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Just the fact that tons of heads of state from all over the world are coming here today to meet with Biden and negotiate policies that we know … play a role in expansion of neoliberal policies that affect theft of land and resources all over the world,” Suzanne Ali, a San Francisco-based organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters at the event condemned Biden’s ongoing support for Israel, which launched a ground invasion of Gaza on Oct. 27 after weeks of heavy air strikes. Israel’s attacks followed the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion from Gaza into Southern Israel, when militants killed at least 1,200 people and took more than 230 hostages, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. More than 11,100 civilians in Gaza have been killed since Oct. 7 by Israeli attacks, largely airstrikes, according to Gaza’s health ministry. As of last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast/palestinian-israeli-deaths-gaza-dg/index.html\">nearly half of them were children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators at Tuesday’s rally demanded an end to the invasion and to the rising death toll of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. An energetic crowd of hundreds of protesters quickly grew to approximately 3,000, many carrying signs and waving Palestinian flags outside the Powell Street BART station just after 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg\" alt=\"Blue and yellow protest signs are held above a group of people while a man waves a Palestinian flag on scaffolding above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023, during arrivals by world leaders to the APEC summit. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid chants of “cease-fire now” and “money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation,” speakers took to megaphones to decry the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars for what they called “Israeli genocide” and directed many remarks directly at Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the millions of us that have been in the streets for Gaza and for Palestine, Joe Biden and his administration continue to ignore the people,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told the crowd.”This is our chance because Joe Biden is here in San Francisco. This is our chance to tell Joe Biden where the people stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some protesters wanted Joe Biden and other world leaders attending APEC to heed their message about the importance of prioritizing domestic issues such as health care and education as they demonstrated on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Carlos Riquelme, a resident of Hayward, and Delia Calderon of San Francisco, both Peruvians, said Peruvian President Dina Boluarte – whose administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/peru-youth-indigenous-protests-dina-boluarte/\">has been blamed for the deaths of dozens of pro-Democracy demonstrators over the last year\u003c/a> – needed to hear such a message as well. Boluarte is also in San Francisco for APEC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Boluarte] has to listen… She and everyone has to hear that what the world needs is peace, money for education and not the killing of other brothers and sisters [in the global south],” Calderon told KQED in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here for all of humanity, for all the people who have been murdered, segregated, marginalized, disabled, exposed to poverty, condemned to poverty… We are here because we want that to change. This generation is struggling more than ever and we want this to stop now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about 100 people walk on a city street while holding protest signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 6 p.m., the crowd began marching east along Market Street, snarling traffic and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFMTA_Muni/status/1724608696167358574?s=20\">backing up Muni buses\u003c/a>, to demonstrate outside a campaign fundraiser event scheduled to be attended by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the Palestinian Youth Movement, other groups organized and supported Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, which brought together activists from across the Bay Area, including organizers from the ANSWER Coalition, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, San Francisco State University General Union of Palestine Students, and Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">protests calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> have been happening across the Bay Area in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/11/14/jewish-protest-oakland-ceasefire-gaza/\">hundreds of Jewish protesters and supporters occupied the Oakland Federal Building,\u003c/a> also demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. That event, which culminated in numerous arrests, has been recognized as one of the largest Jewish civil disobedience actions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='israel-hamas-war']Organizers of Tuesday’s demonstration said they are working in solidarity with other groups protesting this week’s global leaders summit in San Francisco. That includes groups like No to APEC, a broad coalition of human rights advocates, climate activists and anti-capitalist organizations. A protest that No to APEC organized earlier this week aimed to call out CEOs, heads of state and other dignitaries attending the event for workers’ rights violations, climate degradation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsors of APEC include major U.S. consumer corporations like Amazon, as well as weapons manufacturers like Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have been protesting relentlessly in the streets in support of Palestine,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation organizer Saul Kanowitz in a press statement announcing Tuesday’s San Francisco protest. “While the majority of Americans support a cease-fire, the Biden administration and Congress have ignored our demands and continue to enable Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is highlighted by a light at night wearing a Palestine scarf and hijab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lnmia Zahi participates in Tuesday evening’s protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of U.S. Democrats (46%) disapprove of how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-apnorc-poll-biden-democrats-42b195c5a577a40ff981d26afbff9997\">according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Organizers of Tuesday’s demonstration said they are working in solidarity with other groups protesting this week’s global leaders summit in San Francisco. That includes groups like No to APEC, a broad coalition of human rights advocates, climate activists and anti-capitalist organizations. A protest that No to APEC organized earlier this week aimed to call out CEOs, heads of state and other dignitaries attending the event for workers’ rights violations, climate degradation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsors of APEC include major U.S. consumer corporations like Amazon, as well as weapons manufacturers like Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have been protesting relentlessly in the streets in support of Palestine,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation organizer Saul Kanowitz in a press statement announcing Tuesday’s San Francisco protest. “While the majority of Americans support a cease-fire, the Biden administration and Congress have ignored our demands and continue to enable Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is highlighted by a light at night wearing a Palestine scarf and hijab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lnmia Zahi participates in Tuesday evening’s protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of U.S. Democrats (46%) disapprove of how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-apnorc-poll-biden-democrats-42b195c5a577a40ff981d26afbff9997\">according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research\u003c/a>. A similar number of Democrats (44%) said the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, and not supportive enough of Palestinians, according to the poll. A slightly higher number of Democrats (45%) said U.S. support of Israel is “about right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s a critical moment. Over 66% of voters support the demand for a cease-fire,” said Ali of the Palestinian Youth Movement, referring to findings from a recent poll from Data for Progress. “This being a world event is really important for us to have this opportunity to make our demands clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of Democrat and Republican lawmakers in Washington have continued to voice their support for Israel. But a small group of congressional lawmakers, including East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee, has \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/10/17/jayapal-casar-lee-mcgovern-castro-escobar-garcia-release-statement-calling-for-ceasefire/\">supported calls for a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just over a year ago, David DePape of Richmond broke into the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with plans to don an inflatable unicorn costume, interrogate her in her own home on camera about a right-wing conspiracy concerning President Donald Trump called “Russiagate,” then break her kneecaps, and have her wheeled into Congress to expose what he called “lies” told by the “ruling class,” a “cabal” of politicians, academics, celebrities and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the “grand plan” DePape, 43, revealed to a jury on the third day of the federal trial against him in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, over the course of more than an hour’s worth of questioning from his federal public defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David DePape\"]‘That was the grand end of my plan, to get Joe Biden to pardon all the criminals for all their criminal conduct.’[/pullquote]DePape, accused of bludgeoning Paul Pelosi and attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, faces life in prison for charges of attempting to kidnap a federal officer and assaulting a family member of a federal official. He has pleaded not guilty. Court proceedings began on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape occasionally broke into tears, blew his nose and held the bridge of his nose as if in pain during various parts of his testimony, including recalling when he used to have “strong anti-Trump vibes,” views that changed after he began a steady diet of far-right-wing media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape told jurors on Tuesday that his plan included luring one of his highest targets, a sexuality and gender academic named Gayle Rubin, known to the court as “Target 1,” to Pelosi’s home using the speaker’s celebrity as a draw, then continuing on to target Gov. Gavin Newsom and several public figures, and ultimately President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grand plan was to expose everything at the end with Hunter Biden,” DePape told jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once DePape exposed what he considered the “truth,” he planned to ask President Biden to pardon all the people he considered criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the grand end of my plan, to get Joe Biden to pardon all the criminals for all their criminal conduct,” DePape said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said exposing the “truth” and then pardoning those responsible for various crimes – from what he called Democratic party lies to converting schools into molestation “factories” – would ultimately unify the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the so-called criminals on his target list included actor Tom Hanks, Hunter Biden, Rep. Adam Schiff, former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire George Soros, among others. Some of the names of his targets were revealed for the first time in court Tuesday, including Barr and Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stand, Depape accused one of his targets, Rubin, of trying to create “pedophiliac molestation factories” out of schools across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubin, a University of Michigan anthropology and women’s studies professor, has been the target of conspiracy theories from extremist YouTubers, writers and podcasters for her groundbreaking academic work as an anthropologist writing about feminist and queer theory. Rubin also testified in court Tuesday under the pseudonym “Target 1,” and said her workplace took measures to ensure her safety after she learned from the FBI that DePape had intended to lure her to the Pelosi home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape had a slip of paper in his pocket with Rubin’s address and phone number on it when he arrived at the Pelosi home last year. DePape’s attorneys handed Rubin that slip of paper in court, and Rubin confirmed it was her address and an older phone number that DePape had intended to call after kidnapping Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, DePape said, “I was thinking of going to her house first. The reason was proximity. She was closest to BART,” he said of Rubin’s home. Ultimately though, her home seemed too well fortified, he said, and he settled on visiting Pelosi first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s fascination with Rubin sprang from podcaster James Lindsay, DePape said, referring to the right-wing media personality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“James Lindsay reads her papers, and what I got is she’s trying to turn our schools into molestation factories,” DePape said, repeating unfounded and baseless accusations that have long been shown to be rooted in bigotry against the LGTBQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he listened to Lindsay’s podcasts about Rubin, DePape said “I was outraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And DePape’s radicalization wasn’t limited to Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch of an older woman with short grey hair on the witness stand next to a judge, with another woman, with curly hair, facing her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Target1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gayle Rubin, a University of Michigan anthropology and women’s studies professor (center), known to the court as ‘Target 1,’ testifies on the witness stand, answering questions from Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker (right), one of David DePape’s attorneys, in a San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told the jury he came across most of his newfound political ideas after listening to mostly right-wing political YouTubers for entire weekends at a time and a minimum of six hours per day on weekdays, including Lindsay, Jimmy Dore and Glenn Beck. He would listen to the YouTubers’ political screeds while playing muted video games for hours on end in the Richmond garage he lived in, which had no toilet, shower or bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those podcasts introduced him to the unfounded ideas that Tom Hanks had raped a young girl, and that Rep. Adam Schiff was somehow linked to child traffickers. More traditional right-wing attacks on Democrats would mix in with his more extreme conspiracy theories, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fucking love Hunter Biden. He’s like so blatantly corrupt. He doesn’t even try to hide his nepotism,” DePape said on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was video games that first led DePape down that rabbit hole of far-right-wing personalities who he said expose the truth to help him see “both sides of the story” in current events, and that eventually led him to believe wide-ranging conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape said he had been looking up video game tips on YouTube when he first encountered information about “gamergate,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/articles/402899/what-was-gamergate/\">a nearly decade-old social media harassment campaign\u003c/a> led by misogynistic male gamers who targeted and threatened violence against women in the video game industry. He then began intensely researching their many spurious claims about feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, which led him to discover additional targets, DePape said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More DePape Trial Coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]“I’d look up a [strategy to defeat a video game] boss, and it’d be a total different person, and these people would talk about how toxic Anita Sarkeesian is, over and over and over,” DePape said. “I wanted to find out what was going on here. I wanted to get both sides of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, DePape said, led his research “deeper and deeper and deeper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s those same YouTubers, podcasters and others, DePape said, whose ideas slowly brought him from his more left-wing ideals to Pelosi’s home in the early morning of Oct. 28, 2022. Perhaps reflecting the roots of his conspiracy theories, he had a gray Nintendo Switch in his backpack that night, alongside the zip ties and rope he took with him to restrain Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before DePape’s testimony Tuesday morning, a neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Huang, testified for the prosecution. He described in gory detail how parts of Paul Pelosi’s skull were shifted by the impact of DePape’s at least three hammer blows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One photo displayed in court showed Paul Pelosi’s head from the side, with what appeared to be a large portion of the front of his skull flattened from his injuries and a roughly 4-inch laceration going across the back-right part of his skull, which was shaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape said he hadn’t gone to the Pelosi home that night intending to hurt Paul Pelosi, just his wife. 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I recognized I was in serious danger.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]Pelosi’s testimony comes on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966865/defense-focuses-on-conspiracy-theories-in-first-day-of-trial-over-attempted-nancy-pelosi-kidnapping\">second day of the highly anticipated trial\u003c/a>, in which DePape faces life in prison for charges of attempting to kidnap a federal officer and assaulting a family member of a federal official. Court proceedings began on Thursday when a jury heard opening statements and testimony from several key witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Pelosi’s appearance in the courtroom Monday, jurors had been shown several graphic videos from the incident, including slow-motion footage of DePape striking the then 82-year-old multiple times in the head with a hammer and a subsequent clip of Pelosi laying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. 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He vaguely remembers being carried into the ambulance, speaking to paramedics and arriving at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the attack, Pelosi testified, he tried to put the incident even further out of his mind. He didn’t initially talk about it with his family and avoided viewing any of the footage from that night or listening to his 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve made the best effort I possibly can to not relive this,” Pelosi said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Pelosi\"]‘And he says, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ I think that woke me up. It was a tremendous shock to recognize someone had broken into the house. I recognized I was in serious danger.’[/pullquote]But Pelosi described how, for many months after the attack, he would frequently suffer from headaches and dizziness due to his head injuries. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of protesters and activists rallied in downtown San Francisco Sunday in opposition to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apec.org/\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation\u003c/a> summit, which brings together heads of state and over a thousand CEOs from 21 APEC member states from\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965942/from-street-closures-to-security-checks-what-to-know-about-sf-apec-2023\"> Nov. 11-17\u003c/a>. The APEC summit has drawn an estimated 20,000 people and put San Francisco on the world stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “mass mobilization” on Sunday kicked off a week of protests organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/no2apec/\">No to APEC Coalition\u003c/a>. Here’s a guide to help you understand who the activists are, why they are protesting the APEC summit, and what they have planned in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who are the activists?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11965942,news_11966968,news_11966960\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The No to APEC Coalition is incredibly diverse and represents over \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VvZ_NCXd5sIS1N7F4QSbfmWKJOY5npGKbMeOg-Rpc9s/edit\">100 grassroots community action organizations\u003c/a> nationwide, active in the fields of migrant and immigration rights, indigenous rights, human rights, labor rights, climate and environmental justice groups, women’s rights groups and more. Activists are also protesting the Israel-Hamas war, joining the growing international calls for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area climate organizer Nik Evasco describes it as “a very broad intersectional coalition that touches on diaspora peoples from the Global South, labor and the climate bloc … anti-militarist groups … and people who are really focused on certain opposition to certain particular world leaders like Xi Jinping or [Bongbong Marcos].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967111 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg\" alt='A young woman holds a sign that says \"your missiles will never be stronger than our spirit\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zayna Elkarra protests alongside thousands of demonstrators in downtown San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2023, in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali from the Palestinian Youth Movement took part in the action Sunday to protest the Israel-Hamas war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gather to declare to the U.S. government and to the whole world that the masses here and the masses all over the world stand on the side of justice, of dignity, of liberation, and on the side of Palestinian people,” Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwezi Odom, a member of the African People’s Socialist Party, said APEC represents colonialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we say ‘shut down APEC,’ we mean shut down colonialism,” Odom said. “Because colonialism takes on all these different forms, and we begin to lose sight of what was the root cause of the oppression of the people of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967103 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg\" alt='An older woman uses a walker with a sign that says \"free Palestine\" in a large crowd.