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Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Gholamipour, student\"]‘History is mainly white history. You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.’[/pullquote]Recently, the curriculum became part of a national political debate around teaching history in schools. The focus on topics such as Black feminism, among others, is one of the reasons why \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153434464/college-boards-revised-ap-african-american-studies-course-draws-new-criticism\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> initially refused to offer the course in schools in that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also had its share of discussions around social studies requirements. Starting with the class of 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers\">a new law\u003c/a> mandates all high school students in the Golden State complete a semester of ethnic studies — in part to help students of color see themselves reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History is mainly white history,” said Catherine Gholamipour, a student in Green’s class. “You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her peer Nartan Farucht, a senior, echoed the importance of a class that fills in the gaps of other social studies classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign hangs outside of a brick building reads \"Marcus Books.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Marcus Book Store hangs above the business in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t actually talk about the way we built our government, where we built our cities, we built our schools, without talking about the slave trade and the people who actually built these locations on their backs,” Farucht said.[aside postID=news_11942006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Mother-and-Son-1020x765.jpeg']Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? It gives us, the citizens of society, a sense of who they are and what their values should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen, considered one of the oldest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/132331/your-guide-to-black-owned-eateries-around-the-bay\">Black-owned restaurants\u003c/a> in Northern California, recently served up a history lesson to Oakland high school students alongside its menu of soul food favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buildings have been torn down. New buildings been built. But in terms of here, it’s always been the same. Everybody wants to find Lois the Pie Queen and see what it’s all about,” said restaurant owner Corey Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen’s decades-long staying power in the community made it the ideal first stop during a high school field trip tour of historic Black sites in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Tony Green, a teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School, led the field trip for a group of juniors and seniors enrolled in his Advanced Placement African American Studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of a diner counter with hot sauce bottles, glass sugar containers, salt and pepper shakers, packets of jelly and plastic bottles of ketchup neatly arranged. In the background, a large collage of individually framed photos decorate the wall leaving no room between each frame. In the center, coffee pots warm on the coffee station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos fill the wall behind the lunch counter at Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, Green said he’s taught his students about the wealth gap, redlining and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s meaningful because it’s an attempt at telling the actual truth about African Americans and their relationship with the rest of the world,” said Green, who’s been teaching a version of the class for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tony Green speaks to his African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Colbert, a junior, said Green’s teaching style — which aims not only to explain historical facts, but to also show how they’re interconnected across time — resonated with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like a lot of history classes are just like bits and pieces of history,” he said. “Classes like these, kind of give you the whole thing, from like, ancient in Mali, to like, all the way to the Black Panthers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit at desks inside a classroom. 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Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? It gives us, the citizens of society, a sense of who they are and what their values should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, on Tuesday formally announced her run for Dianne Feinstein’s highly coveted U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TX25hZ42FY\">video\u003c/a> released by her Senate campaign, Lee leans on her biography: growing up in the segregated South, her successful fight to integrate her high school cheerleading squad, escaping a violent marriage, her time as an unhoused mother and her determination to attend college as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To do nothing has never been an option for me,\" Lee says in the nearly three-minute video produced by the political consulting firm Left Hook. The veteran Democrat, who is 76, also addresses those who say her age might be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say my time has passed, well, when does making change go out of style?\" she asks in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — for whom she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before heading to Washington, Lee had a long history in public office, including stints in California’s state Assembly and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the third prominent Democratic member of Congress from California to join the increasingly crowded field of candidates seeking to replace Feinstein, who last week announced her plans to retire at the end of the current term after serving for more than 30 years. Even before Feinstein’s decision was made public, nationally recognized Reps. Katie Porter, of Orange County, and Adam Schiff, of Los Angeles, had already jumped into the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Lee says her campaign — launched during Black History Month — will emphasize the importance of representation in national government and remind voters that there are currently no Black women in the U.S. Senate. Kamala Harris, the last Black woman to serve in that chamber, resigned her seat in 2021 to become U.S. vice president. [aside label=\"More Stories on Sen. Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"] \"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality,\" said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book \u003cem>How We Win the Civil War\u003c/em>. \"And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was born in 1946 in El Paso, where her mother worked with the NAACP to integrate the University of Texas. After she and her family moved to Southern California in 1960, Lee picked up the mantle of civil rights warrior. As she told KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018, she fought to integrate her high school cheerleading squad in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was literally 15 years old, and I said, 'I really want to be a cheerleader and I can't because I don't look right,'\" Lee said. She teamed up with the NAACP, which approached the school and urged them to change the process for selecting cheerleaders to make it more fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And guess what? I won. So I was the first African American cheerleader at San Fernando High,\" Lee recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'You have got to register to vote and get involved because you can't stay on the outside, you know, looking in and fighting from the outside,'\" Lee told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Lee also coordinated fundraising efforts for the Oakland mayoral campaign of Black Panthers’ leader Bobby Seale, and later went on to work for Rep. Dellums, whose seat she would eventually take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress in 2001, Lee gained national recognition when she famously cast the lone vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with Afghanistan just days after the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our country is in a state of mourning,\" she said before casting her vote. \"Some of us must say, 'Let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization. \"They said, ‘Barbara, you cannot let this one red light (signifying a no vote) stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stood her ground, and her vote against the war has stood the test of time, as the U.S. did in fact get mired in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, costing thousands of lives, with little to show for it. In a blatant indication of defeat, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021 withdrew U.S. troops under violent, chaotic conditions, after the U.S.-backed president fled the country, leaving it under the control of the Taliban, much as it had been when the U.S. entered the conflict two decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her bid to replace Feinstein, who is 89 and has faced questions about her mental fitness, Lee, who will be 78 in November 2024, will also have to overcome the issue of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's a question just of chronological age as much as attitude in relationship to the status quo,\" said Phillips of Democracy in Color. \"For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.\" [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Steve Phillips, founder, Democracy in Color\"]'For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.'[/pullquote] At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Lee’s biggest struggle of all will be raising enough money to compete with the likes of Schiff and Porter, who are both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936335/california-politicians-stash-35-million-in-unused-campaign-funds-some-of-them-years-after-leaving-office\">prolific fundraisers\u003c/a>. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00331769/\">Lee ended 2022 with just $52,353\u003c/a> in her account. By comparison, Schiff ended the year with nearly $21 million while Porter had $7.4 million left after an expensive reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Lee formally announced her candidacy, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who served with Lee in the state Assembly decades ago, noted that fundraising was not her greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has all kinds of problems raising money,\" he said. \"She never will ask people for money. She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area residents seeking to communally grieve and process the recent spate of mass shootings across California — including those in Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park and Oakland — gathered at a vigil in Oakland’s Chinatown on Wednesday evening to honor the many lives lost to senseless gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939282 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a light-colored hoodie and pants places a photo on a table next to framed pictures, electric candles and flowers outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62262_007_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Mush Lee, with her son Manoah, 10, adds picture frames with the names of victims of recent mass shootings in Half Moon Bay, Oakland and Monterey Park to a vigil at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland organized by a host of local AAPI groups, on Jan. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"As a community, we come together to make sure that we are creating the language in order to tell the story about what's most important and what's most meaningful,\" Michelle Mush Lee, executive director of Youth Speaks, said to the crowd of several hundred people gathered at Wilma Chan Park. \"Not just in the lives of those who were killed, but what does this mean for those of us who are still here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We also realize that there's intercommunal violence and that there's been a long-brewing story of domestic violence and gender-based violence in our communities that many of us don't talk about,\" she added. \"There's also a long history of inherited trauma from colonialism and just being a part of any diaspora that's forced to leave their homeland. And so we carry that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939284 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A table with framed pictures, flowers and lights outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Framed photos of victims of recent mass shootings in Half Moon Bay, Oakland and Monterey Park are displayed at Wednesday's vigil in Oakland's Wilma Chan Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think spirituality and faith at a time like this is really important because we know that people are suffering and they're grieving and they're despairing,\" said Rev. Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, based in Oakland. \"Reconnecting with our faith and spirituality reminds us that we're together. We share values and believe we can achieve a different reality than what we currently have and that we can work together for peace, love and for a world where it's not easier to buy a gun than [it is] to get support when you actually need support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939288 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a dark yellow jacket stands in front of a crowd with some people holding candles outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasanna Yee (center), a Bay Area community activist and yoga teacher, speaks to the crowd gathered at Oakland's Wilma Chan Park to honor the victims of recent mass shootings in the state. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It just felt like a time where it was really important to show up in person and be with the community when we're struggling with so many things,\" said Christine Miyashiro, policy director for Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939289 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a white mask holds a candle and has his arm around a woman wearing a mask who is also holding a candle.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family listens to speakers at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland during Wednesday's vigil for recent shooting victims. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vigil, organized by a host of local AAPI groups, follows a seemingly unbelievable trail of gun-inflicted carnage across a state with some of the nation's strictest firearms regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oakland has done a lot of things around trying to stop the proliferation of ghost guns here,\" Miyashiro added. \"But we're only as strong as whatever is the weakest thing that surrounds us. And so this is a national problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Saturday, a gunman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">shot and killed 11 people and injured nine others\u003c/a> at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a predominantly Asian community near Los Angeles. The suspect killed himself shortly thereafter. The motive for the attack remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939286 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand outside with some people crouching in front of framed photos.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in Wednesday's vigil at Wilma Chan Park kneel down to see photos of victims killed in the spate of recent mass shootings across the state. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Less than 48 hours later, seven farmworkers were killed and one was critically injured when a gunmen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">opened fire at two different mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a>. The suspect is an employee of one of the farms and had previously worked at the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just the following day, a teenager was killed and multiple other people wounded in a shootout at an Oakland gas station. Witnesses said the gunfire erupted during the filming of a music video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the previous week, a 16-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby were among \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/16/visalia-goshen-california-baby-killed/\">six people killed in a shooting at a home in the Central Valley town of Goshen\u003c/a>, in what authorities believe was a targeted attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, 25 people were killed in those four mass shootings across the state within the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939290 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses holds a sign of a bright red heart above her head outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena Morales holds a sign with a heart painted on it during Wednesday's vigil at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939281 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black shirt with intricate designs crouches down with flowers in her hand over a vigil outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvina Wong, of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, lays flowers at the vigil at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A vigil for victims of the Monterey Park shooting will also be held on Thursday at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 5:30–7:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Spencer Whitney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And so we carry that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939284 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A table with framed pictures, flowers and lights outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62265_011_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Framed photos of victims of recent mass shootings in Half Moon Bay, Oakland and Monterey Park are displayed at Wednesday's vigil in Oakland's Wilma Chan Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think spirituality and faith at a time like this is really important because we know that people are suffering and they're grieving and they're despairing,\" said Rev. Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, based in Oakland. \"Reconnecting with our faith and spirituality reminds us that we're together. We share values and believe we can achieve a different reality than what we currently have and that we can work together for peace, love and for a world where it's not easier to buy a gun than [it is] to get support when you actually need support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939288 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a dark yellow jacket stands in front of a crowd with some people holding candles outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62276_025_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasanna Yee (center), a Bay Area community activist and yoga teacher, speaks to the crowd gathered at Oakland's Wilma Chan Park to honor the victims of recent mass shootings in the state. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It just felt like a time where it was really important to show up in person and be with the community when we're struggling with so many things,\" said Christine Miyashiro, policy director for Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939289 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a white mask holds a candle and has his arm around a woman wearing a mask who is also holding a candle.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62281_030_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family listens to speakers at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland during Wednesday's vigil for recent shooting victims. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vigil, organized by a host of local AAPI groups, follows a seemingly unbelievable trail of gun-inflicted carnage across a state with some of the nation's strictest firearms regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oakland has done a lot of things around trying to stop the proliferation of ghost guns here,\" Miyashiro added. \"But we're only as strong as whatever is the weakest thing that surrounds us. And so this is a national problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Saturday, a gunman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">shot and killed 11 people and injured nine others\u003c/a> at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a predominantly Asian community near Los Angeles. The suspect killed himself shortly thereafter. The motive for the attack remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939286 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand outside with some people crouching in front of framed photos.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62272_016_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in Wednesday's vigil at Wilma Chan Park kneel down to see photos of victims killed in the spate of recent mass shootings across the state. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Less than 48 hours later, seven farmworkers were killed and one was critically injured when a gunmen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">opened fire at two different mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a>. The suspect is an employee of one of the farms and had previously worked at the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just the following day, a teenager was killed and multiple other people wounded in a shootout at an Oakland gas station. Witnesses said the gunfire erupted during the filming of a music video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the previous week, a 16-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby were among \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/16/visalia-goshen-california-baby-killed/\">six people killed in a shooting at a home in the Central Valley town of Goshen\u003c/a>, in what authorities believe was a targeted attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, 25 people were killed in those four mass shootings across the state within the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939290 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses holds a sign of a bright red heart above her head outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62282_032_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena Morales holds a sign with a heart painted on it during Wednesday's vigil at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939281 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black shirt with intricate designs crouches down with flowers in her hand over a vigil outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandAAPIVigil_01252023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvina Wong, of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, lays flowers at the vigil at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A vigil for victims of the Monterey Park shooting will also be held on Thursday at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 5:30–7:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Spencer Whitney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Progressive Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao is gearing up to take the reins as the city's next mayor, after defeating more moderate fellow Councilmember Loren Taylor by \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovresults/rcv/248/rcvresults.htm?race=Oakland%2F001-Mayor\">the narrowest of margins\u003c/a> last month in the drawn-out, ranked choice voting tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 37, Thao will not only be one of Oakland's youngest mayors, but also the first Hmong American to lead the city, when she replaces current Mayor Libby Schaaf in January. The UC Berkeley graduate was first elected in 2018 to represent District 4 on the Council (including parts of East Oakland, Montclair and the Oakland hills), and has since become its president pro tempore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Stockton, Thao is the daughter of Laotian refugees and the seventh of 10 children. The family lived for years in public housing. She left home at a young age and for a brief period was unhoused, sleeping in her car with her infant son to escape an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oakland's next mayor, Thao faces a myriad of challenges, including the city's homelessness crisis, the need to build significantly more affordable housing, and mounting crime. Last week, KQED Political Breakdown's Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer sat down in the studio with the mayor-elect to talk about her life story, her vision for Oakland and how she plans to hit the ground running next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So we want to talk about all your plans for Oakland, but we would like to start with your very compelling life story. Your parents left Laos as refugees. Tell us a little bit about before they came here and had 10 kids. What was their journey like to America?\u003c/strong>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao\"]'I do believe that if we support those who are on the margins, then we all can have a better quality of life.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So my parents, it wasn't a fairy tale love story or anything like that. It was during the Vietnam War. The Hmong people live in the jungles and in the hills of Laos mainly, but also you can also find people in the jungles and mountains of Vietnam and China as well. But because of that, the Hmong people had to choose between joining forces with American CIA or joining forces with the communists and Vietcong. And then not just that, but the Laos as well, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so many of the Hmong actually chose to be part of the CIA. And because of that, they helped a lot in regards to navigating the jungles for the Americans and not just that, but really helping with those who were hurt on the ground. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Price has won the closely watched and closely contested Alameda County district attorney’s race, with opponent Terry Wiley conceding the race late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me in my campaign, including my volunteers and everyone who voted for me,” Wiley said Saturday. “Although I expected a different result, I’m grateful for everyone’s support. I congratulate Pamela Price on becoming Alameda County’s first-ever African American District Attorney. I look forward to working with Pamela in her transition to District Attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive civil-rights attorney, had over 53% of the vote in the latest results Saturday, and Wiley — the county’s chief assistant district attorney under retiring DA Nancy O'Malley — had just under 47%, a difference of nearly 27,000 votes. 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Price's win seems to reflect East Bay voters' appetite for progressive criminal justice reform: Her campaign offered voters a vision for a district attorney who proposed bold stances to eliminate racial inequity in the criminal legal system and provide alternatives to incarceration focused on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, a career prosecutor, offered a more moderate approach, calling for flexibility and arguing that pretrial detention and life-without-parole sentencing — things that Price spoke out against using — are sometimes necessary to protect public safety. Among other campaign promises, Wiley proposed to focus his office's work on what he called \"the 2,000 repeat offenders who commit the majority of crime in Alameda County,\" and increasing referrals from the court system to the county's drug and mental health care treatment programs. A win for Wiley would have preserved much of the status quo with the Alameda district attorney's office, whose work he defended on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, Price was the favorite, taking 40% of the vote over Terry Wiley, who garnered slightly less than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black man in a black coat smiles in a portrait at the library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leron Garret voted at the Oakland Public Library on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Election Day, voters at the Oakland Public Library on 14th Street said they had been closely following the candidates' campaigns. Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. 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Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. Current attorneys and inspectors for the Alameda County district attorney’s office contributed heavily to Wiley’s campaign, both individually and collectively, including a $75,000 donation from the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. Over the course of his two-year campaign, Wiley raised more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price received numerous individual donations from attorneys in the Alameda County Public Defender’s office. Price began fundraising for her 2022 campaign in 2018, and though she pulled in money more slowly, her fundraising for this election surpassed the $1 million mark as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and the Fremont Police Department funded attack ads through the Golden State Communities Project targeting Price and hyperbolizing about crime in the Bay Area, which, though perhaps unsolicited by Wiley, certainly benefited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price will be the first Black district attorney in Alameda County history. Aside from gun violence in Oakland, she inherits issues such as accusations of misconduct within the current DA’s office and a growing number of deaths at the county jail, where at least two people have died in the last four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A rash of gun violence in Oakland should be treated as a public health crisis so the city can receive federal aid to support its violence prevention work, Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After meeting with U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Oakland Congressmember Barbara Lee and community leaders to discuss the problem, Schaaf praised the idea of declaring a federal health emergency to bolster Medi-Cal reimbursements for violence prevention initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The federal government needs ... to declare a health emergency so that we can use health funding to do the deep violence prevention and intervention work that we know is needed, particularly as we are seeing more and more young people not only be the victims of crime but be the perpetrators of crime,\" Schaaf said.[aside postID=news_11927904 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS8295_Cropped-JPG-File-1020x680.jpg']The discussion at First AME Church in Oakland’s Mosswood neighborhood was not open to the media. But Padilla told reporters afterward that it was a timely discussion, given a recent gang-related shooting on September 28 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927080/six-people-wounded-at-high-school-shooting-in-oakland-oakcrime\">wounded six people at a school complex in East Oakland\u003c/a> and another shooting near UC Berkeley on October 8 \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-08/four-men-shot-one-killed-berkeley\">that left one man dead and three others injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a decade where homicides were down to a half-century low in the 2010s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">the whole Bay Area saw an increase in violence since the pandemic began in 2020\u003c/a>. Oakland police investigated 134 homicides in 2021 — the most since 2012 — and already this year authorities have reported 103 homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Police Chief LeRonne L. Armstrong said group and gang violence was the predominant driver of crimes in the city. He added that officers have recovered an astounding number of firearms: 1,132 so far, compared to nearly 1,200 last year, many of which are \"ghost guns,\" which are untraceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said the federal Safer Communities Act, signed into law in June, provides hundreds of millions of dollars for community-based violence prevention initiatives like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/macro-mobile-assistance-community-responders-of-oakland\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland Program\u003c/a>, or MACRO, which was modeled after the Eugene, Oregon, Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) model, widely recognized as a non-law enforcement mobile crisis intervention program that has seen significant success over the last 31 years.