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In a note posted on the company’s social media on Thursday and attributed to her, Hundley said that health issues had played a significant role in needing to shut down the nursery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite my best efforts, the challenges — both personal and business-related — escalated much faster than I ever anticipated, and I could no longer maintain business operations,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melanie Williams, who began working at Annie’s Annuals and Perennials in 2013, said that since Hundley took over, the business has gone downhill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A shady person bought a wonderful business. She was able to convince [Hayes] that she was a great person and [Hayes] believed her,” Williams told KQED. “We’ve been fighting ever since to keep our sanity and keep the business productive. Now that’s all gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Hundley took over ownership of Annie’s Annuals and Perennials in 2021 after founder Annie Hayes’ 30-year tenure. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kaylan Segev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, after KQED’s story was published, Hundley denied the allegations made by her former employees, saying that she cares about her employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have tried since the day I purchased Annie’s to make changes that would improve the lives and safety of each team member, and I closed the business in a way that I could best take care of them one last time by providing them with severance,” Hundley said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that a condition of that severance was to not speak negatively of Hundley or the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth VanTassell, who had also worked at Annie’s since 2013, shared a story similar to Williams’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanTassell, who a colleague described as one of the “matriarchs” of the nursery, told KQED that soon after Hundley took over, she began acting verbally abusive to managers, seemingly in an effort to drive them to quit. Two other former employees, who spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and litigation, corroborated this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Williams, only four of the roughly 10 managers on staff when Hundley became the owner remained by the time the business shut down this week, and three of those leaders had quit their managerial roles and come back on the condition that they would not have to interact with Hundley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many coworkers who have left under mental, emotional and physical duress,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006203 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanTassell said that despite Hundley’s behavior, she didn’t want to leave her job and stayed because of the relationships she had with other employees, including several who worked under her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said one of the final straws came after Hundley repeatedly reprimanded her for placing an order and accusing her of spending too much money and causing budgetary strain on the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would call me to her office and just belittle me and tell me how horrible I was and how I was ruining everything for the business,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of this, VanTassel said, Hundley yelled at her in front of coworkers during a managers’ meeting, kicked her out and told her she was no longer welcome at these high-level staff discussions. Williams and another coworker, Roxanne Seraphin, confirmed VanTassel’s telling of the events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left the room, and I proceeded to fall on the ground and just burst into tears,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continued to work until I knew that everybody that I cared about, and I was in charge of, was gone. And sure enough, they left,” VanTassell said. She left Annie’s in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundley said that VanTassell made the decision without consulting her, and it “cost the company a great deal of money that could not be recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that the business had been losing money for at least a few years, and there were signs that the nursery might close, but Wednesday’s announcement that they would be shutting down almost immediately came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found out about the closure on Wednesday when another employee shared a photo of a letter they received. On Thursday, a message went out on social media alerting the public that it would shut down the same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff gathered at the nursery on Friday for a meeting to discuss severance, according to Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundley said that current health issues she is experiencing needed to be addressed immediately, and made it impossible to run the nursery, which is a strenuous task. She said that she has not found a buyer for the business at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what will happen to the store’s current stock, though Williams said she believes a few employees might be retained to ensure the plants stay alive in the short term. Customers with gift cards or items to return were told they were not able to be accommodated, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.anniesannuals.com/annies-annuals-closure_notice/\">frequently asked questions page\u003c/a> posted on the nursery’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She isn’t sure what she’ll do next but said she’s worried about her coworkers — especially at least two households that two of Annie’s employees support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love what I do, and that’s how everybody there feels. It’s a wonderful group of people, and we just couldn’t imagine it ending this way,” Williams said. “There were signs, but we didn’t see this coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include Sarah Hundley’s responses to KQED’s questions. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melanie Williams, who began working at Annie’s Annuals and Perennials in 2013, said that since Hundley took over, the business has gone downhill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A shady person bought a wonderful business. She was able to convince [Hayes] that she was a great person and [Hayes] believed her,” Williams told KQED. “We’ve been fighting ever since to keep our sanity and keep the business productive. Now that’s all gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Hundley took over ownership of Annie’s Annuals and Perennials in 2021 after founder Annie Hayes’ 30-year tenure. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kaylan Segev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, after KQED’s story was published, Hundley denied the allegations made by her former employees, saying that she cares about her employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have tried since the day I purchased Annie’s to make changes that would improve the lives and safety of each team member, and I closed the business in a way that I could best take care of them one last time by providing them with severance,” Hundley said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that a condition of that severance was to not speak negatively of Hundley or the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth VanTassell, who had also worked at Annie’s since 2013, shared a story similar to Williams’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanTassell, who a colleague described as one of the “matriarchs” of the nursery, told KQED that soon after Hundley took over, she began acting verbally abusive to managers, seemingly in an effort to drive them to quit. Two other former employees, who spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and litigation, corroborated this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Williams, only four of the roughly 10 managers on staff when Hundley became the owner remained by the time the business shut down this week, and three of those leaders had quit their managerial roles and come back on the condition that they would not have to interact with Hundley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many coworkers who have left under mental, emotional and physical duress,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanTassell said that despite Hundley’s behavior, she didn’t want to leave her job and stayed because of the relationships she had with other employees, including several who worked under her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said one of the final straws came after Hundley repeatedly reprimanded her for placing an order and accusing her of spending too much money and causing budgetary strain on the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would call me to her office and just belittle me and tell me how horrible I was and how I was ruining everything for the business,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of this, VanTassel said, Hundley yelled at her in front of coworkers during a managers’ meeting, kicked her out and told her she was no longer welcome at these high-level staff discussions. Williams and another coworker, Roxanne Seraphin, confirmed VanTassel’s telling of the events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left the room, and I proceeded to fall on the ground and just burst into tears,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continued to work until I knew that everybody that I cared about, and I was in charge of, was gone. And sure enough, they left,” VanTassell said. She left Annie’s in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundley said that VanTassell made the decision without consulting her, and it “cost the company a great deal of money that could not be recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that the business had been losing money for at least a few years, and there were signs that the nursery might close, but Wednesday’s announcement that they would be shutting down almost immediately came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found out about the closure on Wednesday when another employee shared a photo of a letter they received. On Thursday, a message went out on social media alerting the public that it would shut down the same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff gathered at the nursery on Friday for a meeting to discuss severance, according to Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundley said that current health issues she is experiencing needed to be addressed immediately, and made it impossible to run the nursery, which is a strenuous task. She said that she has not found a buyer for the business at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what will happen to the store’s current stock, though Williams said she believes a few employees might be retained to ensure the plants stay alive in the short term. Customers with gift cards or items to return were told they were not able to be accommodated, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.anniesannuals.com/annies-annuals-closure_notice/\">frequently asked questions page\u003c/a> posted on the nursery’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She isn’t sure what she’ll do next but said she’s worried about her coworkers — especially at least two households that two of Annie’s employees support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love what I do, and that’s how everybody there feels. It’s a wonderful group of people, and we just couldn’t imagine it ending this way,” Williams said. “There were signs, but we didn’t see this coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include Sarah Hundley’s responses to KQED’s questions. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She learned to play that music by ear from her father, a musician who traveled all over Mexico performing traditional music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera was around 8 years old when, on the drive home from one of those visits, he told his parents he wanted to learn piano. His maternal grandmother bought him one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really those two folks, both of my grandmothers — one with the musical inspiration, the cultural information that she shared with us — and the other grandmother, through financial assistance, who pushed me forward into this very strange career of being a conductor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera’s story illustrates how culture is transmitted from one generation to the next, but not just by way of exposure or osmosis, as we often think. How many of us have purposely drowned out our parents’ music for more modern, cooler options?