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"content": "\u003cp>Amazon is expected to announced the winner of the competition for its second headquarters this year. Cities across the country are trying to woo the internet giant with all sorts of enticements — billions in tax breaks, free land, even personal tax exemptions for Amazon employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Fresno has a different pitch. It would still collect taxes from Amazon, but it would give the company a big say in how the taxes are spent. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/24/fresno-offers-amazon-something-unique-for-its-headquarters-nothing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal has garnered attention\u003c/a> for the Central Valley city in the past few months, which is a big part of the reason the local government threw its hat into the ring for the Amazon headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639918\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11639918 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Old-Photo-1-e1514955809213-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are old black-and-white photos in City Hall that show when Fresno was a bustling agricultural town. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee Brand recently took me on a drive around Fresno, the self-proclaimed “best little city in the USA.” Fresno is only around 3½ hours southeast of the Bay Area and all its wealth, but in recent years the city has struggled economically. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/ten-california-cities-in-distress/2076217/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 2012\u003c/a>, and unemployment \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/frsn%24pds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is still close to 8 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always been an agriculturally based economy,” Brand said. “For years we have been trying to break that and to diversify that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To draw attention to Fresno, Brand made a pitch for \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17044620011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon’s new corporate headquarters\u003c/a>. Amazon predicts it would bring in over 40,000 employees. Cities across the country are chomping at the bit for the headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we could compete was to outthink them and offer something innovative and give Amazon the opportunity to be the ultimate corporate citizen, to be the one who is not just the evil empire,” Brand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any city that “wins” Amazon’s second headquarters would have to invest heavily to accommodate all the development that would come along with the project. There would be a large influx of workers who would put a burden on the city’s transportation infrastructure, housing stock and public services. The city would end up paying for things like additional roads, parks, police and firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of Fresno’s plan would be to set up what it is calling the Amazon Community Fund. Most of Amazon’s tax money would go into the fund, and then a committee of five would decide how to spend the money. Two members would be selected by elected officials, one would be a representative from the community, and the remaining two would be appointed by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of arrangement is unprecedented, said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a nonprofit focused on responsible economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a proposal to give a company formal control,” LeRoy said. “That’s really off the charts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’ve never seen a proposal to give a company formal control.’ \u003ccite>Greg LeRoy, executive director, Good Jobs First\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>LeRoy is critical of the Fresno plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing good you can say about this proposal is that it does envision Amazon paying some taxes,” LeRoy said. Many proposals submitted by other cities are giving the giant online retailer large tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeRoy said the competition for Amazon’s second headquarters has become a race to the bottom. He said cities are willing to give away so much that it negates the economic positives from a big project, or what LeRoy calls “a buffalo.” He said this is a trend in economic development that has been getting worse and worse in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old school of economic development — the euphemism in the profession is “buffalo hunting” — really does deserve to go to the dustbin in history,” LeRoy said. “It is less effective than ever because the number of deals to chase like this is fewer and fewer than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a city like Fresno might have something to gain by submitting a proposal, even if it fails to catch the elusive Amazonian buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Anderson is a law professor at Stanford who writes about economic development. “It’s not wrong for Fresno to compete for this,” she said. “Good for them for putting together this package and drawing some attention to their city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said cities that make a bid for a big project often do a lot of valuable work — things like community engagement and city branding. At the same time, Anderson is skeptical of Fresno’s proposal to give Amazon a large amount of control over where its tax dollars are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It might help Fresno as long as they lose.’ \u003ccite>Michelle Anderson, Stanford law professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It might help Fresno as long as they lose,” Anderson said. “If they win, it might help as well, but it just becomes a more complicated question that I really think we wouldn’t be able to answer for 15 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Westerlund is the economic development director for Fresno. On a bunch of maps hanging in City Hall, he showed me the vacant buildings and parking lots that are potential sites for Amazon’s second headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a tidal change for Fresno,” Westerlund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westerlund said he understands Amazon will probably go somewhere else, a place with a larger, more educated workforce, or a city offering huge tax breaks. But he said he hopes his proposal will at least bring some attention to Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the flyover city of California,” Westerlund said. “We’d love to have more people understand the size of Fresno, the opportunity that is in Fresno, particularly when we see all the hyperactivity on the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Westerlund who came up with the idea to give Amazon a say in how it spends its tax dollars. If Fresno doesn’t win Amazon’s favor, he said the city will offer the proposal to other big corporations looking for a home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two new ACLU reports have put Central Valley law enforcement in the spotlight. They find excessive use of force by the Fresno and Bakersfield police departments and Kern County Sheriff's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come as no surprise to Bakersfield resident Laura Serna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serna’s 73-year-old father, Francisco, suffered from dementia, and tended to wander. Last December, he walked out of his house carrying a crucifix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t know how lucid he was at the time,\" Serna says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neighbor saw Francisco outside, mistook the crucifix for a gun and called 911. A Bakersfield police officer arrived and shot seven rounds toward Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-unarmed-man-dementia-bakersfield-killed-nine-20161213-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing him just feet from his home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The police came out and killed him without truly investigating or seeing what the problem was,\" says Serna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serna was also frustrated with \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/news/police-shooting-of--year-old-francisco-serna-found-within/article_17fe3510-d8cc-5c94-90f6-9ae53fc3cb89.