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But the city has yet to begin creating a process for people to register and cast ballots as noncitizens, El Tímpano found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay has disappointed immigrant parents like Maria Cordova, a 47-year-old immigrant from El Salvador. Her 12-year-old daughter is in fifth grade at Fruitvale Elementary, and she said she was looking forward to voting. “I want to be able to vote because we can decide who can offer better opportunities for the children,” Cordova said. “So that we all, as parents and our children, have the opportunity to have a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of groups that support immigrants and their families in Oakland also \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/councilmembers-vote-to-send-non-citizen-voting-ballot-measure-for-ousd-school-board-elections-to-november-general-election-ballot\">supported\u003c/a> Measure S, including The Unity Council and Homies Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/New-court-order-means-noncitizen-parents-can-vote-17430973.php\">appeals court case\u003c/a> challenging a similar ordinance in San Francisco cleared the way for Measure S to move forward without facing potential legal complications in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Council supported the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/RESO-89281-Non-Citizen-Vote-filed-materials_2022-07-30-033334_eazb.pdf\">resolution\u003c/a> from councilmembers Treva Reid and Dan Kalb to include Measure S on the 2022 general election ballot. The measure allowed the city to amend the Oakland city charter and permit undocumented residents who are the parents, legal guardians or legally recognized caregivers of a child residing in Oakland to vote in elections for Oakland Unified School District. Most Oaklanders — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_S,_Noncitizen_Residents_Voting_Measure_(November_2022)\">66%\u003c/a> of voters — approved the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that parents of school-aged children should be able to decide who runs the [Oakland] school system,” Councilmember Kalb told El Tímpano. “Those parents, whether they’re citizens or not, shouldn’t be a factor [in voting], and so we want that to be a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizens make up 14% of Oakland’s population, and there are more than 13,000 noncitizen parents who send their children to school in Oakland, the resolution noted. Including immigrant parents in conversations about curriculum, staff and language used in class could lead to better academic outcomes for students, it stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kalb, the Oakland city clerk recommended pausing Measure S until after the 2024 election, as they were still managing the complexities of rolling out the youth vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Measure S has no timeline for implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he intends to meet with the city clerk after the November elections to set in motion the process of allowing noncitizen parents to vote. “The hope is that the council will pass an ordinance sometime in the next few months or next six months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city clerk referred El Tímpano’s questions about implementing Measure S to an Oakland public information officer, who did not comment on the record for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012234 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Dan Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a new category of voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/immigrants-are-getting-right-vote-cities-across-america-664467\">other cities\u003c/a> have already made noncitizen voting a reality. In 2016, San Francisco voters approved Proposition N, which extended voting rights to noncitizens at the school board level. The law took effect in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members have several key responsibilities that directly affect the district’s quality of education and student experience. They include overseeing the district’s budget, developing and approving policies, negotiating teacher and staff contracts and other key decisions that shape the educational landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who voted in San Francisco’s school board election said the experience motivated them to become more involved with their children’s school, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/23-CAA-ImmigrationVotingReport-F2.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which supported giving noncitizens the right to vote in school board elections. One parent said they were inspired to volunteer and assume leadership positions in school committees and councils after voting for the first time in a school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protecting noncitizen voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Voting rights for noncitizens come as part of a long push-back against anti-immigrant sentiment. Proposition 187, passed in 1993, mobilized immigrant organizations to create and back measures that expanded rights and access to services, said Ron Hayduk, a political science professor at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study “Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California went from being worse on immigrant rights to first on immigrant rights in a lot of ways,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to better protect immigrants can make a difference in how or if they want to participate in local elections. The number of noncitizen voters in San Francisco has fluctuated between small and nearly nonexistent: 59 parents voted in the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/noncitizen-voting-san-francisco-recall-election-rights-jose/11556464/\">2018 election\u003c/a>, but only two noncitizens voted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/why-more-noncitizens-arent-voting-in-sf-school-races/article_be7cd5b4-37d1-11ee-bc57-97bd1533bffd.html\">2019\u003c/a>. The low turnout was attributed mainly to fear, though language barriers and a need for better voter mobilization likely also contributed to the low initial turnout, according to the report from Chinese for Affirmative Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 noncitizen parents voted in a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/16/sf-noncitizen-parents/\">2022 recall election\u003c/a>, but no noncitizen parents voted in 2023 because of a pending court challenge to the law’s constitutionality. Because the law has now been ruled constitutional, noncitizen parents can resume voting, starting with the 2024 school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen voting has become a flashpoint amid unfounded accusations that people lacking permanent legal status have been voting in federal and state elections. Multiple news outlets have noted that former president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has spread \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election-2024-noncitizen-fact-check-trump\">misinformation\u003c/a> about noncitizen voting to set the stage for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-election-results-2024-noncitizens-voting-big-lie-rcna175552\">challenging\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/trump-republicans-non-citizen-voters-myth-stolen-election\">legitimacy\u003c/a> of the presidential election if Trump loses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People lacking permanent legal status may be reluctant to call attention to their status by registering to vote as noncitizens in local elections, Hayduk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some folks have looked into whether or not people’s names could be protected like victims of domestic violence or police officers — they can register to vote, but their names don’t appear on a public voter registration list,” he said. “So, why not for immigrants? But that change needs to happen at the state level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, despite the fear, there are parents who still want to vote in Oakland’s school board elections and are disappointed that they cannot vote in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It frustrates me,” OUSD parent Cordova said. “It feels like we are not taken into account just because we are immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kalb, the Oakland city clerk recommended pausing Measure S until after the 2024 election, as they were still managing the complexities of rolling out the youth vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Measure S has no timeline for implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he intends to meet with the city clerk after the November elections to set in motion the process of allowing noncitizen parents to vote. “The hope is that the council will pass an ordinance sometime in the next few months or next six months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city clerk referred El Tímpano’s questions about implementing Measure S to an Oakland public information officer, who did not comment on the record for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012234 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Dan Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a new category of voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/immigrants-are-getting-right-vote-cities-across-america-664467\">other cities\u003c/a> have already made noncitizen voting a reality. In 2016, San Francisco voters approved Proposition N, which extended voting rights to noncitizens at the school board level. The law took effect in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members have several key responsibilities that directly affect the district’s quality of education and student experience. They include overseeing the district’s budget, developing and approving policies, negotiating teacher and staff contracts and other key decisions that shape the educational landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who voted in San Francisco’s school board election said the experience motivated them to become more involved with their children’s school, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/23-CAA-ImmigrationVotingReport-F2.