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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people turned out in protests across the Bay Area Saturday, joining crowds across the country who say President Donald Trump is taking the country in the wrong direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So-called Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states by more than 150 groups including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The rallies appeared peaceful, with no immediate reports of arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Downtown Oakland, thousands gathered with signs supporting various government programs under threat from the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1408-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands gather at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland for a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hands off of all of it, hands off of our Medicaid, hands off of our VA nurses, hands off of our union rights,” said Katie Roemer, a registered nurse from Oakland. “The reason we have these services is because the people of our country have decided that is something that is important. That we take care of each other. And as nurses, we want to support that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the National Mall and Midtown Manhattan to Boston Common and multiple state capitols, thousands of protesters assailed Trump and billionaire \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk\">Elon Musk\u003c/a>‘s actions on government downsizing, the economy, immigration and human rights. In Seattle, in the shadow of the city’s iconic Space Needle, protesters held signs with slogans like “Fight the oligarchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063472.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063472-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063472-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063472-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside the Minnesota State Capitol during the nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tim Evans/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators voiced anger over the administration’s moves to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-veterans-64722f96984f1b730fea88278f6bc93f\">fire thousands of federal workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff\">close Social Security Administration field offices\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/usaid-federal-judge-trump-administration-bdc919a5d98eda5ab72a32fdfe2f147d\">effectively shutter entire agencies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-el-salvador-justice-contempt-6085e64a04b5d6455f368175af83e724\">deport immigrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/transgender-visibility-trump-orders-2f949cdab2673e3becdfc3d213158aa9\">scale back protections for transgender people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-covid-federal-money-lawsuit-restraining-order-hhs-4d534b9f04389161f71e3bc541e87d7a\">cut funding for health programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Ramirez-Monaco waves a large hand-shaped sign as protestors march down Clay St. following a rally against Donald Trump and Elon Musk on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland School Board Vice President Valarie Bachelor said\u003cbr>\nshe fears how government cuts will affect her school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By defunding the Department of Education you’re taking away food lunch programs, you’re taking away funding from vulnerable students,” said Bachelor. “It scares me to think about what’s going to happen to our immigrant families and students in the district. By gutting these systems they’re attacking all of us in different ways and that’s why we need to stand together and say absolutely not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Bachelor delivers a speech during a Hands Off! protest in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other attendees said they were worried about threats to climate initiatives, social security and DEI programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident and parent Monica Laboskey spoke about the importance of uniting and coming out as a community to “fight the good fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hands off our funding. … It is so critical that our important services, our education, our nonprofits, our health care, our universities, that we continue to get the funding we need to continue to do the good work that everyone’s doing,” said Laboskey. “We need to figure out what’s next, and how do we take this passion and this anger and turn it into a real movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve to live in a safe, joyful society,” Laboskey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginger Rubio, dressed as a musk rat, entertains other supporters during a Hands Off! rally in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played a key role in the downsizing as the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He says he is saving taxpayers billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign advocacy group, criticized the administration’s treatment of the LBGTQ+ community at the rally at the National Mall, where Democratic members of Congress also took the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather on the National Mall for the nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The attacks that we’re seeing, they’re not just political. They are personal, y’all,” Robinson said. “They’re trying to ban our books, they’re slashing HIV prevention funding, they’re criminalizing our doctors, our teachers, our families and our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want this America, y’all,” Robinson added. “We want the America we deserve, where dignity, safety and freedom belong not to some of us, but to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two masked protestors don red robes and white masks to protest against the Trump Administration during a rally in Frank Ogawa Plaza on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Boston, demonstrators brandished signs such as “Hands off our democracy” and “Hands off our Social Security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Michelle Wu said she does not want her children and others’ to live in a world in which threats