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the department's probe\u003c/a> into the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They used their own investigators, and I feel like that’s a conflict of interest,\" she says. Since the shooting she has been working with advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/kern-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faith in Kern\u003c/a> to push for reforms. \"I’d like to see an office of independent review with some teeth here locally,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Bakersfieldcali/status/883064262989463552\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories like Serna's aren't new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bakersfield Police Department changed some of its use of force policies because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2011/04/14/bakersfield_ta_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal Justice Department investigation\u003c/a> a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the State Attorney General's Office \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-opens-investigations-kern-county-sheriff%E2%80%99s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened investigations into the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a> for potential civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the ACLU comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We wanted to provide a data analysis in aid of the attorney general’s investigation,\" says ACLU staff attorney Adrienna Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iuk9GOvGIk5ri7XspxaMfhIWlzg912Wy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/aclu-releases-report-excessive-force-used-kern-county-and-bakersfield-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The new report she helped write\u003c/a> found that the Bakersfield Police Department had the highest rate of police homicides per capita of the country’s 60 largest police departments. It also found Kern County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed far more people than other agencies in areas with similar populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What’s also striking is that many of the shootings we reviewed involved people who were unarmed,\" Wong says. \"And we found that more people of color were being shot and killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU also found excessive use of force in the form of dog attacks, beatings and tazings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Nations, a lawyer for Kern County, takes issue will the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We feel that it was based on partial and in many cases inaccurate information,\" he says, declining to elaborate because of the attorney general's ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631272\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-800x628.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-1020x801.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-1180x927.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-960x754.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-375x295.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/JerryDyer-520x408.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-report-shows-police-reform-needed-fresno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ACLU’s Fresno report\u003c/a> focused on officer-involved shootings, though the department is not currently under investigation by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found Fresno police averaged about nine shootings per year. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tech giant Amazon is \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17044620011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking for a home\u003c/a> for its second headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company got 238 proposals from across North America, and some cities are going to great lengths to get its attention: New York temporarily turned the Empire State Building orange, to match the Amazon logo. Tucson shipped the company a 21-foot cactus. The city of Stonecrest, Georgia, offered to rename itself “Amazon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, lots of cities and states are hoping to win over the Seattle-based company with massive tax breaks. Chicago is reportedly offering \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-amazon-tax-incentives-20171023-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">north of $2 billion\u003c/a> in incentives. New Jersey is offering \u003ca href=\"http://nj.gov/governor/news/news/552017/approved/20171016c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$7 billion\u003c/a> if Amazon picks Newark.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Fresno officials are pitching it as an opportunity for Amazon to become the 'ultimate corporate citizen.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In California \u003ca href=\"http://www.chulavistaca.gov/businesses/welcome-home-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some cities\u003c/a> are offering major incentives, too -- but a couple are gambling on a different offer: nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposals from Fresno and San Jose don't put up a dime in direct financial incentives. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-im-not-bidding-for-amazons-hq-1507158668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thinks subsidies just aren't good for taxpayers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s director of economic development agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see with incentives oftentimes is that it’s a race to the bottom,\" says Larry Westerlund, who wrote \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.documentcloud.org%2Fdocuments%2F4113398%2FFresno-s-Amazon-HQ2-cover-letter-10-18-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city's proposal for Amazon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that when incentives get too big, it can take a long time for a city to see benefits. And while the 50,000 jobs Amazon is promising to bring with its new headquarters would be good for Fresno, the change would be hard on some people, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to ensure that we don’t push out that middle class to where they have to commute to Visalia to be able to afford a home and then commute back and forth,\" Westerlund says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city’s proposal offers a partnership with Amazon that would invest tax revenue the company generates into projects that are good for Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PpKihWrFWl8VIY4dqWDuUYhpstLljY04\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money would go to building affordable housing and transportation infrastructure. Some would go toward creating a new generation of tech-savvy employees. City officials are pitching it as an opportunity for Amazon to become the \"ultimate corporate citizen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westerlund admits it’s a long shot, but he points to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' penchant for making unconventional business moves. Maybe, Westerlund says, Fresno's proposal is so unorthodox the company might go for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope that that will catch their eye,\" Westerlund says, \"and they’ll go, 'Let’s do something different this time.