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which supported giving noncitizens the right to vote in school board elections. One parent said they were inspired to volunteer and assume leadership positions in school committees and councils after voting for the first time in a school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protecting noncitizen voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Voting rights for noncitizens come as part of a long push-back against anti-immigrant sentiment. Proposition 187, passed in 1993, mobilized immigrant organizations to create and back measures that expanded rights and access to services, said Ron Hayduk, a political science professor at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study “Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California went from being worse on immigrant rights to first on immigrant rights in a lot of ways,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to better protect immigrants can make a difference in how or if they want to participate in local elections. 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"content": "\u003cp>Black churches in the Bay Area are taking the lead on retrofitting their buildings with clean energy to become ‘resilience hubs’ in the event of a major storm or climate-related event. It’s part of a national movement called Green The Church, an organization merging the Black faith community and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2102720069&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] So Allen Temple Baptist Church is in East Oakland. It is a huge facility. It takes up about a city block. They not only have a congregation, but they do all sorts of things. They have a preschool, they have classrooms, they have a whole gym, a family life center, a bunch of stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">I went to meet Ambia McLendon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] My name is Ambia McClendon and I am the campus manager here at Allen Temple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:04] She kindly showed us to a sort of courtyard area where we saw these big humming white boxes which were backup batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] They are big white boxes or big white cases. They have like gridded doors, I guess you could say, on the outside that store, like these little battery packs, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] Do they look like flat shelves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] Kind of like shelving. Yeah. They kind of like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] Sitting atop the gym is an array of about 270 solar panels. So a huge array of solar panels which you cannot see from the road. What happens is the energy from those solar panels is used to power the building below. And the extra energy that those panels create go to these batteries. When the sun is not shining, those batteries then drain the energy back into and they pour the energy back into the building and power the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] We did have an outage and still were able to automatically kicked in. There was nothing we had to do. We didn’t have to turn on anything. You know, the rest of the campus didn’t have power. But here we are completely lit up and able to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] And what is so unique about a church that has solar panels like this? Like, why did you want to visit this particular church?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:21] What’s so neat about this is that houses of worship are huge. They are community fixtures. Visually, you see them so they represent clean energy. They show you the potential of clean energy. And they also socially have this ability to share the potential for using renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] And Allen Temple is one example of something called Green the church. What is green? The church, and how did it get started?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:53] That is all the brainchild of this guy named Reverend Ambrose Carroll. He, 14 years ago founded an organization called Green The Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] This faith based national organization at the intersection of the environment, sustainability and the black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] And what he’s working on right now is to transform these these houses of worship into what he’s calling resilience hubs. And what a resilience hub is, is that these churches are not just places that are cutting down on emissions, but they’re also helping the surrounding community. When we have extreme weather or power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:04:32] When done right, they can be centers of resilience. They can be places that in times of storm and disaster, the community can run to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] And what did Reverend Carroll tell you about why it was so important for him to do this, to get black religious leaders specifically talking about faith and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:55] What Reverend Carroll is saying is like climate and environment are so central to the black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] We are in the midst of planes, trains and automobiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Like if you go to East Oakland and West Oakland, we see the highest rates of asthma in the region. And this is a result of pollution, right? This is an air quality issue. This is this is all connected to climate change. And so people in the black church are talking about asthma. They’re talking about cardiovascular health. They’re not saying I’m an environmentalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] When people are talking about saving the polar bears, that’s good. But we want to know that you care about our cousin Pookie and not just the polar bear. And so there’s always been that estrangement. And so we have created green the church for us to talk about it from our historical lens with our own language. We don’t always consider ourselves as environmentalists, but we consider ourselves revivalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] How our churches like Allen Temple able to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:01] So in terms of price for Allen Temple, it costs about $1 million to do their project. It was fully covered by a grant from Tesla. They spent about $700,000 on solar panels and batteries. And then they had to redo their roof, which was about $300,000. Obviously, these prices differ. That’s a really big building that they covered in solar panels. Some churches are just these smaller buildings like storefronts. So it would differ. The other ways that you can finance it. It’s through fundraising, through the church, it’s through outside grants and then also through through congressional legislation. The most major landmark climate law that we had a few years ago. Churches now can gain back about 30% of the investments they put into things like solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Besides solar panels, what are other ways greening the church looks like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] So there would be weatherizing a building. So that sounds like super boring, but it’s actually really important. It’s like changing out the windows. Four double pane windows insulation really helps. There’s changing out the way that we heat and cool our spaces and also our water. So, you know, now all the rage is our heat pumps, which are electric, and then the car chargers and the solar and the backup batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:07:21] We want to be a part of making sure that all of those buildings have clean air and clean water. How’s the energy? Do we have a heat pump, water heater? Are we going to change our stoves out from these gas ovens to electric ovens? All of those are environmental conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:40] Have these solar panels already helped Allen Temple in some way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] Yeah. Yeah. It’s so amazing. They are saving about $20,000 annually on utility bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] Wow. That’s a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Yeah. And so for them, they’re excited because like, they’re able to do more of the work in the community that they do to support the community in all sorts of ways beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] You know, retrofitting your church, being something that like, we should just be doing right because it’s good for the planet. How do black church leaders talk about their place in the environmental movement or why it’s important for them to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] So the folks that I spoke to were talking about this with language that resonates with churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Jacqueline Thompson \u003c/strong>[00:08:29] For a lot of people. When you just say an environmentalist, they think it is, you know, having a lot of leisure time to walk around the redwood trees and hug trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:39] Just one person I spoke to with Reverend Jacqueline Thompson. She’s the senior pastor of Allen Temple. She mentions that her grandmother picked cotton. And so like to say like, okay, let’s get involved in the environment. Let’s be environmentalists. Like it has a much more just so much more like historical baggage with a word like that at a black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Jacqueline Thompson \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] That concept of building bicycles is the concept of being concerned about the total and complete health of the person. Because we believe God is concerned about the total and complete health of humanity. 