and intimidation are government tactics and values like diversity and equality are under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I refuse to accept that they could grow up in a world where immigrants like their grandma and grandpa are automatically presumed to be criminals,” Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Lynn (center) dresses as the Statue of Liberty during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roger Broom, 66, a retiree from Delaware County, Ohio, was one of hundreds who rallied at the Statehouse in Columbus. He said he used to be a Reagan Republican but has been turned off by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s tearing this country apart,” Broom said. “It’s just an administration of grievances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people also demonstrated in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a few miles from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, where he spent the morning at the club’s Senior Club Championship. People lined both sides of PGA Drive, encouraging cars to honk and chanting slogans against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An enormous crowd fills the whole of Frank Ogawa Plaza during a Hands Off! protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They need to keep their hands off of our Social Security,” said Archer Moran of Port St. Lucie, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The list of what they need to keep their hands off of is too long,” Moran said. “And it’s amazing how soon these protests are happening since he’s taken office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president planned to go golfing again Sunday, according to the White House.[aside postID=news_12033741 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_7111-e1743284395669.jpg']Asked about the protests, the White House said in a statement that “President Trump’s position is clear: he will always protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ stance is giving Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits to illegal aliens, which will bankrupt these programs and crush American seniors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists have staged \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab\">nationwide demonstrations\u003c/a> against Trump and Musk multiple times since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-scene-rotunda-republicans-second-term-618e452b9e8fe294095937b27816d21a\">Trump returned to office\u003c/a>. But before Saturday the opposition movement had yet to produce a mass mobilization like the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/de267a3227574cb182b953cb60e69ae2\">Women’s March in 2017\u003c/a>, which brought thousands of women to Washington after Trump’s first inauguration, or the Black Lives Matter \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mo-state-wire-in-state-wire-mi-state-wire-minneapolis-virus-outbreak-55933b8695e36337a6bfe96728b3e7f3\">demonstrations that erupted in multiple cities\u003c/a> after George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally participant attaches a homemade sign to the back of a hat during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Charlotte, North Carolina, protesters said they were supporting a variety of causes, from Social Security and education to immigration and women’s reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of your party, regardless of who you voted for, what’s going on today, what’s happening today is abhorrent,” said Britt Castillo, 35, of Charlotte. “It’s disgusting, and as broken as our current system might be, the way that the current administration is going about trying to fix things — it is not the way to do it. They’re not listening to the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juniper Tinker Ward waves a homemade sign during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported by Dave Collins of The Associated Press, with contributions from AP’s Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, Fatima Hussein in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Erik Verduzco in Charlotte, North Carolina. KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting from Oakland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators voiced anger over the administration’s moves to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-veterans-64722f96984f1b730fea88278f6bc93f\">fire thousands of federal workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff\">close Social Security Administration field offices\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/usaid-federal-judge-trump-administration-bdc919a5d98eda5ab72a32fdfe2f147d\">effectively shutter entire agencies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-el-salvador-justice-contempt-6085e64a04b5d6455f368175af83e724\">deport immigrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/transgender-visibility-trump-orders-2f949cdab2673e3becdfc3d213158aa9\">scale back protections for transgender people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-covid-federal-money-lawsuit-restraining-order-hhs-4d534b9f04389161f71e3bc541e87d7a\">cut funding for health programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1411-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Ramirez-Monaco waves a large hand-shaped sign as protestors march down Clay St. following a rally against Donald Trump and Elon Musk on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland School Board Vice President Valarie Bachelor said\u003cbr>\nshe fears how government cuts will affect her school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By defunding the Department of Education you’re taking away food lunch programs, you’re taking away funding from vulnerable students,” said Bachelor. “It scares me to think about what’s going to happen to our immigrant families and students in the district. By gutting these systems they’re attacking all of us in different ways and that’s why we need to stand together and say absolutely not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1401-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Bachelor delivers a speech during a Hands Off! protest in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other attendees said they were worried about threats to climate initiatives, social security and DEI programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident and parent Monica