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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generators have prompted the city of Oakland to issue at least three separate notices of violation over the past year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22073692-green-sage-oakland-nov-220407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A notice sent to Green Sage in early April\u003c/a> warned the company it must halt use of the diesel engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following up on public complaints last September, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a notice of violation against Green Sage in February and is currently seeking an order to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generators continue to run as Green Sage appeals the city order and seeks to delay the air district's enforcement action. The company has said the generators are necessary because electricity demands at its facilities have exceeded PG&E's local power capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alistair Monroe, a resident of one of the Green Sage-owned buildings, The Cannery, said that given the city's failure to get the generators shut down, filing the Proposition 65 notice is \"the only way to put our foot down and say enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel it's important we protect the residents and the community at large,\" Monroe said in an interview. \"There's no governing body from City Hall or from the city that is taking drastic measures to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Environmental Democracy Project Executive Director Tanya Boyce, who worked as a planner and redevelopment analyst for the city of Oakland earlier in her career, also faults what she calls the city's \"complete, total lapse\" in enforcing regulations in the Green Sage case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The records indicate that they have given warnings and then extended warnings and extended warnings and extended warnings when they know that there are life safety situations here,\" Boyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really am concerned as an ex-city employee about the type of behavior and the actual lack of taking the duties of enforcement and regulation seriously,\" she said. \"I know from personal experience that ... East Oakland gets under-regulated based on the fact that they don't think anybody out here is going to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaya Allan Sugerman, who directs public-interest litigation for the Center for Environmental Health, said neighborhoods downwind of Green Sage already are heavily burdened by diesel engine pollution from nearby freeways, industry and other sources. She said Green Sage's contribution to the air quality problem is \"one huge exposure on top of a mountain\" of other hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This industry moving into East Oakland from outside and being allowed to pollute this community without repercussions is environmental racism in action,\" Sugerman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report filed as part of Oakland's 2045 general plan update \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/EJ-Racial-Equity-Baseline_Appendix.pdf\">ranked the neighborhoods adjacent to the Green Sage facilities as among the city's most polluted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101071658/what-we-know-about-uvalde-shooting\">mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas\u003c/a>, has made ripples across the Bay Area and around the country — reigniting concerns about gun safety and violence in schools and delivering a hefty emotional blow to parents, students and educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of the shooting, teacher Peter Wilson was trying to celebrate his fifth graders’ graduation. Wilson, who taught a combined fourth and fifth grade class this year at Sankofa United Elementary School in Oakland, said he felt conflicting emotions as he looked back at the ceremony that took place on the school’s field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can you relish your joy while you’re looking at the tragedy of these families?” asked Wilson, who’s lost several of his own students over the years to gun violence. “They're not supposed to die before you. And I can just imagine how that [school staff in Uvalde] feels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter Wilson, teacher, Sankofa United Elementary School\"]'I teach in Oakland. So there are kids who have been through these types of tragedies. They've lost relatives to gun violence. Neighbors and friends. So they're used to these kinds of things, but it never makes it easy for them. Never.'[/pullquote]California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877552/americas-disease-gun-violence-gun-control-and-where-california-goes-from-here\">has some of the strictest gun laws in the country\u003c/a> — but the state has still seen at least two major shootings this year — one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910536/a-mass-shooting-in-downtown-sacramento\">downtown Sacramento\u003c/a> and another at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914496/man-accused-in-orange-county-church-shooting-faces-murder-charge\">church in Laguna Woods\u003c/a> in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915068/newsom-legislative-leaders-vow-to-strengthen-californias-already-strict-gun-laws\">announced that by next month he plans to sign into law over a dozen bills that would help strengthen gun laws\u003c/a> — especially when it comes to enforcement of ghost guns and assault-style weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taking the cue from Texas and the SB 8 bill that put women’s lives at risk, we’re going to use those core tenets to save people’s lives here in California, as it relates to ‘private right of action,’” Newsom said during the Wednesday news conference. “This state’s leaning in, and I want folks to know if you’re feeling that anxiety, stress and fear, I hope you’ll consider California as an antidote of sorts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, educators and students in cities like Oakland point out that gun violence affects many communities on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I would be doing a disservice to my community, not to mention that … for my students, gun violence is a part of our daily lives, regardless of what we hear and see in the news,” said Erin Ronhovde, a third grade teacher at East Oakland Pride Elementary School. “Because a lot of the things they deal with and experience daily don't show up there and are more a part of their immediate reality and the trauma that they're dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, in particular, has seen an alarming rise in violence during the pandemic — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">recording the biggest jump in murders of any Bay Area city\u003c/a>, according to KQED reporting. The reasons behind that spike in violence aren’t simple — what’s more certain is the ongoing disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities, which have long borne the brunt of crime spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11906253 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GettyImages-1368114541-1-1020x680.jpg']“I teach in Oakland. So there are kids who have been through these types of tragedies,” Wilson said. “They've lost relatives to gun violence. Neighbors and friends. So they're used to these kinds of things, but it never makes it easy for them. Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde said she advocates for her students and that, in light of this week’s mass shooting, it reinforced her role to protect her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that, if push came to shove, I'd be between the gun and my kids,” she said. “And just the fact that I've had to accept that and make peace with it is a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde remembers rallying with her students in 2018, in response to the shooting that year at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655297/thousands-of-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\">thousands of Bay Area students joined their peers nationwide in the March for Our Lives campaign\u003c/a>, calling for gun control measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking at those [protest] signs again today and realized we could make those tomorrow,” she said. “We could make those same signs tomorrow without changing a word. And they'd still be just as applicable to this current situation as they were in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915165\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-800x763.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-1020x972.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-160x153.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodness Nwakudu, who recently graduated from Oakland Technical High School, says she's thinking about youth activism in light of yet another mass shooting this week at a Texas elementary school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Goodness Nwakudu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many young people themselves wonder what their advocacy has resulted in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodness Nwakudu, 17, was in middle school at the time of the 2018 school walkouts. Now this week, she’s just graduated from Oakland Technical High School — and like Peter Wilson with his class of fifth graders, she’s finding it difficult to understand whether she can do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been pretty tough just seeing a lot of issues and shootings, especially just happening over and over and with kids like my age who are either getting killed or the people killing, it makes me feel like, you know, what can I really do to help?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that community building is key — that fostering communication among teachers, students and elected leaders are strong first steps toward creating a culture that promotes prevention over reactionary violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final class to graduate from Mills College in Oakland walked across the stage on Saturday, at the last undergraduate commencement before the 170-year-old independent women's college merges with Boston’s Northeastern University this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who haven't yet graduated are deciding whether or not to stay at the school, which will become Mills College at Northeastern University in July and open its campus to students of all genders for the first time.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"LJ Miranda, Mills College senior\"]'Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, some of those current students who haven't graduated yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Students-sue-Mills-College-saying-it-misled-them-17169370.