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Yungsu Kim, a student at Stanford and one of the organizers of the protest there, said they were setting up a “People’s University” and planned to stay at least through Friday and hold free classes on the subjects of Palestine and the effect of United States imperialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/zuliemann/status/1783651064425877558\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Kim are not only calling on the University to divest but to first disclose their investments, saying there is a lack of transparency by Stanford in its investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They play this shadowy game where they refuse to shed any light on which companies the university is actually invested in,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984143 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus on April 25, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, director of university public relations Charlene Gage wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university’s endowment has no direct holdings in Israeli companies, or direct holdings in defense contractors, beyond small exposures resulting from passive funds that track broad indexes such as the S&P 500,” Gage wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the university doesn’t invest in companies that do business in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Divestment decisions are made by Stanford’s Board of Trustees. In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel. The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place,” wrote Gage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators listen to speakers before marching through the Stanford University campus in Stanford on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beheshta Kohistani was among the new students on campus on Thursday for Admit Weekend. The prospective student plans to study biology at Stanford and said that watching how universities respond to peaceful protests like these is “very telling,” especially after seeing how police violently arrested at least 100 people at a student encampment at Columbia University in New York City last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the violent response from Columbia is very telling of the environment, and I wouldn’t want to be in that type of environment learning. So I’m really interested to see how Stanford responds to these student protests because they are largely peaceful, and I think they’re for the good,” Kohistani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford has maintained that the university “respects the interest of students in advocating for their views” but has maintained that overnight camping on the campus is prohibited and poses a safety risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez released a statement that said, “Last night after 8 p.m., university staff handed out letters signed by the two of us to approximately 60 students who remained on White Plaza, notifying them of the university policies they were violating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said: “The submission of students’ names to the Office of Community Standards (OCS) has begun.” As graduation approaches, a previous letter from the University noted that “the initiation of an OCS proceeding at this time of year may inhibit the timely conferral of a diploma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984134 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizer Yungsu Kim said he is aware of the risks of protesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am also continuing a legacy of sorts of student involvement in mass movements, where all sectors of society are involved because they know that things like this just cannot continue. Injustice like this can’t continue,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An encampment that began Monday is ongoing and growing at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, students like Lev Collins unfurled their tents across the iconic Sproul steps, home to the 1960s Free Speech movement, which made an indelible mark on campus activism and the country at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am here because of the genocide that’s going on in Gaza. It is completely unacceptable and tragic, and it’s upsetting that our tuition money and our tax dollars are funding this genocide,” Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have vowed to stay there until UC stops investing in companies that benefit Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984215 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students at the UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr studies mechanical engineering at Cal. He has just three weeks left to graduate and said he’s doing his best to juggle his studies while running security for the new overnight encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are falling behind in school, whatever. But, you know, you look at the struggles that we’re seeing on the other side of the world, and we can’t let that go,” Abubakr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984219 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs set beside tents at UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley said it has no plans to change its investment policies and practices, and UC’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza are spreading throughout California. KQED captured images of demonstrations taking place at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1714238521,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1061},"headData":{"title":"Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep Bay Area College Campuses Amid Surging National Movement | KQED","description":"Protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza are spreading throughout California. KQED captured images of demonstrations taking place at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep Bay Area College Campuses Amid Surging National Movement","datePublished":"2024-04-27T14:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-27T17:22:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Capping a week where student protesters at colleges across California staged actions decrying their universities’ business dealings with Israeli-linked companies, students at Stanford University became the latest to join the fray on Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, students at Cal Poly Humboldt began occupying a building on that campus, police clashed with student protesters at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley attendees started an encampment in front of Sproul Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, around 200 students peacefully marched around the Stanford campus for over an hour. The protest coincided with the university’s “Admit Weekend,” when prospective students are on campus for orientation activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-023-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the protest passed White Plaza, what the university calls its “designated free speech zone,” students rushed to quickly form a perimeter around the plaza and throw down tents and tarps. Yungsu Kim, a student at Stanford and one of the organizers of the protest there, said they were setting up a “People’s University” and planned to stay at least through Friday and hold free classes on the subjects of Palestine and the effect of United States imperialism.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1783651064425877558"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Students like Kim are not only calling on the University to divest but to first disclose their investments, saying there is a lack of transparency by Stanford in its investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They play this shadowy game where they refuse to shed any light on which companies the university is actually invested in,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984143 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-014-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus on April 25, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, director of university public relations Charlene Gage wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university’s endowment has no direct holdings in Israeli companies, or direct holdings in defense contractors, beyond small exposures resulting from passive funds that track broad indexes such as the S&P 500,” Gage wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the university doesn’t invest in companies that do business in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Divestment decisions are made by Stanford’s Board of Trustees. In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel. The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place,” wrote Gage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators listen to speakers before marching through the Stanford University campus in Stanford on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beheshta Kohistani was among the new students on campus on Thursday for Admit Weekend. The prospective student plans to study biology at Stanford and said that watching how universities respond to peaceful protests like these is “very telling,” especially after seeing how police violently arrested at least 100 people at a student encampment at Columbia University in New York City last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the violent response from Columbia is very telling of the environment, and I wouldn’t want to be in that type of environment learning. So I’m really interested to see how Stanford responds to these student protests because they are largely peaceful, and I think they’re for the good,” Kohistani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford has maintained that the university “respects the interest of students in advocating for their views” but has maintained that overnight camping on the campus is prohibited and poses a safety risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez released a statement that said, “Last night after 8 p.m., university staff handed out letters signed by the two of us to approximately 60 students who remained on White Plaza, notifying them of the university policies they were violating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said: “The submission of students’ names to the Office of Community Standards (OCS) has begun.” As graduation approaches, a previous letter from the University noted that “the initiation of an OCS proceeding at this time of year may inhibit the timely conferral of a diploma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984134 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-020-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizer Yungsu Kim said he is aware of the risks of protesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am also continuing a legacy of sorts of student involvement in mass movements, where all sectors of society are involved because they know that things like this just cannot continue. Injustice like this can’t continue,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An encampment that began Monday is ongoing and growing at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, students like Lev Collins unfurled their tents across the iconic Sproul steps, home to the 1960s Free Speech movement, which made an indelible mark on campus activism and the country at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am here because of the genocide that’s going on in Gaza. It is completely unacceptable and tragic, and it’s upsetting that our tuition money and our tax dollars are funding this genocide,” Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have vowed to stay there until UC stops investing in companies that benefit Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984215 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students at the UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr studies mechanical engineering at Cal. He has just three weeks left to graduate and said he’s doing his best to juggle his studies while running security for the new overnight encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are falling behind in school, whatever. But, you know, you look at the struggles that we’re seeing on the other side of the world, and we can’t let that go,” Abubakr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11984219 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240424-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs set beside tents at UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on April 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley said it has no plans to change its investment policies and practices, and UC’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_18538","news_20013","news_27626","news_6631","news_33333","news_745","news_1928","news_17597","news_33765"],"featImg":"news_11984136","label":"news"},"news_11984140":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11984140","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11984140","score":null,"sort":[1714158049000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments","title":"Growing Protests Over the Israel-Hamas War Puts Spotlight on College Endowments","publishDate":1714158049,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Growing Protests Over the Israel-Hamas War Puts Spotlight on College Endowments | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>“Divest from death,” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk outside The New School in New York City on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slogan articulates one of the demands of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599\">anti-war protests on campuses\u003c/a>, which call on colleges or universities to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-protests-israel-divestment-palestinians-3f37f96f7be8e1124f266842d9caa627\">divest their endowments\u003c/a> from companies profiting from the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns to pressure universities to divest for political or ethical reasons go back decades, at least to the 1970s when students pressured schools to withdraw from investments that benefited South Africa under apartheid rule. More recently, in the early aughts, schools made rules barring investments in things like alcohol, tobacco and gambling, according to a report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of the next decade, a sizeable minority of endowments included some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-esg-investing-3a98b6f584357b8e10c31b1ff93ce4b6\">environmental, social and governance criteria\u003c/a> in their portfolios, which expanded the factors considered in weighing the value of an investment beyond profits and losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College and university endowments hold hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, for example, with Columbia University’s reaching $13.6 billion in 2023. Now, campus protests are bringing attention to who controls university endowments and how decisions about those investments get made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are endowments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Endowments are the holdings and investments that institutions of higher education, foundations and some nonprofits manage as a kind of perpetual savings account. Many use the financial returns generated by those assets each year to help fund the institution’s ongoing work. Donors often give to institution’s endowments to ensure it will have resources well into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who manages the investments of an endowment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many schools, from the largest to the smallest, work with outside investment managers, like investment banks, hedge funds or specialized firms that have access to investing vehicles that aren’t available to retail investors, said Todd Ely, an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Colleges and universities have fairly limited discretion in the actual specific investments that their endowment funds are going towards because they’ve hired these external experts to make those decisions. And sometimes those decisions are even proprietary,” Ely said, meaning the investors do not publicly share what’s in their portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A board of trustees usually manages endowments at the university, and the donors agree upon the purpose of any endowment, usually to benefit the institution. They don’t “belong” to current students, faculty or alumni but rather to the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How difficult is it to change investments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Georges Dyer, executive director and co-founder of the Intentional Endowments Network, said it could take time and be difficult to identify what exposure a school’s endowment might have to a specific company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as simple as some people think — maybe it’s just selling some stocks at a certain company. That said, I think anything is possible in today’s financial services industry,” Dyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His network helps connect organizations with endowments to learn from each other about how to align their endowments with their mission and to make their investments sustainable and responsible, for example, in the context of climate change. The network also recommends that transparency be one principle of sustainable and mission-driven investing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls for divestment from fossil fuel companies, which started in 2011, make a moral argument but also a financial one, he said, which helps gain the support of the trustees and boards that direct university investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tie back to the investment, and the financial performance and the investment performance case, is not always very clear,” Dyer said of calls for divestment based on geopolitical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters’ demands also raise questions about what a university’s priorities and responsibilities are, Ely said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you trying to maximize returns or promote a social or political agenda?” Ely asked. “And for those actually managing the endowments on a day-to-day basis, they are focused on risk and returns until they’re directed otherwise by those with governance authority for the college or university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Have any schools made changes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/campus-free-speech-young-generation-tension-b931b0dd41aacaac5c50710de9549b09\">pressure that student protesters\u003c/a> from California to Columbia University in New York City are putting on the leadership of their schools, Dyer of the Intentional Endowments Network said he has not heard much from their member schools and institutions about divestment in this context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fierce disagreement about support or opposition to the war within campus communities is another reason schools have likely not taken action. Many on campuses hear calls for divestment from Israel or an end to the war as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/campus-free-speech-young-generation-tension-b931b0dd41aacaac5c50710de9549b09\">an attack on Jewish people more broadly\u003c/a> or as glossing over the deaths and pain caused by Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennie C. Stephens, a professor at Northeastern University’s policy school and a climate justice fellow at Harvard-Radcliffe, has written a forthcoming book about the movement for climate justice at universities, including calls for divestment from fossil fuels. She said the initial reaction from universities when called on to divest from fossil fuels was also to say that their funds were co-mingled with other investors, managed by third parties or that they didn’t know what they were invested in. Eventually, though, those schools that committed to divesting from fossil fuels figured out how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These elite institutions with big endowments have a lot of power, and they concentrate wealth and power through their endowments,” Stephens said. “And they do have control over how that money is invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do trustees have to listen to student demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. However, divestment campaigns have succeeded by using a variety of tactics.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']At Pomona College, students voted in February to approve a referendum that included calls for the school to disclose any investments in weapons manufacturers or companies that benefit from what it called the “apartheid” system in Israel and then to divest from those companies. Kouross Esmaeli, a visiting assistant professor of media studies at Pomona College, said school leaders and trustees have told students and professors that they can’t disclose all of their investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Oh, we can’t disclose this. This is difficult to do. This is impossible to parse out where our investment is,’” Esmaeli said. “All these kinds of excuses about why we can’t have control over our own money as an institution, and no one’s buying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pomona College spokesperson Mark Kendall said the administration has offered to meet with protesters and provide information about their investment policies and will continue to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Endowment investing supports our educational mission, including academic excellence and generous financial aid, over the long term,” Kendall said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmaeli acknowledged that divestment may take time and that the endowment may be complex, but he said the first demand of student protesters and faculty is for the university to commit to divesting from companies profiting from the war. He said the university could start with the ones identified by the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Different choices can be made, and rules can be changed in order to allow us to have an open endowment, where we know where our endowment is going,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One of the demands of anti-war protesters on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. 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More recently, in the early aughts, schools made rules barring investments in things like alcohol, tobacco and gambling, according to a report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of the next decade, a sizeable minority of endowments included some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-esg-investing-3a98b6f584357b8e10c31b1ff93ce4b6\">environmental, social and governance criteria\u003c/a> in their portfolios, which expanded the factors considered in weighing the value of an investment beyond profits and losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College and university endowments hold hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, for example, with Columbia University’s reaching $13.6 billion in 2023. Now, campus protests are bringing attention to who controls university endowments and how decisions about those investments get made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are endowments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Endowments are the holdings and investments that institutions of higher education, foundations and some nonprofits manage as a kind of perpetual savings account. Many use the financial returns generated by those assets each year to help fund the institution’s ongoing work. Donors often give to institution’s endowments to ensure it will have resources well into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who manages the investments of an endowment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many schools, from the largest to the smallest, work with outside investment managers, like investment banks, hedge funds or specialized firms that have access to investing vehicles that aren’t available to retail investors, said Todd Ely, an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Colleges and universities have fairly limited discretion in the actual specific investments that their endowment funds are going towards because they’ve hired these external experts to make those decisions. And sometimes those decisions are even proprietary,” Ely said, meaning the investors do not publicly share what’s in their portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A board of trustees usually manages endowments at the university, and the donors agree upon the purpose of any endowment, usually to benefit the institution. They don’t “belong” to current students, faculty or alumni but rather to the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How difficult is it to change investments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Georges Dyer, executive director and co-founder of the Intentional Endowments Network, said it could take time and be difficult to identify what exposure a school’s endowment might have to a specific company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as simple as some people think — maybe it’s just selling some stocks at a certain company. That said, I think anything is possible in today’s financial services industry,” Dyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His network helps connect organizations with endowments to learn from each other about how to align their endowments with their mission and to make their investments sustainable and responsible, for example, in the context of climate change. The network also recommends that transparency be one principle of sustainable and mission-driven investing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls for divestment from fossil fuel companies, which started in 2011, make a moral argument but also a financial one, he said, which helps gain the support of the trustees and boards that direct university investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tie back to the investment, and the financial performance and the investment performance case, is not always very clear,” Dyer said of calls for divestment based on geopolitical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters’ demands also raise questions about what a university’s priorities and responsibilities are, Ely said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you trying to maximize returns or promote a social or political agenda?” Ely asked. “And for those actually managing the endowments on a day-to-day basis, they are focused on risk and returns until they’re directed otherwise by those with governance authority for the college or university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Have any schools made changes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/campus-free-speech-young-generation-tension-b931b0dd41aacaac5c50710de9549b09\">pressure that student protesters\u003c/a> from California to Columbia University in New York City are putting on the leadership of their schools, Dyer of the Intentional Endowments Network said he has not heard much from their member schools and institutions about divestment in this context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fierce disagreement about support or opposition to the war within campus communities is another reason schools have likely not taken action. Many on campuses hear calls for divestment from Israel or an end to the war as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/campus-free-speech-young-generation-tension-b931b0dd41aacaac5c50710de9549b09\">an attack on Jewish people more broadly\u003c/a> or as glossing over the deaths and pain caused by Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennie C. Stephens, a professor at Northeastern University’s policy school and a climate justice fellow at Harvard-Radcliffe, has written a forthcoming book about the movement for climate justice at universities, including calls for divestment from fossil fuels. She said the initial reaction from universities when called on to divest from fossil fuels was also to say that their funds were co-mingled with other investors, managed by third parties or that they didn’t know what they were invested in. Eventually, though, those schools that committed to divesting from fossil fuels figured out how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These elite institutions with big endowments have a lot of power, and they concentrate wealth and power through their endowments,” Stephens said. “And they do have control over how that money is invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do trustees have to listen to student demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. However, divestment campaigns have succeeded by using a variety of tactics.