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One report slammed the agency's enforcement of building standards, calling its supervision neither comprehensive nor effective\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their defense, officials in the state architect's office blamed the seismic safety law itself, which they argue doesn't give them the authority to stop children and teachers from entering unsafe structures. The state auditor's report urged the state architect to push for legal changes to prevent occupancy of unsafe schools, and SB 1271 would have asked experts to recommend ways to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year the state Senate approved SB 1271, which had garnered broad support from the school construction community. But the bill stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Last month, outgoing Chairman Felipe Fuentes, D-Arleta, moved the measure to the committee's \"suspense file,\" which is an internal process used by Assembly leaders to privately review expensive legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the review, Fuentes' successor, Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, declined to move SB 1271 out of the suspense file, effectively killing the bill without taking a public vote. The bill was among several measures killed by the committee Aug. 16 without a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No reason was given for the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto has not told Corbett why the measure died, said Andrew LaMar, Corbett's spokesman. Gatto's office also did not respond to California Watch's questions about the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before its defeat, the proposal sailed through the state Senate and the Assembly Education Committee, supported by school inspectors and the Coalition for Adequate School Housing – an influential lobbying group that advocates for schools, architects, builders, developers and financial representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the measure reached the Assembly Appropriations Committee, committee staff member Kimberly Rodriguez questioned whether the bill was needed. Rodriguez's Aug. 8 bill analysis states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unclear how a statutory requirement to submit a report will further this process,\" she wrote. \"If the Legislature is interested on the status and recommendations of the internal process conducted by the (state architect's office), it is within its purview to request the (state architect's office) to report to policy or budget subcommittees on these issues without a statutory requirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters questioned how the bill landed in the suspense file in the first place. To qualify for suspense, a legislative proposal must have implementation costs of $150,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate estimate for Corbett's bill was between $70,000 and $100,000. Two Department of Finance analyses calculated costs of approximately $142,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expenses to implement the panel would have been paid by the state architect's office, which has a budget of more than $15 million. The office is predominantly financed by fees from school districts and not the state's general fund. To drive down costs further, however, Corbett tweaked the proposal so an existing state architect advisory panel could do the work, LaMar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 8 hearing, committee members heard arguments from Corbett and supporters of the bill. In the end, none of those arguments made a difference. Rodriguez's estimates for the bill placed costs at \"approximately $150,000\" – the minimum cut-off for the suspense file. According to the Assembly's rules, Fuentes was required to send the legislation to the suspense file once it reached that dollar amount\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> said Fuentes' spokesman Ben Golombek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaMar said the committee settled upon a higher figure than the Senate and Finance\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>estimates by factoring the actual cost of experts reporting their final work to three separate legislative committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett's office questions the accuracy of those calculations, however, and to date, the committee has not provided any data or documentation that would support Rodriguez's conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am disappointed the Assembly Appropriations Committee did not approve this legislation,\" Corbett told California Watch\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\"I think we showed clearly that the costs associated were minimal, and below the committee’s threshold, and the issue\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>important enough to require the additional oversight called for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez didn't respond to questions from California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bill was killed, State Architect Chester Widom said in an interview with California Watch that he and his staff are working to fix the agency's problems. Widom has\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>put together his own panel of experts that will meet regularly to explore reforms, he said. He also is planning widespread staff training sessions to change the culture at the regulatory agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're really making significant changes in the way we're operating,\" Widom said. \"I can't go back and tell you what happened before. I just want to deal with going forward. And I want to deal with how we're going to try to clean up what happened in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Widom wants a revamped inspection process that would prevent construction work from progressing before all safety requirements have been met. Staff is still refining the idea, but so far Widom's suggestion has been welcomed by architects, school officials and the construction industry, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of last month, more than 9,000 schools received letters from the office asking for documents needed to certify their buildings as safe, Widom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Widom's request, state engineers have visited about 106 schools flagged by inspectors as potentially unsafe. About 50 still have unresolved issues, but the work is continuing, Widom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at http://californiawatch.