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, alleging the school misled them about which programs would be available in the coming years, costing them thousands of dollars and delaying their progress toward degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lawsuits are a part of higher education, and we will reckon with this and support our community as best we can,\" Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman told KQED on Saturday when asked about the lawsuit. \"We strongly believe that we’ll be able to serve the most students in the best possible way through the merger with Northeastern University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. Bresler graduated with a master's in management from the business school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Mills is not dead ... Mills did not come this far to only come this far,\" said LJ Miranda, senior student speaker in a commencement address. \"Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College awarded honorary degrees to three women at Saturday's commencement, including an honorary doctorate of humane letters for Lynette Gibson McElhaney, the first Black woman to serve as president of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grieving the loss of our beloved community and the things that are familiar,\" McElhaney told the graduating class. \"You all who are the last graduating class of Mills as we know it, are celebrating with a tinge of grief. And so I just wanted to share with you all some of what I've been learning in this decade of leading while grieving. You'll take your next step. And you will enjoy your next laugh because you will be empowered by hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. 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"content": "\u003cp>Regional air regulators are moving to shut down a set of giant diesel generators that have been used for more than a year and a half to power a major cannabis-growing facility in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21678879/2022-4-20-green-sage-accusation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a complaint issued Wednesday\u003c/a>, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District formally accused a Denver-based firm called Green Sage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908979/a-denver-based-firm-is-using-huge-diesel-generators-to-grow-cannabis-in-east-oakland-now-the-city-is-trying-to-shut-them-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">installing the heavily polluting generators\u003c/a> as a long-term substitute for standard grid power in violation of state and regional regulations.[aside postID=\"news_11908979,arts_13826417,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts of these generators are serious,\" Damian Breen, the district's deputy operations chief, said in an interview. \"East Oakland suffers from more air pollution than other parts of the Bay Area, and diesel particulate matter can have a significant impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as nine of the huge diesel units have operated simultaneously outside the two buildings. Portable diesel generators emit diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint seeks an order from the district's independent hearing board requiring Green Sage and cannabis tenants at its two San Leandro Street properties to shut down the generators until they get permits to operate them. The complaint also makes it clear that permits are available only for temporary generator use — for instance, during short-term emergencies or to provide power during electrical upgrades — not as a long-term replacement for the conventional grid power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen said it could take 30 to 60 days for the hearing board to convene and deliver an abatement order to halt use of the generators, the first of which was installed in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a> bought two large San Leandro Street buildings, known as The Tinnery and The Cannery, in 2016 and 2017, and began leasing space to cannabis operations. The company is owned by Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker with addresses in Denver and San Diego County, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent listed with residences in Los Angeles, Wyoming and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery, a live-work space that has housed artists and artisans for nearly 50 years, have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they're emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power demand from energy-intensive growing operations overtaxed the existing transformers and other electrical infrastructure at the buildings, Green Sage began renting semi-trailer-sized diesel generators as its primary source for tenants' electrical needs. 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Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The formal air district complaint follows a February \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> the agency issued because Green Sage had failed to get permits to install or operate the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has slapped the company with a pair of violation notices for running the generators without permits and for a host of code violations. The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent notice\u003c/a>, sent last month, gave Green Sage until Friday, April 22, to end use of the generators. But as of Thursday, just a day before that deadline, the generators continue to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to a request for comment on the latest violation notice. In answer to the air district's February notice of violation, a Green Sage lawyer wrote the agency a letter saying the company had filed \"application materials\" for the diesel-powered generators at San Leandro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from San Francisco attorney Darrin Gambelin went on to say that Green Sage also was preparing to submit an application to install cleaner-burning turbines that would be powered by gas derived from dairy waste. The turbines would \"immediately reduce emissions and expeditiously install a permanent clean, renewable, net-negative carbon power source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company floated the potentially expensive turbine proposal despite the fact it appears to be in extreme financial straits. Green Sage apparently stopped making payments last August on a $54.5 million dollar loan it had gotten to underwrite construction at the San Leandro Street properties and was placed in default in December. The buildings are currently set to be sold at a May 4 foreclosure auction in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the air district says Green Sage has yet to file a complete application for either the diesel generators or the proposed turbines. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>High school senior and Oakland Youth Advisory Commission co-chair Aniyah Story says her mom convinced her to consider alternatives, something she says a group of community members discussed at a virtual meeting Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like even though money is a big issue, there's well-being, community, our future … it's way bigger than that,” she told KQED Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Oakland Unified School District says it understands that many people in Oakland are upset with the decision to consolidate and it supports means of protest that do not jeopardize the health of those involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and Vanessa Rancaño.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Teachers at Oakland’s Reach Academy were fed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elementary school on the eastern edge of the city has been overwhelmed by positive COVID cases since returning from winter break — the Oakland Unified School District’s dashboard tallies nearly 80 cases there in the first three weeks back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers were desperate to stop more students and coworkers from turning up positive, but while some of their colleagues around the district planned sick-outs, Reach Academy staff hatched a plan to catch cases before kids entered the building.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Megan Bumpus, fifth grade teacher, Reach Academy\"]'We made it so that we literally stayed outside until we were sure that each child in our class tested negative.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided, we're the teachers, we know how this works. Let's just see if our families will do this,” said fifth grade teacher Megan Bumpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her colleagues knew a district testing team would be on campus Tuesday, after the MLK holiday, until midday. But they wanted to ensure kids got swabbed before sitting down in a classroom, or eating breakfast in the cafeteria, where positive students would have a chance to infect others while unmasked. So, without approval from administrators, they designed a staggered arrival schedule. “We said to the principal, ‘This is what we're doing. We are already sending these messages,’” Bumpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11902563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask sits down in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4488-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Bumpus, a fifth grade teacher at Oakland's Reach Academy, goes over a math lesson in a classroom. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Megan Bumpus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teachers alerted parents in advance, and gave those who couldn’t manage it the option to drop kids off early. “We made it so that we literally stayed outside until we were sure that each child in our class tested negative,” she said. She credits the district for sending extra staff to support the effort, though it wasn’t condoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time ever, we literally had — at least according to the rapid tests — only kids and adults in school who had tested negative,” she said. “The peace of mind that we felt on Tuesday was amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Reach Academy’s unsanctioned testing strategy curbs new cases remains to be seen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html\">Transmission rates have generally been low in schools\u003c/a> when mitigation protocols are followed, with most spread taking place in less controlled community contexts. But the action speaks to a broader need for a sense of safety and stability. It came amid a second week of student and staff protests in the district, with some students striking in an effort to force the district to improve safety measures, while teachers at some sites held sick-outs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure has seen some success: The district and teachers union worked out a plan to reinstate paid COVID sick leave, something teachers had been demanding, and it emboldened the Oakland Education Association to flex some muscle in negotiations for a new safety agreement with the district. OEA President Keith Brown now has approval from union leadership to call a strike vote if he deems it necessary, and nearly three-quarters of members told the union they’d support the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD has distributed N95 or KN95 masks for students and staff, something both the union and student organizers are demanding, and is working to provide covered outdoor eating areas at all sites, efforts officials say were underway before the pressure.