Laboskey spoke about the importance of uniting and coming out as a community to “fight the good fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hands off our funding. … It is so critical that our important services, our education, our nonprofits, our health care, our universities, that we continue to get the funding we need to continue to do the good work that everyone’s doing,” said Laboskey. “We need to figure out what’s next, and how do we take this passion and this anger and turn it into a real movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve to live in a safe, joyful society,” Laboskey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1402-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginger Rubio, dressed as a musk rat, entertains other supporters during a Hands Off! rally in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played a key role in the downsizing as the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He says he is saving taxpayers billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign advocacy group, criticized the administration’s treatment of the LBGTQ+ community at the rally at the National Mall, where Democratic members of Congress also took the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2208063639-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather on the National Mall for the nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The attacks that we’re seeing, they’re not just political. They are personal, y’all,” Robinson said. “They’re trying to ban our books, they’re slashing HIV prevention funding, they’re criminalizing our doctors, our teachers, our families and our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want this America, y’all,” Robinson added. “We want the America we deserve, where dignity, safety and freedom belong not to some of us, but to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1410-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two masked protestors don red robes and white masks to protest against the Trump Administration during a rally in Frank Ogawa Plaza on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Boston, demonstrators brandished signs such as “Hands off our democracy” and “Hands off our Social Security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Michelle Wu said she does not want her children and others’ to live in a world in which threats and intimidation are government tactics and values like diversity and equality are under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I refuse to accept that they could grow up in a world where immigrants like their grandma and grandpa are automatically presumed to be criminals,” Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1404-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Lynn (center) dresses as the Statue of Liberty during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roger Broom, 66, a retiree from Delaware County, Ohio, was one of hundreds who rallied at the Statehouse in Columbus. He said he used to be a Reagan Republican but has been turned off by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s tearing this country apart,” Broom said. “It’s just an administration of grievances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people also demonstrated in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a few miles from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, where he spent the morning at the club’s Senior Club Championship. People lined both sides of PGA Drive, encouraging cars to honk and chanting slogans against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1400-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An enormous crowd fills the whole of Frank Ogawa Plaza during a Hands Off! protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They need to keep their hands off of our Social Security,” said Archer Moran of Port St. Lucie, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The list of what they need to keep their hands off of is too long,” Moran said. “And it’s amazing how soon these protests are happening since he’s taken office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president planned to go golfing again Sunday, according to the White House.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Asked about the protests, the White House said in a statement that “President Trump’s position is clear: he will always protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ stance is giving Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits to illegal aliens, which will bankrupt these programs and crush American seniors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists have staged \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab\">nationwide demonstrations\u003c/a> against Trump and Musk multiple times since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-scene-rotunda-republicans-second-term-618e452b9e8fe294095937b27816d21a\">Trump returned to office\u003c/a>. But before Saturday the opposition movement had yet to produce a mass mobilization like the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/de267a3227574cb182b953cb60e69ae2\">Women’s March in 2017\u003c/a>, which brought thousands of women to Washington after Trump’s first inauguration, or the Black Lives Matter \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mo-state-wire-in-state-wire-mi-state-wire-minneapolis-virus-outbreak-55933b8695e36337a6bfe96728b3e7f3\">demonstrations that erupted in multiple cities\u003c/a> after George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1406-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally participant attaches a homemade sign to the back of a hat during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Charlotte, North Carolina, protesters said they were supporting a variety of causes, from Social Security and education to immigration and women’s reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of your party, regardless of who you voted for, what’s going on today, what’s happening today is abhorrent,” said Britt Castillo, 35, of Charlotte. “It’s disgusting, and as broken as our current system might be, the way that the current administration is going about trying to fix things — it is not the way to do it. They’re not listening to the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403.jpeg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/IMG_1403-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juniper