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She thinks about like her energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] Even just a simple stuff that, the piece of paper I dropped on my hand, like picking it up and just those little things that made me all around. Take a look at my life in general and say, how am I, you know, contributing to the environment and then being able to be in a space that is moving that forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] There’s outside research that shows how solar spreads. A really cool weather that people use with it is seeding solar, right? And so the seed is that at the church right now. And what this research that was done by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab showed was that for every house of worship that adopted solar for surrounding homes would put solar on their roofs annually. And from there, that has like a, you know, a ballooning effect rate because like, then other people see their neighbors. And so it’s like it’s just sort of exponentially has the potential to grow. But you’re not going to necessarily do solar if you don’t have any example of it because it’s just it’s like a new thing, right? You need to see your friend has an iPhone and it’s so cool. And so then you’re like, okay, I get my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:59] Yeah. And it’s not enough to just tell people like, You should get solar because it’s good for the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:11:04] For sure. Yeah. You need to know how to practically do that and who to talk to. And Reverend Thompson said that that some of the churches had have people saying, let’s put solar on the church and some companies had been predatory towards the churches. 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There are billions of dollars that have been through federal legislation that are specifically for disadvantaged communities. Who owns the buildings, What buildings we own. We own churches. Like, this is the perfect situation if we’re going to have, you know, millions of dollars coming in towards East 14th Street, like let’s we’re going to put on the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:12:19] This is the center of resilience for our people. And we believe that can happen again. 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The church, and how did it get started?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:53] That is all the brainchild of this guy named Reverend Ambrose Carroll. He, 14 years ago founded an organization called Green The Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] This faith based national organization at the intersection of the environment, sustainability and the black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] And what he’s working on right now is to transform these these houses of worship into what he’s calling resilience hubs. And what a resilience hub is, is that these churches are not just places that are cutting down on emissions, but they’re also helping the surrounding community. When we have extreme weather or power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:04:32] When done right, they can be centers of resilience. They can be places that in times of storm and disaster, the community can run to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] And what did Reverend Carroll tell you about why it was so important for him to do this, to get black religious leaders specifically talking about faith and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:55] What Reverend Carroll is saying is like climate and environment are so central to the black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] We are in the midst of planes, trains and automobiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Like if you go to East Oakland and West Oakland, we see the highest rates of asthma in the region. And this is a result of pollution, right? This is an air quality issue. This is this is all connected to climate change. And so people in the black church are talking about asthma. They’re talking about cardiovascular health. They’re not saying I’m an environmentalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] When people are talking about saving the polar bears, that’s good. But we want to know that you care about our cousin Pookie and not just the polar bear. And so there’s always been that estrangement. And so we have created green the church for us to talk about it from our historical lens with our own language. We don’t always consider ourselves as environmentalists, but we consider ourselves revivalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] How our churches like Allen Temple able to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:01] So in terms of price for Allen Temple, it costs about $1 million to do their project. It was fully covered by a grant from Tesla. They spent about $700,000 on solar panels and batteries. And then they had to redo their roof, which was about $300,000. Obviously, these prices differ. That’s a really big building that they covered in solar panels. Some churches are just these smaller buildings like storefronts. So it would differ. The other ways that you can finance it. It’s through fundraising, through the church, it’s through outside grants and then also through through congressional legislation. The most major landmark climate law that we had a few years ago. Churches now can gain back about 30% of the investments they put into things like solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Besides solar panels, what are other ways greening the church looks like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] So there would be weatherizing a building. So that sounds like super boring, but it’s actually really important. It’s like changing out the windows. Four double pane windows insulation really helps. There’s changing out the way that we heat and cool our spaces and also our water. So, you know, now all the rage is our heat pumps, which are electric, and then the car chargers and the solar and the backup batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:07:21] We want to be a part of making sure that all of those buildings have clean air and clean water. How’s the energy? Do we have a heat pump, water heater? Are we going to change our stoves out from these gas ovens to electric ovens? All of those are environmental conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:40] Have these solar panels already helped Allen Temple in some way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] Yeah. Yeah. It’s so amazing. They are saving about $20,000 annually on utility bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] Wow. That’s a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Yeah. And so for them, they’re excited because like, they’re able to do more of the work in the community that they do to support the community in all sorts of ways beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] You know, retrofitting your church, being something that like, we should just be doing right because it’s good for the planet. How do black church leaders talk about their place in the environmental movement or why it’s important for them to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] So the folks that I spoke to were talking about this with language that resonates with churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Jacqueline Thompson \u003c/strong>[00:08:29] For a lot of people. When you just say an environmentalist, they think it is, you know, having a lot of leisure time to walk around the redwood trees and hug trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:39] Just one person I spoke to with Reverend Jacqueline Thompson. She’s the senior pastor of Allen Temple. She mentions that her grandmother picked cotton. And so like to say like, okay, let’s get involved in the environment. Let’s be environmentalists. Like it has a much more just so much more like historical baggage with a word like that at a black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Jacqueline Thompson \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] That concept of building bicycles is the concept of being concerned about the total and complete health of the person. Because we believe God is concerned about the total and complete health of humanity. And so that’s a lot of the work that we do is driven by that holistic understanding of ministry. And environmental issues are no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:27] How