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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is accusing Wells Fargo Bank of systematic predatory lending to minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Oakland%20v.%20Wells%20Fargo%20endorsed%20complaint%209-21-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week, the city alleges that the bank targeted blacks and Latinos, steering them toward risky, likely-to-fail loans — the kind that caused many families to lose their homes in the ongoing foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker says the city has collected proof, including the testimony of former Well Fargo employees, suggesting the bank intentionally gave more expensive loans to African-American and Latino residents. Parker says minorities with good credit were given bad loans, in contrast to loans given to white borrowers with the same credit and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the testimony that we have gotten indicates that they felt that these borrowers were less sophisticated,\" Parker says. \"In some cases there's comments that they thought they were less intelligent. It's hard to imagine that being the case today, but in effect that's what happened over years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes the high-risk loans significant, Parker says, is that they led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures for minority homeowners — a large factor in the displacement of longtime Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. And yes, those neighborhoods were largely populated by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\">African-Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If redlining were a form of starving certain neighborhoods for credit, so-called predatory lending \u003cimg class=\"ajT\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\">acted as a sort of reverse redlining, Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhoods that had been deprived of conventional low-cost credit were flooded with the opposite, with the converse, just before the crisis and have suffered as a result,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Stein says, banks may be redlining again. \"In a way we've kind of come full circle,\" he says. \"What we're seeing now is kind of a return to redlining. In the best possible light, lenders are being more conservative in making loans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some cases in the courts claim something more nefarious than the pendulum swinging back from over-lending, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/dealbook/evans-bank-settles-new-york-redlining-lawsuit.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a recent case \u003c/a>in New York, and a case settled in 2001 in Michigan. The number of these \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibtimes.com/racial-discrimination-lending-feds-accuse-hudson-city-savings-bank-redlining-four-2112646\" target=\"_blank\">redlining cases\u003c/a> is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Stein is critical of Wells Fargo, he says it seems to have done good work in Oakland since the 2008 housing market collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel compelled to say that my understanding was that Wells was a decent partner, that some people in the city felt Wells was playing some constructive role,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Parker says the lawsuit alleges that Wells Fargo is not only guilty of abusive lending in the past tense: It intends to show that predatory lending is still going on.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is accusing Wells Fargo Bank of systematic predatory lending to minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Oakland%20v.%20Wells%20Fargo%20endorsed%20complaint%209-21-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week, the city alleges that the bank targeted blacks and Latinos, steering them toward risky, likely-to-fail loans — the kind that caused many families to lose their homes in the ongoing foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker says the city has collected proof, including the testimony of former Well Fargo employees, suggesting the bank intentionally gave more expensive loans to African-American and Latino residents. Parker says minorities with good credit were given bad loans, in contrast to loans given to white borrowers with the same credit and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the testimony that we have gotten indicates that they felt that these borrowers were less sophisticated,\" Parker says. \"In some cases there's comments that they thought they were less intelligent. It's hard to imagine that being the case today, but in effect that's what happened over years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes the high-risk loans significant, Parker says, is that they led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures for minority homeowners — a large factor in the displacement of longtime Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. 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"content": "\u003cp>Uber is coming to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint announcement with city officials, the ride-service company announced it's buying \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._C._Capwell_Company\" target=\"_blank\">a historic department store building\u003c/a> at 19th and Broadway and will open a branch of its global headquarters at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, still privately held and valued at $50 billion as it continues its worldwide expansion, says it expects 2,000 to 3,000 staffers to work in the Oakland facility when it opens in 2017. If those staffing levels are attained, Uber would become the city's largest non-government, non-hospital employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Oakland's 10 Largest Employers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employer:Employees\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. State of California: 7,480\u003cbr>\n2. Kaiser Permanente: 7,000\u003cbr>\n3. City of Oakland: 4,807\u003cbr>\n4. Alameda County: 4,600\u003cbr>\n5. Oakland Unified School District: 4,457\u003cbr>\n6. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital: 2,600\u003cbr>\n7. U.S. Postal Service: 2,203\u003cbr>\n8. Alameda Health System: 2,131\u003cbr>\n9. Southwest Airlines: 2,139\u003cbr>\n10. Alta Bates Sutter Medical Center/Summit: 2,000\u003cbr>\n\u003csmall>\u003cstrong>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/01/02/employers-oakland.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Uber bought the building, which boasts 330,000 square feet of office space, from Lane Partners. The real estate firm had been redeveloping the site, last occupied by Sears last year, into a mixed retail and office development called Uptown Station. The purchase price for the seven-story edifice,\u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/06/oakland-brooklyn-basin-infrastructure-housing.html\" target=\"_blank\"> long rumored\u003c/a> to be the future home of a tech tenant, was not disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One question that arose immediately about the announcement was whether Oakland officials had offered financial incentives to attract the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf said no tax preferences or other incentives were offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she told KTVU \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/23581468-story\" target=\"_blank\">in an interview\u003c/a> Wednesday morning, Uber \"chose Oakland for its magic -- for its soul.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf also acknowledged that many in the community will be wary of Uber's arrival and the nearly inevitable upward pressure on home prices the new headquarters will create. The city has already seen a spike in demand for housing and a corresponding rise in apartment rents, due largely to the technology boom in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going to be working to get them to commit to make sure that we preserve that soul ... and that's affordability, that's equity, that's fighting against displacement,\" she said. \"And it's also preserving the cultural vitality of that neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf and company officials acknowledged at a Wednesday press conference that no steps have yet been taken -- for instance, a community benefits plan of some sort -- to try to \"preserve that soul.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renee Atwood, Uber's \"global head of people and places,\" said in a statement released before the press conference: “As we continue to build our teams across the hundreds of cities where we operate, the Bay Area remains our original home. We are excited to deepen our roots across the Bay by investing in the revitalization of historic downtown Oakland and to become a permanent part of the fabric of the East Bay community by adding thousands of jobs at our Oakland site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber currently has about 2,000 employees in its San Francisco offices. The new Oakland offices will supplement two office towers the company is building in Mission Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate and economic development analysts say they expect Uber's arrival in Oakland could trigger a surge in residential housing construction in the city and may help attract other big-name tech firms to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown, an Oakland resident and the city's former mayor, made housing construction a priority during his two terms. That led to thousands of new apartment and condo units being built in the city's downtown, Uptown and Jack London Square neighborhoods. Earlier this year, construction began on Brooklyn Basin, a planned 3,100-unit development on the Oakland Estuary southeast of Jack London Square.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Uber is coming to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint announcement with city officials, the ride-service company announced it's buying \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._C._Capwell_Company\" target=\"_blank\">a historic department store building\u003c/a> at 19th and Broadway and will open a branch of its global headquarters at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, still privately held and valued at $50 billion as it continues its worldwide expansion, says it expects 2,000 to 3,000 staffers to work in the Oakland facility when it opens in 2017. If those staffing levels are attained, Uber would become the city's largest non-government, non-hospital employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Oakland's 10 Largest Employers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employer:Employees\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. State of California: 7,480\u003cbr>\n2. Kaiser Permanente: 7,000\u003cbr>\n3. City of Oakland: 4,807\u003cbr>\n4. Alameda County: 4,600\u003cbr>\n5. Oakland Unified School District: 4,457\u003cbr>\n6. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital: 2,600\u003cbr>\n7. U.S. Postal Service: 2,203\u003cbr>\n8. Alameda Health System: 2,131\u003cbr>\n9. Southwest Airlines: 2,139\u003cbr>\n10. Alta Bates Sutter Medical Center/Summit: 2,000\u003cbr>\n\u003csmall>\u003cstrong>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/01/02/employers-oakland.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Uber bought the building, which boasts 330,000 square feet of office space, from Lane Partners. The real estate firm had been redeveloping the site, last occupied by Sears last year, into a mixed retail and office development called Uptown Station. The purchase price for the seven-story edifice,\u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/06/oakland-brooklyn-basin-infrastructure-housing.html\" target=\"_blank\"> long rumored\u003c/a> to be the future home of a tech tenant, was not disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One question that arose immediately about the announcement was whether Oakland officials had offered financial incentives to attract the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 5 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris has been retained to represent the man severely injured in an altercation with a Whole Foods security guard on Sept. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said the man, who has not been publicly identified and is requesting to remain anonymous, suffered a concussion and facial fracture that required emergency surgery after he was \"shockingly grabbed, choked and slammed to the ground by a Whole Foods security guard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was severely beaten and he sustained significant injuries,\" Burris told KQED Thursday. \"We expect to file legal action against Whole Foods and the security company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness to the incident, which occurred in an Oakland Whole Foods store near Lake Merritt, previously told KQED that the injured man had \"done nothing. He wasn't aggressive. He wasn't shouting. He had initiated no physical contact. ... This was just someone who was trying to buy groceries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said it appears that a verbal dispute between the man and a Whole Foods cashier was met with an aggressive response from the security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods \"permanently removed\" the guard Sept. 4 and replaced the store's security contractor, Concord-based Admiral Security Services, with another security company the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police are investigating the incident, and Whole Foods has also hired an \"independent investigator,\" company spokeswoman Beth Krauss said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said the Oakland Police Department has not responded to his requests for an incident report, and the security guard has not been identified. The department did not immediately respond to KQED's request for an update on its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given the facts as I know them now,\" Burris said, \"it strikes me that criminal charges should be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauss said in a written response Thursday that the company generally does not comment on pending litigation, but in this instance provided a statement from Northern California Regional President Rob Twyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand this issue is very important and we strongly believe every customer is entitled to a mutually respectful, safe experience in our stores,\" Twyman wrote, reiterating that the company had removed the security guard from service, disarmed all Whole Foods contracted guards in Northern California and enhanced training. \"We have also engaged our community partners in dialogue about how to move forward. We will continue this dialogue to learn more about how to better serve Oakland and help restore trust and confidence in Whole Foods Market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"anti-black violence\" demonstration is scheduled outside the store at 230 Bay Place in Oakland at 5 p.m. Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The latest, below, on the Oakland Whole Foods incident in which a man was reportedly assaulted by a store security guard. The incident caused a stir on social media, with a pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245&set=a.689398442845.2271817.1401605&type=1\" target=\"_blank\">graphic photos\u003c/a> circulated of the man lying face down on the ground, his head surrounded by a halo of blood. As a result, Whole Foods replaced the security firm in charge of the store, which has been identified in the media as Admiral Security Services, based in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods' regional spokeswoman Beth Krauss wrote in an email to KQED over the weekend that the guard acted after the man -- who Oakland police said Thursday was sent to the hospital and was in stable condition -- made \"physical contact\" with a store employee. The company has hired an \"independent investigator\" who has now interviewed staff members; OPD has also interviewed the staff, Krauss said. She said there have been differing accounts of what occurred and that, \"We don't really have one truth.\" There is no security video of the incident, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store is now waiting to hear from OPD on the police report, Krauss said. She said Whole Foods does not know the ID of the victim, yet, and thus hasn't contacted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/demonstrators-gather-at-oakland-whole-foods-following-violent-beating/972230/\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrators gathered \u003c/a> outside the store on Sunday to protest the incident, and the Oakland store has been fielding plenty of criticism on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wholefoods\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no cases -- ever -- in which our protocol calls for violence. The actions of the security guard were completely contrary to our policies and values .... ,\" the store wrote in one response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Update, 3:05 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> More fallout from the Thursday night incident in which an Oakland Whole Foods shopper was reportedly beaten by a store security guard: The company, which earlier said the guard involved has been \"permanently removed\" from Whole Foods Market, said Saturday that it has replaced the security company the man worked for.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in an email statement that it has hired Concord-based AGS Private Security. The previous contractor had been identified as Admiral Security Services, also based in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Here’s an update on the incident that took place at Whole Foods Market Oakland on the night of Thursday, 9/3. As we continue to work through this, we are posting updates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wfmoakland\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/wfmoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we don’t yet have the final results from the police investigation of this incident, we do have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for violence. As a result of the violent behavior of the security guard at Whole Foods Market Oakland, we are replacing this security firm in the store. The new firm is A.G.S. Private Security, owned and operated by Ms. Gloria Lawrence of Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also working with all of the private security firms we contract with now to reiterate and reinforce our expectations that they abide by our code of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of what’s been reported about this incident has alleged that the use of an EBT card had a role in the altercation. We want to clarify that EBT cards are readily accepted forms of payment at all Whole Foods Market stores. In fact, there’s no way or reason for a cashier to know if a customer is using an EBT card unless items not covered under EBT regulations are presented for payment, or the customer voluntarily displays the EBT to the cashier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know we still have more to do. We are reviewing our internal processes and policies to evaluate opportunities for improvement. In addition, since our store opened we’ve worked hard to develop relationships with community organizations. In the coming days and weeks, we will reach out to these and other community partners to help us learn how we can continue to evolve our support for our diverse Oakland community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, last updated 3:12 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Oakland police are investigating a Thursday night incident at a Whole Foods Market near Lake Merritt that witnesses describe as an attack by an armed security guard on a shopper. Whole Foods says the guard has been permanently removed from working at any of the company's stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident came to light when Zoe Marks, a Seattle native and lecturer in African studies at Edinburgh University who's visiting in Oakland, posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and Twitter accounts of what she described as a \"horrific\" incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks wrote on Facebook: \"I just saw a young man violently assaulted by an armed security guard at Whole Foods, slammed repeatedly against concrete pillars, put in a chokehold, restrained, and suffocated until he was thrown face down on the pavement unconscious. The guard locked him out of the store despite the fact he was immobile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks posted pictures of an unidentified man lying near the store's entrance, bleeding profusely and being treated by paramedics who reportedly transported him to a local hospital. Marks said store employees did nothing to intervene and failed to call paramedics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods spokeswoman Beth Krauss said in an email that \"store leadership verified that 911 had already been called; they arrived shortly thereafter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/z_marks/status/639709683524087808\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police said in a brief statement Friday that the man was hospitalized in stable condition. The statement added that a police dispatcher had been contacted by the Oakland Fire Department \"to report a call from a security guard at that location (who) was reporting a man who was unconscious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauss of Whole Foods said \"an altercation that escalated to violence\" had occurred Thursday evening at the Oakland store, located near Lake Merritt at 27th and Harrison streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The graphic images circulating on Facebook and Twitter are disturbing to say the least,\" Krauss wrote. \"Whole Foods Market considers the safety and security of all team members, customers and members of our community a top priority. The security guard involved in the incident has been suspended, and we are actively investigating the details with our security firm. While we move swiftly to gather the facts, we want to make it clear that Whole Foods Market takes a zero tolerance approach to violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks said in an interview Friday that the incident appeared to begin when the man had some difficulty buying groceries with an electronic benefit card, or EBT -- a form of payment issued to food stamp recipients. She said she was standing in a checkout line but didn't overhear the exchange that led to the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she said, \"He'd done nothing. He wasn't aggressive. He wasn't shouting. He had initiated no physical contact. ... This was just someone who was trying to buy groceries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the man lying outside the store's entrance and the store's employees failing to act, she said, \"The other customers who were watching this all go down basically all demanded that paramedics be called. People were shouting they were never going to shop at Whole Foods again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods \"permanently removed\" the guard Sept. 4 and replaced the store's security contractor, Concord-based Admiral Security Services, with another security company the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police are investigating the incident, and Whole Foods has also hired an \"independent investigator,\" company spokeswoman Beth Krauss said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said the Oakland Police Department has not responded to his requests for an incident report, and the security guard has not been identified. The department did not immediately respond to KQED's request for an update on its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given the facts as I know them now,\" Burris said, \"it strikes me that criminal charges should be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauss said in a written response Thursday that the company generally does not comment on pending litigation, but in this instance provided a statement from Northern California Regional President Rob Twyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand this issue is very important and we strongly believe every customer is entitled to a mutually respectful, safe experience in our stores,\" Twyman wrote, reiterating that the company had removed the security guard from service, disarmed all Whole Foods contracted guards in Northern California and enhanced training. \"We have also engaged our community partners in dialogue about how to move forward. We will continue this dialogue to learn more about how to better serve Oakland and help restore trust and confidence in Whole Foods Market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"anti-black violence\" demonstration is scheduled outside the store at 230 Bay Place in Oakland at 5 p.m. Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The latest, below, on the Oakland Whole Foods incident in which a man was reportedly assaulted by a store security guard. The incident caused a stir on social media, with a pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245&set=a.689398442845.2271817.1401605&type=1\" target=\"_blank\">graphic photos\u003c/a> circulated of the man lying face down on the ground, his head surrounded by a halo of blood. As a result, Whole Foods replaced the security firm in charge of the store, which has been identified in the media as Admiral Security Services, based in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods' regional spokeswoman Beth Krauss wrote in an email to KQED over the weekend that the guard acted after the man -- who Oakland police said Thursday was sent to the hospital and was in stable condition -- made \"physical contact\" with a store employee. The company has hired an \"independent investigator\" who has now interviewed staff members; OPD has also interviewed the staff, Krauss said. She said there have been differing accounts of what occurred and that, \"We don't really have one truth.\" There is no security video of the incident, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store is now waiting to hear from OPD on the police report, Krauss said. She said Whole Foods does not know the ID of the victim, yet, and thus hasn't contacted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/demonstrators-gather-at-oakland-whole-foods-following-violent-beating/972230/\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrators gathered \u003c/a> outside the store on Sunday to protest the incident, and the Oakland store has been fielding plenty of criticism on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wholefoods\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no cases -- ever -- in which our protocol calls for violence. The actions of the security guard were completely contrary to our policies and values .... ,\" the store wrote in one response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Update, 3:05 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> More fallout from the Thursday night incident in which an Oakland Whole Foods shopper was reportedly beaten by a store security guard: The company, which earlier said the guard involved has been \"permanently removed\" from Whole Foods Market, said Saturday that it has replaced the security company the man worked for.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in an email statement that it has hired Concord-based AGS Private Security. The previous contractor had been identified as Admiral Security Services, also based in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Here’s an update on the incident that took place at Whole Foods Market Oakland on the night of Thursday, 9/3. As we continue to work through this, we are posting updates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wfmoakland\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/wfmoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we don’t yet have the final results from the police investigation of this incident, we do have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for violence. As a result of the violent behavior of the security guard at Whole Foods Market Oakland, we are replacing this security firm in the store. The new firm is A.G.S. Private Security, owned and operated by Ms. Gloria Lawrence of Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also working with all of the private security firms we contract with now to reiterate and reinforce our expectations that they abide by our code of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of what’s been reported about this incident has alleged that the use of an EBT card had a role in the altercation. We want to clarify that EBT cards are readily accepted forms of payment at all Whole Foods Market stores. In fact, there’s no way or reason for a cashier to know if a customer is using an EBT card unless items not covered under EBT regulations are presented for payment, or the customer voluntarily displays the EBT to the cashier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know we still have more to do. We are reviewing our internal processes and policies to evaluate opportunities for improvement. In addition, since our store opened we’ve worked hard to develop relationships with community organizations. In the coming days and weeks, we will reach out to these and other community partners to help us learn how we can continue to evolve our support for our diverse Oakland community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, last updated 3:12 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Oakland police are investigating a Thursday night incident at a Whole Foods Market near Lake Merritt that witnesses describe as an attack by an armed security guard on a shopper. Whole Foods says the guard has been permanently removed from working at any of the company's stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident came to light when Zoe Marks, a Seattle native and lecturer in African studies at Edinburgh University who's visiting in Oakland, posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and Twitter accounts of what she described as a \"horrific\" incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks wrote on Facebook: \"I just saw a young man violently assaulted by an armed security guard at Whole Foods, slammed repeatedly against concrete pillars, put in a chokehold, restrained, and suffocated until he was thrown face down on the pavement unconscious. The guard locked him out of the store despite the fact he was immobile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks posted pictures of an unidentified man lying near the store's entrance, bleeding profusely and being treated by paramedics who reportedly transported him to a local hospital. Marks said store employees did nothing to intervene and failed to call paramedics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods spokeswoman Beth Krauss said in an email that \"store leadership verified that 911 had already been called; they arrived shortly thereafter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101201873218245\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Oakland police said in a brief statement Friday that the man was hospitalized in stable condition. The statement added that a police dispatcher had been contacted by the Oakland Fire Department \"to report a call from a security guard at that location (who) was reporting a man who was unconscious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauss of Whole Foods said \"an altercation that escalated to violence\" had occurred Thursday evening at the Oakland store, located near Lake Merritt at 27th and Harrison streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The graphic images circulating on Facebook and Twitter are disturbing to say the least,\" Krauss wrote. \"Whole Foods Market considers the safety and security of all team members, customers and members of our community a top priority. The security guard involved in the incident has been suspended, and we are actively investigating the details with our security firm. While we move swiftly to gather the facts, we want to make it clear that Whole Foods Market takes a zero tolerance approach to violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks said in an interview Friday that the incident appeared to begin when the man had some difficulty buying groceries with an electronic benefit card, or EBT -- a form of payment issued to food stamp recipients. She said she was standing in a checkout line but didn't overhear the exchange that led to the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she said, \"He'd done nothing. He wasn't aggressive. He wasn't shouting. He had initiated no physical contact. ... This was just someone who was trying to buy groceries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the man lying outside the store's entrance and the store's employees failing to act, she said, \"The other customers who were watching this all go down basically all demanded that paramedics be called. People were shouting they were never going to shop at Whole Foods again. Everyone was shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks said she was one of about about four witnesses who supplied statements to Oakland police. Fire officials and Oakland police have not yet responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sorry, Oakland. You're just not that friendly, according to the travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual Readers' Choice Awards survey says that Oakland is the second \u003cem>least\u003c/em> friendly U.S. city, with respect to \"where you felt welcome, or not.\" It has maintained that position for three years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-08-11/the-2015-friendliest-and-unfriendliest-cities-in-the-us/19\">2015 survey\u003c/a>, one reader said, \"If it wasn't for Lake Merritt, this city would be off limits to any law-abiding citizen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That aside, more than a few rallied around Oakland as \"America's next up-and-coming city, with an exploding arts and restaurant scene. (First Fridays in Uptown are great fun.) Temescal Alley is one of the hippest parts of the city, with locally spun boutiques and a retro barbershop. It's the kind of vibe that prompted one reader to declare Oakland 'the next Portland, Oregon!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-08-04/friendliest-and-unfriendliest-cities-in-us/19\">In the 2014 survey\u003c/a>, Conde Nast said: \" 'Oakland has a bad rap,' one commenter acknowledges, and another admits that it’s still 'rough around the edges,' but 'ask a local first' and you’ll avoid the less hospitable parts of town. A surprising number of people observed a rising food scene with 'so much raw talent in little kitchens everywhere.' Also popular: Fox Theater, which welcomes everyone 'from Thievery Corporation to Erasure.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2013-07-30/travel-us-cities-charleston-newark-branson-friendly-unfriendly/19\">In 2013\u003c/a>, many readers agreed that \" 'Oakland has an image problem and a split personality. Some areas are charming while others are so unsafe travelers wouldn't dare stop,' according to one reader. Other readers noted that Oakland has been 'growing very hip in the last years,' but some commented that it is 'unfriendly,' 'another big, dirty city,' and urge 'don’t stay too long.