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon launched its search on Sept. 7. The deadline to submit a proposal was Oct. 19. The company says it will announce a decision next year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At 15, Sarah Vang is a confident leader. With her big, persistent smile, she runs her high school Hmong Club meeting with ease, spreading enthusiasm even to the most reluctant participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She founded the club last year as a sophomore. And as president, she takes it upon herself to look out for new Hmong students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of Hmong freshman,” she says, “and I just want to tell them, 'Join the Hmong Club! I’m so happy you’re Hmong!' I feel like I’m the mother of all Hmong people. I love my community so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that love came only after years of wrestling with her identity. Sarah didn’t speak much Hmong growing up, and she didn’t really talk with her parents about their life in Laos or why they came to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/tcrmag20171006Hmong.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1180x885.jpg\" Title=\"Years After Tragedy, Fresno's Hmong Seek Cultural Understanding for Next Generation\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In elementary school, kids tormented her with racist taunts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me want to diminish all Asian or Hmong aspects of me,” she says. “I did not want to associate with any Hmong people. I really hated Hmong people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She felt that way for years. Then eventually, as a teen, she started wanting to know more about her culture. Around the same time, her high school introduced its first Hmong language and history class, and Sarah enrolled. Now every high school in the Fresno Unified School District offers these classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day her teacher showed the class a documentary about the Hmong in Fresno. It included a tragic episode in the community's history -- the suicides of eight teenagers between 1998 and 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These kids didn't have an identity. They don't know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.'\u003ccite>Peter Vang, Hmong survivor of the Vietnam War\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw my brother’s face, I started crying,” Sarah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah’s brother was one of those teenagers. He died before she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My teacher didn’t know that that was my brother, or that the person they were interviewing was my dad,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her brother’s death, Sarah’s dad, Peter Vang, talked to the families and friends of the other teens who had killed themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot save my son anymore because he’s gone,” Vang says, “but I want to make sure other parents save their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang learned the kids all had distinct troubles, but he found a common theme: “These kids didn’t have an identity,” he says. “They don’t know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11620673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vang says that for kids to have a better sense of their identity, they need to learn about that war -- the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/heirs-of-the-secret-war-in-laos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secret war\u003c/a> in which the CIA recruited Hmong fighters to help stop the spread of communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. At least 30,000 Hmong died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, many Hmong ended up in the Central Valley, home to the second-largest Hmong community in the United States. Vang says that when his son was in school, this story wasn’t told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing in history books,” he says. \"So schools, when they talked about Vietnam War, the Hmong did not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Vang and others in the community successfully advocated for California legislation that encouraged schools to teach students about the role of the Hmong in the Vietnam War. And they began pushing for Hmong language and history classes at Fresno schools, like the one Vang’s daughter, Sarah, took for the first time last year. In that class, the secret war got a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first we were like, 'Why are we learning about this?' We didn’t understand,” Sarah says. “But once we got into depth about it, we realized Hmong people went through a lot of hardships trying to get here. That’s when I started to ask my dad, ‘So tell me a little about the war.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"G1xagEdRDJkUC617msXn4Mg8RjTmi9W1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang grew up in the war. As a 4-year-old, he remembers the screeching sound of rockets flying through the air, the sight of body parts strewn across the ground, and the stacks of body bags. At one point, his house was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought my parents were dead,” he says. “I realized they were still alive after all the smoke cleared.” Vang’s father fought with the CIA and was injured more than once. He lost multiple fingers to a grenade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing these stories had a big impact on Sarah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit home. It made me appreciate everything the elders did,” she says. “Because of them we are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade, the work of Peter Vang and other community members is paying off: This year Sarah’s school offered a more advanced Hmong class for the first time, and last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/linguistics/hmong-mn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno State University introduced a minor in Hmong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has something else in the works, too. It’s testing out a dual immersion class for kindergartners so that kids like 6-year-old Logan can learn Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how to read English,” he says, while looking through a children’s book written in Hmong. “I don’t know how to read Hmong. It’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618123 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doua Vu works with students Isaac and Cassidy in Fresno Unified School District's Hmong-English dual-immersion pilot class. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Misty Her oversees the new dual-language program. She says the biggest challenge is developing the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really nothing, nothing out there for us,\" she says in terms of models. \"But what’s exciting is we get to build it from the ground up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her says there are very few Hmong dual-immersion programs, and there aren't a lot of Hmong written texts out there to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our written language only happened about the last 60, 70 years,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids are just a couple of weeks into the after-school class, but Fresno Unified is already planning to offer regular Hmong dual immersion at elementary schools as early as next year. It will be the first in Fresno, and one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.scusd.edu/program/susan-b-anthony-hmong-dual-language-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> just a couple in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hmong who fled their homeland since the Vietnam War hope this generation -- and those to come -- will walk through the world with confidence. They hope that by knowing their language, their history and exactly where they came from, younger Hmong can decide who they want to be.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They don't know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.'