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And the pressure is on because commissioners face a compressed timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their foremost duty is to ensure every district in the state — 52 for Congress, 80 for state Assembly and 40 for state Senate — has about the same number of people. That’s about 761,000 Californians in each congressional district, about 988,000 in state Senate districts and 494,000 in Assembly districts. That can get complicated fast while trying to meet other requirements, such as not diluting any ethnic group’s vote and keeping districts geographically compact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even more complex this year because California is losing a congressional seat for the first time ever — and much of the tension centers on those maps. A series of marathon and at-times confusing meetings isn’t helping matters, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners have been discussing rounds of regional “visualizations” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/11_7_9_21\">hypothetical scenarios based on their direction to the line-drawers\u003c/a> — while trying to incorporate some of the public input they’ve been receiving along the way, and in some cases going back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of visualizations, for example, two longtime Black members of Congress were put in the same district in Los Angeles. That was fixed in the second round, but had ripple effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel is reviewing \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1636074960/Agenda_-_Line_Drawing_Meetings_11.7-11.9.21_Final.pdf?1636074960\">the fourth set of these visualizations\u003c/a>, and worked late into Tuesday night. But there were apparently so many issues with \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQLTaP34jpKCHNLrR1rIcLur0WAB3Tja/view\">the third set of congressional districts\u003c/a> — where the biggest changes from existing districts are expected — that after a closed session Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457470063573749761?s=20\">the commission removed them from its website\u003c/a> until Monday.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']Redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“Basically what we’re saying is, ‘The map is a hot mess.’ Is that correct?” Commissioner Sara Sadhwani said at Monday’s meeting, referring to congressional districts in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the commission still plans to release its \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458227353285324804?s=20\">official preliminary maps on Wednesday\u003c/a>, ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1635536062/Agenda_11.15.21_%28DRAFT_-1%29_%281%29.pdf?1635536062\">November 15 deadline\u003c/a>. After that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">no changes can be made for two weeks as public comment meetings start November 17\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there could still be significant changes between the preliminary maps and the final maps, which are due to the secretary of state’s office by a court-ordered deadline of December 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1456381250441134089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially given the condensed timeline, the preliminary maps won’t be perfect, said Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission. The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1458206538867175425?s=20\">commission is already acknowledging\u003c/a> that some districts still need a lot of work and that it will be doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">a lot of line-drawing next month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission\"]‘You get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west.’[/pullquote]“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Partisan jockeying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the mapping being done by an independent commission with a mix of Republicans, Democrats and independent members, the changes in districts still have ramifications for both parties — and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">hidden partisanship that continues to creep in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895368\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\"]And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='politics']This week’s discussions did yield wins for some groups. The commission was able to keep the Hmong community in Central California together. Across congressional and legislative maps, most Native American tribes also were kept together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the lines could change, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457401281274777601?s=20\">Equality California, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, hailed the congressional districts in San Francisco\u003c/a> for keeping the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good draft for reactions,” commission Chair Trena Turner said Monday night after completing the latest round of congressional maps. “We feel better about the reactions.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Redistricting — the redrawing of maps for congressional, legislative and local seats — happens every 10 years after the census. Its goal? To make sure everyone is represented equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, California voters took redistricting for state offices away from the Legislature — which often drew maps to the advantage of elected officials or one political party — and gave the power to an independent commission. In 2010, voters added congressional maps to the commission’s duties. One of the cardinal rules that voters set: Consider diversity, including abiding by the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track record of the Citizens Redistricting Commission is mixed on that score. Statewide, Latinos make up 30% of the voting age population, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/redistricting-opens-new-opportunities-for-communities-of-color/?utm_source=ppic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog_subscriber\">are a majority in just 19% of the 173 congressional and legislative districts\u003c/a>, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California. And that’s only a slight increase from the 15% under the old maps. Asian Americans are nearly 15% of the population, but a majority in just one district, while there is still no district where African Americans are the majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, between 2012 and 2020, the commission’s new districts largely succeeded in helping to \u003ca href=\"http://schwarzeneggerinstitute.com/images/files/FINALRELEASE_USC_Schwarzenegger_Redistricting_Commission_Diversity_Report.pdf\">add elected officials of color\u003c/a> in California, according to a study by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: The number of Latinos and Asian Americans elected to Congress doubled, and the numbers of Latino, Black and Asian American legislators also increased, compared to election results from the maps drawn by the Legislature after the 2000 census.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ariana Marmolejo, communications associate, Communities for a New California Education Fund\"]'When communities are divided, they can't advocate for the things they need and for themselves.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This round of redistricting is the first under a new state law that prioritizes keeping “communities of interest,” including ethnic enclaves, together. The 2019 FAIR MAPS Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/helpful-resources/redistricting\">also requires public input\u003c/a> at every step of the process, so across California, local advocacy groups are banding together to propose maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even these advocates say it’s impossible to take partisanship out of the process entirely. And this time around, the priority on diverse representation — and the fight for political power — is being complicated by several factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For the first time ever, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">California is losing a congressional seat\u003c/a>. Experts say it will likely be carved out of Los Angeles County, where the population grew more slowly than the rest of the state. And that could set up a conflict between Latino and African American advocacy groups.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The challenges of conducting the 2020 census during the pandemic, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/911960963/how-trump-officials-cut-the-2020-census-short-amid-the-pandemic\">decisions made by the Trump administration\u003c/a>, may have resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/13/2020-census-black-undercount/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\">undercounting African Americans at significantly higher rates than usual\u003c/a>. Facing delays, the Census Bureau has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1043506293/2020-census-results-accuracy-undercount-populations-post-enumeration-survey\">extended into early next year a follow-up door-to-door survey\u003c/a> to check possible undercounts, NPR reports.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And a sped-up redistricting timeline due to the delay of census data means less time for all involved to come up with proposed maps and to state their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The commission is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">holding a series of public hearings\u003c/a>, including today and Friday. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/10_4_21_handouts\">plans to release preliminary maps\u003c/a> for 52 U.S. House districts and 120 state Assembly and Senate districts by Nov. 15 and has until Dec. 27 to submit its final districts so they can be used for the June 2022 primaries. Here’s a look at some key community movements to shape the districts:\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The People’s Bloc — an alliance of 34 groups working to ensure that ethnic communities in Los Angeles County aren’t divided — was born with the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bloc includes the Community Coalition of Los Angeles, founded by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass in 1990 to address substance addiction, poverty and crime in South Los Angeles. With a federal grant, Bass organized against \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-karen-bass-fought-for-blacks-and-latinos-in-south-los-angeles-now-shes-on-bidens-vp-shortlist/2020/07/31/6d224a58-d1d3-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html\">a surplus of liquor stores\u003c/a> and for better land-use policies, school funding and foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211483\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101221_Rep_Karen_Bass_AP_CM_01.jpg\" alt='A woman with short hair, glasses, and a blue blazer, sitting behind a podium with a \"Ms. Bass\" nameplate, speaks before two American flags. ' width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. D.C., on June 10, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The six-term representative and former Congressional Black Caucus chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040906831/rep-karen-bass-launches-campaign-to-be-the-next-mayor-of-los-angeles\">announced Sept. 27 that she’s running for L.A. mayor\u003c/a> this year. That has fueled speculation that, given the need to drop a district, the 37th District she represents could be redrawn in a way that dilutes the power of Black voters. The district includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Pico-Robertson and South Los Angeles, among others, as well as Culver City and the unincorporated communities of View Park and Ladera Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 29% of the district’s voting-age population is African American, 27% is Latino and 11% is Asian, according to the new PPIC analysis. The neighboring 43rd District, represented by Maxine Waters, is 28% Black, and the 44th District, represented by Nanette Barragán, is 22% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a redistricting commission meeting Wednesday, a consultant said that Black people often vote in concert with Latinos so they would be adequately represented in a coalition district. But several commissioners said based on public input, they would consider a Black majority congressional district in Los Angeles County. There are also maps that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1448472822209155073?s=20\">would create as many as five Latino majority districts\u003c/a> in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png\" alt=\"A map of congressional districts in LA county with shading of representative ethnic populations who vote. \" width=\"1622\" height=\"1550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-800x764.