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it's your turn to weigh in. Do you agree? Or do you think Oakland \u003cem>is\u003c/em> friendly and voters for Conde Nast are bogus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the top 10 least-friendly U.S. cities, according to this year's survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Newark, New Jersey\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland, California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Atlantic City, New Jersey\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Detroit, Michigan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hartford, Connecticut\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New Haven, Connecticut\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Hamptons, New York\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reno, Nevada\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles, California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Baltimore, Maryland\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. One deal may be signed this week, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside a warehouse in West Oakland, a child swings upside down in the air, attached to a harness and a rope that’s hooked onto metal rafters. A man shouts to the girl, “Kick your legs up,” encouraging her to complete a trapeze routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago this space was a “company of machines that made machines,” said Lili Gaudreau, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.trapezearts.com/\">Trapeze Arts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a school for circus arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is in the southwest corner of West Oakland. You’d almost have to be lost to find it, even though it’s located right near the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It couldn’t be in a better place, but it’s like the forgotten stepsister,” Gaudreau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once a used by a heavy manufacturing company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once used by a heavy manufacturing company. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To some, that has been the story of West Oakland, once a hub for World War II shipbuilding and manufacturing, where people migrated from the South to live and work. At its height, around 1950, there were 40,000 residents in the neighborhood. Today roughly 25,000 people live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998621&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the war, thousands of people and jobs left for the suburbs, and several public projects destroyed parts of West Oakland. Decades of blight and crime followed, with little revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now West Oakland is experiencing an influx of new money and people, driven by the demand for space in the Bay Area. Rents and home prices have soared. It's been hard for the city to keep up, and some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Industrial Spaces Could Play a Role in Creating Economic Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Achieving a new neighborhood can be done in a lot of different ways, said Brian Beveridge, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think leadership and public policy need to use a different lens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the redevelopment happening now is focused on big developments and projects with strong capital, leaving out a portion of the population that has been underserved for years, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics say many of the people who have been struggling in West Oakland for decades are being displaced, rather than lifted, by this new tide of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/137309375?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you want to deal with racism, then deal with racism,\" Beveridge said. \"Racism is an economic issue. People are shut out of the economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There needs to be more innovative thinking in government and more “handholding” for local entrepreneurs to create more economic opportunities for them to succeed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656541\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10656541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonholmberg/2646498376/in/photolist-5Nb1tf-rfHCiM-a4eGG-rfHFk8-ryQfX5-wtnv1Q-wHEUVJ-otxA4T-uPgwTs-92qXmV-5Fav1R-3fHppm-5FeMXq-5Nb37J-87P5qP-dKUq3H-j9PB56-do5tPp-j9N8hM-dKUpst-73P5Lj-5cYfii-5d3zJf-dYNTaL-dYHc5R-c3e2DA-bWZk1G-bWZkSu-7oaryc-gkiqjX-edouet-5Nb5vW-sfoPa-5N6P3D-aPXcnp-85kn8o-52RZLm-52RZuL-dHWyey-52MKzB-qvtiH9-rqHPZG-rHc7Xa-4RKdN9-qtQusW-4RF3en-4RF4ue-a4cVC-MQvi5-5GrPKb\" target=\"_blank\">Flickred!\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beveridge likes the idea of creating a large space -- perhaps the size of a Costco -- that could accommodate lots of smaller vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why couldn’t we take a warehouse and do that effectively with 30 or 40 small businesses?” said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space could be a destination spot, like the Public Market in Emeryville or Market Hall in Rockridge, he said. But in West Oakland, it would look and feel like the local businesses in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would give the city a chance to live up to the values it preaches, such as equity and integrity, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland Lacks Resources to Support All Kinds of Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t have the staff that would support such a project, said Margot Lederer-Prado, with the city's economic development office. She is also the person at City Hall who knows the most about the current and future status of industrial properties in Oakland. Her job is find space for new or expanding businesses, but not necessarily the microbusinesses that Beveridge is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone like me, who rolls up the sleeves and writes the grants,” she said. Someone who can spend the time and energy to see a project through, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">Oakland’s Sobrante Park Fights to Resurrect a Neighborhood Jewel\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK028334\"> West Oakland Specific Plan\u003c/a>, adopted by the city in 2014, for not including enough direction on how to equal the playing field for current residents. The plan itself states that it's important to retain and preserve West Oakland's industrial land and the job base that it supports. And in that document, Lederer-Prado asks how the city can court new industries while preserving \"existing quality jobs that have provided generations of Oakland residents with a decent living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland doesn’t really get to decide which businesses move in and which move out on private property, said Lederer-Prado. And the city is not prepared to buy property to develop because of what it costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the plan acknowledges that there is a skills gap between residents and the kinds of jobs that are expected to grow in the region, such as tech, life sciences and green energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those with families who may have been unemployed for one or two generations -- it is hard to relate,” said Lederer-Prado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Providing Jobs is About Human Dignity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some businesses moving into the area are providing good entry-level jobs for locals while trying to improve the area. If you pass Ocho Candy on Adeline Street, you might see Rich Turner taking a break. His apron is covered in organic chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people in the community out here come by and knock on the door,\" he said. \"And they are constantly looking for work. It’s hit and miss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner will tell you he’s come a long way. Last year, he was living in a halfway house in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresh out of prison, you don’t really have much to fall back on,\" he said. \"And I did 10 years, so I didn’t have too much waiting for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Turner was given a chance to work at Ocho Candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best thing next to sliced bread,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10656278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owner, Denis Ring, said he tries to hire locally. But he estimates Ocho retains around 20 percent of local hires, adding that some employees just don’t have the simple skills -- such as showing up -- to stay with the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he gives them a chance. He said it’s about human dignity -- and that for a neighborhood like West Oakland, providing jobs is one of the best things any business can do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nside a warehouse in West Oakland, a child swings upside down in the air, attached to a harness and a rope that’s hooked onto metal rafters. A man shouts to the girl, “Kick your legs up,” encouraging her to complete a trapeze routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago this space was a “company of machines that made machines,” said Lili Gaudreau, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.trapezearts.com/\">Trapeze Arts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a school for circus arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is in the southwest corner of West Oakland. You’d almost have to be lost to find it, even though it’s located right near the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It couldn’t be in a better place, but it’s like the forgotten stepsister,” Gaudreau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once a used by a heavy manufacturing company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once used by a heavy manufacturing company. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To some, that has been the story of West Oakland, once a hub for World War II shipbuilding and manufacturing, where people migrated from the South to live and work. At its height, around 1950, there were 40,000 residents in the neighborhood. Today roughly 25,000 people live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998621&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the war, thousands of people and jobs left for the suburbs, and several public projects destroyed parts of West Oakland. Decades of blight and crime followed, with little revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now West Oakland is experiencing an influx of new money and people, driven by the demand for space in the Bay Area. Rents and home prices have soared. It's been hard for the city to keep up, and some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Industrial Spaces Could Play a Role in Creating Economic Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Achieving a new neighborhood can be done in a lot of different ways, said Brian Beveridge, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think leadership and public policy need to use a different lens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the redevelopment happening now is focused on big developments and projects with strong capital, leaving out a portion of the population that has been underserved for years, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics say many of the people who have been struggling in West Oakland for decades are being displaced, rather than lifted, by this new tide of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/137309375?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you want to deal with racism, then deal with racism,\" Beveridge said. \"Racism is an economic issue. People are shut out of the economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There needs to be more innovative thinking in government and more “handholding” for local entrepreneurs to create more economic opportunities for them to succeed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656541\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10656541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonholmberg/2646498376/in/photolist-5Nb1tf-rfHCiM-a4eGG-rfHFk8-ryQfX5-wtnv1Q-wHEUVJ-otxA4T-uPgwTs-92qXmV-5Fav1R-3fHppm-5FeMXq-5Nb37J-87P5qP-dKUq3H-j9PB56-do5tPp-j9N8hM-dKUpst-73P5Lj-5cYfii-5d3zJf-dYNTaL-dYHc5R-c3e2DA-bWZk1G-bWZkSu-7oaryc-gkiqjX-edouet-5Nb5vW-sfoPa-5N6P3D-aPXcnp-85kn8o-52RZLm-52RZuL-dHWyey-52MKzB-qvtiH9-rqHPZG-rHc7Xa-4RKdN9-qtQusW-4RF3en-4RF4ue-a4cVC-MQvi5-5GrPKb\" target=\"_blank\">Flickred!