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The United States denied Modi a visa in 2005 over allegations that he failed to intervene to stop Hindus from killing hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat state, where he was chief minister. He was eventually cleared of complicity by India’s Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the cheering crowd in San Jose that he doesn’t see their exodus as a brain drain but as a “brain deposit.” Many engineers and other educated Indians flocked to Silicon Valley in the 1980s, because they felt that innovation was stifled by political and social forces in India. Modi said their success and the magic of their fingers in Silicon Valley forced the world to change the way it looks at India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India’s brain drain came to be brain gain,” said Modi, 64, speaking in Hindi with English subtitles on a jumbo screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi wants Indian-Americans to invest in India, said Seema Sirohi, a columnist for the Economic Times in Washington, D.C., after she heard the speech in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called them not a brain drain but a brain deposit that he can cash when the time comes. With opportunities growing in India, he wants them to come back,” said Sirohi. “He said India is on a growth path with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world now and it’s a huge market, so it’s a great opportunity for entrepreneurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi drew many Indian-Americans in their 20s who are planning to make careers in tech. Jeet Shah, a Cal Poly graduate student in electrical engineering, drove all the way from San Luis Obispo to hear Modi speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”AgQAkGJo6CUUu73Njz28W9prpvEJDWTb”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to hear the different kinds of changes he plans to bring into India and how he plans to connect people in America to India,” said Shah. “I plan to work in the Silicon Valley next year and would like to invest in India someday. And hopefully Modi makes it a little easier for us Indians in America to invest and hopefully he brings a lot of reforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone who turned out Sunday was pleased with Modi’s plans for “Digital India” or his economic reforms. About 500 demonstrators were outside SAP with signs about climate change and human rights issues, including gay rights. San Jose police tried to keep protesters and supporters apart, but yelling matches often broke out before Modi’s speech began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In India it is a Modi-cracy, not a democracy,” said Bajin Singh outside the arena. “There are forced conversions, there are genocides. It is a nation that wants to have one religion, one identity and one look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One climate change protester said Modi can’t have it both ways on energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modi is talking about the largest rollout of solar power anywhere, but he’s also talking about a massive increase in coal burning. And there’s no point in increasing solar if you’re just going to increase coal burning,” said Neil Tangri of Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Indian gay rights activist, who did not want to be identified, said Modi needs to legalize homosexuality, which is considered a crime in India. 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But demand is strong and supply is widespread. On a recent afternoon, a bulletin board at a local grocery store down the road from Facebook featured three handwritten ads in Spanish offering garages for rent. Prices go from about $400 to over $1,000, according to the ads, residents and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10453772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\" alt=\"How much are the new jobs in the area paying? Click to launch full interactive graphic that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley.\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-400x301.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-320x241.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much are the new jobs in the area paying? \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Job_growth_SV_and_nearby/Finalforpub#!/publish-confirm\">Click to launch full interactive graphic\u003c/a> that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Data visualization by Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s technology-fueled economy is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents particularly to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MLbkNKld363CXkQUT6dZR8HlmS8r1gQ1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CLARIFICATION – Editor’s Note (4/3/2015): In this story originally published March 11, 2015, Peninsula Press misstated that Facebook “paid for the construction” of a new police substation. This updated story clarifies that Facebook specifically contributed toward the costs of a remodel and furnishings for the new police substation, not the initial construction of the building. City officials said Facebook’s costs amounted to at least $140,000.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON — From the violent lyrics of rap music to the crude comments of teenagers in video-game chat rooms, the U.S. Supreme Court struggled Monday over where to draw the line between free speech and illegal threats in the digital age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices considered the case of a Pennsylvania man convicted of posting violent threats on Facebook — in the form of rap lyrics — about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a school and slitting the throat of an FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Anthony Elonis say he didn't mean to threaten anyone. They contend his posts under the pseudonym \"Tone Dougie\" were simply a way for him to vent his frustration over splitting up with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government argues the proper test is not what Elonis intended, but whether his words would make a reasonable person feel threatened. That's the standard a jury used in convicting him under a federal law barring threats of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Does a federal law against making threats threaten freedom of expression online?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some justices seemed concerned that the government's position is too broad and risks sweeping in language protected by the First Amendment. But there seemed to be little agreement over what standard to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How does one prove what's in somebody else's mind?\" asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was on the bench five days after she had a stent implanted to clear a blocked artery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elonis attorney John Elwood said the speaker's intent could be determined by searching computer records, cell phone records and other evidence of context. He said many speakers being prosecuted \"are teenagers who are essentially shooting off their mouths and making sort of ill-timed, sarcastic comments which wind up getting them thrown in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a recent example, he cited a teenager prosecuted for making sarcastic comments in a video-game chat room about shooting up a kindergarten after another teen called him crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts suggested the government's standard simply would be whether a reasonable person familiar with teenagers in video-game chat rooms would view it as a threat. But Elwood said everyone has a different view of context and the better standard is looking at what the speaker intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether Elonis' comments about causing physical harm in the context of a marital dispute deserve First Amendment protection. He said the government's standard \"doesn't eliminate a whole lot of speech at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has said \"true threats\" to harm another person are not protected speech under the First Amendment. But the court has been careful to distinguish threats from protected speech such as \"political hyperbole\" or \"unpleasantly sharp attacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Elena Kagan asked whether there should be a \"buffer zone\" under the First Amendment \"to ensure that even stuff that is wrongful maybe is permitted because we don't want to chill innocent behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts wondered about rap stars like Eminem, who has used graphic language about killing his ex-wife that may be misinterpreted as a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, 'Da-da make a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake,' \" Roberts said, quoting an Eminem song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department attorney Michael Dreeben, representing the government, said a jury can look at the context in which comments are made. Eminem's lyrics are sung at a concert where people go to be entertained, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you start out if you want to be a rap artist?\" Roberts asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one post about his wife, Elonis said, \"There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you. I'm not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elonis' wife testified that the comments made her fear for her life and obtain a protective order. After the court proceedings, Elonis wrote a lengthy post wondering whether the protective order was thick enough to stop a bullet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He ramps up and escalates the threat of the statements,\" Dreeben said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A female FBI agent later visited Elonis at home to ask him about the postings, and afterward Elonis took to Facebook again: \"Little agent lady stood so close, took all the strength I had not to turn the bitch ghost. Pull my knife, flick my wrist and slit her throat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has drawn widespread attention from free speech advocates who say comments on Facebook, Twitter and other social media can be hasty, impulsive and easily misinterpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elwood argued that Elonis had a disclaimer on his Facebook page that his comments were only for entertainment. But Justice Samuel Alito asked if Congress really intended the law \"to turn on this inquiry into a really strange psychological state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This sounds like a roadmap for threatening a spouse and getting away with it,\" Alito said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence advocacy groups argue that requiring proof that a speaker intended to be threatening would undermine the law's protective purpose.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How does one prove what's in somebody else's mind?\" asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was on the bench five days after she had a stent implanted to clear a blocked artery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elonis attorney John Elwood said the speaker's intent could be determined by searching computer records, cell phone records and other evidence of context. He said many speakers being prosecuted \"are teenagers who are essentially shooting off their mouths and making sort of ill-timed, sarcastic comments which wind up getting them thrown in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a recent example, he cited a teenager prosecuted for making sarcastic comments in a video-game chat room about shooting up a kindergarten after another teen called him crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts suggested the government's standard simply would be whether a reasonable person familiar with teenagers in video-game chat rooms would view it as a threat. But Elwood said everyone has a different view of context and the better standard is looking at what the speaker intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether Elonis' comments about causing physical harm in the context of a marital dispute deserve First Amendment protection. He said the government's standard \"doesn't eliminate a whole lot of speech at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has said \"true threats\" to harm another person are not protected speech under the First Amendment. But the court has been careful to distinguish threats from protected speech such as \"political hyperbole\" or \"unpleasantly sharp attacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Elena Kagan asked whether there should be a \"buffer zone\" under the First Amendment \"to ensure that even stuff that is wrongful maybe is permitted because we don't want to chill innocent behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts wondered about rap stars like Eminem, who has used graphic language about killing his ex-wife that may be misinterpreted as a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, 'Da-da make a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake,' \" Roberts said, quoting an Eminem song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department attorney Michael Dreeben, representing the government, said a jury can look at the context in which comments are made. Eminem's lyrics are sung at a concert where people go to be entertained, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you start out if you want to be a rap artist?