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1020x975.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-160x153.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1536x1468.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need to keep Black communities together became clear during the 2003 flooding of Watts: In 2001, the neighborhood was divided into three different congressional and legislative districts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncause.org/california/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/01/Kathay-Redistricting-101.pdf\">confusing residents as to which representatives to turn to for help\u003c/a>, according to Common Cause, a government watchdog group. In the 2011 redistricting, the neighborhood was brought together into one district, the 44th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to that history, the need for the People’s Bloc became clear during the efforts last year to get people to fill out the census forms, said Kirk Samuels, director of civic engagement with the Community Coalition. The Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question on the form deterred people from filling it out, as did COVID-19. The protests after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were another factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new alliance is involved not only in the congressional map, but new city council districts \u003ca href=\"https://laccrc2021.org/\">being drawn by a local commission\u003c/a> appointed by council members and the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process, that they are included in the process by having representatives that reflect their interests and their communities,” Samuels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair representation will help Black neighborhoods have access to funding and resources, he said: “We want to make sure that when these lines are drawn that they’re drawn in a way that brings assets back to these communities, that brings investment back to these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fresno County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County isn’t the same county it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Its total population grew from 930,450 in 2010 to more than 1 million in the last decade, and its Hispanic/Latino population grew to 53.6% from 50.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the unsuccessful effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">focused on Latino voters\u003c/a>, who comprise California’s largest ethnic group, at 39% of the statewide population, and an increasing share of registered voters, at 28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the changing population, it’s no surprise there was backlash to comments by some Fresno County supervisors, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/59806\">adopt the board districts\u003c/a>, about their intent to keep them largely the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirk Samuels, director of civic engagement, Community Coalition of Los Angeles\"]'We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ACLU sent a letter to supervisors on Sept. 16 warning that they would be violating the law, two \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article254619397.html#storylink=cpy\">told The Fresno Bee\u003c/a> that they would follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists are still wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty years ago they put a rubber stamp, and now they’re just fiddling around the edges,” said Pablo Rodriguez, founding executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, a group focused on civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can result in gerrymandering, either through “packing” — concentrating blocs of voters to limit their power to one district — or “cracking” — spreading voters out so that their influence is diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariana Marmolejo, communications associate with the fund, said in the current proposed supervisor maps, every community of interest in the coalition is split. “When communities are divided, they can’t advocate for the things they need and for themselves,” Marmolejo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, that means being part of decisions on public health, public works projects and, in the bigger picture, the region’s growing inequality. Census data from 2019 showed that about 1 in every 5 residents was living in extreme poverty. And a history of exclusionary housing policies means that extreme poverty is concentrated into certain areas at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209826869.html\">one of the highest rates in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without significant changes in supervisor districts, that cycle is likely to continue, Marmolejo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neighborhoods are going to change, kids are going to grow old. And then you’ve entirely disenfranchised a new generation of people,” Marmolejo said. “This has shaped Fresno. This is why we are where we are today.” [aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political reporting\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many of these community groups have long been organizing for representation, Marmolejo said the FAIR MAPS Act gives them support and legal protection. Another thing that helps: technology that lets groups share proposed maps and coordinate within the alliance, or even with other groups in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even at the state level, because we lost a congressional district, everything in California is going to look different,” said Rodriguez. “There’s going to be a lot of tension … There are incredible ramifications. And we have to balance federal law with making sure we keep communities of interest whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Orange and San Diego counties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While this year’s redistricting process fosters a more grassroots approach, it has its obstacles. Sometimes a single map can’t meet all the desires of every community. There are also limitations of the census data itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County is home to “Little Arabia,” where there is a large Arab population, including immigrants and refugees. But according to census data, Arab Americans are counted as white. That means Arab American communities don’t always see the resources they need, said Rashad Al-Dabbagh, founder and executive director of the Arab American Civic Council in Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211591\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_Redistricting-LA_Little-Arabia_DM_CM_-03.jpg\" alt=\"Flags fly and hang from the roof tiles of a one-story shopping center, with sun rising on a tiered cement fountain in the parking lot.\" width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parking plaza in the Little Arabia neighborhood of Anaheim is adorned with various flags from countries in the Middle East on Oct. 13, 2021. (Photo by Deric Mendes for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As in the Central Valley, the demographics in Orange County have changed over the last 20 years, and the maps should reflect that, Al-Dabbagh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the whole point of the census and redistricting — to ensure that communities have a say in this process,” he said. “We’re not a rich, white county like people assume, or how it used to be. We’re very diverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is one of the 16 groups that make up the People’s Redistricting Alliance, which, like the other coalitions in the state, aims to make sure redistricting isn’t driven by partisanship or solely by race, but instead leads to representation of struggles of community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include people who are struggling to pay rent, or who need services from a community center. “Those are the experiences that we wanted to be able to uplift, which are the experiences that are often erased from the process,” said Jonathan Paik, executive director of the Orange County Civic Engagement Table, which spearheaded the formation of the alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, how residents’ different experiences should be considered in redistricting is up for debate. There has been a push for wealthier coastal cities to be grouped together, separate from inland communities, as well as a push to keep the military communities close to Camp Pendleton together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the process is meant to be free of partisanship, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">it can still creep into public hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense to me that people would be calling to ensure that there are districts that are drawn that will ensure their interests in farming, or equestrian desires, or parks or waterways or fire concerns,” said Citizens Redistricting Commissioner Trena Turner. “All of that makes sense — that you want a district drawn where an elected official will become one that understands your issues. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comments that give Turner pause, though, are ones with threads of racism or prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it’s one of those eyebrow-raising comments. 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With a federal grant, Bass organized against \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-karen-bass-fought-for-blacks-and-latinos-in-south-los-angeles-now-shes-on-bidens-vp-shortlist/2020/07/31/6d224a58-d1d3-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html\">a surplus of liquor stores\u003c/a> and for better land-use policies, school funding and foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211483\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101221_Rep_Karen_Bass_AP_CM_01.jpg\" alt='A woman with short hair, glasses, and a blue blazer, sitting behind a podium with a \"Ms. Bass\" nameplate, speaks before two American flags. ' width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. D.C., on June 10, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The six-term representative and former Congressional Black Caucus chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040906831/rep-karen-bass-launches-campaign-to-be-the-next-mayor-of-los-angeles\">announced Sept. 27 that she’s running for L.A. mayor\u003c/a> this year. That has fueled speculation that, given the need to drop a district, the 37th District she represents could be redrawn in a way that dilutes the power of Black voters. The district includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Pico-Robertson and South Los Angeles, among others, as well as Culver City and the unincorporated communities of View Park and Ladera Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 29% of the district’s voting-age population is African American, 27% is Latino and 11% is Asian, according to the new PPIC analysis. The neighboring 43rd District, represented by Maxine Waters, is 28% Black, and the 44th District, represented by Nanette Barragán, is 22% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a redistricting commission meeting Wednesday, a consultant said that Black people often vote in concert with Latinos so they would be adequately represented in a coalition district. But several commissioners said based on public input, they would consider a Black majority congressional district in Los Angeles County. There are also maps that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1448472822209155073?s=20\">would create as many as five Latino majority districts\u003c/a> in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png\" alt=\"A map of congressional districts in LA county with shading of representative ethnic populations who vote. \" width=\"1622\" height=\"1550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-800x764.