[aside postID=\"news_11900220,news_11898251,mindshift_58938\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the demand teachers and students say they care most about — increased testing — isn’t getting much traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Testing is the most important demand of the students and the staff and the wider community,” said Sasha Rockwell, who teaches third and fourth grades at Bridges Academy at Melrose in East Oakland, where staff held a sick-out. Rockwell would like to see a “test to stay” policy along the lines of what Reach Academy teachers pulled off. She argues it’s key to avoiding unnecessary learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before coronavirus, a child would come to me with an invisible boo-boo and I'd be like, ‘Let me rub it and it's going to be OK. Get back in the school,’ you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she said, everyday ailments trigger pandemic precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A child comes to me with a headache, well, that's a symptom of COVID, so they need to go to the isolation tent. A child comes to me with a stomachache, same,” she said. “We don't have a system in place to ensure that kids can stay in school for the maximum amount possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student organizers are advocating for twice-weekly rapid and PCR tests at all schools; the teachers union is pushing for weekly testing at all sites. But the district has not announced any plans to further ramp up testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously there are capacity issues at work, but we are doing everything we can to ensure the testing is available at all times,” district spokesperson John Sasaki said. “We are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">following the public health experts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at both the county, state and federal level and feel that we are moving in the right direction with regard to testing and everything else.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the issue of limited resources, it’s not clear more aggressive testing would meaningfully improve safety. UCSF professor and infectious disease specialist Peter Chin-Hong said layering strategies is the best approach, and vaccination remains the most important mitigation tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, there is no magic bullet,” he said. “Whether you test once a week, twice a week, I'm not sure if you get a bigger bang for the buck when you add the other components.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11902556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a purple mask and t-shirt holds a piece of paper rolled up in her hand with others in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students march to call for COVID-safe and racially just schools in Hayward on Jan. 21, 2022. The group said that racial justice should be a part of the conversation about a safe return to school with COVID. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When there was less of the virus circulating in the community, it made more sense to think of testing as a way to stamp out infection, he said. “In the age of omicron, we've kind of abandoned virus elimination,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some local public health experts are \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-post-omicron-pivot-for-california-public-schools\">petitioning state officials\u003c/a> to accept that COVID is endemic and “shift our public dialogue toward defining a path for removing all remaining COVID-19 restrictions in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does testing look like in OUSD?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified runs 10 testing hubs at schools around the city. Four of the 10 are open on any given day, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and have been serving over 300 people a day during the surge, according to Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For MetWest High School student Ximena Santana, who helped organize the student strike and petition calling for more testing, off-site testing isn’t enough. “Some people don’t have the time to go to a place and do it,” she said. “We need the weekly testing at schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges Academy teacher Rockwell points out that the hubs are largely open during school hours. “So this means that all OUSD students, teachers and staff do not have access to the testing unless they are at that school,” she said. “And working families who often work late into the evening do not have access to that testing.” For weekend and after-school testing, the district refers families to the \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/testing.page?#Community\">county’s many free testing sites\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also runs a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/21454\">pilot pool testing program\u003c/a> at 39 elementary schools. Students at these sites are tested at least once a week. Swabs are collected for entire classes and tested together in a single vial. If the pooled PCR test comes up positive, every student in the positive pool is then rapid-tested. Pooled testing can be cost-effective and reduces the burden on labs, according to Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bridges Academy and Reach Academy are part of the program, and, while teachers Rockwell and Bumpus are appreciative, they say implementation doesn't always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pool testing has been a positive change for us, but has it been consistent? Absolutely not,” Rockwell said. “Today was a perfect example. My principal did not get a message at all of why the pool testers did not come today. So here we are, left with nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testing is optional and teachers say tracking down consent forms for all students can be tricky, leaving some classes with several students untested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say they also provide on-site rapid testing at schools with classes in modified quarantine. Theoretically, the more classes are affected, the more testing resources are dispatched. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx\">Modified quarantine\u003c/a> applies to unvaccinated students who’ve been in close contact with someone who tests positive. To stay in school, they must get tested regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some middle and high school administrators and teachers describe weekly testing programs at their sites; others say they have testers on campus biweekly. Frick United Academy of Language teacher Ella Every-Wortman said her site is small enough to give all students a chance to swab when testers come every other week. “I know that is not the case at other sites,” she wrote in a text. “Another frequent issue is that they run out of tests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11902519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg\" alt='Nine people are standing outside with two people wearing purple shirts with their backs turned and facing a sign being held that reads \"safety and racial justice for Oakland schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the Alameda County Office of Education during a protest calling for COVID-safe and racially just schools in Hayward on Jan. 21, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for getting themselves tested on campus, some teachers say finding coverage to leave class during the narrow testing window in the middle of a severe staffing shortage is nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland Technical High School, students say they have access to voluntary on-site testing once a week on Thursdays. “The lines get extremely long and they're not really socially distanced. It's just kind of a cluster and the tests take forever,” said 10th grader Scarlett Welpton. “It's just not set up well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welpton said she waited in line about an hour last week, and though the test only took a few seconds, it took almost another hour to get results, during which she wasn’t allowed to return to class. “Which means we're missing a lot of school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Tech 10th grader Jasmina Garfagnoli has opted not to get tested at school. Instead, she uses the nearby testing hub at Oakland International High School, where she said lines are shorter, or she takes at-home tests. “It's so hard to get tested at school and to wait in line for an hour,” she said. “I think it's a very good thing that we have testing, but I just think that it needs to be revised a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also distributed 41,000 at-home rapid tests for students and staff to use over winter break, but some students say they never saw them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, most schools have gone through their supplies of rapid tests to use as needed. OUSD began placing orders for more rapid tests with the California Department of Public Health, Abbott and Office Depot beginning last fall, Sasaki said in an email, “but they were delayed because of the large supply set aside for the federal program to send at-home tests to all households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s existing supply of at-home tests is being reserved for preschools, “where students are entirely unvaccinated and don't have easy access to hubs because of age limits,” according to Sasaki, and for student athletes, who are required to test regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the student leaders behind the safety petition and strike held a virtual forum. For more than an hour, students and staff around the district shared stories of sick family members, empty classrooms, and anxiety as schoolmates tested positive. They expressed solidarity with striking students and thanked them for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MetWest High School student Ayleen Serrano, who helped organize the boycott, told students to keep pressuring the district. “Not all the demands have been met. Some schools still do not have access to PCR or rapid testing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encouraged her peers to get involved in organizing and plans to hold another Zoom forum Thursday, Jan. 27. She said students will keep at the strike until there are better testing options at all schools.