\" Roberts asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one post about his wife, Elonis said, \"There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you. I'm not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elonis' wife testified that the comments made her fear for her life and obtain a protective order. After the court proceedings, Elonis wrote a lengthy post wondering whether the protective order was thick enough to stop a bullet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He ramps up and escalates the threat of the statements,\" Dreeben said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A female FBI agent later visited Elonis at home to ask him about the postings, and afterward Elonis took to Facebook again: \"Little agent lady stood so close, took all the strength I had not to turn the bitch ghost. Pull my knife, flick my wrist and slit her throat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has drawn widespread attention from free speech advocates who say comments on Facebook, Twitter and other social media can be hasty, impulsive and easily misinterpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elwood argued that Elonis had a disclaimer on his Facebook page that his comments were only for entertainment. But Justice Samuel Alito asked if Congress really intended the law \"to turn on this inquiry into a really strange psychological state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This sounds like a roadmap for threatening a spouse and getting away with it,\" Alito said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence advocacy groups argue that requiring proof that a speaker intended to be threatening would undermine the law's protective purpose.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26964703/uc-tuition-hike-debate-reveals-struggle-over-university\" target=\"_blank\">UC tuition-hike debate reveals struggle over university autonomy (Bay Area News Group):\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A growing rift between the University of California and Gov. Jerry Brown over tuition increases has exposed a broader struggle over who controls the powerhouse university system and who should pay for it. Beneath the tuition-hike debate set to play out at Wednesday's UC Regents meeting in San Francisco is a palpable tension between state government and a public university that historically has operated with relative autonomy and which has grown increasingly reliant on tuition and other private funding, rather than state subsidies, to pay its bills. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26964703/uc-tuition-hike-debate-reveals-struggle-over-university\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">If UC managed its endowment better, it could skip tuition increases\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the hopes of picking up another $100 million per year, the UC Regents are meeting this week to discuss UC President Janet Napolitano’s recommendation that tuition be increased by 5 percent a year over the next five years. ... What the regents don’t want us to focus on is that there might never have been a need to increase tuition three-fold since 2002. Had they simply taken a page from Yale Endowment guru David Swensen’s book, UC might not have had to raise tuition at all. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook shuttle drivers voting on union\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what could be a precedent-setting victory for the modestly paid service-industry workers who help keep the Silicon Valley economy humming, shuttle bus drivers who take Facebook employees to and from work will vote Wednesday on whether to unionize, hoping success at the poll will lead to others joining what they say is a campaign for better pay and working conditions. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/11/19/yank-sing-workers-get-4-million-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\">Workers at San Francisco's Yank Sing restaurant get $4 million wage settlement\u003c/a> (SFGate's Inside Scoop blog):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At a time where restaurant labor practices are the subject of continued discussion and debate, one of San Francisco’s most popular restaurants has paid a massive labor settlement to its workers. Today, Yank Sing announced that it has reached a $4 million dollar backpay and benefits settlement for 280 affected current and former employees. Between its two locations, Yank Sing currently employs 90 full-time staffers (30 hours or more per week) and 60 part-time staffers. On an average weekend, Yank Sing will do more than 1,000 covers a day at its Rincon Center location, and another 300 at its Stevenson location. \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/11/19/yank-sing-workers-get-4-million-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants are feeling the heat in crackdown on wage theft\u003c/a> (Los Angeles Times):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For 56 years, the Chan family has been serving up tasty dim sum dumplings stuffed with pork and shrimp to throngs of business executives, tourists and San Francisco Bay Area families. ... But Henry and Judy Chans' Yank Sing restaurant didn't fare so well last year with state and city labor inspectors. Investigations and audits, spurred by complaints from dozens of employees — mainly Chinese immigrants who spoke little English — revealed numerous violations of state wage-and-hour laws at their restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and a smaller location six blocks away. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/11/18/mirkarimi_will_face_challenge_by_on.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mirkarimi Will\u003cbr>\nFace Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015\u003c/a> (SFist):\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. And reportedly challenging him in the race will be the woman who was instated as his temporary replacement during his 2012 suspension, Ethics Commission hearing, and subsequent near-dismissal, former sheriff's deputy Vicki Hennessy. \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/11/18/mirkarimi_will_face_challenge_by_on.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/11/19/san-jose-bike-party-incorporates-to-pursue-nonprofit-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Controversy surrounds attempt to incorporate San Jose 'Bike Party'\u003c/a> (Inside San Jose):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The first time that Joe Tate encountered San Jose Bike Party was outside his home in downtown a few years ago. Hearing shouts and music, he stepped out to see a whir of lights and a crush of riders—thousands of them. ... It wasn’t long before he volunteered for “The Hub,” the party’s core organizers who map out routes and drum up ideas for themes. ... But there’s been recent murmurs that Tate’s moving to suck the soul out of Bike Party, to quell the chaos that drew him to the event in the first place. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/11/19/san-jose-bike-party-incorporates-to-pursue-nonprofit-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/nba/2014/11/19/jason-collins-retirement-nba\" target=\"_blank\">Former Stanford star Jason Collins announces retirement from NBA:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It has been 18 exhilarating months since I came out in Sports Illustrated as the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional team sports. And it has been nine months since I signed with the Nets and became the first openly gay male athlete to appear in a game in one of those leagues. 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Beneath the tuition-hike debate set to play out at Wednesday's UC Regents meeting in San Francisco is a palpable tension between state government and a public university that historically has operated with relative autonomy and which has grown increasingly reliant on tuition and other private funding, rather than state subsidies, to pay its bills. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26964703/uc-tuition-hike-debate-reveals-struggle-over-university\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">If UC managed its endowment better, it could skip tuition increases\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the hopes of picking up another $100 million per year, the UC Regents are meeting this week to discuss UC President Janet Napolitano’s recommendation that tuition be increased by 5 percent a year over the next five years. ... What the regents don’t want us to focus on is that there might never have been a need to increase tuition three-fold since 2002. Had they simply taken a page from Yale Endowment guru David Swensen’s book, UC might not have had to raise tuition at all. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook shuttle drivers voting on union\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what could be a precedent-setting victory for the modestly paid service-industry workers who help keep the Silicon Valley economy humming, shuttle bus drivers who take Facebook employees to and from work will vote Wednesday on whether to unionize, hoping success at the poll will lead to others joining what they say is a campaign for better pay and working conditions. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/11/19/yank-sing-workers-get-4-million-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\">Workers at San Francisco's Yank Sing restaurant get $4 million wage settlement\u003c/a> (SFGate's Inside Scoop blog):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At a time where restaurant labor practices are the subject of continued discussion and debate, one of San Francisco’s most popular restaurants has paid a massive labor settlement to its workers. Today, Yank Sing announced that it has reached a $4 million dollar backpay and benefits settlement for 280 affected current and former employees. Between its two locations, Yank Sing currently employs 90 full-time staffers (30 hours or more per week) and 60 part-time staffers. On an average weekend, Yank Sing will do more than 1,000 covers a day at its Rincon Center location, and another 300 at its Stevenson location. \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/11/19/yank-sing-workers-get-4-million-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants are feeling the heat in crackdown on wage theft\u003c/a> (Los Angeles Times):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For 56 years, the Chan family has been serving up tasty dim sum dumplings stuffed with pork and shrimp to throngs of business executives, tourists and San Francisco Bay Area families. ... But Henry and Judy Chans' Yank Sing restaurant didn't fare so well last year with state and city labor inspectors. Investigations and audits, spurred by complaints from dozens of employees — mainly Chinese immigrants who spoke little English — revealed numerous violations of state wage-and-hour laws at their restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and a smaller location six blocks away. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/11/18/mirkarimi_will_face_challenge_by_on.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mirkarimi Will\u003cbr>\nFace Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015\u003c/a> (SFist):\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. And reportedly challenging him in the race will be the woman who was instated as his temporary replacement during his 2012 suspension, Ethics Commission hearing, and subsequent near-dismissal, former sheriff's deputy Vicki Hennessy. \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/11/18/mirkarimi_will_face_challenge_by_on.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/11/19/san-jose-bike-party-incorporates-to-pursue-nonprofit-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Controversy surrounds attempt to incorporate San Jose 'Bike Party'\u003c/a> (Inside San Jose):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The first time that Joe Tate encountered San Jose Bike Party was outside his home in downtown a few years ago. Hearing shouts and music, he stepped out to see a whir of lights and a crush of riders—thousands of them. ... It wasn’t long before he volunteered for “The Hub,” the party’s core organizers who map out routes and drum up ideas for themes. ... But there’s been recent murmurs that Tate’s moving to suck the soul out of Bike Party, to quell the chaos that drew him to the event in the first place. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/11/19/san-jose-bike-party-incorporates-to-pursue-nonprofit-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/nba/2014/11/19/jason-collins-retirement-nba\" target=\"_blank\">Former Stanford star Jason Collins announces retirement from NBA:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It has been 18 exhilarating months since I came out in Sports Illustrated as the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional team sports. And it has been nine months since I signed with the Nets and became the first openly gay male athlete to appear in a game in one of those leagues. 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In a post on Facebook — yes, ironic — the union says: “Teamsters are asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to support Facebook shuttle drivers’ desire to join \u003ca href=\"http://www.teamsters853.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teamsters Local 853\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342627\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10342627 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook-400x310.jpg\" alt=\"A Teamsters post on Facebook urging the company to support an organizing drive for shuttle drivers.