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Cabrera sought to embody music the way his grandmother did. Culture isn’t just meant to be consumed. It should also be internalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finishing high school, he enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno, with plans to become a high school music director. He thought learning to conduct an orchestra would help him become a better teacher, so he volunteered to lead the university’s student orchestra. The director gave him a chance since it was a small school, but a more prestigious program would have left the task to graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera’s professors at UNR pushed him to go to grad school to become a professional conductor. He earned a master’s degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mentors from that school told him he needed to go to New York City, which led him to the conducting program at the Manhattan School of Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you how thankful I am for these mentors of mine who encouraged me to shoot for the stars when I thought I was happy enough with where I was heading,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in grad school, he recalled questioning whether he belonged in the world of classical music, an environment that felt elitist and rooted solely in European traditions. The idea that Latines don’t have a connection to orchestral music is false, Cabrera said. Mexican composers were creating operas in the early 1700s. Most major Latin American cities have a symphony, something Cabrera knows firsthand because he’s conducted in Mexico and Chile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What always kept me going was my love and passion for the music,” he said. “It was up to me to get over my preconceptions of my surroundings and my preconceptions of the people around me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1331px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1331\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED.jpg 1331w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/CABRERA_CALIFORNIASYMPH1_BYLINDSAYHALE-KQED-1022x1536.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1331px) 100vw, 1331px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donato Cabrera, a Mexican-American conductor, serves as the artistic and music director of the California Symphony. \u003ccite>(Lindsay Hale / Courtesy of Donato Cabrera )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People might think that the bulk of what a conductor does is stand in front of the orchestra and wave their arms. That’s actually about 1% of the job, Cabrera said. Most of his work involves preparation, organization and planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really engaged in all aspects of what a nonprofit performing arts organization does,” he said. “As a music director, I choose all of the repertoire, all of the soloists. Each season has a narrative. The flow of the music that’s being performed, programmed over the course of many years — that’s on my shoulders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Walnut Creek-based California Symphony will start the season with a program highlighting Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, a masterpiece that was the composer’s final completed symphony. 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That same morning, they also raided two other homes on the block, filling a dump truck with about $1 million worth of weed cultivated by unlicensed growers. Whether the three houses are connected is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency follows up on anonymous tips to identify illicit cannabis operations, which is how officers found Liu’s house in Antioch. Agents surveyed the property and identified an excessively high use of electric power from the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002851\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers used a power saw to cut through a reinforced steel door during a raid on April 30, 2024, of a marijuana grow house owned by Oakland Police Officer Samson Liu. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Department of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, DCC officers didn’t realize Liu was an Oakland police officer until they began their investigation, and they notified the Oakland Police Department on the day of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Oakland Police Department told KQED on Tuesday that Liu was placed on administrative leave effective April 30 and said the matter is still under investigation, declining to provide further details. Liu’s Oakland Police Department salary in 2023 was $137,239.46, with an additional $157,814.37 in overtime, according to watchdog site Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized adult consumption of marijuana in 2016, illegal pot is still big business. The benefits of participating in the underground economy are obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just lucrative. It’s a cash business,” Smith said. “You don’t have to pay any taxes. You don’t have to pay any overhead. A lot of the individuals that are brought in for labor are being taken advantage of, and therefore [growers] have really low overhead, and they can make a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002332 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/BontaCannabis2-1020x608.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith and investigators are not sure why the Contra Costa area in particular has become a hotbed of illegal indoor cultivation. A recent CNN investigation that first reported Liu’s connection to the home raided in April found that Antioch has had the second-most marijuana raids in the state, just after Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s just ease of getting into the market, lots of new houses, or if there’s something else going on,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal cultivation can pose high risks for consumers and for neighbors of underground grow operations. “There’s the local risk of fire because they’re pulling so much power that they’re overloading and they’re usually bypassing the meters and the safeties on the house,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, because they’re not regulated, growers are using all kinds of illegal pesticides and things that are hazardous to individuals who may consume them. You don’t want to smoke a pesticide — let alone illegal pesticides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, DCC officers led an operation with the Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce in Contra Costa County, carrying out four search warrants for illegal sites. The operation