, I have to not go to the doctor,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'It's a blessing'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal helped save the life of Carolina Morga Tapia, a 30-year-old full-time mother of five who lives with her family amid almond groves in an agricultural enclave of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine years ago, a bacterial infection triggered premature labor during the 25th week of her second pregnancy, and Morga Tapia almost died. She spiked a fever, bled profusely and needed immediate transfusions and emergency surgery. After several days in critical care, she fully recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942521 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman with a blue cardigan and a black shirt looks at the camera, arms akimbo, standing in a leafless orchard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/carolina_tapia-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Morga Tapia stands amid almond trees outside her home in Fresno. She, her husband and their five children are enrolled in Medi-Cal, and she says she is very happy with the care it has provided, including emergency surgery that saved her life after she fell gravely ill during her second pregnancy. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the doctors could not stop the premature birth, and her baby came out weighing just 1 pound. She and her husband, David Nuñez, named her Milagros Guadalupe, and she died four days later, on Sept. 13, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of her subsequent pregnancies, Medi-Cal paid for Morga Tapia to get shots of synthetic progesterone, intended to prevent another preterm birth. Those shots — one a week for about 20 weeks — can cost an average of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/24/798731110/drug-to-prevent-premature-birth-divides-doctors-insurers-and-fda-experts\">more than $10,000 per pregnancy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morga Tapia and Nuñez, a construction worker, signed up for Medi-Cal when she was pregnant with her first child more than a decade ago. They’ve been on the same Anthem Blue Cross Medi-Cal plan ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan paid for prenatal care through all six of Morga Tapia’s pregnancies, and it has provided all the medical and dental care the family needs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without Medi-Cal, we would have to be paying for all of our children,” said Morga Tapia. “It saves a lot of money, and it’s a blessing to have that extra help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her children, four girls and a boy, range in age from 1 to 10. 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The report, which evaluated Medi-Cal health plans on pediatric care, women’s health and chronic disease management, put Anthem Blue Cross in the lowest tier, and below par on multiple measures in numerous counties, including Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another state report, released in late January, detailed how quickly insurers provide appointments for their patients, and put \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPM/MY2021TAR.pdf\">Anthem Blue Cross’ Medi-Cal plan near the bottom of the heap (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem Blue Cross spokesperson Michael Bowman said in a statement that the period covered in the reports coincide with the COVID-19 pandemic, “when our safety net providers dealt with significant challenges with workforce and appointment availability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morga Tapia doesn’t give the insurer low marks. “It’s different for everybody. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even with the new medication, Moreno Ramirez’s coughing fits returned last year, and his symptoms grew so painful he suspected the cancer was growing. He asked to see his pulmonologist but was told the first appointment would be in June 2023. So he switched doctors and scored an appointment nearly six months sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My old doctor didn’t help me. I didn’t trust him,” Moreno Ramirez said. “He was always too busy for me. I told my doctors, ‘Give me a chance.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having taken his care into his own hands, he says he’s not in pain, his cough has subsided and he feels hopeful for the future. “Now I feel good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has also sought more attention for his diabetes and received a continuous glucose monitor to measure his blood sugar. It’s better controlled now than it has been in decades, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to stand up for yourself and advocate,” said Joann Pacelo, the care manager who helped Moreno Ramirez change doctors, get quicker referrals to specialists and get approved for in-home nursing visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, it’s difficult with Medi-Cal because the doctors are busy and the reimbursements are so low, but no one should be denied the care they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Healthline is a service of the California Health Care Foundation produced by Kaiser Health News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/tracking-the-deaths-from-californias-winter-storms\">22 people died due to storm-related accidents\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘California is working swiftly to help recovering Californians get back on their feet.’[/pullquote]Most Californians filing individual and business tax returns and payments are eligible for the federal tax extension, which applies to any disaster area as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. All nine Bay Area counties are included, as well as Sonoma, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Monterey and Napa counties. \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-tax-relief-for-victims-of-severe-winter-storms-flooding-landslides-and-mudslides-in-california\">A list of eligible localities can be found at the IRS website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal extension also applies to individual tax returns, business returns, and returns for tax-exempt organizations, normally due on May 15. Taxpayers also now have until Oct. 16 to make contributions to health savings accounts and retirement accounts. 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The veteran Democrat, who is 76, also addresses those who say her age might be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say my time has passed, well, when does making change go out of style?\" she asks in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — for whom she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before heading to Washington, Lee had a long history in public office, including stints in California’s state Assembly and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the third prominent Democratic member of Congress from California to join the increasingly crowded field of candidates seeking to replace Feinstein, who last week announced her plans to retire at the end of the current term after serving for more than 30 years. Even before Feinstein’s decision was made public, nationally recognized Reps. Katie Porter, of Orange County, and Adam Schiff, of Los Angeles, had already jumped into the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Lee says her campaign — launched during Black History Month — will emphasize the importance of representation in national government and remind voters that there are currently no Black women in the U.S. Senate. Kamala Harris, the last Black woman to serve in that chamber, resigned her seat in 2021 to become U.S. vice president. [aside label=\"More Stories on Sen. Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"] \"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality,\" said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book \u003cem>How We Win the Civil War\u003c/em>. \"And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was born in 1946 in El Paso, where her mother worked with the NAACP to integrate the University of Texas. After she and her family moved to Southern California in 1960, Lee picked up the mantle of civil rights warrior. As she told KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018, she fought to integrate her high school cheerleading squad in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was literally 15 years old, and I said, 'I really want to be a cheerleader and I can't because I don't look right,'\" Lee said. She teamed up with the NAACP, which approached the school and urged them to change the process for selecting cheerleaders to make it more fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And guess what? I won. So I was the first African American cheerleader at San Fernando High,\" Lee recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'You have got to register to vote and get involved because you can't stay on the outside, you know, looking in and fighting from the outside,'\" Lee told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Lee also coordinated fundraising efforts for the Oakland mayoral campaign of Black Panthers’ leader Bobby Seale, and later went on to work for Rep. Dellums, whose seat she would eventually take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress in 2001, Lee gained national recognition when she famously cast the lone vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with Afghanistan just days after the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our country is in a state of mourning,\" she said before casting her vote. \"Some of us must say, 'Let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization. \"They said, ‘Barbara, you cannot let this one red light (signifying a no vote) stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stood her ground, and her vote against the war has stood the test of time, as the U.S. did in fact get mired in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, costing thousands of lives, with little to show for it. In a blatant indication of defeat, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021 withdrew U.S. troops under violent, chaotic conditions, after the U.S.-backed president fled the country, leaving it under the control of the Taliban, much as it had been when the U.S. entered the conflict two decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her bid to replace Feinstein, who is 89 and has faced questions about her mental fitness, Lee, who will be 78 in November 2024, will also have to overcome the issue of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's a question just of chronological age as much as attitude in relationship to the status quo,\" said Phillips of Democracy in Color. \"For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.\" [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Steve Phillips, founder, Democracy in Color\"]'For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.'[/pullquote] At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Lee’s biggest struggle of all will be raising enough money to compete with the likes of Schiff and Porter, who are both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936335/california-politicians-stash-35-million-in-unused-campaign-funds-some-of-them-years-after-leaving-office\">prolific fundraisers\u003c/a>. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00331769/\">Lee ended 2022 with just $52,353\u003c/a> in her account. By comparison, Schiff ended the year with nearly $21 million while Porter had $7.4 million left after an expensive reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Lee formally announced her candidacy, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who served with Lee in the state Assembly decades ago, noted that fundraising was not her greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has all kinds of problems raising money,\" he said. \"She never will ask people for money. She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. 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But oil and gas companies — or “Big Oil,” as the governor calls them — argue that the limits are not based in science and will only force California to import oil from other states with weaker health and environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has a lot of ramifications,” said Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, which is among a coalition of industry groups that together spent roughly $20 million to put the issue on the ballot. “Employment ramifications, tax ramifications. And it’s worse for the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing’s for sure: By qualifying the referendum for the ballot, opponents of the law have placed it on hold for almost two years, until voters have a chance to weigh in. A simple majority vote is required to scrap the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing for Big Oil to make record profits as they rip off Californians at the pump,” Newsom said last week, after it was announced that the referendum had qualified for the ballot. “It’s quite another to push to continue harmful drilling near day cares and schools and our homes. Greedy oil companies know that drilling results in more kids getting asthma, more children born with birth defects, and more communities exposed to toxic, dangerous chemicals — but they would rather put our health at risk than sacrifice a single cent of their billions in profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/epdf/10.1289/EHP1535\">More than 2 million Californians\u003c/a>, many of them people of color, live within a mile of an active oil or gas well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of studies have found that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32069745/\">people living near active oil or gas wells are more likely to suffer from serious health issues\u003c/a>, including including \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11092\">cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118306339\">cardiovascular\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825956/\">respiratory diseases\u003c/a> and chronic cases of \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP281\">fatigue, nosebleeds and headaches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional research also suggests that pregnant people living near active wells are at greater risk of having \u003ca href=\"https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/Fulltext/2020/08000/Oil_and_gas_production_and_spontaneous_preterm.1.aspx?context=LatestArticles\">spontaneous preterm birth\u003c/a>, increasingly the likelihood of their babies having birth defects and lifelong health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those outcomes for newborns can have repercussions for the health of the child throughout the life, because being born of low birth weight or preterm puts you at increased risk of other health problems down the line,” said Rachel Morello-Frosch, a UC Berkeley environmental health scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat from Long Beach, who helped introduce the setback law, said the oil industry simply wants to maintain the status quo, which is “not shocking, but very disappointing” and “not sufficient anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Embracing