\u003ccite>Peter Vang, Hmong survivor of the Vietnam War\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw my brother’s face, I started crying,” Sarah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah’s brother was one of those teenagers. He died before she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My teacher didn’t know that that was my brother, or that the person they were interviewing was my dad,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her brother’s death, Sarah’s dad, Peter Vang, talked to the families and friends of the other teens who had killed themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot save my son anymore because he’s gone,” Vang says, “but I want to make sure other parents save their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang learned the kids all had distinct troubles, but he found a common theme: “These kids didn’t have an identity,” he says. “They don’t know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11620673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vang says that for kids to have a better sense of their identity, they need to learn about that war -- the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/heirs-of-the-secret-war-in-laos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secret war\u003c/a> in which the CIA recruited Hmong fighters to help stop the spread of communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. At least 30,000 Hmong died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, many Hmong ended up in the Central Valley, home to the second-largest Hmong community in the United States. Vang says that when his son was in school, this story wasn’t told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing in history books,” he says. \"So schools, when they talked about Vietnam War, the Hmong did not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Vang and others in the community successfully advocated for California legislation that encouraged schools to teach students about the role of the Hmong in the Vietnam War. And they began pushing for Hmong language and history classes at Fresno schools, like the one Vang’s daughter, Sarah, took for the first time last year. In that class, the secret war got a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first we were like, 'Why are we learning about this?' We didn’t understand,” Sarah says. “But once we got into depth about it, we realized Hmong people went through a lot of hardships trying to get here. That’s when I started to ask my dad, ‘So tell me a little about the war.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang grew up in the war. As a 4-year-old, he remembers the screeching sound of rockets flying through the air, the sight of body parts strewn across the ground, and the stacks of body bags. At one point, his house was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought my parents were dead,” he says. “I realized they were still alive after all the smoke cleared.” Vang’s father fought with the CIA and was injured more than once. He lost multiple fingers to a grenade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing these stories had a big impact on Sarah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit home. It made me appreciate everything the elders did,” she says. “Because of them we are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade, the work of Peter Vang and other community members is paying off: This year Sarah’s school offered a more advanced Hmong class for the first time, and last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/linguistics/hmong-mn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno State University introduced a minor in Hmong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has something else in the works, too. It’s testing out a dual immersion class for kindergartners so that kids like 6-year-old Logan can learn Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how to read English,” he says, while looking through a children’s book written in Hmong. “I don’t know how to read Hmong. 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"content": "\u003cp>Desiree Martinez is busy in her kitchen preparing for her day helping Fresno’s homeless. One task: checking the local weather forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ow! Triple digits all week!” she exclaims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that this day will be a hot one, she pulls case after case of bottled water from her refrigerator, then stacks them in her vehicle outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is really important,” she says. “The worst feeling in the world is having somebody come up to your car and ask for a bottle of water ’cause they’re sweating to death and you don’t have no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez at home making burritos to hand out to the homeless \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On days when it’s this hot, Martinez spends hours driving around Fresno handing out bottled water to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing it for so long that I kinda get a feel for how many people are going to be at each place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s homeless used to be a lot more visible when they lived in large encampments. Fresno had a lot of these semi-permanent shantytowns located beneath the overpasses. In some areas the tent cities grew so large they filled up sidewalks and spilled into the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things have changed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/26/226497851/fresno-officials-dismantle-homeless-encampments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2011 and 2013 the city cleared out these encampments\u003c/a> and has mostly kept them from cropping up again. Officials say 150 people got help finding housing, but hundreds of people are still without permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez knows where to find them — she used to be homeless herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.’\u003ccite>Desiree Martinez, volunteer helping the homeless\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After driving around in her beat-up SUV for a few minutes, scanning the streets, she turns onto a side road and pulls up to a makeshift tent of tarps and blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, you guys!” she yells as she steps out of the vehicle. “You want some waters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Morgan stays here with her husband and her adult daughter. She’s 57 and has been living on the streets off and on for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you doing?” Martinez asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I got sunburned real bad,” Morgan says. “I got blisters. It itches like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan turns to show her. Her back is raw and the skin is peeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street there’s a lush lawn in the shade of big trees. But Morgan’s family doesn’t dare venture over. “We can’t be on that side because that’s state property,” Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnam veteran William Gilligan fills a cup with water for his Chihuahua, Booty Call. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless here say life’s gotten harder since the city’s crackdown on tent cities. They have to keep on the move to avoid getting in trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article97467837.