do members of the congregation talk about the effect that this work is having on them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] It’s made me even think about it from my own home, right? Like how I can be more environmentally conscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:09:41] Ambia McClendon who’s who works at Allen Temple and also is a member. It’s one of the things that she said was that it had made its way into her life at home, that she thinks about consumption at home. She thinks about like her energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ambia McClendon \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] Even just a simple stuff that, the piece of paper I dropped on my hand, like picking it up and just those little things that made me all around. Take a look at my life in general and say, how am I, you know, contributing to the environment and then being able to be in a space that is moving that forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] There’s outside research that shows how solar spreads. A really cool weather that people use with it is seeding solar, right? And so the seed is that at the church right now. And what this research that was done by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab showed was that for every house of worship that adopted solar for surrounding homes would put solar on their roofs annually. And from there, that has like a, you know, a ballooning effect rate because like, then other people see their neighbors. And so it’s like it’s just sort of exponentially has the potential to grow. But you’re not going to necessarily do solar if you don’t have any example of it because it’s just it’s like a new thing, right? You need to see your friend has an iPhone and it’s so cool. And so then you’re like, okay, I get my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:59] Yeah. And it’s not enough to just tell people like, You should get solar because it’s good for the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:11:04] For sure. Yeah. You need to know how to practically do that and who to talk to. And Reverend Thompson said that that some of the churches had have people saying, let’s put solar on the church and some companies had been predatory towards the churches. And so there was some distrust prior to it. So when Allen Temple got solar, you know, they have all the contacts they can they can talk people through the process that they used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:27] And how, I guess, would green the church. And Reverend Carroll like to spread efforts like this even further?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] So one thing that’s really special about the church building in a black community is this is a building that is owned by the community. And so Reverend Carroll is trying to take this model beyond just the Bay Area. And ideally, he has this goal of making 2000 resilience hubs in the next few years, which I was when I first heard that, I was like, that sounds amazing. And also maybe impossible. But I asked him more about it and he was like, Here is why I’m thinking about this. There are billions of dollars that have been through federal legislation that are specifically for disadvantaged communities. Who owns the buildings, What buildings we own. We own churches. Like, this is the perfect situation if we’re going to have, you know, millions of dollars coming in towards East 14th Street, like let’s we’re going to put on the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rev. Ambrose Carroll \u003c/strong>[00:12:19] This is the center of resilience for our people. And we believe that can happen again. We believe that because of the Biden administration infrastructure bill, the IRA, Justice 40 mandate that brings $150 billion to inner city or urban or marginalized communities that we can leverage all of that in this space and spaces like it all around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:12:42] And what’s cool about this idea is that houses of worship make up 3% of energy consumption of all commercial buildings. So, you know, that’s that’s something it’s not huge, but it’s a part of the pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:00] I mean, Laura, you report on climate around the Bay Area, California. What about this story? Do you think we could really learn from it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:13:11] I think what’s so cool about this story is that it is community specific solutions. Here’s this national organization saying like, here’s this idea we have. But the way that they’re, you know, handing this off to churches is like you decide how you do it and how you implement it. You use the language that makes sense for your congregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:34] And it feels more doable, I guess, than some of the other like big things that we think about when addressing climate change. Doing this locally feels, I don’t know. It feels within reach, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:13:48] Yeah, I think that’s a good, good way to say it because it’s like we think about like, offshore wind or building new nuclear. And these projects have really big runways. You know, I think that locally grown climate solutions are like going to be the most effective. And this. Like, I’m really having trouble trying to find like any sort of negative of this, right? It’s like about agency and local projects and education. Yeah. I just I think this is like a real win win win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:19] Well, I love a good feel good climate story. So thank you for bringing it, Laura. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even though Sumaya Kaur Sidibe was just 6 years old when Kamala Harris was inaugurated as vice president, she understood the significance of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She was awesome because it felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it,” then-6-year-old Sumaya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, The California Report Magazine brought you a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\">story\u003c/a> about Sumaya watching the 2021 inauguration with her two-year-old sister, Jaleela, and her parents, Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe. The Bay Area family whooped and cheered “Ka-ma-la” as the trumpets blared from the television, the kids adding some impromptu harmonica solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep telling them, ‘You know, she’s just like you. She’s Black and Indian,’” Sidibe said in 2021. “That gives the little ones more hope that they can do something like that. I mean, when you look at the history of the United States, there’s never been a woman as a vice president, especially a woman of color. That’s a big, big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and Indian woman sit next to two small children of mixed heritage looking at a screen off-camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sidibe-Singh Family watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021: Bongo Sidibe, Jaleela Aissata Singh, Joti Singh and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (left-right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bongo Sidibe and Joti Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both’ ”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years later, the Singh-Sidibe family is not nearly as enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as they were on Inauguration Day 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is now 10, and her sense of her identity has developed as her family has visited relatives in India, where her maternal grandparents came from, and Guinea, where her father was born. Her family uses the term “Blazian” to describe their mixed-race daughters, and she proudly claims both Black and South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Jaleela Aissata Singh, 5, and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe, 10, pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is disappointed Harris hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/14/1211483987/what-would-a-mixed-race-president-mean-for-the-u-s\">talked more about her mixed-race identity\u003c/a> as she tries to tell the nation her story on the campaign trail. She thinks Harris could have pushed back more forcefully against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059200/at-black-journalism-convention-trump-attacks-kamala-harris-racial-identity\">false claims by Donald Trump \u003c/a>that she hasn’t always been Black or that she’s monoracial, with only Indian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump’s] not mixed race, so he doesn’t know how she feels about who she is. That wasn’t cool.” Sumaya said at her home in Oakland recently. “She should have been like, ‘I am mixed race, and I’m proud of it. No one can tell me I’m not or who I am.’ It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both.’ ”\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand that you can have two identities that are meshed into one, that you can embody being Black and Indian, that you can have both of those,” added Singh. “I think that was a moment for [Harris] to really speak to that. She’s not embracing and reaching out to the mixed-race community. She’s not like putting that at the forefront: ‘Yes, I’m one of you, and I see you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of mostly women wearing colorful clothing dance on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh leads a dance lesson at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Duniya Dance and Drum Company at Dance Mission Theater in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vijay Rakhra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sidibe-Singh family celebrates the fusion of Black and South Asian identities not only at home but in their professional lives. Singh is trained in Indian dance, Sidibe is a West African drummer. Together, they run the Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.duniyadance.com/\">Duniya Dance and Drum Company\u003c/a>, which blends dance forms from Punjab, like bhangra, with Guinean drumming and dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010581\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An Indian woman dressed in orange and black and a Black man dressed in white playing a drum perform on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-2048x1363.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1920x1278.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe perform “Half and Halves,” a show about the history of mixed Punjabi-Mexican families in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul K. Benjamin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya and Jaleela grew up watching rehearsals, and Sumaya performed in some of the company’s shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a really powerful way for the kids to also understand and be able to embody both of the cultures where they come from and learn about these stories that are part of their ancestral stories,” Singh said. “They understand they’re not just one or the other. They don’t have to choose. They get to have both of these really, really rich cultures, and that’s a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man stands to the left side of a stage holding a drum while an Indian woman and a younger mixed race girl dance wearing purple, green and yellow clothing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh (center) dances with her daughter Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (right) as Bongo Sidibe drums (left) at a performance at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in 2022. The show, called Ghadar Geet, highlights the early 20th-century history of the Ghadar Party, which fought for India’s independence from its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amal Bisharat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Representation is not enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many Indian Americans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ajainb/status/1847057088339726751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847057088339726751%7Ctwgr%5Ecc8e4e0b97076a50d6a5c076c188598689ca1e59%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fwatch-indian-americans-rolls-out-bollywood-inspired-video-to-support-kamala-harris%2Farticleshow%2F114332395.cms\">support Harris\u003c/a>, Singh is among a group of South Asian progressives who say she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5131223/some-indian-american-democrats-see-themselves-in-harris-others-see-the-limits\">doesn’t reflect their priorities\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>The conflict in Gaza is the issue that’s really dampened the Sidibe-Singh family’s enthusiasm for the Harris campaign. They’ve taken their kids to protests. Signs reading ‘Asians for a Liberated Palestine’ and ‘Black Power for Palestinian Resistance’ hang in their front window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young mixed race girls stand and sit playing the drums next to an Indian woman and Black man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family practices drumming in their backyard in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s my main concern,” Sidibe said. “Is she going to try to help stop the war in Palestine? Is she going to stop sending weapons to Israel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his opposition to Donald Trump, Sidibe is unsure he’ll vote for Harris. Singh has decided to vote third party instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting messages about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000525/water-at-22-oakland-schools-tested-high-for-lead-its-no-surprise-parents-and-teachers-say\">lead being in the water at schools\u003c/a> [in Oakland]. It’s just so infuriating that on our local level, we’re dealing with these issues, and we have to read every day about how our president, our vice president, our Congress is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel,” Singh said. “I don’t have any faith that [Harris] is going to change that. People have just given her their vote so easily without even holding her accountable for these things. ‘But she’s not Donald Trump.’ That’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Kamala Harris is Black and Indian and from Oakland, just like her kids, representation only goes so far, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to peel away layers and look deeper,” she said. “Honestly, if we had a candidate that was closer to my values but was a white man, I would vote for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sumaya, she’s just frustrated that, as a 10-year-old, she doesn’t get to cast a ballot. But if she could, she would vote for Harris over Trump and hand Harris a list of priorities to tackle as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Peace and human rights. Human rights are like free health care for everybody. Food and shelter for everybody,” she said. “No one [should be] discriminated against just because they’re them. And [the president should be] inspiring or encouraging people to show who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though Sumaya Kaur Sidibe was just 6 years old when Kamala Harris was inaugurated as vice president, she understood the significance of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She was awesome because it felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it,” then-6-year-old Sumaya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, The California Report Magazine brought you a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\">story\u003c/a> about Sumaya watching the 2021 inauguration with her two-year-old sister, Jaleela, and her parents, Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe. The Bay Area family whooped and cheered “Ka-ma-la” as the trumpets blared from the television, the kids adding some impromptu harmonica solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep telling them, ‘You know, she’s just like you. She’s Black and Indian,’” Sidibe said in 2021. “That gives the little ones more hope that they can do something like that. I mean, when you look at the history of the United States, there’s never been a woman as a vice president, especially a woman of color. That’s a big, big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and Indian woman sit next to two small children of mixed heritage looking at a screen off-camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sidibe-Singh Family watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021: Bongo Sidibe, Jaleela Aissata Singh, Joti Singh and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (left-right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bongo Sidibe and Joti Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both’ ”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years later, the Singh-Sidibe family is not nearly as enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as they were on Inauguration Day 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is now 10, and her sense of her identity has developed as her family has visited relatives in India, where her maternal grandparents came from, and Guinea, where her father was born. Her family uses the term “Blazian” to describe their mixed-race daughters, and she proudly claims both Black and South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Jaleela Aissata Singh, 5, and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe, 10, pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is disappointed Harris hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/14/1211483987/what-would-a-mixed-race-president-mean-for-the-u-s\">talked more about her mixed-race identity\u003c/a> as she tries to tell the nation her story on the campaign trail. She thinks Harris could have pushed back more forcefully against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059200/at-black-journalism-convention-trump-attacks-kamala-harris-racial-identity\">false claims by Donald Trump \u003c/a>that she hasn’t always been Black or that she’s monoracial, with only Indian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump’s] not mixed race, so he doesn’t know how she feels about who she is. That wasn’t cool.” Sumaya said at her home in Oakland recently. “She should have been like, ‘I am mixed race, and I’m proud of it. No one can tell me I’m not or who I am.’ It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both.’ ”\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand that you can have two identities that are meshed into one, that you can embody being Black and Indian, that you can have both of those,” added Singh. “I think that was a moment for [Harris] to really speak to that. She’s not embracing and reaching out to the mixed-race community. She’s not like putting that at the forefront: ‘Yes, I’m one of you, and I see you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of mostly women wearing colorful clothing dance on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh leads a dance lesson at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Duniya Dance and Drum Company at Dance Mission Theater in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vijay Rakhra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sidibe-Singh family celebrates the fusion of Black and South Asian identities not only at home but in their professional lives. Singh is trained in Indian dance, Sidibe is a West African drummer. Together, they run the Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.duniyadance.com/\">Duniya Dance and Drum Company\u003c/a>, which blends dance forms from Punjab, like bhangra, with Guinean drumming and dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010581\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An Indian woman dressed in orange and black and a Black man dressed in white playing a drum perform on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-2048x1363.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1920x1278.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe perform “Half and Halves,” a show about the history of mixed Punjabi-Mexican families in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul K. Benjamin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya and Jaleela grew up watching rehearsals, and Sumaya performed in some of the company’s shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a really powerful way for the kids to also understand and be able to embody both of the cultures where they come from and learn about these stories that are part of their ancestral stories,” Singh said. “They understand they’re not just one or the other. They don’t have to choose. They get to have both of these really, really rich cultures, and that’s a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man stands to the left side of a stage holding a drum while an Indian woman and a younger mixed race girl dance wearing purple, green and yellow clothing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh (center) dances with her daughter Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (right) as Bongo Sidibe drums (left) at a performance at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in 2022. The show, called Ghadar Geet, highlights the early 20th-century history of the Ghadar Party, which fought for India’s independence from its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amal Bisharat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Representation is not enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many Indian Americans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ajainb/status/1847057088339726751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847057088339726751%7Ctwgr%5Ecc8e4e0b97076a50d6a5c076c188598689ca1e59%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fwatch-indian-americans-rolls-out-bollywood-inspired-video-to-support-kamala-harris%2Farticleshow%2F114332395.cms\">support Harris\u003c/a>, Singh is among a group of South Asian progressives who say she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5131223/some-indian-american-democrats-see-themselves-in-harris-others-see-the-limits\">doesn’t reflect their priorities\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>The conflict in Gaza is the issue that’s really dampened the Sidibe-Singh family’s enthusiasm for the Harris campaign. 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Signs reading ‘Asians for a Liberated Palestine’ and ‘Black Power for Palestinian Resistance’ hang in their front window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young mixed race girls stand and sit playing the drums next to an Indian woman and Black man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family practices drumming in their backyard in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s my main concern,” Sidibe said. “Is she going to try to help stop the war in Palestine? Is she going to stop sending weapons to Israel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his opposition to Donald Trump, Sidibe is unsure he’ll vote for Harris. Singh has decided to vote third party instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting messages about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000525/water-at-22-oakland-schools-tested-high-for-lead-its-no-surprise-parents-and-teachers-say\">lead being in the water at schools\u003c/a> [in Oakland]. It’s just so infuriating that on our local level, we’re dealing with these issues, and we have to read every day about how our president, our vice president, our Congress is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel,” Singh said. “I don’t have any faith that [Harris] is going to change that. People have just given her their vote so easily without even holding her accountable for these things. ‘But she’s not Donald Trump.’ That’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Kamala Harris is Black and Indian and from Oakland, just like her kids, representation only goes so far, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to peel away layers and look deeper,” she said. “Honestly, if we had a candidate that was closer to my values but was a white man, I would vote for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sumaya, she’s just frustrated that, as a 10-year-old, she doesn’t get to cast a ballot. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a> and her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, have years’ worth of bad blood between them. Now, with Price’s tight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009700/whos-paying-for-the-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-these-charts-break-it-down\">recall election\u003c/a> less than two weeks away, their jabs at each other are escalating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley announced Wednesday that she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010683/former-alameda-county-da-nancy-omalley-endorses-recall-pamela-price\">backing Price’s recall\u003c/a>, Price questioned the timing — suggesting in her own press conference hours later that the endorsement was motivated by her plans to reveal the district attorney’s office’s history of prosecutorial misconduct. Price said she had evidence that, under past administrations, the office covered up its practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the public should know is that this is a sign apparently that we must be getting close to uncovering the role that Ms. O’Malley played as the former leader of this office when the prosecutorial misconduct actually was taking place,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price revealed a 2004 note from a former district attorney’s office employee, which she said shows that Morris Jacobson — then a senior prosecutor in the office and now an Alameda County Superior Court judge — covered up the misconduct, going “to great lengths to distract the courts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for O’Malley, who served as district attorney from 2009 to January 2023, said in a statement that she was not the district attorney when the alleged misconduct occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These false or misleading allegations by [Pamela] Price demonstrate my point that Price is unqualified to hold public office,” O’Malley told KQED via email. “Price is dishonest. She manufacturers cocktails of misinformation that deliberately mix falsehoods with a dash of data with the intent to deceive. [Price] will pay a price for her deceptions on election day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was ordered by a federal judge to review Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983705/allegations-of-prosecutorial-bias-spark-review-of-death-penalty-convictions-in-alameda-county\">death penalty cases\u003c/a> in April after evidence was found indicating that the district attorney’s office may have systematically excluded Black and Jewish jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, who is still on death row for the 1993 killing of a 9-year-old boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the investigation, Price said she found a note suggesting Jacobson and other office employees attempted to distract from allegations made by whistleblower Jack Quatman, a former capital trial prosecutor. He signed a declaration saying he and others routinely struck Black women and Jewish people from juries in death penalty cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note reads: “[Jacobson] saying he would give us direction. Wants to find dirt on Quatman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pamela-price']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was written in a meeting led by Jacobson preparing for an evidentiary hearing in 2004 over the case of Fred Freeman, in which Quatman was a prosecutor. Freeman was convicted of murder in 1987 and died of natural causes in 2009 while on death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prosecutors have special duties as ministers of justice, not simply to secure a conviction, but to uphold the Constitution, which guarantees the right to a fair trial and to be judged by a jury of one’s peers, regardless of race, religion or any other considerations such as sexual orientation,” Price said during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price and O’Malley have sparred for years. Price ran an unsuccessful campaign to unseat O’Malley in 2018 and beat out her deputy, Terry Wiley, with 53% of the vote in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s accused O’Malley of creating a “culture of fear,” not pursuing prosecutorial misconduct and leaving the office