the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kobi Naseck, coalition coordinator with the environmental justice advocacy group Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, fought for the setback law and says the oil and gas industry is using the ballot to upend good policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing big corporations spend money in an unheard-of way to undo a regulation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp>In November, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-stringify-link=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a> reported that Bay Area canvassers employed by the oil industry used misleading tactics when gathering signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. Some voters said they were told the referendum would ban new oil and gas wells near homes, the exact opposite of what it would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oil-drilling\"]The ballot challenge to the drilling law will be the second referendum to go before voters in 2024. Opponents of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a>, a law signed by Newsom that aims to increase pay and improve working conditions for the state’s fast-food workers, also recently submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to referendum laws was added to the California Constitution in 1912 as a way for citizens to fight the considerable clout that powerful industries like the railroads enjoyed in Sacramento in the early part of the 20th century. But in recent years, that tool has increasingly been used by deep-pocket interests to overturn laws unfavorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 31, an effort by tobacco companies to undo a new law banning flavored tobacco. But, says veteran campaign consultant Gale Kaufman, sometimes the goal isn’t to totally reject a law, but rather to delay its implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s different now. They [corporations] know from Day One that they’re going to try a referendum to stop a law. Tobacco — they didn’t even run a campaign, they just delayed it to give them time,” Kaufman told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure killing the bill is the goal. 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Ultimately, 56% of voters supported the referendum, and the law was scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufman, who ran the campaign against the cash bail referendum effort, says that preserving the law was an uphill battle for a number of reasons, including the fact that unlike limitations on oil drilling, voters needed more education to understand what bail was and why it was unfair to lower-income defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this [drilling law referendum], it’s easy to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. People are pissed at gas prices and high oil prices. That’s all you have to say,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High gas prices: an argument for both sides\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Referendums are a different beast [from other ballot measures] because you have to figure out what ‘yes’ means. People get confused. That’s half the battle,” said political consultant Steve Maviglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for this referendum, like others before, the voting rules are somewhat counterintuitive: Voters are asked to vote “no” if they want to invalidate the new drilling law and a “yes” to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides make it confusing and it’s so hard to win a campaign when you’re advocating a ‘yes’ vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio predicts the oil industry and its supporters will spend $50 million to $100 million to invalidate the law, largely by reinforcing the argument that restricting drilling will only further increase gas prices and hurt drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the other side is going to have much money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio said that while voters may not like oil companies, they might also question supporters of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look how much trouble the governor is having on a bill right now” to impose a penalty on excessive oil company profits, he said. “There’s distrust of oil but also of environmentalists, who want to put everyone in an electric car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office seems keenly attentive to the issue of gas prices. On Friday, his team blasted out a press release accusing oil companies of “misleading” Californians about the price of gas across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1624109336745353217?s=20&t=m5I80ews5BEaCWJGb4ITYA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hector Barajas, a consultant for supporters of the referendum, said that Newsom and the Legislature pushed the buffer-zone law without adequate analysis and testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislative process, with public hearings, notices and the opportunity for public discourse, exists for an important reason — to allow experts, members of the public, science and health leaders, and the impacted industries to provide testimony, ask essential questions, provide evidence or solutions in the public arena,” Barajas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an argument that has some resonance with Democrats in the Legislature, like Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat, who declined to vote on the original legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California listen to science. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced in partnership with inewsource, a nonprofit news organization in San Diego. It is part of an ongoing project with inewsource and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story contains descriptions of antisemitic violence and speech.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n October, an antisemitic hate group hung a banner over a Los Angeles freeway. It read: “Kanye Is Right About the Jews.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people standing behind the banner gave Nazi salutes to cars speeding past on Interstate 405. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ADLSoCal/status/1584199722524213248\">Photos of the stunt went viral.\u003c/a>[aside label='READ MORE ABOUT WILSON' link1='https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/,Read coverage from inewsource about Robert Wilson, a public face of the hate group known as the Goyim Defense League, who was supposed to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs.' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-2-1020x571.png']Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups, Western States Center\"]‘There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence … The GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.’[/pullquote]The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors’ driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, ‘Let’s Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.’ The back of the flyer reads, ‘Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Minadeo, Wilson and a small group of supporters rented a U-Haul truck and covered it with antisemitic symbols and rhetoric. They drove to the Beverly Hilton, a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\">video posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism\u003c/a>, a group that calls out “antisemites” to hold them accountable, two men dressed as members of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi paramilitary group colloquially known as the brownshirts, paraded around the truck. Minadeo, who is wearing a black hat with fake side curls shouts, “The Nazis are coming!” Wilson also appears in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beverly Hills they drove to West Hollywood. “A group of Nazis have rampaged down Santa Monica Blvd from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood harassing Black people, gay people and Jewish people,” WeHo Social Justice Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528174801541419008\">tweeted in a video\u003c/a> that shows the U-Haul parked at a gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of queer activists \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528184993410781186\">posted another video of Wilson and Minadeo\u003c/a>, who wore a T-shirt with the Black Sun, a Nazi-era symbol now popular with neofascists, being confronted by onlookers. The pair allegedly harassed a Black woman at the gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you get the f— out of here,” one man says. “This isn’t your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man says to Wilson, “You’re a racist!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson replies, “Who taught you people to read and write?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were concerned about the real-world consequences of online antisemitism long before 2018 when a man shouting antisemitic slurs entered the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The perpetrator had been immersed in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracies on Gab, and was posting on the site just minutes before he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a 19-year-old man killed one woman and wounded three others at a synagogue in San Diego County. He had posted an antisemitic and racist letter in an online forum claiming Jewish people were planning the replacement of white people by genocide, a conspiracy theory that led white nationalists to march through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not folks just making disparaging remarks about Jews on the internet and laughing about it,” Piggott said, referring to Minadeo and Wilson. “They’re showing to the world they’re truly committed to this by going into the streets and getting in the face of people and publicly harassing them with all sorts of horrendous slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can certainly lead to escalations and can lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913965 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg']According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Renfro, yoga studio owner\"]‘You have to watch [the videos] to realize how evil they are. They were inciting violence. It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.”[/pullquote]When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors’ driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, ‘Let’s Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.’ The back of the flyer reads, ‘Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A single-person household, for instance, could drop from $281 a month in food aid to as low as $23 in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Agriculture documents show that since November, the pandemic boosts have amounted to \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/CA-SNAP-COVID-EA-Extension-February-2023-Acknowledged.pdf\">more than $500 million a month (PDF)\u003c/a> in additional food stamps coming into lower-income Californians’ budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to overstate how devastating this is going to be,” Silva said. “Families are going to see a dramatic and sudden drop in their food benefits at a time when food price inflation and the cost of living in California especially is through the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food stamps are funded by the federal government, which determines benefit amounts annually based on the nationwide cost of living as well as recipients’ household size and income.[aside postID=\"news_11937317,news_11897177\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In March 2020, Congress allowed the USDA to give states funding to boost all recipients’ aid to the maximum allowable benefits for their household size, or add $95 on top for those already receiving the maximum. 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Other ideas include expanding special CalFresh programs that provide extra dollars for those purchasing California-grown produce, or for certain Central Valley households who lack clean drinking water in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proposals are “nowhere near approaching the $500 million a month that will be absent from people’s budgets, dinner tables and California retailers as well,” said Jared Call, senior advocate at the food policy organization Nourish California. “But our approach is, no tool in the toolbox should be unused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services says it’s warning households of the upcoming decline in aid and directing CalFresh recipients to food banks, which have received additional funding from both the state and federal governments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s network of food banks continues to serve on average 1.5 times the number of clients as before the pandemic, Silva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, which provides food in the county McSpedden lives, averaged 150,000 clients a month before the pandemic, said community resource manager Lorena Carranza. 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"content": "\u003cp>Near the end of a five-hour meeting in mid-November, the Alameda City Council did something bold: It became the first Bay Area city to adopt an ambitious plan to build more than 5,000 homes and apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number represents its share of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/11/04/governor-newsoms-newly-created-housing-accountability-unit-marks-first-year/#:~:text=Under%20Governor%20Newsom%2C%20for%20the,of%20which%20must%20be%20affordable\">statewide goal to chip away at California’s housing crisis\u003c/a> and build 2.5 million homes by 2031 — 1 million of which will be designed to be affordable to lower- and moderate-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s within our grasp to be part of the solution and not part of the problem,” said Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft. “We’re not kicking the can further down the road. We’re saying the buck stops here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These plans — known as “housing elements” — have been required by the state every eight years since the 1960s. But, up until recently, they’ve largely been ignored.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Lonsdale, teacher, Edison Elementary\"]'The amount of housing built over my lifetime seems like it's been nonexistent.'