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovinia Alfaris marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Brandon Lee was among the protesters on Sunday who were concerned about environmental issues and workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I spent nine years working with the Igorot indigenous people of northern Luzon [in the Philippines], and they protested APEC because APEC’s policies, like the Mining Act of 1995, opened up the mining industry,” said Lee. “That mining industry really exploited the indigenous people’s land and destroyed the environment, displacing the indigenous people. And when the indigenous people protested, they’re met with violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are they protesting at APEC?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/00b4b06d1eac/wfblockparty-15106304?e=4d32bf2590\">media advisory\u003c/a>, the coalition said that companies sponsoring the summit, such as Amazon and Microsoft, have a legacy of causing environmental harm and that APEC’s free trade agenda harms millions of workers, women, and migrants in the U.S. and across the Asia-Pacific. Spokesperson Rhonda Ramiro said the coalition aims to “expose APEC’s false solutions and build a movement to address the very real crises of climate change, economic crisis, and militarization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967098 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"People holding flags and signs face a stage with people standing in front of microphones behind a large sign.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speakers kick off a rally at the Embarcadero Plaza in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the summit, the coalition and other activists have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-asia-pacific-conference-18442936.php\">protesting the attendance of heads of state\u003c/a> whom they consider responsible for human rights abuses, including China’s Xi Jinping, Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Peru’s Dina Boluarte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the media advisory, Brandon Lee of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines describes APEC as“ a tool of big business and the ruling elite to increase their profits at the expense of people and the planet,” adding that “APEC will not be epic. It will be a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, and it will only result in further worker exploitation and environmental destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APEC leaders have been promoting the organization — along with President Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-launches-new-trade-deal-with-indo-pacific-nations-warns-long-haul-for-inflation-recovery\">Indo-Pacific Economic Framework\u003c/a> — as a better way to connect global economies and peoples and to create clean and green economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman wearing a red and white head covering and a black shirt raises her arm in the air among a crowd of people holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaani Cassim marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But climate activist Nik Evasco said what they’ve seen happening is “giveaways to corporations, deregulation of countries, particularly in the global South, and the opening up of natural resources for exploitation … resources that tend to often be in lands that are in indigenous communities or in environmentally precious areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have world leaders representing a huge portion of the global economy and of the world population meeting with CEOs from ExxonMobil to Lockheed Martin to big tech and security, it doesn’t take a cynic to think that maybe the trade that’s being negotiated really isn’t in the best interest of the people,” Evasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What protests and actions are planned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition started with a counter-summit at San Francisco State University on Saturday, Nov. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the “mass mobilization” began at Harry Bridges Plaza in the Embarcadero and made its way to Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators gave speeches that lasted nearly three hours at the plaza before the crowd headed down Market Street. The protesters shut down Howard and Fifth streets in the afternoon near the security perimeter set up by law enforcement near the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967114 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people hold signs behind a barrier in the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators march on Market Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests are expected to continue throughout the week, including at the APEC CEO Summit on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and more protests planned for the CEO meetings from Nov. 14-16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Evasco said they would focus particularly on the CEO summit, which he referred to as “one of the biggest causes for concern of the entire negotiations,” and said they would plan street protests to “shut down the CEO summit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the people like the CEO of ExxonMobil have literally direct access … to people like Joe Biden or [Bongbong] Marcos from the Philippines or [Xi] Jinping,” Evasco said. “That type of unfettered access to world leaders when they’re negotiating a framework that could dictate how trade is done for decades to come is just unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit, Annelise Finney, Dana Cronin, Rachael Vasquez, and Spencer Whitney contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And when the indigenous people protested, they’re met with violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are they protesting at APEC?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/00b4b06d1eac/wfblockparty-15106304?e=4d32bf2590\">media advisory\u003c/a>, the coalition said that companies sponsoring the summit, such as Amazon and Microsoft, have a legacy of causing environmental harm and that APEC’s free trade agenda harms millions of workers, women, and migrants in the U.S. and across the Asia-Pacific. Spokesperson Rhonda Ramiro said the coalition aims to “expose APEC’s false solutions and build a movement to address the very real crises of climate change, economic crisis, and militarization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967098 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"People holding flags and signs face a stage with people standing in front of microphones behind a large sign.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speakers kick off a rally at the Embarcadero Plaza in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the summit, the coalition and other activists have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-asia-pacific-conference-18442936.php\">protesting the attendance of heads of state\u003c/a> whom they consider responsible for human rights abuses, including China’s Xi Jinping, Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Peru’s Dina Boluarte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the media advisory, Brandon Lee of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines describes APEC as“ a tool of big business and the ruling elite to increase their profits at the expense of people and the planet,” adding that “APEC will not be epic. It will be a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, and it will only result in further worker exploitation and environmental destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APEC leaders have been promoting the organization — along with President Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-launches-new-trade-deal-with-indo-pacific-nations-warns-long-haul-for-inflation-recovery\">Indo-Pacific Economic Framework\u003c/a> — as a better way to connect global economies and peoples and to create clean and green economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman wearing a red and white head covering and a black shirt raises her arm in the air among a crowd of people holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaani Cassim marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But climate activist Nik Evasco said what they’ve seen happening is “giveaways to corporations, deregulation of countries, particularly in the global South, and the opening up of natural resources for exploitation … resources that tend to often be in lands that are in indigenous communities or in environmentally precious areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have world leaders representing a huge portion of the global economy and of the world population meeting with CEOs from ExxonMobil to Lockheed Martin to big tech and security, it doesn’t take a cynic to think that maybe the trade that’s being negotiated really isn’t in the best interest of the people,” Evasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What protests and actions are planned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition started with a counter-summit at San Francisco State University on Saturday, Nov. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the “mass mobilization” began at Harry Bridges Plaza in the Embarcadero and made its way to Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators gave speeches that lasted nearly three hours at the plaza before the crowd headed down Market Street. The protesters shut down Howard and Fifth streets in the afternoon near the security perimeter set up by law enforcement near the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967114 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people hold signs behind a barrier in the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators march on Market Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests are expected to continue throughout the week, including at the APEC CEO Summit on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and more protests planned for the CEO meetings from Nov. 14-16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Evasco said they would focus particularly on the CEO summit, which he referred to as “one of the biggest causes for concern of the entire negotiations,” and said they would plan street protests to “shut down the CEO summit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the people like the CEO of ExxonMobil have literally direct access … to people like Joe Biden or [Bongbong] Marcos from the Philippines or [Xi] Jinping,” Evasco said. “That type of unfettered access to world leaders when they’re negotiating a framework that could dictate how trade is done for decades to come is just unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David DePape, the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, allegedly paid for a subscription service to find details about public figures he intended to target and saved personal information about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who he variously referred to as evil, a liar and “the leader of the pack” — in a folder labeled “favorite politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ominous electronic trail is among the steps DePape took in the week before he rode BART from the East Bay, boarded a San Francisco Muni bus, and arrived at the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2022, federal prosecutor Laura Vartain Horn told the jury in her opening statement Thursday in a San Francisco courtroom.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jodi Linker, federal public defender\"]‘This is not a whodunnit. But what the government fails to acknowledge is the why-dunnit. And the why matters. The why is what makes this a federal case.’[/pullquote]DePape, she said, would go on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">break into the home\u003c/a> and, when he discovered Nancy Pelosi wasn’t there, hold her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, hostage before striking him in the head with a hammer in front of two San Francisco police officers, who captured the attack on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you stop me from going after people, you will take the punishment instead,” was one of the threats DePape made to Paul Pelosi, Horn told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The defendant unleashed his plan of violence on the next closest thing to the speaker, her husband, Paul,” Horn said as she displayed photos of Paul Pelosi lying in a pool of his own blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution’s case, Horn said, would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that DePape intended to retaliate against Nancy Pelosi “because of her job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conspiracy theory as defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But DePape, who faces life in prison for two felony counts, including attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official, does not dispute anything about what happened that night, said Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker, the suspect’s attorney, in her opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a whodunnit,” Linker told the jury. “But what the government fails to acknowledge is the why-dunnit. And the why matters. The why is what makes this a federal case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966971\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg\" alt=\"a watercolor sketch showing a judge behind a bench and various people seated while a standing person speaks\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker (pointing), David DePape’s attorney, gives her opening statement in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The defense strategy has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966378/federal-trial-set-to-start-for-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband-with-a-hammer\">largely been a mystery in the weeks leading up to the start of the trial\u003c/a>. That strategy, Linker’s initial arguments suggest, is to convince the jury that DePape’s beliefs are “wholly unrelated to Nancy Pelosi’s official duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker began her statement by reciting a litany of DePape’s extremist conspiracy theories: accusing actor Tom Hanks of raping a child, nodding to George Soros’ perceived control of mainstream media, calling out Gov. Gavin Newsom for “trampling on all our constitutional rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hunter Biden is so blatantly corrupt, there is simply no end to what he will do,” Linker said, listing more of DePape’s baseless theories. “Adam Schiff abuses children.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]It was revealed in court Thursday that Schiff, the U.S. Democratic congressman from Burbank, was among those DePape planned to attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nancy Pelosi is a culture warrior, the face of the Democratic Party,” Linker added to her recitation. “Her army is the Democratic National Committee and her weapon is the mainstream media. … That is tyranny. That is corruption. That is killing the tree of liberty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Members of the jury, many of us do not believe any of that,” Linker concluded. “You may think it’s bogus. You may think they’re harmful lies, lies you think are destroying the country. But the evidence in the trial will show Mr. DePape believes these things. He believes them with every ounce of his being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape developed these beliefs via a steady diet of video games, “listening to podcast after podcast and watching YouTube video after YouTube video … that fed him lies and prompted him to reveal the truth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the charges against DePape presume he was motivated by Pelosi’s official position, not by the outlandish conspiracy theories that drove his actions, Linker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pelosi home was only the first stop on DePape’s intended journey, Linker added, and had he not been arrested there, he would have then tried to track down Tom Hanks, Hunter Biden, George Soros, and gender-theory academic Gayle Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubin, who will likely testify in the trial next week, had until now only been identified in court filings as DePape’s “Target 1” — the person he could get to by first kidnapping Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why? Because of her writings,” Linker said. “Because he believes she is promoting child molestation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker said the jury will hear from Target 1, “and she is going to say this is all completely false, that she believes no such things. But David believes it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will also note this is not a very well thought out plan,” Linker added, underscoring that DePape didn’t make it very far down his target list.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In DePape’s own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Testimony on the first day of the trial, which stretched into the afternoon, included video and audio of DePape explaining his motivations and admitting to his plan to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and then go after more politicians and academics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point on video captured by a police body camera, DePape even expressed remorse for hitting Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really want to hurt him, but, you know, this was a suicide mission,” DePape said. “The shit going on in Washington, D.C. — it’s so fucking sick. I’m not just going to stand here and do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no denying what I did. The cops watched me do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape also made a separate, recorded statement to police after his arrest, portions of which were played for the jury on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch showing one woman in a courtroom standing, questioning another women, sitting, while a man, sitting, watches. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5218-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Gilbert (right) questions San Francisco Police Lt. Carla Hurley (center), as defendant David DePape looks on during the first day of his trial in San Francisco on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He described the difficulty he had breaking through the sliding glass door of the Pelosi home, which he hit a total of 16 times before shoving his way through just after 2 a.m., according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not easy. That’s like, special glass,” DePape said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the recording, DePape also described being surprised, after walking through the otherwise empty house, to find Paul Pelosi asleep in his bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape said he had been uncertain about what to do next after learning from Pelosi that his wife was not home and wouldn’t be for several days, according to his recorded statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape recounted, on the recording, how Paul Pelosi eventually retrieved a cell phone from the bathroom and used it to call 911 and was “pushing me into a corner where I have to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have other targets, and I can’t be soft about him,” DePape said. “If I have to go through him, I will.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David DePape, recorded on police body camera\"]‘I didn’t really want to hurt him, but, you know, this was a suicide mission. … There’s no denying what I did. The cops watched me do it.’[/pullquote]As DePape feared, that 911 call resulted in two officers knocking on the door of the Pelosi home a short time later. Body camera footage made public in late January captured the interaction, with Paul Pelosi and DePape standing awkwardly in the doorway, both with a hand on the hammer DePape brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Pelosi] thinks that I’ll just surrender,” DePape said on the police recording. “I didn’t come here to surrender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So basically, I yank it away from him and hit him,” he continued. “I have no idea how many times I hit him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the defense’s cross-examination of police officers on Thursday, it was revealed that after the incident, Paul Pelosi regained consciousness at his home before he was taken to the hospital where he would undergo surgery for a fractured skull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On police body camera video, played in court, Paul Pelosi appeared lucid while initially being treated in his home, and when asked, correctly noted that the year was 2022 and that he was in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hit me in the head with a hammer,” Pelosi told medical personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sympathetic observer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gypsy Taub, who was in a relationship with DePape for 15 years, attended Thursday’s hearing and later said she was concerned for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before proceedings commenced on Thursday morning, Taub stood in the courtroom handing out cards for a website promulgating a “Paul Pelosi coverup.” For evidence, she argued that the respective time stamps on the surveillance and body camera videos don’t line up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape and Taub also had two children together, both of whom are now adults and were in the courtroom on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taub, who was recently released from prison after being convicted of stalking a minor, said she had spoken to DePape on the phone on Wednesday night and had just found old photos of him that reminded her how much she loved him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel sad for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case is expected to continue into next week. Potential witnesses remaining for the prosecution include Paul Pelosi himself, as well as the surgeon who operated on him and federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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To continue his rise in the polls and crack the top two, Garvey must now find a way to “cannibalize” conservative votes, said Mark DiCamillo, poll director for the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which released \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">new polling numbers\u003c/a> on Friday.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kristin Olsen, California Strategies\"]‘I’m not sure anyone can unite the party right now. 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California has a top-two primary system, which means voters can select any candidate, regardless of political party. Only 24% of voters in the state are registered as Republicans, and the party has struggled to make inroads with independent and moderate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, Republicans have divided their votes among the top three GOP contenders in the Senate race, which could dilute the Republican vote and complicate the GOP path to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garvey still sits outside of the top two, some of the underlying numbers are encouraging for him. Not only has he leaped ahead of Bradley (7%) and Early (4%) among likely voters, but he is the top choice among voters who identified as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Garvey — known as “Mr. Clean” during his playing days — appears to have room to grow. The IGS poll found that roughly a third of voters who identify as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative” are undecided in the race — compared with just one in five “somewhat liberal” or “strongly liberal” voters who are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly, said the recent speakership fight in Congress shows the challenge of uniting fractious GOP constituencies around a common purpose. 