Tinker Ward waves a homemade sign during a protest against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Oakland on April 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported by Dave Collins of The Associated Press, with contributions from AP’s Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, Fatima Hussein in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Erik Verduzco in Charlotte, North Carolina. KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting from Oakland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters are trying to escalate a movement targeting Tesla dealerships and vehicles in opposition to Musk’s role as the head of the newly created Department of of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, where he’s gained access to sensitive data and shuttered entire agencies as he attempts to slash government spending. Most of Musk’s estimated $340 billion fortune consists of the stock he holds in the electric vehicle company that he continues to run while also working alongside Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier protests have been somewhat sporadic. Saturday marked the first attempt to surround all 277 of the automaker’s showrooms and service centers in the U.S. in hopes of deepening \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-2024-drop-electric-vehicles-69af17c4e606625694af8293db25b2f3\">a recent decline in the company’s sales.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters gathered in San Francisco, filling the entire sidewalk in front of the Van Ness Street Tesla dealership, with even more protesters on the sidewalk across the street and in the median. Most were carrying homemade signs, some of which read “Musk is stealing from us” and “Musk must go.” Passing cars frequently honked in support — including some people in Teslas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizer Patty Moddelmog said “Elon Musk is not worried about laying off hundreds of thousands of employees, but he’s very worried about his bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Felicia Becerra works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs which terminated nearly 2,000 employees under Musk and President Trump, a move that has been the subject of lawsuits, at least one of which resulted in many of those same workers being reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certainly cuts that are happening that are going to impact the infrastructure that the VA is dependent on,” said Becerra. “Eventually it’s going to hit the veterans I think once they start cutting call center employees, once they start cutting the people that manage claims, it’s going to hit a lot of veterans and not just the people who are employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909107 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-651462930-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds also gathered at the Tesla dealership in Berkeley, playing music and dancing as they blocked off Fourth Street, waving signs that read “Solve All Budget Issues: Tax Elon Musk,” “My Dad Works for the Government but He’s Not a Waste,” and “Turd Reich,” among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Kate Klaire said she came out to Berkeley to be part of a “global uprising around the world … because every single thing that’s going on right now is threatening our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Kent Sparing from Albany said, “If we wanted to fund everything, we could just simply tax [Elon Musk] what he should be paying in taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley local and self-described “dangerous immigrant” Tony Hansen said “I’ve been here for more than 50 years and I’ve paid plenty of taxes and I believe in it. That’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were protests in other parts of the Bay Area as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go!” several dozen people chanted outside a showroom in Dublin, California, about 35 miles east of San Francisco, while a smaller cluster of Trump supporters waved American flags across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early afternoon, crowds ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of protesters had flocked to Tesla locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Minnesota and the automaker’s home state of Texas. Pictures posted on social media accounts showed protesters brandishing signs such as \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/pepsy-the-whippet.bsky.social/post/3lljrdz5pzs2l\">“Honk if you hate Elon”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/jimmyflannigan.bsky.social/post/3lljq36ryck2p\">“Fight the billionaire broligarchy.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekly demonstrations continue outside of Tesla stores to protest Elon Musk and his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, March 29, 2025, in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. \u003ccite>(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tesla Takedown movement also hoped to rally protestors at more than 230 Tesla locations in other parts of the world. Although the turnouts in Europe weren’t as large as the crowds in the U.S., the anti-Musk sentiment was similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen protesters held signs lambasting Musk outside a Tesla dealership in London as passing cars and trucks tooted horns in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the signs displayed at the London protest showed a photo of Musk next to an image of Adolf Hitler making the Nazi salute — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/musk-gesture-salute-antisemitism-0070dae53c7a73397b104ae645877535\">gesture that Musk has been accused of reprising\u003c/a> shortly after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. A person in a tyrannosaurus rex costume held another sign with a picture of Musk’s straight-arm gesture that said, “You thought the Nazis were extinct. Don’t buy a Swasticar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters gather outside the Royal Park Tesla dealership in London, United Kingdom, on March 29, 2025. Demonstrators hold signs, including one reading ‘Don’t buy a Tesla,’ and call for action against Tesla and Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Aysu Bicer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We just want to get loud, make noise, make people