\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beveridge likes the idea of creating a large space -- perhaps the size of a Costco -- that could accommodate lots of smaller vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why couldn’t we take a warehouse and do that effectively with 30 or 40 small businesses?” said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space could be a destination spot, like the Public Market in Emeryville or Market Hall in Rockridge, he said. But in West Oakland, it would look and feel like the local businesses in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would give the city a chance to live up to the values it preaches, such as equity and integrity, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland Lacks Resources to Support All Kinds of Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t have the staff that would support such a project, said Margot Lederer-Prado, with the city's economic development office. She is also the person at City Hall who knows the most about the current and future status of industrial properties in Oakland. Her job is find space for new or expanding businesses, but not necessarily the microbusinesses that Beveridge is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone like me, who rolls up the sleeves and writes the grants,” she said. Someone who can spend the time and energy to see a project through, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">Oakland’s Sobrante Park Fights to Resurrect a Neighborhood Jewel\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK028334\"> West Oakland Specific Plan\u003c/a>, adopted by the city in 2014, for not including enough direction on how to equal the playing field for current residents. The plan itself states that it's important to retain and preserve West Oakland's industrial land and the job base that it supports. And in that document, Lederer-Prado asks how the city can court new industries while preserving \"existing quality jobs that have provided generations of Oakland residents with a decent living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland doesn’t really get to decide which businesses move in and which move out on private property, said Lederer-Prado. And the city is not prepared to buy property to develop because of what it costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the plan acknowledges that there is a skills gap between residents and the kinds of jobs that are expected to grow in the region, such as tech, life sciences and green energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those with families who may have been unemployed for one or two generations -- it is hard to relate,” said Lederer-Prado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Providing Jobs is About Human Dignity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some businesses moving into the area are providing good entry-level jobs for locals while trying to improve the area. If you pass Ocho Candy on Adeline Street, you might see Rich Turner taking a break. His apron is covered in organic chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people in the community out here come by and knock on the door,\" he said. \"And they are constantly looking for work. It’s hit and miss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner will tell you he’s come a long way. Last year, he was living in a halfway house in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresh out of prison, you don’t really have much to fall back on,\" he said. \"And I did 10 years, so I didn’t have too much waiting for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Turner was given a chance to work at Ocho Candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best thing next to sliced bread,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10656278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owner, Denis Ring, said he tries to hire locally. 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"content": "\u003cp>The car pulls up quickly, parking sideways in a driveway across the street. Everyone standing around at the park entrance starts talking quickly, breathlessly. They know who this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Little Charlie,” Antoinette Bale says out loud -- to no one and everyone. “Damn,” she sighs. “Little Charlie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man known as Little Charlie, 24-year-old Dayvon Brown, gets out of the car with his girlfriend and walks across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my god,” he says, “I feel like crying right now.” He shakes his head. “I ain’t been in here since my father died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219955781\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here\" is Tyrone Carney Park, a long, triangular stretch of broken concrete, rusted basketball hoops and a playground, where the skeleton of the swing set still stands but with no swings. The park, in the neighborhood known as Sobrante Park, was closed after the shooting death of Little Charlie’s dad, Charlie Brown, in September 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 13 years, it has sat here, cut off from the world by a giant fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad died right here. He was shot dead, killed, right here,” Dayvon Brown says. “It brings back memories. It's as if an old wound has been reopened. In a sense it has. For the first time in 13 years the park where his father lost his life has been opened up again to the community, just for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sobrante Park\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is a tragic irony in the fact the park \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-fences-off-Tyrone-Carney-Park-home-of-2755891.php\" target=\"_blank\">closed down\u003c/a> after a series of shootings that took the lives of young black men. It was named in honor of another young man, \u003ca href=\"http://www.virtualwall.org/dc/CarneyTE02a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrone Edward Carney\u003c/a>, the first African-American from the neighborhood to die in combat in Vietnam, in 1968, at the age of 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Carney Park\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The triangular-shaped park is located at 105th Ave and Acalanes Dr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=z7lmtJTUx0IA.k4BEHyRAliwI\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Carney grew up in Sobrante Park. He was a Boy Scout who planned on being a minister, and he signed up to go to war so others wouldn’t have to, neighbors who remember him say. They add he was the kind of young man the community elders saw as a future leader: loyal, moral and true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the park that bears his name not only holds his story, but also the history of the Sobrante Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of three neighborhoods, independent but intertwined, in the deepest part of Deep East Oakland. Brookfield and Columbia Gardens are the other two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of these neighborhoods is like the story of so many parts of Oakland, and familiar to many inner-city neighborhoods, cut off by redlining and divided by freeways that bypassed African-American business districts. These are the places that grew increasingly isolated and abandoned by city, state and federal policies that left a legacy of intergenerational poverty, a dark cloud that settled over America’s urban core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649751\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10649751\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbors enjoy Tyrone Carney Park's one-day opening.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors enjoy Tyrone Carney Park's one-day opening. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that is a simplification, a narrative that is both true and also truly more complicated. To understand the human history of Sobrante Park, look no further than Phebia Richardson. Just about everyone here calls the 82-year-old \"Mrs. Phebia.\" These days she uses a cane to help her walk, but her memory is strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first black woman to move in Sobrante Park lived across the street from the church,\" Mrs. Phebia says. \"Her name was Mrs. Winn, and they didn’t know she was black because she was light-skinned with blond hair. And when her husband and child came in, that’s when they found out, but it was too late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year was 1952, and that, says Mrs. Phebia, was the beginning of white flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1955, Mrs. Phebia’s sister moved into the neighborhood, the first black woman on her block. Mrs. Phebia followed seven years later, moving into the house she still inhabits. That wasn’t the first time she had tried to buy real estate in the neighborhood. “I got married in 1951, my husband and I came out here, and tried to get a house, but they wouldn’t let us have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobrante Park was initially built to house the families of military service members. White flight left behind a thriving, increasingly African-American community. It was a tight-knit group, where neighbors looked out for neighbors, worshipped together, and planned graduation parties when kids went off to college. The community was tied together not just by experience and faith, but by geography. The layout of Sobrante Park is a network of narrow, looping streets with single-story bungalows built side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hellen Harvey grew up in Columbia Gardens, but she remembers coming to Sobrante Park. Harvey doesn’t live in these parts anymore, but she promised when she retired she would give back to the community that raised her. Now, she’s a church deacon at the Community Reformed Church in Sobrante Park, the same church she started attending when she was 9 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the day, where that park is, where Tyrone Carney Park is -- that was a thriving community,” she says. “You had your grocery stores, you had your gas station, you had your beauty shop, you had your real estate office, you had your cleaners, you had everything right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookfield was the same way, she says. Columbia Gardens residents didn’t have a business district, but they would come to Sobrante Park to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Carney\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the mid to late 1960s, that thriving business center was fading. Stores closed or moved out, the grocery store burned down in a fire. Real estate restrictions targeting African-Americans and a slow migration of wealthier families were part of the issue, as was the increasing isolation, politically and geographically, of the neighborhood. The closing off of the Deep East had begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the neighborhood still had a vibrant and active base, including Mrs. Phebia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"NSX2WGHpVA0X9cq09NPwb6x4AkTWAwve\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they sold all of this stuff in here,” she says, “and then all of the other people moved all their stores, we decided we wanted to do something, because people were just hanging out on the corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was why, in 1968, the year Carney died in Vietnam, the community banded together to build a park. They knew just the right spot -- where the burned-out grocery store once stood, at the entrance to the neighborhood. And they had a name picked out. They wanted to name it after their native son, Tyrone Carney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And Then the Drugs Came\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The close quarters of the neighborhood meant that a community that shared the good also shared the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the park was just what it should be, a jewel of the neighborhood where children played and families came together. But slowly that changed too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When the drugs came in it just killed the communities. \u003ccite>Hellen Harvey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When the drugs came in it just killed the communities,” says Hellen Harvey. “It really did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey worked for the post office, and she remembers how dealers would drop their drug stashes in mailboxes. Sometimes they would beat up the mailman \"because he wasn’t getting there in a timely manner so he could unlock the box so they could get their stuff out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park once named for the neighborhood hero became an open-air drug market. There were fights and shootings. Too many deaths, says Mrs. Phebia. If the first battle for Tyrone Carney Park was to create it, the second was to close it. But she never expected the park to stay that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The park's tattered basketball hoops have sat unused for over a decade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The park's tattered basketball hoops have sat unused for over a decade. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Reopening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thirteen years later, Dayvon Brown, whose father’s death helped usher the closing of Tyrone Carney park, walks through the park with his girlfriend. On this Saturday in August, the park has been turned into a neighborhood garage sale, the sounds of children playing lingering in the air with the smell of grilled hot dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't buy anything. He's here to pay his respects. He says he's glad the park is open. “For the kids,” he says, “this is for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, being a kid in the park was more complicated. He was just 11 years old when his father was killed here. And by that age, he says, he was already coming to the park to sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antoinette Bale also remembers the park during those years. Even with the drugs and destruction, her memories are good ones. This is still her childhood park, and she was the girl out here, beating all the boys in basketball. She remembers Brown’s father, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He may have been out here doing some bad things, but he was her friend. She recalls one night in particular, the two of them leaning back on the park bench, staring at the sky and talking about the hugeness of it all, the way young people do, knowing everything and not enough all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649762\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The gates of Tyrone Carney Park are open to residents for the first time since 2002.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gates of Tyrone Carney Park are open to residents for the first time since 2002. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Man, it’s no such thing as a God, Toinette,'\" she says. \"'Cause how the bird this, and the fish. ...' Man, I never forget that night. And then to see his son. ...” She trails off. “You don’t know how people who was here before it was closed feel, just to pass through it again. This is beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Memory Holders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The memories guiding the neighborhood, in large part, are those of Mrs. Phebia -- back to a time when the park was open and the streets were safe. There is a group of tough women -- and some men -- working on finding that safety again, including Tiffany Gibson. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, but she works here with a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://highergroundndc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Ground\u003c/a>. It set up shop in Sobrante Park in 2002, the same year Tyrone Carney Park closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are older, who are really championing this work, they have that historical perspective,” Gibson said. \"They felt a connection to each other and the space that they lived in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That connection never went away. The moment the park closed, Mrs. Phebia was on the phone with every politician and mover and shaker she knew. Mrs. Phebia’s list of contacts reads like a who’s who of black politics in Oakland -- from former mayor and state legislator \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Elihu_M._Harris\" target=\"_blank\">Elihu Harris\u003c/a> to longtime East Oakland City Councilman \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/o/District7/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Reid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Phebia is a fierce matriarch, Gibson says: “When you see a 70-plus-year-old woman standing up at a meeting saying, 'I’m ready to fight, so what are you going to do?' You have no choice but to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the park's closure in 2002, the city of Oakland formed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/social-and-health-equity/partnerships-and-communities-collaboration/ccni/sobrante-park.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">city-county initiative\u003c/a> to connect residents to public agencies. The neighborhood women worked with them, training teenagers to canvass the neighborhood to ask residents what they wanted for a new Tyrone Carney Park. They raised money to have an architect draw up plans, and the community voted on them, picking one that conceived the park as a gateway to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, Gibson says, was to get a series of projects done in three years, from reopening the park to making the streets safe. But that didn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years later what we realized was the plan was great,” she says. “But it takes longer to move community than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They still have the architect's plans for Tyrone Carney Park. But they haven’t been able to get the money to realize them. Part of the problem is that it would cost $2 million. There was hope the project would be able to get \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/plans-are-in-the-works-to-transform-tyrone-carney-park-in-east-oakland.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">city redevelopment money\u003c/a>, but that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time passed, the challenges facing the neighborhood changed. Sobrante Park has seen sweeping shifts in the past decade. Many long-term residents lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis and left the neighborhood. There are more renters now, and the demographics have shifted. It's an increasingly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649814\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"For one day only, community residents have opened their neighborhood park, closed for 13 years, for a garage sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For one day only, community residents have opened their neighborhood park, closed for 13 years, for a garage sale. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bringing a whole group of new people into the work of neighborhood building isn't easy, Gibson says: \"We have some real race issues that we are dealing with right now. It really is -- it’s race and culture and class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Gibson says, change is hard. It took 30-plus years for the neighborhood to fall apart, she says, and \"you can't put the pieces back together overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A New Community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Arrington is driving me around the looped streets of Sobrante Park. Arrington is the head of the RAC -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/social-and-health-equity/partnerships-and-communities-collaboration/ccni/sobrante-park/sp-rac.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Action Council\u003c/a> -- a group of neighbors who are on the ground here daily. She returned to the neighborhood about five years ago to look after her aging parents, who still live in the house she grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington drives past a woman setting up folding tables on her front lawn. Arrington explains that everyone calls the woman \"Bishop,\" although it's not her name; she got the nickname because she is a pastor. “She has a food giveaway, people go over there and get food,\" Arrington tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a community,” she exclaims as we pass Bishop. You can hear a hint of frustration in her voice, a rare occurrence for a woman who is usually relentlessly upbeat, continuously stressing the need to focus on the positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met Arrington, she was straight up about one thing: “We want to make clear,” she told me, “that your speaking to us today is going to project positiveness in our community.\" She is sick of only hearing about Sobrante Park when something bad happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those positive things is a minipark at the back end of the neighborhood, on a patch of grass that connects the two Sobrante Park public schools. Arrington and the RAC got a grant to put in a playground and benches there, so even without Tyrone Carney Park, kids would have a place to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649952\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Arrington, right, sells raffle tickets at the entrance to the park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Arrington, right, sells raffle tickets at the entrance to the park. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we sit on the bench, Arrington doesn’t shy away from the fact that problems still linger. She points to a few men, lingering at the corner entrance to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are watching us, and Arrington knows they are wondering what we are doing, maybe even waiting for us to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t mind people hanging out, but she suspects these men aren’t here for that. “It’s drug activity,” she says. “You can’t do that in our minipark. This is where our children should feel safe to play. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still Arrington says, today is a good day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know we’re trying,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows as an insular neighborhood in East Oakland, Sobrante Park tends to be forgotten by the outside world. That, Arrington says, has left residents underserved. It’s not just Tyrone Carney Park remaining shuttered for 13 years, it is things as simple as illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington says she often needs to hound the city to pick up trash that's been dumped on neighborhood streets. Last year, the residents got so sick of the dumping, they organized a community project to block part of a street that had become a de facto junkyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This Is Just a Beginning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Arrington played a big role in getting Tyrone Carney Park open for one day. She helped to organize and plan, and sat at the entrance all day long, selling raffle tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting there, she and fellow RAC member Victoria Figg chatted, dreaming up new uses for Tyrone Carney Park. Maybe they could plan a music concert, one of the women suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of history and lot of value here,” Figg tells Arrington. It isn’t fair, she says, that this one neighborhood and this one park carry a bad reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s a murder ground, so don’t put Sobrante Park or this one park on the map as a murder ground,” Figg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There might have been murders, but Figg echoes what so many residents here say, “We're a thriving community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figg looks out over the scene, kids running around, people barbecuing, one of the local ladies dancing up a storm to Michael Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartwarming, but it’s heart breaking,” she said. “We can’t even utilize space in our own community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington nods her head sympathetically, and then she smiles. “This,” she tells her friend, “is just a beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The car pulls up quickly, parking sideways in a driveway across the street. Everyone standing around at the park entrance starts talking quickly, breathlessly. They know who this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Little Charlie,” Antoinette Bale says out loud -- to no one and everyone. “Damn,” she sighs. “Little Charlie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man known as Little Charlie, 24-year-old Dayvon Brown, gets out of the car with his girlfriend and walks across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my god,” he says, “I feel like crying right now.” He shakes his head. “I ain’t been in here since my father died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219955781&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219955781'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here\" is Tyrone Carney Park, a long, triangular stretch of broken concrete, rusted basketball hoops and a playground, where the skeleton of the swing set still stands but with no swings. The park, in the neighborhood known as Sobrante Park, was closed after the shooting death of Little Charlie’s dad, Charlie Brown, in September 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 13 years, it has sat here, cut off from the world by a giant fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad died right here. He was shot dead, killed, right here,” Dayvon Brown says. “It brings back memories. It's as if an old wound has been reopened. In a sense it has. For the first time in 13 years the park where his father lost his life has been opened up again to the community, just for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sobrante Park\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is a tragic irony in the fact the park \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-fences-off-Tyrone-Carney-Park-home-of-2755891.php\" target=\"_blank\">closed down\u003c/a> after a series of shootings that took the lives of young black men. It was named in honor of another young man, \u003ca href=\"http://www.virtualwall.org/dc/CarneyTE02a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrone Edward Carney\u003c/a>, the first African-American from the neighborhood to die in combat in Vietnam, in 1968, at the age of 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Carney Park\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The triangular-shaped park is located at 105th Ave and Acalanes Dr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=z7lmtJTUx0IA.k4BEHyRAliwI\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Carney grew up in Sobrante Park. He was a Boy Scout who planned on being a minister, and he signed up to go to war so others wouldn’t have to, neighbors who remember him say. They add he was the kind of young man the community elders saw as a future leader: loyal, moral and true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the park that bears his name not only holds his story, but also the history of the Sobrante Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of three neighborhoods, independent but intertwined, in the deepest part of Deep East Oakland. Brookfield and Columbia Gardens are the other two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of these neighborhoods is like the story of so many parts of Oakland, and familiar to many inner-city neighborhoods, cut off by redlining and divided by freeways that bypassed African-American business districts. These are the places that grew increasingly isolated and abandoned by city, state and federal policies that left a legacy of intergenerational poverty, a dark cloud that settled over America’s urban core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649751\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10649751\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbors enjoy Tyrone Carney Park's one-day opening.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16399_IMG_7509.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors enjoy Tyrone Carney Park's one-day opening. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that is a simplification, a narrative that is both true and also truly more complicated. To understand the human history of Sobrante Park, look no further than Phebia Richardson. Just about everyone here calls the 82-year-old \"Mrs. Phebia.\" These days she uses a cane to help her walk, but her memory is strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first black woman to move in Sobrante Park lived across the street from the church,\" Mrs. Phebia says. \"Her name was Mrs. Winn, and they didn’t know she was black because she was light-skinned with blond hair. And when her husband and child came in, that’s when they found out, but it was too late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year was 1952, and that, says Mrs. Phebia, was the beginning of white flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1955, Mrs. Phebia’s sister moved into the neighborhood, the first black woman on her block. Mrs. Phebia followed seven years later, moving into the house she still inhabits. That wasn’t the first time she had tried to buy real estate in the neighborhood. “I got married in 1951, my husband and I came out here, and tried to get a house, but they wouldn’t let us have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobrante Park was initially built to house the families of military service members. White flight left behind a thriving, increasingly African-American community. It was a tight-knit group, where neighbors looked out for neighbors, worshipped together, and planned graduation parties when kids went off to college. The community was tied together not just by experience and faith, but by geography. The layout of Sobrante Park is a network of narrow, looping streets with single-story bungalows built side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hellen Harvey grew up in Columbia Gardens, but she remembers coming to Sobrante Park. Harvey doesn’t live in these parts anymore, but she promised when she retired she would give back to the community that raised her. Now, she’s a church deacon at the Community Reformed Church in Sobrante Park, the same church she started attending when she was 9 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the day, where that park is, where Tyrone Carney Park is -- that was a thriving community,” she says. “You had your grocery stores, you had your gas station, you had your beauty shop, you had your real estate office, you had your cleaners, you had everything right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookfield was the same way, she says. Columbia Gardens residents didn’t have a business district, but they would come to Sobrante Park to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Carney\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the mid to late 1960s, that thriving business center was fading. Stores closed or moved out, the grocery store burned down in a fire. Real estate restrictions targeting African-Americans and a slow migration of wealthier families were part of the issue, as was the increasing isolation, politically and geographically, of the neighborhood. The closing off of the Deep East had begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the neighborhood still had a vibrant and active base, including Mrs. Phebia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they sold all of this stuff in here,” she says, “and then all of the other people moved all their stores, we decided we wanted to do something, because people were just hanging out on the corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was why, in 1968, the year Carney died in Vietnam, the community banded together to build a park. They knew just the right spot -- where the burned-out grocery store once stood, at the entrance to the neighborhood. And they had a name picked out. They wanted to name it after their native son, Tyrone Carney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And Then the Drugs Came\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The close quarters of the neighborhood meant that a community that shared the good also shared the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the park was just what it should be, a jewel of the neighborhood where children played and families came together. But slowly that changed too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When the drugs came in it just killed the communities. \u003ccite>Hellen Harvey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When the drugs came in it just killed the communities,” says Hellen Harvey. “It really did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey worked for the post office, and she remembers how dealers would drop their drug stashes in mailboxes. Sometimes they would beat up the mailman \"because he wasn’t getting there in a timely manner so he could unlock the box so they could get their stuff out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park once named for the neighborhood hero became an open-air drug market. There were fights and shootings. Too many deaths, says Mrs. Phebia. If the first battle for Tyrone Carney Park was to create it, the second was to close it. But she never expected the park to stay that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The park's tattered basketball hoops have sat unused for over a decade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16394_IMG_7422.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The park's tattered basketball hoops have sat unused for over a decade. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Reopening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thirteen years later, Dayvon Brown, whose father’s death helped usher the closing of Tyrone Carney park, walks through the park with his girlfriend. On this Saturday in August, the park has been turned into a neighborhood garage sale, the sounds of children playing lingering in the air with the smell of grilled hot dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't buy anything. He's here to pay his respects. He says he's glad the park is open. “For the kids,” he says, “this is for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, being a kid in the park was more complicated. He was just 11 years old when his father was killed here. And by that age, he says, he was already coming to the park to sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antoinette Bale also remembers the park during those years. Even with the drugs and destruction, her memories are good ones. This is still her childhood park, and she was the girl out here, beating all the boys in basketball. She remembers Brown’s father, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He may have been out here doing some bad things, but he was her friend. She recalls one night in particular, the two of them leaning back on the park bench, staring at the sky and talking about the hugeness of it all, the way young people do, knowing everything and not enough all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649762\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The gates of Tyrone Carney Park are open to residents for the first time since 2002.