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the demand teachers and students say they care most about — increased testing — isn’t getting much traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Testing is the most important demand of the students and the staff and the wider community,” said Sasha Rockwell, who teaches third and fourth grades at Bridges Academy at Melrose in East Oakland, where staff held a sick-out. Rockwell would like to see a “test to stay” policy along the lines of what Reach Academy teachers pulled off. She argues it’s key to avoiding unnecessary learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before coronavirus, a child would come to me with an invisible boo-boo and I'd be like, ‘Let me rub it and it's going to be OK. Get back in the school,’ you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she said, everyday ailments trigger pandemic precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A child comes to me with a headache, well, that's a symptom of COVID, so they need to go to the isolation tent. A child comes to me with a stomachache, same,” she said. “We don't have a system in place to ensure that kids can stay in school for the maximum amount possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student organizers are advocating for twice-weekly rapid and PCR tests at all schools; the teachers union is pushing for weekly testing at all sites. But the district has not announced any plans to further ramp up testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously there are capacity issues at work, but we are doing everything we can to ensure the testing is available at all times,” district spokesperson John Sasaki said. “We are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">following the public health experts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at both the county, state and federal level and feel that we are moving in the right direction with regard to testing and everything else.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the issue of limited resources, it’s not clear more aggressive testing would meaningfully improve safety. UCSF professor and infectious disease specialist Peter Chin-Hong said layering strategies is the best approach, and vaccination remains the most important mitigation tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, there is no magic bullet,” he said. “Whether you test once a week, twice a week, I'm not sure if you get a bigger bang for the buck when you add the other components.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11902556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a purple mask and t-shirt holds a piece of paper rolled up in her hand with others in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/004_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students march to call for COVID-safe and racially just schools in Hayward on Jan. 21, 2022. The group said that racial justice should be a part of the conversation about a safe return to school with COVID. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When there was less of the virus circulating in the community, it made more sense to think of testing as a way to stamp out infection, he said. “In the age of omicron, we've kind of abandoned virus elimination,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some local public health experts are \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-post-omicron-pivot-for-california-public-schools\">petitioning state officials\u003c/a> to accept that COVID is endemic and “shift our public dialogue toward defining a path for removing all remaining COVID-19 restrictions in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does testing look like in OUSD?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified runs 10 testing hubs at schools around the city. Four of the 10 are open on any given day, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and have been serving over 300 people a day during the surge, according to Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For MetWest High School student Ximena Santana, who helped organize the student strike and petition calling for more testing, off-site testing isn’t enough. “Some people don’t have the time to go to a place and do it,” she said. “We need the weekly testing at schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges Academy teacher Rockwell points out that the hubs are largely open during school hours. “So this means that all OUSD students, teachers and staff do not have access to the testing unless they are at that school,” she said. “And working families who often work late into the evening do not have access to that testing.” For weekend and after-school testing, the district refers families to the \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/testing.page?#Community\">county’s many free testing sites\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also runs a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/21454\">pilot pool testing program\u003c/a> at 39 elementary schools. Students at these sites are tested at least once a week. Swabs are collected for entire classes and tested together in a single vial. If the pooled PCR test comes up positive, every student in the positive pool is then rapid-tested. Pooled testing can be cost-effective and reduces the burden on labs, according to Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bridges Academy and Reach Academy are part of the program, and, while teachers Rockwell and Bumpus are appreciative, they say implementation doesn't always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pool testing has been a positive change for us, but has it been consistent? Absolutely not,” Rockwell said. “Today was a perfect example. My principal did not get a message at all of why the pool testers did not come today. So here we are, left with nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testing is optional and teachers say tracking down consent forms for all students can be tricky, leaving some classes with several students untested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say they also provide on-site rapid testing at schools with classes in modified quarantine. Theoretically, the more classes are affected, the more testing resources are dispatched. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx\">Modified quarantine\u003c/a> applies to unvaccinated students who’ve been in close contact with someone who tests positive. To stay in school, they must get tested regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some middle and high school administrators and teachers describe weekly testing programs at their sites; others say they have testers on campus biweekly. Frick United Academy of Language teacher Ella Every-Wortman said her site is small enough to give all students a chance to swab when testers come every other week. “I know that is not the case at other sites,” she wrote in a text. “Another frequent issue is that they run out of tests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11902519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg\" alt='Nine people are standing outside with two people wearing purple shirts with their backs turned and facing a sign being held that reads \"safety and racial justice for Oakland schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/001_Hayward_OUSDCarCaravan_01212022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the Alameda County Office of Education during a protest calling for COVID-safe and racially just schools in Hayward on Jan. 21, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for getting themselves tested on campus, some teachers say finding coverage to leave class during the narrow testing window in the middle of a severe staffing shortage is nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland Technical High School, students say they have access to voluntary on-site testing once a week on Thursdays. “The lines get extremely long and they're not really socially distanced. It's just kind of a cluster and the tests take forever,” said 10th grader Scarlett Welpton. “It's just not set up well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welpton said she waited in line about an hour last week, and though the test only took a few seconds, it took almost another hour to get results, during which she wasn’t allowed to return to class. “Which means we're missing a lot of school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Tech 10th grader Jasmina Garfagnoli has opted not to get tested at school. Instead, she uses the nearby testing hub at Oakland International High School, where she said lines are shorter, or she takes at-home tests. “It's so hard to get tested at school and to wait in line for an hour,” she said. “I think it's a very good thing that we have testing, but I just think that it needs to be revised a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also distributed 41,000 at-home rapid tests for students and staff to use over winter break, but some students say they never saw them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, most schools have gone through their supplies of rapid tests to use as needed. OUSD began placing orders for more rapid tests with the California Department of Public Health, Abbott and Office Depot beginning last fall, Sasaki said in an email, “but they were delayed because of the large supply set aside for the federal program to send at-home tests to all households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s existing supply of at-home tests is being reserved for preschools, “where students are entirely unvaccinated and don't have easy access to hubs because of age limits,” according to Sasaki, and for student athletes, who are required to test regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the student leaders behind the safety petition and strike held a virtual forum. For more than an hour, students and staff around the district shared stories of sick family members, empty classrooms, and anxiety as schoolmates tested positive. They expressed solidarity with striking students and thanked them for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MetWest High School student Ayleen Serrano, who helped organize the boycott, told students to keep pressuring the district. “Not all the demands have been met. Some schools still do not have access to PCR or rapid testing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encouraged her peers to get involved in organizing and plans to hold another Zoom forum Thursday, Jan. 27. She said students will keep at the strike until there are better testing options at all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11898490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf holds a sign that reads, \"Defund the Police\" with the \"de\" crossed out and replaced with \"re.