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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A West Oakland church school that makes its students ask for money at BART stations appears to have vastly inflated its enrollment numbers to collect extra taxpayer funding, some of which goes to a teacher who former students say physically abused them and other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67187\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-67187 \" title=\"St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland. Tuesday May 29th, 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for years, St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church and \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">private school\u003c/a> has operated with virtually no government oversight despite repeated red flags. The K-12 school is run by \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/51212.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lacy\u003c/a>, 79, a pastor who pleaded guilty in 2007 to theft of government money for taking his deceased father’s Social Security payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents and interviews show St. Andrew has inflated its enrollment numbers, allowing school officials to reap tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding they might not have deserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District – which oversees federal funding to aid the education of low-income students and others in private schools – allocated $50,000 this school year to St. Andrew. The funding was based on the school’s claim that it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357631-2011-12-affidavit.html\" target=\"_blank\">195\u003c/a> students, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/365536-title-i-students.html\" target=\"_blank\">61\u003c/a> low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the previous four school years, Oakland Unified paid a total of $173,500 in federal funds to benefit St. Andrew based on its enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet former students and their parents said the school had no more than 30 students, and sometimes much fewer. An Oakland fire inspector said the school isn’t allowed to have more than 58 people in its classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents said they paid up to $400 per month for tuition, while others said the school was free – as long as their children raised funds at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate interviews, several former students said the pastor's son Robert Lacy Jr., and a teacher and church leader, would hit, kick and throw things at students. Nine-year-old Corey Butler said Lacy Jr. hit him with a belt on his behind and across his hand. Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. Robert said when we die – he already know we’re going to die before him – at our funeral, he’s going to go up to our parents and tell them not to cry because we’re going to go to hell,” Holt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 13-year-old sister, La’asia Holt, said the elder Lacy told her, “If I go home and tell another lie to my mother, he gonna beat me himself,” she said. “I felt threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siblings traded stories of abuse at St. Andrew as they sat with their mother, Yolanda Bailey, in their West Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey pulled her children out of the school this year because she said the Lacys insulted her children and didn’t send home report cards, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59PR0r99U&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">The elder Lacy\u003c/a> did not respond to an e-mail and letter sent to the school requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt said she witnessed Lacy Jr. throw objects – like a roll of duct tape – at other students, telling her once, “You might want to duck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genius Wesley said he saw Lacy Jr. strike other students on their heads with his hand. Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the previous four school years, Oakland Unified paid a total of $173,500 in federal funds to benefit St. Andrew based on its enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet former students and their parents said the school had no more than 30 students, and sometimes much fewer. An Oakland fire inspector said the school isn’t allowed to have more than 58 people in its classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents said they paid up to $400 per month for tuition, while others said the school was free – as long as their children raised funds at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate interviews, several former students said the pastor's son Robert Lacy Jr., and a teacher and church leader, would hit, kick and throw things at students. Nine-year-old Corey Butler said Lacy Jr. hit him with a belt on his behind and across his hand. Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. Robert said when we die – he already know we’re going to die before him – at our funeral, he’s going to go up to our parents and tell them not to cry because we’re going to go to hell,” Holt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 13-year-old sister, La’asia Holt, said the elder Lacy told her, “If I go home and tell another lie to my mother, he gonna beat me himself,” she said. “I felt threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siblings traded stories of abuse at St. Andrew as they sat with their mother, Yolanda Bailey, in their West Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey pulled her children out of the school this year because she said the Lacys insulted her children and didn’t send home report cards, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59PR0r99U&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">The elder Lacy\u003c/a> did not respond to an e-mail and letter sent to the school requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt said she witnessed Lacy Jr. throw objects – like a roll of duct tape – at other students, telling her once, “You might want to duck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genius Wesley said he saw Lacy Jr. strike other students on their heads with his hand. Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In middle school, the same percentage had been suspended at least once. Nearly two-thirds of high schoolers were chronically absent and had less than a C average; 41 percent had been suspended at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to understand what's going on if we're going to effectively intervene and improve outcomes and graduation and success of African-American males,\" said Junious Williams, chief executive officer of the council. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's reports on dropout indicators are part of Oakland Unified's African-American Male Achievement Initiative, an effort launched in 2010 to improve academic and social equity for black boys. 