in “disarray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley said Wednesday that Price had used the office improperly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She uses it to intimidate,” O’Malley said, announcing her endorsement of the recall. “Of course, she takes any chance to criticize me erroneously for things that I didn’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not Price will remain in office and continue to lead this investigation will be up to voters on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>David Hummel, a Berkeley City College student, attended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area#Campuslife\">pro-Palestinian demonstrations\u003c/a> that were part of a national protest movement on school campuses, and he was looking to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just about being human, really,” Hummel, 20, said. “To be blind to the suffering of people just because they happen to be born in other places in the world. If you do know about it and decide to just do nothing, then I don’t think I could live with myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s military assault on Gaza began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed roughly 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. In July, the International Court of Justice, the world court in The Hague that was first established in \u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/history\">San Francisco in 1945\u003c/a>, ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/19/israel-gaza-war-live-idf-explosion-tel-aviv-benjamin-netanyahu-visit-rafah\">Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories\u003c/a> violated international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007970 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/RS49114_037_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protective presence work is when basically activists accompany Palestinians in the West Bank,” explained Chase Carter, a San Francisco resident who works with the center. “The reason this accompanying work is needed is because these communities are really vulnerable to attacks from Israeli settlers, as well as harassment, arrests and violence from soldiers that are also trying to prevent them from living their daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UN, since Oct. 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties\">more than 700 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed\u003c/a> in the West Bank, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-27704/west-bank-palestinians-violence-israel-settlers\">increased instances\u003c/a> of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. Eygi was working with the \u003ca href=\"https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/https:/palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/\">International Solidarity Movement\u003c/a>, which also does protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Levy outside his home in Oakland on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sydney Levy was preparing to go to the West Bank when he heard about Hummel’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to discuss it with my husband just before going, saying, ‘Hey, you know, what do you think? What should I do?’” Levy, an Oakland resident, recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for more than two decades and has lived in Jerusalem. He ultimately decided to go through the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and was there for over a week in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981941 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. 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A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. Eygi was working with the \u003ca href=\"https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/https:/palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/\">International Solidarity Movement\u003c/a>, which also does protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Levy outside his home in Oakland on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sydney Levy was preparing to go to the West Bank when he heard about Hummel’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to discuss it with my husband just before going, saying, ‘Hey, you know, what do you think? What should I do?’” Levy, an Oakland resident, recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for more than two decades and has lived in Jerusalem. He ultimately decided to go through the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and was there for over a week in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s fiscal crisis\u003c/a> appears to be reaching a tipping point after its contingency budget was triggered this month, and the city is on track to continue overspending, according to a City Council committee meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s precarious position is partly due to a revised agreement on selling its share of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">delayed payments\u003c/a> it relied on to patch over $60 million of a massive budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">passed that budget\u003c/a> in July, it included a contingency plan with cuts to public safety and a hiring freeze should the sale funds not begin to come through by September. During a finance and management committee meeting on Tuesday, the city attorney’s office said that since those parameters have been met, the contingency budget is going into effect, but it’s still uncertain when those cuts would go into place or whether some could be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contingency budget that was referenced in the council’s midcycle budget resolution is in place, and there has not been any other legislation that has superseded that,” a representative for the city attorney’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the contingency measures is a travel and hiring freeze for non-public safety positions, which the city began to put in place in March ahead of the budget deadline, according to Mayor Sheng Thao’s office. Jobs are still being posted, though — five were put up by the city this week, and there are currently 31 listings on the city’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contingency plan also calls for brownouts, or rotating shutdowns, of five fire stations and cutting the number of sworn police officers from over 700 to 610 through attrition, but Thao told KQED that the council would decide whether to make those cuts after receiving the city’s first-quarter fiscal report in mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's City Hall is seen in between other tall buildings.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s an opportunity for the City Council to actually make changes and make those decisions that they want to, which is browning out fire stations and lowering the number of officers,” she said on \u003cem>Forum.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao spokesperson Casey Pratt said that once the council gets the first-quarter fiscal report, it “can choose to responsibly recalibrate based on the full financial picture” with “a lot more clarity on the Coliseum deal funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the original $105 million Coliseum sale agreement with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group — the developers buying the property — Oakland received a $5 million payment upon signing and was scheduled for payments in September, November and January, totaling $58 million. The remaining $42 million was due by closing in June 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009486 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/OaklandColiseumEmptyGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s new agreement maintains that initial $5 million but shifts other payments later — and bumps up the total price to $110 million. A $10 million payment due in November is in escrow, and a remaining lump sum of $95 million is due in May 2025. The money will stay in escrow until the deal closes, but after Nov. 9, the city will keep it even if AASEG pulls out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agreement accelerates the closing date so that all of the funds would be received by the end of the current fiscal year, but it doesn’t change the budget resolution that the council passed in July, which said that if any of the original payment dates are missed, the contingency budget is triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s meeting, budget administrator Brad Johnson said discussions about cuts under the contingency budget will take place in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some major cuts will likely have to be made. Johnson said the city overspent in the final quarter of last fiscal year and is on track to overspend again this quarter. Council members will need to consider what Oakland can and cannot “live without” before that November discussion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran a real operating deficit last year. We really did go into our reserves by $80 million, and that in the long run is unsustainable,” Johnson said. “We’re already overspending in the current year. We’ve met the criteria for triggering what needed to be another $63 million in reductions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members at Tuesday’s hearing questioned how they could prevent potential deep cuts to public safety services — especially after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">the