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Bradley, who ran for Senate in 2018 and 2022, has vowed to target critical race theory and support “deep state investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, who ran for state attorney general in 2018 and 2022, is aiming to outflank Garvey among the party faithful. He has already picked up endorsements from county Republican parties from Yolo to Santa Barbara, and on Tuesday, he nabbed the support of the California Republican Assembly, the state’s oldest grassroots GOP organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Garvey moving to the center, let’s say, runs the risk of losing Republican voters, or certainly some Republican voters, to someone who is tacking to the right, which is what Early seems to be doing,” said Darry Sragow, publisher of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan election guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sragow said Garvey can’t afford to turn off members of the party base. In recent California elections, few moderate voters have been willing to vote for Republican candidates, and Garvey may not garner enough support from those voters “to compensate for what he loses on the right,” Sragow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of an explicit push to consolidate the Republican vote, Garvey’s campaign plans to present him as the most viable Republican candidate — both in terms of his potential to appeal to a broad range of voters and his capacity to raise ample funds for statewide advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eric Early has earned the respect of the political operation,” said Luis Alvarado, a GOP political strategist who is not working in the race. “But those operatives also want to win, and at the end of the day, if they see that they have an opportunity to elevate their party candidate through Steve Garvey, they’re going to decide that they’re going to coalesce around Steve Garvey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many unknowns could shape the Senate-race landscape between now and the start of voting in February. An endorsement from Trump could propel any of the Republican candidates into the general election, as it did for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2018/05/president-trump-endorses-john-cox-for-governor/\">John Cox in a crowded gubernatorial primary\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign machinations unique to the top-two format could also come into play. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In two of the last three U.S. Senate elections in California, the Republican Party has failed to advance a candidate out of the top-two primary to the general election — one of many electoral indignities the state GOP has suffered in its decadeslong decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid that fate in 2024, the GOP will need to consolidate its shrinking share of the electorate around a single candidate in the March 5 primary — and hope Democrats split their allegiances among the three current frontrunners: Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican with perhaps the best chance to unite GOP primary voters is former baseball star Steve Garvey, whose campaign has paired a glory-days nostalgia with relatively moderate positions on issues like guns and abortion. To continue his rise in the polls and crack the top two, Garvey must now find a way to “cannibalize” conservative votes, said Mark DiCamillo, poll director for the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which released \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">new polling numbers\u003c/a> on Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would need to become the favorite among all Republicans in order to get himself higher in the polls,” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">IGS\u003c/a> poll, Porter stands at 17%, with Schiff at 16% and Garvey at 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former All-Star and World Series champion who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, Garvey is the highest-profile Republican to launch a Senate run in California since former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s unsuccessful bid more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garvey, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">waited until October to officially launch his campaign\u003c/a>, now faces a sprint to introduce himself to voters, raise money and fend off two other Republicans in the race: businessman James Bradley and attorney Eric Early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just getting a candidate on the November ballot will be an uphill battle for Republicans in the Senate race. California has a top-two primary system, which means voters can select any candidate, regardless of political party. Only 24% of voters in the state are registered as Republicans, and the party has struggled to make inroads with independent and moderate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, Republicans have divided their votes among the top three GOP contenders in the Senate race, which could dilute the Republican vote and complicate the GOP path to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garvey still sits outside of the top two, some of the underlying numbers are encouraging for him. Not only has he leaped ahead of Bradley (7%) and Early (4%) among likely voters, but he is the top choice among voters who identified as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Garvey — known as “Mr. Clean” during his playing days — appears to have room to grow. The IGS poll found that roughly a third of voters who identify as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative” are undecided in the race — compared with just one in five “somewhat liberal” or “strongly liberal” voters who are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly, said the recent speakership fight in Congress shows the challenge of uniting fractious GOP constituencies around a common purpose. But she said Garvey, due to his career on the baseball diamond, has the advantage of being well-liked and better known than the other Republicans in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure anyone can unite the party right now,” said Olsen, now a partner at the consulting firm California Strategies. “But I do think he may have a better shot than most because of the fame and charisma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey, who has never run for public office, could face headwinds over some of the positions he has staked out early in the campaign, which seem antithetical to the party’s right-wing base. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">told KQED in October that he opposes a national ban on abortion\u003c/a>, a view in line with the majority of California voters, who last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-california-89310197d2b3bd3e3ba806620dd2bdbb\">approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights\u003c/a> in the state. On gun safety, he supports waiting periods and “very stringent background checks” for gun purchases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bradley and Early, meanwhile, have run campaigns more closely aligned to the conservative views held by their party’s grassroots. Bradley, who ran for Senate in 2018 and 2022, has vowed to target critical race theory and support “deep state investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, who ran for state attorney general in 2018 and 2022, is aiming to outflank Garvey among the party faithful. He has already picked up endorsements from county Republican parties from Yolo to Santa Barbara, and on Tuesday, he nabbed the support of the California Republican Assembly, the state’s oldest grassroots GOP organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Garvey moving to the center, let’s say, runs the risk of losing Republican voters, or certainly some Republican voters, to someone who is tacking to the right, which is what Early seems to be doing,” said Darry Sragow, publisher of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan election guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sragow said Garvey can’t afford to turn off members of the party base. In recent California elections, few moderate voters have been willing to vote for Republican candidates, and Garvey may not garner enough support from those voters “to compensate for what he loses on the right,” Sragow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of an explicit push to consolidate the Republican vote, Garvey’s campaign plans to present him as the most viable Republican candidate — both in terms of his potential to appeal to a broad range of voters and his capacity to raise ample funds for statewide advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A recall is rearing its head in the Bay Area again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the subject of some voters’ ire is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>. The criminal justice reformer has only been in office since January, but her detractors are pinning the blame for crime in Oakland on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign is called Save Alameda for Everyone: Recall DA Price, or SAFE. Its proponents have criticized Price’s progressive policies, like not charging minors as adults, and for dropping “special circumstances” charges in high-profile cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/07/jasper-wu-killing-alameda-county-da-withdraws-special-circumstances-allegations-against-defendants/\">like the two men accused of killing toddler Jasper Wu in a freeway shoot-out\u003c/a>. That decision will leave open the possibility of parole, which Price’s opponents decry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters have seen recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">recall efforts against former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922632/effort-to-recall-la-district-attorney-fails-to-qualify-for-ballot\">Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón\u003c/a>. But the rules are a bit different in Alameda County’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding an element of uncertainty, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters started the process to reform the county’s recall election rules in October. Alameda County recall law was written in 1926, and it’s out of date because it doesn’t leave nearly enough time to count signatures or administer an election, according to the Registrar of Voters. And if the registrar made a mistake in issuing the recall, the county could easily be sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to make sense of the complicated election process and what a potential recall vote could look like, KQED researched state and county recall election law and spoke with the recall’s principal officer, Brenda Grisham, as well as political consultant Jim Ross, who consulted on Boudin’s unsuccessful campaign to thwart a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a comprehensive look at the Alameda County District Attorney’s recall process. We’ll update this guide as more information becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jump straight to a section: \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Who’s behind the Pamela Price recall attempt, and who’s funding it?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallballot\">How could this recall get on the ballot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallsignatures\">How many signatures would the Price recall campaign need to collect?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallwhenelection\">When would any recall election take place?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricechesaboudin\">Is this attempt similar to the 2022 recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallbackers\">\u003c/a>Who’s behind the Pamela Price recall attempt?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It isn’t entirely clear — yet. Here’s what we know from paperwork filed with Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955573/first-steps-taken-to-launch-recall-campaign-against-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">Brenda Grisham is the principal officer of the recall committee\u003c/a>. Her 17-year-old son was shot and killed in East Oakland outside their home in 2010, leading her to pursue a career as a victim advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Chan, who leads the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, is another officer on the committee. In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871898/we-will-not-be-afraid-after-attack-president-of-oakland-chinatown-chamber-of-commerce-resolves-to-stay-strong\">he was allegedly assaulted in Oakland by a man\u003c/a> who Chan said yelled “Chinaman” before punching him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s final named officer is an Oakland resident named Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner at Farallon Capital Management, LLC. Dreyfuss was removed from later iterations of the committee’s filing documents and then formed his own campaign committee, Reviving the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where’s the money for the Pamela Price recall attempt coming from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Save Alameda for Everyone: Recall DA Price committee has raised $212,000, according to campaign filings made public on Nov. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While strict financial reporting requirements exist for groups raising money to place a measure on the ballot, SAFE’s donations have been structured in a way that obscures the identities of some donors. But, one of SAFE’s largest funding sources is Reviving the Bay Area. The group, started by hedge fund partner Dreyfuss, contributed an additional $300,000 to SAFE, some of which was to conduct polling. But Reviving the Bay Area hasn’t yet had to disclose its own funding sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a common tactic in campaigns for donors to hide their true funding sources by nesting their donations in an almost Russian-doll-like fashion. One group funds another group, which funds another group, making the discovery of true donors more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among SAFE’s donors publicly listed are CEOs, realtors, tech workers, attorneys, small business owners and retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Secretary of State lays out \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/campaign-rules/where-and-when-to-file-campaign-statements/when-to-file-campaign-statements-state-local-filing-schedules.html\">a schedule for campaign committees trying to place a ballot measure\u003c/a> during the March primary and November election to file financial statements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the March primary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Filing%20Schedules/2024/march-2024/local/2024_03_LCL_PF_BM_March_5_Final.pdf\">the key deadlines to report all contributions\u003c/a> are Jan. 31, Feb. 22 and July 31.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Filing%20Schedules/2024/november-2024/local/2024_03_LCL_PF_BM_Final.pdf\">If the measure is headed for the November election, the reporting dates are\u003c/a>: July 31, Sept. 26, Oct. 24, and Jan. 31, 2025.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some contributions may be made public within 24 hours if donated in large enough amounts ($1,000 or more).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While state recall rules make it likely a recall election would take place in November, Grisham told KQED that SAFE is aiming for a June special election. If that were to happen, the reporting dates for campaign funds would be newly drafted for that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to search for the campaign finance disclosures for yourself, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/Default.aspx?aid=COA\">head to the Official Election Site of Alameda County\u003c/a> and type in the names of the campaign committees to find their disclosure documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960958\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price attends a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallballot\">\u003c/a>How could the Pamela Price recall get on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recalls, much like other ballot measures, include gathering signatures and filing paperwork to eventually make it to the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and county rules for recalls lay out this general path to the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register a committee to conduct the recall.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">File and publish a “notice of intention” to circulate a recall petition. The petition is the document you’d see outside a supermarket, for instance, as signature gatherers work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtain an official “answer” from the person being recalled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make the recall petition public so the statement can be evaluated for false or misleading statements, or if it’s inconsistent with state law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive approval to circulate the recall petition to gather signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Determine the number of signatures needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Begin circulating the recall petition to gather signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submit the recall petition by a legal deadline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Election officials then evaluate the signatures and determine if the measure goes to ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955573/first-steps-taken-to-launch-recall-campaign-against-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">The campaign against Price filed paperwork with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters to start the recall process in July\u003c/a>. In October, SAFE was certified by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign now has more than 1,900 volunteers to gather the tens of thousands of signatures it needs to place a recall question on the ballot, Grisham told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that process may not be so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors gave its first approval to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964884/alameda-county-recall-laws-may-change-and-pamela-price-could-benefit\">a charter amendment that would change how the county administers recall elections\u003c/a>. Instead of relying on its own charter, the county would essentially “delete” all of its local laws on recalls and use state rules instead. That’s not an anomaly in California as most counties default to state law for recall elections, according to the Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 24 Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting, County Counsel Donna Ziegler told the board that recall rules similar to Alameda County’s have been found unconstitutional in other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the goal of this amendment is to increase the possibility — the likelihood — that should there ever be an occasion for the county to actually conduct a recall election, that the [Registrar of Voters] has a fighting chance to actually conduct that election with integrity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen recall supporters spoke that night, including Grisham, who called out the potential rule changes as unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that this is election interference, and we have no trust in any of the departments, any of the administration,” Grisham said during public comment. “Right now, we have no trust in the Registrar of Voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar has a history of major errors in elections. Just last year, the count employed an incorrect method of counting ballots in Oakland that resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/12/28/alameda-county-registrar-miscounted-ballots-oakland-election-2022/\">the registrar crowning the wrong winner in an Oakland Unified School District race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission formed in the wake of that scandal still has eight vacancies and has yet to officially meet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bnc/#/board/a0U6T00000XmqABUAZ\">according to its website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between the state and county rules on recalls is key because each set of rules has distinct timelines and thresholds for a recall election. Alameda County voters will have the opportunity to vote on changing — or keeping — the county’s recall rules on March 5, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallsignatures\">\u003c/a>How many signatures would the Price recall campaign need to collect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State rules say the recall campaign has 160 days to gather signatures. County recall rules don’t specify a time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of signatures needed to get a recall on the ballot is another significant difference between the state and county rules. State rules, for instance, say that for Alameda County, the number of signatures gathered must equal 10% of registered voters — about 93,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county regulations say the amount of signatures must be equal in number to at least 15% of the entire vote cast for governor candidates in the last gubernatorial election. Calculating \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovresults/248/\">the number of Alameda County voters who cast a ballot for either Gov. Gavin Newsom or state Sen. Brian Dahle\u003c/a>\u003cb>, \u003c/b>that number is just over 70,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to gather an additional 20,000 signatures may cost a campaign more than $200,000, political consultant Jim Ross said. Could that imperil the recall effort?