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Forty percent of students at four West Oakland schools live in public housing; 30 percent of those students were chronically absent in 2010-11. Chatmon said the district saw an uptick in school registration by reaching out to West Oakland families living in public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time black boys reach middle and high school, different factors begin to undermine attendance, Chatmon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Street culture becomes more attractive than learning and school culture,\" he said. \"How do we define school culture? What is it? 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Disruption or defiance of authority was the most common reason for discipline, accounting for 38 percent of their suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subjective standards for disruption and defiance – the reason behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/defiance-seen-as-cause-of_n_1409982.html?ref=topbar&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\" target=\"_blank\">more than 40 percent of suspensions\u003c/a> in California and the recent target of criticism and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bills-reform-school-suspensions-advance-15763\" target=\"_blank\">legislative action\u003c/a> – could be contributing to high suspension rates among black boys, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council recommended that Oakland Unified carefully monitor such offenses and clearly define what constitutes impermissible behavior. 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Why not let a handful of elderly refugees from Laos work this land? \u003c!--more-->So today, schoolchildren visit to learn about 19th century life in California - making adobe bricks and grinding corn for tortillas - alongside Mien gardeners from Southeast Asian mountain country, refugees from the so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=secret+war+laos\">Secret War\u003c/a>”that the U.S. conducted in their country half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108186813\" params=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people\">Hmong\u003c/a>, another ethnic minority in Southeast Asia, the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iu_Mien_American\">Mien\u003c/a> (originally from China) supported the U.S. during the Vietnam War. 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Those who made it out of Laos ended up in Thai refugee camps, happy to be alive ... but grieving for the people who didn’t make it out or died trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Ten years ago, a local community organizer got an idea. Why not let a handful of elderly refugees from Laos work this land in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nai Siew Saechao, 77, starting working the land as a child with her family in Tum Lan. That translates to \"Big Village.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in her mid-20s, already a mother of four, when the entire village had to flee. They crossed the border to Thailand and found themselves stuck in a refugee camp, staring at security guards and hanging on the occasional delivery of fresh vegetables to supplement their rice rations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We left everything! Cow, horse, pig, chickens,:\" she says. \"And of course the grain. The rice, corn. You can’t carry it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Communist, you know, faction in the country looked at the Mien people as traitors,\" Kathy Chao Rothberg says. She's the head of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lfcd.org/\">Lao Family Community Development\u003c/a> in Oakland. She estimates some 50,000 Mien refugees live in the U.S. now, 15,000 of them in Sacramento, another 13,000 in the East Bay. \"They’re spread out in East Oakland, in the cities of Richmond, San Pablo, El Sobrante, Pinole, Hercules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao Rothberg herself came over when she was seven years old. For her, the trauma of the passage to the U.S. is something her father talks about, a dramatic piece of family history. For older Mien refugees, the pain of what they left behind is a personal memory. Those who made it out of Laos ended up in Thai refugee camps, happy to be alive ... but grieving for the people who didn’t make it out or died trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Ten years ago, a local community organizer got an idea. Why not let a handful of elderly refugees from Laos work this land in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nai Siew Saechao, 77, starting working the land as a child with her family in Tum Lan. That translates to \"Big Village.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in her mid-20s, already a mother of four, when the entire village had to flee. They crossed the border to Thailand and found themselves stuck in a refugee camp, staring at security guards and hanging on the occasional delivery of fresh vegetables to supplement their rice rations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We left everything! Cow, horse, pig, chickens,:\" she says. \"And of course the grain. The rice, corn. You can’t carry it. Everything leave it there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four or five years, she made it to the U.S., to Oakland, and to a burgeoning community of Mien refugees. But here amid the concrete and steel of urban America, she yearned for the feel of soil between her fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Peralta Hacienda, the Mien farmers have planted pumpkins, corn and numerous varieties of green beans and herbs. Many of the vegetables grew from seed sent by family and friends back in Laos and Thailand. They provide a fresh, fragrant reminder of home, right here in Oakland, easily incorporated into stir-fries and stews. (For recipes, see my post at \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/24/a-taste-of-laos-in-east-oakland/\">Bay Area Bites\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Chao Rothberg of Lao Family says you can't understand the power of food and its cultivation to help these community elders feel connected. \"Many have mental health problems and depression. And so the garden, in addition to providing a place where they can grow vegetables and herbs for their consumption [is] also a place they can call home, that they can have other seniors to socialize with. So that they’re not so isolated.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California is home to several Mien farm programs. Others are big enough to support commercial sales, but Peralta Hacienda is sized for the personal use of just 10 people. That said, when the beans are ready to pick, sometime in July, there will be a community feast here. And everyone is invited.