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Pomona College, students voted in February to approve a referendum that included calls for the school to disclose any investments in weapons manufacturers or companies that benefit from what it called the “apartheid” system in Israel and then to divest from those companies. Kouross Esmaeli, a visiting assistant professor of media studies at Pomona College, said school leaders and trustees have told students and professors that they can’t disclose all of their investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Oh, we can’t disclose this. This is difficult to do. This is impossible to parse out where our investment is,’” Esmaeli said. “All these kinds of excuses about why we can’t have control over our own money as an institution, and no one’s buying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pomona College spokesperson Mark Kendall said the administration has offered to meet with protesters and provide information about their investment policies and will continue to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Endowment investing supports our educational mission, including academic excellence and generous financial aid, over the long term,” Kendall said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmaeli acknowledged that divestment may take time and that the endowment may be complex, but he said the first demand of student protesters and faculty is for the university to commit to divesting from companies profiting from the war. He said the university could start with the ones identified by the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Different choices can be made, and rules can be changed in order to allow us to have an open endowment, where we know where our endowment is going,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11984140/growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments","authors":["byline_news_11984140"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32239","news_20013","news_6631","news_33333","news_745","news_1242","news_33765"],"featImg":"news_11984188","label":"news"},"news_11984094":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11984094","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11984094","score":null,"sort":[1714087963000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"usc-cancels-main-graduation-ceremony-amid-ongoing-gaza-protests","title":"USC Cancels Main Graduation Ceremony Amid Ongoing Gaza Protests","publishDate":1714087963,"format":"standard","headTitle":"USC Cancels Main Graduation Ceremony Amid Ongoing Gaza Protests | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony on Thursday amid ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-campus-protests-966eb531279f8e4381883fc5d79d5466\">protests against the Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials announced the cancellation of the May 10 ceremony a day after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus. The university said it will still host dozens of smaller commencement events, including all the traditional individual school ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high after USC \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/university-of-southern-california-commencement-speech-canceled-125cb8db93f2247ca3e45f782b7fcb2a\">canceled a planned commencement speech\u003c/a> by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that this is disappointing; however, we are adding many new activities and celebrations to make this commencement academically meaningful, memorable, and uniquely USC,” the university said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Police Department said 93 people were arrested Wednesday night during a campus protest for allegedly trespassing. One person was arrested on allegations of assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests on their campuses could disrupt plans for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-graduation-israel-gaza-protest-3b363f57cbe915e95b68eeed04ca342d\">commencement ceremonies\u003c/a> next month. Some universities called in police to break up the demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and hundreds of arrests of students nationwide, while others appeared content to wait out student protests as the final days of the semester ticked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools continue negotiating with demonstrators, others are rewriting their rules to ban encampments and moving final exams to new locations.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gaza\"]Students protesting the war are demanding \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-protests-israel-divestment-palestinians-3f37f96f7be8e1124f266842d9caa627\">schools cut financial ties\u003c/a> to Israel and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampments and protests continued to spring up on Thursday. A tent encampment popped up at Indiana University Bloomington before police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters, arresting an unknown number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the City College of New York, hundreds of students who were gathered on the lawn beneath the Harlem campus’ famed gothic buildings erupted in cheers after a small contingent of police officers retreated from the scene. In one corner of the quad, a “security training” was held among students who said they expected to be arrested in the coming hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emerson College in Boston, 108 people were arrested overnight at an alleyway encampment. Video shows police first warning students there to leave. Students link arms to resist officers, who move forcefully through the crowd and throw some protesters to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston police said four officers suffered injuries that were not life-threatening during the confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the night progressed, it got tenser and tenser. There were just more cops on all sides. It felt like we were being slowly pushed in and crushed,” said Ocean Muir, a sophomore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, the scariest moment was holding these umbrellas out in case we were tear-gassed, and hearing them come, and hearing their boots on the ground, just pounding into the ground louder than we could chant, and not being able to see a single person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir said police lifted her by her arms and legs and carried her away. Along with other students, Muir was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emerson College leaders warned students that the alley was a public right-of-way and that city authorities had threatened to take action if the protesters didn’t leave. The school canceled classes on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Texas at Austin campus was much calmer Thursday after 57 people were jailed and charged with criminal trespass a day earlier. University officials pulled back barricades and allowed demonstrators onto the main square beneath the school’s iconic clock tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, students and some faculty protested both the war and Wednesday’s arrests, when state troopers in riot gear and on horseback plowed into protesters, forcing hundreds of students off the school’s main lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emory University in Atlanta, local and state police swept in to dismantle a camp, although the university said the protesters weren’t students but rather outside activists. Some officers carried semiautomatic weapons, and video shows officers using a stun gun on one protester who they had pinned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail records showed 22 people arrested by university police were charged with disorderly conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters at Emory chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and opposing a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-atlanta-police-training-center-cost-d4f5073d4372d7b327127e193fce30f2\">public safety training center\u003c/a> being built in Atlanta. The two movements are closely entwined in Atlanta, where activists have for years waged a “Stop Cop City” campaign against the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges, including Harvard University, chose not to take immediate action against protesters who had set up tents, even though they were openly defying campus rules. And some colleges were making new rules, like Northwestern University, which hastily changed its student code of conduct on Thursday morning to bar tents on its suburban Chicago campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Washington University said it would move its law school finals from a building next to the protest encampment to a new location because of the noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current wave of protests was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inside-columbia-protest-movement-0b35ff55f18d0bf4b2c8c0a27b1dbe04\">inspired by events at Columbia University\u003c/a> in New York, where police cleared an encampment and arrested more than 100 people last week, only for students to defiantly put up tents again in an area where many are set to graduate in front of families in a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the ability to embrace student voices and different perspectives was a hallmark of the nation’s growth but warned that authorities wouldn’t tolerate hate, discrimination or threats of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a> began more than six months ago, the U.S. Education Department has launched civil rights investigations into dozens of universities and schools in response to complaints of antisemitism or Islamophobia. Among those under investigation are many colleges facing protests, including Harvard and Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests and arrests on their campuses could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1714089416,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1007},"headData":{"title":"USC Cancels Main Graduation Ceremony Amid Ongoing Gaza Protests | KQED","description":"The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests and arrests on their campuses could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"USC Cancels Main Graduation Ceremony Amid Ongoing Gaza Protests","datePublished":"2024-04-25T23:32:43.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-25T23:56:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Steve LeBlanc and Nick Perry\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11984094/usc-cancels-main-graduation-ceremony-amid-ongoing-gaza-protests","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony on Thursday amid ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-campus-protests-966eb531279f8e4381883fc5d79d5466\">protests against the Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials announced the cancellation of the May 10 ceremony a day after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus. The university said it will still host dozens of smaller commencement events, including all the traditional individual school ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high after USC \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/university-of-southern-california-commencement-speech-canceled-125cb8db93f2247ca3e45f782b7fcb2a\">canceled a planned commencement speech\u003c/a> by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that this is disappointing; however, we are adding many new activities and celebrations to make this commencement academically meaningful, memorable, and uniquely USC,” the university said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Police Department said 93 people were arrested Wednesday night during a campus protest for allegedly trespassing. One person was arrested on allegations of assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests on their campuses could disrupt plans for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-graduation-israel-gaza-protest-3b363f57cbe915e95b68eeed04ca342d\">commencement ceremonies\u003c/a> next month. Some universities called in police to break up the demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and hundreds of arrests of students nationwide, while others appeared content to wait out student protests as the final days of the semester ticked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools continue negotiating with demonstrators, others are rewriting their rules to ban encampments and moving final exams to new locations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Students protesting the war are demanding \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-protests-israel-divestment-palestinians-3f37f96f7be8e1124f266842d9caa627\">schools cut financial ties\u003c/a> to Israel and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampments and protests continued to spring up on Thursday. A tent encampment popped up at Indiana University Bloomington before police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters, arresting an unknown number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the City College of New York, hundreds of students who were gathered on the lawn beneath the Harlem campus’ famed gothic buildings erupted in cheers after a small contingent of police officers retreated from the scene. In one corner of the quad, a “security training” was held among students who said they expected to be arrested in the coming hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emerson College in Boston, 108 people were arrested overnight at an alleyway encampment. Video shows police first warning students there to leave. Students link arms to resist officers, who move forcefully through the crowd and throw some protesters to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston police said four officers suffered injuries that were not life-threatening during the confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the night progressed, it got tenser and tenser. There were just more cops on all sides. It felt like we were being slowly pushed in and crushed,” said Ocean Muir, a sophomore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, the scariest moment was holding these umbrellas out in case we were tear-gassed, and hearing them come, and hearing their boots on the ground, just pounding into the ground louder than we could chant, and not being able to see a single person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir said police lifted her by her arms and legs and carried her away. Along with other students, Muir was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emerson College leaders warned students that the alley was a public right-of-way and that city authorities had threatened to take action if the protesters didn’t leave. The school canceled classes on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Texas at Austin campus was much calmer Thursday after 57 people were jailed and charged with criminal trespass a day earlier. University officials pulled back barricades and allowed demonstrators onto the main square beneath the school’s iconic clock tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, students and some faculty protested both the war and Wednesday’s arrests, when state troopers in riot gear and on horseback plowed into protesters, forcing hundreds of students off the school’s main lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emory University in Atlanta, local and state police swept in to dismantle a camp, although the university said the protesters weren’t students but rather outside activists. Some officers carried semiautomatic weapons, and video shows officers using a stun gun on one protester who they had pinned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail records showed 22 people arrested by university police were charged with disorderly conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters at Emory chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and opposing a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-atlanta-police-training-center-cost-d4f5073d4372d7b327127e193fce30f2\">public safety training center\u003c/a> being built in Atlanta. The two movements are closely entwined in Atlanta, where activists have for years waged a “Stop Cop City” campaign against the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges, including Harvard University, chose not to take immediate action against protesters who had set up tents, even though they were openly defying campus rules. And some colleges were making new rules, like Northwestern University, which hastily changed its student code of conduct on Thursday morning to bar tents on its suburban Chicago campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Washington University said it would move its law school finals from a building next to the protest encampment to a new location because of the noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current wave of protests was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inside-columbia-protest-movement-0b35ff55f18d0bf4b2c8c0a27b1dbe04\">inspired by events at Columbia University\u003c/a> in New York, where police cleared an encampment and arrested more than 100 people last week, only for students to defiantly put up tents again in an area where many are set to graduate in front of families in a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the ability to embrace student voices and different perspectives was a hallmark of the nation’s growth but warned that authorities wouldn’t tolerate hate, discrimination or threats of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a> began more than six months ago, the U.S. Education Department has launched civil rights investigations into dozens of universities and schools in response to complaints of antisemitism or Islamophobia. Among those under investigation are many colleges facing protests, including Harvard and Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11984094/usc-cancels-main-graduation-ceremony-amid-ongoing-gaza-protests","authors":["byline_news_11984094"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6631","news_33333","news_33647"],"featImg":"news_11984107","label":"news"},"news_11821950":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11821950","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11821950","score":null,"sort":[1713907559000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area","title":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police","publishDate":1713907559,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was originally published on June 24, 2022, and was last updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months into 2024, the Bay Area has seen many passionate demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These range from students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971577/berkeleys-peoples-park-cleared-by-police-7-arrested\">opposing construction replacing People’s Park in Berkeley\u003c/a> and a march in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983701/sweeps-kill-bay-area-homeless-advocates-weigh-in-on-pivotal-u-s-supreme-court-case\">a Supreme Court case addressing how cities can respond to homelessness\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">protests, rallies and vigils drawing thousands of people around the region in support of a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a> — joining direct action taking place nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#start\">Tips on what to have ready before going to a protest.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These latest protests included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">a series of actions on April 15 that blocked I-880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/22/uc-berkeley-protest-sit-in-gaza-war-cal-investments\">a sit-in at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. These protests follow \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599\">student protests at other universities, including Columbia and Yale\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decadeslong background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands in front of a high school building. She looks away from the camera and has the Palestinian flag painted on her rigth cheek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deena, a high school student, participates in a walkout to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has a long history of protest. But if you plan on attending a rally, how can you stay safe? What are your rights as a protester?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the first time you or your friends will go to a protest, make sure to bookmark this guide, as our team frequently updates it with new information.[aside postID='news_11967439,news_11955465,news_11871364,news_11827832' label='Related Guides From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you’re unable to join a rally or protest in person for whatever reason but want to make your stance on an issue known, you always have the option to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, how to do it, and what to expect as a result, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"start\">\u003c/a>Have a plan — and then a backup plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot you can do before a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choose a meeting place beforehand in the event you get separated. You may also want to designate a friend who is not at the protest as someone you can check in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charge your phone. However, some activist groups also recommend taking digital security measures, such as disabling the fingerprint unlock feature to prevent a police officer from forcing you to unlock the phone. Others also recommend turning off text preview on messages and using a more secure messaging app, such as Signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, make sure that you can function without a phone. Consider writing down important phone numbers and keeping them with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pack a small bag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring only essentials such as water, snacks, hand sanitizer and an extra phone charger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The active component in tear gas adheres to moisture on your face. So it’s also a good idea to pack an extra mask or face covering in case you are exposed to tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/how-to-protest-safely-and-legally-5859590\">recommend bringing basic medical supplies and a bandana soaked in vinegar\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/\">in water in a sealed plastic bag\u003c/a> in case there is tear gas. Others recommend a small bottle of water — or even better, a squirt bottle — to pour on your face and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tear-gassed, it is often recommended to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Close your eyes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold your breath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get out of the area as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rinse your eyes when possible (ideally using what you have packed with you).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research the intended protest route\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may be confusing since there’s not always a clearly stated route (a protest is, or course, not a parade), but some protests have preplanned routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By knowing where the protest is headed, you will be able to plan how you might \u003ca href=\"https://netpol.org/guide-to-kettles/\">avoid being caught in a “kettle”\u003c/a> or other containment method — and be able to leave when you are ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know who is organizing the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth doing some research on the people and groups behind any protest you plan to attend to make sure it’s in alignment with your values and objectives. During certain Black Lives Matter protests in San Diego in June 2020, for instance, organizers warned demonstrators to avoid specific events they said likely had been surreptitiously coordinated by white nationalist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Know your rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are entitled to free speech and freedom of assembly. However, your rights can be unclear during curfews and shelter-in-place orders. The American Civil Liberties Union has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">detailed guide to your rights as a protester or a protest organizer\u003c/a>. Notably, when police issue an order to disperse, it is meant to be the last resort for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If officers issue a dispersal order, they must provide a reasonable opportunity to comply, including sufficient time and a clear, unobstructed exit path,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">according to the ACLU\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">Read our guide to your rights as a spectator.