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Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Gholamipour, student\"]‘History is mainly white history. You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.’[/pullquote]Recently, the curriculum became part of a national political debate around teaching history in schools. The focus on topics such as Black feminism, among others, is one of the reasons why \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153434464/college-boards-revised-ap-african-american-studies-course-draws-new-criticism\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> initially refused to offer the course in schools in that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also had its share of discussions around social studies requirements. Starting with the class of 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers\">a new law\u003c/a> mandates all high school students in the Golden State complete a semester of ethnic studies — in part to help students of color see themselves reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History is mainly white history,” said Catherine Gholamipour, a student in Green’s class. “You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her peer Nartan Farucht, a senior, echoed the importance of a class that fills in the gaps of other social studies classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign hangs outside of a brick building reads \"Marcus Books.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Marcus Book Store hangs above the business in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t actually talk about the way we built our government, where we built our cities, we built our schools, without talking about the slave trade and the people who actually built these locations on their backs,” Farucht said.[aside postID=news_11942006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Mother-and-Son-1020x765.jpeg']Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? It gives us, the citizens of society, a sense of who they are and what their values should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen, considered one of the oldest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/132331/your-guide-to-black-owned-eateries-around-the-bay\">Black-owned restaurants\u003c/a> in Northern California, recently served up a history lesson to Oakland high school students alongside its menu of soul food favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buildings have been torn down. New buildings been built. But in terms of here, it’s always been the same. Everybody wants to find Lois the Pie Queen and see what it’s all about,” said restaurant owner Corey Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen’s decades-long staying power in the community made it the ideal first stop during a high school field trip tour of historic Black sites in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Tony Green, a teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School, led the field trip for a group of juniors and seniors enrolled in his Advanced Placement African American Studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of a diner counter with hot sauce bottles, glass sugar containers, salt and pepper shakers, packets of jelly and plastic bottles of ketchup neatly arranged. In the background, a large collage of individually framed photos decorate the wall leaving no room between each frame. In the center, coffee pots warm on the coffee station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos fill the wall behind the lunch counter at Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, Green said he’s taught his students about the wealth gap, redlining and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s meaningful because it’s an attempt at telling the actual truth about African Americans and their relationship with the rest of the world,” said Green, who’s been teaching a version of the class for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tony Green speaks to his African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Colbert, a junior, said Green’s teaching style — which aims not only to explain historical facts, but to also show how they’re interconnected across time — resonated with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like a lot of history classes are just like bits and pieces of history,” he said. “Classes like these, kind of give you the whole thing, from like, ancient in Mali, to like, all the way to the Black Panthers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit at desks inside a classroom. 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Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? It gives us, the citizens of society, a sense of who they are and what their values should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He said Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) security officers handcuffed and detained him at the scene in what he called “an attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11921881 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png 778w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415-160x280.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parker Liberation member and Oakland school board candidate Max Orozco, speaking at a Friday press conference, described being violently detained by OUSD security officers on Thursday evening during a confrontation at the school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to eyewitnesses, he was held inside for nearly two hours as nearly 60 people gathered outside demanding his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is among the 11 city schools that the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition\">in February chose to permanently close or merge\u003c/a> due to budget issues. The school was officially shuttered May 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group of parents and students who staunchly oppose the closure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915396/we-have-power-oakland-activists-camp-out-in-school-to-stop-its-closure\">took over the building in early June\u003c/a>. Since then, members of the “Parker Liberation,” as the group calls itself, have been living inside the building and hosting a community-run summer school — part of an effort that organizers say echoes the work of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people involved in the incident said they responded to a message on social media alerting the community that district security guards were forcefully preventing people from entering the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers eventually reopened the building, “the staff were just violent with community members, just pushing and punching,” said community organizer Pecolia Manigo. “There were people harmed, physically beaten today, and that was not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really proud of our community for a quick response — that people came and saw and witnessed the violence that these OUSD event staff were executing with … it was unnecessary,” she added. “And I hope that we can have a better conversation about our police-free schools, and making sure anybody that’s representing and/or on the payroll of our district is not violent toward our community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1555379206078361600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker Liberation members said more than 10 people sustained mild to moderate injuries during the confrontation and two went to the hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached on Thursday night, during the confrontation, OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki said that when security first arrived at the building in the afternoon, no one was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we changed the locks and set the alarm,” he said in an email. “Someone picked, cut, or otherwise broke through a lock to get back inside the building. They were removed. Now, we are doing what we can to keep several others from entering the building.”