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Signature gathering is all about money,” Ross said. “If they have the money to hire or pay signature gatherers, then they’ll qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grisham said SAFE aims to meet the 93,000 signature goal to ensure the campaign qualifies under either set of rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallwhenelection\">\u003c/a>When would the recall election take place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If voters reject the March ballot measure calling for a charter amendment, and depending on when the recall campaign turns in its signatures, it is possible a special election could be called for June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the outcome will be different if voters approve the charter amendment in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law more heavily favors placing a recall on the date of a regularly scheduled election, and says a recall election can take place 180 days after signatures qualify and a recall is ordered. That makes it far more likely the recall would take place in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing matters, especially in a presidential election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special and primary elections tend to have lower voter turnout than general elections. That was the case in Alameda County in 2022 when \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-primary/sov/03-voter-participation-stats-by-county.pdf\">308,000 voters cast a ballot in the June primary\u003c/a> compared to \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-general/sov/03-voter-participation-stats-by-county.pdf\">496,000 votes in November’s general election\u003c/a>. Turnout matters, Ross said, because of another truism in California politics: Higher-turnout elections skew to more progressive election results, and lower-turnout elections skew to more conservative results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier election might favor the recall against Price; a November recall could put it at a disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay of this plays out in the DA’s favor,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also quite possible either side — for or against the recall — sues Alameda County over which recall regulations are the correct ones to follow, Alameda County Board of Supervisors Vice President David Haubert said during the Oct. 24 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason we’re choosing to align with state law is because it is the way that literally every other county is conducting elections,” Ziegler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grisham said the recall campaign has all the legal resources they need to protect the recall process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready for all the shenanigans that could come our way,” she said. “We have very good lawyers, and there’s a lot of things we’re ready for that people don’t think we’re ready for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricechesaboudin\">\u003c/a>Is this attempt similar to the 2022 recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, at least one person associated with Price’s attempted recall overlaps with that of the successful recall campaign against Boudin: Dreyfuss, the hedge fund partner who in the recall’s initial filing documents, was listed as an officer. In 2021, Dreyfuss donated at least $10,000 to recall Boudin, according to campaign filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the messages the recall campaign is using, in many ways, the playbook against Price mirrors previous efforts against progressive DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. But some key differences could benefit Price’s chances of remaining in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Francisco-crime-statistics-recall-16268178.php\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-01/violent-crime-surge-la-county-george-gascon#:~:text=Proponents%20of%20the%20effort%20to,or%20file%20most%20sentencing%20enhancements.\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, opponents of Price are blaming her office and its progressive reform policies for rising crime rates. Price has vehemently denied this, even going as far as to say in an interview with KQED, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">A DA has no impact whatsoever on crime rates. That is a failed measure\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts agree that many factors go into local crime rates, and violent crime is generally higher in cities across the country than in 2019. Property crimes are more mixed, \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/\">and violent crime in general is trending downward in the country compared to last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the Brookings Institution noted in an April survey, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-geography-of-crime-in-four-u-s-cities-perceptions-and-reality/\">perceptions of rising crime are up\u003c/a>. In 2022, the Pew Research Center found \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/\">the feeling that crime was rising persisted despite data saying otherwise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s important to consider for Alameda County. Even though its largest city, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">Oakland, is experiencing higher crime rates\u003c/a>, that may not be the case in the other cities and unincorporated communities that make up Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How public officials talk about crime matters for recalls, too, Ross said. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/mayor-breed-orders-crackdown-on-crime-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin-neighborhood/\">Mayor London Breed was outspoken about crime\u003c/a> and the harsher punishments she’d like to see enacted in the city, though she was cautious not to call out Boudin directly. Price has a different situation with Mayor Sheng Thao, who leans more progressive than Breed.\u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/crime-in-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-safe-rate/13686600/\"> Thao, like Breed, has pointed to a need for more police\u003c/a>, but she hasn’t endorsed harsher penalties for offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the things that you had in San Francisco that you don’t have in Alameda County, is you don’t have a mayor basically driving the recall messaging,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another split between San Francisco and Alameda County is its size and makeup, which may make signature gathering tougher, Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Alameda County is more spread out, it will likely take more time and, therefore, cost more for the campaign to hire signature gatherers to meet the required total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A recall is rearing its head in the Bay Area again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the subject of some voters’ ire is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>. The criminal justice reformer has only been in office since January, but her detractors are pinning the blame for crime in Oakland on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign is called Save Alameda for Everyone: Recall DA Price, or SAFE. Its proponents have criticized Price’s progressive policies, like not charging minors as adults, and for dropping “special circumstances” charges in high-profile cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/07/jasper-wu-killing-alameda-county-da-withdraws-special-circumstances-allegations-against-defendants/\">like the two men accused of killing toddler Jasper Wu in a freeway shoot-out\u003c/a>. That decision will leave open the possibility of parole, which Price’s opponents decry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters have seen recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">recall efforts against former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922632/effort-to-recall-la-district-attorney-fails-to-qualify-for-ballot\">Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón\u003c/a>. But the rules are a bit different in Alameda County’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding an element of uncertainty, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters started the process to reform the county’s recall election rules in October. Alameda County recall law was written in 1926, and it’s out of date because it doesn’t leave nearly enough time to count signatures or administer an election, according to the Registrar of Voters. And if the registrar made a mistake in issuing the recall, the county could easily be sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to make sense of the complicated election process and what a potential recall vote could look like, KQED researched state and county recall election law and spoke with the recall’s principal officer, Brenda Grisham, as well as political consultant Jim Ross, who consulted on Boudin’s unsuccessful campaign to thwart a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a comprehensive look at the Alameda County District Attorney’s recall process. We’ll update this guide as more information becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jump straight to a section: \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Who’s behind the Pamela Price recall attempt, and who’s funding it?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallballot\">How could this recall get on the ballot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallsignatures\">How many signatures would the Price recall campaign need to collect?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricerecallwhenelection\">When would any recall election take place?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pamelapricechesaboudin\">Is this attempt similar to the 2022 recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallbackers\">\u003c/a>Who’s behind the Pamela Price recall attempt?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It isn’t entirely clear — yet. Here’s what we know from paperwork filed with Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955573/first-steps-taken-to-launch-recall-campaign-against-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">Brenda Grisham is the principal officer of the recall committee\u003c/a>. Her 17-year-old son was shot and killed in East Oakland outside their home in 2010, leading her to pursue a career as a victim advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Chan, who leads the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, is another officer on the committee. In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871898/we-will-not-be-afraid-after-attack-president-of-oakland-chinatown-chamber-of-commerce-resolves-to-stay-strong\">he was allegedly assaulted in Oakland by a man\u003c/a> who Chan said yelled “Chinaman” before punching him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s final named officer is an Oakland resident named Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner at Farallon Capital Management, LLC. Dreyfuss was removed from later iterations of the committee’s filing documents and then formed his own campaign committee, Reviving the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where’s the money for the Pamela Price recall attempt coming from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Save Alameda for Everyone: Recall DA Price committee has raised $212,000, according to campaign filings made public on Nov. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While strict financial reporting requirements exist for groups raising money to place a measure on the ballot, SAFE’s donations have been structured in a way that obscures the identities of some donors. But, one of SAFE’s largest funding sources is Reviving the Bay Area. The group, started by hedge fund partner Dreyfuss, contributed an additional $300,000 to SAFE, some of which was to conduct polling. But Reviving the Bay Area hasn’t yet had to disclose its own funding sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a common tactic in campaigns for donors to hide their true funding sources by nesting their donations in an almost Russian-doll-like fashion. One group funds another group, which funds another group, making the discovery of true donors more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among SAFE’s donors publicly listed are CEOs, realtors, tech workers, attorneys, small business owners and retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Secretary of State lays out \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/campaign-rules/where-and-when-to-file-campaign-statements/when-to-file-campaign-statements-state-local-filing-schedules.html\">a schedule for campaign committees trying to place a ballot measure\u003c/a> during the March primary and November election to file financial statements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the March primary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Filing%20Schedules/2024/march-2024/local/2024_03_LCL_PF_BM_March_5_Final.pdf\">the key deadlines to report all contributions\u003c/a> are Jan. 31, Feb. 22 and July 31.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Filing%20Schedules/2024/november-2024/local/2024_03_LCL_PF_BM_Final.pdf\">If the measure is headed for the November election, the reporting dates are\u003c/a>: July 31, Sept. 26, Oct. 24, and Jan. 31, 2025.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some contributions may be made public within 24 hours if donated in large enough amounts ($1,000 or more).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While state recall rules make it likely a recall election would take place in November, Grisham told KQED that SAFE is aiming for a June special election. If that were to happen, the reporting dates for campaign funds would be newly drafted for that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to search for the campaign finance disclosures for yourself, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/Default.aspx?aid=COA\">head to the Official Election Site of Alameda County\u003c/a> and type in the names of the campaign committees to find their disclosure documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960958\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price attends a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallballot\">\u003c/a>How could the Pamela Price recall get on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recalls, much like other ballot measures, include gathering signatures and filing paperwork to eventually make it to the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and county rules for recalls lay out this general path to the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register a committee to conduct the recall.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">File and publish a “notice of intention” to circulate a recall petition. The petition is the document you’d see outside a supermarket, for instance, as signature gatherers work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtain an official “answer” from the person being recalled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make the recall petition public so the statement can be evaluated for false or misleading statements, or if it’s inconsistent with state law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive approval to circulate the recall petition to gather signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Determine the number of signatures needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Begin circulating the recall petition to gather signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submit the recall petition by a legal deadline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Election officials then evaluate the signatures and determine if the measure goes to ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955573/first-steps-taken-to-launch-recall-campaign-against-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">The campaign against Price filed paperwork with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters to start the recall process in July\u003c/a>. In October, SAFE was certified by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign now has more than 1,900 volunteers to gather the tens of thousands of signatures it needs to place a recall question on the ballot, Grisham told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that process may not be so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors gave its first approval to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964884/alameda-county-recall-laws-may-change-and-pamela-price-could-benefit\">a charter amendment that would change how the county administers recall elections\u003c/a>. Instead of relying on its own charter, the county would essentially “delete” all of its local laws on recalls and use state rules instead. That’s not an anomaly in California as most counties default to state law for recall elections, according to the Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 24 Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting, County Counsel Donna Ziegler told the board that recall rules similar to Alameda County’s have been found unconstitutional in other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the goal of this amendment is to increase the possibility — the likelihood — that should there ever be an occasion for the county to actually conduct a recall election, that the [Registrar of Voters] has a fighting chance to actually conduct that election with integrity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen recall supporters spoke that night, including Grisham, who called out the potential rule changes as unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that this is election interference, and we have no trust in any of the departments, any of the administration,” Grisham said during public comment. “Right now, we have no trust in the Registrar of Voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar has a history of major errors in elections. Just last year, the count employed an incorrect method of counting ballots in Oakland that resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/12/28/alameda-county-registrar-miscounted-ballots-oakland-election-2022/\">the registrar crowning the wrong winner in an Oakland Unified School District race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission formed in the wake of that scandal still has eight vacancies and has yet to officially meet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bnc/#/board/a0U6T00000XmqABUAZ\">according to its website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between the state and county rules on recalls is key because each set of rules has distinct timelines and thresholds for a recall election. Alameda County voters will have the opportunity to vote on changing — or keeping — the county’s recall rules on March 5, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallsignatures\">\u003c/a>How many signatures would the Price recall campaign need to collect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State rules say the recall campaign has 160 days to gather signatures. County recall rules don’t specify a time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of signatures needed to get a recall on the ballot is another significant difference between the state and county rules. State rules, for instance, say that for Alameda County, the number of signatures gathered must equal 10% of registered voters — about 93,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county regulations say the amount of signatures must be equal in number to at least 15% of the entire vote cast for governor candidates in the last gubernatorial election. Calculating \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovresults/248/\">the number of Alameda County voters who cast a ballot for either Gov. Gavin Newsom or state Sen. Brian Dahle\u003c/a>\u003cb>, \u003c/b>that number is just over 70,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to gather an additional 20,000 signatures may cost a campaign more than $200,000, political consultant Jim Ross said. Could that imperil the recall effort?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Signature gathering is all about money,” Ross said. “If they have the money to hire or pay signature gatherers, then they’ll qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grisham said SAFE aims to meet the 93,000 signature goal to ensure the campaign qualifies under either set of rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricerecallwhenelection\">\u003c/a>When would the recall election take place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If voters reject the March ballot measure calling for a charter amendment, and depending on when the recall campaign turns in its signatures, it is possible a special election could be called for June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the outcome will be different if voters approve the charter amendment in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law more heavily favors placing a recall on the date of a regularly scheduled election, and says a recall election can take place 180 days after signatures qualify and a recall is ordered. That makes it far more likely the recall would take place in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing matters, especially in a presidential election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special and primary elections tend to have lower voter turnout than general elections. That was the case in Alameda County in 2022 when \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-primary/sov/03-voter-participation-stats-by-county.pdf\">308,000 voters cast a ballot in the June primary\u003c/a> compared to \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-general/sov/03-voter-participation-stats-by-county.pdf\">496,000 votes in November’s general election\u003c/a>. Turnout matters, Ross said, because of another truism in California politics: Higher-turnout elections skew to more progressive election results, and lower-turnout elections skew to more conservative results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier election might favor the recall against Price; a November recall could put it at a disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay of this plays out in the DA’s favor,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also quite possible either side — for or against the recall — sues Alameda County over which recall regulations are the correct ones to follow, Alameda County Board of Supervisors Vice President David Haubert said during the Oct. 24 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason we’re choosing to align with state law is because it is the way that literally every other county is conducting elections,” Ziegler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grisham said the recall campaign has all the legal resources they need to protect the recall process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready for all the shenanigans that could come our way,” she said. “We have very good lawyers, and there’s a lot of things we’re ready for that people don’t think we’re ready for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pamelapricechesaboudin\">\u003c/a>Is this attempt similar to the 2022 recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, at least one person associated with Price’s attempted recall overlaps with that of the successful recall campaign against Boudin: Dreyfuss, the hedge fund partner who in the recall’s initial filing documents, was listed as an officer. In 2021, Dreyfuss donated at least $10,000 to recall Boudin, according to campaign filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the messages the recall campaign is using, in many ways, the playbook against Price mirrors previous efforts against progressive DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. But some key differences could benefit Price’s chances of remaining in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Francisco-crime-statistics-recall-16268178.php\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-01/violent-crime-surge-la-county-george-gascon#:~:text=Proponents%20of%20the%20effort%20to,or%20file%20most%20sentencing%20enhancements.\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, opponents of Price are blaming her office and its progressive reform policies for rising crime rates. Price has vehemently denied this, even going as far as to say in an interview with KQED, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">A DA has no impact whatsoever on crime rates. That is a failed measure\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts agree that many factors go into local crime rates, and violent crime is generally higher in cities across the country than in 2019. Property crimes are more mixed, \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/\">and violent crime in general is trending downward in the country compared to last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the Brookings Institution noted in an April survey, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-geography-of-crime-in-four-u-s-cities-perceptions-and-reality/\">perceptions of rising crime are up\u003c/a>. In 2022, the Pew Research Center found \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/\">the feeling that crime was rising persisted despite data saying otherwise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s important to consider for Alameda County. Even though its largest city, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">Oakland, is experiencing higher crime rates\u003c/a>, that may not be the case in the other cities and unincorporated communities that make up Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How public officials talk about crime matters for recalls, too, Ross said. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/mayor-breed-orders-crackdown-on-crime-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin-neighborhood/\">Mayor London Breed was outspoken about crime\u003c/a> and the harsher punishments she’d like to see enacted in the city, though she was cautious not to call out Boudin directly. Price has a different situation with Mayor Sheng Thao, who leans more progressive than Breed.\u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/crime-in-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-safe-rate/13686600/\"> Thao, like Breed, has pointed to a need for more police\u003c/a>, but she hasn’t endorsed harsher penalties for offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the things that you had in San Francisco that you don’t have in Alameda County, is you don’t have a mayor basically driving the recall messaging,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another split between San Francisco and Alameda County is its size and makeup, which may make signature gathering tougher, Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Alameda County is more spread out, it will likely take more time and, therefore, cost more for the campaign to hire signature gatherers to meet the required total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>American-grown extremism could take center stage at a federal trial in San Francisco starting this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David DePape, 43, faces charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal official — former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official — her husband, Paul Pelosi. DePape could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jury selection in the trial starts this week, with opening statements scheduled for Nov. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arguments during the trial may go beyond the straightforward legal debate of whether DePape is guilty of bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer in his San Francisco home last year as part of a plot to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and other left-leaning public figures.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Goldwasser, Southern Poverty Law Center\"]‘I think the biggest fear is that people who are following it with a conspiratorial view become angrier and even more hostile toward Nancy Pelosi, her family and other politicians as well.’[/pullquote]DePape’s alleged act of political violence last year followed a steady drumbeat of villainization against Pelosi in national right-wing media, and there are concerns that the suspect, who appears to have been motivated by his belief in far-right conspiracy theories, could turn the witness stand into a pulpit to evangelize his beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys, who are federal public defenders, have attempted to keep their courtroom strategy a secret. However, according to pretrial motions, they do not intend to argue insanity. There’s even a chance DePape may take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damning evidence against DePape includes surveillance video of him breaking into the Pelosi home and police body-camera video of him attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. After his arrest, DePape told officers he intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, the first among the several public figures he planned to target. Police found zip ties, a roll of duct tape, rope and gloves in his backpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Message of extremism’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But DePape and his legal team may not care about winning a not-guilty verdict, Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His greatest goal may be to spread his message of extremism,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial comes at a potential cost to at least one secret witness, another of DePape’s alleged targets whose safety could be at risk if asked to testify, the witness’s attorney has argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled recently that an unnamed person, referred to in court documents as “Target 1,” could be compelled to testify. Target 1 is identified in a federal indictment as a high priority on DePape’s list of targets — the person whom he allegedly sought to lure by first taking Nancy Pelosi hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Superior Court last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-3a0ec4302ee4f11c612678038997c0d7\">a San Francisco police lieutenant said\u003c/a> DePape’s target list included Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hunter Biden (President Joe Biden’s son), actor Tom Hanks and sex and gender-theory academic Gayle Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corley also permitted federal prosecutors to use audio of a Jan. 27 phone call DePape made from his jail cell to a local TV news reporter. During the call, DePape apologized for failing in his alleged plans to target government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tree of liberty needs watering,” he said. “We need men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message has a receptive audience in an ever-growing community of conspiracy theorists, said Rachel Goldwasser, an analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center. DePape’s trial, she said, could galvanize people already sympathetic to QAnon and similar anti-government perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest fear is that people who are following it with a conspiratorial view become angrier and even more hostile toward Nancy Pelosi, her family and other politicians as well,” Goldwasser said. “The threats have gone up quite a lot in the last few years, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to reduce any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Radicalized in recent years\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape didn’t always traffic in conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His one-time girlfriend, the nudist Gypsy Taub, who recently served time for attempting to abduct a minor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ex-girlfriend-of-suspect-in-paul-pelosi-attack-17545968.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that DePape “didn’t know anything about politics” when they met in Hawaii in 2000. Only later did a combination of mental illness and drug use cause him to lose grip on reality, she said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]Years later, DePape, a Canadian-born carpenter living in the East Bay city of Richmond, published blog posts trafficking in QAnon conspiracy theories, railing against space aliens, communists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930523/conspiracy-theories-and-qanon-posts-shed-light-on-suspect-in-assault-at-pelosi-home\">religious minorities and transgender people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to police after he was arrested, DePape characterized Nancy Pelosi as the “leader of the pack” telling Democratic Party lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape is accused of breaking into the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home in San Francisco at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2022. The federal indictment recounts key events: He smashed through their glass side door with a hammer, woke Paul Pelosi from bed and told him he was looking for Nancy Pelosi. Paul Pelosi got hold of a cell phone in his bathroom and managed to signal for help by calling 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2:31 a.m., a pair of police officers arrived, their body cameras recording as they knocked on the door. Paul Pelosi and DePape answered the door, both of them with one hand on a hammer. When an officer ordered DePape to “drop the hammer,” he said, “Um nope,” pulled his hammer back and swung at Pelosi’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Pelosi underwent surgery to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930397/nancy-pelosis-husband-assaulted-in-san-francisco-break-in\">repair a skull fracture\u003c/a> along with medical treatment for severe injuries to his hand when he tried to block the hammer blow. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964329/nancy-pelosi-on-israel-and-the-house-speaker-fight\">Nancy Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> during a live interview last month that her husband is still recovering, and he may be fully healed by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Judge considers allowing key evidence\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors and defense attorneys have sparred in pretrial motions over what evidence will be shown to the jury, including a January in-custody phone call from DePape to KTVU reporter Amber Lee and photos and video showing a bloodied Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/depape-in-bizarre-phone-call-to-ktvu-says-he-should-have-been-more-prepared\">In that call\u003c/a>, DePape said, “I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault. No one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “Liberty isn’t dying, it’s being systematically killed,” and that “people killing it have names and addresses, so I got their names and addresses, so I could pay them a little visit and have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.” He called for “men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe defense argued in a pretrial motion that the call did not touch on Nancy or Paul Pelosi “or prove any of the necessary elements of the offenses charged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that the call would be inflammatory to a jury and unduly sway them through emotion instead of evidence. Corley ultimately ruled that federal prosecutors could present excerpts from the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg said the phone call is particularly damning for DePape and a gift to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was that gold wrapped as a present to the U.S. government? Was it the government’s birthday? Was it July Fourth?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys have also sought to limit how much video footage of the hammer attack prosecutors are allowed to show the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Vartain Horn told Judge Corley late last month that the video shows Paul Pelosi lying on the floor “in his own blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows a different angle. You hear Mr. Pelosi’s breathing, which is difficult,” Horn said, and it shows emergency personnel attempting to stop his blood flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal public defender Angela Chuang argued the video is shocking and would wrongly sway the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is prejudicial. There’s no question about that. That’s just the nature of what happened,” Corley said in response. “A picture is worth a thousand words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mysterious Target 1 to take witness stand\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corley cleared the courtroom when DePape’s attorneys argued at a hearing late last month that subpoenaing the unnamed witness identified in the federal indictment as Target 1 was crucial to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corley ruled after the closed-door hearing that Target 1 would testify, a ruling that came over the objections of Target 1’s attorney, Ed Swanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson said DePape’s “call to arms” in his phone call to KTVU endangered his client. He said that since she was named as one of DePape’s targets, she was forced to make “fundamental changes” in her family life and professional life to guarantee their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people out there who are particularly worrisome to my client and her employer, who have gone to great lengths to do everything possible to make my client safe,” Swanson argued. “This will make my client less safe.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Laurie Levenson, Loyola Law School professor\"]‘Cases that look easy, you have to be careful because jurors will have high expectations,” she said. “In high profile cases, unusual things can happen.’[/pullquote]Corley apologized to Swanson and his client but said the worry right now is a “generalized concern” instead of a specific one and erred on the side of honoring DePape’s right to a fair trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get threats just being a judge in a video game case,” Corley said. “It’s a crazy, terrible world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is aiming to keep Target 1’s name under wraps, though those in attendance will be able to see the person’s face. Corley has said Target 1’s testimony is expected to be public. That could change as further hearings on Target 1 are expected this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, of Loyola Law School, said there may be good reasons to keep Target 1’s identity hidden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be that DePape is out of commission, but the court has to worry whether he has followers out there who will take up the mantle, the mission for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal defense remains a mystery\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys have noted in an October court filing that they’re trying to avoid “prematurely revealing details of defense trial strategy and theory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that strategy remains a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg, from Stanford Law School, said it makes sense that DePape doesn’t plan to argue insanity as a defense as it’s an “incredibly hard” legal bar to clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to prove that because of your incapacity, you had no ability to even know what you were doing was wrong,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense’s witness list is brief: one redacted name who may be Target 1, Pelosi’s chief of staff, Daniel Bernal, Elizabeth Yates, \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/yates-testifies-on-extremist-threat-to-americans-and-democracy/\">an extremism and antisemitism researcher\u003c/a>, federal public defender Catherine Goulet and DePape himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors’ witness list, in contrast, is two pages long, sporting 15 names, most of whom are police officers, federal agents and various emergency responders. Paul Pelosi is also named as a potential witness. Nancy Pelosi is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an October pretrial hearing, Corley shot down the defense bid to ask jurors for their voting histories, calling the move “invasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will reduce faith in our system. I’m just not going to allow it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, from Loyola Law School, said finding even one juror who finds conspiracy theories plausible could be key for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they frankly need is one sympathizer, one person who says, ‘I don’t like DePape, but his message is one that I relate to,’” Levenson said. “If that happens, then you might not get the unanimous verdict that the prosecution has to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson cautioned against assuming the case will be an easy win for prosecutors, even in light of what she called “strong evidence” showing DePape’s attack, demonstrating his motivations and communicating his desire to continue his mission even after his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cases that look easy, you have to be careful because jurors will have high expectations,” she said. “In high profile cases, unusual things can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Nov. 8): An earlier version of this story listed David DePape’s age as 42 years old. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>DePape’s alleged act of political violence last year followed a steady drumbeat of villainization against Pelosi in national right-wing media, and there are concerns that the suspect, who appears to have been motivated by his belief in far-right conspiracy theories, could turn the witness stand into a pulpit to evangelize his beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys, who are federal public defenders, have attempted to keep their courtroom strategy a secret. However, according to pretrial motions, they do not intend to argue insanity. There’s even a chance DePape may take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damning evidence against DePape includes surveillance video of him breaking into the Pelosi home and police body-camera video of him attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. After his arrest, DePape told officers he intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, the first among the several public figures he planned to target. Police found zip ties, a roll of duct tape, rope and gloves in his backpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Message of extremism’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But DePape and his legal team may not care about winning a not-guilty verdict, Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His greatest goal may be to spread his message of extremism,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial comes at a potential cost to at least one secret witness, another of DePape’s alleged targets whose safety could be at risk if asked to testify, the witness’s attorney has argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled recently that an unnamed person, referred to in court documents as “Target 1,” could be compelled to testify. Target 1 is identified in a federal indictment as a high priority on DePape’s list of targets — the person whom he allegedly sought to lure by first taking Nancy Pelosi hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Superior Court last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-3a0ec4302ee4f11c612678038997c0d7\">a San Francisco police lieutenant said\u003c/a> DePape’s target list included Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hunter Biden (President Joe Biden’s son), actor Tom Hanks and sex and gender-theory academic Gayle Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corley also permitted federal prosecutors to use audio of a Jan. 27 phone call DePape made from his jail cell to a local TV news reporter. During the call, DePape apologized for failing in his alleged plans to target government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tree of liberty needs watering,” he said. “We need men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message has a receptive audience in an ever-growing community of conspiracy theorists, said Rachel Goldwasser, an analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center. DePape’s trial, she said, could galvanize people already sympathetic to QAnon and similar anti-government perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest fear is that people who are following it with a conspiratorial view become angrier and even more hostile toward Nancy Pelosi, her family and other politicians as well,” Goldwasser said. “The threats have gone up quite a lot in the last few years, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to reduce any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Radicalized in recent years\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape didn’t always traffic in conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His one-time girlfriend, the nudist Gypsy Taub, who recently served time for attempting to abduct a minor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ex-girlfriend-of-suspect-in-paul-pelosi-attack-17545968.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that DePape “didn’t know anything about politics” when they met in Hawaii in 2000. Only later did a combination of mental illness and drug use cause him to lose grip on reality, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Years later, DePape, a Canadian-born carpenter living in the East Bay city of Richmond, published blog posts trafficking in QAnon conspiracy theories, railing against space aliens, communists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930523/conspiracy-theories-and-qanon-posts-shed-light-on-suspect-in-assault-at-pelosi-home\">religious minorities and transgender people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to police after he was arrested, DePape characterized Nancy Pelosi as the “leader of the pack” telling Democratic Party lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape is accused of breaking into the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home in San Francisco at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2022. The federal indictment recounts key events: He smashed through their glass side door with a hammer, woke Paul Pelosi from bed and told him he was looking for Nancy Pelosi. Paul Pelosi got hold of a cell phone in his bathroom and managed to signal for help by calling 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2:31 a.m., a pair of police officers arrived, their body cameras recording as they knocked on the door. Paul Pelosi and DePape answered the door, both of them with one hand on a hammer. When an officer ordered DePape to “drop the hammer,” he said, “Um nope,” pulled his hammer back and swung at Pelosi’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Pelosi underwent surgery to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930397/nancy-pelosis-husband-assaulted-in-san-francisco-break-in\">repair a skull fracture\u003c/a> along with medical treatment for severe injuries to his hand when he tried to block the hammer blow. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964329/nancy-pelosi-on-israel-and-the-house-speaker-fight\">Nancy Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> during a live interview last month that her husband is still recovering, and he may be fully healed by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Judge considers allowing key evidence\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors and defense attorneys have sparred in pretrial motions over what evidence will be shown to the jury, including a January in-custody phone call from DePape to KTVU reporter Amber Lee and photos and video showing a bloodied Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/depape-in-bizarre-phone-call-to-ktvu-says-he-should-have-been-more-prepared\">In that call\u003c/a>, DePape said, “I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault. No one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “Liberty isn’t dying, it’s being systematically killed,” and that “people killing it have names and addresses, so I got their names and addresses, so I could pay them a little visit and have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.” He called for “men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Corley apologized to Swanson and his client but said the worry right now is a “generalized concern” instead of a specific one and erred on the side of honoring DePape’s right to a fair trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get threats just being a judge in a video game case,” Corley said. “It’s a crazy, terrible world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is aiming to keep Target 1’s name under wraps, though those in attendance will be able to see the person’s face. Corley has said Target 1’s testimony is expected to be public. That could change as further hearings on Target 1 are expected this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, of Loyola Law School, said there may be good reasons to keep Target 1’s identity hidden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be that DePape is out of commission, but the court has to worry whether he has followers out there who will take up the mantle, the mission for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal defense remains a mystery\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys have noted in an October court filing that they’re trying to avoid “prematurely revealing details of defense trial strategy and theory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that strategy remains a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg, from Stanford Law School, said it makes sense that DePape doesn’t plan to argue insanity as a defense as it’s an “incredibly hard” legal bar to clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to prove that because of your incapacity, you had no ability to even know what you were doing was wrong,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense’s witness list is brief: one redacted name who may be Target 1, Pelosi’s chief of staff, Daniel Bernal, Elizabeth Yates, \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/yates-testifies-on-extremist-threat-to-americans-and-democracy/\">an extremism and antisemitism researcher\u003c/a>, federal public defender Catherine Goulet and DePape himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors’ witness list, in contrast, is two pages long, sporting 15 names, most of whom are police officers, federal agents and various emergency responders. Paul Pelosi is also named as a potential witness. Nancy Pelosi is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an October pretrial hearing, Corley shot down the defense bid to ask jurors for their voting histories, calling the move “invasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will reduce faith in our system. I’m just not going to allow it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, from Loyola Law School, said finding even one juror who finds conspiracy theories plausible could be key for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they frankly need is one sympathizer, one person who says, ‘I don’t like DePape, but his message is one that I relate to,’” Levenson said. “If that happens, then you might not get the unanimous verdict that the prosecution has to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson cautioned against assuming the case will be an easy win for prosecutors, even in light of what she called “strong evidence” showing DePape’s attack, demonstrating his motivations and communicating his desire to continue his mission even after his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cases that look easy, you have to be careful because jurors will have high expectations,” she said. “In high profile cases, unusual things can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Nov. 8): An earlier version of this story listed David DePape’s age as 42 years old. That was his age at the time of his arrest last year. He is now 43.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Palestinian people and their allies are continuing calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of people filled San Francisco’s Civic Center on Saturday, joining nationwide rallies calling for an end to the fighting and for the U.S. to stop sending aid to Israel. The rally was the biggest so far in the Bay Area since the war began on October 7, and one of numerous actions in other cities, including a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., with \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ProtestmarchesbythousandsinEuropedemandhalttoIsraelibombingofGazaunderpolicewatch/193a9aaca97df2c5c6a515f756a40a34/text?Query=Palestine%20protests&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=31¤tItemNo=1\">other demonstrations\u003c/a> taking place across Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag amid a crowd of protesters.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman waves a Palestinian flag at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am optimistic about the unbelievable outpouring. Just coming here on BART this morning, half the car was people with signs,” said Seth Morrison, a member of the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, at the rally. “I’m seeing all over the country our JVP chapters, our actions are bigger than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man in a blue and white cap and a Palestinian flag draped around his neck looks away with a blurred crowd in the back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Morrison, 72, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Morrison, who lives in El Cerrito, has been organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace since 2011. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area Chapter, says she hopes the marches happening across the country draw attention to the thousands of Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza since the war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing today is a shock to the human conscience. People need to focus on the real root issue of violence which is Israeli settler colonial occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg\" alt=\"A young Palestinian-American woman speaks to reporters.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg 1708w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Ali, 25, speaks with reporters at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Ali of San Francisco is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea Muir said she has family in Gaza that have been displaced from their home, and that one of her cousins has died as a result of the fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t feel right to sit at home,” said Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month since Hamas launched an unprecedented cross-border attack into Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/LiveupdatesPalestiniansreportdeadlyIsraeliairstrikesincludinginsouthernGaza/5f45787afc214e279f2ec4b160b7a910/text?Query=Washington%20DC%20&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=128¤tItemNo=1\">more than 9,400 people\u003c/a>, at least 3,600 of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a>. Over \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ThesenumbersshowthestaggeringtolloftheIsrael-Hamaswar/5c9dc40bec95a8408c83f3c2fb759da0/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=685¤tItemNo=0\">1.4 million people have been displaced\u003c/a>. Calls for a cease-fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/03/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/blinken-expected-to-push-netanyahu-for-humanitarian-pauses-in-military-operations?smid=url-share\">including a call for a humanitarian pause from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday\u003c/a>, have so far been rebuffed by Israel, as supplies of food, water and medicine in Gaza run dangerously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has seen a series of vigils and rallies in recent weeks. Last Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">an estimated 15,000 protesters marched up Market Street in downtown San Francisco and onto the Highway 101\u003c/a>. The following day, hundreds attended a tightly guarded pro-Israel rally in downtown San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people on the lawn in front of San Francisco City Hall in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands gather at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Bay Area residents traveled to Washington D.C. this weekend, joining the march there calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, an end to the siege of Gaza, and for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to do what I can in this moment and onwards to ensure that more Palestinians aren’t displaced from their lands, like my grandparents, using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rami Abdelkarim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement in the Bay Area. “I want to join the people who refuse to sit idly by while our country funds the destruction and the displacement of my ancestors and my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters hold signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands showed up to attend the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco rally attendee Kisae Hussein said she feels a moral obligation to protest because her country, the United States, is spending tax dollars to support Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to feel despair when there’s all these marches and our representatives are still doing what they’re doing,” she said. “But if there’s enough pushback, if we boycott, divest, sanction, if we keep moving forward with these actions I think we have to have hope that something will happen despite how impossible it may seem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a Palestinian flag looks into the camera as protesters chant and hold signs behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Shain, 6, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally with his mom Faten, who says they currently have family in Jordan and Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response to the protesters’ calls by California politicians has been mixed. \u003c/span>California’s leading Senate candidates, running to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat, have largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-senate-israel-18429179.php\">expressed support for Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks. \u003c/a>Meanwhile, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1714466926032744879\">calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> and is stressing that Israel must respond “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1712925097042853891\">within the framework of international law\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House has not called for a cease-fire thus far, President Biden on Wednesday did \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/BidencallsforhumanitarianpauseinIsrael-Hamaswar/422ed95081e5fe224dd9f0ed7920c4e8/text?Query=Biden%20Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=218¤tItemNo=25\">call for a humanitarian pause\u003c/a> in Gaza, at a time of mounting pressure from human rights groups, and even members of his own Democratic Party. But a majority of the U.S. Congress continues to support the Israeli military. The House of Representatives recently \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Houseapprovesnearly145billioninmilitaryaidforIsraelBidenvowstovetotheGOPapproach/b7bfe528b12ac5954cfd5c034f11320d/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=673¤tItemNo=3\">approved $14.5 billion in military aid\u003c/a> for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">a San Francisco law firm sued the Biden administration\u003c/a> in a push to evacuate Palestinian-Americans trapped in Gaza, saying that while some American citizens have been evacuated, the administration has so far failed to bring Palestinian-Americans home to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters with signs and Palestinian flags gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall call for the Israeli military to cease fire in Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council CEO Tyler Gregory said the JCRC and the Jewish Community are calling on the Biden administration to do everything to provide humanitarian aid and work with Israelis to minimize loss of life. But, he added, Israel would not live with a cease-fire until the hostages are returned and Hamas is “no longer ruling the Gaza Strip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it’s reasonable that Israel has the right to self-defense and to try to reclaim its hostages,” Gregory said on Friday. “And we know that the United States would do the exact same thing. There is a lot of hypocrisy going around by those that are denying Israel the right to finish this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide-0\">United Nations experts are warning\u003c/a> that Gaza is “running out of time” and are calling for an immediate cease-fire “to prevent genocide.” Amnesty International has referred to Israeli governance of Palestinians as “oppressive and discriminatory” and “a system of apartheid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are planning more actions in the weeks ahead, including a protest at the Oakland Federal Building on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Annelise Finney, Attila Pelit, David Marks and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Palestinian people and their allies are continuing calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of people filled San Francisco’s Civic Center on Saturday, joining nationwide rallies calling for an end to the fighting and for the U.S. to stop sending aid to Israel. The rally was the biggest so far in the Bay Area since the war began on October 7, and one of numerous actions in other cities, including a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., with \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ProtestmarchesbythousandsinEuropedemandhalttoIsraelibombingofGazaunderpolicewatch/193a9aaca97df2c5c6a515f756a40a34/text?Query=Palestine%20protests&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=31¤tItemNo=1\">other demonstrations\u003c/a> taking place across Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag amid a crowd of protesters.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman waves a Palestinian flag at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am optimistic about the unbelievable outpouring. Just coming here on BART this morning, half the car was people with signs,” said Seth Morrison, a member of the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, at the rally. “I’m seeing all over the country our JVP chapters, our actions are bigger than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man in a blue and white cap and a Palestinian flag draped around his neck looks away with a blurred crowd in the back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Morrison, 72, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Morrison, who lives in El Cerrito, has been organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace since 2011. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area Chapter, says she hopes the marches happening across the country draw attention to the thousands of Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza since the war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing today is a shock to the human conscience. People need to focus on the real root issue of violence which is Israeli settler colonial occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg\" alt=\"A young Palestinian-American woman speaks to reporters.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg 1708w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Ali, 25, speaks with reporters at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Ali of San Francisco is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea Muir said she has family in Gaza that have been displaced from their home, and that one of her cousins has died as a result of the fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t feel right to sit at home,” said Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month since Hamas launched an unprecedented cross-border attack into Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/LiveupdatesPalestiniansreportdeadlyIsraeliairstrikesincludinginsouthernGaza/5f45787afc214e279f2ec4b160b7a910/text?Query=Washington%20DC%20&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=128¤tItemNo=1\">more than 9,400 people\u003c/a>, at least 3,600 of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a>. Over \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ThesenumbersshowthestaggeringtolloftheIsrael-Hamaswar/5c9dc40bec95a8408c83f3c2fb759da0/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=685¤tItemNo=0\">1.4 million people have been displaced\u003c/a>. Calls for a cease-fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/03/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/blinken-expected-to-push-netanyahu-for-humanitarian-pauses-in-military-operations?smid=url-share\">including a call for a humanitarian pause from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday\u003c/a>, have so far been rebuffed by Israel, as supplies of food, water and medicine in Gaza run dangerously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has seen a series of vigils and rallies in recent weeks. Last Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">an estimated 15,000 protesters marched up Market Street in downtown San Francisco and onto the Highway 101\u003c/a>. The following day, hundreds attended a tightly guarded pro-Israel rally in downtown San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people on the lawn in front of San Francisco City Hall in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands gather at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Bay Area residents traveled to Washington D.C. this weekend, joining the march there calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, an end to the siege of Gaza, and for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to do what I can in this moment and onwards to ensure that more Palestinians aren’t displaced from their lands, like my grandparents, using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rami Abdelkarim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement in the Bay Area. “I want to join the people who refuse to sit idly by while our country funds the destruction and the displacement of my ancestors and my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters hold signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands showed up to attend the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco rally attendee Kisae Hussein said she feels a moral obligation to protest because her country, the United States, is spending tax dollars to support Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to feel despair when there’s all these marches and our representatives are still doing what they’re doing,” she said. “But if there’s enough pushback, if we boycott, divest, sanction, if we keep moving forward with these actions I think we have to have hope that something will happen despite how impossible it may seem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a Palestinian flag looks into the camera as protesters chant and hold signs behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Shain, 6, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally with his mom Faten, who says they currently have family in Jordan and Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response to the protesters’ calls by California politicians has been mixed. \u003c/span>California’s leading Senate candidates, running to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat, have largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-senate-israel-18429179.php\">expressed support for Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks. \u003c/a>Meanwhile, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1714466926032744879\">calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> and is stressing that Israel must respond “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1712925097042853891\">within the framework of international law\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House has not called for a cease-fire thus far, President Biden on Wednesday did \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/BidencallsforhumanitarianpauseinIsrael-Hamaswar/422ed95081e5fe224dd9f0ed7920c4e8/text?Query=Biden%20Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=218¤tItemNo=25\">call for a humanitarian pause\u003c/a> in Gaza, at a time of mounting pressure from human rights groups, and even members of his own Democratic Party. But a majority of the U.S. Congress continues to support the Israeli military. The House of Representatives recently \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Houseapprovesnearly145billioninmilitaryaidforIsraelBidenvowstovetotheGOPapproach/b7bfe528b12ac5954cfd5c034f11320d/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=673¤tItemNo=3\">approved $14.5 billion in military aid\u003c/a> for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">a San Francisco law firm sued the Biden administration\u003c/a> in a push to evacuate Palestinian-Americans trapped in Gaza, saying that while some American citizens have been evacuated, the administration has so far failed to bring Palestinian-Americans home to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters with signs and Palestinian flags gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall call for the Israeli military to cease fire in Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council CEO Tyler Gregory said the JCRC and the Jewish Community are calling on the Biden administration to do everything to provide humanitarian aid and work with Israelis to minimize loss of life. But, he added, Israel would not live with a cease-fire until the hostages are returned and Hamas is “no longer ruling the Gaza Strip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it’s reasonable that Israel has the right to self-defense and to try to reclaim its hostages,” Gregory said on Friday. “And we know that the United States would do the exact same thing. There is a lot of hypocrisy going around by those that are denying Israel the right to finish this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide-0\">United Nations experts are warning\u003c/a> that Gaza is “running out of time” and are calling for an immediate cease-fire “to prevent genocide.” Amnesty International has referred to Israeli governance of Palestinians as “oppressive and discriminatory” and “a system of apartheid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are planning more actions in the weeks ahead, including a protest at the Oakland Federal Building on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Annelise Finney, Attila Pelit, David Marks and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Is Biden's Goal of a 2-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Still Possible?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Israel continues to respond to Hamas’ unprecedented attack on its people, bombarding Gaza and preparing for a ground offensive. Humanitarian groups and some foreign leaders are calling for a cease-fire. But what are the prospects for long-term peace? [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"President Joe Biden\"]‘In our view, it has to be a two-state solution. And that means a concentrated effort for all the parties — Israelis, Palestinians, regional partners, global leaders — to put us on a path toward peace.’[/pullquote]President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQv_L-NBiNg\">said Wednesday\u003c/a> that there is no going back to the status quo before Oct. 7 — meaning in part that when the crisis is over, there must be a view of what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, it has to be a two-state solution,” he said, \u003ca href=\"https://sv.usembassy.gov/president-bidens-statement-during-his-visit-to-tel-aviv/\">reiterating a comment\u003c/a> he made during his visit to Israel. “And that means a concentrated effort for all the parties — Israelis, Palestinians, regional partners, global leaders — to put us on a path toward peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution calls for establishing an independent state for Palestinians alongside that of Israel. And U.S. support for it is nothing new: For decades, it has been the primary proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But failed peace talks, logistical questions, expanded Israeli settlements, Palestinian attacks and recurring clashes have kept it from becoming a reality. The two-state solution has seen dwindling support from both Palestinians and Israelis over the years. And its prospects now seem dimmer than ever, in light of Hamas’ attack on Israel and Israel’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Ross, who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the 2000 Camp David summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207243717/23-years-ago-israelis-and-palestinians-were-talking-about-a-two-state-solution\">told NPR\u003c/a> that as heartbreaking as the situation is in the Middle East right now, eventually “there needs to be a day after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to understand: Israelis aren’t going anyplace, and Palestinians aren’t going anyplace,” Ross said. “Somehow, given that, we have to find a way towards coexistence, and obviously, we’re not there now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did the two-state solution come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long-running and complex but primarily rooted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">dispute over land\u003c/a> with immense historical and religious significance to Jews and Muslims (as well as Christians).