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1020x975.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-160x153.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1536x1468.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need to keep Black communities together became clear during the 2003 flooding of Watts: In 2001, the neighborhood was divided into three different congressional and legislative districts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncause.org/california/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/01/Kathay-Redistricting-101.pdf\">confusing residents as to which representatives to turn to for help\u003c/a>, according to Common Cause, a government watchdog group. 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The protests after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were another factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new alliance is involved not only in the congressional map, but new city council districts \u003ca href=\"https://laccrc2021.org/\">being drawn by a local commission\u003c/a> appointed by council members and the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process, that they are included in the process by having representatives that reflect their interests and their communities,” Samuels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair representation will help Black neighborhoods have access to funding and resources, he said: “We want to make sure that when these lines are drawn that they’re drawn in a way that brings assets back to these communities, that brings investment back to these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fresno County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County isn’t the same county it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Its total population grew from 930,450 in 2010 to more than 1 million in the last decade, and its Hispanic/Latino population grew to 53.6% from 50.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the unsuccessful effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">focused on Latino voters\u003c/a>, who comprise California’s largest ethnic group, at 39% of the statewide population, and an increasing share of registered voters, at 28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the changing population, it’s no surprise there was backlash to comments by some Fresno County supervisors, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/59806\">adopt the board districts\u003c/a>, about their intent to keep them largely the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mauricio Hernández met Arnold Schwarzenegger, the then-governor of California had just vetoed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-23-me-bill23-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2004 bill\u003c/a> that would have allowed undocumented immigrants like him to get driver’s licenses. At the time, Hernández worked for a well-known body shop in Los Angeles called West Coast Customs, where Hollywood celebrities like Sylvester Stallone, Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton often brought their cars to for repairs and customizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Schwarzenegger came to pick up his car, I drove it and handed him the keys,” Hernández said, chuckling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Mexico City, Hernández dreamed of being on television and becoming famous. He used to watch a kids’ show called “Chiquilladas” and aspired to be invited to be a part of the cast. When he was 8 years old, he learned that the show was offering acting lessons for kids. But his family didn’t have extra money to pay for them, so his dream was pushed to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/H2yUzmGAOxo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Hernández started working at an auto repair shop to earn extra money. He liked working on cars — almost as much as he liked the idea of being on TV. He decided that he wanted to work on cars professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, as a teenager, he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with his brother. He then got a job working as a janitor at a body shop in Westchester, near the Los Angeles International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I seen a lowrider, I really went crazy,” Hernández said. “They used to make them dance and get up and spin around. And I was like, ‘How’d they do that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11884872 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández grew up in a Mexico City neighborhood lined with mechanic shops and auto parts stores. (Photo courtesy Levi Bridges)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon Hernández started picking up odd jobs fixing up cars. He had a cousin who was doing some gigs for \u003ca href=\"https://westcoastcustoms.com/\">West Coast Customs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Hernández and his cousin spent a long weekend doing the exterior work on a rickety old van for West Coast Customs. As they worked, a camera crew came out to film them. Hernández figured they were shooting a documentary, but he didn’t ask any questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to do the job. Our thing was the money. Never mind the cameras,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, Hernández found out that they were filming the pilot episode of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/series/pimp-my-ride/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pimp My Ride\u003c/a>” — the MTV reality show hosted by the rapper Xzibit. Each episode featured West Coast Customs tricking out an old clunker and adding wild features like an Xbox or a jacuzzi. Hernández went on to work on many of the cars that appeared on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EYtGosGqsZs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ended up doing ‘Pimp My Ride’ for six years,” he said. “Those six years were the happiest years of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The body shop soon launched its own reality show called “Street Customs.” Hernández became one of the show’s main characters — living his childhood fantasy on national TV in the United States. But he was also in California as an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his boss offered to sponsor Hernández with a U.S. visa if he returned to Mexico to open a West Coast Customs franchise, he jumped on the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2009, Hernández said goodbye to his partner and three kids and flew to Mexico City.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The world of “Tunéame la nave”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Hernández left Los Angeles, it was the first time in nearly 20 years that he had been back to Mexico City — the place where he grew up dreaming about being on television. And what’s extraordinary is that this dream of appearing on TV came true again, just not on the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Hernández worried that perhaps he’d made the wrong choice, and that this whole business venture in Mexico might fail. He promised his kids that he’d be back in California before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he’d returned to Mexico, the investors who brought the West Coast Customs brand there came up with the idea to launch a version of “Pimp My Ride” in Spanish. Hernández became the show’s host, and they called the show “Tunéame la nave,” a direct translation of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3FFB9Pcmis\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández designed most of “Tunéame la nave” himself. The premise of the show was that people would send in pictures of their cars each week. Hernández would choose which one would get tuned up. He wanted the show to be funny — less formal than “Pimp My Ride” — and something that Mexicans could identify with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to put the salsa in it,” Hernández recalled. “Mexicans, we always want to put chile in it, we want to put lemon in it, we want to put salt in it. So I wanted to put the spices in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mauricio Hernández\"]‘I had a promise to my kids in the States … that I was going to come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.’[/pullquote]Soon “Tunéame la nave” was broadcast to every state in Mexico. For years, Hernández had done the grunt work on cars that appeared on “Pimp My Ride” — but he was always behind the scenes. Now he became famous in his own country, the Xzibit of Mexico’s version of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández said that his success in Mexico created a rift between him and Ryan Friedlinghaus, the owner of West Coast Customs in Los Angeles. Hernández arrived in Mexico believing that his former boss would sponsor him with a U.S. visa, which would allow him to return to his children in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hernández said that Friedlinghaus cut off communication with him in Mexico — he never helped Hernández get a visa. After multiple attempts to interview Friedlinghaus for this story, Friedlinghaus’s publicist sent an email saying they wish Hernández “our very best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández still regularly holds events around Mexico for fans of his show “Tunéame la nave,” which was based on MTV’s hit show “Pimp My Ride.” (Photo courtesy Mauricio Hernández) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mauricio Hernández)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But despite the fame he acquired from “Tunéame la nave,” Hernández didn’t want to stay in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a promise to my kids in the States,” Hernández said, “that I was gonna come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The crossing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Hernández traveled to Tecate, a Mexican town on the border with California, and hired a coyote to take him to the United States. One night he set off with a group of about a dozen other migrants from Central America and Mexico around midnight and they began walking through the mountains into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to cross at that moment,” Hernández said. “They had like so much security around the border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández was a smoker and out of shape, so he had trouble keeping up with the group. Eventually, they all stopped in a cave up in the mountains. Mauricio collapsed on the ground and fell asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember sleeping for a long time. But I do remember when I woke up. There was nobody at the cave,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández started walking through the darkness trying to find his way back to civilization. Soon, it started to rain. Hernández walked through the freezing cold, tripping and falling in these deep depressions in the earth that bruised his arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was preparing myself to die,” Hernández said. “I remember I told God, ‘I don’t want to die like this, please.