\" We see police tape, shell casings, a flower memorial and sad residents in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>Oakland's \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreoaklandgunviolence\">rise in gun violence prompted Mayor Libby Schaaf last week to ask the city council to reverse scheduled funding cuts\u003c/a> and hire more police officers — a request it approved Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is not the only city facing a jump in homicides: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">murder rate surged across the country last year\u003c/a> amid the pandemic, and is on track this year to be at least as bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a tough time to reduce the number of police on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, adding more police shouldn't be the only approach to preventing violence in our communities, which is why we also need robust funding for violence prevention, job training and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely in a region as wealthy as the Bay Area, we shouldn't have to choose between hiring good cops and investing in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#watch\">How to help Shamara Young's family\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"This one just came today. I don't know who's sending them or if someone's picking them from their yard,\" says Nina Hatcher of the fresh flowers that keep showing up along the fence line outside her East Oakland home in the Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, those look like from a florist. Lovely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flowers are in memory of her 15-year-old granddaughter, Shamara, who was murdered in October not far from here. For a family grasping for answers and solace, Hatcher says, the gesture from neighbors, friends or strangers helps a little. \"They keep appearing,\" she says with a bittersweet smile, \"which is really, you know, blessings. Shows just how, you know, loved Shamara was,\" Hatcher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family and friends all say Shamara Young had a warm, infectious smile and a relentlessly positive spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She always smiled, you know, that smile light up my world. I always smile with her even though I was going through stuff,\" says Shamara's classmate and best friend, Daisha Relerford. \"She made my day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>She was working hard to get better grades in hopes of playing basketball and going to college\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Daisha says Shamara liked basketball, acting, dancing and rap. They enjoyed hanging out and would crank out TikTok posts. In keeping with the medium, the videos were at times goofy, raunchy, silly and carefree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She always be like, 'Let's make a TikTok, best friend.' And I'm like, 'OK!' So, you know, that was her thing,\" Relerford says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young's life was cut down as she was working hard to boost her grades at Oakland's Fremont High in hopes of playing basketball and going on to college.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chalinda Hatcher, mother of Shamara Young\"]'She was just a teenager trying to graduate and live her life.'[/pullquote]\"I never seen her work hard like that before to get those grades,\" her friend says, adding she wanted \"to make her mom proud, you know, her grandma and her family proud.\" She had a boyfriend she adored, Relerford says, and wanted to do more acting and dance. \"She had a whole future bright for herself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was only 15, so she was just hitting the mark of falling into that teenage life,\" her mother, Chalinda Hatcher, says with a look of resignation and sadness. Hatcher is sitting on a bench in the backyard of her East Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamara liked being happy, \"bringing your spirits up,\" her mom says. \"If she thought you was sad, she would give you a hug because she didn't like sadness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"watch\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrate-shamaras-beautiful-life\">The family has a GoFundMe page in Shamara's honor and to help defray funeral and other costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2020 saw the largest one-year increase in murders since the U.S. started keeping nationwide records\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The surge in killings is playing out across much of the country. 2020 saw a massive, almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040904770/fbi-data-murder-increase-2020\">30% spike in homicides nationally\u003c/a>. While still below historic highs set in the early 1990s, it was the largest one-year increase in murders since the U.S. started keeping nationwide records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year in many cities, the uptick in killings has continued to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">match or even surpass last year's deadly surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is among the hardest hit. The rise in gun violence and homicides here has left many residents angry, fearful and calling on city leaders and law enforcement to do more. Oakland is on track to finish 2021 with its deadliest year in more than a decade. The city of just over 425,000 is fast closing in on 130 homicides so far — already more than last year's 109, and that itself was a 40% jump from 2019's numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's mayor is now calling to reverse planned cuts to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 539px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11898383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A headshot of a teenage girl.\" width=\"539\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg 539w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends say Shamara Young had a warm, infectious smile and a relentlessly positive spirit. She enjoyed basketball, acting, dancing and rap. The 15-year-old was shot and killed in October in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chalinda Hatcher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent murders include a 28-year-old man gunned down near Lake Merritt \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-lake-merritt-shooting-600-grand-avenue-at-eric-davis/11282347/\">while trying to stop a car break-in\u003c/a>; a security guard and former cop \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/tv-news-security-guard-dies-after-shot-during-attempted-robbery-in-oakland\">fatally shot during a robbery\u003c/a> while protecting a KRON4 reporter on assignment; and a toddler just shy of his second birthday \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/08/jasper-will-never-wake-up-again-family-community-mourns-toddler-killed-in-oakland-freeway-shooting/\">shot and killed by a stray bullet\u003c/a> as he slept in his car seat as his family drove on Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shamara, a teenager shot driving home after getting her hair braided. It'd been a long day for Shamara. She'd gone to school, had a dinner break and then went to get her hair elaborately braided in singles before her sweet 16 birthday. \"Something she had been wanting for the past couple of months, but we had been just having her do her natural stuff,\" her mother says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was happy to finally get her hair done, her mom says, and her uncle picked her up to take her home. The uncle, Joshua Hatcher, was driving down International Boulevard when two men in a car raced up, driving erratically, and cut them off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncle went around them and made their way to Bancroft Avenue to try to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were less than a dozen blocks from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no exchange of words, no exchange of middle fingers, her uncle says, but the strangers in the car gave chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just followed him down Bancroft and got back in front of them and as he tried to get back in front of them, they shot into his car,\" Chalinda Hatcher says. \"And that's when they struck Shamara.\" A bullet hit Shamara in the head. Shocked and panicked, her uncle tried to hold her up while racing to the nearest hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamara Young was Oakland's 109th homicide of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still trying to figure out, why would you shoot into a random car? And for what? For what?\" Chalinda Hatcher says. \"And the innocence couldn't get no worse. She wasn't affiliated with gangs. She didn't 'live by the gun' or none of that kind of stuff. She was just a teenager trying to graduate and live her life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm angry, yeah, sad. And upset,\" grandmother Nina Hatcher says. But she adds that Shamara wouldn't want her to stew in bitterness. \"You know, anger is not something I want to carry around,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalinda Hatcher says she hasn't heard from the Oakland detective assigned to her daughter's case or anyone in the homicide unit since right after the killing. Back then the department asked for the public's help in solving Shamara's murder. \"They haven't contacted me about anything,\" she says, \"I haven't heard any updates or anything on the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland PD says it has \"cleared\" 44% of homicides this year. But that includes killings from other years solved in 2021. Like the majority of killings here, Shamara's death remains unsolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom finds that painful and ironic because Shamara was kind of obsessed with TV crime shows. She would stay up late watching them, Hatcher says, and muse about wanting to become a forensic technician to help cops crack cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, the girl loved solving crime shows. All the girl wanted to do was become one of those people who solve murders and stuff like that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime is not a new challenge for Oakland. But as in many other American cities, gun violence and death have escalated here during the pandemic. The rising gun violence comes as city leaders wrestle with competing calls for police to do more and from activists who want officials to make good on pledges of wide-ranging police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence recently prompted Oakland's Mayor Libby Schaaf \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-crime-police-violence-homicide-cce4672e4de0c205a703614ee101336d\">to reverse plans to divert funding from police to social services\u003c/a>. While saying she still supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/997542990/oakland-becomes-latest-city-looking-to-take-police-out-of-nonviolent-911-calls\">planned efforts to remove police from some nonviolent 911 calls\u003c/a> and a violence intervention \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-ceasefire-strategy\">program called Ceasefire, \u003c/a> Schaaf said she's asking the city council to reverse funding cuts scheduled to take effect next year and for the city to move to hire more police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing progressive about unbridled gun violence,\" Schaaf said. \"This is what Oaklanders want: a comprehensive and effective approach to safety. And that includes adequate police staffing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City leaders urged to do more to stem wave of gun violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong recently implored local leaders to do more to help stem the wave of gun violence he called \"unacceptable.