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By Corey G. Johnson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/assembly-kills-school-seismic-reform-measure-17825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74627\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO – A proposal to study seismic safety improvements for public schools – which won initial legislative support – quietly died in an Assembly committee during the last weeks of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, SB 1271, focused on whether schools should allow staff and students to occupy unsafe structures and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>whether the state can penalize officials for evading California's seismic safety law, known as the Field Act. Under the bill, independent experts would have proposed improvements for the Division of the State Architect, which regulates school construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Despite early support, the bill stalled in committee, failed to get out of the 'suspense file'\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Legislature went home without approving the measure, written by Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did all we could do,\" Corbett said, \"and we will continue to monitor (the state architect's office) to make sure it is fulfilling its mission to protect California’s schoolchildren and certify the seismic safety of new school buildings in a timely fashion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts pay the state architect to approve school building plans, monitor construction in the field and then certify the work has met strict quality control standards. Such certification is mandatory under state law, to ensure the structures can withstand an earthquake's violent shaking.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation by The Bay Citizen's sister site \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org\">California Watch\u003c/a> last year found the office routinely allowed children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards reported during construction. More than 16,000 school projects across the state lack the required certification, with roughly 42,000 students in buildings with \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/thousands-students-attending-schools-unresolved-safety-issues-14142\" target=\"_blank\">unresolved safety issues\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor's Office has concluded that the office's oversight flaws had increased the safety risk to schools. One report slammed the agency's enforcement of building standards, calling its supervision neither comprehensive nor effective\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their defense, officials in the state architect's office blamed the seismic safety law itself, which they argue doesn't give them the authority to stop children and teachers from entering unsafe structures. The state auditor's report urged the state architect to push for legal changes to prevent occupancy of unsafe schools, and SB 1271 would have asked experts to recommend ways to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year the state Senate approved SB 1271, which had garnered broad support from the school construction community. But the bill stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Last month, outgoing Chairman Felipe Fuentes, D-Arleta, moved the measure to the committee's \"suspense file,\" which is an internal process used by Assembly leaders to privately review expensive legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the review, Fuentes' successor, Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, declined to move SB 1271 out of the suspense file, effectively killing the bill without taking a public vote. The bill was among several measures killed by the committee Aug. 16 without a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No reason was given for the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto has not told Corbett why the measure died, said Andrew LaMar, Corbett's spokesman. Gatto's office also did not respond to California Watch's questions about the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before its defeat, the proposal sailed through the state Senate and the Assembly Education Committee, supported by school inspectors and the Coalition for Adequate School Housing – an influential lobbying group that advocates for schools, architects, builders, developers and financial representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the measure reached the Assembly Appropriations Committee, committee staff member Kimberly Rodriguez questioned whether the bill was needed. Rodriguez's Aug. 8 bill analysis states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unclear how a statutory requirement to submit a report will further this process,\" she wrote. \"If the Legislature is interested on the status and recommendations of the internal process conducted by the (state architect's office), it is within its purview to request the (state architect's office) to report to policy or budget subcommittees on these issues without a statutory requirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters questioned how the bill landed in the suspense file in the first place. To qualify for suspense, a legislative proposal must have implementation costs of $150,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate estimate for Corbett's bill was between $70,000 and $100,000. Two Department of Finance analyses calculated costs of approximately $142,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expenses to implement the panel would have been paid by the state architect's office, which has a budget of more than $15 million. The office is predominantly financed by fees from school districts and not the state's general fund. To drive down costs further, however, Corbett tweaked the proposal so an existing state architect advisory panel could do the work, LaMar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 8 hearing, committee members heard arguments from Corbett and supporters of the bill. In the end, none of those arguments made a difference. Rodriguez's estimates for the bill placed costs at \"approximately $150,000\" – the minimum cut-off for the suspense file. According to the Assembly's rules, Fuentes was required to send the legislation to the suspense file once it reached that dollar amount\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> said Fuentes' spokesman Ben Golombek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaMar said the committee settled upon a higher figure than the Senate and Finance\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>estimates by factoring the actual cost of experts reporting their final work to three separate legislative committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett's office questions the accuracy of those calculations, however, and to date, the committee has not provided any data or documentation that would support Rodriguez's conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am disappointed the Assembly Appropriations Committee did not approve this legislation,\" Corbett told California Watch\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\"I think we showed clearly that the costs associated were minimal, and below the committee’s threshold, and the issue\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>important enough to require the additional oversight called for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez didn't respond to questions from California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bill was killed, State Architect Chester Widom said in an interview with California Watch that he and his staff are working to fix the agency's problems. Widom has\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>put together his own panel of experts that will meet regularly to explore reforms, he said. He also is planning widespread staff training sessions to change the culture at the regulatory agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're really making significant changes in the way we're operating,\" Widom said. \"I can't go back and tell you what happened before. I just want to deal with going forward. And I want to deal with how we're going to try to clean up what happened in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Widom wants a revamped inspection process that would prevent construction work from progressing before all safety requirements have been met. 