yielded the seizure of over 1,000 pounds of unlicensed pot products — including 2,300 plants — with a total value of over $2 million. Officers also confiscated seven firearms and nearly $20,000 in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant mold was also found, which Smith said is common in indoor cultivation. Growing houses are extremely humid inside due to the water needed to grow the crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the CNN investigation into the illegal operations in Antioch suggested a connection to foreign growers, particularly from China, Smith pointed out that local gangs and cartels are heavily involved and active in the underground cannabis economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Haas sold the team in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that a lot of the value of a team comes from the fans themselves, the energy that they produce,” Freedman said. “That’s what’s fun about the game is enjoying it with your community. Right? And so whether it’s ever been there or not, we believe this is a pathway to create a social contract between fans and their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is customary in crowdfunding, the Ballers are also offering a series of perks to those who invest more than the minimum. Those include early access to team merchandise at the $200 investment level, discounted tickets for those who buy $500 in shares, and invitations to attend spring training for investors who pony up $25,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SEC filing that accompanied the share offering discloses how the team has been financed to date and lays out several financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In joining the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> last year, Freedman and Ballers co-founder Bryan Carmel needed to start two new teams so the league could maintain an even number of teams and a balanced schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league’s fee for each of the new franchises — the Ballers and its sister team, the Yolo High Wheelers — was $1.75 million, according to the SEC document. The Ballers’ owners financed the Yolo franchise fee with a loan from the league at 10% interest. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond City Council has killed a November ballot measure that would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992910/richmond-oil-refining-tax-on-chevron-a-major-polluter-moves-closer-to-ballot\">imposed a new oil-refining tax on Chevron\u003c/a>, voting unanimously Wednesday to approve a $550 million settlement with the company instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://pub-richmond.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=54987\">the settlement\u003c/a>, which was the product of a week of intensive negotiations, Chevron has agreed to pay the city $50 million a year for the next five years and $60 million a year for the five years after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials said the agreement, confirmed in a 7–0 council vote, represents a victory in a long battle to get Chevron to compensate the community for the effects of pollution on the city’s 114,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic moment,” Mayor Eduardo Martinez said. “… I say it’s a historic moment because we, the people of Richmond, have created a movement that will echo across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, whose Richmond refinery has operated for more than 120 years and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975650/bay-air-district-hails-decisive-victory-in-battle-to-cut-refinery-pollution\">a major source of air pollution\u003c/a>, will continue to pay other city taxes. Despite the settlement, the City Council and Richmond residents retain the right to impose new taxes on the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, one of the sponsors of the tax measure, said the agreement will not change the city’s determination to hold Chevron accountable for its environmental impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me be clear: We are not settling with Chevron over the issue of pollution,” Jimenez said. “The fight goes on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Chevron, which had criticized the tax as “a hasty proposal, brought forward by one-sided interests,” praised the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign directs visitors to the Chevron Refinery, a petroleum refinery, in Richmond on Jan. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what finding common ground is all about,” said Brian Hubinger, Chevron Richmond’s public and government affairs manager. “This agreement will allow Chevron Richmond to continue to employ thousands of Bay Area residents and remain focused on providing the affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy that this region demands every day while also supplying the city with much-needed additional funding to support our communities’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Doria Robinson said decades of campaigning by community and environmental groups led to Wednesday’s settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect to Chevron — I am actually happy we’re able to figure something out together — but you would not have offered your fair share without their work,” she said. “You just wouldn’t have. You haven’t in a hundred years, and you wouldn’t have without that push.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron, Richmond’s largest employer and taxpayer, recorded $21.3 billion in profits last year and paid $45.9 million in taxes to Richmond in the 2022–23 fiscal year, representing more than 15% of the city’s total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city estimated that the tax measure, proposed this year by a coalition called Make Polluters Pay and placed on the ballot by the City Council in June, would have resulted in annual revenue of $60 million to $90 million. The tax would have been in effect for 50 years, netting as much as $4.5 billion depending on future activity at the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11998605 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS5929_008-lpr-1440x960.