[aside postID=\"news_11915396\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7890-1020x765.jpg']Videos posted to Twitter by an account called “Parker For The People” and by independent Oakland journalist Jaime Omar Yassin show chaotic clashes between protesters and security guards at the front doors and hallway of the school. Officers who appear to be with the Oakland Police Department are also seen standing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, activists were back inside Parker Elementary, and organizers indicated at the press conference that they had no plans to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to serve our community by any means necessary,” said parent-organizer Rochelle Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife, who came to the scene on Thursday, said she will work with fellow council members and the school board to find a solution to the Parker standoff. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regional air regulators are locked in a court dispute with an Oakland cannabis landlord that has been running massive diesel generators without permits for nearly two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) filed an \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22123043/baaqmd-v-green-sage-management-et-al.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injunction request\u003c/a> late Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court seeking enforcement of an abatement order issued against Denver-based firm Green Sage last week by the agency's independent hearing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to seeking an injunction against Green Sage, the district is seeking penalties of up to $175,000 a day for continued violations of the abatement order and state air pollution laws. The district's legal action also targets cannabis growers in the Green Sage complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's action came hours after Green Sage \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22123601/green-sage-request-for-writ-of-mandate-220728.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked the court\u003c/a> to block the abatement order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company argued the generators are necessary because existing PG&E power supplies are insufficient to power cannabis growth at its properties and claims that pot worth millions of dollars will be lost if they're turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district hearing board issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122163/2022-07-21-order-for-abatement.pdf\">its formal order\u003c/a> last week directing Green Sage to immediately cease operating generators at its two San Leandro Street buildings until it gets air district permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district had already indicated that Green Sage was likely ineligible for such permits. That's because the firm has used the diesel generators as the primary source of power for nearly two years in violation of air district rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland residents, Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Democracy Project\"]'We've spent hundreds of hours on the board's abatement process because Green Sage's conduct is so obviously at odds with the district's regulations.'[/pullquote]Green Sage began leasing generators to provide power for cannabis tenants beginning in October 2020. At one point, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22076676/mills-report-green-sage-generators.pdf\">an expert for the air district found\u003c/a>, the firm had a dozen generators running simultaneously, producing 11.1 megawatts of electricity – enough to power about 9,000 California homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage residential tenants first complained to the air district about the generators last September, saying they're beyond frustrated with the engines' continued around-the-clock operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11918216,news_11911263,news_11908979\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122200/residents-letter-to-baaqmd-green-sage-enforcement.pdf\">a letter to the air district\u003c/a> joined by environmental advocates and community supporters, they said they were disillusioned with the district's hearing process and demanded immediate enforcement of its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We placed faith in this system and were extremely patient,\" the joint letter from residents, the \u003ca href=\"https://ceh.org/\">Center for Environmental Health\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpcal.org/\">Environmental Democracy Project\u003c/a> said. \"We’ve spent hundreds of hours on the board’s abatement process because Green Sage’s conduct is so obviously at odds with the district’s regulations. After all that investment of our time, it seems that we were misled into believing that the district would actually shut the generators down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter complained that \"Green Sage has been afforded every opportunity to appeal, delay, and ignore the law without consequence.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, the air district issued a statement calling Green Sage's continued generator use \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"alarming and unacceptable.\" The district said it \"will deploy all our available tools and work with other enforcement agencies to hold Green Sage accountable and shut down these generators, which are a threat to air quality and public health in the surrounding community.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district's hearing board process gives Green Sage 30 days to appeal last week's abatement order. The company would also need to seek a separate court order to delay enforcement of the air district's shutdown decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage, which has failed to comply with at least three other city and air district violation notices related to the diesel generators since late last year, did not respond to questions this week about whether it will contest the abatement order. Prior to filing Thursday's injunction request, air district officials said they had not received notice that Green Sage would appeal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testifying before the hearing board on July 12, Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer argued the generators are necessary to preserve cannabis crops worth millions of dollars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greer also said that PG&E power upgrades will be complete for one of the two Green Sage buildings by the end of September and asked the board to hold off on an abatement order until that work is complete. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he maintained that even with the PG&E upgrade in place, more power will be needed to keep cannabis operations running. He said that could be supplied by a company he's formed, New Grass Power, which would generate electricity using natural gas turbines fueled by methane from dairy waste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We're desperately trying to get off the diesel generators,\" Greer told the hearing board. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We can't afford them. We don't want them. But we have no other alternative.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Greer of Green Sage testifying before air district hearing board via Zoom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-2048x1325.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer testifying before the Bay Area Air Quality Management District hearing board on July 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(BAAQMD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence produced during the hearing board's three sessions showed Green Sage began relying on generators as an ongoing source of supplemental power nearly two years ago, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423328/americas-brickworks-v-220111-greer-declaration.