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"disqusTitle": "Labor Day Special: The San Francisco Waterfront Strike of 1901",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74894\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 204px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-March.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-74894\" title=\"1-March\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-March.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1901 strike march on Kearny Street. (Courtesy of SF's Marine Firemen's Union)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On this Labor Day, I could talk about barbecue or advise you about some of the bigger parades and sales in California. But instead I'm going to take the opportunity to write about the early history of labor in California, beginning with the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what a history it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smart money during the Gold Rush gravitated toward serving the miners rather than the mining itself. That was true for laborers as well as employers. It's hard to picture now, but San Francisco was \u003cem>the\u003c/em> shipping and manufacturing hub of the Western U.S. back in the 19th century. (OK, Puget Sound was also big.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/eb-sf.html\">\u003cem>Encyclopedia Britannica\u003c/em>, Eleventh Edition 1900-11\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAN FRANCISCO\u003c/strong>, the chief seaport and the metropolis of California and the Pacific Coast, and the largest and most important city W. of the Missouri river… Population 342,782 in 1900…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Commerce\u003c/em>. Deep-water craft can go directly to docks within a short distance of their sources of supply, around the bay. ... ample facilities of dry and floating docks. ... Lumber, grain and flour, fruits ... fish, tea and coffee…command of trans-Pacific and trans-continental commercial routes...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manufactures\u003c/em>. Sugar and molasses refining; printing and publishing; slaughtering and meat packing; shipbuilding; foundry and machine-shop products; clothing; canning and preserving; liquors; coffee and spice roasting and grinding; flour and grist- mill products; lumber, planing and mill products, including sash, doors and blinds; leather, tanning and finishing; bags; paints ... The Union Iron Works on the peninsula is one of the greatest shipbuilding plants of the country. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Waterfront-Workers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74899 \" title=\"1-Waterfront-Workers\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Waterfront-Workers-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco dock workers in 1901. (Courtesy of SF's Marine Firemen's Union)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is where we bring in retired history professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Esenate/documents/attachments/05.01.12/ResolutioninHonorofRobertWCherny.pdf\">Robert Cherny\u003c/a> of SF State. He tells us unions rose and fell with the economy and boy, did they have \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises\">a lot\u003c/a> of booms and busts back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [unions] tended to grow and thrive in times of prosperity,” Cherny says, “when it was possible for employers to improve wages or to improve hours because there was such a demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there were the recessions, and they were often so fierce that unions simply collapsed. New ones sprouted up only when the economy recovered. Employers also banded then broke up, with greater and lesser effect on the local labor market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1890s, employers had the upper hand, and they used it to quash labor unions, picking them off one by one. Few unions survived the decade, “but those that did,\" Cherny says, \"began to form central bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building trade unions, for example, banded together. “The plumbers, the carpenters, the painters, the roofers and so forth.” That way, a strike by one union was a strike by all, and they could shut down – or threaten to shut down – the entire construction industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Front Federation pulled together the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, the longshoremen's unions, and a brand new local for the Teamsters. The Teamsters' refusal to haul luggage from a non-union \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayage\">drayage\u003c/a> firm caused the strike, but also provided a convenient focal point for the latest employer’s association - and for that matter, the City Front Federation. As \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=1901_Labor_War\">foundsf\u003c/a> puts it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Company after company locked out their workers who refused to haul the non-union luggage. Soon hundreds of locked out Teamsters found themselves among others who had already been on strike: restaurant cooks and waiters, bakers and bakery wagon drivers, metal polishers, and all fourteen unions of the Iron Trades Council, who were part of a national strike.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Scab-Escort.