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara Lee, U.S. representative\"]'Our young people deserve investments in education, jobs, housing, mental health, social and racial justice efforts and more to ensure the quality of life they deserve.'[/pullquote]The six-month-old MACRO program sends a team of crisis intervention specialists to respond to nonviolent 911 calls, helping to deescalate crises without police intervention, thereby reducing police responses to behavioral health issues so they can focus on crime instead, at a time when the OPD has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009578809/cops-say-low-morale-and-department-scrutiny-are-driving-them-away-from-the-job\">understaffed and overwhelmed since the start of the pandemic\u003c/a>. The city is testing the program for 18 months, limiting service to just East and West Oakland between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., with three teams on two shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla thinks federal dollars can increase staff and expand hours and area of coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the objective: not just trying to find those new solutions, new initiatives but looking at what has been proven, that can have a bigger impact if we’re able to scale up with more resources, hiring more teams to do the work on the ground,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Lee later told reporters that the closed-door conversation delved into systemic racism as one major root cause of crimes, given that a majority of victims of gun violence are Black and brown people from under-resourced communities and lower-income neighborhoods where gang violence often takes root. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the oldest brother in a family of six kids and a single mom, Jazy Sotelo Garcia, 17, naturally assumed the role of protector and caregiver, according to his cousin Melani Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was always kind of checking in on people, making sure everybody had their needs met,\" Garcia told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother Angel, 15, was more of a social butterfly. He was \"very comedic and joyous,\" Garcia said. \"If he noticed something was up with you, his first instinct would be to just make you laugh and smile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia and the rest of her family are in shock after both brothers were killed in a shooting Saturday night in North Oakland. Two other people were wounded in the shooting, police said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of two Latino teenage boys standing outside\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers Jazy Sotelo Garcia (left), 17, and Angel Sotelo Garcia, 15, were killed in a shooting Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, at a house party in Oakland. Friends and family remembered the Berkeley High students as loving, community-minded boys with lots of friends. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-help-for-15-and-17-year-old-sons\">Erika Galavis, GoFundMe site\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. in the 900 block of Apgar Street near Emeryville. Officers who went to the location found multiple gunshot victims, according to police. Officers tried to save the boys' lives, but they died at the scene, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third victim located by Oakland police was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition, according to police. Emeryville police located a fourth victim, who also is in stable condition at a hospital, Oakland police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Monday, the shooting was not gang-related and appeared to be tied to a previous conflict that happened at Berkeley High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do believe that three individuals came in a vehicle, entered the home, two of which began to fire rounds,” said Armstrong, adding that both handguns and rifles were used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, a crowd of more than 200 people gathered at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley for a vigil in honor of the brothers. Among them were Jazy and Angel's four younger siblings — including 13-year-old Josue, now the eldest — and their mother, Maria Garcia, who spoke about always keeping an open door for her kids' friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people gathered in a room for a memorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People listen to speakers during a vigil for Angel and Jazy Sotelo Garcia, the two Berkeley High School students killed in a shooting over the weekend in Oakland’s Longfellow neighborhood, at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Over 200 people attended the vigil. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abby Arcos, 14, a student at Berkeley High School, also was among the attendees. “I just know [the brothers] as being a part of my community at Berkeley High, and close to many of my friends,” Arcos said. “I feel very heartbroken for the family and I just hope they heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Wilson, formerly the principal at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School (previously Le Conte), which both brothers attended, led the boys' friends and classmates in a vow to their deceased friends. “I promise myself,” Wilson had them repeat, “that if I loved them, that if I cared about them, I will help their dreams come true by living the best life I can ... I will not let the loss of their lives be in vain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those gathered were extended family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're a huge family. We're Mexican. Our culture is really big on big families and tight-knit communities, and our parents made sure to instill that in us during our childhood, which is why we're really close,\" said cousin Garcia, describing camping trips and Disneyland excursions with her cousins. \"It's really disheartening to know that we grew up together, but we're not going to be able to grow old together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a bouquet of red and yellow flowers and card depicting two young Latino boys as angels\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee holds flowers and wears a piece of art depicting Angel and Jazy Sotelo Garcia as angels during a vigil for the two Berkeley High School students who were killed in a shooting at a house party over the weekend in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A letter from Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel on Monday called for compassion and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a district community in grief,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2022/10/a-tragic-loss-in-the-berkeley-school-community-una-tragica-perdida-en-la-comunidad-escolar-de-berkeley/\">read the statement\u003c/a>. \"We’ve lost two beautiful Berkeley High School (BHS) students this weekend to a senseless act of gun violence. Berkeley is a small and tightly-knit community. A tragedy like this affects all of us, and it will also take all of us together, supporting one another, being kind to one another, listening to one another, and being compassionate to get through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Melani Garcia, cousin of Jazy and Angel Sotelo Garcia \"]'They never went into any kind of trouble. They were ... humble and sweet and community- and family-oriented. I just ask people to be mindful that these were kids.'[/pullquote]A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-help-for-15-and-17-year-old-sons\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> for the family, which had raised more than $96,000 by Tuesday morning, aims to help the boys' mother pay for funeral and other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melani Garcia said she has no doubts that her cousins were innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets. \"I've seen some narratives pushed around that they were affiliated with a gang ... or that they were asking for it by going to a house party in Oakland,\" she said. \"And I really want to clear that up. They never went into any kind of trouble. They were just all-around really well-rounded kids. Humble and sweet and community- and family-oriented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just ask people to be mindful that these were kids,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story includes reporting from Bay City News, The Associated Press and KQED's Sara Hossaini, Emma Silvers and Marlena Sloss.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the oldest brother in a family of six kids and a single mom, Jazy Sotelo Garcia, 17, naturally assumed the role of protector and caregiver, according to his cousin Melani Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was always kind of checking in on people, making sure everybody had their needs met,\" Garcia told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother Angel, 15, was more of a social butterfly. He was \"very comedic and joyous,\" Garcia said. \"If he noticed something was up with you, his first instinct would be to just make you laugh and smile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia and the rest of her family are in shock after both brothers were killed in a shooting Saturday night in North Oakland. Two other people were wounded in the shooting, police said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of two Latino teenage boys standing outside\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-11.54.47-AM.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers Jazy Sotelo Garcia (left), 17, and Angel Sotelo Garcia, 15, were killed in a shooting Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, at a house party in Oakland. Friends and family remembered the Berkeley High students as loving, community-minded boys with lots of friends. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-help-for-15-and-17-year-old-sons\">Erika Galavis, GoFundMe site\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. in the 900 block of Apgar Street near Emeryville. Officers who went to the location found multiple gunshot victims, according to police. Officers tried to save the boys' lives, but they died at the scene, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third victim located by Oakland police was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition, according to police. Emeryville police located a fourth victim, who also is in stable condition at a hospital, Oakland police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Monday, the shooting was not gang-related and appeared to be tied to a previous conflict that happened at Berkeley High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do believe that three individuals came in a vehicle, entered the home, two of which began to fire rounds,” said Armstrong, adding that both handguns and rifles were used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, a crowd of more than 200 people gathered at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley for a vigil in honor of the brothers. Among them were Jazy and Angel's four younger siblings — including 13-year-old Josue, now the eldest — and their mother, Maria Garcia, who spoke about always keeping an open door for her kids' friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people gathered in a room for a memorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59001_KQED_Vigil_005-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People listen to speakers during a vigil for Angel and Jazy Sotelo Garcia, the two Berkeley High School students killed in a shooting over the weekend in Oakland’s Longfellow neighborhood, at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Over 200 people attended the vigil. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abby Arcos, 14, a student at Berkeley High School, also was among the attendees. “I just know [the brothers] as being a part of my community at Berkeley High, and close to many of my friends,” Arcos said. “I feel very heartbroken for the family and I just hope they heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Wilson, formerly the principal at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School (previously Le Conte), which both brothers attended, led the boys' friends and classmates in a vow to their deceased friends. “I promise myself,” Wilson had them repeat, “that if I loved them, that if I cared about them, I will help their dreams come true by living the best life I can ... I will not let the loss of their lives be in vain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those gathered were extended family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're a huge family. We're Mexican. Our culture is really big on big families and tight-knit communities, and our parents made sure to instill that in us during our childhood, which is why we're really close,\" said cousin Garcia, describing camping trips and Disneyland excursions with her cousins. \"It's really disheartening to know that we grew up together, but we're not going to be able to grow old together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"a bouquet of red and yellow flowers and card depicting two young Latino boys as angels\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59002_KQED_Vigil_003-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee holds flowers and wears a piece of art depicting Angel and Jazy Sotelo Garcia as angels during a vigil for the two Berkeley High School students who were killed in a shooting at a house party over the weekend in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A letter from Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel on Monday called for compassion and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a district community in grief,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2022/10/a-tragic-loss-in-the-berkeley-school-community-una-tragica-perdida-en-la-comunidad-escolar-de-berkeley/\">read the statement\u003c/a>. \"We’ve lost two beautiful Berkeley High School (BHS) students this weekend to a senseless act of gun violence. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>At least two, still-unidentified assailants armed with handguns, and an accomplice, breached the entrance of Rudsdale High School on the King Estates campus in East Oakland early Wednesday afternoon, firing more than 30 rounds and wounding six adults, including two students, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said during a Thursday press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assailants did not make it far inside the school, and appeared to be targeting specific people, although their motive is still unclear, Armstrong said. Those wounded, he noted, \"were not the targets.\" Along with the two adult students, the victims include a counselor, a security guard and two other people who work at the school. Three of them remain hospitalized, two in critical condition, he said. The other three have been treated and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three schools on the Kings Estates campus remained closed on Thursday, according to Oakland Unified spokesperson John Sasaki. “And they will, at least for the time being, remain closed because of the fact that we have to repair a lot of damage on the campus that occurred yesterday,” he said. The district, he added, is offering support services to students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Six adults were wounded, including two in critical condition, during a shooting at a school campus in East Oakland on Wednesday, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting occurred around 12:45 p.m. at the King Estates campus of schools located on the 8200 block of Fontaine Street, near Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland's Oak Knoll/Golf Links neighborhood. The site houses three schools, including the Bay Area Technology School (BayTech), Sojourner Truth Independent Study and Rudsdale High School, which has a program that serves recent immigrants ages 16-21 who have fled violence and instability in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials confirmed that all the victims are adults, but have not yet said whether any are older students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The victims were affiliated with the school, and we are determining the affiliation at this time,\" Oakland Assistant Police Chief Darren Allison said, although he declined to say whether any students or teachers were involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison said police were seeking at least one suspect but did not have anyone in custody. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also taking part in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the wounded were taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, while the other three were taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Allison said. Of those victims, he added, three remained hospitalized Wednesday evening, two of them with life-threatening injuries, while one person had been released and two others were expected to be released soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Sasaki, a spokesperson for Oakland Unified School District, said in a statement that district officials “do not have any information beyond what Oakland Police are reporting.” He said counselors were being made available for students, but did not say whether the schools at the site would be open Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want these [schools] to be oases for our kids. These are safe places,\" he said. \"This has to stop. Our city cannot keep going on like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, a 13-year-old student was shot and wounded by a peer at Madison Park Academy, a nearby middle school, in an incident police \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Madison-Park-Academy-shooting-was-not-deliberate-17411647.php\">later determined to be an accident\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, teachers with the Oakland Education Association, the teachers union, said, \"We call on the Oakland Unified School District to support Black and Brown students, listen to the concerns of Oakland's communities about keeping schools open as safe spaces, retain staff, attract more mental health professionals, and put more investment in community schools to support every student's entire well-being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television footage showed dozens of police cars and yellow tape on the street outside the campus as students poured out of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents waited in backed-up traffic for more than an hour to get to their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go on autopilot. 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On Tuesday, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong announced his department was \"going all-hands-on-deck to address gun violence in the city,\" with plans to deploy additional officers in parts of East and West Oakland in areas where he said armed \"groups and gangs\" responsible for many of the shootings are known to congregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a difficult time in the city of Oakland,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Jackson, chief executive of Alameda Health System, also noted an increase in violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen almost a doubling of the violent crimes victims that we’re seeing here at our facility [Highland Hospital]. So something has changed,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Sept. 29): The original version of this story stated there were four schools, rather than three, at the King Estates complex — based on information OUSD conveyed during its initial press briefing on Wednesday. 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"content": "\u003cp>Three years ago, Melissa Rodriguez and dozens of her peers in Oakland Unified had a bold idea. Unhappy with the civics education at their schools, among other issues, they decided to enact their own real-life civics lesson: by fighting for 16- and 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They circulated petitions. They went door to door in every neighborhood of the city. They collected endorsements and raised money for advertising. They did email blasts, social media campaigns and phone banking. And in the fall 2020 election, they won. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_QQ,_Allow_16-Year-Olds_to_Vote_for_School_Board_Director_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Measure QQ\u003c/a> passed with almost 68% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"mindshift_56725,arts_13889129\"]But that, so far, is where the story ends. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has yet to implement Measure QQ, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley,_California,_School_Director_Election_Youth_Voting,_Measure_Y1_(November_2016)\">a similar measure, Y1\u003c/a>, that passed in Berkeley in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing. As much as we tried to hold adults accountable, it didn’t happen. Even when they promised it would,” Rodriguez said. “And it’s not even our fault. No matter how much work we put into something, it doesn’t change anything. It makes me really mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Oakland and Berkeley isn’t unique. Youth-led civic engagement initiatives typically struggle to maintain momentum, said Chuck Corra, associate director at Generation Citizen, which advocates for youth civics education. Students graduate and move on, priorities change, and — as any policy wonk will attest — the wheels of democracy can grind maddeningly slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be frustrating. Sometimes municipalities drag their feet,” Corra said. “There’s all this grassroots activism and then nothing happens. … Young people are tired of seeing a lot of talk on issues that affect them. They want a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of youth voting initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, the measures have stalled at the registrar’s office, where staff have hired a consultant and an attorney to work out the complexities of issuing ballots, in multiple languages, to a select group of voters for only one race: school board. The ballots and voting methods also must be accessible to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to integrate the voting rolls, so students who vote in school board races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/pre-register-16-vote-18\">those who’ve preregistered\u003c/a>, which became legal in California in 2017, can seamlessly join the regular rolls once they turn 18, according to Cynthia Cornejo, deputy registrar in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a perfect world, this would be easy to implement. But we want to make sure we do it right,” Cornejo said. “I completely understand how frustrated people are. We all hoped this would be done sooner. … We’ve done a lot of work on this already, and it’s going well. We’re very close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Zo Pancoast, student activist\"]'People have this anger ... but there's also hope. It feels like there's a renewed momentum.'[/pullquote]California election law is unclear as to how long an agency can wait before implementing a voter-approved measure. But some delays related to Measures QQ and Y1 might be unique to Alameda County. Youth voting measures in Maryland and other states have passed and been implemented with little trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zo Pancoast, who was among the Berkeley students who pushed for Y1 six years ago, said the delay is disappointing, but it hasn’t deterred her and her peers from fighting for change. Now a student at Scripps College in Claremont, she’s remained active with \u003ca href=\"https://generationcitizen.org/policy-and-advocacy/vote16usa/\">Vote16USA\u003c/a>, a movement to lower the voting age, and is busy working on other political issues. Although she noted a “definite relaxation after the 2020 election,” young people are now launching new initiatives aimed at reproductive rights, affordable housing, mental health services in schools and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have this anger. They’re madder than I’ve seen them in a long time,” she said. “But there’s also hope. It feels like there’s a renewed momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11921998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a student march in Seattle in 1969\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people in Seattle march in support of lowering the national voting age to 18, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One place of momentum is Culver City in Los Angeles County, where high school students have successfully campaigned to get a youth voting measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. If it passes, 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote for school board, city council and local measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ada Meighan-Thiel, Ava Frans and Julia Rottenberg, students at Culver City High School, are among a group who’ve been organizing for years to bring the measure to voters. For them, the idea is not radical. After all, the national voting age was lowered to 18 only in 1971, through the \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xxvi\">26th Amendment\u003c/a>, and suffrage movements are as old as the country itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also note that 16-year-olds can vote in numerous other countries, including Brazil, Scotland, Argentina and Austria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since young people work, pay taxes, drive and have a stake in their communities, they should have a right to vote, they said. Shutting them out of the electoral process is essentially taxation without representation, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change,” Meighan-Thiel said. “Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ada Meighan-Thiel, student activist\"]'Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change. Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.'[/pullquote]For Frans, the top issue for which she’d like to hold local leaders accountable is climate change and environmental sustainability. She wants to see schools in Culver City have plant-based, organic food and generate less food waste in the cafeterias; use more renewable energy, such as solar power; and use less plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Meighan-Thiel, the issue is affordable housing. As in many parts of California, housing is increasingly out of reach for young people in Culver City, and homelessness is an urgent concern. For Rottenberg, social justice and civil rights are the most pressing issues she’d like to see local officials address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t we take these theoretical things we do in school, like debate and Model U.N., and apply them to tangible, real-world problems?” she said. “We’re not exempt from things that happen in our community. We should have a voice in the things that affect us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921999\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11921999 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman sits in a car in a green shirt \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ixchel Arista, a senior at Oakland High, was among the students who campaigned for Alameda County Measure QQ in 2020. \u003ccite>(EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Rodriguez and her peers, who’ve been working closely with a local advocacy group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/\">Oakland Kids First\u003c/a>, are hopeful that the county registrar will eventually implement Measure QQ so some future cohort of 16-year-olds can finally have their say at the voting box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And meanwhile, they believe they’ve learned some important lessons about the powers and limitations of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re leaving a legacy,” said Holly Yu, a graduate of Oakland High who’s planning to attend UC Merced this fall. “Social justice and change are a marathon. They don’t happen overnight. They don’t even happen in a generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ixchel Arista, an incoming senior at Oakland High, said she’s comforted by the hope that her younger sister “and countless others” will benefit from Measure QQ. And she’s also grateful for the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, personally, my eyes were so closed to the potential that young people have,” she said. “I would get so mad about things, and say, ‘Oh, my God, this is outrageous,’ but I didn’t realize that we have the power to make a difference. Knowing that now, that’s what keeps me going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three years ago, Melissa Rodriguez and dozens of her peers in Oakland Unified had a bold idea. Unhappy with the civics education at their schools, among other issues, they decided to enact their own real-life civics lesson: by fighting for 16- and 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They circulated petitions. They went door to door in every neighborhood of the city. They collected endorsements and raised money for advertising. They did email blasts, social media campaigns and phone banking. And in the fall 2020 election, they won. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_QQ,_Allow_16-Year-Olds_to_Vote_for_School_Board_Director_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Measure QQ\u003c/a> passed with almost 68% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But that, so far, is where the story ends. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has yet to implement Measure QQ, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley,_California,_School_Director_Election_Youth_Voting,_Measure_Y1_(November_2016)\">a similar measure, Y1\u003c/a>, that passed in Berkeley in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing. As much as we tried to hold adults accountable, it didn’t happen. Even when they promised it would,” Rodriguez said. “And it’s not even our fault. No matter how much work we put into something, it doesn’t change anything. It makes me really mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Oakland and Berkeley isn’t unique. Youth-led civic engagement initiatives typically struggle to maintain momentum, said Chuck Corra, associate director at Generation Citizen, which advocates for youth civics education. Students graduate and move on, priorities change, and — as any policy wonk will attest — the wheels of democracy can grind maddeningly slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be frustrating. Sometimes municipalities drag their feet,” Corra said. “There’s all this grassroots activism and then nothing happens. … Young people are tired of seeing a lot of talk on issues that affect them. They want a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of youth voting initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, the measures have stalled at the registrar’s office, where staff have hired a consultant and an attorney to work out the complexities of issuing ballots, in multiple languages, to a select group of voters for only one race: school board. The ballots and voting methods also must be accessible to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to integrate the voting rolls, so students who vote in school board races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/pre-register-16-vote-18\">those who’ve preregistered\u003c/a>, which became legal in California in 2017, can seamlessly join the regular rolls once they turn 18, according to Cynthia Cornejo, deputy registrar in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a perfect world, this would be easy to implement. But we want to make sure we do it right,” Cornejo said. “I completely understand how frustrated people are. We all hoped this would be done sooner. … We’ve done a lot of work on this already, and it’s going well. We’re very close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California election law is unclear as to how long an agency can wait before implementing a voter-approved measure. But some delays related to Measures QQ and Y1 might be unique to Alameda County. Youth voting measures in Maryland and other states have passed and been implemented with little trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zo Pancoast, who was among the Berkeley students who pushed for Y1 six years ago, said the delay is disappointing, but it hasn’t deterred her and her peers from fighting for change. Now a student at Scripps College in Claremont, she’s remained active with \u003ca href=\"https://generationcitizen.org/policy-and-advocacy/vote16usa/\">Vote16USA\u003c/a>, a movement to lower the voting age, and is busy working on other political issues. Although she noted a “definite relaxation after the 2020 election,” young people are now launching new initiatives aimed at reproductive rights, affordable housing, mental health services in schools and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have this anger. They’re madder than I’ve seen them in a long time,” she said. “But there’s also hope. It feels like there’s a renewed momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11921998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a student march in Seattle in 1969\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1.jpg 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Student_march_full-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people in Seattle march in support of lowering the national voting age to 18, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One place of momentum is Culver City in Los Angeles County, where high school students have successfully campaigned to get a youth voting measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. If it passes, 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote for school board, city council and local measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ada Meighan-Thiel, Ava Frans and Julia Rottenberg, students at Culver City High School, are among a group who’ve been organizing for years to bring the measure to voters. For them, the idea is not radical. After all, the national voting age was lowered to 18 only in 1971, through the \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xxvi\">26th Amendment\u003c/a>, and suffrage movements are as old as the country itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also note that 16-year-olds can vote in numerous other countries, including Brazil, Scotland, Argentina and Austria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since young people work, pay taxes, drive and have a stake in their communities, they should have a right to vote, they said. Shutting them out of the electoral process is essentially taxation without representation, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voices do matter, and we have this opportunity to create substantive change,” Meighan-Thiel said. “Hopefully this leads to something meaningful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For Frans, the top issue for which she’d like to hold local leaders accountable is climate change and environmental sustainability. She wants to see schools in Culver City have plant-based, organic food and generate less food waste in the cafeterias; use more renewable energy, such as solar power; and use less plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Meighan-Thiel, the issue is affordable housing. As in many parts of California, housing is increasingly out of reach for young people in Culver City, and homelessness is an urgent concern. For Rottenberg, social justice and civil rights are the most pressing issues she’d like to see local officials address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t we take these theoretical things we do in school, like debate and Model U.N., and apply them to tangible, real-world problems?” she said. “We’re not exempt from things that happen in our community. We should have a voice in the things that affect us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921999\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11921999 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman sits in a car in a green shirt \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/IMG_1079-600x800-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ixchel Arista, a senior at Oakland High, was among the students who campaigned for Alameda County Measure QQ in 2020. \u003ccite>(EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Rodriguez and her peers, who’ve been working closely with a local advocacy group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/\">Oakland Kids First\u003c/a>, are hopeful that the county registrar will eventually implement Measure QQ so some future cohort of 16-year-olds can finally have their say at the voting box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And meanwhile, they believe they’ve learned some important lessons about the powers and limitations of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re leaving a legacy,” said Holly Yu, a graduate of Oakland High who’s planning to attend UC Merced this fall. “Social justice and change are a marathon. They don’t happen overnight. They don’t even happen in a generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ixchel Arista, an incoming senior at Oakland High, said she’s comforted by the hope that her younger sister “and countless others” will benefit from Measure QQ. And she’s also grateful for the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, personally, my eyes were so closed to the potential that young people have,” she said. “I would get so mad about things, and say, ‘Oh, my God, this is outrageous,’ but I didn’t realize that we have the power to make a difference. Knowing that now, that’s what keeps me going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regional air regulators are locked in a court dispute with an Oakland cannabis landlord that has been running massive diesel generators without permits for nearly two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) filed an \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22123043/baaqmd-v-green-sage-management-et-al.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injunction request\u003c/a> late Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court seeking enforcement of an abatement order issued against Denver-based firm Green Sage last week by the agency's independent hearing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to seeking an injunction against Green Sage, the district is seeking penalties of up to $175,000 a day for continued violations of the abatement order and state air pollution laws. The district's legal action also targets cannabis growers in the Green Sage complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's action came hours after Green Sage \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22123601/green-sage-request-for-writ-of-mandate-220728.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked the court\u003c/a> to block the abatement order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company argued the generators are necessary because existing PG&E power supplies are insufficient to power cannabis growth at its properties and claims that pot worth millions of dollars will be lost if they're turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district hearing board issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122163/2022-07-21-order-for-abatement.pdf\">its formal order\u003c/a> last week directing Green Sage to immediately cease operating generators at its two San Leandro Street buildings until it gets air district permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district had already indicated that Green Sage was likely ineligible for such permits. That's because the firm has used the diesel generators as the primary source of power for nearly two years in violation of air district rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland residents, Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Democracy Project\"]'We've spent hundreds of hours on the board's abatement process because Green Sage's conduct is so obviously at odds with the district's regulations.'[/pullquote]Green Sage began leasing generators to provide power for cannabis tenants beginning in October 2020. At one point, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22076676/mills-report-green-sage-generators.pdf\">an expert for the air district found\u003c/a>, the firm had a dozen generators running simultaneously, producing 11.1 megawatts of electricity – enough to power about 9,000 California homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage residential tenants first complained to the air district about the generators last September, saying they're beyond frustrated with the engines' continued around-the-clock operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11918216,news_11911263,news_11908979\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122200/residents-letter-to-baaqmd-green-sage-enforcement.pdf\">a letter to the air district\u003c/a> joined by environmental advocates and community supporters, they said they were disillusioned with the district's hearing process and demanded immediate enforcement of its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We placed faith in this system and were extremely patient,\" the joint letter from residents, the \u003ca href=\"https://ceh.org/\">Center for Environmental Health\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpcal.org/\">Environmental Democracy Project\u003c/a> said. \"We’ve spent hundreds of hours on the board’s abatement process because Green Sage’s conduct is so obviously at odds with the district’s regulations. After all that investment of our time, it seems that we were misled into believing that the district would actually shut the generators down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter complained that \"Green Sage has been afforded every opportunity to appeal, delay, and ignore the law without consequence.