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition issued a statement that took credit for compelling Chevron to negotiate the deal and celebrated it as a community victory, though its members appeared split on whether to accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Together, Richmond community groups, families, and workers have forced the city’s largest polluter to offer over half a billion dollars to fund the essential services Richmond communities need today, and plan ahead so that when big polluters close down, our families aren’t left to pay for their mess,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Kerry Guerin, an attorney with the Richmond office of coalition member Communities for a Better Environment, urged the council to reject the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our campaign did not approach the city with this concept just so that Chevron would cut a deal that is pennies to them,” Guerin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before voting, the council heard from more than two dozen members of the public, many of whom expressed disappointment the measure would not be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Richmond voters deserve the opportunity to vote on their own future this November and hold Chevron accountable,” said Martine Johannesen, a city planning graduate student at UC Berkeley. “But if the City Council approves the tax deal, we ask that the council establish a community oversight board to allocate these settlement funds and reserve the use of the funds to advance a just transition for Richmond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes after a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge ruled last week that the city’s proposed wording for the tax measure was misleading and “impermissibly partisan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hastily organized Coalition for Richmond’s Future and a Chevron employee sued the city on June 28, arguing that the ballot description for the measure was both misleading and biased toward support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s tentative ruling from Superior Court Judge John P. Devine agreed on both counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language was misleading, he said, because it contains a laundry list of specific uses — to fund “clean air and water treatment, roads, parks, fire and emergency response, toxic land cleanup, and improving community health and youth services” — despite the fact the revenue will go into the city’s general fund, used primarily to pay employee wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devine also noted that Communities for a Better Environment, one of the measure’s chief proponents, drafted the language, not the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a ballot label that was not only drafted by proponents of the measure but whose ballot label also echoes the same messages as advertisement campaigns in support of the measure,” Devine wrote. “…The use of such partisan language impermissibly falls outside the limits of substantial compliance” with the state elections code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dave Aleshire said in a memo prepared for Wednesday’s council meeting that further legal challenges to the tax measure were likely. He noted that Chevron had already expressed its intention to sue and that a similar tax adopted by the Los Angeles County city of Carson in 2017 is still tied up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city disagrees with Chevron’s legal critique but cannot deny that litigation is likely and may be long-lasting and expensive,” Aleshire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several City Council members said they were moved to support the settlement because of the recent conservative turn of the federal courts, which might ultimately rule on the tax measure if Chevron sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not heartened by what’s been happening in the courts, especially on the upper levels, in terms of judgments going, in my opinion, in blasphemous ways when it comes to protecting our environment,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\t\u003cem>Correction: This story incorrectly identified a Chevron official who responded to the company’s agreement with the city of Richmond. 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The state provided similar assistance to San Francisco’s district attorney for fentanyl trafficking prosecutions last year. In \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10yZPFwURVv0Qx4seEL4KnhQT6557Wmnu/view?usp=sharing\">a letter sent to Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a> Wednesday, Newsom’s administration accused Price’s office of failing to make use of the state’s resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope was that these resources could be used to support efforts to prosecute violent and drug-related crimes and meaningfully improve public safety in Alameda County,” Ann Patterson, Newsom’s cabinet secretary, wrote. “Despite our outreach, your office has yet to make use of these resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are mindful that we need to be more aggressive as it relates to the investigations and accountability, the prosecution of some of these cases.” Newsom said at the press conference. “So we’re moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the California National Guard attorney intended for the Alameda County DA’s office is being sent to the state Attorney General’s office, where they will prosecute state led cases involving crimes committed in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate press conference Thursday afternoon, Price said Newsom’s characterization of her interest in the assistance was incorrect and misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her office was offered one attorney to work on drug cases for 60 days with the possibility of extending to 90 days. She said her deputies were provided a written agreement to bring on that attorney in April and were working to finalize it. She said miscommunication, summer vacations and other bureaucratic hurdles had led to delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My primary concern was the amount of time that, if we’re going to bring someone on and train them and embed them in the office, I would want them to be here longer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The devil is in the details,” Price continued. “And those details were in the process of being worked out. I hope that the governor will get the facts and call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to send state prosecutors to Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975161/newsom-to-send-state-prosecutors-to-oakland-to-help-crack-down-on-rising-crime\">announced in February,\u003c/a> came on the heels of the governor’s decision to send 120 CHP officers to Oakland, where violent crimes — homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and rape — rose 21% from 2022 to 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">Oakland Police Department data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Citywide Weekly Crime Report posted earlier this week by OPD shows that violent crime is \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1583885461436\">down 13%\u003c/a> from this point in 2023. But on Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-police-data-reports-19545681.