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Warriors, with Ed Lee, Gavin Newsom, coach Mark Jackson, owners Joe Lacob and Guber, executive board member Jerry West, and TV sports guy Ahmad Rashad on hand, announced plans to build a new arena, privately funded, at Piers 30-32 in San Francisco. The hoped-for opening date: 2017. The team’s lease at its current home, Oracle Arena in Oakland, runs through the 2016-17 season. Here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Piers+30-32,+The+Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.785673,-122.387738&spn=0.015975,0.041027&sll=37.786776,-122.387717&sspn=0.007987,0.020514&oq=piers+30+32+san+francisco&gl=us&hq=Piers+30-32,&hnear=Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+California&t=m&z=15\">site\u003c/a> of the planned stadium:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Piers+30-32,+The+Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+CA&aq=0&oq=piers+30+32+san+francisco&sll=37.786776,-122.387717&sspn=0.007987,0.020514&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=Piers+30-32,&hnear=Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.785659,-122.387723&spn=0.026439,0.014555&t=m&output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Piers+30-32,+The+Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+CA&aq=0&oq=piers+30+32+san+francisco&sll=37.786776,-122.387717&sspn=0.007987,0.020514&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=Piers+30-32,&hnear=Embarcadero,+San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.785659,-122.387723&spn=0.026439,0.014555&t=m\">View Larger Map\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2012/05/22/MNKD1OLCVJ.DTL\">coverage from Heather Knight in the Chron\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/mark-purdy/ci_20676205/mark-purdy-warriors-taking-history-san-francisco-arena\">Mark Purdy in the Mercury News\u003c/a>. The Bay Area News Group is hosting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_20680321/live-chat-what-warriors-planned-move-san-francisco\">live chat\u003c/a> on the news at 12:30 p.m. And Ray Ratto of CSN Bay Area attempts to answer the question: \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/basketball-golden-state-warriors/warriors-talk/End-of-pro-sports-in-Oakland-?blockID=712052&feedID=2799\">End of pro sports in Oakland\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of which, here’s Oakland’s somewhat sad \u003ca href=\"http://nbcbayarea.csnbayarea.com/05/21/12/Oakland-statement-on-Warriors-arena-situ/nbcbay_landing.html?blockID=711506&feedID=10152\">statement\u003c/a> on Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are still in direct dialogue with the Warriors about the opportunity to build a new arena. We have always been aware that they are exploring all their options, including a San Francisco site. We continue to believe that Coliseum City offers the best new home to the Warriors, Oakland A’s and Oakland Raiders.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong> And this today from a City of Oakland statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>City of Oakland Remains Bullish about Coliseum City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City of Oakland officials this morning said that although they are disappointed that the Warriors are pursuing a new venue in San Francisco, they remain bullish about the significant and transformative impact of the Coliseum City project on the City’s future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum City project area encompasses 1,000 acres of central Bay Area real estate that will integrate a world-class sports and entertainment district. It will be home to the most significant, comprehensively planned science and technology district planned in California since Mission Bay. It will become a major transit-served housing, hotel and waterfront development that will transform the Central Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coliseum City is a long-term development project that was never dependent on any one tenant,” said Mayor Jean Quan. “It was always a larger project than just one sports team. This is the largest transit-oriented development project in the state, with entertainment, sports, retail, office, hotels and a convention center, and is one of the centerpieces of Oakland’s economic renaissance.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then there’s this from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/matthai\">Matthai Kuruvila\u003c/a> of the Chron:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Of course, we still have to come up with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523GSW\">#GSW\u003c/a> stadium name. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523PavilionOnPiers\">#PavilionOnPiers\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523StadiumOnStilts\">#StadiumOnStilts\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523FloatingFieldhouse\">#FloatingFieldhouse\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523SwimGym\">#SwimGym\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— matthai kuruvila (@matthai) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matthai/status/204992299267133440\">May 22, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWord is the Warriors want to move to San Francisco. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2012/05/22/MNP41OK74T.DTL\">Matier & Ross\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors are jumping across the bay, with plans for a privately financed, $500 million waterfront arena that would allow the team to play its home games in San Francisco for the first time in more than four decades…It is going to happen – let there be no doubt,” Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob said Monday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/live\">Watch the press conference live\u003c/a> at CSN Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It ain't through Major League Baseball, that's for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not according to Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone's interpretation of some remarks MLB Commissioner Bud Selig made last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding baseball's interminable process (1164 days and counting according to \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/\">newballpark.org\u003c/a>) of deciding should they stay or can they go when it comes to A's owner Lew Wolff's fondest hope of hightailing it out of Oakland for Silicon Valley, Selig said this last Thursday, per AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says it's up to Oakland owner Lew Wolff to decide whether to consider additional sites for a new ballpark for the Athletics, leaving open the possibility of a move outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Thursday after a quarterly owners' meeting, Selig said there's no timetable for resolving Oakland's dispute with the San Francisco Giants. 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He added that he can't provide a timetable and responded \"no\" when asked whether some kind of decision was approaching.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later that day I gave Assessor Stone, who's been working on enabling an A's move to his neck of the woods since Bill Clinton was in office, to see if he'd interpreted Selig's reported comments yet. He had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would interpret Mr. Selig's comments as meaning that San Jose's site is off the table and he's asking Lew Wolff to consider additional sites other than San Jose. You can only conclude I guess that that's a rejection of a potential move of the A's to San Jose. And that's extremely disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the commissioner says Lew Wolff needs to look at other options, additional sites for ballparks, it would seem to me that puts the San Jose site closed out. I can't interpret that any other way. If there's something I'm missing here, I'd be glad to listen. I hope there's something I'm missing here. If moving the A's to San Jose is in fact dead, it means San Jose and Silicon Valley will not have a MLB team forever.