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández had an old flip phone in his pocket that still had some battery left. He managed to call a Mexican emergency hotline. When the sun rose the next morning, an operator on the other end of the line was able to give Hernández directions back to Tecate based on landmarks he saw. A group of paramedics met Hernández at the edge of the city. Later, they told him that he nearly died from hypothermia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández never tried crossing the U.S. border again. Although his show, “Tunéame la nave” was eventually canceled, Hernández has formed a fulfilling life for himself in Mexico, where he runs his own body shop and regularly attends events where fans of the show come to get his autograph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11885687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today Mauricio Hernández runs his own body shop in Mexico City that does personal customization on cars. (Photo courtesy Levi Bridges) \u003ccite>(Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, he sometimes uses his fame to dissuade other Mexicans from trying to enter the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them not to go, it’s not worth it,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to say whether things would have worked out so well for Hernández if he’d stayed in Mexico — whether he ever would have gotten a TV show or owned his own business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in California was part of what helped make his dreams come true. But along with all the good things that came out of crossing the border, being an immigrant — and losing his connection to his children in California — also caused him a lot of pain. And Hernández wouldn’t wish that on anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this episode originally aired on the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/unfictional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UnFictional\u003c/a> by KCRW.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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When he was 8 years old, he learned that the show was offering acting lessons for kids. But his family didn’t have extra money to pay for them, so his dream was pushed to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/H2yUzmGAOxo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Hernández started working at an auto repair shop to earn extra money. He liked working on cars — almost as much as he liked the idea of being on TV. He decided that he wanted to work on cars professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, as a teenager, he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with his brother. 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Without any other source of income, musicians felt they had no choice but to accept jobs even at the risk of coronavirus exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 50 mariachi musicians have died of COVID-19 over the past year, said Israel Moreno, president of the Organization of Independent Mariachis of California (OMICAL) in Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11850782\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46378_009_KQED_Oakland_OurLadyofGuadalupeDay_12122020-qut-800x533.jpg\"]About 80% of the group’s roughly 270 members have gotten infected, he said. OMICAL members have rallied to collect donations of food and money, and the group has helped grieving families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would give a box of food to the mariachis every week,” Moreno said. “For those who passed away we would look for their families to let them know or helped with donations to repatriate the body to their country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business has picked up for mariachis since the worst days of the pandemic. But it will take a long time for the community to fully recover from the physical, emotional and financial damage.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I Thought We Were Going to Be OK”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alex Cisneros has worked as a mariachi for over 25 years. He is proud to say he has supported his family with this job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisneros, the leader of Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara, said the band was hired to perform at a house event in celebration of Father’s Day last June. There was a crowd of a few dozen people. At the time, the state prohibited gatherings but police didn’t enforce the rule at residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Cisneros, leader of Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara\"]‘There were so many people when I arrived that doctors told me I was still breathing and that they couldn’t take me in.’[/pullquote]Three days before the event, the six musicians who planned to attend got tested for the coronavirus to make sure they were not infected. All of them tested negative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought we were going to be OK,” said Cisneros, who plays the violin and sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived at the party, they tried to keep some distance from the crowd. But as they continued to play, guests pushed in closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept moving back but there was a point where we couldn’t move anymore,” Cisneros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singing and playing brass instruments such as trumpets, a mariachi staple, are considered especially risky for coronavirus transmission because they \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/musicguide.pdf\">release respiratory particles\u003c/a> through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he was driving home, Cisneros felt a dry cough and his throat hurt. Initially he ignored the symptoms, thinking his throat was sore from singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to bed, but by the next day he had fever, diarrhea and extreme pain in his bones. He was shivering and vomited. He called his bandmates and cautioned them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As days passed, his health deteriorated. His headaches worsened and he started having harsh pain in his lungs. 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Cisneros said the news was devastating for him, but he’s thankful that Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara did not suffer major losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back to Work — Performing at Funerals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hiring of mariachis began increasing last fall. But instead of happy celebrations, most jobs were to play at funerals. For a while at the beginning of this year, some bands played at one funeral, or more, almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Francisco Hernandez, violinist\"]‘I really try to hold my own tears when I see them because their tears are real when they cry for their loved ones.’[/pullquote]“Recently we played in a funeral at Rose Hills cemetery and we counted in a perimeter of about 100 meters eight funerals,” Israel Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Hernandez, violinist of Mariachi Los Potrillos and vice president of OMICAL, said the worst part of playing at funerals is seeing a child mourn a parent or a grandparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really try to hold my own tears when I see them because their tears are real when they cry for their loved ones,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said there has been so much demand to play at funerals that mariachis wish there were more hours during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dropped \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/06/california-reopening-june/\">mask mandates on June 15\u003c/a>. Cisneros said his band is booked mainly on weekends, and he is grateful that he has been able to go back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a year after he contracted COVID-19, he still suffers from its effects. Although medical experts \u003ca href=\"https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-should-you-get-vaccinated-if-youve-had-covid-19/\">encourage\u003c/a> people who’ve had COVID to get vaccinated, even if they have persistent symptoms, Cisneros has put it off because he fears he’ll have a bad reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still have throat pain, my lungs hurt and I think even my kidneys got damaged … I have a lot of headaches, too,” he said. “I forget things a lot, my body aches and my bones hurt a lot when it’s cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/the-california-divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California. 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From the elderly to parents with children, all kinds of listeners stepped out onto their balconies to experience live music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized it was so important for the people,” Gara said. “It was like a medical cure for them emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDpebnb4Bpg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gara and Kim said they felt a sense of purpose in bringing music as a way to connect to people who were now spending their days isolated in their apartments. They started to think about how they could bring music to people all over America, not just Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Gara came up with the crazy idea to hit the road. Ever since he was a child, he said he always dreamed of traveling, and not being tied to a single place. Though Kim was hesitant at first, it didn’t take long before she was on board, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined that I’m going to be living in a bus,” Kim said. “When he talked about this idea, of course, I thought, ‘It’s crazy!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a schedule full of concerts and tours, Kim agreed that they should take the opportunity to experience something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2020, Gara and Kim started hunting for a vehicle. They scrolled through hundreds of buses and vans on Craigslist, stumbling upon some rustier than others, until they found the one: a little 1971 VW bus — a vehicle with personality, the third character to their story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim after they bought their 1971 VW bus in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of MusiKaravan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They spent about a month and a half working on the bus to bring it into shape. The metal plates of the chassis were rusted, there were bumps and scratches and the paint was faded, but after some mechanical repairs, a new set of curtains and a coat of bright red paint, the bus was ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely cute,” Gara said. “It triggers imagination, it triggers stories because most people have a story about a VW bus about 50 years ago, and nobody can throw you out when they see this cute candy on wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They named him Boris. And finally, in August, they hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-3.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim in Paso Robles. \u003ccite>(Lathan J.