\"[aside postID=\"news_11892026,mindshift_58439\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\"I'm asking council members to step up,\" Armstrong said. \"Have a conversation about the loss of life in this city beyond the politics of whether you support the police or not. There is a clear problem in this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police staffing levels have now fallen below a 2014 voter-approved measure that requires the department to have at least 678 sworn officers on staff to access funding from a parcel tax. About 70 officers have left over the last year including via retirements and resignations. \"Although we've seen several people leave the Oakland Police Department, there are 676 officers that come here every day to make this city safe,\" chief Armstrong said, adding, \"This is a challenging moment for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some social justice police reform activists blasted the mayor's call for more policing as a betrayal, underscoring how fraught the changes may be politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders took to the streets by the thousands in 2020 in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd \"to demand the City of Oakland reinvest our tax dollars into programs that will actually keep us safe, not overpolice Black and Brown communities,\" said Cat Brooks, a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the additional $5.8 million the mayor wants to spend on policing should instead be invested in violence prevention, mental health services, jobs programs and affordable housing. \"We cannot throw more good money after failed policy solutions,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who is running for mayor, says his East Oakland constituents are tired of the city's petty political infighting, posturing and PR messaging fights. \"None of that matters to my residents on the ground when they are having bullets fly into their homes, when they are needing to duck for cover because of gun violence happening in the streets or when they hear about some of these, you know, truly tragic incidents,\" Taylor says. \"They want to be able to walk outside of their front door, have their spouses and their kids be safe in front of their homes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While arguing that the city is not going to arrest its way out of the crisis, Taylor is backing efforts to hire more police officers. He says the defund movement mistakenly thinks systemic reform of police is a zero-sum game, \"that you have to take away from police in order to fund prevention and the other resources that are necessary. I don't believe that that's true. We have to be able to fund both,\" Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland joins other liberal cities backtracking on proposed police budget cuts and resource reallocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder of George Floyd helped spark a nationwide movement to shift, or at least discuss shifting, some funding toward new social service interventions and away from police budgets. Efforts to add \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">non-police responses to some calls for service\u003c/a> — including social workers, specially trained paramedics and mental health experts — gained traction in several cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those cuts to policing — real and proposed — now face a serious backlash amid the pandemic-era spike in violent crime, mounting public and political pressure and police staffing shortages as more officers retire or leave the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2021/04/20/de-blasio-reverses-course-pledges-funding-for-new-nypd-precinct-1376388\">including New York City\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>Los Angeles, Baltimore, Seattle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1051617581\">Minneapolis\u003c/a> and Portland, Oregon, all have moved to partially restore funding, or ended up making much smaller cuts than city councils had promised in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in June 2020, the Portland City Council and the mayor cut millions from the police budget. Earlier this month, the council unanimously voted to boost the police budget by an extra $5.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059391712/behind-the-loud-pushback-against-progressive-district-attorneys-across-the-count\">facing a massive backlash and a recall vote\u003c/a> next June following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard\">a rise in homicides, assaults, larceny theft and arson\u003c/a>. Critics, including several of his former employees, allege Boudin reflexively sides with criminal defendants and is insensitive to victims. Boudin strongly denies that, calling the recall effort a politically motivated attack on racial justice reforms aimed at rolling back mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Shamara's mother strongly supports the call for additional police, but with caveats. More officers should come from and live in the city, she says, and they should improve screening and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not think we need to take cops off the streets, because these streets are absolutely nuts,\" Hatcher says. \"But it needs to be more of the right policing. The wrong police out here can make it worse. So we need the right ones getting these guns off the streets, getting these bad people off the streets. Period.\" As Oakland's death toll continues to mount, Hatcher says the city and the wider community have to do more. Add resources, she says, and to citizens, take to the streets to demand action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where's the anger? Where's the community watch? Where is the justice? There isn't any in her own community,\" she says, her voice trembling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the people who shot her daughter, Hatcher says, \"Turn yourself in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knows that's highly unlikely. So her real plea is for someone who knows something, who saw something, to speak up to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>Give a little tip. It's anonymous. These people cannot be trusted on the streets. [They] shot a 15-year-old innocent child. And they are not going to stop until the community steps up,\" she says, adding \"Shamara loved Oakland, but her city is not stepping up for her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, \"needs to do a lot better\" for Shamara and the nearly 130 others who've been murdered so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Her+daughter+was+killed+and+now+this+mom+is+calling+on+Oakland+to+step+up+and+help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I never seen her work hard like that before to get those grades,\" her friend says, adding she wanted \"to make her mom proud, you know, her grandma and her family proud.\" She had a boyfriend she adored, Relerford says, and wanted to do more acting and dance. \"She had a whole future bright for herself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was only 15, so she was just hitting the mark of falling into that teenage life,\" her mother, Chalinda Hatcher, says with a look of resignation and sadness. Hatcher is sitting on a bench in the backyard of her East Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamara liked being happy, \"bringing your spirits up,\" her mom says. \"If she thought you was sad, she would give you a hug because she didn't like sadness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"watch\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrate-shamaras-beautiful-life\">The family has a GoFundMe page in Shamara's honor and to help defray funeral and other costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2020 saw the largest one-year increase in murders since the U.S. started keeping nationwide records\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The surge in killings is playing out across much of the country. 2020 saw a massive, almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040904770/fbi-data-murder-increase-2020\">30% spike in homicides nationally\u003c/a>. While still below historic highs set in the early 1990s, it was the largest one-year increase in murders since the U.S. started keeping nationwide records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year in many cities, the uptick in killings has continued to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">match or even surpass last year's deadly surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is among the hardest hit. The rise in gun violence and homicides here has left many residents angry, fearful and calling on city leaders and law enforcement to do more. Oakland is on track to finish 2021 with its deadliest year in more than a decade. The city of just over 425,000 is fast closing in on 130 homicides so far — already more than last year's 109, and that itself was a 40% jump from 2019's numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's mayor is now calling to reverse planned cuts to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 539px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11898383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A headshot of a teenage girl.\" width=\"539\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1.jpg 539w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/img_9917_custom-33a61b8fc18666b902c89f0523e3ec0b1b25491f-s1600-c85-1-1-1-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends say Shamara Young had a warm, infectious smile and a relentlessly positive spirit. She enjoyed basketball, acting, dancing and rap. The 15-year-old was shot and killed in October in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chalinda Hatcher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent murders include a 28-year-old man gunned down near Lake Merritt \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-lake-merritt-shooting-600-grand-avenue-at-eric-davis/11282347/\">while trying to stop a car break-in\u003c/a>; a security guard and former cop \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/tv-news-security-guard-dies-after-shot-during-attempted-robbery-in-oakland\">fatally shot during a robbery\u003c/a> while protecting a KRON4 reporter on assignment; and a toddler just shy of his second birthday \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/08/jasper-will-never-wake-up-again-family-community-mourns-toddler-killed-in-oakland-freeway-shooting/\">shot and killed by a stray bullet\u003c/a> as he slept in his car seat as his family drove on Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shamara, a teenager shot driving home after getting her hair braided. It'd been a long day for Shamara. She'd gone to school, had a dinner break and then went to get her hair elaborately braided in singles before her sweet 16 birthday. \"Something she had been wanting for the past couple of months, but we had been just having her do her natural stuff,\" her mother says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was happy to finally get her hair done, her mom says, and her uncle picked her up to take her home. The uncle, Joshua Hatcher, was driving down International Boulevard when two men in a car raced up, driving erratically, and cut them off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncle went around them and made their way to Bancroft Avenue to try to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were less than a dozen blocks from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no exchange of words, no exchange of middle fingers, her uncle says, but the strangers in the car gave chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just followed him down Bancroft and got back in front of them and as he tried to get back in front of them, they shot into his car,\" Chalinda Hatcher says. \"And that's when they struck Shamara.