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/31/the-tribs-angela-woodall-tells-us-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-as-ballpark-situation/\">Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the A's Ballpark Situation\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Stone wants the Giants to do the same thing for the A's that the A's did for the Giants back in the 1990s, when A's owner Walter Haas ceded to the Giants, who were looking to move to San Jose, the territorial rights to Santa Clara County. \"The mistake that was made by MLB and by the A's,\" Stone says, \"is that the territorial rights given to the Giants by the A's in the 1990s should have been conditioned on the success of the ballot measure to bring the Giants to San Jose. That measure failed, but the territorial rights remained.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of Chronicle columnists subsequently agreed with the \"Selig to A's and San Jose: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html\">Drop Dead\u003c/a>\" subtext of Selig's remarks. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/19/SP3J1OKBQF.DTL\">Al Saracevic\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Looks like Wolff's game of chicken isn't paying off. Commissioner Bud Selig told the A's this past week to look elsewhere if they want. But the subtext was clear: San Jose shouldn't be on their itinerary...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolff and his silent majority partner, John Fisher, need to give up on San Jose. They need to partner up with city government and local business leaders on a plan that will work in Oakland. This is a city that needs all the help it can get. 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Here's a conversation about Oakland she had with Clowes...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/danielclowesoakland.mp3\">Audio: Daniel Clowes waxes poetic about Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/danielclowesoakland.mp3|titles=danielclowesoakland]\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NPR'S LAURA SYDELL\u003c/strong>: This town you sort of ended up in. Do you like Oakland? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DANIEL CLOWES\u003c/strong>: I love Oakland. I feel very comfortable here. I feel like it's sort of a decent bunch of people. You feel like the default person you might meet is like a vegan who rides a unicycle. It seems like a nice place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I go visit some other city, like back in the Midwest, I'm always shocked to see Sarah Palin bumper stickers or something like that. 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You go down there and it's really kind of a beautiful spot and it's well designed and set up for people to hang out, and you're taking your little five-year-old son there, and all of a sudden there's giant letters, obscene graffiti everywhere. And somehow it's perfect. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LAURA SYDELL\u003c/strong>: The Tribune tower pops up now and again in your work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DANIEL CLOWES\u003c/strong>: That's kind of the only architectural icon of Oakland. It's not like anyone else in the world would recognize it, but somehow it has status to people who've actually lived here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LAURA SYDELL\u003c/strong>: To what degree do you want anything in your comic books to be undeniably Oakland? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DANIEL CLOWES\u003c/strong>: Well Wilson is sort of explicitly Oakland. I don’t want to have to get the geography correct, where he's turning a corner and he's on a street that he couldn't possibly be on, while in the middle of the same thought, I don’t want to be beholden to that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I keep it somewhat abstract. I want to suggest rather than document. I certainly don't go out and take photos and try to slavishly copy the photos; I try to memorize things and draw things from memory. Because it's really more about my brain interpreting the space rather than trying to just draw it accurately. There's no real point in that; you might as well just try to take a photo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's funny how when you draw that way, things become very clear. I can look back at panels 20 years later and know exactly what I was trying to get at with only a few lines. It's a much better way to work. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can keep it all in my head and sort of have a reference of anything. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands took to the streets in Greenbrae, San Francisco and Oakland to protest for immigration reform, better health benefits and to support unions. View \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedradio/sets/72157629577079522/\">more photos\u003c/a> from the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_9228.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64249\" title=\"IMG_9228\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_9228-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"A police line on Broadway blocking a cross street. A customer gets her hair styled upstairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At about 8:30 p.m. Oakland police declared an unlawful assembly and asked the thousands of protesters gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, police form a line on Broadway, blocking a cross street, while a customer gets her hair styled upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_92021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64258\" title=\"IMG_9202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_92021-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\" An explosive device detonates after police rush protesters at 14th and Broadway.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An explosive device detonates after police rush protesters at 14th and Broadway.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/drumming.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64261\" title=\"drumming\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/drumming-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1,000 and 2,000 protesters joined the group at Frank Ogawa Plaza. More than 90 police line the city hall. Meanwhile, the drum circles and marching bands began playing in earnest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of protesters who were marching in Fruitvale join the group at Frank Ogawa Plaza. More than 90 police line the city hall. Meanwhile, the drum circles and marching bands began playing in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMAG0137.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64274\" title=\"IMAG0137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMAG0137-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"About 3,000 protesters march on International Boulevard.