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the start of their own great American road trip — two violinists from foreign countries, traveling across the states from one place to the next, trying to bring people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like being on the road, I feel good,” Gara said. “I never thought about it as me being French or not from here. I always felt that I’m coming to people — they don’t know my background, I don’t know their background, but I see them just as people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting people along the way gave them a sense of place in America, as they carried on this American tradition that is rooted in history. Their journey is reminiscent of the 1960s, the hippie era, when young people hit Route 66 searching for independence and their sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do I belong? Am I French? Am I Hungarian? American? European?” Gara pondered. “Where do I really come from? Where do I go? It became normal to be a foreigner, to be on the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kim, being on the road helped her cope with grief. Her father passed away last year just as they had left Los Angeles and to start touring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what happened to my father, the beginning was really hard,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After receiving the call about Kim’s father, Kim and Gara immediately returned to Los Angeles. Kim boarded a flight to South Korea to visit her family and attend her father’s funeral, which ended up delaying their MusiKaravan plans for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she returned, still mourning, she said, “But it was more helpful for me to travel and meet new people and [to experience] this crazy time on the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a kind of freedom in not knowing where the road would take them next. As Gara and Kim drove through cinematic landscapes, across deserts and forests, they experienced tall redwood trees in Northern California, the glistening of the sun rising in the mornings and snow-capped mountain tops. The scenery helped them see life from a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so beautiful and stunning, and at the same time, I’m so small,” Kim said. “Compared to this Earth, I’m nothing. I really like that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in a tiny and cramped bus is not easy. Gara and Kim said they can only afford to keep only the essentials inside of their bus, like their violins, filming equipment, a small sink, a water tank, propane and a small ice box where they store their food. Their driveway hosts also generously gifted them meat from their farms, as well as fresh organic fruits and vegetables, and bottles of wine, they said. They even butchered an old rooster one time, which they turned into coq au vin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a Michelin star restaurant just in the bus!” Gara exclaimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874566\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim in Oceanside, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of MusiKaravan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bus has taken Gara and Kim to farms, groves, vineyards and even an Orthodox Christian monastery. Along the road, they’ve met all kinds of people. From Trump supporters to liberals to war veterans and hippies who traveled in VW buses years ago, people from all political, religious and social backgrounds have welcomed Gara and Kim into their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They open their door no matter what,” Kim said. “They hear our story, what we’re doing at this time, and they immediately feel that, ‘Oh, I need to do something good, too.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11873038 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48979_IMG_1077-qut-1020x588.jpg']In Napa, Gara and Kim said they experienced a special moment of bonding between neighboring households. Their driveway hosts were pro-Trump, and they invited neighbors from a block away who were old hippies to listen to their garden concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were both surprised to find themselves in the same place, but it was courteous, it was nice,” Gara said. “They all enjoyed each other, and I think they saw that, you know, we’re human beings before everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another memorable moment was during the first month of their trip in Southern California. From Oceanside they drove north, through Ventura County heading toward the farms outside of Ojai, 80 miles north of Los Angeles. They parked Boris between vast groves of citrus, walnut and olive trees, near the farm of the Ojai Olive Oil Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with Alice Asquith, owner of the company. After 14 years working for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and LA Opera, Asquith moved to Ojai where she eventually got involved with the family business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gara and Kim arrived at the grove, Asquith gave them a tour, shared her knowledge of olive trees and offered them a variety of olive oils to try. In exchange, they gave her live music. Behind the foothills, in a little canyon by a pond, Gara and Kim set up their music stands. They performed a concert for a little audience of five. Their program included their arrangement of Chopin’s \"Nocturne Op.9 No.2\" for two violins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim performing in a canyon for Alice Asquith and friends at the Ojai Olive Oil Company. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of MusiKaravan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like somebody took them from some magical place and plonked them down there, there they were,” Asquith said. “And they could have been anywhere, you know? It was about the music, that’s all it was, it was about music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And down at the grove, the workers could hear the music, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody stopped and listened,” Asquith said. “And they all said the same thing — it was like time stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Gara and Kim’s audience is a full concert hall or just several people, they say their goal is the same: to have a direct, intimate connection with the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we play with our heart, then they will love it, whatever we play,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it gives [us] faith in humanity,” Gara said. “People are compassionate, people are respectful, people have dreams and when you put all this together it’s pretty amazing to be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"YuEun Kim, MusiKaravan violinist\"]'If we play with our heart, then they will love it, whatever we play.'[/pullquote]Although MusiKaravan began as a response to a deadly pandemic, Gara and Kim said they’re just getting started. Without the barriers of the pandemic, Gara believes MusiKaravan can go further, with more buses, bringing other musicians from Delirium Musicum, and possibly inviting dozens of listeners into their driveway host’s backyard concerts instead of three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like it’s in the continuity of what was meant to do,” Gara said. “I think it will be part of the Delirium experience”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The little red bus has taken Gara and Kim from Southern California all the way to the Canadian border this past year. But there’s one thing that remains constant — the music and the power it has in bringing people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gara and Kim will post updates on their journey to Instagram \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/musikaravan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MusiKaravan\u003c/a> and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbD3bfbQdhaO6UbZeOmJxGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> throughout the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a collaboration between The California Report and students of the \u003ca href=\"https://annenberg.usc.edu/\">Annenberg School at USC.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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From the elderly to parents with children, all kinds of listeners stepped out onto their balconies to experience live music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized it was so important for the people,” Gara said. “It was like a medical cure for them emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fDpebnb4Bpg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fDpebnb4Bpg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Gara and Kim said they felt a sense of purpose in bringing music as a way to connect to people who were now spending their days isolated in their apartments. They started to think about how they could bring music to people all over America, not just Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Gara came up with the crazy idea to hit the road. Ever since he was a child, he said he always dreamed of traveling, and not being tied to a single place. Though Kim was hesitant at first, it didn’t take long before she was on board, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined that I’m going to be living in a bus,” Kim said. “When he talked about this idea, of course, I thought, ‘It’s crazy!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a schedule full of concerts and tours, Kim agreed that they should take the opportunity to experience something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2020, Gara and Kim started hunting for a vehicle. They scrolled through hundreds of buses and vans on Craigslist, stumbling upon some rustier than others, until they found the one: a little 1971 VW bus — a vehicle with personality, the third character to their story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim after they bought their 1971 VW bus in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of MusiKaravan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They spent about a month and a half working on the bus to bring it into shape. The metal plates of the chassis were rusted, there were bumps and scratches and the paint was faded, but after some mechanical repairs, a new set of curtains and a coat of bright red paint, the bus was ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely cute,” Gara said. “It triggers imagination, it triggers stories because most people have a story about a VW bus about 50 years ago, and nobody can throw you out when they see this cute candy on wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They named him Boris. 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I always felt that I’m coming to people — they don’t know my background, I don’t know their background, but I see them just as people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting people along the way gave them a sense of place in America, as they carried on this American tradition that is rooted in history. Their journey is reminiscent of the 1960s, the hippie era, when young people hit Route 66 searching for independence and their sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do I belong? Am I French? Am I Hungarian? American? European?” Gara pondered. “Where do I really come from? Where do I go? It became normal to be a foreigner, to be on the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kim, being on the road helped her cope with grief. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Napa, Gara and Kim said they experienced a special moment of bonding between neighboring households. Their driveway hosts were pro-Trump, and they invited neighbors from a block away who were old hippies to listen to their garden concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were both surprised to find themselves in the same place, but it was courteous, it was nice,” Gara said. “They all enjoyed each other, and I think they saw that, you know, we’re human beings before everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another memorable moment was during the first month of their trip in Southern California. From Oceanside they drove north, through Ventura County heading toward the farms outside of Ojai, 80 miles north of Los Angeles. They parked Boris between vast groves of citrus, walnut and olive trees, near the farm of the Ojai Olive Oil Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with Alice Asquith, owner of the company. After 14 years working for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and LA Opera, Asquith moved to Ojai where she eventually got involved with the family business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gara and Kim arrived at the grove, Asquith gave them a tour, shared her knowledge of olive trees and offered them a variety of olive oils to try. In exchange, they gave her live music. Behind the foothills, in a little canyon by a pond, Gara and Kim set up their music stands. They performed a concert for a little audience of five. Their program included their arrangement of Chopin’s \"Nocturne Op.9 No.2\" for two violins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/MusiKaravan-5.