aware of the problems that we’re facing,” said Cam Whitten, an American who showed up at the London protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla Takedown was organized by a group of supporters that included disillusioned owners of the automaker’s vehicles, celebrities such as actor John Cusack, and at least one Democratic Party lawmaker, Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Dallas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to keep screaming in the halls of Congress. I just need you all to make sure you all keep screaming in the streets,” Crockett said during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHo7bea_p4\">Tesla Takedown organizing call\u003c/a> held earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people opposed to Musk have gone beyond protests and set the automaker’s vehicles on fire and committed \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tesla-vandalism-musk-trump-domestic-extremism-7576c03393a733eaf34b793e86ad1a6f\">other acts of vandalism\u003c/a> that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has decried as domestic terrorism. Musk indicated he was dumbfounded by the attacks during a March 20 company meeting and said the vandals should “stop acting psycho.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crockett and other Tesla Takedown supporters have been stressing the importance for Saturday’s protests to remain peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police were investigating a fire that destroyed seven Tesla vehicles in northwestern Germany early Saturday morning. It was wasn’t immediately clear if the blaze, which was extinguished by firefighters, was related to the Tesla Takedown protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators protest in front of a Tesla Service Center in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district, as they kick off the ‘Weeks of Protest’ against US car company Tesla, on March 29, 2025. RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images \u003ccite>(Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of consumers who bought Tesla vehicles before Musk took over DOGE have been looking to sell or trade in their cars while others have slapped on bumper stickers seeking to distance themselves from the billionaire’s efforts to prune or shut down government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Musk didn’t appear concerned about an extended slump in sales of new Tesla cars in his March 20 address to employees. He reassured the workers that the company’s Model Y, which is undergoing a refresh, would remain “the best-selling car on Earth again this year.” He also predicted Tesla will have sold more than 10 million cars worldwide by next year, up from about 7 million cars now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are times when there are rocky moments, where there is stormy weather, but what I am here to tell you is that the future is incredibly bright and exciting,” Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Trump was elected last November, investors initially saw Musk’s alliance with the president as a positive development for Tesla and its long-running efforts to launch \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-unveiling-a00d063f2ffc67125889a6635a0a607e\">a network of self-driving cars.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2204441337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2204441337.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2204441337-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2204441337-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2204441337-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The steering wheel of a burnt-out Tesla car in the Steglitz district of Berlin, Germany, on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That optimism helped lift Tesla’s stock by 70% in the period between Trump’s Nov. 5 election and his Jan. 20 inauguration, creating an additional $560 billion in shareholder wealth. But virtually all those gains have evaporated amid investor worries about the Tesla backlash, lagging sales in the U.S., Europe and China, and Musk spending time overseeing DOGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This continues to be a moment of truth for Musk to navigate this brand tornado crisis moment and get onto the other side of this dark chapter for Tesla,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said in a research note leading up to Saturday’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press business writer Michael Liedtke reported from San Francisco, with contributions from AP’s Mustakim Hasnath from London and Stefanie Dazio from Germany. KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara contributed reporting from San Francisco and Lakshmi Sarah from Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds also gathered at the Tesla dealership in Berkeley, playing music and dancing as they blocked off Fourth Street, waving signs that read “Solve All Budget Issues: Tax Elon Musk,” “My Dad Works for the Government but He’s Not a Waste,” and “Turd Reich,” among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Kate Klaire said she came out to Berkeley to be part of a “global uprising around the world … because every single thing that’s going on right now is threatening our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Kent Sparing from Albany said, “If we wanted to fund everything, we could just simply tax [Elon Musk] what he should be paying in taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley local and self-described “dangerous immigrant” Tony Hansen said “I’ve been here for more than 50 years and I’ve paid plenty of taxes and I believe in it. That’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were protests in other parts of the Bay Area as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go!” several dozen people chanted outside a showroom in Dublin, California, about 35 miles east of San Francisco, while a smaller cluster of Trump supporters waved American flags across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early afternoon, crowds ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of protesters had flocked to Tesla locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Minnesota and the automaker’s home state of Texas. Pictures posted on social media accounts showed protesters brandishing signs such as \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/pepsy-the-whippet.bsky.social/post/3lljrdz5pzs2l\">“Honk if you hate Elon”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/jimmyflannigan.bsky.social/post/3lljq36ryck2p\">“Fight the billionaire broligarchy.