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, the air district issued a statement calling Green Sage's continued generator use \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"alarming and unacceptable.\" The district said it \"will deploy all our available tools and work with other enforcement agencies to hold Green Sage accountable and shut down these generators, which are a threat to air quality and public health in the surrounding community.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district's hearing board process gives Green Sage 30 days to appeal last week's abatement order. The company would also need to seek a separate court order to delay enforcement of the air district's shutdown decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage, which has failed to comply with at least three other city and air district violation notices related to the diesel generators since late last year, did not respond to questions this week about whether it will contest the abatement order. Prior to filing Thursday's injunction request, air district officials said they had not received notice that Green Sage would appeal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testifying before the hearing board on July 12, Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer argued the generators are necessary to preserve cannabis crops worth millions of dollars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greer also said that PG&E power upgrades will be complete for one of the two Green Sage buildings by the end of September and asked the board to hold off on an abatement order until that work is complete. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he maintained that even with the PG&E upgrade in place, more power will be needed to keep cannabis operations running. He said that could be supplied by a company he's formed, New Grass Power, which would generate electricity using natural gas turbines fueled by methane from dairy waste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We're desperately trying to get off the diesel generators,\" Greer told the hearing board. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We can't afford them. We don't want them. But we have no other alternative.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Greer of Green Sage testifying before air district hearing board via Zoom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-2048x1325.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer testifying before the Bay Area Air Quality Management District hearing board on July 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(BAAQMD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence produced during the hearing board's three sessions showed Green Sage began relying on generators as an ongoing source of supplemental power nearly two years ago, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423328/americas-brickworks-v-220111-greer-declaration.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a January 2022 court filing by Greer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> indicated that supplying diesel generators for cannabis operations had become Green Sage's standard operating procedure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Oakland issued notices of violation last December and again in April warning Green Sage that the unpermitted generators must be shut down. The April notice is under appeal, and the generators continued to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district issued its own notice of violation in February because the generators had been set up and operated without district permits. After Green Sage filed only incomplete permit applications, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911263/regulator-moves-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-east-oakland-cannabis-facility\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the district issued a formal \"accusation\" in April\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> charging Green Sage with violating generator regulations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That accusation led to the hearing board, which met for three days to consider the case, and its subsequent abatement order. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanya Boyce, a longtime East Oakland resident, former city of Oakland planner and executive director of the Environmental Democracy Project, which is suing Green Sage, said this week she's infuriated that the enforcement process has taken so long and produced such a lack of results. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This is total and complete fuckery,\" Boyce said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her hearing board appearance earlier this month, Boyce testified about recently produced city data that show the neighborhoods most likely to be affected by fallout from Green Sage's generators are also those that already suffer Oakland's highest levels of air pollution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says she sees a connection to fallout from another crisis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"This ultra-deference for the environmental criminal is absolutely insulting to Black and brown communities that have been completely devastated by the war on drugs,\" Boyce said. \"I know a lot of street drug dealers. Imagine how different the world would be if they were given the same respect as Green Sage. Imagine if crack dealers went through such an administrative process with the right to appeal before they stopped selling crack.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> acquired its two East Oakland properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro St., a historic live/work building — in 2016 and 2017. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The firm attracted investors with a vision of converting the two 1930-era buildings into one of California's largest cannabis production facilities. But the project has run into a long series of legal disputes and financial and infrastructural problems. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past 4 1/2 years, Green Sage has been sued nearly two dozen times in California, Colorado, Virginia and Nevada. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1_F2HesfIuiH2L0dGGbK_j6L9wm8mI0PgZxqc-XPc0/edit?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those suits \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include complaints filed by investors, a former business partner, contractors, a generator rental firm, cannabis tenants and The Cannery's current and former residents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22122200/residents-letter-to-baaqmd-green-sage-enforcement.pdf\">a letter to the air district\u003c/a> joined by environmental advocates and community supporters, they said they were disillusioned with the district's hearing process and demanded immediate enforcement of its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We placed faith in this system and were extremely patient,\" the joint letter from residents, the \u003ca href=\"https://ceh.org/\">Center for Environmental Health\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpcal.org/\">Environmental Democracy Project\u003c/a> said. \"We’ve spent hundreds of hours on the board’s abatement process because Green Sage’s conduct is so obviously at odds with the district’s regulations. After all that investment of our time, it seems that we were misled into believing that the district would actually shut the generators down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter complained that \"Green Sage has been afforded every opportunity to appeal, delay, and ignore the law without consequence.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, the air district issued a statement calling Green Sage's continued generator use \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"alarming and unacceptable.\" The district said it \"will deploy all our available tools and work with other enforcement agencies to hold Green Sage accountable and shut down these generators, which are a threat to air quality and public health in the surrounding community.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district's hearing board process gives Green Sage 30 days to appeal last week's abatement order. The company would also need to seek a separate court order to delay enforcement of the air district's shutdown decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Sage, which has failed to comply with at least three other city and air district violation notices related to the diesel generators since late last year, did not respond to questions this week about whether it will contest the abatement order. 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He said that could be supplied by a company he's formed, New Grass Power, which would generate electricity using natural gas turbines fueled by methane from dairy waste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We're desperately trying to get off the diesel generators,\" Greer told the hearing board. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We can't afford them. We don't want them. But we have no other alternative.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Greer of Green Sage testifying before air district hearing board via Zoom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-2048x1325.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/greer220712-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Sage Managing Director Ken Greer testifying before the Bay Area Air Quality Management District hearing board on July 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(BAAQMD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence produced during the hearing board's three sessions showed Green Sage began relying on generators as an ongoing source of supplemental power nearly two years ago, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423328/americas-brickworks-v-220111-greer-declaration.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a January 2022 court filing by Greer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> indicated that supplying diesel generators for cannabis operations had become Green Sage's standard operating procedure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Oakland issued notices of violation last December and again in April warning Green Sage that the unpermitted generators must be shut down. The April notice is under appeal, and the generators continued to run. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The air district issued its own notice of violation in February because the generators had been set up and operated without district permits. 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