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MusiKaravan violinists Etienne Gara and YuEun Kim performing in a canyon for Alice Asquith and friends at the Ojai Olive Oil Company. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of MusiKaravan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like somebody took them from some magical place and plonked them down there, there they were,” Asquith said. “And they could have been anywhere, you know? It was about the music, that’s all it was, it was about music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And down at the grove, the workers could hear the music, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody stopped and listened,” Asquith said. “And they all said the same thing — it was like time stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Gara and Kim’s audience is a full concert hall or just several people, they say their goal is the same: to have a direct, intimate connection with the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we play with our heart, then they will love it, whatever we play,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it gives [us] faith in humanity,” Gara said. “People are compassionate, people are respectful, people have dreams and when you put all this together it’s pretty amazing to be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872529/meet-the-tiktok-angel-of-street-vendors\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando TikTok comenzó a ganar popularidad, Jesús Morales, como muchos otros jóvenes, decidió crear contenido original para publicar en esa plataforma.[pullquote size=\"right\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jesús Morales, @Juixxe en Tiktok \"]‘Nunca en mi vida me hubiera imaginado que estaría haciendo TikTok para sobrevivir…la interacción con los vendedores no tarda mucho y puedo editar el vídeo en unos 20 o 30 minutos.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que no esperaba es que en muy poco tiempo se convertiría en \u003cem>influencer\u003c/em> y ángel de la guarda para muchos vendedores ambulantes en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El joven de 24 años dijo que después de ser despedido de su trabajo a principios de la pandemia en el 2020, decidió usar su tiempo libre para crear vídeos divertidos. El número de sus seguidores aumentó, pero los resultados realmente no lo hicieron feliz. Sintió que faltaba algo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luego comenzó a ver otros vídeos de TikTok con un propósito: personas que dejaban grandes cantidades de propinas en restaurantes y otro vídeo que mostraba a una joven dando dinero a los vendedores ambulantes. Los influencers indicaron que el dinero provenía principalmente de donaciones de sus seguidores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hice un vídeo pidiendo donaciones para ayudar a las personas sin hogar”, dijo Morales, cuyo nombre en las redes sociales es \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe\">@Juixxe\u003c/a>, un juego de palabras de su apodo ‘Juice’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 861px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/courtesy_tiktok_02-1020x574-1.jpg\" alt=\"Una imagen de Jesús Morales, parado ante la cámara, portando un abrigo de color negro.\" width=\"861\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/courtesy_tiktok_02-1020x574-1.jpg 861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/courtesy_tiktok_02-1020x574-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/courtesy_tiktok_02-1020x574-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesús Morales, quien se hace llamar Juixxe en TikTok, recauda donaciones de seguidores que comparte con vendedores ambulantes en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Jesus Morales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Y funcionó. Recibió algunas donaciones, que utilizó para comprar comida y agua para las personas sin hogar.[aside label ='Historias Relacionadas' tag='kqed-en-espanol']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su objetivo, sin embargo, era la comunidad de inmigrantes latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, nació y se crió en Illinois y se mudó a San Diego hace unos años. Vivió en Los Ángeles durante un año y notó una gran cantidad de vendedores ambulantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La mayoría de ellos son mayores de edad e indocumentados, recordó Morales. Esto realmente lo impacto a un nivel personal al recordar las luchas diarias de sus padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mi papá tenía varios trabajos y mi mamá era mesera y me decía que a veces la gente le daba unos centavos como propina”, dijo Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para honrar el arduo trabajo de los inmigrantes, comenzó a producir vídeos con un propósito: el dinero recaudado de sus seguidores se lo daría a vendedores ambulantes que encontraría en las calles al azar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe/video/6895084234248162566\" data-video-id=\"6895084234248162566\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@juixxe\u003c/a>Always supporting our street vendors! 🙏🏽 \u003ca title=\"juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Juixxe\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"streetvendor\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/streetvendor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StreetVendor\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"giveback\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/giveback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Giveback\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Jesús\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6895084249473469190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Jesús\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Un vídeo de la cuenta deTikTok de Jesús Morales, o ‘@juixxe’, que demuestra una interacción entre Morales y un vendedor ambulante. La descripción del vídeo dice, “¡Siempre apoyando a nuestros vendedores ambulantes!”.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bendiciones de desconocidos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Morales ha distribuido más de $90 mil en donaciones a vendedores ambulantes en todo California, pero principalmente en Los Ángeles. Dijo que sus seguidores han donado desde unos pocos dólares hasta mil dólares en una sola transacción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juixxe distribuye el dinero una o dos veces por semana, dependiendo de la cantidad que logre recaudar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiene una forma peculiar de entregar el dinero. Pide comprar toda su mercancía o comida que venden y cuando los vendedores aceptan, Morales les ofrece dinero. Por lo general, les entrega mil dólares en un sobre y les dice que se queden con la mercancía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es muy común ver en los vídeos a vendedores ambulantes impactados con la noticia, eventualmente agradeciéndole el gesto y enviando bendiciones a sus seguidores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos incluso se arrodillan asombrados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales dijo que este tipo de vídeos lo han llenado de una alegría inexplicable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No conozco (a los vendedores) ni sé por lo que están pasando”, dijo Morales, “no diría que vengo en un momento perfecto, pero es una visita con un propósito”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe/video/6921152988044070150\" data-video-id=\"6921152988044070150\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@juixxe\u003c/a>They were only expecting $8 🥺 \u003ca title=\"juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#juixxe\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ оригинальный звук - nlaims\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BA-6865193361293216517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ оригинальный звук – nlaims\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Otro vídeo de la cuenta de TikTok de Jesús Morales, o ‘@juixxe’, que demuestra una interacción entre Morales y una pareja que vende churros en la calle. La descripción del vídeo dice, “Sólo esperaban recibir $8”.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Un trabajo de tiempo completo\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unos meses después de crear su primer vídeo de TikTok, Juixxe convirtió su labor en las redes sociales en su trabajo de tiempo completo. Ahora tiene más de un millón de seguidores y sus vídeos tienen miles de visitas. A causa de tantas reproducciones de sus vídeos, Morales recibe un salario, así como de patrocinadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nunca en mi vida me hubiera imaginado que estaría haciendo TikTok para sobrevivir”, dijo Morales. “La interacción con los vendedores no tarda mucho y puedo editar el vídeo en unos 20 o 30 minutos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"tiktok\" label=\"Cobertura relacionada en inglés\"]Morales dijo que después de entregar la donación a los vendedores, espera unos días o semanas para publicar el vídeo en las redes sociales. 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He said his followers have donated anywhere from a few dollars to $1,000 in a single transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juixxe distributes the money once or twice a week, depending on the amount he collects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has a peculiar way of delivering the money. He asks to buy all their merchandise and when the sellers accept, Morales offers them money. He usually hands them $1,000 in an envelope and tells them to keep the merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is very common to see on the videos street vendors shocked with the news, eventually thanking him for the gesture and sending blessings to his followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some even kneel in amazement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said that these types of videos have filled him with inexplicable joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not know (the sellers) nor do I know what they are going through,” Morales said, “I would not say that I come at a perfect time, but it is a visit with a purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe/video/6921152988044070150\" data-video-id=\"6921152988044070150\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@juixxe\u003c/a>They were only expecting $8 🥺 \u003ca title=\"juixxe\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/juixxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#juixxe\u003c/a>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"♬ оригинальный звук - nlaims\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BA-6865193361293216517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ оригинальный звук – nlaims\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A full-time job\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A few months into the TikTok video creating, Juixxe made it his full-time job. Now he has more than a million followers and his videos have thousands of views. It