\" A bullet hit Shamara in the head. Shocked and panicked, her uncle tried to hold her up while racing to the nearest hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamara Young was Oakland's 109th homicide of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still trying to figure out, why would you shoot into a random car? And for what? For what?\" Chalinda Hatcher says. \"And the innocence couldn't get no worse. She wasn't affiliated with gangs. She didn't 'live by the gun' or none of that kind of stuff. She was just a teenager trying to graduate and live her life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm angry, yeah, sad. And upset,\" grandmother Nina Hatcher says. But she adds that Shamara wouldn't want her to stew in bitterness. \"You know, anger is not something I want to carry around,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalinda Hatcher says she hasn't heard from the Oakland detective assigned to her daughter's case or anyone in the homicide unit since right after the killing. Back then the department asked for the public's help in solving Shamara's murder. \"They haven't contacted me about anything,\" she says, \"I haven't heard any updates or anything on the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland PD says it has \"cleared\" 44% of homicides this year. But that includes killings from other years solved in 2021. Like the majority of killings here, Shamara's death remains unsolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom finds that painful and ironic because Shamara was kind of obsessed with TV crime shows. She would stay up late watching them, Hatcher says, and muse about wanting to become a forensic technician to help cops crack cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, the girl loved solving crime shows. All the girl wanted to do was become one of those people who solve murders and stuff like that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime is not a new challenge for Oakland. But as in many other American cities, gun violence and death have escalated here during the pandemic. The rising gun violence comes as city leaders wrestle with competing calls for police to do more and from activists who want officials to make good on pledges of wide-ranging police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence recently prompted Oakland's Mayor Libby Schaaf \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-crime-police-violence-homicide-cce4672e4de0c205a703614ee101336d\">to reverse plans to divert funding from police to social services\u003c/a>. While saying she still supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/997542990/oakland-becomes-latest-city-looking-to-take-police-out-of-nonviolent-911-calls\">planned efforts to remove police from some nonviolent 911 calls\u003c/a> and a violence intervention \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-ceasefire-strategy\">program called Ceasefire, \u003c/a> Schaaf said she's asking the city council to reverse funding cuts scheduled to take effect next year and for the city to move to hire more police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing progressive about unbridled gun violence,\" Schaaf said. \"This is what Oaklanders want: a comprehensive and effective approach to safety. And that includes adequate police staffing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City leaders urged to do more to stem wave of gun violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong recently implored local leaders to do more to help stem the wave of gun violence he called \"unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I'm asking council members to step up,\" Armstrong said. \"Have a conversation about the loss of life in this city beyond the politics of whether you support the police or not. There is a clear problem in this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police staffing levels have now fallen below a 2014 voter-approved measure that requires the department to have at least 678 sworn officers on staff to access funding from a parcel tax. About 70 officers have left over the last year including via retirements and resignations. \"Although we've seen several people leave the Oakland Police Department, there are 676 officers that come here every day to make this city safe,\" chief Armstrong said, adding, \"This is a challenging moment for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some social justice police reform activists blasted the mayor's call for more policing as a betrayal, underscoring how fraught the changes may be politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders took to the streets by the thousands in 2020 in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd \"to demand the City of Oakland reinvest our tax dollars into programs that will actually keep us safe, not overpolice Black and Brown communities,\" said Cat Brooks, a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the additional $5.8 million the mayor wants to spend on policing should instead be invested in violence prevention, mental health services, jobs programs and affordable housing. \"We cannot throw more good money after failed policy solutions,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who is running for mayor, says his East Oakland constituents are tired of the city's petty political infighting, posturing and PR messaging fights. \"None of that matters to my residents on the ground when they are having bullets fly into their homes, when they are needing to duck for cover because of gun violence happening in the streets or when they hear about some of these, you know, truly tragic incidents,\" Taylor says. \"They want to be able to walk outside of their front door, have their spouses and their kids be safe in front of their homes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While arguing that the city is not going to arrest its way out of the crisis, Taylor is backing efforts to hire more police officers. He says the defund movement mistakenly thinks systemic reform of police is a zero-sum game, \"that you have to take away from police in order to fund prevention and the other resources that are necessary. I don't believe that that's true. We have to be able to fund both,\" Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland joins other liberal cities backtracking on proposed police budget cuts and resource reallocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder of George Floyd helped spark a nationwide movement to shift, or at least discuss shifting, some funding toward new social service interventions and away from police budgets. Efforts to add \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">non-police responses to some calls for service\u003c/a> — including social workers, specially trained paramedics and mental health experts — gained traction in several cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those cuts to policing — real and proposed — now face a serious backlash amid the pandemic-era spike in violent crime, mounting public and political pressure and police staffing shortages as more officers retire or leave the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2021/04/20/de-blasio-reverses-course-pledges-funding-for-new-nypd-precinct-1376388\">including New York City\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>Los Angeles, Baltimore, Seattle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1051617581\">Minneapolis\u003c/a> and Portland, Oregon, all have moved to partially restore funding, or ended up making much smaller cuts than city councils had promised in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in June 2020, the Portland City Council and the mayor cut millions from the police budget. Earlier this month, the council unanimously voted to boost the police budget by an extra $5.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059391712/behind-the-loud-pushback-against-progressive-district-attorneys-across-the-count\">facing a massive backlash and a recall vote\u003c/a> next June following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard\">a rise in homicides, assaults, larceny theft and arson\u003c/a>. Critics, including several of his former employees, allege Boudin reflexively sides with criminal defendants and is insensitive to victims. Boudin strongly denies that, calling the recall effort a politically motivated attack on racial justice reforms aimed at rolling back mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Shamara's mother strongly supports the call for additional police, but with caveats. More officers should come from and live in the city, she says, and they should improve screening and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not think we need to take cops off the streets, because these streets are absolutely nuts,\" Hatcher says. \"But it needs to be more of the right policing. The wrong police out here can make it worse. So we need the right ones getting these guns off the streets, getting these bad people off the streets. Period.\" As Oakland's death toll continues to mount, Hatcher says the city and the wider community have to do more. Add resources, she says, and to citizens, take to the streets to demand action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where's the anger? Where's the community watch? Where is the justice? There isn't any in her own community,\" she says, her voice trembling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the people who shot her daughter, Hatcher says, \"Turn yourself in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knows that's highly unlikely. So her real plea is for someone who knows something, who saw something, to speak up to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>Give a little tip. It's anonymous. These people cannot be trusted on the streets. [They] shot a 15-year-old innocent child. And they are not going to stop until the community steps up,\" she says, adding \"Shamara loved Oakland, but her city is not stepping up for her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, \"needs to do a lot better\" for Shamara and the nearly 130 others who've been murdered so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Her+daughter+was+killed+and+now+this+mom+is+calling+on+Oakland+to+step+up+and+help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new complex of tiny homes near Lake Merritt in Oakland opened its doors this week to a small group of unhoused residents, part of the city's effort to address its ongoing homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven people who moved into Lakeview Village, at 2nd Avenue and E 12th Street, on Wednesday are the first of about 65 residents the site will soon accommodate on a temporary basis, with additional small groups expected to move in over the coming weeks. Another set of pallet shelters on the same site, but separately managed, will temporarily house an additional 16 people.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nikki Fortunato Bas, Oakland City Council president\"]'We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors.'