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a January 2022 court filing by Greer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> indicated that supplying diesel generators for cannabis operations had become Green Sage's standard operating procedure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Oakland issued notices of violation last December and again in April warning Green Sage that the unpermitted generators must be shut down. The April notice is under appeal, and the generators continued to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district issued its own notice of violation in February because the generators had been set up and operated without district permits. After Green Sage filed only incomplete permit applications, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911263/regulator-moves-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-east-oakland-cannabis-facility\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the district issued a formal \"accusation\" in April\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> charging Green Sage with violating generator regulations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That accusation led to the hearing board, which met for three days to consider the case, and its subsequent abatement order. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanya Boyce, a longtime East Oakland resident, former city of Oakland planner and executive director of the Environmental Democracy Project, which is suing Green Sage, said this week she's infuriated that the enforcement process has taken so long and produced such a lack of results. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This is total and complete fuckery,\" Boyce said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her hearing board appearance earlier this month, Boyce testified about recently produced city data that show the neighborhoods most likely to be affected by fallout from Green Sage's generators are also those that already suffer Oakland's highest levels of air pollution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says she sees a connection to fallout from another crisis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This ultra-deference for the environmental criminal is absolutely insulting to Black and brown communities that have been completely devastated by the war on drugs,\" Boyce said. \"I know a lot of street drug dealers. Imagine how different the world would be if they were given the same respect as Green Sage. Imagine if crack dealers went through such an administrative process with the right to appeal before they stopped selling crack.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> acquired its two East Oakland properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro St., a historic live/work building — in 2016 and 2017. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The firm attracted investors with a vision of converting the two 1930-era buildings into one of California's largest cannabis production facilities. But the project has run into a long series of legal disputes and financial and infrastructural problems. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past 4 1/2 years, Green Sage has been sued nearly two dozen times in California, Colorado, Virginia and Nevada. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1_F2HesfIuiH2L0dGGbK_j6L9wm8mI0PgZxqc-XPc0/edit?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those suits \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include complaints filed by investors, a former business partner, contractors, a generator rental firm, cannabis tenants and The Cannery's current and former residents. The most recent actions were filed over the past month by environmental groups and tenants alleging the company has violated the federal Clean Air Act and California's \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918216/environmental-groups-line-up-behind-residents-to-try-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-oakland-cannabis-facility\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposition 65 toxics law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage defaulted on its $54.5 million mortgage last year and faces a possible foreclosure auction on Aug. 3.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Green Sage began leasing generators to provide power for cannabis tenants beginning in October 2020. At one point, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22076676/mills-report-green-sage-generators.pdf\">an expert for the air district found\u003c/a>, the firm had a dozen generators running simultaneously, producing 11.1 megawatts of electricity – enough to power about 9,000 California homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage residential tenants first complained to the air district about the generators last September, saying they're beyond frustrated with the engines' continued around-the-clock operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122200/residents-letter-to-baaqmd-green-sage-enforcement.pdf\">a letter to the air district\u003c/a> joined by environmental advocates and community supporters, they said they were disillusioned with the district's hearing process and demanded immediate enforcement of its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We placed faith in this system and were extremely patient,\" the joint letter from residents, the \u003ca href=\"https://ceh.org/\">Center for Environmental Health\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpcal.org/\">Environmental Democracy Project\u003c/a> said. \"We’ve spent hundreds of hours on the board’s abatement process because Green Sage’s conduct is so obviously at odds with the district’s regulations. After all that investment of our time, it seems that we were misled into believing that the district would actually shut the generators down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter complained that \"Green Sage has been afforded every opportunity to appeal, delay, and ignore the law without consequence.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, the air district issued a statement calling Green Sage's continued generator use \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"alarming and unacceptable.\" The district said it \"will deploy all our available tools and work with other enforcement agencies to hold Green Sage accountable and shut down these generators, which are a threat to air quality and public health in the surrounding community.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district's hearing board process gives Green Sage 30 days to appeal last week's abatement order. The company would also need to seek a separate court order to delay enforcement of the air district's shutdown decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage, which has failed to comply with at least three other city and air district violation notices related to the diesel generators since late last year, did not respond to questions this week about whether it will contest the abatement order. Prior to filing Thursday's injunction request, air district officials said they had not received notice that Green Sage would appeal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testifying before the hearing board on July 12, Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer argued the generators are necessary to preserve cannabis crops worth millions of dollars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greer also said that PG&E power upgrades will be complete for one of the two Green Sage buildings by the end of September and asked the board to hold off on an abatement order until that work is complete. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he maintained that even with the PG&E upgrade in place, more power will be needed to keep cannabis operations running. He said that could be supplied by a company he's formed, New Grass Power, which would generate electricity using natural gas turbines fueled by methane from dairy waste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We're desperately trying to get off the diesel generators,\" Greer told the hearing board. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We can't afford them. We don't want them. But we have no other alternative.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Greer of Green Sage testifying before air district hearing board via Zoom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-2048x1325.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer testifying before the Bay Area Air Quality Management District hearing board on July 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(BAAQMD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence produced during the hearing board's three sessions showed Green Sage began relying on generators as an ongoing source of supplemental power nearly two years ago, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423328/americas-brickworks-v-220111-greer-declaration.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a January 2022 court filing by Greer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> indicated that supplying diesel generators for cannabis operations had become Green Sage's standard operating procedure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Oakland issued notices of violation last December and again in April warning Green Sage that the unpermitted generators must be shut down. The April notice is under appeal, and the generators continued to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district issued its own notice of violation in February because the generators had been set up and operated without district permits. After Green Sage filed only incomplete permit applications, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911263/regulator-moves-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-east-oakland-cannabis-facility\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the district issued a formal \"accusation\" in April\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> charging Green Sage with violating generator regulations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That accusation led to the hearing board, which met for three days to consider the case, and its subsequent abatement order. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanya Boyce, a longtime East Oakland resident, former city of Oakland planner and executive director of the Environmental Democracy Project, which is suing Green Sage, said this week she's infuriated that the enforcement process has taken so long and produced such a lack of results. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This is total and complete fuckery,\" Boyce said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her hearing board appearance earlier this month, Boyce testified about recently produced city data that show the neighborhoods most likely to be affected by fallout from Green Sage's generators are also those that already suffer Oakland's highest levels of air pollution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says she sees a connection to fallout from another crisis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This ultra-deference for the environmental criminal is absolutely insulting to Black and brown communities that have been completely devastated by the war on drugs,\" Boyce said. \"I know a lot of street drug dealers. Imagine how different the world would be if they were given the same respect as Green Sage. Imagine if crack dealers went through such an administrative process with the right to appeal before they stopped selling crack.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> acquired its two East Oakland properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro St., a historic live/work building — in 2016 and 2017. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The firm attracted investors with a vision of converting the two 1930-era buildings into one of California's largest cannabis production facilities. But the project has run into a long series of legal disputes and financial and infrastructural problems. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past 4 1/2 years, Green Sage has been sued nearly two dozen times in California, Colorado, Virginia and Nevada. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1_F2HesfIuiH2L0dGGbK_j6L9wm8mI0PgZxqc-XPc0/edit?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those suits \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include complaints filed by investors, a former business partner, contractors, a generator rental firm, cannabis tenants and The Cannery's current and former residents. 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"content": "\u003cp>The owners of a massive East Oakland cannabis facility are facing the latest in a series of enforcement actions intended to halt the use of pollution-spewing diesel generators to provide power to the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in one of the buildings owned by Denver-based Green Sage teamed with a pair of Oakland environmental groups to use Proposition 65, the state's landmark toxics enforcement law, to get the semi-trailer-sized generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes nearly two years after Green Sage began relying on diesel generators to power its two big San Leandro Street buildings — and after a long series of thus far unsuccessful attempts by city agencies and regional air regulators to stop the firm's unpermitted use of the heavily polluting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health and the recently formed Environmental Democracy Project, along with residents of a building where the generators began running in July 2020, filed \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22070993/green-sage-prop-65-notice-220627.pdf\">a Proposition 65 notice of violation\u003c/a> on Monday against Denver-based cannabis landlord Green Sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tanya Boyce, executive director, Environmental Democracy Project\"]'I know from personal experience that ... East Oakland gets under-regulated based on the fact that they don't think anybody out here is going to speak up.'[/pullquote]The notice alleges the company has failed to provide Prop. 65 warnings about the health dangers, including cancer, posed by exposure to diesel exhaust. Green Sage has operated as many as nine of the unpermitted semi-trailer-sized generators around the clock outside its San Leandro Street buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just to the east of the generators, where the wind carries the pollution, is a very dense residential neighborhood, a community of color,\" said Lucas Williams, an attorney representing the environmental groups and building residents. \"There's schools, playgrounds, and people live there. So not surprisingly the elevated cancer risk is very significant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice, accompanied by a confidential scientific report on the generators' effects on residents' health to the California attorney general's office, is the first step in a process that could lead to state enforcement action or a private lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If found in violation of the toxics law, Green Sage could face retroactive penalties of as much as $2,500 a day. That could mean a total penalty of nearly $2 million if assessed back to July 2020, when the first generator was deployed at the Green Sage properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generators have prompted the city of Oakland to issue at least three separate notices of violation over the past year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22073692-green-sage-oakland-nov-220407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A notice sent to Green Sage in early April\u003c/a> warned the company it must halt use of the diesel engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following up on public complaints last September, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a notice of violation against Green Sage in February and is currently seeking an order to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generators