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are photographing others, it is recommended to respect privacy, as some may not want to have videos or photos taken. This may also depend on context, location and time of day. In some cases journalists, or those documenting events, have been the target of tear gas and rubber bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment gives you the right to film police who are actively performing their duties, and bystander videos can provide important counternarratives to official accounts. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide to filming encounters with the police safely and ethically\u003c/a> and where to share your footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information can be found from the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild — the NLG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/\">pocket-sized know-your-rights guides\u003c/a> in multiple languages. Writing the number for the NLG hotline (and other important numbers such as emergency contacts) on your arm in case you lose your phone or have it confiscated is another suggested way to ensure you have it — should you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd with signs gathers in front of a large stone building. A line of police officers stands nearby.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters, counter-protesters, and SFPD are seen at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The court is hearing arguments for the city’s appeal of an injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be aware of your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of George Floyd protests in the Bay Area in June 2020, there were fireworks, fires, rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bangs and even some gunshots. Being aware of your surroundings includes having an understanding of what possible actions may occur around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know the possible law enforcement ramifications of attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On April 17, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">she was considering charging a group of pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/a> with a felony for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocking Bay Area freeways\u003c/a>. People who were stuck in traffic on the bridge, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">wrote on X\u003c/a>, “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy’s law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU Northern California’s legal director, Shilpi Agarwal said she found the move by Jenkins had the potential to cast a “chilling effect” on speech in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lawful protests are, by design, meant to be visible and inconvenient,” Agarwal said. And while the government can place “reasonable limits on protest” in what is called \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">a “time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>” — meaning authorities can call for certain parameters of protest for safety or other people using the space — the government may \u003ci>not \u003c/i>tell people they cannot protest. And in public spaces, Agarwal said, “people are allowed to protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of law enforcement charges could protesters face, however? Agarwal said while \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights\">charges for protests can be nuanced\u003c/a>, at a basic level, if you are engaged in a protest and encounter police officers who then determine for “some reason” you have violated the “parameters” of the protest, there are usually three charging options available to officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>An infraction: typically a ticket where you show your ID, get a citation and may have to appear in court. Usually, an infraction is just a fine to pay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A misdemeanor: for which “you rarely serve” jail time for low-level offenses, Agarwal said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A felony: A more serious criminal charge that usually brings jail time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Agarwal said the “vast majority of offenses that are commonly charged at protests, when the police do get involved, are typically infractions or misdemeanors.” Common provisions for protesters have been something like resisting arrest, disrupting a public meeting, and failing to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Protest Law and Litigation’s senior counsel, Rachel Lederman, said restitution is common in criminal cases, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November 2023 are currently paying “a very small amount of restitution to one person who had a specific medical bill, that they attributed to the traffic blockage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, California State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-create-new-infraction-for-protesters-who-block-highways/\">a bill before the Assembly Transportation Committee\u003c/a> that would create a new infraction for those who obstruct a highway during a protest that affects an emergency vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill proposes a fine of between $200 and $500 for the first offense, $300 and $1000 for the second offense and $500 to $1000 for additional offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reminder: Your rights are at their highest in a public forum\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering your rights, take into account the location where a protest may take place — it could be a campus, a city council meeting, or a usually busy road. And Agarwal said that while the law is complicated and can vary in different situations, First Amendment rights are generally “at their highest when something is a public forum” — that is, a place like a sidewalk or a public plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>, “when you have a public forum, there is very, very little that the government can do to regulate your speech,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, First Amendment rights are at their lowest at places like private homes, Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that you have no rights, but it does mean that whenever and wherever you are on something that is not a public forum, the strength of your First Amendment rights starts to wane,” she said. “And the government can do more to regulate what you can and cannot say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember there are many ways to protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the disability community continues to remind others, there are many ways to show up. We are still in a pandemic, and you may need to weigh the risks and goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can participate in many meaningful ways that don’t include attending an in-person protest or rally. This could include educating yourself, voting, talking to your community and supporting grassroots organizations, as outlined in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881199/5-ways-to-show-up-for-racial-justice-today\">this 2020 guide from KQED’s Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID is still with us: What to know about your possible risks attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your risks of getting COVID-19 outdoors remain far lower than your risks indoors — about 20 times less, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, being vaccinated and boosted will greatly reduce your risks of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19. If you’re not yet boosted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023\">find the new COVID-19 vaccine shot near you\u003c/a>. If you’re bringing children to a protest with you, remember that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917289/covid-vaccines-for-kids-under-5-are-here-heres-how-to-find-one\">kids and babies aged 6 months and over can get their primary COVID-19 vaccine series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you should still think about your risks of getting (or spreading) COVID-19 at a big event full of people, even when you’re outdoors. As with so many decisions during the pandemic, a lot comes down to your personal risks and circumstances — not just to protect yourself but others, too. “I think it requires people to be thoughtful about who they are, who they live with, and what happens when they leave the protest and go back home,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider bringing a mask along regardless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the number of people you’ll encounter at a protest — it’s what they might be \u003cem>doing\u003c/em>. Even outside, screaming, chanting, coughing and singing all expel more of the particles that can spread COVID-19 than regular activity does, and you may decide to keep your mask on during a protest if it’s a super-crowded space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might also find that some protest organizers explicitly request you wear a mask and maintain social distancing at the event, especially if the event is being attended by groups or communities at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the possibility that you might not \u003cem>stay\u003c/em> outside the whole time. “Whenever you have a protest, nobody just stays necessarily outdoors,” Chin-Hong said, giving pre-protest gatherings and meetings or post-protest dinners as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These may be done in people’s homes. I think it’s the stuff that goes around the actual outdoor protest that I’m more worried about,” Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people “think about carrying a mask with them, like they carry an umbrella. So that they just bring out the ‘umbrella’ when it’s potentially ‘raining with COVID\u003ci>.\u003c/i>‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965077\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowed with signs crowds around a building that has been fenced off. Many are pushing against the fence and others are carrying signs. Almost all are wearing facemasks.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take a knee during a demonstration outside of Mission Police Station to honor of George Floyd on June 3, 2020, in San Francisco. Three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still common to see people wearing facemasks at protests to protect themselves from a possible coronavirus infection.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2021, Chin-Hong told KQED that protests against racist violence and the killing of Black people by police were themselves “a response to a public health threat, if you think about the impact of structural racism and stress on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to weighing the desire to protest a cause with the risks of getting or spreading COVID-19, “I think the benefits of protesting are even more in favor of protesting now,” Chin-Hong told KQED in 2022. That “risk/benefit calculus,” as he puts it, is even more in favor of attending a rally — “because we have so many tools to keep people safer,” from vaccines and boosters to improved COVID-19 treatment if someone \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah, Lisa Pickoff-White, Carly Severn and Nisa Khan. Beth LaBerge and \u003c/em>\u003cem>Peter Arcuni also contributed. A version of this story originally published on April 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here are some tips on safety and preparation, should you choose to participate in a protest about a cause you care about.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713995948,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":61,"wordCount":2709},"headData":{"title":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police | KQED","description":"Here are some tips on safety and preparation, should you choose to participate in a protest about a cause you care about.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police","datePublished":"2024-04-23T21:25:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-24T21:59:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"News","sourceUrl":"http://kqed.org/news","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was originally published on June 24, 2022, and was last updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months into 2024, the Bay Area has seen many passionate demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These range from students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971577/berkeleys-peoples-park-cleared-by-police-7-arrested\">opposing construction replacing People’s Park in Berkeley\u003c/a> and a march in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983701/sweeps-kill-bay-area-homeless-advocates-weigh-in-on-pivotal-u-s-supreme-court-case\">a Supreme Court case addressing how cities can respond to homelessness\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">protests, rallies and vigils drawing thousands of people around the region in support of a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a> — joining direct action taking place nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#start\">Tips on what to have ready before going to a protest.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These latest protests included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">a series of actions on April 15 that blocked I-880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/22/uc-berkeley-protest-sit-in-gaza-war-cal-investments\">a sit-in at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. These protests follow \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599\">student protests at other universities, including Columbia and Yale\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decadeslong background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands in front of a high school building. She looks away from the camera and has the Palestinian flag painted on her rigth cheek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deena, a high school student, participates in a walkout to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has a long history of protest. But if you plan on attending a rally, how can you stay safe? What are your rights as a protester?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the first time you or your friends will go to a protest, make sure to bookmark this guide, as our team frequently updates it with new information.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11967439,news_11955465,news_11871364,news_11827832","label":"Related Guides From KQED "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you’re unable to join a rally or protest in person for whatever reason but want to make your stance on an issue known, you always have the option to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, how to do it, and what to expect as a result, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"start\">\u003c/a>Have a plan — and then a backup plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot you can do before a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choose a meeting place beforehand in the event you get separated. You may also want to designate a friend who is not at the protest as someone you can check in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charge your phone. However, some activist groups also recommend taking digital security measures, such as disabling the fingerprint unlock feature to prevent a police officer from forcing you to unlock the phone. Others also recommend turning off text preview on messages and using a more secure messaging app, such as Signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, make sure that you can function without a phone. Consider writing down important phone numbers and keeping them with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pack a small bag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring only essentials such as water, snacks, hand sanitizer and an extra phone charger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The active component in tear gas adheres to moisture on your face. So it’s also a good idea to pack an extra mask or face covering in case you are exposed to tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/how-to-protest-safely-and-legally-5859590\">recommend bringing basic medical supplies and a bandana soaked in vinegar\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/\">in water in a sealed plastic bag\u003c/a> in case there is tear gas. Others recommend a small bottle of water — or even better, a squirt bottle — to pour on your face and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tear-gassed, it is often recommended to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Close your eyes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold your breath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get out of the area as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rinse your eyes when possible (ideally using what you have packed with you).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research the intended protest route\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may be confusing since there’s not always a clearly stated route (a protest is, or course, not a parade), but some protests have preplanned routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By knowing where the protest is headed, you will be able to plan how you might \u003ca href=\"https://netpol.org/guide-to-kettles/\">avoid being caught in a “kettle”\u003c/a> or other containment method — and be able to leave when you are ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know who is organizing the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth doing some research on the people and groups behind any protest you plan to attend to make sure it’s in alignment with your values and objectives. During certain Black Lives Matter protests in San Diego in June 2020, for instance, organizers warned demonstrators to avoid specific events they said likely had been surreptitiously coordinated by white nationalist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Know your rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are entitled to free speech and freedom of assembly. However, your rights can be unclear during curfews and shelter-in-place orders. The American Civil Liberties Union has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">detailed guide to your rights as a protester or a protest organizer\u003c/a>. Notably, when police issue an order to disperse, it is meant to be the last resort for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If officers issue a dispersal order, they must provide a reasonable opportunity to comply, including sufficient time and a clear, unobstructed exit path,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">according to the ACLU\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">Read our guide to your rights as a spectator.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are photographing others, it is recommended to respect privacy, as some may not want to have videos or photos taken. This may also depend on context, location and time of day. In some cases journalists, or those documenting events, have been the target of tear gas and rubber bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment gives you the right to film police who are actively performing their duties, and bystander videos can provide important counternarratives to official accounts. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide to filming encounters with the police safely and ethically\u003c/a> and where to share your footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information can be found from the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild — the NLG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/\">pocket-sized know-your-rights guides\u003c/a> in multiple languages. Writing the number for the NLG hotline (and other important numbers such as emergency contacts) on your arm in case you lose your phone or have it confiscated is another suggested way to ensure you have it — should you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd with signs gathers in front of a large stone building. A line of police officers stands nearby.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters, counter-protesters, and SFPD are seen at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The court is hearing arguments for the city’s appeal of an injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be aware of your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of George Floyd protests in the Bay Area in June 2020, there were fireworks, fires, rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bangs and even some gunshots. Being aware of your surroundings includes having an understanding of what possible actions may occur around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know the possible law enforcement ramifications of attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On April 17, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">she was considering charging a group of pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/a> with a felony for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocking Bay Area freeways\u003c/a>. People who were stuck in traffic on the bridge, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">wrote on X\u003c/a>, “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy’s law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU Northern California’s legal director, Shilpi Agarwal said she found the move by Jenkins had the potential to cast a “chilling effect” on speech in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lawful protests are, by design, meant to be visible and inconvenient,” Agarwal said. And while the government can place “reasonable limits on protest” in what is called \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">a “time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>” — meaning authorities can call for certain parameters of protest for safety or other people using the space — the government may \u003ci>not \u003c/i>tell people they cannot protest. And in public spaces, Agarwal said, “people are allowed to protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of law enforcement charges could protesters face, however? Agarwal said while \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights\">charges for protests can be nuanced\u003c/a>, at a basic level, if you are engaged in a protest and encounter police officers who then determine for “some reason” you have violated the “parameters” of the protest, there are usually three charging options available to officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>An infraction: typically a ticket where you show your ID, get a citation and may have to appear in court. Usually, an infraction is just a fine to pay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A misdemeanor: for which “you rarely serve” jail time for low-level offenses, Agarwal said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A felony: A more serious criminal charge that usually brings jail time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Agarwal said the “vast majority of offenses that are commonly charged at protests, when the police do get involved, are typically infractions or misdemeanors.” Common provisions for protesters have been something like resisting arrest, disrupting a public meeting, and failing to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Protest Law and Litigation’s senior counsel, Rachel Lederman, said restitution is common in criminal cases, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November 2023 are currently paying “a very small amount of restitution to one person who had a specific medical bill, that they attributed to the traffic blockage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, California State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-create-new-infraction-for-protesters-who-block-highways/\">a bill before the Assembly Transportation Committee\u003c/a> that would create a new infraction for those who obstruct a highway during a protest that affects an emergency vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill proposes a fine of between $200 and $500 for the first offense, $300 and $1000 for the second offense and $500 to $1000 for additional offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reminder: Your rights are at their highest in a public forum\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering your rights, take into account the location where a protest may take place — it could be a campus, a city council meeting, or a usually busy road. And Agarwal said that while the law is complicated and can vary in different situations, First Amendment rights are generally “at their highest when something is a public forum” — that is, a place like a sidewalk or a public plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>, “when you have a public forum, there is very, very little that the government can do to regulate your speech,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, First Amendment rights are at their lowest at places like private homes, Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that you have no rights, but it does mean that whenever and wherever you are on something that is not a public forum, the strength of your First Amendment rights starts to wane,” she said. “And the government can do more to regulate what you can and cannot say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember there are many ways to protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the disability community continues to remind others, there are many ways to show up. We are still in a pandemic, and you may need to weigh the risks and goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can participate in many meaningful ways that don’t include attending an in-person protest or rally. This could include educating yourself, voting, talking to your community and supporting grassroots organizations, as outlined in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881199/5-ways-to-show-up-for-racial-justice-today\">this 2020 guide from KQED’s Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID is still with us: What to know about your possible risks attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your risks of getting COVID-19 outdoors remain far lower than your risks indoors — about 20 times less, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, being vaccinated and boosted will greatly reduce your risks of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19. If you’re not yet boosted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023\">find the new COVID-19 vaccine shot near you\u003c/a>. If you’re bringing children to a protest with you, remember that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917289/covid-vaccines-for-kids-under-5-are-here-heres-how-to-find-one\">kids and babies aged 6 months and over can get their primary COVID-19 vaccine series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you should still think about your risks of getting (or spreading) COVID-19 at a big event full of people, even when you’re outdoors. As with so many decisions during the pandemic, a lot comes down to your personal risks and circumstances — not just to protect yourself but others, too. “I think it requires people to be thoughtful about who they are, who they live with, and what happens when they leave the protest and go back home,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider bringing a mask along regardless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the number of people you’ll encounter at a protest — it’s what they might be \u003cem>doing\u003c/em>. Even outside, screaming, chanting, coughing and singing all expel more of the particles that can spread COVID-19 than regular activity does, and you may decide to keep your mask on during a protest if it’s a super-crowded space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might also find that some protest organizers explicitly request you wear a mask and maintain social distancing at the event, especially if the event is being attended by groups or communities at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the possibility that you might not \u003cem>stay\u003c/em> outside the whole time. “Whenever you have a protest, nobody just stays necessarily outdoors,” Chin-Hong said, giving pre-protest gatherings and meetings or post-protest dinners as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These may be done in people’s homes. I think it’s the stuff that goes around the actual outdoor protest that I’m more worried about,” Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people “think about carrying a mask with them, like they carry an umbrella. So that they just bring out the ‘umbrella’ when it’s potentially ‘raining with COVID\u003ci>.