\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook-400x310.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Teamsters’ post on Facebook urging the company to support an organizing drive for shuttle drivers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main issue for those who drive for Facebook and other tech firms is not pay — though at $20 an hour or so they’re hardly richly compensated — but the fact they have to work split shifts. 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It led off with the experience of a former Google driver:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For Brandon Barlow, life as a Google bus driver was one endless cycle of traffic and exhaust.\u003cbr>\nHe left home before dawn and arrived home late, after long hours spent shuttling Google employees back and forth on Highway 101. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Barlow wasn’t paid for the hours he had to wait around near Google headquarters in Mountain View before making the return run to San Francisco. That was the worst part of the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “They make everything convenient for Googlers, but they don’t make anything convenient for drivers,” Barlow said recently, exasperated. “There are so many fatigued tech shuttle drivers out there.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The New York Times followed up on the Chronicle’s report and apparently \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/business/facebooks-bus-drivers-seek-union.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the news\u003c/a> Monday of the Teamsters’ new organizing drive:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a letter sent on Thursday, the top Teamsters official for Northern California urged Mr. Zuckerberg to press Facebook’s shuttle bus contractor to agree to bargain with the union on behalf of the 40 drivers who ferry Facebook employees to work. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While your employees earn extraordinary wages and are able to live and enjoy life in some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the Bay Area, these drivers can’t afford to support a family, send their children to school, or, least of all, afford to even dream of buying a house anywhere near where they work,” the Teamsters official, Rome Aloise, said in the letter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Aloise added: “It is reminiscent of a time when noblemen were driven around in their coaches by their servants. Frankly, little has changed; except the noblemen are your employees, and the servants are the bus drivers who carry them back and forth each day.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Aloise said the Teamsters were first seeking to unionize Facebook drivers, and then hoped to organize drivers for Google, Apple and other Silicon Valley companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “You have to start someplace,” Mr. Aloise said by telephone. “We hope there will be a domino effect. If we get Facebook and a decent contract, others will follow.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>An anonymous Facebook official told the Times the shuttle bus contractor set pay and schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Leonoudakis, president of the contractor, Loop Transportation, told the Times, “We believe that we take really good care of our drivers. They’re the heart of our company. Without them, we can’t provide service to our customers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarbaraOrtutay\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Ortutay\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press Technology Writer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma was one of those who led the challenge against Facebook's 'real names' policy. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma was one of those who led the challenge against Facebook's real-names policy. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Facebook is apologizing to drag queens and the transgender community for deleting accounts that used drag names like Lil Miss Hot Mess rather than legal names such as Bob Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world's biggest online social network caught heat recently when it deleted several hundred accounts belonging to self-described drag queens, other performers and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Facebook has long required its users to go by their \"real names\" on the site for security purposes, to stand out from other social networks and so it can better target advertising to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RLVCKo4ZuZuy7vJL9xppfBiKTDqTh2Sf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the company says the spirit of its policy doesn't mean a person's legal name but \"the authentic name they use in real life. For Sister Roma, that's Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that's Lil Miss Hot Mess,\" Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of product \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chris.cox/posts/10101301777354543\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a blog post Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Roma\u003c/a> is a member of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFSisters\" target=\"_blank\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a>, a combination gender-issues action group and guerrilla performance troupe. The Sisters were among those who argued that being forced to use \"real names\" could lead to harassment of a wide variety of vulnerable people, including transgender, gay and lesbian Facebook users as well as survivors of domestic violence and unauthorized immigrants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the real-names policy isn't changing, Cox said, the way Facebook enforces it might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the company suggested that performers such as drag queens have other ways of maintaining their stage identities on the site, such as creating pages that are meant for businesses and public figures. But a fan page is not the same as a regular Facebook account and users were not happy with the suggestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While standing by the real-names policy on Wednesday, Cox said \"we see through this event that there's lots of room for improvement in the reporting and enforcement mechanisms, tools for understanding who's real and who's not, and the customer service for anyone who's affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox also gave some background on why so many accounts with drag names and other stage names suddenly started getting deleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An individual on Facebook decided to report several hundred of these accounts as fake,\" he wrote. \"These reports were among the several hundred thousand fake name reports we process every single week, 99 percent of which are bad actors doing bad things: impersonation, bullying, trolling, domestic violence, scams, hate speech, and more — so we didn't notice the pattern.