continue to run as Green Sage appeals the city order and seeks to delay the air district's enforcement action. The company has said the generators are necessary because electricity demands at its facilities have exceeded PG&E's local power capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alistair Monroe, a resident of one of the Green Sage-owned buildings, The Cannery, said that given the city's failure to get the generators shut down, filing the Proposition 65 notice is \"the only way to put our foot down and say enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel it's important we protect the residents and the community at large,\" Monroe said in an interview. \"There's no governing body from City Hall or from the city that is taking drastic measures to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11911263,news_11908979,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Environmental Democracy Project Executive Director Tanya Boyce, who worked as a planner and redevelopment analyst for the city of Oakland earlier in her career, also faults what she calls the city's \"complete, total lapse\" in enforcing regulations in the Green Sage case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The records indicate that they have given warnings and then extended warnings and extended warnings and extended warnings when they know that there are life safety situations here,\" Boyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really am concerned as an ex-city employee about the type of behavior and the actual lack of taking the duties of enforcement and regulation seriously,\" she said. \"I know from personal experience that ... East Oakland gets under-regulated based on the fact that they don't think anybody out here is going to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaya Allan Sugerman, who directs public-interest litigation for the Center for Environmental Health, said neighborhoods downwind of Green Sage already are heavily burdened by diesel engine pollution from nearby freeways, industry and other sources. 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"content": "\u003cp>Regional air regulators are moving to shut down a set of giant diesel generators that have been used for more than a year and a half to power a major cannabis-growing facility in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21678879/2022-4-20-green-sage-accusation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a complaint issued Wednesday\u003c/a>, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District formally accused a Denver-based firm called Green Sage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908979/a-denver-based-firm-is-using-huge-diesel-generators-to-grow-cannabis-in-east-oakland-now-the-city-is-trying-to-shut-them-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">installing the heavily polluting generators\u003c/a> as a long-term substitute for standard grid power in violation of state and regional regulations.[aside postID=\"news_11908979,arts_13826417,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts of these generators are serious,\" Damian Breen, the district's deputy operations chief, said in an interview. \"East Oakland suffers from more air pollution than other parts of the Bay Area, and diesel particulate matter can have a significant impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as nine of the huge diesel units have operated simultaneously outside the two buildings. Portable diesel generators emit diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint seeks an order from the district's independent hearing board requiring Green Sage and cannabis tenants at its two San Leandro Street properties to shut down the generators until they get permits to operate them. The complaint also makes it clear that permits are available only for temporary generator use — for instance, during short-term emergencies or to provide power during electrical upgrades — not as a long-term replacement for the conventional grid power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen said it could take 30 to 60 days for the hearing board to convene and deliver an abatement order to halt use of the generators, the first of which was installed in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a> bought two large San Leandro Street buildings, known as The Tinnery and The Cannery, in 2016 and 2017, and began leasing space to cannabis operations. The company is owned by Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker with addresses in Denver and San Diego County, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent listed with residences in Los Angeles, Wyoming and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery, a live-work space that has housed artists and artisans for nearly 50 years, have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they're emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power demand from energy-intensive growing operations overtaxed the existing transformers and other electrical infrastructure at the buildings, Green Sage began renting semi-trailer-sized diesel generators as its primary source for tenants' electrical needs. The generators consume thousands of gallons of fuel a day, and cannabis operators at the complex report monthly fuel bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck delivers\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The formal air district complaint follows a February \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> the agency issued because Green Sage had failed to get permits to install or operate the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has slapped the company with a pair of violation notices for running the generators without permits and for a host of code violations. The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent notice\u003c/a>, sent last month, gave Green Sage until Friday, April 22, to end use of the generators. But as of Thursday, just a day before that deadline, the generators continue to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to a request for comment on the latest violation notice. In answer to the air district's February notice of violation, a Green Sage lawyer wrote the agency a letter saying the company had filed \"application materials\" for the diesel-powered generators at San Leandro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from San Francisco attorney Darrin Gambelin went on to say that Green Sage also was preparing to submit an application to install cleaner-burning turbines that would be powered by gas derived from dairy waste. The turbines would \"immediately reduce emissions and expeditiously install a permanent clean, renewable, net-negative carbon power source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company floated the potentially expensive turbine proposal despite the fact it appears to be in extreme financial straits. Green Sage apparently stopped making payments last August on a $54.5 million dollar loan it had gotten to underwrite construction at the San Leandro Street properties and was placed in default in December. The buildings are currently set to be sold at a May 4 foreclosure auction in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the air district says Green Sage has yet to file a complete application for either the diesel generators or the proposed turbines. And Breen said Wednesday it's long past time for the company to have complied with agency regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The correct course of action would have been to notify the air district before [the generators] were moved into the area,\" Breen said. \"We could have done a health risk analysis. We could have made sure that the folks in East Oakland who suffer from disproportionate burdens from air pollution were protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts of these generators are serious,\" Damian Breen, the district's deputy operations chief, said in an interview. \"East Oakland suffers from more air pollution than other parts of the Bay Area, and diesel particulate matter can have