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish proponents of the Zionist movement began moving to Ottoman Palestine — which was predominantly Arab — in the late 19th century, seeking safety from European antisemitism in their ancient homeland. Many more followed suit after the Holocaust. [aside postID=news_11965403 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231019-GazaRally-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg']Tensions grew between the two groups. Britain — which had governed Palestine since 1922 — referred the issue to the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly voted in 1947 to divide Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181\">partition plan\u003c/a> was rejected by the Arab community, in part due to concerns about how much land and access to resources it would get. But the plan was embraced by the Jewish community as legal justification for the establishment of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/timeline/#:~:text=MAY%201948%3A%20Great%20Britain%20terminates,Nakba%20(%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe%E2%80%9D).\">declared independence\u003c/a> in May 1948. Five Arab nations \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war\">immediately invaded\u003c/a> the new country, prompting a major Israeli offensive and many months of fighting. That resulted in the permanent displacement of thousands of Palestinians, which some refer to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/\">the Nakba\u003c/a>, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major turning point came in 1967, with Israel’s decisive victory in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War\">Six-Day War\u003c/a> against Egypt, Syria and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel gained territory \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-1967-six-day-war\">four times its original size\u003c/a>, taking control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those territories have been a major point of contention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">peace negotiations\u003c/a> ever since. The U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://peacemaker.un.org/middle-east-resolution242\">issued a resolution\u003c/a> in 1967 calling for Israeli troops to withdraw from areas it captured, though the resolution’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-242\">meaning has been disputed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set up the current occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which are collectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/#:~:text=Section%20I.-,Religious%20Demography,Gaza%20Strip%20(midyear%202022).\">home to some 5 million Palestinians\u003c/a>. (Israel pulled troops and settlers \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=With%20the%20implementation%20of%20the,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.\">out of Gaza \u003c/a>in 2005, but it’s still considered an occupied territory because the withdrawal was done without any agreement and Israel still \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitarian-impact-15-years-blockade-june-2022\">exerts control\u003c/a> over it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution was baked into Israel’s creation but didn’t necessarily play out as planned, says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What started off in the U.N.’s mind as a 50-50 split of Mandatory Palestine, after the 1948 war — which was initiated by the Arab armies — it was more than 50 percent for Israel. After 1967, it was 100 percent-plus for Israel,” he says. “And now Israel is, I think, the only country that’s hard to draw on a map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the two-state solution ever come close to reality?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. President Bill Clinton brought Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin together in 1993 to negotiate the agreement that came to be known as the \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo\">Oslo Accords\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and a partner in future negotiations, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal raised expectations for a two-state solution. But it quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">began to unravel\u003c/a> after a series of events, including a 1994 attack on a mosque in Hebron by an American Jewish settler and Rabin’s assassination in 1995 by an Israeli settler opposed to the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel enhanced its policy of fragmenting Gaza from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, says Atalia Omer, a professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Israeli settlements continued to proliferate in the West Bank — on occupied land that the Palestinians hoped would be part of their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has continued in the years since. The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, grew from 520,000 to more than 700,000 between 2012 and 2022, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/03/human-rights-council-hears-current-israeli-plan-double-settler-population-occupied\">U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements continue to eat into Palestinian spaces,” Omer says. “And over the course of the 30 years since the Oslo Accords — signed in the White House in September 1993 — the settlements completely prevented the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state within that two-state framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the other obstacles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Discussions of a two-state solution center on a number of core issues, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a> explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is how exactly the borders would be drawn. Most international diplomacy favors Israel reverting to a version of its pre-1967 borders, without a consensus on how that would account for the Palestinians living within those borders or the Jewish Israelis beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel has annexed the whole city of Jerusalem as its capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their state — which makes for another logistical question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the major question of Palestinian refugees of the wars of 1948 and 1967. The survivors and their descendants live mostly in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and claim the right to return to Israel based on a 1948 \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,not%20to%20return%20and%20for\">U.N. General Assembly resolution\u003c/a>. Israel views that right to return as a threat to its existence as a Jewish state and believes those refugees should go to the Palestinian state instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security looms large, too. Israel views certain Palestinian militant groups as existential threats — including Hamas, which governs Gaza and whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103\">founding charter\u003c/a> called for the obliteration of Israel — and wants them to disarm. Israel wants to maintain the ability to act in Palestinian areas against security threats. Palestinians want an end to Israel’s military occupation and full control over their own security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides want recognition of their respective states by the other and the international community. Palestinians also want acknowledgment of and redress for their forced displacement, Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a recognition and kind of naming, and then put in place mechanisms to redress — how can Palestinians be compensated for historical injustice they experienced — and then figure out ways of respecting Jewish citizens in the space through principles of equality and democracy,” Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did peace negotiations stand before this war?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There has been little progress since the turn of the millennium. The collapse of the 2000 peace process fueled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080066/israel-palestine-intifadas-first-second\">Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a major Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended in 2005 with some 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians dead, along with heightened skepticism of the peace process on both sides. Those feelings seem to have prevailed in the years since, which have been marked by terrorist attacks, military raids, rocket fire, border clashes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict-timeline.html\">other incidents\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Alterman, director, Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\"]‘As a fundamental proposition, it’s hard to have productive peace talks when no side sees either urgency or necessity to reach an agreement.’[/pullquote]“As a fundamental proposition, it’s hard to have productive peace talks when no side sees either urgency or necessity to reach an agreement,” says Alterman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that from an Israeli perspective, security was improving, Palestinian demands were diminishing and it would be politically divisive to make concessions to them. Palestinians, meanwhile, had a sense that they couldn’t make an agreement with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189720508/israel-politics-netanyahu-judiciary\">right-wing government\u003c/a> of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that it wasn’t worth giving up rights when demographics were in their favor in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, support for a two-state solution has shrunk considerably among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine#palestinian-and-israeli-support-for-a-two-state-solution-is-shrinking-polls-show\">both Israelis and Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-biden-two-state-solution.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication#:~:text=Generational%20Divide%20on%20the%20Two,Palestinians%20aged%2046%20and%20older.\">Gallup poll\u003c/a> released last week — conducted before Hamas’ attack on Israel — found that just 24% of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem supported a two-state solution. That figure is down from 59% in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/26/israelis-have-grown-more-skeptical-of-a-two-state-solution/\">Pew Research Center poll\u003c/a> released in September found that only 35% of Israelis think “a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully,” a decline of 15 percentage points since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A decent number of Israelis and Palestinians have come to conclude that it’s not a solution, that the nature of Israeli behavior, especially in the West Bank, makes a Palestinian state unviable,” says Alterman, noting that many members of the Israeli government want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/875593140/as-israel-vows-annexation-palestinian-leaders-embark-on-risky-form-of-protest\">annex the West Bank \u003c/a>altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s too early to say where the current conflict will go, though many Israelis believe Israeli politics are more likely to move to the right than the left in the wake of Hamas’ attack, which killed some 1,400 people in Israel and resulted in more than 220 hostages taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to Israeli officials, I don’t get any sense that part of the strategy is providing a political horizon for Palestinians,” he added, “which is what a peace agreement would ostensibly be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Israeli citizens aren’t pushing for peace at all. Sally Abed is a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.standing-together.org/about-us\">Standing Together\u003c/a>, an organization that aims to improve Arab-Jewish relations within Israel, and she’s also a Palestinian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t want to think that we needed to endure such loss, such atrocities here in Israel,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/21/1207763482/peace-activists-in-israel-speak-about-their-hopes-for-the-end-of-war\">she told NPR\u003c/a>. “But maybe now I really hope that from this dark corner, we can have this shift in the paradigm on how we actually look at these wars and how, actually, we look at the Israeli control over Gaza and over the West Bank, and really have a different outlook on what our leadership actually should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the alternatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are alternatives to a two-state solution — including a one-state solution, a confederation, annexation and maintaining the status quo — at least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA725-1.html\">Rand Corp. focus groups\u003c/a> conducted in 2018 and 2019 found that none of those was acceptable to a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, underscoring the deep complexities and emotions involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alterman says one of the biggest challenges for Israelis is balancing the need for a Jewish state and a democratic state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a one-state solution that gives citizenship to all of the natural-born residents of Mandatory Palestine — which includes Gaza and the West Bank — you don’t have a Jewish majority,” he explained. “A substantial line of thought [in Israel] is that it’s more important that Israel be Jewish than democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, most Americans — 73% — would choose a democratic over a Jewish Israel, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/americans-opt-for-a-democratic-israel-not-a-jewish-state/\">University of Maryland and Ipsos poll\u003c/a> conducted this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer is one of many who see the current reality as that of a single state. She points to the exclusionary practices and annexationist policies of the right-wing Netanyahu government, like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/7/19/israel-passes-controversial-jewish-nation-state-law\">2018 law that demoted Arabic\u003c/a> as one of Israel’s official languages, and the recent findings of human rights groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/956020789/israeli-human-rights-group-says-the-country-pursues-nondemocratic-apartheid-regi\">in and beyond Israel\u003c/a> that its practices toward Palestinians \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/\">amount to apartheid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says some Israeli and Palestinian activists support a one-state solution, but in \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080094/what-are-the-two-state-solution-and-the-one-state-solution\">different formats\u003c/a> and for different reasons. 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But some rightists and Israelis would prefer to see Israel annex the West Bank — either forcing out Palestinians or denying them the right to vote — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2020/06/israeli-annexation-parts-palestinian-west-bank-would-break-international-law-un\">which is illegal\u003c/a> under international human rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some activists, like the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr\">A Land for All\u003c/a>, argue that solutions based on separation have failed in the past, and they are instead pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english-program/?d=ltr\">confederal framework\u003c/a>, with two sovereign states sharing the capital of Jerusalem and an open border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer says there are “historical examples of life together in this space that is not within the paradigm of domination.” She acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine those kinds of possibilities in this moment but says the need for change is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can see depends on, also, an expression of how the paradigm that had been there before Oct. 7 is completely collapsing,” she says. “And all these contradictions just cannot be sustained anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Tensions grew between the two groups. Britain — which had governed Palestine since 1922 — referred the issue to the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly voted in 1947 to divide Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181\">partition plan\u003c/a> was rejected by the Arab community, in part due to concerns about how much land and access to resources it would get. But the plan was embraced by the Jewish community as legal justification for the establishment of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/timeline/#:~:text=MAY%201948%3A%20Great%20Britain%20terminates,Nakba%20(%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe%E2%80%9D).\">declared independence\u003c/a> in May 1948. Five Arab nations \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war\">immediately invaded\u003c/a> the new country, prompting a major Israeli offensive and many months of fighting. That resulted in the permanent displacement of thousands of Palestinians, which some refer to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/\">the Nakba\u003c/a>, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major turning point came in 1967, with Israel’s decisive victory in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War\">Six-Day War\u003c/a> against Egypt, Syria and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel gained territory \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-1967-six-day-war\">four times its original size\u003c/a>, taking control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those territories have been a major point of contention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">peace negotiations\u003c/a> ever since. The U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://peacemaker.un.org/middle-east-resolution242\">issued a resolution\u003c/a> in 1967 calling for Israeli troops to withdraw from areas it captured, though the resolution’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-242\">meaning has been disputed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set up the current occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which are collectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/#:~:text=Section%20I.-,Religious%20Demography,Gaza%20Strip%20(midyear%202022).\">home to some 5 million Palestinians\u003c/a>. (Israel pulled troops and settlers \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=With%20the%20implementation%20of%20the,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.\">out of Gaza \u003c/a>in 2005, but it’s still considered an occupied territory because the withdrawal was done without any agreement and Israel still \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitarian-impact-15-years-blockade-june-2022\">exerts control\u003c/a> over it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution was baked into Israel’s creation but didn’t necessarily play out as planned, says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What started off in the U.N.’s mind as a 50-50 split of Mandatory Palestine, after the 1948 war — which was initiated by the Arab armies — it was more than 50 percent for Israel. After 1967, it was 100 percent-plus for Israel,” he says. “And now Israel is, I think, the only country that’s hard to draw on a map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the two-state solution ever come close to reality?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. President Bill Clinton brought Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin together in 1993 to negotiate the agreement that came to be known as the \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo\">Oslo Accords\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and a partner in future negotiations, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal raised expectations for a two-state solution. But it quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">began to unravel\u003c/a> after a series of events, including a 1994 attack on a mosque in Hebron by an American Jewish settler and Rabin’s assassination in 1995 by an Israeli settler opposed to the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel enhanced its policy of fragmenting Gaza from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, says Atalia Omer, a professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Israeli settlements continued to proliferate in the West Bank — on occupied land that the Palestinians hoped would be part of their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has continued in the years since. The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, grew from 520,000 to more than 700,000 between 2012 and 2022, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/03/human-rights-council-hears-current-israeli-plan-double-settler-population-occupied\">U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements continue to eat into Palestinian spaces,” Omer says. “And over the course of the 30 years since the Oslo Accords — signed in the White House in September 1993 — the settlements completely prevented the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state within that two-state framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the other obstacles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Discussions of a two-state solution center on a number of core issues, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a> explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is how exactly the borders would be drawn. Most international diplomacy favors Israel reverting to a version of its pre-1967 borders, without a consensus on how that would account for the Palestinians living within those borders or the Jewish Israelis beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel has annexed the whole city of Jerusalem as its capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their state — which makes for another logistical question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the major question of Palestinian refugees of the wars of 1948 and 1967. The survivors and their descendants live mostly in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and claim the right to return to Israel based on a 1948 \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,not%20to%20return%20and%20for\">U.N. General Assembly resolution\u003c/a>. Israel views that right to return as a threat to its existence as a Jewish state and believes those refugees should go to the Palestinian state instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security looms large, too. Israel views certain Palestinian militant groups as existential threats — including Hamas, which governs Gaza and whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103\">founding charter\u003c/a> called for the obliteration of Israel — and wants them to disarm. Israel wants to maintain the ability to act in Palestinian areas against security threats. Palestinians want an end to Israel’s military occupation and full control over their own security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides want recognition of their respective states by the other and the international community. Palestinians also want acknowledgment of and redress for their forced displacement, Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a recognition and kind of naming, and then put in place mechanisms to redress — how can Palestinians be compensated for historical injustice they experienced — and then figure out ways of respecting Jewish citizens in the space through principles of equality and democracy,” Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did peace negotiations stand before this war?