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crime was almost certainly down in Oakland through April, the \u003cem>Chronicle’s\u003c/em> review of flawed Oakland police data found the city has been overstating the crime reduction, though it did find OPD’s data for homicides and violent crimes to be “mostly accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Newsom press conference, Mitchell acknowledged the lag in the department’s reporting on property crime, however he insisted the data on crimes against people, like homicide and assault, are accurate. He said the department is in the process of implementing a new computer-aided dispatch program and a new records management system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like swap meets throughout the country, the Coliseum Swap Meet, an open-air market known as La Pulga in East Oakland, is a reflection of the community it serves. Here, all are welcome to taste the flavors of Mexico, enjoy a Michelada under the shade, buy household goods, produce, sweets, croc charms, flowers, hardware, clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, electronics and more at a discounted price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children can run around a playground or ride a colorful choo-choo train that snakes around the aisles. Friends can meet for a beer and dance to live bands that perform on weekend evenings. La Pulga certainly provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos show a couple dancing and a child riding in a stroller as bubbles float past.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11972355 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos show people browsing wares in market stalls and a musician singing into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three Saturdays in October, the El Tímpano team set up a booth at La Pulga to engage with the community. We offered instant film portraits for free, and nearly everyone who participated in the portrait session agreed to a recorded interview. Almost 60 patrons and 14 vendors spoke to El Tímpano about how they spend their time and money at La Pulga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard tales of celebration, camaraderie, and some of heartbreak, but mostly, we heard stories of survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972356\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three photos show a person in a cowboy hat, an assortment of jewelry, and two people carrying a large pot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three photos showing a large crowd in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-800x337.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1020x430.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1536x647.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1920x809.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly every day, Samuelin Martinez, 73, can be found walking the grounds of La Pulga. Martinez calls his laps around the market “prayer walks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972359 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1020x1214.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a moustache waves while sitting for a photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1020x1214.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-800x952.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1291x1536.jpg 1291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED.jpg 1681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuelin Martínez\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez describes it as if he’s talking about a sacred place. He has long been a community activist and is keenly aware of the area’s history — he used to live in High Street Homes, temporary public housing that once stood near where La Pulga stands now. With the help of his cane, Martinez now spends his days slowly walking among hundreds of booths run mostly by Spanish-speaking vendors. He talks to anyone who crosses his path and greets them with a wide, mustachioed smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972444\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including two people wearing cowboy hats, a person with wings tattooed on their back and a band on stage.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many vendors have found it hard to stay afloat in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inflation has also impacted sales. Many told El Tímpano that the flea market isn’t as large or packed with people as before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972426 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-LA-PULGA-MARIA-VILLA-01.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: on the left, a person stands amidst varied wares in a market stall. On the right, several Día de los Muertos statues on display in a market stall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1130\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">María Villa\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>María Villa, 77, an immigrant from Mexico, was a single mother of two. She’s known around La Pulga as “Tía María” and has sold artisan jugs, pots, toys and decorations for 30 years. The sales from her booth helped put her children in college. But, Villa adds, business recently has been slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including two people playing music, an array of baseball caps and a pan standing beside a truck.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Luna, 62, is an immigrant from Guatemala who has also sold at La Pulga for 30 years. Between the flashy lights of LED signs for sale and the noises coming from the small electronic toys she sells, her booth is hard to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972431 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1020x1224.jpg\" alt=\"A person in sunglasses standing in front of an array of LED signs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1020x1224.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-800x960.