\u003c/i>‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965077\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowed with signs crowds around a building that has been fenced off. Many are pushing against the fence and others are carrying signs. Almost all are wearing facemasks.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take a knee during a demonstration outside of Mission Police Station to honor of George Floyd on June 3, 2020, in San Francisco. Three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still common to see people wearing facemasks at protests to protect themselves from a possible coronavirus infection.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2021, Chin-Hong told KQED that protests against racist violence and the killing of Black people by police were themselves “a response to a public health threat, if you think about the impact of structural racism and stress on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to weighing the desire to protest a cause with the risks of getting or spreading COVID-19, “I think the benefits of protesting are even more in favor of protesting now,” Chin-Hong told KQED in 2022. That “risk/benefit calculus,” as he puts it, is even more in favor of attending a rally — “because we have so many tools to keep people safer,” from vaccines and boosters to improved COVID-19 treatment if someone \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah, Lisa Pickoff-White, Carly Severn and Nisa Khan. Beth LaBerge and \u003c/em>\u003cem>Peter Arcuni also contributed. A version of this story originally published on April 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_223","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21077","news_32707","news_1386","news_19971","news_28067","news_18538","news_29029","news_28044","news_6631","news_28031","news_18","news_28041","news_29475","news_29198"],"featImg":"news_11947885","label":"source_news_11821950"},"news_11983361":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983361","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983361","score":null,"sort":[1713470405000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-residents-to-join-gaza-aid-flotilla","title":"Gaza Aid Flotilla to Include Bay Area Residents","publishDate":1713470405,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Gaza Aid Flotilla to Include Bay Area Residents | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Three Bay Area residents arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international aid group that said it would attempt to break through Israel’s naval blockade to deliver 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has embarked on dozens of missions to deliver aid to Gaza since Israel imposed a near-total blockade on the territory in 2007. This latest mission, however, comes as more than 1 million people in Gaza endure “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue-97/en/\">catastrophic food insecurity\u003c/a>.” Members of the UN Security Council recently \u003ca href=\"https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15658.doc.htm\">reiterated concerns over imminent famine in Gaza\u003c/a> and called for “the immediate lifting of all barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid at scale to the civilian population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the activists from the Bay Area before he left for Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an emergency mission,” said Carlos Michaud, an Oakland resident who decided to join the coalition earlier this month. “Mass starvation is imminent if aid isn’t delivered immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flotilla is expected to comprise at least three vessels, including a cargo ship carrying most of the aid and two passenger ships. Several hundred people from dozens of countries plan to join the mission, many arriving in Istanbul this week. A press conference to announce more details of the trip is scheduled for Friday in a shipyard near Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the purpose of the trip is to bring international attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Michaud said. And though the goal is to deliver food, medicine and ambulances — he said it’s unlikely they will make it past Israel’s naval blockade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee of any of this, including that the Israeli occupation forces will not become violent when we reach the naval blockade,” he said. “But we are unarmed peace activists and legal observers and journalists that will be publicizing that we are coming through on a peaceful aid mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the Israeli Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/31/israeli-attacks-gaza-flotilla-activists\">raided the six ships of a flotilla aid mission to Gaza while it was in international waters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results\">The raid killed nine flotilla activists\u003c/a>, and another died after four years in a coma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully aware of the dangers that we’re going into,” Michaud said. “This is by no means a suicide mission, but we are opting into a dangerous situation because we know that the unaccountable Israeli government is more accountable to what happens to us than to Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michaud said the international outcry among Western media and politicians over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israel’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza earlier this month\u003c/a> shows “that some lives are more valuable than others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that [this mission] is our duty because our lives are more valued by the current power paradigm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']Huwaida Arraf, an organizer of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, spoke to KQED from Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding safe passage to Gaza,” Arraf said. “What we need is to be able to reach Gaza and deliver the aid to the people of Gaza. That is what we need. And that is what we are demanding that our governments help ensure, but we don’t know what Israel will do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arraf has been on eight flotilla missions bound for Gaza, but this will be her first as a mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a mother of two elementary school children. The world that I want to pass on to them compels me to do what I’m doing despite the risks,” she said. “Our governments need to be doing this; our governments need to be forcing Israel to stop slaughtering and starving the Palestinian people — but they are not, and that compels civilians to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/04/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-3/\">President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> by phone that “the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable.” Since Oct. 7, the U.S. has approved more than 100 separate military sales to Israel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/06/us-weapons-israel-gaza/\">according to \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli bombardment of Gaza since Oct. 7 has left more than 30,000 people dead and more than 75,000 wounded, according to local health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting, not only to save people’s lives but also for a world in which this is never allowed to happen,” Arraf said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three Bay Area residents will join a multi-vessel attempt by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, aiming to transport 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713481945,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":778},"headData":{"title":"Gaza Aid Flotilla to Include Bay Area Residents | KQED","description":"Three Bay Area residents will join a multi-vessel attempt by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, aiming to transport 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Gaza Aid Flotilla to Include Bay Area Residents","datePublished":"2024-04-18T20:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T23:12:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983361/bay-area-residents-to-join-gaza-aid-flotilla","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three Bay Area residents arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international aid group that said it would attempt to break through Israel’s naval blockade to deliver 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has embarked on dozens of missions to deliver aid to Gaza since Israel imposed a near-total blockade on the territory in 2007. This latest mission, however, comes as more than 1 million people in Gaza endure “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue-97/en/\">catastrophic food insecurity\u003c/a>.” Members of the UN Security Council recently \u003ca href=\"https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15658.doc.htm\">reiterated concerns over imminent famine in Gaza\u003c/a> and called for “the immediate lifting of all barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid at scale to the civilian population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the activists from the Bay Area before he left for Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an emergency mission,” said Carlos Michaud, an Oakland resident who decided to join the coalition earlier this month. “Mass starvation is imminent if aid isn’t delivered immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flotilla is expected to comprise at least three vessels, including a cargo ship carrying most of the aid and two passenger ships. Several hundred people from dozens of countries plan to join the mission, many arriving in Istanbul this week. A press conference to announce more details of the trip is scheduled for Friday in a shipyard near Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the purpose of the trip is to bring international attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Michaud said. And though the goal is to deliver food, medicine and ambulances — he said it’s unlikely they will make it past Israel’s naval blockade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee of any of this, including that the Israeli occupation forces will not become violent when we reach the naval blockade,” he said. “But we are unarmed peace activists and legal observers and journalists that will be publicizing that we are coming through on a peaceful aid mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the Israeli Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/31/israeli-attacks-gaza-flotilla-activists\">raided the six ships of a flotilla aid mission to Gaza while it was in international waters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results\">The raid killed nine flotilla activists\u003c/a>, and another died after four years in a coma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully aware of the dangers that we’re going into,” Michaud said. “This is by no means a suicide mission, but we are opting into a dangerous situation because we know that the unaccountable Israeli government is more accountable to what happens to us than to Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michaud said the international outcry among Western media and politicians over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israel’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza earlier this month\u003c/a> shows “that some lives are more valuable than others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that [this mission] is our duty because our lives are more valued by the current power paradigm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Huwaida Arraf, an organizer of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, spoke to KQED from Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding safe passage to Gaza,” Arraf said. “What we need is to be able to reach Gaza and deliver the aid to the people of Gaza. That is what we need. And that is what we are demanding that our governments help ensure, but we don’t know what Israel will do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arraf has been on eight flotilla missions bound for Gaza, but this will be her first as a mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a mother of two elementary school children. The world that I want to pass on to them compels me to do what I’m doing despite the risks,” she said. “Our governments need to be doing this; our governments need to be forcing Israel to stop slaughtering and starving the Palestinian people — but they are not, and that compels civilians to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/04/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-3/\">President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> by phone that “the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable.” Since Oct. 7, the U.S. has approved more than 100 separate military sales to Israel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/06/us-weapons-israel-gaza/\">according to \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli bombardment of Gaza since Oct. 7 has left more than 30,000 people dead and more than 75,000 wounded, according to local health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting, not only to save people’s lives but also for a world in which this is never allowed to happen,” Arraf said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983361/bay-area-residents-to-join-gaza-aid-flotilla","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_31795","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_6631"],"featImg":"news_11983282","label":"news"},"news_11982940":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982940","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982940","score":null,"sort":[1713193980000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza","title":"Protesters Shut Down I-880 Freeway in Oakland as Part of 'Economic Blockade' for Gaza","publishDate":1713193980,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Protesters Shut Down I-880 Freeway in Oakland as Part of ‘Economic Blockade’ for Gaza | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:05 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs traffic starts moving again — albeit slowly through previously blocked sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland and U.S. 101 over the Golden Gate Bridge — officials with the California Highway Patrol said certain methods used by protesters necessitated an “intricate operation” and made things particularly difficult for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/220921013407304/posts/823018529864213\">statement posted to Facebook\u003c/a>, CHP said the protesters who shut down northbound I-880 at Embarcadero had chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement. The protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge chained themselves to stationary vehicles, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officials said arrests of protesters who blocked southbound I-880 in West Oakland and refused orders to disperse are ongoing. Approximately 20 people were arrested at the Golden Gate Bridge, according to the statement, and CHP promised arrests of the protesters who chained themselves to the drums of cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983082\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol officers arrest a demonstrator who joined approximately 300 protesters in blocking southbound I-880 in West Oakland Monday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTraffic is trickling through on northbound I-880 in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mike_dewald/status/1779944935065780401\">Two lanes are now open\u003c/a>, but protesters and CHP officers remain on the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One lane of southbound I-880 in West Oakland has just been reopened, with two lanes remaining blocked, according to CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPMarin/status/1779953159387091040\">both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge are open again\u003c/a> after protesters blocked traffic for more than four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBeginning shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, protesters blocked all lanes of the northbound I-880 freeway in Oakland north of the 23rd Ave exit to decry Israel’s ongoing military assault and blockade of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of activists converged on the freeway and sat in the roadway, with CHP officers in riot gear \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mike_dewald/status/1779873179584147818\">gathering in front of and behind the demonstrators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another group of approximately 300 protesters marched from the West Oakland BART station\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MsHossaini/status/1779884027052544407\"> onto southbound I-880 via the 7th Street on-ramp\u003c/a> at about 8 a.m., effectively shutting down both directions of the freeway through Oakland. By 9:45 a.m. California Highway Patrol officers were attempting to disperse the demonstrators. At least one protester \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MsHossaini/status/1779909917874544736\">has been arrested\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calls for a ceasefire and for aid to be let in [to Gaza] have been unheard,” said Hay Sha Wiya Falcon, a Bay Area-based Lakota activist who joined the West Oakland demonstrators. “It’s very clear if you look at who’s funding our representatives… money is what talks to them. And I think to have this worldwide economic blockade, which has spread to 55 cities and six continents, the world is speaking very loudly about what we want to see, and that’s a liberated Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s action is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.a15action.com/\">multi-city coordinated economic protest\u003c/a>, referred to as A15, aiming to disrupt local and global economies in order to put pressure on people and governments to divest from Israel and weapons manufacturers that supply its military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up as protesters shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning in West Oakland, just before the Broadway/Alameda off-ramp. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland remains a place where we rebel against all of the injustices carried out in the interest of the US led, global economy. We must do that now for Palestine,” organizers of the event in Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5gKqW9u4uu/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">wrote in an Instagram post\u003c/a> ahead of the protest. “Clog the arteries of capital! Free Palestine!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a health care worker, and one of the things that has been most disturbing to me about the genocide that’s happening in Palestine is the total disregard for human life,” said Mike Sweeney, who joined the West Oakland protesters. “The Israeli military is essentially… destroying every pillar of health and wellness in Palestine, destroying hospitals… specifically targeting centers of healing [including] doctors and nurses. I’ve never seen this level of violence in my life. And so that’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/a15actions/?g=5\">On Instagram\u003c/a>, A15 organizers said their effort was born out of “frustration with symbolic actions” and that their goals are to “cause impact to the global economy complicit in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related actions are planned throughout the Bay Area on Monday, including at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5rJEdEul1K/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Warm Springs Bart station at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/a>, when protesters plan to march to the Fremont Tesla factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, dozens of protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/protest-golden-gate-bridge/3510362/\">shut down all southbound lanes across the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> at 7:30 a.m. Organizers also plan to hold a rally at noon in United Nations Plaza and march to the Internal Revenue Service offices to hold a teach-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KCBSAMFMTraffic/status/1779899457674576271\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Bay Area, protesters demonstrated similar economic blockades on Monday in Seattle, San Diego, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chicago, Tallahassee and internationally in Mexico City, Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, Johannesburg and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous protests blocking major freeways and other transportation arteries had occurred around the Bay Area since Israel announced its military operations in Gaza, following Hamas’ attack on October 7 when approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 were taken hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Gaza Health Ministry, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-west-bank-7e75e1ef8f5307946d24f8b9a190fd66\">more than 33,000 Palestinians have now been killed\u003c/a> and millions displaced by more than six months of heavy Israeli attacks on the besieged territory. Gaza remains under military blockade by Israel, with \u003ca href=\"https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15658.doc.htm\">members of the UN Security Council reiterating concerns over imminent famine\u003c/a> there and calling for “the immediate lifting of all barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid at scale to the civilian population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand on the roadway of southbound I-880 in West Oakland Monday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Past Bay Area pro-Palestinian protests have included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">shutdown of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November to call for a cease-fire; in January, activists attempted to climb aboard and delayed a military supply shift from departing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/port-of-oakland-protest-18603166.php\">Port of Oakland\u003c/a>; and pro-Palestinian activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976328/protesters-briefly-block-highway-101-in-sf-call-for-end-to-war-in-gaza\">briefly blocked Highway 101 in San Francisco\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979206/protesters-demanding-gaza-cease-fire-block-international-terminal-at-sfo\">protesters at San Francisco International Airport’s international terminal\u003c/a> called for a cease-fire in Gaza and demanded divestment from the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nations officials have warned of a genocide in Gaza. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide … has been met,” she said, according to UN News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney and Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Related actions are planned throughout the Bay Area on Monday, including in San Francisco and Fremont.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713225347,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1151},"headData":{"title":"Protesters Shut Down I-880 Freeway in Oakland as Part of 'Economic Blockade' for Gaza | KQED","description":"Related actions are planned throughout the Bay Area on Monday, including in San Francisco and Fremont.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Protesters Shut Down I-880 Freeway in Oakland as Part of 'Economic Blockade' for Gaza","datePublished":"2024-04-15T15:13:00.