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Isabel Angell and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday 5 p.m\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook official says the company will temporarily reactivate hundreds of LGBT user profiles that had been deactivated for using fake names for a grace period of two weeks. The announcement comes after several popular drag queens and transgender activists met with Facebook officials Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hundreds of people were locked out of their profiles for using fake names-- like a drag queen stage name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesman said the company requires people to use their real name to promote accountability, but drag queen Sister Roma says that \u003cem>is\u003c/em> her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you ask anybody who I am in and out of drag, my name is Roma. So currently my profile says Michael Williams next to this gorgeous picture of me, and it doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"People don't look for Michael Williams, and it's not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos --who also went to the meeting-- said fake names can protect people who are transgender, bullied, or escaping domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Original Post)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook spokesman said company employees does not actively search for fake names-- they rely on other users to flag profiles. He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. Well-known drag queens such as Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Peaches Christ and Pollo Del Mar are only able to be found on their fan pages at the moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Heklina, Roma and other local drag queens, including BeBe Sweetbriar and Lil Miss Hot Mess, have used \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyNameIs?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#MyNameIs\u003c/a>\" to raise awareness of Facebook's crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We gave Facebook a chance to meet with us and I'm glad they took it,\" Heklina said. \"Having my profile suspended and my name questioned has been a very frustrating experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag queens have said that listing their legal names on their profiles puts them at risk of being found by family members, co-workers and others with whom they might not want to share the content of their pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a \u003ca href=\"//www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> by Seattle drag queen Olivia LaGarce asking Facebook to allow performers to keep their stage names on their profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook specifies on one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576\" target=\"_blank\">help pages\u003c/a> that people must use their real names:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook is a community where people use their real identities. We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. If you're unable to change it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/448505685205813\">learn more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today on\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409160900\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> host Michael Krasny discussed the issue with Sister Roma and Michelle Quinn, a tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Quinn wrote in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_26539679/quinn-drag-queens-challenge-facebooks-real-name-policy\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Facebook) should tread carefully before changing its long-standing policy and allowing people to use fake names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I worry about the perils in suddenly giving everyone on Facebook a choice about their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a billion users, Facebook has to contend with a huge trust issue. Its challenge is to reassure users that they can operate in a safe online world, where their posts are seen by those they want to see them and people are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy creates accountability for what someone posts, especially critical when it comes to issues like cyberbullying. And ideally, it makes conversations more civil. Could that civility and that sense of safety be at risk if the company offers users a way to use a fake name?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Quinn said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that Facebook's prohibition on fake names has been in place since its inception. However, the rule has been enforced haphazardly, with accounts under the names of even fictional characters making it through the system. \"Anybody can sign up for Facebook using a fake name,\" she said. \"They don't really require a whole lot of information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that Facebook gets tipped off to accounts with fake names is through community reporting, Quinn said, raising the question of \"why are other drag queens like Sister Roma being reported in recent weeks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn called Facebook's communication with users like Sister Roma, insisting that they using their real names, \"ham-handed\" and \"insensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the media, Facebook's statement has been the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people want to use an alternative name on Facebook, they have several different options available to them, including providing an alias under their name on their profile, or creating a Page specifically for that alternative persona. As part of our overall standards, we ask that people who use Facebook provide their real name on their profile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma was not impressed. \"Wow, that feels like a genuine, heartfelt response, doesn't it? How's the rhetoric over there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma said she loves Facebook and that \"the reason we're fighting for this is it's become such an important part of our lives. Nobody wants to see all of our online personalities disappear, and how boring would Facebook be without drag queens?