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Luna\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Luna says her profits today are not as good as they were when she first opened up shop. On a good weekend, she says, she might take home between $200–$250.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has noticed that patrons are spending less, and she cannot compete with online sales. On top of that, her booth location will be auctioned in December, and she’s unsure if she can afford to keep it if she is outbid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11972447 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including a couple dancing, a clown playing music and a Pancho Villa sticker on a car bumper.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-4-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga has also made recent headlines. Two men were arrested in August for allegedly selling $85,000 worth of stolen merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 21, Omar Oñate Rivas told El Tímpano he was visiting La Pulga for the first time to try to find stolen construction tools that were taken from his friend’s car in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972358 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED-1020x1219.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short hair sits for a photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED-1020x1219.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED-800x956.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED-160x191.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED-1285x1536.jpg 1285w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-07-KQED.jpg 1673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Oñate Rivas\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Oñate Rivas didn’t find the stolen items that day, he could purchase budget-friendly construction supplies he could use for his job as a day laborer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including a woman singing, a series of children's train cars and an outdoor space filled with shopping stalls.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-3-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though El Tímpano’s goal at La Pulga was not to verify whether goods sold at the market were stolen, we observed a cycle of supply and demand that makes clear how challenging it can be to afford to live in the Bay Area. Immigrants might find work as day laborers or in construction, but they often need to buy their tools — equipment that could amount to hundreds of dollars that they may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar, whom El Tímpano is identifying by first name only because he is underage, has sold used construction tools at La Pulga for nearly a year with three partners. Their hundreds of tools for sale are laid out on the floor in chunky rows that resemble farm fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972397 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1020x1220.jpg\" alt=\"A person wears a Whitney Houston sweatshirt while standing beside an array of power tools in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1020x1220.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-800x957.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-160x191.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1284x1536.jpg 1284w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, La Pulga’s ecosystem is a microcosm of life in East Oakland, like a terrarium filled with loud music and the smell of new leather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only work I’ve been able to invent in order to survive,” says Patricia Beltrán in Spanish. She lost her job during the pandemic and recently separated from her husband. She sells a mish-mash of items, from craft supplies to clothes. At La Pulga, she can bring her children with her so that she doesn’t have to pay for childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972428 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-LA-PULGA-PATRICIA-BELTRÁN-01.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: on the left, person with long hair stands beside a market stall. On the right, the same person with long hair sits for a photo with a child.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1130\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Beltrán\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is a beautiful city … I respect everyone, from the young people who make donuts — you’ve got to be brave to make donuts, you’ve got to be brave for everything,” Beltrán says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes contributions from El Tímpano’s Hiram Durán, Mayra Sierra, Katherine Nagasawa, Luis Ángel Urbina, Jasmine Aguilera, Mayra Sierra, Vanessa Flores, Ximena Loeza, Maye Primera, Martha Calmo Ramirez and Madeleine Bair.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/reporting/memories-of-the-market/\"> \u003ci>El Tímpano’s original version of the story — in English and Spanish — can be found here.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like swap meets throughout the country, the Coliseum Swap Meet, an open-air market known as La Pulga in East Oakland, is a reflection of the community it serves. Here, all are welcome to taste the flavors of Mexico, enjoy a Michelada under the shade, buy household goods, produce, sweets, croc charms, flowers, hardware, clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, electronics and more at a discounted price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children can run around a playground or ride a colorful choo-choo train that snakes around the aisles. Friends can meet for a beer and dance to live bands that perform on weekend evenings. La Pulga certainly provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos show a couple dancing and a child riding in a stroller as bubbles float past.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11972355 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos show people browsing wares in market stalls and a musician singing into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three Saturdays in October, the El Tímpano team set up a booth at La Pulga to engage with the community. We offered instant film portraits for free, and nearly everyone who participated in the portrait session agreed to a recorded interview. Almost 60 patrons and 14 vendors spoke to El Tímpano about how they spend their time and money at La Pulga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard tales of celebration, camaraderie, and some of heartbreak, but mostly, we heard stories of survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972356\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three photos show a person in a cowboy hat, an assortment of jewelry, and two people carrying a large pot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three photos showing a large crowd in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-800x337.