a significant impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as nine of the huge diesel units have operated simultaneously outside the two buildings. Portable diesel generators emit diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint seeks an order from the district's independent hearing board requiring Green Sage and cannabis tenants at its two San Leandro Street properties to shut down the generators until they get permits to operate them. The complaint also makes it clear that permits are available only for temporary generator use — for instance, during short-term emergencies or to provide power during electrical upgrades — not as a long-term replacement for the conventional grid power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen said it could take 30 to 60 days for the hearing board to convene and deliver an abatement order to halt use of the generators, the first of which was installed in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a> bought two large San Leandro Street buildings, known as The Tinnery and The Cannery, in 2016 and 2017, and began leasing space to cannabis operations. The company is owned by Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker with addresses in Denver and San Diego County, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent listed with residences in Los Angeles, Wyoming and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery, a live-work space that has housed artists and artisans for nearly 50 years, have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they're emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power demand from energy-intensive growing operations overtaxed the existing transformers and other electrical infrastructure at the buildings, Green Sage began renting semi-trailer-sized diesel generators as its primary source for tenants' electrical needs. The generators consume thousands of gallons of fuel a day, and cannabis operators at the complex report monthly fuel bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck delivers\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The formal air district complaint follows a February \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> the agency issued because Green Sage had failed to get permits to install or operate the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has slapped the company with a pair of violation notices for running the generators without permits and for a host of code violations. The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent notice\u003c/a>, sent last month, gave Green Sage until Friday, April 22, to end use of the generators. But as of Thursday, just a day before that deadline, the generators continue to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to a request for comment on the latest violation notice. In answer to the air district's February notice of violation, a Green Sage lawyer wrote the agency a letter saying the company had filed \"application materials\" for the diesel-powered generators at San Leandro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from San Francisco attorney Darrin Gambelin went on to say that Green Sage also was preparing to submit an application to install cleaner-burning turbines that would be powered by gas derived from dairy waste. The turbines would \"immediately reduce emissions and expeditiously install a permanent clean, renewable, net-negative carbon power source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company floated the potentially expensive turbine proposal despite the fact it appears to be in extreme financial straits. Green Sage apparently stopped making payments last August on a $54.5 million dollar loan it had gotten to underwrite construction at the San Leandro Street properties and was placed in default in December. The buildings are currently set to be sold at a May 4 foreclosure auction in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the air district says Green Sage has yet to file a complete application for either the diesel generators or the proposed turbines. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he city of Oakland is warning the Colorado owners of a major cannabis production complex in East Oakland that they may face significant fines and criminal charges if they don’t quickly remove unpermitted diesel generators that have been running around the clock for more than a year to power the facility’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the city’s previous warnings to the company apparently going unheeded, frustrated residents of a historic live/work building that’s part of the cannabis complex are threatening to take action themselves to shut down the generators.[aside postID=\"arts_13826417,arts_13910331,news_11901878,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Residents of The Cannery building have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they’re emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has been unable to curb repeated building and fire code violations by Denver-based \u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a>, the firm that owns The Cannery and an adjacent building called The Tinnery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The notice sent Monday\u003c/a> to Green Sage and its owners — Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent with addresses in Los Angeles and Wyoming — gives the firm 30 days to stop using the seven generators currently operating at the San Leandro Street complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threatened prosecution and other sanctions would add to the legal challenges facing Green Sage, whose Oakland operations have been entangled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rALJbtz5xFiUOiQ4ObQo0IWUhKwD9S05kN0gDeEy70/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two dozen lawsuits\u003c/a> in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who represents the district that includes the Green Sage properties, says the situation shows the city needs to move faster and have better enforcement mechanisms in place when confronted by “out of bounds” cannabis operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am grateful that this notice of violation has been issued with clear timeframes for required remediation and clarity around the penalties for insufficient response, this is an example of how our system works too slowly for the needs of tenants who are forced to deal with unbearable conditions on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company began installing generators at the complex in July 2020 after a PG&E transformer serving the buildings failed and a power line caught fire — apparently because of a sharp increase in power demand related to the cannabis operations. As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. The city warned the owners to stop using the highly polluting generators or face potential criminal charges. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to an email seeking comment on the violation notice. In past statements to KQED, Greer has said he and Miller are “avid environmentalists” and that the generators are necessary because PG&E is unable to supply enough power to the facility’s energy-intensive cannabis growing and processing operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E disputes that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage paid $20 million in 2016 and 2017 to buy the two San Leandro Street properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cannery\u003c/a> was not just any big brick building waiting for an out-of-town entrepreneur to turn it into a weed factory. It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Cannery residents\"]‘We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down.’