is from these views that he receives his salary as well as from sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in my life would I have imagined that I would be doing TikTok for a living,” Morales said. “The interaction with the sellers takes a little time and I can do the editing of the video in about 20 or 30 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said after handing over the donation to the sellers, he waits a few days or weeks to post the video on social media. He also makes sure to cover the faces of the street vendors who appear in the videos. All of this is done for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hate any street vendor to be targeted and be robbed,” said Juixxe, who travels once or twice a week from San Diego to Los Angeles to deliver to those most in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales has always wanted to make these kinds of videos but had to overcome his fear of failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you have to fail to be successful,” he said, “and I have failed many times in my life. This is the only thing I can say that I have not failed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The East Hollywood neighborhood surrounding Kingsley Elementary School in Los Angeles was hit hard by COVID-19. So when Karina Salazar, the school’s principal, began planning for her campus to reopen for in-person learning this month, she knew families would be nervous about sending their children back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought if she could offer students the chance to be outdoors for part of the day, it might alleviate some concern for both parents and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nick Melvoin, LAUSD board member\"]'I think we've been dead set in our ways on what a classroom should look like, going back to when many of us were kids.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar is not new to outdoor education. Prior to the pandemic, the school created a native plant and organic vegetable garden, complete with a chicken coop. Students did science units there, and relished the opportunity to care for the school's roosters, Roy and Al, Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Salazar wanted to go further, and with support from experts in outdoor learning, Kingsley Elementary — which reopens for in-person learning on Monday — is piloting a program that will do just that. With four brand new nature classrooms set up atop the asphalt playground space, teachers will be able to sign up to bring their students outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kingsley’s new outdoor setup comes as the Los Angeles Unified School District pushes to expand outdoor learning options. 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Nick Melvoin, an LAUSD board member, hopes that will change with the new resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it's a failure of imagination,” Melvoin said. “I think we've been dead set in our ways on what a classroom should look like, going back to when many of us were kids ... and it's a classroom with desks and with walls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In LAUSD schools, only about 40% of elementary school students are opting to return to in-person classes, according to a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that had we done a better job of setting up these outdoor classrooms, we actually could have opened schools earlier than we are now,” Melvoin said. “Even schools where we haven't been able to do the work of putting in gardens or grass, even if we're converting a blacktop by putting in a tent and adaptive seating, we could fit more students in, and that would mitigate the need for an AM and a PM session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Walls\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kingsley's outdoor classrooms have no walls. Instead, the boundaries are marked by planted shrubs. Traditional plastic bucket seats have been replaced with wicker armchairs and tree stumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will rotate between their regular inside classrooms and the outdoor spaces when the school reopens for in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By establishing the conditions where teachers can be outside with their students and have an outdoor classroom that provides that sense of openness, it adds that additional layer of security,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classrooms that Salazar and her staff built, with support from Green Schoolyards America, are little nature hubs. Two classrooms have natural toned desks and stools with a wicker armchair for the teacher, a setup more redolent of college than your typical elementary school. 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At \u003ca href=\"https://www.journeyschool.net/about/\">the Journey School\u003c/a>, a charter school in Aliso Viejo, kindergarten through second grade classes have already been back in person since November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school had full-time outdoor kindergarten classrooms long before the pandemic hit. 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And while they have their laptops open to hear Kilcollins’ Zoom lesson, they are using pencil and paper to do the actual work, reducing the amount of screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some challenges in having an outdoor classroom,” Keller said, noting that weather is a big one. “We had a storm three weeks ago that came through that was fairly significant and we were unable to offer that instruction outdoors. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>More than 60,000 Californians have died from COVID-19. This week, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> is launching a series to remember some of them. Our first tribute is to Eric Warner, who died of COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. He was a barber, a boxer and a beloved brother. Eric’s older brother Hank brings us this tribute.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]aving an only brother incarcerated for life leaves a hole in your heart. You long for sibling companionship. And guard your secret for fear of shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we collected pollywogs after big rains. We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,” Khan said. “He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, ‘Just don’t forget me when you get out.’ That’s who Eric was, and is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric’s fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. That was back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric talked about their love story, and read a letter to Amanda, in this documentary called “Resilience” — made by Khan and other incarcerated men learning to be filmmakers inside San Quentin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDcatgnKKQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, when I saw on the news that there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826469/shocking-heartbreaking-san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-alarms-health-officials\">COVID outbreak in San Quentin\u003c/a>, my heart sank. I didn’t hear from Eric for weeks. We normally talked on the phone every Sunday. But there were no phone calls, no letters, no news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, I received a call from a nurse. Eric was hospitalized. He made it out of prison, only to end up in a hospital close to where we grew up. He had been in the ICU for over a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facetime was the only way we could visit. Eric’s face, dominated by an air mask, filled my iPad screen. The whooshing sound of the breathing machine drowned out his voice. He gasped for life with every breath. Our visits lasted only a few minutes. I was his cheerleader and soother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just the two of us for seven days, and then he passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-1020x1174.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMX was Eric’s favorite sport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after Eric died, I received an overwhelming number of texts and phone messages. Formerly incarcerated men and prison staffers reached out to express their condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All had to let me know how much Eric meant to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1341868668733456385?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t understand what motivated these people to reach out to me. I didn’t think anyone cared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, these same men organized a memorial to honor my brother. More than a dozen friends from San Quentin showed up. Many more couldn’t be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eric will always be remembered by friends and family as a kind and warm hearted person. And he was loved by so many,” said Chanton Bun, his friend and former cellmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13889012 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/eric-warner-1920-x-1080-1020x574.jpg']One by one, each person told me what Eric meant to them; how he helped them survive in prison and prepared them to get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it hit me – my brother helped so many men reach freedom – in every sense. It was like they owed their lives to him. This blew my mind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some time has passed, I am relieved to say that the hole in my heart is mending. I no longer feel ashamed. I admire my brother for shedding past demons and creating a meaningful life by serving others. Eric’s life may have been taken by COVID, but his spirit will live on. He left his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am proud of my brother Eric William Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hank Warner lives in the Los Angeles area. 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Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. 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He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,” Khan said. “He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, ‘Just don’t forget me when you get out.’ That’s who Eric was, and is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric’s fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s an experience most children have not had in a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven sets of eager eyes are fixed on the teacher who holds court in the center of the circle, storybook in hand and props at the ready. Each child has a ziplock bag packed with supplies: duct tape, plasticine, pipe cleaners, scissors, string and more. The children are about to build a river and forest ecosystem model. And there’s a tricky catch — they can’t let their paper salamander perish. Their excitement is palpable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Los Angeles Unified School District first to fifth graders are spaced 6 feet apart on the grass of an L.A. city park. Some kids sit, some crouch and one little boy spins about in place. The children have left behind their computers in the Parks and Rec building, where they’ve spent the morning doing virtual instruction with their classroom teachers. Now they are participating in a program run by the district’s Office of Outdoor and Environmental Education. The little students seem thrilled to be discussing salamanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re covering ecosystems,” said Ashley Storey, one of the program’s outdoor educators. 