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-15T23:55:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:05 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs traffic starts moving again — albeit slowly through previously blocked sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland and U.S. 101 over the Golden Gate Bridge — officials with the California Highway Patrol said certain methods used by protesters necessitated an “intricate operation” and made things particularly difficult for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/220921013407304/posts/823018529864213\">statement posted to Facebook\u003c/a>, CHP said the protesters who shut down northbound I-880 at Embarcadero had chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement. The protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge chained themselves to stationary vehicles, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officials said arrests of protesters who blocked southbound I-880 in West Oakland and refused orders to disperse are ongoing. Approximately 20 people were arrested at the Golden Gate Bridge, according to the statement, and CHP promised arrests of the protesters who chained themselves to the drums of cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983082\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0378-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol officers arrest a demonstrator who joined approximately 300 protesters in blocking southbound I-880 in West Oakland Monday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTraffic is trickling through on northbound I-880 in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mike_dewald/status/1779944935065780401\">Two lanes are now open\u003c/a>, but protesters and CHP officers remain on the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One lane of southbound I-880 in West Oakland has just been reopened, with two lanes remaining blocked, according to CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPMarin/status/1779953159387091040\">both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge are open again\u003c/a> after protesters blocked traffic for more than four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBeginning shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, protesters blocked all lanes of the northbound I-880 freeway in Oakland north of the 23rd Ave exit to decry Israel’s ongoing military assault and blockade of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of activists converged on the freeway and sat in the roadway, with CHP officers in riot gear \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mike_dewald/status/1779873179584147818\">gathering in front of and behind the demonstrators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another group of approximately 300 protesters marched from the West Oakland BART station\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MsHossaini/status/1779884027052544407\"> onto southbound I-880 via the 7th Street on-ramp\u003c/a> at about 8 a.m., effectively shutting down both directions of the freeway through Oakland. By 9:45 a.m. California Highway Patrol officers were attempting to disperse the demonstrators. At least one protester \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MsHossaini/status/1779909917874544736\">has been arrested\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calls for a ceasefire and for aid to be let in [to Gaza] have been unheard,” said Hay Sha Wiya Falcon, a Bay Area-based Lakota activist who joined the West Oakland demonstrators. “It’s very clear if you look at who’s funding our representatives… money is what talks to them. And I think to have this worldwide economic blockade, which has spread to 55 cities and six continents, the world is speaking very loudly about what we want to see, and that’s a liberated Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s action is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.a15action.com/\">multi-city coordinated economic protest\u003c/a>, referred to as A15, aiming to disrupt local and global economies in order to put pressure on people and governments to divest from Israel and weapons manufacturers that supply its military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0209-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up as protesters shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning in West Oakland, just before the Broadway/Alameda off-ramp. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland remains a place where we rebel against all of the injustices carried out in the interest of the US led, global economy. We must do that now for Palestine,” organizers of the event in Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5gKqW9u4uu/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">wrote in an Instagram post\u003c/a> ahead of the protest. “Clog the arteries of capital! Free Palestine!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a health care worker, and one of the things that has been most disturbing to me about the genocide that’s happening in Palestine is the total disregard for human life,” said Mike Sweeney, who joined the West Oakland protesters. “The Israeli military is essentially… destroying every pillar of health and wellness in Palestine, destroying hospitals… specifically targeting centers of healing [including] doctors and nurses. I’ve never seen this level of violence in my life. And so that’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/a15actions/?g=5\">On Instagram\u003c/a>, A15 organizers said their effort was born out of “frustration with symbolic actions” and that their goals are to “cause impact to the global economy complicit in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related actions are planned throughout the Bay Area on Monday, including at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5rJEdEul1K/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Warm Springs Bart station at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/a>, when protesters plan to march to the Fremont Tesla factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, dozens of protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/protest-golden-gate-bridge/3510362/\">shut down all southbound lanes across the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> at 7:30 a.m. Organizers also plan to hold a rally at noon in United Nations Plaza and march to the Internal Revenue Service offices to hold a teach-in.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1779899457674576271"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Bay Area, protesters demonstrated similar economic blockades on Monday in Seattle, San Diego, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chicago, Tallahassee and internationally in Mexico City, Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, Johannesburg and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous protests blocking major freeways and other transportation arteries had occurred around the Bay Area since Israel announced its military operations in Gaza, following Hamas’ attack on October 7 when approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 were taken hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Gaza Health Ministry, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-west-bank-7e75e1ef8f5307946d24f8b9a190fd66\">more than 33,000 Palestinians have now been killed\u003c/a> and millions displaced by more than six months of heavy Israeli attacks on the besieged territory. Gaza remains under military blockade by Israel, with \u003ca href=\"https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15658.doc.htm\">members of the UN Security Council reiterating concerns over imminent famine\u003c/a> there and calling for “the immediate lifting of all barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid at scale to the civilian population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand on the roadway of southbound I-880 in West Oakland Monday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Past Bay Area pro-Palestinian protests have included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">shutdown of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November to call for a cease-fire; in January, activists attempted to climb aboard and delayed a military supply shift from departing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/port-of-oakland-protest-18603166.php\">Port of Oakland\u003c/a>; and pro-Palestinian activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976328/protesters-briefly-block-highway-101-in-sf-call-for-end-to-war-in-gaza\">briefly blocked Highway 101 in San Francisco\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979206/protesters-demanding-gaza-cease-fire-block-international-terminal-at-sfo\">protesters at San Francisco International Airport’s international terminal\u003c/a> called for a cease-fire in Gaza and demanded divestment from the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nations officials have warned of a genocide in Gaza. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide … has been met,” she said, according to UN News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney and Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza","authors":["11840","182"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11982958","label":"news"},"news_11981941":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981941","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981941","score":null,"sort":[1712311220000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hopeandlossingaza","title":"Hope and Loss in Gaza: A Bay Area Doctor Reflects on His Aid Mission","publishDate":1712311220,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Hope and Loss in Gaza: A Bay Area Doctor Reflects on His Aid Mission | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least 33,000\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palestinians — including an estimated 13,000 children — have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. The region’s health care infrastructure has been decimated, as a mere 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are considered operational. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician from the South Bay, recently returned from a volunteer medical mission to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. In this episode, he talks about why he went, what he saw, and the people he met.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5444138415&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence. Please take care while listening. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. An estimated 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. At least 13,000 have been children. The Israeli military’s attack on Gaza has also decimated the region’s health care system and put aid workers in danger. An estimated 12 out of 36 hospitals are currently operational. On Monday, Israeli forces completed a two week raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, claiming it had served as a base for Hamas militants. That same day, seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Right now, the need for any help is dire. And despite this recent news, there are still volunteers who are putting themselves in harm’s way to provide food and medical assistance. One of them came from right here in the Bay area. Dr. Mohammad Subeh Is an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, and in February he went to the city of Rafah for a five week volunteer medical mission. Today, I sit down with Doctor Suba to talk about why he went to Gaza and what he wants all of us to know about what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My name is Mohammad Subeh. I’m an emergency physician. I was born to a family that was forcibly displaced from Palestine and a village called the lid in 1948. So they sought refuge in the small country of Kuwait, where I was born in 1984. And I lived, the first six years of my life in Kuwait. As a Palestinian born in Kuwait. You’re not a citizen of Kuwait. So I always held this a travel document that said I was stateless. And so in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we try to ride out the war for almost two months before we had to abruptly leave as my father was going to be killed. And that was from an early age, my first exposure to war, death, destruction. When we left Kuwait, we came to the United States as refugees. And that in and of itself was a life changing experience. I grew up in Los Angeles and, rougher area of Los Angeles and, in the 90s, surrounded by gang violence, surrounded by really tough living conditions. My elementary school wasn’t too far from our apartment, and very frequently I would hear choppers, you know, police helicopters overhead with the floodlights, looking for people, but also a different sound for the LA County medevac helicopters that would come and land in our elementary school field to pick up trauma patients. And so any time I would hear that from the distance, I would just take off and just run towards the field and just watch the helicopter land and pick up a patient. And I was always very, very much in awe of the team that was working on the helicopter. And I said, you know, I want to do that. I remember at a young age, just looking up at the sky and thinking, you know, what am I doing here? Why did I go through all those difficult moments, you know, at a young age? I just remember kind of really shaping my foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr.Mohammed Subeh takes a selfie with children at the field hospital where he volunteered in Gaza. (Photo credit: Dr. Mohammed Subeh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And so what was your path from? From that to the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was a big light switch that turned on for me. I actually wasn’t very, didn’t do well academically in elementary school because I was just so again, I was very confused about what was happening in my life. And so high school for me was very different. It was all about not only doing well academically and learning as much as I can, but also putting my values into action. I was lucky in my final year to be mentored by an ER local ER physician from the Bay area. That was my first exposure to the Bay area and led me to apply to Stanford, where I did the majority of my education, undergrad and grad school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now you live in the South Bay and, you have a family of your own now, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. So we live in Saratoga. My wife and I and our two boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When did you decide that you wanted to go to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So I have family in Gaza, aunts, cousins, their children, and we talk on a monthly basis. And you kind of understand what the health care infrastructure looked like, just that baseline, which is not that great, especially under the nearly two decades siege. Because, so our conversation was around like, how can we help? Like, what can we do? Even if it’s a small minute thing that, you know, some way we can move the needle and then you kind of fast forward to, October of last year and the health care infrastructure started, being decimated. You know, from day one. And I remember the first week my wife, I was in an E.R. shift, and my wife sent me a message and said, hey, you should really look into these potential hospital ships that are they’re thinking of sending over to Gaza to serve the people. One. It sent me the message that we’re all on board as a family. Like, we got to go do this. And second, it made me really be much more active in trying to pursue whatever medical mission that’s going to allow me to go there and serve the people in Russia. Once that opportunity came to me, I definitely there was no hesitation. I took it on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Were you afraid before you left?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Do you mean it? Was I afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>For your own safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My own safety? I never let that paralyze my decision making. From a young age, my parents always taught us. We’re all going to die one day. Every human being is going to die. We don’t know when, where, how, but we’re going to die. And you can’t let that fear of death paralyze your ability to share the gifts that God has given you to the world. And it’s our responsibility to not only be aware of those gifts and nurture those gifts, but also make sure that they’re put into action and bring bring about a better world around us. And so that was always front and center for me and my decision to go to Gaza. My biggest fear actually was my biggest worry was making sure I tied up any loose ends. We actually my family runs a coffee roaster in the South Bay as well. And I roast for, you know, roast coffee on my in my time and your abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Free time from your regular job as an air doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>But it was, it’s actually one of the things that brings me a lot of fulfillment, because it was, a project that my son, my son and I started together. So kind of going back to your question, the fear was really around making sure, you know, my absence did not, hinder any operation I was leaving behind. And, to me, fearing that I would be a burden on the system, that I go there and be a burden on the people there, and I never wanted that to happen. Death injury never was really front and center for me and, intentionally did not let it be because, yes, there I always had that risk. Right. And it’s a real risk. But we still have to do our part. And that’s what led me to, you know, move on and keep going on this medical mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your journey into Gaza like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I flew into Cairo like everyone, and the only way into Gaza right now is through Rafah, which is on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you’re approaching the Rafah crossing. There are miles upon miles of trucks that are parked there waiting to be let in. As soon as you get out of the vehicle and go into the, Egyptian side of the border. You start hearing these drones above your head, not too far away. And these drones are in the form of these reconnaissance planes that are obtaining information of what’s happening on the ground, also outfitted with missiles and quadcopters, which are drones that are outfitted with machine guns. And you kind of constantly hear that, kind of like this annoying hornet that is buzzing around your head, and that doesn’t stop until you exit. That’s constantly there. After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, is this really 2024? Is this earth right now? People were just with torn up clothes, no shoes dirty, no access to clean water, trying to just look through trash. You have people building fires so they can provide heating for their families or cook something, whatever they have access to. And, you start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it’s just shakes the whole vehicle. For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you remember the first person you met when you finally got there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first encounter with a Palestinian. Was this older gentleman. Torn up clothes. The sandals were torn up and he approached me smiling. And he handed me two cookies that he had. And he said, I want you to have this. And I said, I was so bewildered. I was like this gentleman who I know doesn’t have much. He’s giving me two cookies that he has. And I said, no, Hummel, I’m going. Arabic means uncle. I know I’m not. You know, I don’t need this, you know, keep it for for yourself. And he said, no, I want you to have this. I’m so happy you’re here. Thank you for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What life was like at the field hospital. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your first day and where were you based?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first day in Toronto was the 14th, February. I was based in Russia, so we set up a field hospital. You know, we go to a plot of land, and we set up tents, and we try to operate out of those tents to see patients and offer different services depending on what we can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Once you’re there and you’re seeing patients. What was a regular day like for you? Was there such a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was no normal day. There was no like, this is how my day looked like. I was at the field hospital 24 seven. I would start off at 430 or 5 a.m. and, I will start my day with journaling. I would journal every day because I had to get my emotions, my thoughts down on paper A to allow me to be able to function. We set up the hospital in January and anticipated about 40 to 50 patients that we’d see on a daily basis. The week I left, we were seeing up to 1000 patients a day, and we found that we needed to really offer all different types of services, many of which we really didn’t have access to or we couldn’t do at 100%. You know, things as basic as rubbing alcohol. For a long time, we did not have. When we did end up getting rubbing alcohol, we had to dilute it from 70% to 7% to make it last as long as possible, because we didn’t know when anymore would be allowed in. We had no access to ventilators, so ventilators are very important for our patients coming in with respiratory distress, respiratory failure. And so we had no means to intubate a patient to put them on a breathing machine, because we had no breathing machines. We actually had very little supplemental oxygen. Medications were very sparse. Sometimes we had antibiotics. Sometimes we didn’t. How many times we didn’t have Tylenol? Ibuprofen. So you have children coming in with febrile seizures. You have no way to bring down their their temperature. Anesthetics, pain medicines. We were doing for a long time major procedures with just ketamine. Ketamine is a medicine that dissociates the mind from the body. And we’re opening people’s chests, their abdomens, resetting intestines, resetting their spleens, all with ketamine. I remember that there was a seven year old girl, eight year old girl named Reema, who had been shot outside of her tent as she was playing outside of her tent. And we had to, she had to undergo, major surgery, open up her abdomen, take out a large portion of her intestines that was injured, repair her urinary bladder. I remember that night after the surgery, she was in excruciating pain, screaming, crying. We had no pain medicines for her. I you know, I would see patients also with medical emergencies. Just things we would see here strokes, heart attacks and not be able to do anything because there are no medications or supplies. There’s no nothing to do for them unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where most of your patients. Children, elders. Whole range?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I would say, so about 70% of our cases were trauma patients. The rest were medical emergencies. And, you know, things, people coming in with strokes, sepsis, heart attack. Of the 70%. A large majority were children. Over half were children coming in with shrapnel injuries, gunshot wounds mangled, extremities dead. I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me. Mothers, family members, screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to, I wasn’t prepared to see. You know, I would get these mule drawn carriages bringing me, piles of bodies that I had to go through and figure out. Is there any life left in this body? And I have to put them in body bags. Many of these bodies would come to me like a half skull with a spine, torso, intestines, and have to put those in a body bag and prepare for burial. That’s not something we’ve ever been trained to do. Yet that was a daily, experience for me in Russia. And go. You go through a lot of emotions while they’re on the ground, but it became very frustrating after witnessing and seeing the miles upon miles of a trucks just a few miles away, those trucks holding all the supplies and medications that we could save these people’s lives and do no harm is our main motto in medicine. And, yet we weren’t able to provide that basic care. There is no no, like, one flavor of the day for all of us. The only constant for me was, aside from the atrocities I was seeing, was the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there any specific people you met or moments of joy, I suppose. Amid all the suffering that still stick with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So many people. I think the one that just comes to mind automatically for me right now is, a young boy named Ennis. And this is seven years old. He witnessed his entire family being killed. His only surviving family members is uncle, who is about 30 years old, and niece, is one of the children we housed in our field hospital. As he awaits, evacuation for definitive treatment of his shattered tibia, his shinbone. And, and this is like an old soul. He would always talk to me, and I would talk to him if he had so much wisdom. And he, carried himself in such a different way than any other child I interacted with. And he would always bring a smile to my face. He would call me always Doctor Mohammad. Doctor Mohammad, come. Come sit with me. Let’s talk or communicate with me at the end of the day. And it always would fill up my bucket. There is a night where a young boy had come in and found out that his cousin, who was his best friend, had been killed. And this young boy’s name is Maher, 11 years old, and he was just so distraught, crying and crying. And he said, why? Why did they have to kill Faizan? He’s my best friend. I loved Faisal so much. Why did they have to kill him? Anything I would say or do like didn’t seem sufficient to console him. I hugged him and I would tell him, you know, it’s okay. He’s he’s in gender. He’s in heaven. You know, I took him outside. We were walking around the field hospital and as he was crying, some of these children were housed on their crutches and walkers kind of come over quickly and they say, what’s what’s going on? Why is he crying? And I say, you know, Matt had just found out his cousin was killed, and they all hugged him and they consoled him and said, it’s okay. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Show gratitude. And one of the young boys said to him, you know, in the Koran, Allah tells us that the believers and the patient ones are the ones that when they’re tried with difficult times, say in Elohim, well, you know, like you ride your own to Allah we belong and to Allah we will return. And that was the thing that helped me. I had kind of. Kind of feel the soothing tranquility and peace. And that was offered from a child who is no more than ten years old. It just showed me that these children have developed such a different perspective in terms of healing and coping, that many of us here in our luxuries don’t even have an ounce of that. It made my mission that much more precious and unique for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When was your last day in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So our missions are outfitted with like a sometime before and after the entry and exit because of, all the logistics of getting in. So I returned on the 15th of March. So it was, a day and a half before that that I exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Was it hard to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Very difficult. I’m having withdrawal. I’m having like a Gaza withdrawal because of, you know, that sense of purpose that I had. While they’re on the ground? Definitely. Incrementally. Feels like it goes away when you’re here. That sense of perspective on life, feeling like you’re having impact. I definitely miss the people. I so miss the people. There was a profound feeling of guilt, of leaving, because it’s like I have this luxury of leaving. Like I can choose one to leave. People can’t choose when to leave. I almost felt embarrassed. Hey, I was leaving and people, everyone would tell me like, we’re going to miss you so much. Please don’t forget us. Please come back. It just felt like. Is this, like tug of war in the heart?