\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Stelzer/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 3,000 protesters march on International Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Franciso\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3263.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64262\" title=\"IMG_3263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3263-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"About two hundred protesters marched from downtown San Francisco to Turk and Gough where they took over a building owned by the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese. A month earlier protesters had tried to take over the same building and 75 were arrested.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thibault Worth/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About two hundred protesters marched from downtown San Francisco to Turk and Gough where they took over a building owned by the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese. A month earlier protesters had tried to take over the same building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3291.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64263\" title=\"IMG_3291\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3291-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Nesbitt, 34, of San Francisco threw bricks and pipes at protesters and police\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thibault Worth/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Nesbitt, 34, of San Francisco, began throwing bricks, pipes and other debris at police and protesters alike after 888 Turk was cleared out. He is charged with aggravated assault, aggravated assault of a police officer and felony vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_8971.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64264\" title=\"IMG_8971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_8971-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A woman being arrested at 14th and Broadway in downtown Oakland. This arrest set off some scuffles between protesters and police.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza in the afternoon. A woman was arrested at 14th and Broadway in downtown Oakland. This arrest set off scuffles between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/smoke.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/smoke-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"An explosive device goes off near 14th and Broadway as police arrest another demonstrator. \" title=\"smoke\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An explosive device goes off near 14th and Broadway as police arrest another demonstrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_9037.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64265\" title=\"IMG_9037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_9037-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters threw paint at police officers near 14th and Broadway.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters threw paint at police officers near 14th and Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/7132755545_7bce3f5a99_b1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/7132755545_7bce3f5a99_b1-e1335994894425.jpg\" alt=\"A chalk drawing at Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza on May 1, 2012. \" title=\"7132755545_7bce3f5a99_b\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64283\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters work on an elaborate chalk drawing at Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greenbrae\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/7132316441_02b0a998b4_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-64268\" title=\"7132316441_02b0a998b4_o\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/7132316441_02b0a998b4_o.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters at the Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur Terminal on May 1, 2012.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mina Kim/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the protests were called off at the Golden Gate Bridge, protesters still gathered at the Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur Terminal early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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A customer gets her hair styled upstairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At about 8:30 p.m. Oakland police declared an unlawful assembly and asked the thousands of protesters gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, police form a line on Broadway, blocking a cross street, while a customer gets her hair styled upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_92021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64258\" title=\"IMG_9202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_92021-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\" An explosive device detonates after police rush protesters at 14th and Broadway.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An explosive device detonates after police rush protesters at 14th and Broadway.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/drumming.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64261\" title=\"drumming\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/drumming-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1,000 and 2,000 protesters joined the group at Frank Ogawa Plaza. More than 90 police line the city hall. Meanwhile, the drum circles and marching bands began playing in earnest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Clyde/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of protesters who were marching in Fruitvale join the group at Frank Ogawa Plaza. More than 90 police line the city hall. Meanwhile, the drum circles and marching bands began playing in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMAG0137.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64274\" title=\"IMAG0137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMAG0137-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"About 3,000 protesters march on International Boulevard.\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Stelzer/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 3,000 protesters march on International Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Franciso\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3263.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-64262\" title=\"IMG_3263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/IMG_3263-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"About two hundred protesters marched from downtown San Francisco to Turk and Gough where they took over a building owned by the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese. A month earlier protesters had tried to take over the same building and 75 were arrested.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thibault Worth/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About two hundred protesters marched from downtown San Francisco to Turk and Gough where they took over a building owned by the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese. 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