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now that the big encampments are gone, the county has focused on quashing small camps\u003c/a> — often in more rural parts of the county — as they pop up. The county’s already spent over $100,000 clearing encampments this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s next stop is a nearby park. People aren’t allowed to sleep here, and they worry their shopping carts will be impounded by police if they hang out too long. Still, it’s one of the few places the homeless can get out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has been doing this kind of outreach to the homeless so long that everyone recognizes her SUV. As she unloads water, people wander up from around the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who goes by Chuy is one of them. She used to live in one of the big encampments. Now she says she moves around the city, finding ways to dodge police scrutiny. “I stay everywhere,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1zTdIt5vhtolx0j1ePx1cOWTFztni3GC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment she’s got a good thing going. “An abando — an abandoned house, kinda like on the side, incognito,” she says. “The owner of the house came and caught us in the backyard, but he’s letting us stay while they remodel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say the homeless population has been cut in half to about 1,500 on any given day. That number is for both Fresno and Madera counties. Officials say it’s because they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://fresnofirststepshome.org/the-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added more housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article19534665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streamlined services\u003c/a>. But advocates for the homeless suspect the people living on the streets are just harder to find now that they are working to stay out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes people like Martinez, who know where to look and have earned trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sends the homeless men and women she finds in in the park away with their arms full of supplies — water bottles, tampons, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste and foil-wrapped burritos handmade by Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll see you tomorrow, I’m gonna bring water and clothes,” Martinez says as she gets back in the SUV. “Love you guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548117 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez with Jershonda Mayberry and other “street family” at a Fresno park \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez has dedicated herself full time to helping the homeless in the city of Fresno. She says the work helps her deal with painful parts of her own past — the very things that led to her homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a totally different group of people, all different races and cultures and we all have similar stories — about domestic abuse, or family violence, or abuse in the home at young ages,” she says. “By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez spends most days handing out water and food. But she also launched a social media campaign and collects donations. 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Officials say 150 people got help finding housing, but hundreds of people are still without permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez knows where to find them — she used to be homeless herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.’\u003ccite>Desiree Martinez, volunteer helping the homeless\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After driving around in her beat-up SUV for a few minutes, scanning the streets, she turns onto a side road and pulls up to a makeshift tent of tarps and blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, you guys!” she yells as she steps out of the vehicle. “You want some waters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Morgan stays here with her husband and her adult daughter. She’s 57 and has been living on the streets off and on for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you doing?” Martinez asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I got sunburned real bad,” Morgan says. “I got blisters. It itches like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan turns to show her. Her back is raw and the skin is peeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street there’s a lush lawn in the shade of big trees. But Morgan’s family doesn’t dare venture over. “We can’t be on that side because that’s state property,” Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnam veteran William Gilligan fills a cup with water for his Chihuahua, Booty Call. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless here say life’s gotten harder since the city’s crackdown on tent cities. They have to keep on the move to avoid getting in trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article97467837.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now that the big encampments are gone, the county has focused on quashing small camps\u003c/a> — often in more rural parts of the county — as they pop up. The county’s already spent over $100,000 clearing encampments this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s next stop is a nearby park. People aren’t allowed to sleep here, and they worry their shopping carts will be impounded by police if they hang out too long. Still, it’s one of the few places the homeless can get out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has been doing this kind of outreach to the homeless so long that everyone recognizes her SUV. As she unloads water, people wander up from around the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who goes by Chuy is one of them. She used to live in one of the big encampments. Now she says she moves around the city, finding ways to dodge police scrutiny. “I stay everywhere,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment she’s got a good thing going. “An abando — an abandoned house, kinda like on the side, incognito,” she says. “The owner of the house came and caught us in the backyard, but he’s letting us stay while they remodel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say the homeless population has been cut in half to about 1,500 on any given day. That number is for both Fresno and Madera counties. Officials say it’s because they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://fresnofirststepshome.org/the-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added more housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article19534665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streamlined services\u003c/a>. But advocates for the homeless suspect the people living on the streets are just harder to find now that they are working to stay out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes people like Martinez, who know where to look and have earned trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sends the homeless men and women she finds in in the park away with their arms full of supplies — water bottles, tampons, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste and foil-wrapped burritos handmade by Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll see you tomorrow, I’m gonna bring water and clothes,” Martinez says as she gets back in the SUV. “Love you guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548117 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez with Jershonda Mayberry and other “street family” at a Fresno park \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez has dedicated herself full time to helping the homeless in the city of Fresno. She says the work helps her deal with painful parts of her own past — the very things that led to her homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a totally different group of people, all different races and cultures and we all have similar stories — about domestic abuse, or family violence, or abuse in the home at young ages,” she says. “By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez spends most days handing out water and food. But she also launched a social media campaign and collects donations. 