[/pullquote]That’s changed as Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/business/economy/california-nimbys-housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taken a stronger stance\u003c/a> in holding cities accountable for meeting the state’s housing goals. Local governments that don’t present viable plans can now face lawsuits, lose state funding for transportation and affordable housing, or trigger laws that allow developers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-primer-on-californias-builders-remedy-for-housing-element-noncompliance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build big housing projects\u003c/a>, overriding the city’s local zoning rules. In the Bay Area, cities and counties face a looming Jan. 31 deadline, after which those consequences could kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's surprising that Alameda is the first to adopt such a plan, given its long history of denying development. It even has voter-backed rules in its own charter that prohibit new apartment buildings. That prompted some delicate conversations at City Hall, where local leaders have spent the past two and a half years meeting with residents and explaining how all this new housing could benefit them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conversations are happening all across the Bay Area as cities and counties race to submit compliant plans. As of Jan. 16, the state had approved plans for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-review-and-compliance-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19 of the Bay Area’s 110 cities and counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lonsdale feels it’s a long time coming. He was born in Alameda, coaches the local high school soccer team and teaches fourth and fifth grade in the city. He’s always wanted to buy a home in the city where he was raised, but as housing prices continue to soar, finding his own place on a teacher’s salary feels out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938458 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black track suit top with yellow stripes on the sides stands outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lonsdale was born and raised in Alameda and now teaches fourth and fifth grade at Edison Elementary. He stands outside the school where he teaches in Alameda on Jan. 12, 2023. He has always wanted to buy a house in this city, but that dream feels farther and farther away as market rate prices soar out of reach. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It feels like I’m stalled out in life,” he said. “Like you’re just treading water in this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was younger, he paid high rents to live in cramped apartments with roommates, but at almost 40, he’s over it. He moved in with his parents around May 2021, and has been saving up for a condo ever since. But supply is scarce, and prices only continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Alameda is able to build all the housing envisioned in its plan, it would drastically transform the character and demography of the city. It could mean people like Lonsdale get to stay in his hometown.[aside postID=\"news_11936245,news_11929505,news_11937777\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing built over my lifetime seems like it’s been nonexistent,” Lonsdale said. “It’s all single-family homes, not a whole diverse range of housing for people like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A city frozen in time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The small, quaint East Bay island is lined with tall, ornate Victorians and rows of single-family homes overlooking the bay. It feels frozen in time. And, that’s by design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1972 ballot measure effectively halted new housing construction. The city used to be more economically diverse, but, like many Bay Area cities, which passed rules in the '70s and '80s limiting development, has become increasingly exclusive. That’s presented a challenge as the city seeks to comply with new state guidelines mandating more housing, said City Planner Andrew Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty years later, we’re doing our housing element for the city and we’re trying to address issues of equity. If we’re regulating land and saying, ‘Anyone who can’t afford a single-family home, we don’t provide housing for you,’ that’s a problem,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During and after World War II, the city experienced \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/environmental-analysis/documents/ser/tract-housing-in-ca-1945-1973-a11y.pdf\">tremendous population growth (PDF)\u003c/a> when the Navy built a base on the shipping yards in the western part of the city. The \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt7pp2q0gh/qt7pp2q0gh_noSplash_4f819c0efba9f9b3368e11c444ae71cc.pdf?t=ooaq0u\">federal government quickly built houses near the base (PDF)\u003c/a> to accommodate the influx of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The population only continued to grow in the decades that followed, and to keep up with demand, \u003ca href=\"https://alamedamgr.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/whither-measure-a-part-iii-keep-it/\">developers razed about 1,000 Victorian homes\u003c/a> and replaced them with “boxy” apartment buildings. This scared homeowners who were concerned about the “changing character” of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, Alameda residents overwhelmingly passed Measure A, which became \u003ca href=\"https://alamedamgr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/article-xxvi-of-alameda-city-charter.pdf\">Article 26 in the City Charter (PDF)\u003c/a>. It banned new multifamily apartment buildings in most of the city. Alameda voters had a chance to overturn the 1972 law on a 2020 ballot, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Alameda-Measure-Z-which-would-lift-ban-on-15699683.php\">they overwhelmingly upheld it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently passed state laws that require cities to build more housing have made Measure A effectively moot, but the aftereffects live on today in most of the city’s neighborhoods. The island has two sides: On its eastern flank are single-family homes, high-performing schools and mostly white and Asian residents. On the western side is a now mostly abandoned naval base, few grocery stores and aging apartments that were built by the federal government and repurposed as subsidized housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Alameda sought to plan for future housing, it had to contend with — and in some cases, override — prevailing attitudes about how much development the city should see. And, it received plenty of opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Foreman, 84, has lived in Alameda for the past two decades and fought aggressively against the city’s new housing plan. He owns a two-bedroom condo on a quiet street with single-family homes, Victorian mansions and a few duplexes. There’s a park nearby and a center for older adults three blocks away that provides meals for him five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938459 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of two homes and a lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single-family homes in Alameda on Jan. 12, 2023. In 1972, Alameda passed a ballot measure effectively halting new construction for multifamily units. As the City Council worked to create a housing plan, they had to contend with long-held sentiments from residents who didn’t want new housing in their town. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s bucolic nature is part of why he loves living here and why he wants it to stay that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not super dense, there are places to park, there are parks to go to, it’s green.” he said. “The city is just going to come along and completely change the character of the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman does not want to see his neighborhood replaced with ritzy high-rise buildings, which he fears could now happen — though city planners say more duplexes and triplexes, instead of high-rise buildings, could be built on the land where large, single-family houses now stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His other big fear? That these new homes won’t actually be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concerns aren’t misguided. Over the past eight years, Alameda was supposed to build \u003ca href=\"https://irp.cdn-website.com/f1731050/files/uploaded/he-policy-document.pdf\">975 housing units for very low- to moderate-income residents (PDF)\u003c/a>. According to Andrew Thomas, only 500 have been built. And \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/new-data-underscores-californias-failure-to-meet-low-income-housing-production-goals-dashboard-series-3/\">California as a whole built only about two-thirds of its goal for lower- to moderate-income housing\u003c/a>. At the same time, the state — and Alameda — exceeded its goal for above-moderate-income, or “luxury,” housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a very dysfunctional system,” Foreman said. “As far as I’m concerned, the state is avoiding its responsibilities [to build affordable housing].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his concerns, Alameda is moving forward to enable housing to be built all over the city. The housing element allows almost 1,000 new units to be built in residential neighborhoods like Foreman’s over the next eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re next to Oakland and just across the bay from San Francisco. We’re right in the center of one of the nation’s major urban areas,” said former Alameda City Council member John Knox White. “The idea that we should not participate in providing housing for the jobs that we all travel to is, for me, a little offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change is coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knox White and Thomas worked hard to pass the city’s housing element. While they both agree with Foreman that affordable housing is important and necessary, they say it’s not realistic to build only subsidized housing when construction costs are so high and funding for affordable housing is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to make the projects financially viable or else they’re not going to be built,” Thomas said. “But at the same time, you want to get as much subsidized, low-income housing as you can. That’s the balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why most of Alameda’s housing element includes sites that will have units accessible to a range of income levels: above moderate to very low. One site that excites Knox White and Thomas is called Alameda Point, located on what is now the mostly abandoned remains of the naval base — a huge swath of land that takes up almost a third of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now home to large empty warehouses and miles of unused airstrips. Aside from hosting an antique fair once a month, the space is underutilized and, in the eyes of Knox White and Thomas, could be a great place for housing. In 2015, the city approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedapointpartners.com/vision-sub.html\">a plan for almost 1,000 housing units here\u003c/a>, along with retail, residential and commercial space, a sports complex and large public art sculptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the development highlights the other big challenge city and state planners face when it comes to getting housing built in the Bay Area: Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s doable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of Alameda Point has been going slowly and not so smoothly. Construction and labor costs were rising before the pandemic, but now, coupled with inflation, they're only becoming more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have in our favor is that the city owns the land, so we have a lot more control over our destiny,” Thomas said. “But [there are] no new streets, old infrastructure, old sewer systems that need to be replaced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Thomas, Alameda Point Partners, the developer working on the project, has come back to the City Council at least six times to renegotiate the deal, partially because of costly city requirements to install public art and contribute to transportation infrastructure. And in the meantime, construction has stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that we’ve solved the housing element issue, we have to figure out how do we not make it so expensive to build,” Knox White said. “Is public art more important than building housing? There’s a big sports complex that might be built in 20 years that every developer has to pay into — is that more important than building the housing we need? These are the tough conversations that folks are going to need to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda led the Bay Area in adopting an ambitious plan to build more housing. But it will all be moot if the housing doesn’t get built. With a potential recession weighing on the economy; labor and construction costs rising; and a long history of slow — or nonexistent — development, some residents say they can’t afford to wait on housing that may or may not get built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Roscoe is one of them. A first grade teacher at the Bay Farm School, Roscoe moved to the city in 2020 with her husband, a firefighter for the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in a one-bedroom apartment right across from Crown Beach that has been perfect for just the two of them, but Roscoe wants to start a family soon. Last year, their landlord did major renovations to the property and increased the rent astronomically. Roscoe has two other jobs to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938460 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black sweater with a light-colored top stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Roscoe, a first grade teacher, sits outside her Alameda apartment on Jan. 12, 2023. She teaches at the Bay Farm School and wants to continue living in Alameda. But she took two other jobs to keep up with rent. If she can’t find a more affordable living arrangement, she and her husband will move elsewhere. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked every weekend for the past two years,” she said. “Groceries are so expensive now, gas is so expensive, everything is so expensive that I feel like we’re just getting stretched thinner and thinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They looked around the city for a more affordable apartment and found the newly constructed \u003ca href=\"https://www.housekeys17.com/altastarharbor?fbclid=IwAR3lEnwJzQdHFUl9d_C3fQkfxTZ-N3_Xh2U-HH83wxkSpnWSbBOFKbIOEJI\">Alta Star Harbor Apartments\u003c/a>, which gives preference to Alameda Unified School District employees who live and work in Alameda. But even though it was designed to be affordable for teachers, rent for a two-bedroom apartment is \u003ca href=\"https://www.housekeys17.com/altastarharbor?fbclid=IwAR2xx746eeYIt9SnXVII_acGLHP4X1HZlXb6onZSW7UxDk9vQKheBlAu9iI\">$3,775\u003c/a> — way higher than the $2,400 a month she and her husband currently pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t afford that [new] rent with a partner,” she said. “I feel like we’d have to move to Tracy, but that’s a two-hour commute. I don’t think it’s worth it. It’s just stressful, and we don’t know what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roscoe and her husband would love to stay in Alameda. Their parents live here and they want to raise their children around family. But they’re not holding their breath to find affordable housing. In February, they’ll decide whether to stay — or move away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s changed as Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/business/economy/california-nimbys-housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taken a stronger stance\u003c/a> in holding cities accountable for meeting the state’s housing goals. Local governments that don’t present viable plans can now face lawsuits, lose state funding for transportation and affordable housing, or trigger laws that allow developers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-primer-on-californias-builders-remedy-for-housing-element-noncompliance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build big housing projects\u003c/a>, overriding the city’s local zoning rules. In the Bay Area, cities and counties face a looming Jan. 31 deadline, after which those consequences could kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's surprising that Alameda is the first to adopt such a plan, given its long history of denying development. It even has voter-backed rules in its own charter that prohibit new apartment buildings. That prompted some delicate conversations at City Hall, where local leaders have spent the past two and a half years meeting with residents and explaining how all this new housing could benefit them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conversations are happening all across the Bay Area as cities and counties race to submit compliant plans. As of Jan. 16, the state had approved plans for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-review-and-compliance-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19 of the Bay Area’s 110 cities and counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lonsdale feels it’s a long time coming. He was born in Alameda, coaches the local high school soccer team and teaches fourth and fifth grade in the city. He’s always wanted to buy a home in the city where he was raised, but as housing prices continue to soar, finding his own place on a teacher’s salary feels out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938458 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black track suit top with yellow stripes on the sides stands outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62001_003_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lonsdale was born and raised in Alameda and now teaches fourth and fifth grade at Edison Elementary. He stands outside the school where he teaches in Alameda on Jan. 12, 2023. He has always wanted to buy a house in this city, but that dream feels farther and farther away as market rate prices soar out of reach. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It feels like I’m stalled out in life,” he said. “Like you’re just treading water in this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was younger, he paid high rents to live in cramped apartments with roommates, but at almost 40, he’s over it. He moved in with his parents around May 2021, and has been saving up for a condo ever since. But supply is scarce, and prices only continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Alameda is able to build all the housing envisioned in its plan, it would drastically transform the character and demography of the city. It could mean people like Lonsdale get to stay in his hometown.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing built over my lifetime seems like it’s been nonexistent,” Lonsdale said. “It’s all single-family homes, not a whole diverse range of housing for people like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A city frozen in time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The small, quaint East Bay island is lined with tall, ornate Victorians and rows of single-family homes overlooking the bay. It feels frozen in time. And, that’s by design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1972 ballot measure effectively halted new housing construction. The city used to be more economically diverse, but, like many Bay Area cities, which passed rules in the '70s and '80s limiting development, has become increasingly exclusive. That’s presented a challenge as the city seeks to comply with new state guidelines mandating more housing, said City Planner Andrew Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty years later, we’re doing our housing element for the city and we’re trying to address issues of equity. If we’re regulating land and saying, ‘Anyone who can’t afford a single-family home, we don’t provide housing for you,’ that’s a problem,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During and after World War II, the city experienced \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/environmental-analysis/documents/ser/tract-housing-in-ca-1945-1973-a11y.pdf\">tremendous population growth (PDF)\u003c/a> when the Navy built a base on the shipping yards in the western part of the city. The \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt7pp2q0gh/qt7pp2q0gh_noSplash_4f819c0efba9f9b3368e11c444ae71cc.pdf?t=ooaq0u\">federal government quickly built houses near the base (PDF)\u003c/a> to accommodate the influx of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The population only continued to grow in the decades that followed, and to keep up with demand, \u003ca href=\"https://alamedamgr.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/whither-measure-a-part-iii-keep-it/\">developers razed about 1,000 Victorian homes\u003c/a> and replaced them with “boxy” apartment buildings. This scared homeowners who were concerned about the “changing character” of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, Alameda residents overwhelmingly passed Measure A, which became \u003ca href=\"https://alamedamgr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/article-xxvi-of-alameda-city-charter.pdf\">Article 26 in the City Charter (PDF)\u003c/a>. It banned new multifamily apartment buildings in most of the city. Alameda voters had a chance to overturn the 1972 law on a 2020 ballot, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Alameda-Measure-Z-which-would-lift-ban-on-15699683.php\">they overwhelmingly upheld it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently passed state laws that require cities to build more housing have made Measure A effectively moot, but the aftereffects live on today in most of the city’s neighborhoods. The island has two sides: On its eastern flank are single-family homes, high-performing schools and mostly white and Asian residents. On the western side is a now mostly abandoned naval base, few grocery stores and aging apartments that were built by the federal government and repurposed as subsidized housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Alameda sought to plan for future housing, it had to contend with — and in some cases, override — prevailing attitudes about how much development the city should see. And, it received plenty of opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Foreman, 84, has lived in Alameda for the past two decades and fought aggressively against the city’s new housing plan. He owns a two-bedroom condo on a quiet street with single-family homes, Victorian mansions and a few duplexes. There’s a park nearby and a center for older adults three blocks away that provides meals for him five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938459 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of two homes and a lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single-family homes in Alameda on Jan. 12, 2023. In 1972, Alameda passed a ballot measure effectively halting new construction for multifamily units. As the City Council worked to create a housing plan, they had to contend with long-held sentiments from residents who didn’t want new housing in their town. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s bucolic nature is part of why he loves living here and why he wants it to stay that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not super dense, there are places to park, there are parks to go to, it’s green.” he said. “The city is just going to come along and completely change the character of the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman does not want to see his neighborhood replaced with ritzy high-rise buildings, which he fears could now happen — though city planners say more duplexes and triplexes, instead of high-rise buildings, could be built on the land where large, single-family houses now stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His other big fear? That these new homes won’t actually be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concerns aren’t misguided. Over the past eight years, Alameda was supposed to build \u003ca href=\"https://irp.cdn-website.com/f1731050/files/uploaded/he-policy-document.pdf\">975 housing units for very low- to moderate-income residents (PDF)\u003c/a>. According to Andrew Thomas, only 500 have been built. And \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/new-data-underscores-californias-failure-to-meet-low-income-housing-production-goals-dashboard-series-3/\">California as a whole built only about two-thirds of its goal for lower- to moderate-income housing\u003c/a>. At the same time, the state — and Alameda — exceeded its goal for above-moderate-income, or “luxury,” housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a very dysfunctional system,” Foreman said. “As far as I’m concerned, the state is avoiding its responsibilities [to build affordable housing].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his concerns, Alameda is moving forward to enable housing to be built all over the city. The housing element allows almost 1,000 new units to be built in residential neighborhoods like Foreman’s over the next eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re next to Oakland and just across the bay from San Francisco. We’re right in the center of one of the nation’s major urban areas,” said former Alameda City Council member John Knox White. “The idea that we should not participate in providing housing for the jobs that we all travel to is, for me, a little offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change is coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knox White and Thomas worked hard to pass the city’s housing element. While they both agree with Foreman that affordable housing is important and necessary, they say it’s not realistic to build only subsidized housing when construction costs are so high and funding for affordable housing is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to make the projects financially viable or else they’re not going to be built,” Thomas said. “But at the same time, you want to get as much subsidized, low-income housing as you can. That’s the balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why most of Alameda’s housing element includes sites that will have units accessible to a range of income levels: above moderate to very low. One site that excites Knox White and Thomas is called Alameda Point, located on what is now the mostly abandoned remains of the naval base — a huge swath of land that takes up almost a third of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now home to large empty warehouses and miles of unused airstrips. Aside from hosting an antique fair once a month, the space is underutilized and, in the eyes of Knox White and Thomas, could be a great place for housing. In 2015, the city approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedapointpartners.com/vision-sub.html\">a plan for almost 1,000 housing units here\u003c/a>, along with retail, residential and commercial space, a sports complex and large public art sculptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the development highlights the other big challenge city and state planners face when it comes to getting housing built in the Bay Area: Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s doable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And in the meantime, construction has stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that we’ve solved the housing element issue, we have to figure out how do we not make it so expensive to build,” Knox White said. “Is public art more important than building housing? There’s a big sports complex that might be built in 20 years that every developer has to pay into — is that more important than building the housing we need? These are the tough conversations that folks are going to need to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda led the Bay Area in adopting an ambitious plan to build more housing. But it will all be moot if the housing doesn’t get built. With a potential recession weighing on the economy; labor and construction costs rising; and a long history of slow — or nonexistent — development, some residents say they can’t afford to wait on housing that may or may not get built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Roscoe is one of them. A first grade teacher at the Bay Farm School, Roscoe moved to the city in 2020 with her husband, a firefighter for the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in a one-bedroom apartment right across from Crown Beach that has been perfect for just the two of them, but Roscoe wants to start a family soon. Last year, their landlord did major renovations to the property and increased the rent astronomically. Roscoe has two other jobs to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11938460 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black sweater with a light-colored top stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62017_020_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Roscoe, a first grade teacher, sits outside her Alameda apartment on Jan. 12, 2023. She teaches at the Bay Farm School and wants to continue living in Alameda. But she took two other jobs to keep up with rent. If she can’t find a more affordable living arrangement, she and her husband will move elsewhere. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked every weekend for the past two years,” she said. “Groceries are so expensive now, gas is so expensive, everything is so expensive that I feel like we’re just getting stretched thinner and thinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They looked around the city for a more affordable apartment and found the newly constructed \u003ca href=\"https://www.housekeys17.com/altastarharbor?fbclid=IwAR3lEnwJzQdHFUl9d_C3fQkfxTZ-N3_Xh2U-HH83wxkSpnWSbBOFKbIOEJI\">Alta Star Harbor Apartments\u003c/a>, which gives preference to Alameda Unified School District employees who live and work in Alameda. But even though it was designed to be affordable for teachers, rent for a two-bedroom apartment is \u003ca href=\"https://www.housekeys17.com/altastarharbor?fbclid=IwAR2xx746eeYIt9SnXVII_acGLHP4X1HZlXb6onZSW7UxDk9vQKheBlAu9iI\">$3,775\u003c/a> — way higher than the $2,400 a month she and her husband currently pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t afford that [new] rent with a partner,” she said. “I feel like we’d have to move to Tracy, but that’s a two-hour commute. I don’t think it’s worth it. It’s just stressful, and we don’t know what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roscoe and her husband would love to stay in Alameda. Their parents live here and they want to raise their children around family. But they’re not holding their breath to find affordable housing. In February, they’ll decide whether to stay — or move away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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