[/pullquote] Deteriorating living conditions at the building since Green Sage acquired it — including the 24/7 diesel emissions from the unpermitted generators — have reduced the number of tenants in its 20 residential units from 32 to 10 over the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannery resident Alistair Monroe — the son of painter Arthur Monroe — and former building manager James Dawson have been leading efforts to get the city to respond to the generators and say it’s past time for decisive official action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led them to send an emailed ultimatum earlier this week to city officials giving them until Thursday afternoon to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down,” the email from Monroe and Dawson said, warning they would join with community supporters to shut down the generators themselves if the city didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Monroe and Dawson said they might be able to do that by blocking tanker trucks that each day deliver the thousands of gallons of diesel fuel the generators need to keep running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe said that the ultimatum remains in place despite the city’s new violation notice to Green Sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have NO FAITH that letter will resolve any issues with Green Sage,” Monroe said in an email after the city sent the notice of violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alistair Monroe posing outside the red-brick Cannery building in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Alistair Monroe at The Cannery live/work building in East Oakland. Monroe, whose artist father lived at the building for more than 40 years, has been one of the tenants leading the fight to preserve it as a live/work space. ‘So, I’ve been told by professors that because of me and my history that I’d been prepping subconsciously, throughout my life, to protect this building. And I’m doing everything I can in my power to do it. So it’s been like, how do you go up against a billion-dollar operation? You just do it with heart and soul, right?’ Monroe said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he threatened generator shutdown action follows years of efforts by Monroe, Dawson and other tenants to get the city’s attention about conditions at The Cannery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with initial success when the City Council passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13826417/new-oakland-law-could-prevent-cannabis-companies-from-evicting-tenants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ordinance\u003c/a> in 2018 barring residential evictions in Oakland’s so-called “Green Zone,” a 10-mile-long, L-shaped strip on the edges of West and East Oakland designated for industrial cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cannery residents also have succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480652/city-of-oakland-march-16-2022-advisory-to-green-sage-on-cannery-livework-spaces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting the city to warn Green Sage and its cannabis tenants\u003c/a> against expanding operations into vacated live/work spaces, which is prohibited by the 2018 measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve had far less success getting action on the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been alerting the people who have the ability to do something about this for quite a long time,” Dawson said. “And I don’t know if it’s a bureaucratic process or what it is, but it’s just not stopping. Twenty months is a long time for this to go on sort of uninterrupted 24 hours a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Monday’s notice of violation, residents’ complaints about the generators have led to several preliminary enforcement actions by both the city of Oakland and regional air regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align-\"right\" citation=\"Michael Hunt, Oakland Fire Department\"]‘The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.’[/pullquote]Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. Across the street are the elevated BART tracks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. Generators are only provided when a tenant is prepared to test installed cannabis grow equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage, which launched in 2014, says on \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220324235644/https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website\u003c/a> that it aims to help “set the standard for transparency, integrity and accountability in the cannabis industry.” The reality has been more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage and its connected firms — it operates under the names of at least half a dozen different limited liability companies registered by Greer and Miller — have frequently found themselves the targets of lawsuits related to its Oakland business in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits have included claims that Green Sage has illegally tried to force residential tenants out of The Cannery, that the firm has failed to live up to conditions in its leases with cannabis tenants and that it has failed to pay contractors for more than $3 million in work done at its San Leandro Street properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage has responded in court with blanket denials to all allegations.\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>Residents of The Cannery building have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they’re emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has been unable to curb repeated building and fire code violations by Denver-based \u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a>, the firm that owns The Cannery and an adjacent building called The Tinnery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The notice sent Monday\u003c/a> to Green Sage and its owners — Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent with addresses in Los Angeles and Wyoming — gives the firm 30 days to stop using the seven generators currently operating at the San Leandro Street complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threatened prosecution and other sanctions would add to the legal challenges facing Green Sage, whose Oakland operations have been entangled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rALJbtz5xFiUOiQ4ObQo0IWUhKwD9S05kN0gDeEy70/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two dozen lawsuits\u003c/a> in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who represents the district that includes the Green Sage properties, says the situation shows the city needs to move faster and have better enforcement mechanisms in place when confronted by “out of bounds” cannabis operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am grateful that this notice of violation has been issued with clear timeframes for required remediation and clarity around the penalties for insufficient response, this is an example of how our system works too slowly for the needs of tenants who are forced to deal with unbearable conditions on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company began installing generators at the complex in July 2020 after a PG&E transformer serving the buildings failed and a power line caught fire — apparently because of a sharp increase in power demand related to the cannabis operations. As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. The city warned the owners to stop using the highly polluting generators or face potential criminal charges. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to an email seeking comment on the violation notice. In past statements to KQED, Greer has said he and Miller are “avid environmentalists” and that the generators are necessary because PG&E is unable to supply enough power to the facility’s energy-intensive cannabis growing and processing operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E disputes that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage paid $20 million in 2016 and 2017 to buy the two San Leandro Street properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cannery\u003c/a> was not just any big brick building waiting for an out-of-town entrepreneur to turn it into a weed factory. It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. 