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There has been little progress since the turn of the millennium. The collapse of the 2000 peace process fueled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080066/israel-palestine-intifadas-first-second\">Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a major Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended in 2005 with some 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians dead, along with heightened skepticism of the peace process on both sides. 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Palestinians, meanwhile, had a sense that they couldn’t make an agreement with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189720508/israel-politics-netanyahu-judiciary\">right-wing government\u003c/a> of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that it wasn’t worth giving up rights when demographics were in their favor in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, support for a two-state solution has shrunk considerably among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine#palestinian-and-israeli-support-for-a-two-state-solution-is-shrinking-polls-show\">both Israelis and Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-biden-two-state-solution.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication#:~:text=Generational%20Divide%20on%20the%20Two,Palestinians%20aged%2046%20and%20older.\">Gallup poll\u003c/a> released last week — conducted before Hamas’ attack on Israel — found that just 24% of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem supported a two-state solution. 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Sally Abed is a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.standing-together.org/about-us\">Standing Together\u003c/a>, an organization that aims to improve Arab-Jewish relations within Israel, and she’s also a Palestinian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t want to think that we needed to endure such loss, such atrocities here in Israel,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/21/1207763482/peace-activists-in-israel-speak-about-their-hopes-for-the-end-of-war\">she told NPR\u003c/a>. “But maybe now I really hope that from this dark corner, we can have this shift in the paradigm on how we actually look at these wars and how, actually, we look at the Israeli control over Gaza and over the West Bank, and really have a different outlook on what our leadership actually should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the alternatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are alternatives to a two-state solution — including a one-state solution, a confederation, annexation and maintaining the status quo — at least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA725-1.html\">Rand Corp. focus groups\u003c/a> conducted in 2018 and 2019 found that none of those was acceptable to a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, underscoring the deep complexities and emotions involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alterman says one of the biggest challenges for Israelis is balancing the need for a Jewish state and a democratic state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a one-state solution that gives citizenship to all of the natural-born residents of Mandatory Palestine — which includes Gaza and the West Bank — you don’t have a Jewish majority,” he explained. “A substantial line of thought [in Israel] is that it’s more important that Israel be Jewish than democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, most Americans — 73% — would choose a democratic over a Jewish Israel, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/americans-opt-for-a-democratic-israel-not-a-jewish-state/\">University of Maryland and Ipsos poll\u003c/a> conducted this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer is one of many who see the current reality as that of a single state. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in late August, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women hosted a meeting to recruit candidates for local school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering at Calvary Chapel on Hillsdale Avenue in San José began with a prayer from the group’s vice president, Mingi Bodine. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mingi Bodine, vice president, Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women\"]‘Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins, but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen.’[/pullquote]“Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen,” Bodine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, advocates implored potential candidates to pursue school board seats under the banner of “parents’ rights” — with the goal of policing textbooks and transgender expression and countering the influence of teacher unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of one local parents’ rights group, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, shared his plans to encourage parents to opt their children out of sex ed classes. And conservatives who had won seats on South Bay school boards offered unvarnished explanations for their leap into politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided I’m going to run. Why? Because they were hurting the children,” said Linda Chavez, who was elected to the board of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, in East San José, in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had just finished passing all of this gay stuff,” Chavez said. “And this is one of the first districts who did it, and I looked around and said, this is all going to go this way — not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Chavez and three other candidates backed by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women won school board seats in the South Bay. A year later — as clashes over transgender rights, Pride flags, and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum have spread across California and the nation — conservative organizations in liberal Santa Clara County are redoubling their efforts to gain a foothold on local school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are facing growing pushback from opponents who are raising alarms about the groups’ collective aims. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José City Councilmember Omar Torres\"]‘Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, members of San José’s City Council denounced Informed Parents of Silicon Valley for using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaign to remove kids from sex-ed. In response, the council unanimously passed a resolution “affirming support of the transgender and broader LGBTQ+ communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Omar Torres, the city’s first openly gay Latino councilmember, co-authored the resolution. He was overcome with emotion as he attempted to speak from the dais — twice asking for more time to collect his thoughts, as other council members walked over to embrace him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand here crying not only as a councilmember but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation,” Torres said. “Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the council and their allies vowed to counter the influence of the conservative organizations — drawing battle lines ahead of what could be a more significant confrontation on school board ballots in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you don’t want to have happen is that everybody stays quiet,” said Ken Yeager, a professor of political science at San José State and the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County. “Then, these evangelicals think, ‘Oh, OK, the political climate has changed, we can be much more bold in our actions because there isn’t going to be any type of reaction to it.” [aside postID=news_11962571 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-CHINO-TRANSGENDER-SCHOOL-BOARD-Getty-DM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Informed Parents caught the attention of the council last month when their volunteers distributed literature outside of schools in the Cambrian, Franklin-McKinney and San José Unified school districts, which declared “Your children are at risk!” and accused local schools of teaching “Gender confusion and gender transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Pam Foley called the literature “inappropriate and totally unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fliers contain misinformation and hateful dog whistles that target our LGBTQ community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Pegram, the founder of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, defended his group’s outreach to parents and said their agenda is not anti-LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome anyone and everyone who’s interested in asserting parental rights over their children’s education,” said Pegram, a former San José councilmember, told KQED. “Whether those parents are gay, trans, cisgendered, or anything else really doesn’t matter to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core goal of the group’s opt-out campaign, Pegram said, is to teach parents about their ability to remove their children from classes they consider inappropriate, such as comprehensive sex education (which includes LGBTQ+ inclusive language) and HIV/AIDS prevention education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 California law requires students to receive sex ed once in middle school and once in high school, although it can be taught earlier. School districts are required to notify parents about the instruction and inform them about their ability to excuse their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we are doing is helping parents know what their rights are and make a decision as to whether or not they want to opt their children out of these various activities,” Pegram said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Pegram, founder, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley\"]‘If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army. … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign’[/pullquote]Pegram told KQED his group is not involved in politics. But at the August church meeting for prospective school board candidates, Pegram offered extensive guidance to candidates about campaigning, fundraising and messaging, saying, “If you want to see a change in curriculum in the schools, you have to make a change in the face of the people that are running the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, is dedicated to helping you candidates get elected,” Pegram said before adding, “Now, we’re a 501(c)(3) organization. We don’t — I’m doing this for the tape — we do not endorse any candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram said his group’s distribution of the “opt-out bookmarks” will encourage like-minded parents to form organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Informed Parents see the group as Pegram’s latest effort to target LGBTQ+ rights in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager, who detailed the history of local LGBTQ+ politics in his book \u003cem>Run!, \u003c/em>recounted Pegram’s opposition to ordinances protecting the city’s gay residents from discrimination in 1980. Later, Pegram was a local advocate for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage statewide in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is always on children,” Yeager said. “But obviously, their main aim is really to sort of take over politics and to sort of deprive LGBTQ people of the same rights as everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram maintained that his own political history is “irrelevant” to the current work of Informed Parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College, said she sees a similar playbook at work in the current debates playing out over LGBTQ+ issues in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition. And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. Instead, California’s Republican Party has made a concerted effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922860/california-republicans-are-betting-big-on-local-school-board-races\">invest in school board candidates as a way of building political power\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women supported more than a dozen candidates for school board across Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those candidates won: Marc Cooper in the Franklin-McKinley School District; Pamela Gardiner in the Morgan Hill Unified School District; Jim Zito in the Evergreen School District; and Linda Chavez, in her bid for reelection in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ties to conservative parents’ rights groups have created divisions at the local level. Cooper was censured last month by his board colleagues for appearing on a flier promoting his presence at an event organized by Informed Parents. The group was \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f7e7b8f6-de8e-4fa1-b10d-7c41d2c291df\">forced to apologize to San José councilmember Bien Doan\u003c/a> for featuring his image on the same flier without his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high leading into Tuesday’s council meeting. The resolution had initially called for the explicit condemnation of Informed Parents and accused the group of harassing families in their attempts to distribute opt-out literature. But after legal threats from the group, Informed Parents’ name was removed from the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, about two dozen residents showed up to testify — many sharing personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Rivera, a teacher and president of the teachers union in Alum Rock, told the council about raising a transgender son in local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As my son navigated who he was, it was through educators here in San José and in safe spaces created by them that helped him feel safe exploring his gender,” Rivera said. “Groups such as Informed Parents of Silicon Valley are wolves in sheep’s clothing trying to justify hate.” [aside label='More Stories on LGBTQ+ Discrimination' tag='lgbtq-discrimination']Other parents showed up to support Informed Parents and blasted the school board for condemning the group. Ha Tran, a San José parent of two, said the resolution was full of “false claims and should be discarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups are there because schools are not doing their jobs,” Tran added. “These schools are biased and promote LGBQT+ and cause kids to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said that on its face, Informed Parents’ campaign to opt children out of sex ed classes is a far cry from efforts to out transgender students and ban books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most people, that’s where it crosses the line — versus telling people, ‘Hey, just a reminder, you can opt your kid out of this curriculum,’” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Informed Parents’ fear-mongering rhetoric and political activity, Michelson added, could undermine their stated goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to give it up that easy and people are going to know that that’s what you’re really doing, then you’re going to have to expect some backlash,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. 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Under state law, HCD’s Housing Accountability Unit will now require the city to change a number of practices and rewrite city laws governing the housing permitting and appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘California’s affordability crisis is one of our own making. The decisions we made limited the creation of housing we need. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in San Francisco.’[/pullquote]The changes will make it far easier to build homes in San Francisco, said Gustavo Velasquez, director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, and far more difficult for neighbors and politicians to delay or kill projects that should be allowed under state law and existing local zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who were born and raised in San Francisco cannot afford to stay and raise their own families,“ he said. “And why is that? Primarily because the cost of housing is exorbitant in San Francisco and the cost of housing is exorbitant simply because there just isn’t enough of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration launched the review in August of 2021, noting that San Francisco has the longest timelines in the state for approving housing projects and among the highest housing and construction costs. The city also received the most complaints about potential violations of state housing laws of any California jurisdiction, nearly double the next city’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s affordability crisis is one of our own making,” Newsom said in an email to KQED. “The decisions we made limited the creation of housing we need. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in San Francisco. This report is an important first step to address the decades of issues that have held back San Francisco’s ability to build more housing. City leaders have come to the table to work with us on addressing these issues and [to] implement solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s report spells out 18 actions the city must take and a specific timeline for completing them. A series of laws passed in recent years gives state officials more power to force local jurisdictions to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco takes more than 10 months longer than the next-slowest jurisdiction to give the green light to build a house. These entrenched problems have been going on for a long time,” Velasquez said. “We’re going to be watching closely what the city does next… Failure to meet [the 18 actions] in the specified timeframes will initiate a process [of enforcement that could lead to lawsuits].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scathing report finds that many of the city’s laws and policies are in conflict with state law and have created “major inequities across the city” — concentrating density and affordable housing in certain neighborhoods while allowing “affluent NIMBYs” to “weaponize” the process and prevent construction in their areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dori Ganetsos, lead project manager for the state Housing and Community Development Department's report\"]‘We just want a very clear, easy process where if you’re proposing to build what the city says you’re allowed to build, you get approval.’[/pullquote]Among the key problems identified in the 44-page report are the city’s practice of making all permitting discretionary — that is, subject to review by city officials — and allowing appeals after a project has already been approved, and its local laws that add more onerous requirements to state environmental law, and go far beyond what’s required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements allow for appeals that, even if dropped, delay projects and add costs to both developers and city taxpayers, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, the state is giving San Francisco a deadline to change those practices: It must revise laws governing the permitting process by 2026 and eliminate additional environmental requirements within one to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dori Ganetsos, HCD’s lead project manager on the San Francisco review, said the changes required by the report should make building far simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want a very clear, easy process where if you’re proposing to build what the city says you’re allowed to build, you get approval,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was largely based on research conducted by Moira O’Neill, an associate research scientist at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development. She noted that, unlike other cities, a proposed project in San Francisco will undergo exhaustive reviews by planning officials even if it conforms to the city’s zoning and planning laws. In other cities, those types of projects are automatically approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law, as it is written and as applied to the developments that I’ve showcased in this report, creates opportunity for a single project opponent to step forward and disrupt the approval pathway … even if the proposed development conforms to the local law as it is written,” O’Neill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']That opportunity for subjective review adds delays and risk for developers, O’Neill said. Her review found that the median time for approving multifamily housing in San Francisco was 34 months between 2018 and 2021 — up from 27 months just a few years before. That process can be dragged out further because San Francisco law allows additional time for appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neill said many of these local laws were written to encourage the proliferation of dense housing. But over the years, they have done the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco actually has comparatively more land zoned for dense housing than a lot of the other jurisdictions in California I’ve studied,” she said. “So the local law is both written in a way to try to say we want to welcome people, we want to have multifamily housing, and yet it’s written in a way to make the process so onerous, so unpredictable, it effectively blocks the development of multifamily housing. And that has huge implications for how inclusive San Francisco truly can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing discretionary policies works, the report states. It cites the implementation of a 2017 state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617088/housing-bills-clear-toughest-hurdle-at-state-capitol\">Senate Bill 35\u003c/a>, which required local governments to streamline approval of some projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before SB 35, San Francisco approved just five affordable housing projects over three years from 2014–2017. Since it took effect, 18 were approved between 2018 and 2021, 14 of them directly because of SB 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velasquez said that these numbers, and the lessons gleaned from this report and its outcomes, will help the state speed up housing production in other cities around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A ministerial approval process is essential, to take politics, subjectivity out of the equation, out of the decision-making process. 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