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16403_IMG_7526.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gates of Tyrone Carney Park are open to residents for the first time since 2002. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Man, it’s no such thing as a God, Toinette,'\" she says. \"'Cause how the bird this, and the fish. ...' Man, I never forget that night. And then to see his son. ...” She trails off. “You don’t know how people who was here before it was closed feel, just to pass through it again. This is beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Memory Holders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The memories guiding the neighborhood, in large part, are those of Mrs. Phebia -- back to a time when the park was open and the streets were safe. There is a group of tough women -- and some men -- working on finding that safety again, including Tiffany Gibson. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, but she works here with a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://highergroundndc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Ground\u003c/a>. It set up shop in Sobrante Park in 2002, the same year Tyrone Carney Park closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are older, who are really championing this work, they have that historical perspective,” Gibson said. \"They felt a connection to each other and the space that they lived in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That connection never went away. The moment the park closed, Mrs. Phebia was on the phone with every politician and mover and shaker she knew. Mrs. Phebia’s list of contacts reads like a who’s who of black politics in Oakland -- from former mayor and state legislator \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Elihu_M._Harris\" target=\"_blank\">Elihu Harris\u003c/a> to longtime East Oakland City Councilman \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/o/District7/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Reid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Phebia is a fierce matriarch, Gibson says: “When you see a 70-plus-year-old woman standing up at a meeting saying, 'I’m ready to fight, so what are you going to do?' You have no choice but to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the park's closure in 2002, the city of Oakland formed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/social-and-health-equity/partnerships-and-communities-collaboration/ccni/sobrante-park.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">city-county initiative\u003c/a> to connect residents to public agencies. The neighborhood women worked with them, training teenagers to canvass the neighborhood to ask residents what they wanted for a new Tyrone Carney Park. They raised money to have an architect draw up plans, and the community voted on them, picking one that conceived the park as a gateway to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, Gibson says, was to get a series of projects done in three years, from reopening the park to making the streets safe. But that didn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years later what we realized was the plan was great,” she says. “But it takes longer to move community than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They still have the architect's plans for Tyrone Carney Park. But they haven’t been able to get the money to realize them. Part of the problem is that it would cost $2 million. There was hope the project would be able to get \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/plans-are-in-the-works-to-transform-tyrone-carney-park-in-east-oakland.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">city redevelopment money\u003c/a>, but that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time passed, the challenges facing the neighborhood changed. Sobrante Park has seen sweeping shifts in the past decade. Many long-term residents lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis and left the neighborhood. There are more renters now, and the demographics have shifted. It's an increasingly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649814\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"For one day only, community residents have opened their neighborhood park, closed for 13 years, for a garage sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16404_IMG_7533.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For one day only, community residents have opened their neighborhood park, closed for 13 years, for a garage sale. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bringing a whole group of new people into the work of neighborhood building isn't easy, Gibson says: \"We have some real race issues that we are dealing with right now. It really is -- it’s race and culture and class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Gibson says, change is hard. It took 30-plus years for the neighborhood to fall apart, she says, and \"you can't put the pieces back together overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A New Community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Arrington is driving me around the looped streets of Sobrante Park. Arrington is the head of the RAC -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/social-and-health-equity/partnerships-and-communities-collaboration/ccni/sobrante-park/sp-rac.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Action Council\u003c/a> -- a group of neighbors who are on the ground here daily. She returned to the neighborhood about five years ago to look after her aging parents, who still live in the house she grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington drives past a woman setting up folding tables on her front lawn. Arrington explains that everyone calls the woman \"Bishop,\" although it's not her name; she got the nickname because she is a pastor. “She has a food giveaway, people go over there and get food,\" Arrington tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a community,” she exclaims as we pass Bishop. You can hear a hint of frustration in her voice, a rare occurrence for a woman who is usually relentlessly upbeat, continuously stressing the need to focus on the positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met Arrington, she was straight up about one thing: “We want to make clear,” she told me, “that your speaking to us today is going to project positiveness in our community.\" She is sick of only hearing about Sobrante Park when something bad happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those positive things is a minipark at the back end of the neighborhood, on a patch of grass that connects the two Sobrante Park public schools. Arrington and the RAC got a grant to put in a playground and benches there, so even without Tyrone Carney Park, kids would have a place to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649952\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Arrington, right, sells raffle tickets at the entrance to the park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16395_IMG_7445.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Arrington, right, sells raffle tickets at the entrance to the park. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we sit on the bench, Arrington doesn’t shy away from the fact that problems still linger. 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"content": "\u003cp>Curtis Carroll discovered the stock market in prison. Through friends and family on the outside, he invests from San Quentin State Prison in Northern California, and he's also an informal financial adviser to fellow inmates and correctional officers. Everyone in prison calls him Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't believe that this kind of access to this type of money could be accessible to anybody. Everybody should do it. And it's legal!\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pores over financial news: \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em>. Business is like a soap opera, he says, and he's always trying to anticipate what will happen next. \"I like to know what the CEO's doing,\" he says. \"I like to know who's in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll, 37, taught himself to read in prison. Raised in Oakland, he spent most of his youth homeless. His mother and grandmother were addicted to crack. He and his brother spent most of their time roaming the streets. Carroll didn't know how to read or write, so he paid other kids to do his homework. He hated school, and in his early teens, he fell into a gang and began committing crimes. At age 17, he entered the prison system. He's been in prison for 20 years, doing a sentence of 54 to life for his part in a robbery attempt that ended in a murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/431958714/432192433\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day Carroll stumbled on the financial section of the newspaper thinking it was the sports section, which his cellmate used to read to him. Another inmate asked him if he played the stocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never heard the word before,\" says Carroll. \"He explained to me how it works and said, 'This is where white people keep their money.' When he said that I said, 'Whoa, I think I stumbled across something here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll began with small investments known as penny stocks, which were high risk but successful enough to allow him to keep investing. He says he taught himself to read by looking at candy wrappers and clothing logos, and once he got the hang of it, he started to read financial stories. A former cellmate says he would study his stocks all night and into the early hours of the morning. And he often writes out stock predictions, taping them to the wall in an envelope, dating them and then checking back later to see how well he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Thursday night, Wall Street and a group of volunteers from outside the prison teach the men some of the principles of sound personal finance, stock investments, retirement and how to manage the money they do have — things most of the inmates have had no training in. Wall Street tells his theories to the assembled group. \"There's four steps,\" he says. \"Every person on this planet that has made money has mastered these four simple steps: savings, cost control, borrowing prudently and diversification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is called Freeman Capital, and he co-founded it with fellow inmate Troy Williams. Williams says about 70 people attend the class each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the prisoners serve decades-long sentences, and when they are released, they are given $200 and little to no knowledge of financial resources such as retirement funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like, 'Good luck. We're gonna pray for you. Stay out of prison,'\" says Williams, who is on parole from San Quentin State Prison after serving a life sentence. \"Who do you want coming home? Do you want the animal that's been caged away for years that's the same badass gang-banger that he was when he went to prison? Or do you want somebody that's coming home thinking differently?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll doesn't have access to a computer or the Internet, so he calls his family members to check the closing prices for the day, and he tells them what to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm in prison, but I'm on just the same playing field as Warren Buffett,\" Carroll says. \"I can pick the exact same companies. 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