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"content": "\u003cp>Seventy-one million. That's the number of bees Max Nikolaychuk tends in the rolling hills east of Fresno. Each is worth a fraction of a cent, but together they make up a large part of his livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikolaychuk makes most of his money during almond pollination season, renting out the bees to California's almond orchards. This year, a thief stole four stacks of his hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew about the bees, because he went through every bee colony I had and only took the good ones,\" he says. \"But, you know, the bee yards -- I don't have no security there, no fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of security means his bees have been stolen more than once. And it's a type of theft that's been playing out all over the state's orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hV3N9Qn9qT3aLUbyBzBWwuvz9X7zVajG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally billions of bees are needed to pollinate California's almond crop. Not enough bees live in California year-round to do that. So they are trucked in from across the country, from places like Colorado, Arizona and Montana. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around $1 million worth of stolen bees were found in a field\u003c/a> in Fresno County. Sgt. Arley Terrence with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department says it was a \"beehive chop shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534128664/534597247\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were so many different beehives and bee boxes owned by so many different victims,\" Terrence says. \"All of these stolen bee boxes that we recovered — none of them were stolen in Fresno County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees were stolen from across California, but they belong to beekeepers from around the country. A few thousand bee boxes disappear every year, but this bee heist was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the biggest bee theft investigation that we've had,\" Terrence says. Most of the time, he says, beehive thieves turn out to be \"someone within the bee community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/2502746-bee-rustling-photos-14-_custom-f12e2e50d988cbdee8609cbfc6188c5e566c0168-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop-shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. But the alleged perpetrators of this giant hive theft broke that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He went way, way over the line,\" Godlin says. \"It's just, you know, heartbreaking when you go out and your bees are gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Godlin has had hives stolen in the past. He and many other beekeepers make their income not just from renting out hives but also from selling the honey the bees produce. So when bees are stolen, beekeepers lose out on both sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says it takes time to develop a new hive by introducing a new queen and developing honey. \"Bees, you know, we have been hit by everything from vandals to bears to thieves. But the vandalism and thieving is the worst. You know, the one that hurts the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says his organization will pay a reward of up to $10,000 for tips leading to the prosecution of bee thieves. But that only relieves some of the sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 Valley Public Radio. 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Most of the time, he says, beehive thieves turn out to be \"someone within the bee community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/2502746-bee-rustling-photos-14-_custom-f12e2e50d988cbdee8609cbfc6188c5e566c0168-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop-shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, Kiera Kaiser took the podium at a Fresno Unified School District board meeting to encourage the board to pass a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education/article135737933.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sanctuary resolution to protect undocumented students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to urge you to ensure that the students of FUSD have a safe and secure learning environment,” she told the standing-room-only crowd. She added, “I would also like to invite you guys to a rally I’ve been organizing.” That's the \u003ca href=\"http://kidsrallyforequality.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kids Rally for Equality\u003c/a>, which took place in Fresno in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiera is finishing up fifth grade. But at 11 years old, she’s more politically engaged than many adults. She follows the news and goes to a regular meeting of local activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http:www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2017/06/20170609ftcrmag.mp3\" title=\"Is Fighting Discrimination Too Hard? Not For This 11-Year-Old\" program=\"The California Report Magazine\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25586_IMG_3821-qut-1920x1440.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I heard about Kiera through high school student Angel Vargas, who met her at an LGBTQ activists meetup. “We were just talking about resistance in the community,” said Vargas, “and she mentioned that she had a rally coming up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vargas works with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://theknowfresno.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Know Youth Media\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Fresno. She’s new to journalism, but she knows how to spot a good story — and Kiera's was a story she wanted to tell. We teamed up, and after a crash course in radio basics, I handed Vargas my mic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we met up with Kiera at the open house at her elementary school, Manchester GATE. She was showing her parents around her packed classroom, pointing out her work. For one project Kiera had to choose a U.S. state to study. She showed us the finished product: a colorful cutout in the shape of Alabama dangling from the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11498479 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera and her younger sister, Kaedra, show youth reporter Angel Vargas the project Kiera did on the state of Alabama. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera says she chose Alabama because it’s the birthplace of Rosa Parks, an African-American civil rights activist who in 1955, in the segregated South, refused to give a white man her seat on the bus. Kiera read about Parks in a book and she was impressed that one person could spark such big change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she came home from the Women’s March in Sacramento this January, Kiera started thinking about how she could make a change of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just inspired,” she said, \"because all these people were coming together for a cause they believed in, and it was truly amazing and inspiring. So I wanted to create that opportunity for other kids in Fresno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mission was to give kids a platform to talk about why equality is important to them. So Kiera planned a demonstration in front of City Hall. She made a website for her rally by herself and contacted City Council members, who helped her get the permit she needed and took care of the permit fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you get any threats, stuff like that?” asked Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah,\" said Kiera’s mom, Nasreen Riahizadeh. “We got a lot of name-calling, and I wouldn’t call them threats of violence, but it didn’t feel very nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t really hurt me, because I knew that was going to happen,” said Kiera. “There are people on both sides of politics and equality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 200 people showed up for the Kids Rally for Equality. One group even drove in from Sacramento. Some kids took the mic to talk about bullying, others about LGBT rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera doing a TV interview on the day of her Kids Rally for Equality outside Fresno City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kristine Morgan/Courtesy photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera says it had an impact. “I think people understood that since a kid has to step up and explain to people that it’s important and give other kids a chance to say how they feel,” she said. “People realize it’s a big matter and subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiera has done more public speaking — and more media interviews -- than most adults. But that doesn’t mean she’s forgotten how to be a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kiera’s not organizing public events, she’s practicing the guitar. Or she’s looking at stuff she finds around the house under her microscope. “This is my science desk,” she told Vargas and me, as she showed us around her bedroom. “So I do all these kinds of experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera plays the guitar for youth reporter Angel Vargas. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera’s independence and determination have left her parents torn between protecting her and supporting her activism, including the rally that put her in the media spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a fire within her that it was kind of a turning point,” said Riahizadeh. \"We let her do something and we help keep her safe and do it appropriately, or we don’t let her do something and then she’s kind of on the cusp of being a teenager and then what’s next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kiera and her friend, Aliya Purnell, are trying to decide what \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> next after the successful rally. “Maybe this time we can do it on something that’s really bad and stuff,” Aliya suggested, “like maybe girls not getting treated fairly and stuff.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kiera wants to tackle all forms of discrimination. “I want to stick to the topic of inequality and equality, and how it’s important in our lives,” she said. “I want to take it a step further. I haven’t really figured out how, though. I’m brainstorming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now she’ll worry about starting sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She showed us the finished product: a colorful cutout in the shape of Alabama dangling from the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11498479 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25582_IMG_3780-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera and her younger sister, Kaedra, show youth reporter Angel Vargas the project Kiera did on the state of Alabama. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera says she chose Alabama because it’s the birthplace of Rosa Parks, an African-American civil rights activist who in 1955, in the segregated South, refused to give a white man her seat on the bus. Kiera read about Parks in a book and she was impressed that one person could spark such big change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she came home from the Women’s March in Sacramento this January, Kiera started thinking about how she could make a change of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just inspired,” she said, \"because all these people were coming together for a cause they believed in, and it was truly amazing and inspiring. So I wanted to create that opportunity for other kids in Fresno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mission was to give kids a platform to talk about why equality is important to them. So Kiera planned a demonstration in front of City Hall. She made a website for her rally by herself and contacted City Council members, who helped her get the permit she needed and took care of the permit fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you get any threats, stuff like that?” asked Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah,\" said Kiera’s mom, Nasreen Riahizadeh. “We got a lot of name-calling, and I wouldn’t call them threats of violence, but it didn’t feel very nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t really hurt me, because I knew that was going to happen,” said Kiera. “There are people on both sides of politics and equality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 200 people showed up for the Kids Rally for Equality. One group even drove in from Sacramento. Some kids took the mic to talk about bullying, others about LGBT rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25580_Kids-Rally2017-Fresno-18-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera doing a TV interview on the day of her Kids Rally for Equality outside Fresno City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kristine Morgan/Courtesy photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera says it had an impact. “I think people understood that since a kid has to step up and explain to people that it’s important and give other kids a chance to say how they feel,” she said. “People realize it’s a big matter and subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiera has done more public speaking — and more media interviews -- than most adults. But that doesn’t mean she’s forgotten how to be a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kiera’s not organizing public events, she’s practicing the guitar. Or she’s looking at stuff she finds around the house under her microscope. “This is my science desk,” she told Vargas and me, as she showed us around her bedroom. “So I do all these kinds of experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25584_IMG_3800-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiera plays the guitar for youth reporter Angel Vargas. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera’s independence and determination have left her parents torn between protecting her and supporting her activism, including the rally that put her in the media spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a fire within her that it was kind of a turning point,” said Riahizadeh. \"We let her do something and we help keep her safe and do it appropriately, or we don’t let her do something and then she’s kind of on the cusp of being a teenager and then what’s next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kiera and her friend, Aliya Purnell, are trying to decide what \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> next after the successful rally. “Maybe this time we can do it on something that’s really bad and stuff,” Aliya suggested, “like maybe girls not getting treated fairly and stuff.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kiera wants to tackle all forms of discrimination. “I want to stick to the topic of inequality and equality, and how it’s important in our lives,” she said. “I want to take it a step further. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Kathleen Chavoor-Bergen learned there were Syrians in Fresno, she immediately volunteered to help out. She’s Armenian-American, so she understands something about war and displacement. Her own grandparents survived the Armenian genocide by fleeing to Aleppo, Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for Aleppo, I wouldn’t be here today,” says Chavoor-Bergen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s translated that gratitude into befriending several Syrian refugee families in Fresno. “It’s really the least I can do. They [Syrians in Aleppo] opened their arms to my family, and now I’m opening my arms to theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavoor-Bergen is also educating the community. She educates public school counselors about the recent migration of Syrian refugees to Fresno. She wants the counselors to understand that more than half of displaced Syrians are children, most under the age of 12. Many of them are now enrolled in Fresno schools — some have been wounded, burned or have witnessed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”yxMMQW1TUkVyzN8En1rmwTVtsyTfoXNe”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve endured the destruction of their homes and communities, survived forced displacement. Part of the complexity of their trauma is that it went from their home maybe in Aleppo to the [refugee] camps and the extreme vetting process,” Chavoor-Bergen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on