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Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. 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"content": "\u003cp>International Boulevard in East Oakland lives up to its name. In particular, the stretch between 42nd and 83rd avenues is home to hundreds of Mexican panaderias, Vietnamese nail salons, Black barber shops and other minority-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before COVID-19 hit, this busy thoroughfare was bustling with foot traffic. But more than a year into the pandemic, almost every other shop is boarded up or closed with metal gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the United States, as the pandemic ravaged local economies, scores of small-business owners applied for forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans, a federal initiative that injected some $700 billion into businesses as much of the economy shut down. Many often waited months to receive support as they struggled to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paycheck-protection-program\"]Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">a Reveal analysis\u003c/a> of more than 5 million PPP loans issued during the first two rounds of funding from April through August found sweeping racial disparities in how that money was distributed, with businesses in largely white neighborhoods receiving loans at a far greater rate than those in neighborhoods with significant minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case in this stretch of East Oakland along International Boulevard, where just about 5% of businesses received PPP loans during that period, the analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the 49% of businesses who received PPP loans in Montclair, a predominantly white neighborhood in the nearby Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan data, which Reveal obtained after successfully suing the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides the number of loans issued per location, but does not include the number of applicants, which means the approval/denial rate in each area is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Read more about the methodology of Reveal’s analysis \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, the low loan rates in many communities of color may have resulted from a large percentage of businesses not applying — as opposed to having had their applications rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the results are nonetheless disturbing to equitable lending advocates, who note that under federal law, banks must meet the credit needs of the communities they operate in, income notwithstanding. And regardless of whether businesses in many Black and brown communities simply didn’t apply for PPP loans or were rejected, the gaping disparities in reception rates suggest the program failed to effectively serve all communities equally, those advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small-business owners, particularly non-English speakers, say they\u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/ppp-application-deadline-expires-small-business-majority-releases-stories-struggling-small-business-owners\"> struggled to navigate the complicated PPP application process\u003c/a> or find the resources needed to help them apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/c0d6b729-9e21-460a-a814-fce1a83e060e/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Questionable Distribution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farid Ahmed Bakhtary owns Yummy Grill, an Afghan kebab shop nestled between a strip mall and King Street on International Boulevard. He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. Gonzalez-Brito points out that communities of color are more likely to be affected by these fees, especially during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the way our banks, for generations, have not worked for our communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Editor’s note: KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a Paycheck Protection Program loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was done in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal podcast. Read the original investigation, which looked at businesses in Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/rampant-racial-disparities-plagued-how-billions-of-dollars-in-PPP-loans-were-distributed-in-the-U.S/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">a Reveal analysis\u003c/a> of more than 5 million PPP loans issued during the first two rounds of funding from April through August found sweeping racial disparities in how that money was distributed, with businesses in largely white neighborhoods receiving loans at a far greater rate than those in neighborhoods with significant minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case in this stretch of East Oakland along International Boulevard, where just about 5% of businesses received PPP loans during that period, the analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the 49% of businesses who received PPP loans in Montclair, a predominantly white neighborhood in the nearby Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan data, which Reveal obtained after successfully suing the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides the number of loans issued per location, but does not include the number of applicants, which means the approval/denial rate in each area is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Read more about the methodology of Reveal’s analysis \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, the low loan rates in many communities of color may have resulted from a large percentage of businesses not applying — as opposed to having had their applications rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the results are nonetheless disturbing to equitable lending advocates, who note that under federal law, banks must meet the credit needs of the communities they operate in, income notwithstanding. And regardless of whether businesses in many Black and brown communities simply didn’t apply for PPP loans or were rejected, the gaping disparities in reception rates suggest the program failed to effectively serve all communities equally, those advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small-business owners, particularly non-English speakers, say they\u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/ppp-application-deadline-expires-small-business-majority-releases-stories-struggling-small-business-owners\"> struggled to navigate the complicated PPP application process\u003c/a> or find the resources needed to help them apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/c0d6b729-9e21-460a-a814-fce1a83e060e/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Questionable Distribution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farid Ahmed Bakhtary owns Yummy Grill, an Afghan kebab shop nestled between a strip mall and King Street on International Boulevard. He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. 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As someone who has faced homelessness and housing insecurity since he was 11 years old, he said finally seeing the village completed is overwhelming and cathartic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like watching a seed grow, and people that care a whole lot water it,” said Williams-McCreary, who will live on-site at the village as a resident assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to build a familial environment,” he said. “So I have to be that backbone for them, I have to be that support that I wish I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Williams-McCreary, community organizer for Youth Spirit Artworks, stands outside the Tiny House Empowerment Village for unhoused youth on Feb. 19, 2021 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each tiny house measures 8 feet by 10 feet, and includes a pull-out bed, a desk and chair, closet space, electricity and heating. 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