Keller Fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Chief Damon Covington warned that with brownouts, the department’s quick response to protect homes wouldn’t have been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came within 200 yards of Campus Drive,” Covington said. “Very little math will tell you that we would have probably lost those homes on Campus Drive at a minimum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contingency budget that was referenced in the council’s midcycle budget resolution is in place, and there has not been any other legislation that has superseded that,” a representative for the city attorney’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the contingency measures is a travel and hiring freeze for non-public safety positions, which the city began to put in place in March ahead of the budget deadline, according to Mayor Sheng Thao’s office. Jobs are still being posted, though — five were put up by the city this week, and there are currently 31 listings on the city’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contingency plan also calls for brownouts, or rotating shutdowns, of five fire stations and cutting the number of sworn police officers from over 700 to 610 through attrition, but Thao told KQED that the council would decide whether to make those cuts after receiving the city’s first-quarter fiscal report in mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's City Hall is seen in between other tall buildings.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s an opportunity for the City Council to actually make changes and make those decisions that they want to, which is browning out fire stations and lowering the number of officers,” she said on \u003cem>Forum.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao spokesperson Casey Pratt said that once the council gets the first-quarter fiscal report, it “can choose to responsibly recalibrate based on the full financial picture” with “a lot more clarity on the Coliseum deal funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the original $105 million Coliseum sale agreement with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group — the developers buying the property — Oakland received a $5 million payment upon signing and was scheduled for payments in September, November and January, totaling $58 million. The remaining $42 million was due by closing in June 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s new agreement maintains that initial $5 million but shifts other payments later — and bumps up the total price to $110 million. A $10 million payment due in November is in escrow, and a remaining lump sum of $95 million is due in May 2025. The money will stay in escrow until the deal closes, but after Nov. 9, the city will keep it even if AASEG pulls out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agreement accelerates the closing date so that all of the funds would be received by the end of the current fiscal year, but it doesn’t change the budget resolution that the council passed in July, which said that if any of the original payment dates are missed, the contingency budget is triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s meeting, budget administrator Brad Johnson said discussions about cuts under the contingency budget will take place in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some major cuts will likely have to be made. Johnson said the city overspent in the final quarter of last fiscal year and is on track to overspend again this quarter. Council members will need to consider what Oakland can and cannot “live without” before that November discussion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran a real operating deficit last year. We really did go into our reserves by $80 million, and that in the long run is unsustainable,” Johnson said. “We’re already overspending in the current year. We’ve met the criteria for triggering what needed to be another $63 million in reductions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members at Tuesday’s hearing questioned how they could prevent potential deep cuts to public safety services — especially after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">the Keller Fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Chief Damon Covington warned that with brownouts, the department’s quick response to protect homes wouldn’t have been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came within 200 yards of Campus Drive,” Covington said. “Very little math will tell you that we would have probably lost those homes on Campus Drive at a minimum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Walker allegedly told them he was an OPD officer driving home after getting off from work. During field sobriety tests, law enforcement observed “red and watery eyes, slow and slurred speech, and a noticeable odor of alcohol emanating from his breath and person,” according to court documents. His blood alcohol was recorded at 0.28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, he was stopped again — this time while driving a patrol vehicle — and again failed field and blood-alcohol level tests, according to Price’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pamela-price']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to Chief Floyd Mitchell, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">hired\u003c/a> in the spring after more than a yearlong search, and Acting Chief James Beere, who is temporarily leading the department while Mitchell completes state-mandated training, Price said she wants them to develop and implement clear policies related to on- and off-duty intoxication, citing OPD’s “documented history of mishandling disciplinary matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you know, my office cannot act to hold officers appropriately accountable if the responsible agency does not conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of the officers’ behavior,” Price said. “Having police officers intoxicated while on or off-duty represents a clear and present danger to the officer and the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, in the latest chapter of OPD’s more than 20-year struggle to emerge from federal oversight following a police misconduct settlement in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910447/from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force\">Riders case\u003c/a>, a court ordered the chief of police to personally oversee the department’s investigations into OPD officers. In the order, U.S. District Judge William Orrick said he could “no longer tolerate the lack of integrity, consistency, and transparency with which Internal Affairs has operated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police chief is now required to discuss how the department is policing itself with city leaders every two weeks, alongside regular updates to the court. OPD still has yet to complete the last two of 55 court-ordered reforms related to the internal affairs investigations of officers suspected of on-the-job misconduct and ensuring that officers are disciplined consistently regardless of their race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price has said tension with the county’s police unions stems from her bringing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009076/mario-gonzalez-supporters-call-das-error-a-shame-as-2-officers-avoid-charges\">criminal charges against law enforcement officers\u003c/a> who killed civilians in the line of duty, something Price’s predecessor Nancy O’Malley did once during her nearly 14 years in office. Police unions have accused her of failing to hold criminals accountable for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, an OPD spokesperson said neither Chief Mitchell nor Assistant Chief Beere had received the letter from the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. The department said it’s aware of the allegations made against its members and is cooperating with our outside law enforcement agencies on each case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees in question were placed on administrative leave in June of 2023 and October of 2023, and the matters are under investigation,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Officers Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show Harley is due in court on Oct. 31 for arraignment. Walker next appears on Nov. 8 for a pretrial hearing related to his two DUIs, which have been consolidated into one case.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8 a.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>The Keller Fire that erupted Friday afternoon in the Oakland Hills burning two homes and up to 15 acres is now 50% contained, according to fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press conference early Saturday afternoon, Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington said up to 200 firefighters worked overnight on the fire. On Saturday several crews from other fire departments were helping Oakland firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hopeful. The firefight is still going, and while it’s contained, it’s not extinguished,” said Covington, who emphasized the strong winds were still a concern. “We have a lot of work to do. I see us being out here definitely through tonight and until tomorrow, minimum, making sure we have the fire fully extinguished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covington said that evacuation orders were still in place for many residents due to the strong gusts and the danger of flames rekindling. 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