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Zoom school just isn’t providing what all kids need, and children of color are falling further behind their white peers. It is hoped that the return to in-person schooling will help children catch up, yet even in hybrid learning, most students will still be zooming with their teachers for some portion of the day. The problem is acute for the youngest students because hands-on learning has been almost impossible in the virtual environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter a unique idea, the brainchild of Gerry Salazar, born after the pandemic forced Camp Skyhook — LAUSD’s outdoor learning center located in the Los Angeles mountains — to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar and his team wanted a program where science learning fun could travel to the kids. The idea was to bring the mountains and forests to where the students were, and not via a computer screen. \u003ca href=\"https://skyhookfoundation.org/2021/02/a-covid-19-story-in-three-acts-the-origin-of-the-lausd-skyhook-eco-vans/\">The Skyhook Eco Van program\u003c/a> is where Los Angeles kids from across the district do exactly that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar managed to acquire four sleek black vans — a donation from the Skyhook Foundation — and his team of outdoor educators equipped each one with plastic tubs full of science learning materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting kids outside to learn is at the heart of everything Salazar does. “We know that the outdoors are therapeutic for all of these kids,” Salazar said. During the stay-home periods, he didn’t want students to lose access to nature altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gerry Salazar, LAUSD\"]‘I’ve always felt that the outdoors is a bit of a human equalizer … [Nature] provides opportunities for children to be able to lower their anxiety, to lower their stress levels.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a program that relied on donations to be realized. Salazar would like to see it grow but knows the funding realities might not allow this long term. “We are mindful that ongoing costs may not have the future funding, post CARES Act, necessary to operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the one-time cost of the vans was covered by philanthropists, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the district has to cover the staffing and gas costs. “The current fleet of four may be sufficient when considering the entirety of outdoor and environmental education programs offered,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This salamander lesson at Baldwin Hills’ Jim Gilliam Park is the second time the Eco Van has come to work with this group of children, all made possible due to LAUSD’s partnership with the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks where students come daily to utilize the Wi-Fi and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children look eagerly at one outdoor educator, who they call Ms. Willow, as she peppers them with questions. “What is a salamander? Has anybody ever seen a salamander?” There are some guesses, some giggles and then a first grader responds correctly. “It is definitely a lizard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This little boy is wiggling about, raking his fingers back and forth through the grass around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is eager to open his ziplock and get to work. “I’m going to build a house that protects the salamander from the wind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storey said they tweaked the usual lessons they would give the kids to reflect that in the mountains, they’d really encounter animals. “Salamanders are small,” she said. “They are important to the ecosystem.” For the park lesson, children get a paper salamander. Step one? Color it in. It’s a task the children gleefully attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11851837\" label=\"More on education during the pandemic\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being outdoors to learn is more than just nice, said Salazar. “I’ve always felt that the outdoors is a bit of a human equalizer.” Nature “provides opportunities for children to be able to lower their anxiety, to lower their stress levels,” Salazar said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He predicts other long-term benefits as well. “They may look to these open spaces like these neighborhood parks to seek out their own wellness and it [may] empower them to be responsible for their own general health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The learning benefits are tangible, said Ashley Storey. “First graders are jumping ahead as they are grasping onto concepts that probably wouldn’t even come to them until later grades [like] third, fourth grade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stands in contrast to data analyzed late last year by McKinsey & Company that found by the end of the fall, students had only learned 67% of the math compared to same-age peers the previous fall. That equated to about three months of learning loss, according to researchers. For schools with predominantly children of color, that math level fell to 59% of what was learned in the same period the year before. There was a learning loss in reading ability of up to two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning about ecosystems is clearly more engaging when taught as an engineering project. The tactile nature of all these lessons makes learning, especially for very young children, a much more meaningful experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lessons contained in large plastic tubs in the back of the Eco Van include a “skull lab.” Storey said, “Students get a replica skull of different animals and they have to try to figure out which animal the skull belonged to” by measuring it, looking at the kind of teeth it has, and asking questions to narrow down an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867335\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAUSD outdoor educator Ashley Storey holds a replica skull of a small squirrel. She stands inside the back of the Eco Van, which takes STEM education to children in parks across Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/The California Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all the activities the outdoor educators do with students, Salazar said many STEM standards are checked off, and the same activity can be made more sophisticated for higher grades, or simplified for kindergarteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, Salazar said, is to provide an “introduction to learning about their environment and how they influence that environment and how they are influenced by it as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a goal that used to be met when students came up to Camp Skyhook and spent days learning outside. But during this year-plus of distance learning, that hasn’t been possible, so the Eco Vans have filled in some of that gap. And they will continue to operate for the rest of this school year, pulling up to parks and school campuses where children are learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11866954\" label=\"Bay Area education resumes in-person learning\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond this school year, however, like much of the education world, Salazar doesn’t know what the future holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, at least, this handful of children is learning in the great outdoors. When their Zoom school day finished and the Eco Van arrived, the kids started with the building blocks of their lessons: cardboard, duct tape, plasticine, pipe cleaners and toilet rolls. But in this bucolic outdoor classroom in the park, students have mixed those materials into a diorama of a forest, with duct tape as the busy road the salamander has to cross. The perfect salamander crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These children-built ecosystem models allowed paper salamanders to cross the road, safely, under a real beaming sun, surrounded by the little smiling student engineers. Mission accomplished for Storey and her team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is a reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A lot of them, she says, lack internet access and don’t know how to navigate the state’s complicated sign-up system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, Ruiz has worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week to sew masks, hospital gowns and surgical hair nets for doctors and nurses, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says she’s not always paid for all the hours she works and sometimes earns less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11858873 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruiz sews face masks at her station in a garment factory. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Estela Perez, a member of the Garment Workers Center.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it’s difficult to socially distance in sweatshop factories, where upward of 50 seamstresses can often be sewing in one room. 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We can’t force our children to live on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to know how bad COVID-19 outbreaks have been in sweatshop factories because many of them operate in the shadows, and workers like Ruiz frequently move between jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe the ICU numbers tell the whole story as far as how many people are going to live and die because of reopening [California’s economy],” said Alex Sanchez, a field organizer with the \u003ca href=\"https://garmentworkercenter.org/\">Garment Worker Center\u003c/a>, which advocates for the estimated 45,000 garment workers in Los Angeles. “I think it’s way too soon. And I don’t believe we are going to be able to flatten the curve if we still have people out there at high risk not having access to a vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, 44, contracted COVID-19 in late December, likely from his son, who works at an Amazon warehouse where there have been several outbreaks. He had no preexisting conditions, but was hospitalized in the ICU for nearly two weeks. He’s now home, recovering with the help of an oxygen machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I’ve been sick battling Covid and pneumonia since 12/27. I was hospitalized for two weeks. Even if anything reopens, please protect yourself. I am 44 years old with no pre-existing conditions and almost died. Please be safe. I’m now home on oxygen \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/BZ3lLryZNq\">pic.twitter.com/BZ3lLryZNq\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Sanchez (@LALiving213) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LALiving213/status/1353598378874085376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From his living room, he’s been trying to help older garment workers who meet the age requirements to secure vaccine appointments online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between doing hourly exercises to expand his lung capacity, Sanchez has also been advocating for all garment workers — and other low-wage essential workers who have to perform their jobs inside — to get the vaccine as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11858875 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_20210117_222540_6901.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Sanchez, field organizer for the Garment Worker Center, who is recovering from COVID-19, holds his two children while breathing oxygen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alex Sanchez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those are the people that should be focused on first,” Sanchez said. “But it just seems like they don’t have a voice or big lobbying power, that they’re being excluded from the vaccine delivery, even though they are producing masks and gowns for the health care community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had the privilege of having health care to go to the doctor, but most folks don’t,” Sanchez added. “It might be funny to say, but maybe I needed to walk in somebody else’s shoes in order to understand what they’re going through. 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