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1020x430.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1536x647.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-06-KQED-1920x809.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly every day, Samuelin Martinez, 73, can be found walking the grounds of La Pulga. Martinez calls his laps around the market “prayer walks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972359 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1020x1214.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a moustache waves while sitting for a photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1020x1214.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-800x952.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED-1291x1536.jpg 1291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-08-KQED.jpg 1681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuelin Martínez\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez describes it as if he’s talking about a sacred place. He has long been a community activist and is keenly aware of the area’s history — he used to live in High Street Homes, temporary public housing that once stood near where La Pulga stands now. With the help of his cane, Martinez now spends his days slowly walking among hundreds of booths run mostly by Spanish-speaking vendors. He talks to anyone who crosses his path and greets them with a wide, mustachioed smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972444\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including two people wearing cowboy hats, a person with wings tattooed on their back and a band on stage.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-1-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many vendors have found it hard to stay afloat in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inflation has also impacted sales. Many told El Tímpano that the flea market isn’t as large or packed with people as before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972426 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-LA-PULGA-MARIA-VILLA-01.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: on the left, a person stands amidst varied wares in a market stall. On the right, several Día de los Muertos statues on display in a market stall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1130\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">María Villa\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>María Villa, 77, an immigrant from Mexico, was a single mother of two. She’s known around La Pulga as “Tía María” and has sold artisan jugs, pots, toys and decorations for 30 years. The sales from her booth helped put her children in college. But, Villa adds, business recently has been slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11972445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2.jpg\" alt=\"Six instant photos including two people playing music, an array of baseball caps and a pan standing beside a truck.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1020x827.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-2048x1660.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/La-Pulga-Block-2-1920x1556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Luna, 62, is an immigrant from Guatemala who has also sold at La Pulga for 30 years. Between the flashy lights of LED signs for sale and the noises coming from the small electronic toys she sells, her booth is hard to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972431 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1020x1224.jpg\" alt=\"A person in sunglasses standing in front of an array of LED signs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1020x1224.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-800x960.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-45-KQED.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Luna\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Luna says her profits today are not as good as they were when she first opened up shop. On a good weekend, she says, she might take home between $200–$250.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has noticed that patrons are spending less, and she cannot compete with online sales. 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Immigrants might find work as day laborers or in construction, but they often need to buy their tools — equipment that could amount to hundreds of dollars that they may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar, whom El Tímpano is identifying by first name only because he is underage, has sold used construction tools at La Pulga for nearly a year with three partners. Their hundreds of tools for sale are laid out on the floor in chunky rows that resemble farm fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972397 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1020x1220.jpg\" alt=\"A person wears a Whitney Houston sweatshirt while standing beside an array of power tools in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1020x1220.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-800x957.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-160x191.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED-1284x1536.jpg 1284w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-La-Pulga-HD-46-KQED.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, La Pulga’s ecosystem is a microcosm of life in East Oakland, like a terrarium filled with loud music and the smell of new leather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only work I’ve been able to invent in order to survive,” says Patricia Beltrán in Spanish. She lost her job during the pandemic and recently separated from her husband. She sells a mish-mash of items, from craft supplies to clothes. At La Pulga, she can bring her children with her so that she doesn’t have to pay for childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972428 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-LA-PULGA-PATRICIA-BELTRÁN-01.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: on the left, person with long hair stands beside a market stall. 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