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74902\" title=\"1-Scab-Escort\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Scab-Escort-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1901 scab teamster with a San Francisco police escort. On the side of the wagon is the company name McNab & Smith. (Courtesy of SF's Marine Firemen's Union)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was July, 1901, high summer, and Professor Cherny notes regional produce was ready to roll or rot. The employers brought in strikebreakers. The city brought in police. The employers brought in \"specials\" who acted like police with city sanction. Still, the strike dragged on. Picketing workers were clubbed and even shot. They threw stones at the strikebreakers, in turn, and marbles under the horses pulling the carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employers went to Sacramento to seek the aid of Republican Governor \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gage\">Henry Gage\u003c/a>. Bring in the militia, they suggested. He didn't do that, but he did come to San Francisco - and proceeded to meet with \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books/about/Father_Yorke_and_the_labor_movement_in_S.html?id=jmk6AAAAMAAJ\">Father Peter Yorke\u003c/a>, an Irish Catholic priest whose support was critical for Gage in the 1898 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know what Peter Yorke said to Governor Gage,\" Cherny says, \"but what Governor Gage did was to bring in the Drayman's Association and the Teamsters Union, and close the door on the employer's association.\" Alone at the negotiating table, the two principals quickly settled their differences. Finally, the strike was over. It was October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus was born the inspiration for the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Labor_Party_%28California%29\">Union Labor Party\u003c/a>, which nominated Eugene Schmitz, president of the local Musicians' Union, as its candidate for Mayor. The ULP put up a whole slate of candidates that November and won three supervisors' seats in addition to the mayoralty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus began the reign of the ULP, which lasted through 1911. Even by labor accounts, there was a lot of corruption. In short, you had to go through one man, the Republican Party's Abraham Ruef, to land a city permit or contract, and this quickly created a situation where everybody had too much at stake to complain openly. In 1911, a change in state law required that city candidates be non-partisan. Labor councils then endorsed candidates but didn't run them in elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History\">AFL\u003c/a> (the American Federation of Labor) was formed in 1886 as a nationwide, umbrella organization for unions,\" Cherny says, \"one of their guiding principles was 'stay out of politics.' 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Few unions survived the decade, “but those that did,\" Cherny says, \"began to form central bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building trade unions, for example, banded together. “The plumbers, the carpenters, the painters, the roofers and so forth.” That way, a strike by one union was a strike by all, and they could shut down – or threaten to shut down – the entire construction industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Front Federation pulled together the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, the longshoremen's unions, and a brand new local for the Teamsters. The Teamsters' refusal to haul luggage from a non-union \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayage\">drayage\u003c/a> firm caused the strike, but also provided a convenient focal point for the latest employer’s association - and for that matter, the City Front Federation. As \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=1901_Labor_War\">foundsf\u003c/a> puts it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Company after company locked out their workers who refused to haul the non-union luggage. Soon hundreds of locked out Teamsters found themselves among others who had already been on strike: restaurant cooks and waiters, bakers and bakery wagon drivers, metal polishers, and all fourteen unions of the Iron Trades Council, who were part of a national strike.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Scab-Escort.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74902\" title=\"1-Scab-Escort\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/1-Scab-Escort-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1901 scab teamster with a San Francisco police escort. On the side of the wagon is the company name McNab & Smith. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73980\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/JerryBrownaug22.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-73980\" title=\"JerryBrownaug22\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/JerryBrownaug22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Brown outside James Lick Middle School in San Francisco (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Dan Brekke and Jon Brooks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown visited San Francisco’s James Lick Middle School today to campaign for Proposition 30--his measure to impose temporary sales and income taxes to raise money for the state’s schools and colleges. KQED News reporter Aarti Shahani asked the governor about critics who question whether Proposition 30 is wise when Sacramento is having a hard time tracking its state park money, and in light of expenditures like committing billions of dollars in bond funds to high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown shot back that the state knows where the park money is--and that it will be going to parks. And then he really got rolling, taking the long way around to say government needs to be able to handle more than one ambitious project at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the must-listen-to sound:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BrownonGovt.mp3\">Audio: Jerry Brown defends Prop 30 in a minute-and-a-half flat\u003c/a>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BrownonGovt1.mp3|titles=BrownonGovt]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Transcript\u003c/em>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wait. We know where the parks money is. And we got $54 million good dollars that we're gonna spend helping parks and off-road vehicle paths and all the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you know what? I'm going down today to Jet Propulsion Laboratory and watch them move the rover on \u003cem>Mars\u003c/em>. Should we bring the rover back and do something about the California budget? I mean, we have to be able to jump rope, chew gum, and do five other things, otherwise we're not gonna make it. We got to invest in roads! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you know that right today they're building a tunnel over there at the Caldecott, over there in Oakland, to make it easier to get to Orinda? Maybe we should fill it in and put the money somewhere else. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, the fact is, this is a big state, we got a lot of big things to do. This is not kind of a one-handed, one kind of thought here. We're a complex state with almost two trillion dollars of wealth that the people generate every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So yes, we can do high-speed rail, we can have our parks, we can have our space program, we can pave our roads, we can paint our schools--we can do that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, we have to have some balance, and I'm there as governor to say no when no needs to be said. And that's what I tell the people of California: I'll veto the excessive spending bills, I'll ferret out waste wherever I find it, but at the end of the day, we have our flaws and our warts, and that's no reason to punish the children of California. It's rather a reason to invest.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wow. There's an embarrassment of riches there for our \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/25/s-jerry-brown-says/\">S*** Jerry Says\u003c/a>\" feature. Hard to know where to start...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, Aarti Shahani's question was probably a good one. From the Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/08/22/gov-browns-tax-measure-ahead-in-poll-but-trouble-looms/\">Politics Blog today\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax-raising Proposition 30 is in positive but shaky territory...according to a poll released Wednesday by the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)/USC Rossier School of Education. The poll found that among likely registered voters, 55 percent of those surveyed are in support of Prop. 30 while 36 percent oppose it... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[But] the poll found the governor’s measure is quite vulnerable to arguments already being used by opponents, namely that leaders in Sacramento have been irresponsible with tax money by approving high speed rail, giving raises to some staffers in the Legislature and by not knowing about the millions of dollars hidden by the state parks department. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full \u003ca href=\"http://www.m4strategies.com/uploaded/12%2007%20936%20USC%20Education%20Poll%20August%202012%20TOPLINE_FINAL.pdf\">poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/sOWR3ArCEqI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s most prominent radical activists of the era, Richard Masato Aoki was known as a fierce militant who touted his street-fighting abilities. He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki went on to work for 25 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator at the Peralta Community College District, and after his suicide in 2009, he was revered as a fearless radical.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously for Jim Kellogg as president, thus ousting previous commission head and controversial cougar-hunter Dan Richards. Richards was gracious after the vote, expressing his appreciation to the commission and immediately turning over his gavel. Richards had said previously that if he was removed as president, he'd stay on the commission until his term ends in January. At that point it would be up to Jerry Brown to reappoint him, which Richards himself said is unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At today's meeting, just one citizen spoke in favor of Richards, who caused a stir in February when he shot and killed a cougar in Idaho. The small turnout is in marked contrast to a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/08/video-dan-richards-supporters-speak-out-at-fish-and-game-meeting/\">Fish and Game Commission meeting in March\u003c/a>, when 60 people expressed their support for Richards during the two-and-a-half hour public comment period. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards became notorious to some after posing with the mountain lion's dead carcass for an outdoors magazine. That caused an uproar as animal-rights organizations and a slew of Democrats in the legislature sought to remove him from office, though the effort petered out. Cougar hunting is legal in Idaho but not in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/shotmountainlionSM1.jpg\">photo\u003c/a>, which appeared in Western Outdoor News....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/shotmountainlionSM1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/shotmountainlionSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shotmountainlionSM1\" width=\"171\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72687\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_21257380/mountain-lion-hunter-may-be-removed-president-california?source=autofeed#\">quoted in the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> today as saying his ouster \"originates from the enviro-terrorists being threatened by me. They see a guy who is paying attention to the issues, and who calls them out on the crap they throw out. Their involvement is important but by and large it's a farce, and I'm not afraid to call it that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards has refused to heed calls for him to resign. “I’m not apologizing. I didn’t do anything wrong,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.wonews.com/Blog.aspx?id=1683&AuthorID=59046&t=Resolute%20Richards%20Refuses%20to%20Resign\">told Western Outdoor News\u003c/a> during the height of the controversy. \"Why would I (resign)? I think I’m doing a good job.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, 40 state legislators signed a letter calling for his removal, and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose father is a mountain lion advocate, sent Richards a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ltg.ca.gov/news.2012.02.27_Richards.html\">letter asking him to step aside\u003c/a>. Newsom's argument: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While not in California at the time, your actions call into question whether you can live up to the calling of your office. Since 1870 the Commission has worked to manage the wildlife resources of our state. As president of the commission, I am sure you understand that merely complying with the conservation laws of California is not the standard by which the Commission or its members are measured. As is stated on the Commission's website, your actions should be in the \"best interest of the resource and truly reflect(s) the wishes and needs of the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do appreciate that you did nothing illegal in Idaho, but it is clear that your actions do not reflect the values of the people of California. In 1972, Governor Ronald Reagan signed legislation banning the sport hunting of mountain lions in California for 5 years. That ban was twice renewed before the voters of California passed Proposition 117 in June 1990.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards reacted to the criticism by sending a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/29/read-calif-fish-and-game-presidents-letter-to-assemblyman-on-dead-mountain-lion-photo/\">sarcastic letter\u003c/a> to Assemblymember Ben Hueso, who spearheaded the effort against him. Richards wrote: \"Do you really think a California Commissioner is actually obligated to follow California laws across these United States? Really?\" \u003c/p>\n\n",
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