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2207532216-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekly demonstrations continue outside of Tesla stores to protest Elon Musk and his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, March 29, 2025, in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. \u003ccite>(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tesla Takedown movement also hoped to rally protestors at more than 230 Tesla locations in other parts of the world. Although the turnouts in Europe weren’t as large as the crowds in the U.S., the anti-Musk sentiment was similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen protesters held signs lambasting Musk outside a Tesla dealership in London as passing cars and trucks tooted horns in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the signs displayed at the London protest showed a photo of Musk next to an image of Adolf Hitler making the Nazi salute — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/musk-gesture-salute-antisemitism-0070dae53c7a73397b104ae645877535\">gesture that Musk has been accused of reprising\u003c/a> shortly after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. A person in a tyrannosaurus rex costume held another sign with a picture of Musk’s straight-arm gesture that said, “You thought the Nazis were extinct. Don’t buy a Swasticar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206911491-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters gather outside the Royal Park Tesla dealership in London, United Kingdom, on March 29, 2025. Demonstrators hold signs, including one reading ‘Don’t buy a Tesla,’ and call for action against Tesla and Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Aysu Bicer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We just want to get loud, make noise, make people aware of the problems that we’re facing,” said Cam Whitten, an American who showed up at the London protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla Takedown was organized by a group of supporters that included disillusioned owners of the automaker’s vehicles, celebrities such as actor John Cusack, and at least one Democratic Party lawmaker, Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Dallas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to keep screaming in the halls of Congress. I just need you all to make sure you all keep screaming in the streets,” Crockett said during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHo7bea_p4\">Tesla Takedown organizing call\u003c/a> held earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people opposed to Musk have gone beyond protests and set the automaker’s vehicles on fire and committed \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tesla-vandalism-musk-trump-domestic-extremism-7576c03393a733eaf34b793e86ad1a6f\">other acts of vandalism\u003c/a> that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has decried as domestic terrorism. Musk indicated he was dumbfounded by the attacks during a March 20 company meeting and said the vandals should “stop acting psycho.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crockett and other Tesla Takedown supporters have been stressing the importance for Saturday’s protests to remain peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police were investigating a fire that destroyed seven Tesla vehicles in northwestern Germany early Saturday morning. It was wasn’t immediately clear if the blaze, which was extinguished by firefighters, was related to the Tesla Takedown protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/03/GettyImages-2206844168-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators protest in front of a Tesla Service Center in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district, as they kick off the ‘Weeks of Protest’ against US car company Tesla, on March 29, 2025. RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images \u003ccite>(Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of consumers who bought Tesla vehicles before Musk took over DOGE have been looking to sell or trade in their cars while others have slapped on bumper stickers seeking to distance themselves from the billionaire’s efforts to prune or shut down government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Musk didn’t appear concerned about an extended slump in sales of new Tesla cars in his March 20 address to employees. 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While, at times, Angel said, the agency’s mission has been weakened by lax enforcement, its vital public service needs to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They needed to improve, but they need to exist,” Angel said. “This is a life or death issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032974 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Fox attends a rally denouncing President Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on environmental laws and environmental justice programs in front of the USEPA’s Regional Headquarters in San Francisco on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate groups across the Bay Area have seen federal grants canceled or frozen over the last few months. Some told KQED they do not know the status of their funding because agency staffers have been ordered not to communicate with them. Others are blindly billing for their projects with no assurance that they will be reimbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in climate grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration. The money was meant to finance clean energy and environmental projects through a so-called green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.