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you hope to go back to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m in the process of coordinating my second mission and making sure that it’s impactful. More importantly, how I can best help the population there. That’s that’s my kind of my litmus test right now. Where’s my presence? Kind of marginally most beneficial for the population there in right now and making a decision around that question. It’s really having vision and purpose to me going. I feel like there’s so much to be done. There’s so much to be done in bringing awareness to our local communities about what’s happening. And you sit with families there and you realize families here have families there. Everybody’s the same. We’re all human beings, and we have this shared collective humanity. Everybody wants the best for their children, wants the best for themselves. We can stop the harm like this. This is manmade. People have a right to live in their homes peacefully. To live with dignity. To live with self-determination. But these are human rights, and we all enjoy them as we should. And we just have to make sure that we’re not ever complicit in taking those rights away from other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, doctor, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Dr. Mohammad Subeh. An emergency room doctor based in Saratoga. This episode was pitched, cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. It was scored by Dana Cronin. Music courtesy of first. Com Music and Audio Network. The Bay is a production of KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. It’s made by Me, Maria Esquinca, and host Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Jen Chien is our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger is our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña is our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad is our podcast engagement intern. And KQED chief content officer is Holly Kernan. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician from the South Bay, recently returned from a volunteer medical mission to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. 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The region’s health care infrastructure has been decimated, as a mere 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are considered operational. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician from the South Bay, recently returned from a volunteer medical mission to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. In this episode, he talks about why he went, what he saw, and the people he met.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5444138415&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence. Please take care while listening. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. An estimated 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. At least 13,000 have been children. The Israeli military’s attack on Gaza has also decimated the region’s health care system and put aid workers in danger. An estimated 12 out of 36 hospitals are currently operational. On Monday, Israeli forces completed a two week raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, claiming it had served as a base for Hamas militants. That same day, seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Right now, the need for any help is dire. And despite this recent news, there are still volunteers who are putting themselves in harm’s way to provide food and medical assistance. One of them came from right here in the Bay area. Dr. Mohammad Subeh Is an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, and in February he went to the city of Rafah for a five week volunteer medical mission. Today, I sit down with Doctor Suba to talk about why he went to Gaza and what he wants all of us to know about what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My name is Mohammad Subeh. I’m an emergency physician. I was born to a family that was forcibly displaced from Palestine and a village called the lid in 1948. So they sought refuge in the small country of Kuwait, where I was born in 1984. And I lived, the first six years of my life in Kuwait. As a Palestinian born in Kuwait. You’re not a citizen of Kuwait. So I always held this a travel document that said I was stateless. And so in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we try to ride out the war for almost two months before we had to abruptly leave as my father was going to be killed. And that was from an early age, my first exposure to war, death, destruction. When we left Kuwait, we came to the United States as refugees. And that in and of itself was a life changing experience. I grew up in Los Angeles and, rougher area of Los Angeles and, in the 90s, surrounded by gang violence, surrounded by really tough living conditions. My elementary school wasn’t too far from our apartment, and very frequently I would hear choppers, you know, police helicopters overhead with the floodlights, looking for people, but also a different sound for the LA County medevac helicopters that would come and land in our elementary school field to pick up trauma patients. And so any time I would hear that from the distance, I would just take off and just run towards the field and just watch the helicopter land and pick up a patient. And I was always very, very much in awe of the team that was working on the helicopter. And I said, you know, I want to do that. I remember at a young age, just looking up at the sky and thinking, you know, what am I doing here? Why did I go through all those difficult moments, you know, at a young age? I just remember kind of really shaping my foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr.Mohammed Subeh takes a selfie with children at the field hospital where he volunteered in Gaza. (Photo credit: Dr. Mohammed Subeh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And so what was your path from? From that to the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was a big light switch that turned on for me. I actually wasn’t very, didn’t do well academically in elementary school because I was just so again, I was very confused about what was happening in my life. And so high school for me was very different. It was all about not only doing well academically and learning as much as I can, but also putting my values into action. I was lucky in my final year to be mentored by an ER local ER physician from the Bay area. That was my first exposure to the Bay area and led me to apply to Stanford, where I did the majority of my education, undergrad and grad school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now you live in the South Bay and, you have a family of your own now, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. So we live in Saratoga. My wife and I and our two boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When did you decide that you wanted to go to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So I have family in Gaza, aunts, cousins, their children, and we talk on a monthly basis. And you kind of understand what the health care infrastructure looked like, just that baseline, which is not that great, especially under the nearly two decades siege. Because, so our conversation was around like, how can we help? Like, what can we do? Even if it’s a small minute thing that, you know, some way we can move the needle and then you kind of fast forward to, October of last year and the health care infrastructure started, being decimated. You know, from day one. And I remember the first week my wife, I was in an E.R. shift, and my wife sent me a message and said, hey, you should really look into these potential hospital ships that are they’re thinking of sending over to Gaza to serve the people. One. It sent me the message that we’re all on board as a family. Like, we got to go do this. And second, it made me really be much more active in trying to pursue whatever medical mission that’s going to allow me to go there and serve the people in Russia. Once that opportunity came to me, I definitely there was no hesitation. I took it on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Were you afraid before you left?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Do you mean it? Was I afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>For your own safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My own safety? I never let that paralyze my decision making. From a young age, my parents always taught us. We’re all going to die one day. Every human being is going to die. We don’t know when, where, how, but we’re going to die. And you can’t let that fear of death paralyze your ability to share the gifts that God has given you to the world. And it’s our responsibility to not only be aware of those gifts and nurture those gifts, but also make sure that they’re put into action and bring bring about a better world around us. And so that was always front and center for me and my decision to go to Gaza. My biggest fear actually was my biggest worry was making sure I tied up any loose ends. We actually my family runs a coffee roaster in the South Bay as well. And I roast for, you know, roast coffee on my in my time and your abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Free time from your regular job as an air doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>But it was, it’s actually one of the things that brings me a lot of fulfillment, because it was, a project that my son, my son and I started together. So kind of going back to your question, the fear was really around making sure, you know, my absence did not, hinder any operation I was leaving behind. And, to me, fearing that I would be a burden on the system, that I go there and be a burden on the people there, and I never wanted that to happen. Death injury never was really front and center for me and, intentionally did not let it be because, yes, there I always had that risk. Right. And it’s a real risk. But we still have to do our part. And that’s what led me to, you know, move on and keep going on this medical mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your journey into Gaza like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I flew into Cairo like everyone, and the only way into Gaza right now is through Rafah, which is on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you’re approaching the Rafah crossing. There are miles upon miles of trucks that are parked there waiting to be let in. As soon as you get out of the vehicle and go into the, Egyptian side of the border. You start hearing these drones above your head, not too far away. And these drones are in the form of these reconnaissance planes that are obtaining information of what’s happening on the ground, also outfitted with missiles and quadcopters, which are drones that are outfitted with machine guns. And you kind of constantly hear that, kind of like this annoying hornet that is buzzing around your head, and that doesn’t stop until you exit. That’s constantly there. After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, is this really 2024? Is this earth right now? People were just with torn up clothes, no shoes dirty, no access to clean water, trying to just look through trash. You have people building fires so they can provide heating for their families or cook something, whatever they have access to. And, you start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it’s just shakes the whole vehicle. For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you remember the first person you met when you finally got there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first encounter with a Palestinian. Was this older gentleman. Torn up clothes. The sandals were torn up and he approached me smiling. And he handed me two cookies that he had. And he said, I want you to have this. And I said, I was so bewildered. I was like this gentleman who I know doesn’t have much. He’s giving me two cookies that he has. And I said, no, Hummel, I’m going. Arabic means uncle. I know I’m not. You know, I don’t need this, you know, keep it for for yourself. And he said, no, I want you to have this. I’m so happy you’re here. Thank you for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What life was like at the field hospital. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your first day and where were you based?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first day in Toronto was the 14th, February. I was based in Russia, so we set up a field hospital. You know, we go to a plot of land, and we set up tents, and we try to operate out of those tents to see patients and offer different services depending on what we can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Once you’re there and you’re seeing patients. What was a regular day like for you? Was there such a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was no normal day. There was no like, this is how my day looked like. I was at the field hospital 24 seven. I would start off at 430 or 5 a.m. and, I will start my day with journaling. I would journal every day because I had to get my emotions, my thoughts down on paper A to allow me to be able to function. We set up the hospital in January and anticipated about 40 to 50 patients that we’d see on a daily basis. The week I left, we were seeing up to 1000 patients a day, and we found that we needed to really offer all different types of services, many of which we really didn’t have access to or we couldn’t do at 100%. You know, things as basic as rubbing alcohol. For a long time, we did not have. When we did end up getting rubbing alcohol, we had to dilute it from 70% to 7% to make it last as long as possible, because we didn’t know when anymore would be allowed in. We had no access to ventilators, so ventilators are very important for our patients coming in with respiratory distress, respiratory failure. And so we had no means to intubate a patient to put them on a breathing machine, because we had no breathing machines. We actually had very little supplemental oxygen. Medications were very sparse. Sometimes we had antibiotics. Sometimes we didn’t. How many times we didn’t have Tylenol? Ibuprofen. So you have children coming in with febrile seizures. You have no way to bring down their their temperature. Anesthetics, pain medicines. We were doing for a long time major procedures with just ketamine. Ketamine is a medicine that dissociates the mind from the body. And we’re opening people’s chests, their abdomens, resetting intestines, resetting their spleens, all with ketamine. I remember that there was a seven year old girl, eight year old girl named Reema, who had been shot outside of her tent as she was playing outside of her tent. And we had to, she had to undergo, major surgery, open up her abdomen, take out a large portion of her intestines that was injured, repair her urinary bladder. I remember that night after the surgery, she was in excruciating pain, screaming, crying. We had no pain medicines for her. I you know, I would see patients also with medical emergencies. Just things we would see here strokes, heart attacks and not be able to do anything because there are no medications or supplies. There’s no nothing to do for them unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where most of your patients. Children, elders. Whole range?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I would say, so about 70% of our cases were trauma patients. The rest were medical emergencies. And, you know, things, people coming in with strokes, sepsis, heart attack. Of the 70%. A large majority were children. Over half were children coming in with shrapnel injuries, gunshot wounds mangled, extremities dead. I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me. Mothers, family members, screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to, I wasn’t prepared to see. You know, I would get these mule drawn carriages bringing me, piles of bodies that I had to go through and figure out. Is there any life left in this body? And I have to put them in body bags. Many of these bodies would come to me like a half skull with a spine, torso, intestines, and have to put those in a body bag and prepare for burial. That’s not something we’ve ever been trained to do. Yet that was a daily, experience for me in Russia. And go. You go through a lot of emotions while they’re on the ground, but it became very frustrating after witnessing and seeing the miles upon miles of a trucks just a few miles away, those trucks holding all the supplies and medications that we could save these people’s lives and do no harm is our main motto in medicine. And, yet we weren’t able to provide that basic care. There is no no, like, one flavor of the day for all of us. The only constant for me was, aside from the atrocities I was seeing, was the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there any specific people you met or moments of joy, I suppose. Amid all the suffering that still stick with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So many people. I think the one that just comes to mind automatically for me right now is, a young boy named Ennis. And this is seven years old. He witnessed his entire family being killed. His only surviving family members is uncle, who is about 30 years old, and niece, is one of the children we housed in our field hospital. As he awaits, evacuation for definitive treatment of his shattered tibia, his shinbone. And, and this is like an old soul. He would always talk to me, and I would talk to him if he had so much wisdom. And he, carried himself in such a different way than any other child I interacted with. And he would always bring a smile to my face. He would call me always Doctor Mohammad. Doctor Mohammad, come. Come sit with me. Let’s talk or communicate with me at the end of the day. And it always would fill up my bucket. There is a night where a young boy had come in and found out that his cousin, who was his best friend, had been killed. And this young boy’s name is Maher, 11 years old, and he was just so distraught, crying and crying. And he said, why? Why did they have to kill Faizan? He’s my best friend. I loved Faisal so much. Why did they have to kill him? Anything I would say or do like didn’t seem sufficient to console him. I hugged him and I would tell him, you know, it’s okay. He’s he’s in gender. He’s in heaven. You know, I took him outside. We were walking around the field hospital and as he was crying, some of these children were housed on their crutches and walkers kind of come over quickly and they say, what’s what’s going on? Why is he crying? And I say, you know, Matt had just found out his cousin was killed, and they all hugged him and they consoled him and said, it’s okay. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Show gratitude. And one of the young boys said to him, you know, in the Koran, Allah tells us that the believers and the patient ones are the ones that when they’re tried with difficult times, say in Elohim, well, you know, like you ride your own to Allah we belong and to Allah we will return. And that was the thing that helped me. I had kind of. Kind of feel the soothing tranquility and peace. And that was offered from a child who is no more than ten years old. It just showed me that these children have developed such a different perspective in terms of healing and coping, that many of us here in our luxuries don’t even have an ounce of that. It made my mission that much more precious and unique for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When was your last day in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So our missions are outfitted with like a sometime before and after the entry and exit because of, all the logistics of getting in. So I returned on the 15th of March. So it was, a day and a half before that that I exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Was it hard to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Very difficult. I’m having withdrawal. I’m having like a Gaza withdrawal because of, you know, that sense of purpose that I had. While they’re on the ground? Definitely. Incrementally. Feels like it goes away when you’re here. That sense of perspective on life, feeling like you’re having impact. I definitely miss the people. I so miss the people. There was a profound feeling of guilt, of leaving, because it’s like I have this luxury of leaving. Like I can choose one to leave. People can’t choose when to leave. I almost felt embarrassed. Hey, I was leaving and people, everyone would tell me like, we’re going to miss you so much. Please don’t forget us. Please come back. It just felt like. Is this, like tug of war in the heart?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you hope to go back to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m in the process of coordinating my second mission and making sure that it’s impactful. More importantly, how I can best help the population there. That’s that’s my kind of my litmus test right now. Where’s my presence? Kind of marginally most beneficial for the population there in right now and making a decision around that question. It’s really having vision and purpose to me going. I feel like there’s so much to be done. There’s so much to be done in bringing awareness to our local communities about what’s happening. And you sit with families there and you realize families here have families there. Everybody’s the same. We’re all human beings, and we have this shared collective humanity. Everybody wants the best for their children, wants the best for themselves. We can stop the harm like this. This is manmade. People have a right to live in their homes peacefully. To live with dignity. To live with self-determination. But these are human rights, and we all enjoy them as we should. And we just have to make sure that we’re not ever complicit in taking those rights away from other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, doctor, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Dr. Mohammad Subeh. An emergency room doctor based in Saratoga. This episode was pitched, cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. It was scored by Dana Cronin. Music courtesy of first. Com Music and Audio Network. The Bay is a production of KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. It’s made by Me, Maria Esquinca, and host Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Jen Chien is our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger is our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña is our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad is our podcast engagement intern. And KQED chief content officer is Holly Kernan. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza","authors":["11649","11802","11362"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6631","news_33812","news_33673","news_29475","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11981878","label":"source_news_11981941"},"news_11981650":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981650","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981650","score":null,"sort":[1712154614000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california","title":"World Central Kitchen Has Fed Crisis Zones for Years, Including in California","publishDate":1712154614,"format":"standard","headTitle":"World Central Kitchen Has Fed Crisis Zones for Years, Including in California | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The aid group World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that the team was hit while leaving a warehouse where they had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza by sea, a route that World Central Kitchen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238355996/gaza-aid-ship-world-central-kitchen\">helped establish\u003c/a> just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said the convoy had been traveling in a deconflicted zone, in armored cars branded with their logo, and after coordinating movements with Israel’s military, which now says it will investigate “at the highest levels.” Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen, called it a “targeted attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not only an attack against WCK; this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-based organization, which was founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife Patricia in 2010, delivers food to people on the front lines of natural and humanitarian disasters around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/middle-east-2023\">working on the ground\u003c/a> in the region since Hamas\u003cstrong>–\u003c/strong>led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed more than 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government. Israeli’s military response in Gaza has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, displaced an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2024-04/the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-15.php\">1.7 million\u003c/a> and left the territory on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\"> brink of famine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/wck-in-gaza\">said last week\u003c/a> that it had provided some 42 million meals to people in Gaza over 175 days, calling the situation there “the most dire we’ve ever seen or experienced in our 15-year history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more people, particularly children, are dying of starvation,” Gore and Andrés said in a joint statement. “We’ve known for months that famine is imminent, and the situation is getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/29/1241148952/gaza-hunger-famine-aid-israel-hamas-war\">food scarce and malnutrition rising\u003c/a>, international experts have warned that some 30% of Gaza’s population is already facing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/22/1239276897/theres-already-catastrophic-hunger-in-gaza-who-decides-when-to-call-it-a-famine\">catastrophic” levels of hunger\u003c/a> and that northern Gaza could \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\">officially see famine\u003c/a> anytime between now and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101905110 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/03/Gaza-Famine-Getty-Images-crop-1020x574.jpg']World Central Kitchen isn’t the only organization working to get food into Gaza, where Israeli border restrictions, logistical challenges and ongoing fighting severely limit aid deliveries. However, it has played a major role in the humanitarian response, including sending two shipments of hundreds of tons of food to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second such shipment — stocked with shelf-stable items like rice, canned vegetables and proteins, as well as dates in honor of Ramadan — \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/en-us/news/sea-aid-2\">left Cyprus on Saturday\u003c/a>. The Cypriot foreign ministry said Tuesday that some 100 tons of aid had been unloaded in Gaza before WCK announced it was pausing its operations in the enclave, and the remaining 240 tons would be returned to Cyprus, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-02-2024-9bdf66771b62af37d85a2800f71c0e6c\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days ago, WCK vowed to keep pushing to get food into Gaza “until there is substantial aid getting in via land.” Now those plans are up in the air — it says it will be “making decisions about the future of our work soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, here’s what else to know about the organization:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>WCK brings food to the front lines of disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, wait to receive a hot meal from volunteers of World Central Kitchen after living without electricity for more than four months on Dec. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrés is a Spanish-American chef known for his numerous U.S. restaurants, PBS travel series and humanitarian work of over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He traveled to Haiti after it was struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010, cooking for displaced people in camps — an ad hoc relief mission that helped set World Central Kitchen in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK has responded to a long list of natural and man-made disasters ever since, working with local partners on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen\"]‘This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war.’[/pullquote]It served more than 20,000 meals in the Houston area after \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/20000-meals-harvey\">Hurricane Harvey\u003c/a> in 2017 and another 3.7 million across Puerto Rico in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/wck-hurricane-maria\">Hurricane Maria\u003c/a>, for which Andrés was named the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/jose-andres-named-2018-humanitarian-of-the-year\">James Beard humanitarian\u003c/a> of the year in 2018 (seven years after winning its “outstanding chef” award).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1242221379/world-central-kitchen-history-about#646242247/after-hurricane-maria-chef-jos-andr-s-had-a-crazy-dream-to-feed-puerto-rico\">He told NPR \u003c/a>that same year that he expected to see more chefs getting involved in disaster response, since “restaurant people” are particularly well suited to managing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are very good at is understanding the problem and adapting,” he said. “And so a problem becomes an opportunity … We’re practical. We’re efficient. And we can do it quicker, faster and better than anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/story\">organization has grown\u003c/a> substantially over the years and expanded its efforts to focus not only on disaster response but also resilience training and longer-term community needs, including opening a culinary school in Port-au-Prince several years after the earthquake that started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fed survivors of major wildfires in \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforcalifornia-camp-fire-and-woolsey-fire-update\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/hawaii-wildfires-2023\">Hawaii\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforfedsupdate\">federal workers in D.C.\u003c/a> during the 2019 government shutdown and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bamco.com/blog/bon-appetit-joins-forces-with-world-central-kitchen-to-feed-stranded-cruise-ship-passengers/\">stranded cruise ship passengers\u003c/a> during the early days of the \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/chefs-for-america\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, throughout which it provided food for front-line workers and other vulnerable groups in the U.S. as well as Spain, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It delivered hot meals and fresh produce to a Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood after 10 people were killed in a \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/buffalo-newyork\">mass shooting at a supermarket\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/es-es/relief/uvalde-texas\">distributed food\u003c/a> after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, WCK provided more than \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/turkiye-syria-earthquakes\">20 million meals\u003c/a> to people impacted by the dual earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last April. It has also responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/timeline/ukraine-2-years\">millions of meals to people there\u003c/a>, first in hard-hit population centers and neighboring countries, and increasingly in more remote and vulnerable areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This is not the first time WCK has lost workers in a conflict zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men are hugging, one man's shirt reads "Relief Team."\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers hug on Tuesday after recovering the bodies of World Central Kitchen staff who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza. \u003ccite>(Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>World Central Kitchen has lost workers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several team members have been killed in Ukraine in recent years, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said in June that a 60-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/remembering-igor\">volunteer named Igor\u003c/a> was killed when Russian shelling hit his apartment building in Kharkiv and that two other volunteers, Sardor and Viktoria, had been killed in a strike in Chuhuiv the previous July. (The group only identified them by their first names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11976509,news_11978744,forum_2010101904469\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221942443/gaza-food-crisis-is-nothing-like-anything-chef-jose-andres-had-seen-before\">Andrés told NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December that WCK had lost a total of six people in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a cook, as a chef, when I founded this organization, I never expected that this will happen,” he said. “And I almost wanted to pull World Central Kitchen immediately out of Ukraine. But the locals told me: ‘José, You cannot leave. We need you. We need your organization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conflict zones are inherently dangerous, the organization has also faced criticism over its safety record in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-08/jose-andres-world-central-kitchen-charity-faces-internal-crisis?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em> published a story\u003c/a> alleging — among other accusations — that Andrés looked the other way on matters of staff safety, including demanding that staff send a food truck into parts of Turkey that local officials had declared “no-gos” due to landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés told NPR that disaster and war zones come with risks, and the organization doesn’t “push anybody to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s people that maybe they don’t feel safe doing this job, but then they shouldn’t be in these kind of humanitarian situations,” he added. “But from there to say that José Andrés puts people in danger — I’d never be able to tell anybody to do what I’m not willing to do on my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The organization has won awards and faced upheaval\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A white helicopter on a tarmac with people taking cases and boxes out of it, and another peron in foreground arranging boxes of food and supplies.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Central Kitchen brought food to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, one of many natural disasters to which it responded. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK has earned plenty of accolades for its work over the years but has also recently weathered a string of scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and has twice been named one of \u003cem>TIME\u003c/em>‘s most influential people among them. A handful of Democratic lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4439439-democrats-nominate-chef-jose-andres-for-nobel-peace-prize/\">nominated WCK and Andrés\u003c/a> himself for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit — which operates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/world-central-kitchen/\">non-governmental contributions\u003c/a> — has grown exponentially since its founding. It brought in \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/273521132/202343199349310414/full\">more than $500 million\u003c/a> in contributions and grants in 2022, which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/middleeast/what-is-world-central-kitchen.html\">\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a> was a fourfold increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While WCK gets perfect scores on watchdog sites like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, there have been some concerns and criticisms raised recently about where exactly that money is going — including from within the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/working-with-the-fierce-urgency-of-now\">announced last June\u003c/a> that as it was spending some $2 million a day in Ukraine, it “learned of suspected instances of fraud” and commissioned a law firm to investigate. It ultimately confirmed instances of fraud that amounted to several million dollars, which the organization called “unacceptable, but still represents a tiny percentage of the $432 million we spent feeding people impacted by war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It acknowledged it could have invested more in its internal operations to discover “bad actors” and said it was making changes among personnel and partners in both Ukraine and Turkey as a result — as well as implementing additional safeguards to combat fraud, like an anonymous tip line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has also grown in size, now counting thousands of volunteers and 94 employees, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/world-central-kitchen,273521132/\">2022 filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humanitarian leaders are condemning the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men with hats and blue vests speak behind a wreckage.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations staff members gather around the car of the US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK said the seven workers killed in the Israeli strike included a Palestinian and citizens of Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Canada — with one a dual citizen of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. and foreign leaders, as well as international organizations, are offering their condolences and condemnations and calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli military strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNLazzarini/status/1775061743615557935?s=20\">Philippe Lazzarini\u003c/a>, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — which has lost at least \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1775158002405761135?s=20\">176 employees\u003c/a> in Gaza — said the organization provides “much-needed food assistance to a starving population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said humanitarian workers are #NotATarget, a hashtag that other human rights groups and public officials are using in their posts about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1774947232539644286?s=20\">wrote on X\u003c/a> that he is heartbroken and grieving for the loved ones of those killed, whom he described as “people … angels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing,” he said. “It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The U.S.-based nonprofit founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife announced a pause to its Gaza aid operations after an Israeli strike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers on April 1.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712186926,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2110},"headData":{"title":"World Central Kitchen Has Fed Crisis Zones for Years, Including in California | KQED","description":"The U.S.-based nonprofit founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife announced a pause to its Gaza aid operations after an Israeli strike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers on April 1.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"World Central Kitchen Has Fed Crisis Zones for Years, Including in California","datePublished":"2024-04-03T14:30:14.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-03T23:28:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/776048102/rachel-treisman\">Rachel Treisman\u003c/a>","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The aid group World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that the team was hit while leaving a warehouse where they had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza by sea, a route that World Central Kitchen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238355996/gaza-aid-ship-world-central-kitchen\">helped establish\u003c/a> just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said the convoy had been traveling in a deconflicted zone, in armored cars branded with their logo, and after coordinating movements with Israel’s military, which now says it will investigate “at the highest levels.” Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen, called it a “targeted attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not only an attack against WCK; this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-based organization, which was founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife Patricia in 2010, delivers food to people on the front lines of natural and humanitarian disasters around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/middle-east-2023\">working on the ground\u003c/a> in the region since Hamas\u003cstrong>–\u003c/strong>led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed more than 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government. Israeli’s military response in Gaza has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, displaced an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2024-04/the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-15.php\">1.7 million\u003c/a> and left the territory on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\"> brink of famine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/wck-in-gaza\">said last week\u003c/a> that it had provided some 42 million meals to people in Gaza over 175 days, calling the situation there “the most dire we’ve ever seen or experienced in our 15-year history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more people, particularly children, are dying of starvation,” Gore and Andrés said in a joint statement. “We’ve known for months that famine is imminent, and the situation is getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/29/1241148952/gaza-hunger-famine-aid-israel-hamas-war\">food scarce and malnutrition rising\u003c/a>, international experts have warned that some 30% of Gaza’s population is already facing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/22/1239276897/theres-already-catastrophic-hunger-in-gaza-who-decides-when-to-call-it-a-famine\">catastrophic” levels of hunger\u003c/a> and that northern Gaza could \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\">officially see famine\u003c/a> anytime between now and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101905110","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/03/Gaza-Famine-Getty-Images-crop-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>World Central Kitchen isn’t the only organization working to get food into Gaza, where Israeli border restrictions, logistical challenges and ongoing fighting severely limit aid deliveries. However, it has played a major role in the humanitarian response, including sending two shipments of hundreds of tons of food to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second such shipment — stocked with shelf-stable items like rice, canned vegetables and proteins, as well as dates in honor of Ramadan — \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/en-us/news/sea-aid-2\">left Cyprus on Saturday\u003c/a>. The Cypriot foreign ministry said Tuesday that some 100 tons of aid had been unloaded in Gaza before WCK announced it was pausing its operations in the enclave, and the remaining 240 tons would be returned to Cyprus, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-02-2024-9bdf66771b62af37d85a2800f71c0e6c\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days ago, WCK vowed to keep pushing to get food into Gaza “until there is substantial aid getting in via land.” Now those plans are up in the air — it says it will be “making decisions about the future of our work soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, here’s what else to know about the organization:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>WCK brings food to the front lines of disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, wait to receive a hot meal from volunteers of World Central Kitchen after living without electricity for more than four months on Dec. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrés is a Spanish-American chef known for his numerous U.S. restaurants, PBS travel series and humanitarian work of over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He traveled to Haiti after it was struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010, cooking for displaced people in camps — an ad hoc relief mission that helped set World Central Kitchen in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK has responded to a long list of natural and man-made disasters ever since, working with local partners on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It served more than 20,000 meals in the Houston area after \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/20000-meals-harvey\">Hurricane Harvey\u003c/a> in 2017 and another 3.7 million across Puerto Rico in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/wck-hurricane-maria\">Hurricane Maria\u003c/a>, for which Andrés was named the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/jose-andres-named-2018-humanitarian-of-the-year\">James Beard humanitarian\u003c/a> of the year in 2018 (seven years after winning its “outstanding chef” award).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1242221379/world-central-kitchen-history-about#646242247/after-hurricane-maria-chef-jos-andr-s-had-a-crazy-dream-to-feed-puerto-rico\">He told NPR \u003c/a>that same year that he expected to see more chefs getting involved in disaster response, since “restaurant people” are particularly well suited to managing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are very good at is understanding the problem and adapting,” he said. “And so a problem becomes an opportunity … We’re practical. We’re efficient. And we can do it quicker, faster and better than anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/story\">organization has grown\u003c/a> substantially over the years and expanded its efforts to focus not only on disaster response but also resilience training and longer-term community needs, including opening a culinary school in Port-au-Prince several years after the earthquake that started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fed survivors of major wildfires in \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforcalifornia-camp-fire-and-woolsey-fire-update\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/hawaii-wildfires-2023\">Hawaii\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforfedsupdate\">federal workers in D.C.\u003c/a> during the 2019 government shutdown and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bamco.com/blog/bon-appetit-joins-forces-with-world-central-kitchen-to-feed-stranded-cruise-ship-passengers/\">stranded cruise ship passengers\u003c/a> during the early days of the \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/chefs-for-america\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, throughout which it provided food for front-line workers and other vulnerable groups in the U.S. as well as Spain, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It delivered hot meals and fresh produce to a Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood after 10 people were killed in a \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/buffalo-newyork\">mass shooting at a supermarket\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/es-es/relief/uvalde-texas\">distributed food\u003c/a> after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, WCK provided more than \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/turkiye-syria-earthquakes\">20 million meals\u003c/a> to people impacted by the dual earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last April. It has also responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/timeline/ukraine-2-years\">millions of meals to people there\u003c/a>, first in hard-hit population centers and neighboring countries, and increasingly in more remote and vulnerable areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This is not the first time WCK has lost workers in a conflict zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men are hugging, one man's shirt reads "Relief Team."\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers hug on Tuesday after recovering the bodies of World Central Kitchen staff who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza. \u003ccite>(Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>World Central Kitchen has lost workers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several team members have been killed in Ukraine in recent years, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said in June that a 60-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/remembering-igor\">volunteer named Igor\u003c/a> was killed when Russian shelling hit his apartment building in Kharkiv and that two other volunteers, Sardor and Viktoria, had been killed in a strike in Chuhuiv the previous July. (The group only identified them by their first names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11976509,news_11978744,forum_2010101904469"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221942443/gaza-food-crisis-is-nothing-like-anything-chef-jose-andres-had-seen-before\">Andrés told NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December that WCK had lost a total of six people in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a cook, as a chef, when I founded this organization, I never expected that this will happen,” he said. “And I almost wanted to pull World Central Kitchen immediately out of Ukraine. But the locals told me: ‘José, You cannot leave. We need you. We need your organization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conflict zones are inherently dangerous, the organization has also faced criticism over its safety record in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-08/jose-andres-world-central-kitchen-charity-faces-internal-crisis?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em> published a story\u003c/a> alleging — among other accusations — that Andrés looked the other way on matters of staff safety, including demanding that staff send a food truck into parts of Turkey that local officials had declared “no-gos” due to landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés told NPR that disaster and war zones come with risks, and the organization doesn’t “push anybody to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s people that maybe they don’t feel safe doing this job, but then they shouldn’t be in these kind of humanitarian situations,” he added. “But from there to say that José Andrés puts people in danger — I’d never be able to tell anybody to do what I’m not willing to do on my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The organization has won awards and faced upheaval\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A white helicopter on a tarmac with people taking cases and boxes out of it, and another peron in foreground arranging boxes of food and supplies.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Central Kitchen brought food to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, one of many natural disasters to which it responded. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK has earned plenty of accolades for its work over the years but has also recently weathered a string of scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and has twice been named one of \u003cem>TIME\u003c/em>‘s most influential people among them. A handful of Democratic lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4439439-democrats-nominate-chef-jose-andres-for-nobel-peace-prize/\">nominated WCK and Andrés\u003c/a> himself for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit — which operates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/world-central-kitchen/\">non-governmental contributions\u003c/a> — has grown exponentially since its founding. It brought in \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/273521132/202343199349310414/full\">more than $500 million\u003c/a> in contributions and grants in 2022, which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/middleeast/what-is-world-central-kitchen.html\">\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a> was a fourfold increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While WCK gets perfect scores on watchdog sites like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, there have been some concerns and criticisms raised recently about where exactly that money is going — including from within the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/working-with-the-fierce-urgency-of-now\">announced last June\u003c/a> that as it was spending some $2 million a day in Ukraine, it “learned of suspected instances of fraud” and commissioned a law firm to investigate. It ultimately confirmed instances of fraud that amounted to several million dollars, which the organization called “unacceptable, but still represents a tiny percentage of the $432 million we spent feeding people impacted by war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It acknowledged it could have invested more in its internal operations to discover “bad actors” and said it was making changes among personnel and partners in both Ukraine and Turkey as a result — as well as implementing additional safeguards to combat fraud, like an anonymous tip line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has also grown in size, now counting thousands of volunteers and 94 employees, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/world-central-kitchen,273521132/\">2022 filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humanitarian leaders are condemning the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men with hats and blue vests speak behind a wreckage.