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she's been known by that name in or out of drag for 25 years. When she started the campaign against the policy, she said, she received emails from all over the world from people who use fake names for various reasons, including some whose lives would be in danger in certain countries if their real names were used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Quinn posed the question: If anonymity is required online, why use Facebook?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has become the right place to go,\" said Sister Roma. \"There's a billion users. If you're not on Facebook you may as well be invisible, almost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that with over a billion users, accountability is an everyday concern for the company. Other companies require credit cards, she said. \"Facebook, the one thing they have (for verification) is our identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the issue is stickiness or trust. Do I come to Facebook once a week and go -- ugh, what’s going on there and leave? Or do I go multiple times a day and live on Facebook and never log off? ... In their view, people are who they say they are, they represent themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One caller to the show who has adopted children said birth parents or other relatives have made up fake names on Facebook in order to get in touch with them. \"You can see why Facebook might have a legitimate reason to have it be a real person, so people can't make up aliases and in some cases do some pretty bad things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caller said she is in a witness protection program and lives out of state because someone was stalking her family and she needed to use a fake name.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Isabel Angell and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday 5 p.m\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook official says the company will temporarily reactivate hundreds of LGBT user profiles that had been deactivated for using fake names for a grace period of two weeks. The announcement comes after several popular drag queens and transgender activists met with Facebook officials Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hundreds of people were locked out of their profiles for using fake names-- like a drag queen stage name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesman said the company requires people to use their real name to promote accountability, but drag queen Sister Roma says that \u003cem>is\u003c/em> her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you ask anybody who I am in and out of drag, my name is Roma. So currently my profile says Michael Williams next to this gorgeous picture of me, and it doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"People don't look for Michael Williams, and it's not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos --who also went to the meeting-- said fake names can protect people who are transgender, bullied, or escaping domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Original Post)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook spokesman said company employees does not actively search for fake names-- they rely on other users to flag profiles. He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. Well-known drag queens such as Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Peaches Christ and Pollo Del Mar are only able to be found on their fan pages at the moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Heklina, Roma and other local drag queens, including BeBe Sweetbriar and Lil Miss Hot Mess, have used \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyNameIs?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#MyNameIs\u003c/a>\" to raise awareness of Facebook's crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We gave Facebook a chance to meet with us and I'm glad they took it,\" Heklina said. \"Having my profile suspended and my name questioned has been a very frustrating experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag queens have said that listing their legal names on their profiles puts them at risk of being found by family members, co-workers and others with whom they might not want to share the content of their pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a \u003ca href=\"//www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> by Seattle drag queen Olivia LaGarce asking Facebook to allow performers to keep their stage names on their profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook specifies on one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576\" target=\"_blank\">help pages\u003c/a> that people must use their real names:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook is a community where people use their real identities. We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. If you're unable to change it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/448505685205813\">learn more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today on\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409160900\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> host Michael Krasny discussed the issue with Sister Roma and Michelle Quinn, a tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Quinn wrote in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_26539679/quinn-drag-queens-challenge-facebooks-real-name-policy\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Facebook) should tread carefully before changing its long-standing policy and allowing people to use fake names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I worry about the perils in suddenly giving everyone on Facebook a choice about their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a billion users, Facebook has to contend with a huge trust issue. 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However, the rule has been enforced haphazardly, with accounts under the names of even fictional characters making it through the system. \"Anybody can sign up for Facebook using a fake name,\" she said. \"They don't really require a whole lot of information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that Facebook gets tipped off to accounts with fake names is through community reporting, Quinn said, raising the question of \"why are other drag queens like Sister Roma being reported in recent weeks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn called Facebook's communication with users like Sister Roma, insisting that they using their real names, \"ham-handed\" and \"insensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the media, Facebook's statement has been the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people want to use an alternative name on Facebook, they have several different options available to them, including providing an alias under their name on their profile, or creating a Page specifically for that alternative persona. 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