[/pullquote]The stark, white-walled cabins are arranged in neat rows on a small plot of city-owned land that will likely soon be developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A waiting list has already formed, with unhoused residents in the immediate vicinity — including in the encampment that abuts the site — offered first priority, according to city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the tiny cabins is equipped with electric heat, a locking door, smoke and carbon monoxide monitors, a fire extinguisher and some storage space. The complex also provides drinking water, showers and onsite security to residents. It will also offer three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upgraded tiny home shelters ... are critical to addressing homelessness in Oakland, especially with the rains upon us and winter approaching,\" Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said earlier this month, during a media tour of the complex, which is located on the edge of her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent encampment with miscellaneous items all over the ground. In the far background behind a row of trees is Oakland's skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment bordering Lakeview Village near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas called the village a \"supportive shelter project\" because residents will be offered help with a range of services, including health, employment, public benefits, criminal record clearance, housing applications and credit repair. They also won't have strict move-out deadlines, and can bring in pets and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors,\" Bas added.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]With more than 4,000 unhoused people currently living in Oakland, and nowhere near enough permanent supportive housing options to accommodate the vast majority of them, the city is increasingly turning to complexes of tiny homes as a means to provide more immediate shelter and services — albeit on a temporary basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike permanent housing, which often takes years to approve and build, and can be prohibitively expensive, temporary tiny home villages can be erected within weeks, at less than $8,000 per cabin — and easily relocated if the vacant land they sit on is eventually developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland spent roughly $2.4 million to prepare and build the sites at Lakeview Village, as well as a nearby site at 3rd and Peralta streets that is expected to soon accommodate 40 additional people, Bas's office said. The city will pay the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, an Oakland nonprofit, $1.3 million a year — mostly from federal emergency pandemic funds — to operate the Lake Merritt site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Vann, who lives close to the new site and helped start Oakland's Homeless Advocacy Working Group several years ago, called the new complex \"critical to improving the dignity, security, and living conditions of our unsheltered neighbors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside a tiny cabin. In the photo there is a mattress and a shelf with three levels holding a white plastic bag, a plate, bowl and fire extinguisher. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of one of the Lakeview Village tiny cabins. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vann said he sees no way to meet the demand for housing by only providing traditional housing options, which can cost up to $600,000 per unit and take up to five years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, his working group advocates for an \"accommodations immediately\" policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lakeview Village comes close to achieving that aim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the unhoused, however, argue that while these new tiny home complexes are a significant step up from the heatless \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/oaklands-tuff-shed-program-by-the-numbers-2-1/\">converted garden sheds that the city erected in 2017\u003c/a>, they still fall short of addressing the bigger issue of housing insecurity in the city and wider region — and the urgent need to build much more permanent housing for low-income people.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Gray-Garcia, housing activist\"]'The tiny homes will not solve or be a solution to trauma, poverty and racism — the multiple abuses that lead to people being on the streets.'[/pullquote]\"The tiny homes will not solve or be a solution to trauma, poverty and racism — the multiple abuses that lead to people being on the streets,\" said Lisa \"Tiny\" Gray-Garcia, the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.poormagazine.org\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group that offers resources and media access to people experiencing poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray-Garcia said she's also concerned the new temporary housing projects will give the city additional license to continue aggressively clearing tent encampments, even as it fails to provide suitable alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/21/oakland-passes-controversial-new-homeless-encampment-policy/\">the Oakland City Council unanimously approved a controversial encampment ban\u003c/a> that prohibits setting up tents in certain places near schools, homes and businesses, and authorizes officials to tear down camps in those restricted areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yay, they're doing something, but how about you stop sweeping us?\" said Gray-Garcia, who until recently was unhoused herself, and called the city's enforcement actions \"violent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Gray-Garcia's group raised almost $90,000 to buy an empty lot on MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, and built a duplex that she and her son and four other residents eventually moved into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896286 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tiny white homes sitting on gravel, with a chain link fence behind them and blue sky visible above.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the tiny homes in the still-mostly-vacant Lakeview Village complex. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, she said, when her group tried to expand their efforts — a project she calls \"Homefulness\" — and purchase a second property, with plans to build additional units for more unhoused people to live in rent-free, they were stalled by a litany of permitting, zoning and parking requirements, each adding significant additional wait time and costs to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I'm concerned about is that all that money was spent to create those 65 temporary little tiny houses that no one could possibly live in forever, when [land for] permanent housing stands vacant and nobody can move in,\" said Gray-Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED's Matthew Green and Keith Burbank of Bay City News.\u003c/em>\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>The stark, white-walled cabins are arranged in neat rows on a small plot of city-owned land that will likely soon be developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A waiting list has already formed, with unhoused residents in the immediate vicinity — including in the encampment that abuts the site — offered first priority, according to city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the tiny cabins is equipped with electric heat, a locking door, smoke and carbon monoxide monitors, a fire extinguisher and some storage space. The complex also provides drinking water, showers and onsite security to residents. It will also offer three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upgraded tiny home shelters ... are critical to addressing homelessness in Oakland, especially with the rains upon us and winter approaching,\" Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said earlier this month, during a media tour of the complex, which is located on the edge of her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent encampment with miscellaneous items all over the ground. In the far background behind a row of trees is Oakland's skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment bordering Lakeview Village near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas called the village a \"supportive shelter project\" because residents will be offered help with a range of services, including health, employment, public benefits, criminal record clearance, housing applications and credit repair. They also won't have strict move-out deadlines, and can bring in pets and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors,\" Bas added.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With more than 4,000 unhoused people currently living in Oakland, and nowhere near enough permanent supportive housing options to accommodate the vast majority of them, the city is increasingly turning to complexes of tiny homes as a means to provide more immediate shelter and services — albeit on a temporary basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike permanent housing, which often takes years to approve and build, and can be prohibitively expensive, temporary tiny home villages can be erected within weeks, at less than $8,000 per cabin — and easily relocated if the vacant land they sit on is eventually developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland spent roughly $2.4 million to prepare and build the sites at Lakeview Village, as well as a nearby site at 3rd and Peralta streets that is expected to soon accommodate 40 additional people, Bas's office said. The city will pay the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, an Oakland nonprofit, $1.3 million a year — mostly from federal emergency pandemic funds — to operate the Lake Merritt site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Vann, who lives close to the new site and helped start Oakland's Homeless Advocacy Working Group several years ago, called the new complex \"critical to improving the dignity, security, and living conditions of our unsheltered neighbors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside a tiny cabin. In the photo there is a mattress and a shelf with three levels holding a white plastic bag, a plate, bowl and fire extinguisher. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of one of the Lakeview Village tiny cabins. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vann said he sees no way to meet the demand for housing by only providing traditional housing options, which can cost up to $600,000 per unit and take up to five years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, his working group advocates for an \"accommodations immediately\" policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lakeview Village comes close to achieving that aim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the unhoused, however, argue that while these new tiny home complexes are a significant step up from the heatless \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/oaklands-tuff-shed-program-by-the-numbers-2-1/\">converted garden sheds that the city erected in 2017\u003c/a>, they still fall short of addressing the bigger issue of housing insecurity in the city and wider region — and the urgent need to build much more permanent housing for low-income people.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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