to resettlement areas like San Diego, Sacramento and Turlock. Now, some of those families are deciding on their own to move to Fresno. Housing is cheaper here, and there’s a large and welcoming Arab-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fresno is not a resettlement city — meaning it receives no federal funding to help refugees start over — so volunteers and advocacy groups are scrambling to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-31c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/06/02/RefugeeKidforPlayer.jpg\" Title=\"Without Federal Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Layla Darwish. She has a part-time job with \u003ca href=\"https://www.firminc.org/\">Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)\u003c/a> to help Syrians interpret their new landscape. But for Darwish, part time means \u003ci>all\u003c/i> her waking hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her own, Darwish started a tutoring program where volunteers help kids with homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks up from the sidewalk and greets a Syrian woman yelling down to her from her second-floor apartment. Darwish just saw her yesterday, but the woman clearly misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I haven’t seen you in a long time,’ ” says Darwish, translating. “So that’s quite common. A lot of them are kind of territorial. They want you to spend more time with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this 16-unit apartment complex, there are 41 children, and on any given day, you can hear them laughing and yelling and chasing each other in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Working with Syrians has taken a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing.’\u003ccite>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ray Harris, 22, is a member of the only family here that’s not Syrian. He says he likes his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They show a lot of love, man. They bring you food and everything,” he says. He adds that he uses \u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\">Google translate \u003c/a>to communicate with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door to Harris, Mohammed Bachan tells Darwish that life is better for refugees here in America. He has five kids, and he now works as a mechanic — in Syria he had a car dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and his family first moved to Fresno, they were scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they didn’t know where to start,’ Darwish says. “In the beginning there was a local mosque that helped them just network with people. And then once FIRM came in, we started taking them to the DMV to get their permits, their driving lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, this neighborhood was teeming with Hmong refugees. The rents are still cheap, about $450 for a two-bedroom unit. But it isn’t always safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a number of attacks from the neighborhood gangs, anywhere from throwing stones to knives. The police have been called lately,” she says. “One of my colleagues was patrolling the neighborhood until 12 at night. They just want to live here in peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”9NX2GpzxchqOeLAT7GCWS5d0wKAWMgcg”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah says he’s partnering with local Islamic cultural centers, churches and advocacy groups to help Syrians find better housing, cars and jobs. About 200 Syrians have migrated to Fresno, most in the past year, and Darrah expects more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten calls from Indiana, from Florida, from Texas, San Diego and San Jose,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno is used to having refugees: Hmong and other groups make up about 10 percent of the city’s population. But helping refugees is tricky without resettlement funds, says Darrah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with Syrians has taken just a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing,” he says. “I’ve spoken to churches that do not agree with what we’re doing as a Christian organization. [[They say]] ‘why are we working with Muslims and why are we serving these other folks and why are they even here’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11489252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11489252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1180x1603.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-960x1305.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-240x326.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-375x510.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-520x707.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wasan Abu-Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And these families have already been through so much trauma, he says. They are starting from scratch, finding jobs, learning English, enrolling their kids in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on top of that, some of them have experienced extreme prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to protect them, make them feel safe,” says Darrah. “But we have to be clear with families that not everyone does. These are unfortunate conversations to have with refugees who have just left a horrendous situation. Many have lost family and suffered terribly, and they come here to us and we have to talk with them about taking safety precautions!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, FIRM did get a county grant to hire three part-time employees to interpret for and assist Syrian refugees. Wasan Abu-Baker is one of those interpreters. But she was helping Syrians long before she was hired by FIRM, taking them to medical appointments, the mosque and the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, too, left a war-torn place to come to the United States from Palestine after marrying an American citizen. And now, she not only works for FIRM but she’s also doing a community engagement project as a fellow for the Tamejavi Cultural Organizing Fellowship Program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tamejavi.org/pvi.php\">Pan Valley Institute\u003c/a>. The goal is to learn about her Muslim community in Fresno and empower the community through leadership, cultural organizing and art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the project has opened her eyes to the many gifts Syrian refugees and asylum seekers have to offer. “I found out we have a lot of hidden artists in our community,” she says. “But we need to share that with other communities so they know what we have as Muslims here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, as part of her project, she brought a Syrian interior designer who does elaborate paintings on ceramics to a crafts store to pick out some paints and paintbrushes. The artist was surprised by the number of choices available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our country, only once choice,” she tells Abu-Baker. “I know!” Abu-Baker says. “This is what I learn. This country, a lot of choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choices that Abu-Baker hopes will make the lives of Syrian refugees easier in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing,” he says. “I’ve spoken to churches that do not agree with what we’re doing as a Christian organization. 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"content": "\u003cp>\"Marocain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>could \u003c/em>just be the word for a dress fabric of ribbed crepe, made of silk or wool or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the word that broke an intense streak of ties -- the word that brought 12-year-old Ananya Vinay from Fresno, California, the youngest finalist at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was kind of intense,\" Vinay \u003ca href=\"http://spellingbee.com/blog/#!/some-words-our-winner?nid=1419\">said\u003c/a> in an interview after beating eighth-grader Rohan Rajeev from Oklahoma. 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