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations staff members gather around the car of the US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK said the seven workers killed in the Israeli strike included a Palestinian and citizens of Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Canada — with one a dual citizen of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. and foreign leaders, as well as international organizations, are offering their condolences and condemnations and calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli military strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNLazzarini/status/1775061743615557935?s=20\">Philippe Lazzarini\u003c/a>, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — which has lost at least \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1775158002405761135?s=20\">176 employees\u003c/a> in Gaza — said the organization provides “much-needed food assistance to a starving population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said humanitarian workers are #NotATarget, a hashtag that other human rights groups and public officials are using in their posts about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1774947232539644286?s=20\">wrote on X\u003c/a> that he is heartbroken and grieving for the loved ones of those killed, whom he described as “people … angels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing,” he said. “It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california","authors":["byline_news_11981650"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6631","news_32406","news_33673","news_29641"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11981653","label":"news_253"},"news_11979450":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979450","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979450","score":null,"sort":[1710450330000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated","title":"How Many Californians Voted 'Ceasefire' on the Primary Ballot? It's Complicated","publishDate":1710450330,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Many Californians Voted ‘Ceasefire’ on the Primary Ballot? It’s Complicated | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Ahead of last week’s March 5 California primary election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">a national campaign called “Vote Ceasefire” urged voters to use their ballots\u003c/a> to send a message on Gaza to President Joe Biden — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236782758/state-of-the-union-address-biden-trump\">whose support of Israel\u003c/a> has caused division among left-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other states, California ballots do not offer an “uncommitted” option. Instead, the Vote Ceasefire campaign suggested that California primary voters write in the phrase “cease-fire” in the blank space below the presidential candidates on their ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But post-election, measuring exactly how many voters in California actually did this has not proved simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national movement in California’s primary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fresno resident Dennis Jeppson is one voter who said he used a write-in on their ballot to send a message on Gaza to Biden. “I’m very much a supporter of Biden,” Jeppson said. “I do think he’s done an excellent job. … It’s just Palestine is a very hard thing to overlook as a voter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeppson said he was motivated to write in “cease-fire” on his ballot by what he described as a constant stream of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/world/palestinians-x-tiktok-instagram-gaza-cec/index.html\">images and videos of “horrifying things” happening in Gaza\u003c/a> on his social media feed — and he said he is not seeing the U.S. doing anything to try and stop the violence actively. “It’s been a very, I feel, blasé response,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaza has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">bombarded by Israeli forces for five months now,\u003c/a> with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234159514/gaza-death-toll-30000-palestinians-israel-hamas-war#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Gaza%20death%20toll%20surpasses%2030%2C000%20but%20it's%20an%20incomplete%20count,under%20the%20weight%20of%20war.\">30,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> killed, according to the most recent numbers from Gaza’s health ministry. The violence has prompted thousands in the Bay Area to march in support of a cease-fire, and a UC Berkeley poll earlier this year found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of registered California voters do not approve of President Biden’s handling of the conflict.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote Ceasefire’s campaign in California was preceded by the “Listen to Michigan” campaign, in which progressives in that state called upon residents to vote “uncommitted” on their Democratic primary ballot to indicate their support of a cease-fire. Michigan — a battleground state home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/stateside/2024-03-01/stateside-podcast-100-000-michiganders-voted-uncommitted\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the Michigan primary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1234822836/kamala-harris-benny-gantz-gaza-cease-fire-israel-hamas\">Vice President Kamala Harris showed support for a six-week temporary cease-fire\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, several senators called upon Biden to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/democrats-biden-israel-letter.html\">stop providing weapons to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Minsky, head of the national group Progressive Democrats of America, attributes those shifts to the Michigan result. “If there wasn’t a public outcry campaign, I don’t know when they ever would have moved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar campaigns have emerged in other states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uncommitted-movement-growing-biden/\">Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington\u003c/a>, each tailored to that state’s ballot. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://voteceasefire.info/\">Vote Ceasefire\u003c/a> worked with local groups like Oakland Rising Action and Bay Resistance and suggested voters use a write-in option, as well as vote down the ballot for pro-cease-fire candidates. (Barbara Lee, for example, was a longtime congresswoman with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/barbara-lees-antiwar-campaign-for-the-senate\">prominent anti-war record in California\u003c/a>. However, she recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#east-bay-politicos-honor-barbara-lees-legacy\">lost her bid for Senate\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Syed Quadri, Santa Clara resident\"]‘If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity.’[/pullquote]Santa Clara resident Syed Quadri handed out flyers about pro-cease-fire candidates on the weekend before the primary and told KQED he “want[ed] to make sure we use this opportunity to send a message that we need the platform of the Democratic Party in particular to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, Jeppson said he learned about the campaign from friends and advocates online. He said he knew the vote wouldn’t hurt Biden’s chances in a solidly Democratic state like California compared to more swing states like Michigan and North Carolina. “It’s really just hammering home that even in solid blue states, that there is a dissenting opinion on the issue of Palestine to the current policy that’s being undertaken,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same UC Berkeley poll also found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of California Democratic voters support a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Measuring the results of the protest will be difficult in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A press release sent out by Vote Ceasefire the day before the California primary election stated that supporters of the campaign “argue that writing ‘ceasefire’ on the blank line below the names of presidential candidates listed on the ballot is an immediate, unmistakably clear message that will be counted and reported by state elections officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election officials told KQED that California does not track \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/gaza-ceasefire-democrats-california-election/\">unqualified write-in votes\u003c/a>, like writing in “cease-fire” on the presidential option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “we would be reporting out on how many people did not vote for a specific candidate in our statement of the vote,” Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Deva Proto said — votes that are called “undervotes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press office for the California Secretary of State Shirley Weber told KQED that “[c]ounties are not required to report undervotes nor are they required to report votes cast for non-qualified write-ins to our office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Secretary of State Shirley Weber\"]‘Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote.’[/pullquote]“Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote,” Weber’s press office wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something that also complicates counting any potential protest vote in California is the fact that Democratic voters who are officially registered as “no party preference” (NPP) must \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">request a cross-over ballot to vote in the Democratic presidential primary\u003c/a>. And tallying up the number of NPP voters who requested a Democratic ballot — whether to vote for Biden, to purposefully not choose a Democratic primary candidate or to write in a message like “cease-fire” — is not automatic, said elections data expert Paul Mitchell, vice president at Political Data, Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this election cycle, we got 129,000 people requesting a Democratic ballot, and that was only from some counties that gave [the data] to us,” Mitchell said. “The point is that we don’t — right now — have the data on even how many people \u003cem>had \u003c/em>Democratic ballots. … So that lack of knowing what the denominator is means that we can’t really tell you what percentage of under vote we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vote Ceasefire write-in campaign in California “probably won’t ever be quantified by anyone,” Mitchell said. “Because I don’t think anybody’s going to go through the trouble of going to all 58 counties and trying to identify exactly how many ballot requests they got for the Democratic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates are still pursuing options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rachel Rybaczuk, Vote Ceasefire’s national coordinator, said she and her colleagues have still been trying to find a way to quantify the “cease-fire” write-in campaign. Specifically, Rybaczuk said they have reached out to the state by phone to request disaggregated numbers for the March 5 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11974081,news_11976562,news_11979206,news_11978645\"]The state, however, subsequently told KQED that they were “not aware” of such a request. The department also said it was not yet aware of any large turnout of “write-ins.” (For context, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978751/why-was-voter-turnout-so-low-for-californias-presidential-primary\">it takes around a month to count California’s votes fully\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk pointed to Los Angeles County’s vote count from the March 5 primary, noting that 21,168 write-ins appeared on those ballots — more than the number of votes cast in the county for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-06/minnesota-rep-dean-phillips-ends-democratic-primary-challenge-and-endorses-president-joe-biden\">Minnesota presidential candidate Dean Phillips, which stand at 15,892\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/gaza-ceasefire-california-election-results/\">A CalMatters analysis of the votes counted so far \u003c/a>in Los Angeles County found that about 15% of Democrats didn’t vote for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk said the write-in category has been used for jokes in the past but should be taken seriously by election officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have used it to write things like ‘Mickey Mouse,’” she said. “[But] this is a clear, unequivocal position. People are communicating to the administration that they are using their vote to demand a permanent, meaningful cease-fire for everybody involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California could also have a more effective voting system for presidential primaries, Political Data, Inc.’s Paul Mitchell said, by having the parties on the same ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that voters would be much better off if we had the same system,” he said, “rather than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">this goofy thing\u003c/a> where independents who want to vote for the Republican primary have to re-register, go through those hoops, and independents who are leaning Democratic, have to request a ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a paperwork mess,” Mitchell said. “It doesn’t really empower voters, and it doesn’t help turnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A national campaign urged California voters to use their primary election ballots to send a message on a Gaza cease-fire to Biden. But counting how many people did just that poses surprising challenges.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710548978,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1642},"headData":{"title":"How Many Californians Voted 'Ceasefire' on the Primary Ballot? It's Complicated | KQED","description":"A national campaign urged California voters to use their primary election ballots to send a message on a Gaza cease-fire to Biden. But counting how many people did just that poses surprising challenges.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Many Californians Voted 'Ceasefire' on the Primary Ballot? It's Complicated","datePublished":"2024-03-14T21:05:30.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-16T00:29:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1437f38b-c602-4ddd-b34b-b133010f2c34/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ahead of last week’s March 5 California primary election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">a national campaign called “Vote Ceasefire” urged voters to use their ballots\u003c/a> to send a message on Gaza to President Joe Biden — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236782758/state-of-the-union-address-biden-trump\">whose support of Israel\u003c/a> has caused division among left-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other states, California ballots do not offer an “uncommitted” option. Instead, the Vote Ceasefire campaign suggested that California primary voters write in the phrase “cease-fire” in the blank space below the presidential candidates on their ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But post-election, measuring exactly how many voters in California actually did this has not proved simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national movement in California’s primary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fresno resident Dennis Jeppson is one voter who said he used a write-in on their ballot to send a message on Gaza to Biden. “I’m very much a supporter of Biden,” Jeppson said. “I do think he’s done an excellent job. … It’s just Palestine is a very hard thing to overlook as a voter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeppson said he was motivated to write in “cease-fire” on his ballot by what he described as a constant stream of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/world/palestinians-x-tiktok-instagram-gaza-cec/index.html\">images and videos of “horrifying things” happening in Gaza\u003c/a> on his social media feed — and he said he is not seeing the U.S. doing anything to try and stop the violence actively. “It’s been a very, I feel, blasé response,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaza has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">bombarded by Israeli forces for five months now,\u003c/a> with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234159514/gaza-death-toll-30000-palestinians-israel-hamas-war#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Gaza%20death%20toll%20surpasses%2030%2C000%20but%20it's%20an%20incomplete%20count,under%20the%20weight%20of%20war.\">30,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> killed, according to the most recent numbers from Gaza’s health ministry. The violence has prompted thousands in the Bay Area to march in support of a cease-fire, and a UC Berkeley poll earlier this year found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of registered California voters do not approve of President Biden’s handling of the conflict.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote Ceasefire’s campaign in California was preceded by the “Listen to Michigan” campaign, in which progressives in that state called upon residents to vote “uncommitted” on their Democratic primary ballot to indicate their support of a cease-fire. Michigan — a battleground state home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/stateside/2024-03-01/stateside-podcast-100-000-michiganders-voted-uncommitted\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the Michigan primary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1234822836/kamala-harris-benny-gantz-gaza-cease-fire-israel-hamas\">Vice President Kamala Harris showed support for a six-week temporary cease-fire\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, several senators called upon Biden to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/democrats-biden-israel-letter.html\">stop providing weapons to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Minsky, head of the national group Progressive Democrats of America, attributes those shifts to the Michigan result. “If there wasn’t a public outcry campaign, I don’t know when they ever would have moved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar campaigns have emerged in other states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uncommitted-movement-growing-biden/\">Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington\u003c/a>, each tailored to that state’s ballot. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://voteceasefire.info/\">Vote Ceasefire\u003c/a> worked with local groups like Oakland Rising Action and Bay Resistance and suggested voters use a write-in option, as well as vote down the ballot for pro-cease-fire candidates. (Barbara Lee, for example, was a longtime congresswoman with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/barbara-lees-antiwar-campaign-for-the-senate\">prominent anti-war record in California\u003c/a>. However, she recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#east-bay-politicos-honor-barbara-lees-legacy\">lost her bid for Senate\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Syed Quadri, Santa Clara resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Santa Clara resident Syed Quadri handed out flyers about pro-cease-fire candidates on the weekend before the primary and told KQED he “want[ed] to make sure we use this opportunity to send a message that we need the platform of the Democratic Party in particular to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, Jeppson said he learned about the campaign from friends and advocates online. He said he knew the vote wouldn’t hurt Biden’s chances in a solidly Democratic state like California compared to more swing states like Michigan and North Carolina. “It’s really just hammering home that even in solid blue states, that there is a dissenting opinion on the issue of Palestine to the current policy that’s being undertaken,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same UC Berkeley poll also found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of California Democratic voters support a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Measuring the results of the protest will be difficult in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A press release sent out by Vote Ceasefire the day before the California primary election stated that supporters of the campaign “argue that writing ‘ceasefire’ on the blank line below the names of presidential candidates listed on the ballot is an immediate, unmistakably clear message that will be counted and reported by state elections officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election officials told KQED that California does not track \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/gaza-ceasefire-democrats-california-election/\">unqualified write-in votes\u003c/a>, like writing in “cease-fire” on the presidential option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “we would be reporting out on how many people did not vote for a specific candidate in our statement of the vote,” Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Deva Proto said — votes that are called “undervotes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press office for the California Secretary of State Shirley Weber told KQED that “[c]ounties are not required to report undervotes nor are they required to report votes cast for non-qualified write-ins to our office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"California Secretary of State Shirley Weber","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote,” Weber’s press office wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something that also complicates counting any potential protest vote in California is the fact that Democratic voters who are officially registered as “no party preference” (NPP) must \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">request a cross-over ballot to vote in the Democratic presidential primary\u003c/a>. And tallying up the number of NPP voters who requested a Democratic ballot — whether to vote for Biden, to purposefully not choose a Democratic primary candidate or to write in a message like “cease-fire” — is not automatic, said elections data expert Paul Mitchell, vice president at Political Data, Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this election cycle, we got 129,000 people requesting a Democratic ballot, and that was only from some counties that gave [the data] to us,” Mitchell said. “The point is that we don’t — right now — have the data on even how many people \u003cem>had \u003c/em>Democratic ballots. … So that lack of knowing what the denominator is means that we can’t really tell you what percentage of under vote we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vote Ceasefire write-in campaign in California “probably won’t ever be quantified by anyone,” Mitchell said. “Because I don’t think anybody’s going to go through the trouble of going to all 58 counties and trying to identify exactly how many ballot requests they got for the Democratic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates are still pursuing options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rachel Rybaczuk, Vote Ceasefire’s national coordinator, said she and her colleagues have still been trying to find a way to quantify the “cease-fire” write-in campaign. Specifically, Rybaczuk said they have reached out to the state by phone to request disaggregated numbers for the March 5 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11974081,news_11976562,news_11979206,news_11978645"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state, however, subsequently told KQED that they were “not aware” of such a request. The department also said it was not yet aware of any large turnout of “write-ins.” (For context, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978751/why-was-voter-turnout-so-low-for-californias-presidential-primary\">it takes around a month to count California’s votes fully\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk pointed to Los Angeles County’s vote count from the March 5 primary, noting that 21,168 write-ins appeared on those ballots — more than the number of votes cast in the county for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-06/minnesota-rep-dean-phillips-ends-democratic-primary-challenge-and-endorses-president-joe-biden\">Minnesota presidential candidate Dean Phillips, which stand at 15,892\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/gaza-ceasefire-california-election-results/\">A CalMatters analysis of the votes counted so far \u003c/a>in Los Angeles County found that about 15% of Democrats didn’t vote for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk said the write-in category has been used for jokes in the past but should be taken seriously by election officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have used it to write things like ‘Mickey Mouse,’” she said. “[But] this is a clear, unequivocal position. People are communicating to the administration that they are using their vote to demand a permanent, meaningful cease-fire for everybody involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California could also have a more effective voting system for presidential primaries, Political Data, Inc.’s Paul Mitchell said, by having the parties on the same ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that voters would be much better off if we had the same system,” he said, “rather than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">this goofy thing\u003c/a> where independents who want to vote for the Republican primary have to re-register, go through those hoops, and independents who are leaning Democratic, have to request a ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a paperwork mess,” Mitchell said. “It doesn’t really empower voters, and it doesn’t help turnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_28598","news_33448","news_6631","news_33905"],"featImg":"news_11979477","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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