[aside postID=news_12031373 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25071680469371-1020x680.jpg']At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996440/uncertainty-looms-over-bay-area-climate-projects-under-trump\">$60 million in federal funding for climate projects across the Bay Area is at risk\u003c/a>, potentially stalling wildfire prevention efforts, trail building and more. That’s according to a survey by Together Bay Area, which represents dozens of the region’s nonprofits, tribes and public agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found out that nature-based solutions to the climate crisis are slowing down and stopping because of the federal administration’s orders,” said Annie Burke, the group’s executive director. “That’s not a good thing. Climate change doesn’t care about what’s happening in Washington, D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, calling them wasteful spending that needs to be cut to align with orders from President Donald Trump. The agency shuttered its environmental justice offices nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee Zeldin, EPA’s administrator, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> that environmental justice has been used “primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032973\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally denouncing President Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on environmental laws and environmental justice programs in front of the USEPA’s Regional Headquarters in San Francisco on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zeldin also \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">announced 31 actions\u003c/a> meant to assign more authority to the states and relax federal regulations. The administration argued that this would lower the cost of living while supporting the energy and automobile industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more,” Zeldin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamillah Ealom, director of All Things Bayview, said these policies will be devastating to residents in her shoreline community, which already contends with the lasting environmental and health effects of historic toxic waste dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elon and Trump are coming for our fight,” Ealom said. “We already had to motivate the EPA to do their jobs. Now, Trump has just silenced and intimated them even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over a hundred students from at least two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a> high schools walked out of class on Wednesday and marched to the school district’s office to protest millions of dollars in budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action came just a day after students at John F. Kennedy High School walked out, calling on the West Contra Costa Unified School District to halt $13 million in cuts over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, we’re fighting for the future,” Julissa Blandon, a senior at Kennedy High, told KQED. “I’m going to be leaving, and I’m going to see all my fellow lowerclassmen suffer. That just doesn’t stand with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Contra Costa school board voted last month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029232/west-contra-costa-compromises-on-eliminating-staff-but-student-services-could-face-cuts\">move forward with cuts\u003c/a> to over 150 positions as part of its multi-year plan to maintain local control of its finances. The vote saved eight positions but left the district in further fiscal uncertainty, requiring more than $1 million in alternative cuts, interim Superintendent Kim Moses said in a Feb. 27 statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031026 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Richmond’s John F. 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She said the cuts would eliminate almost 20 teachers from the school’s college and career pathways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials have also said the reductions, which have already resulted in $19 million being cut for this school year, are unnecessary and “a direct attack on our classrooms, our educators, and our students’ future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Richmond’s John F. 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The day felt “contradictory” to her and co-chair McKinley Greenberg, Garg said, but it also inspired them to foster a strong Bay Area youth community that can come together over the next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of have to accept that Trump is president now, but we still have power in our own hands to create solidarity,” said Greenberg, 18. “You can already see it starting. Everyone’s meeting each other for the first time because this was all organized over Zoom, and it’s really cool to see everyone working together on some art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 75 teens traveled from all over the Bay Area to attend the rally, which featured youth poets, speakers and, of course, pizza. 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Like most of the attendees at Monday’s event, Seims, 16, wasn’t eligible to vote in the last election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s channeled her feelings into advocacy efforts, forming a club that teaches kids about carbon sequestration, the process of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and joining the Say No to PFAS Movement, which advocates against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004572/how-a-california-county-got-pfas-out-of-its-drinking-water\">synthetic “forever chemicals”\u003c/a> linked with severe health risks, and showing up to rallies like Monday’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023109 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On day one, it does feel a little bit hopeless, but it’s also, I think [it’s] a time that could really bring out a lot of great movements, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43698/trump-inauguration-executive-orders-2025-day-1\">expected to declare\u003c/a> a “national energy emergency” on Monday that would reduce the red tape and regulations on U.S. energy companies. The move would repeal what his team has called the “electric vehicle mandate,” referring to policies President Biden passed promoting the transition from gas to electric cars. There is not currently any federal legislation that restricts gas-powered vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most Democrats and environmental activists, the young protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995140/bay-area-environmentalists-criticize-trumps-pick-lead-epa\">expressed worry about Lee Zeldin\u003c/a>, Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, who has been criticized for his ties to the U.S. oil industry and voting record rejecting most environmental legislation as a former member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s terrifying,” Garg said, considering the next four years. “We’re going to see a lot of the improvement and progress that we made during this past administration being rolled back, and it’s hard when you have so many people in power who are paid off or just don’t believe in the science that’s in front of you and don’t really pay attention to your futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that in 2028, she’ll get to cast her first vote for a candidate that aligns with her climate values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 20: A previous version of this story misattributed two quotes by Aishani Garg and McKinley Greenberg to the other. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of people rallied in San Francisco Sunday, protesting the incoming Trump administration a day before the president-elect is set to be inaugurated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large crowd sprawled across Civic Center Plaza, dotted with information tents from a few of the dozens of groups that endorsed the “We Fight Back” event. Signs on sticks written in several languages jutted over the masses, advocating for a number of causes from immigrants’ rights, women’s rights and a just end to the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protestors march on Grove St. during a “We Fight Back” rally, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, on Jan. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re standing alongside and protecting the rights of our immigrant students and families, of our LGBTQ students and families, and also protecting the rights of workers,” said Yajaira Cuapio, an executive board member with the United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFUSD teachers’ union also endorsed the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s coming in and his agenda, his billionaire agenda, does not represent the needs of those in the working class, the majority of us in society,” Cuapio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that says \"Immigrant Power\" near a crowd.' width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanika Mahajan with Mission Action poses for a photo during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the issues that’s top of mind for Cuapio and the union: mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t just impact our students, but it also impacts our families. And also, we have some educators as well in the immigrant community,” Cuapio said. “For example, me. I was raised by two undocumented parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags as they walk down the street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protestors march on Geary St. during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12022830,forum_2010101908347,news_12014627\" label=\"Related Stories\"]One by one, speakers standing on the bed of a large truck took the microphone to voice their concerns about a second Trump administration and the many communities they say may be adversely impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers at the event came from a diverse coalition, each sharing one message: those worried about what a second Trump term will bring, should get involved in local activism and start organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, our task is to fight and build our muscles for this ultimate fight,” said Ramsey Robinson, a social worker and an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “To do that, we’ve got to be organized because the right wingers [are] organized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousand of protesters march on Market St. during a “We Fight Back” rally against President-elect Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 100 volunteers passed out flyers, collected donations, and informed people of a meeting planned for later in January, according to organizers with the ANSWER Coalition. At that meeting, which is set to take place in Oakland, activists say they will discuss strategies for pushing back against the incoming administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a blue shit raises his right hand in the air as several people walk past him holding signs.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march on Geary St. during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/no-trump-protest-sunday-january-19-2025\">The SFMTA issued an alert\u003c/a> to commuters that the march could cause “minor” delays on the 1, 8, 12, 14, 14R, 15, 19, 21, 27, 30, 31 and 45 bus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Rachael Vasquez, Spencer Whitney and Gina Castro contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A few turned violent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101857514/after-trump-victory-protest-conflict-at-bay-area-schools\">including at some schools across the region\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of vandalism, destruction, things set on fire, things like that,” said Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies are calling for peaceful demonstrations this week should there be similar unrest as election results roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers are out there to help make sure that every resident out there has the opportunity to express their First Amendment right, the freedom of speech,” Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012625\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/161109_OaklandProtest_bhs08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people attended the anti-Trump protest in Oakland, California, on Nov. 9, 2016 \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, which \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/donald-trump-protest-oakland-protests/1599421/\">dealt with vandalism, Molotov cocktails and fires\u003c/a> in 2016, said it plans to provide extra staffing this year “to facilitate people’s rights to peaceful gatherings and to address any crime-related incidents.” The department also said it’s coordinating with law enforcement agencies in other cities, “enabling a regional response if needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some buildings in downtown Oakland were reportedly boarded up Monday night, and Oakland police headquarters was surrounded by barricades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Police Department declined to share its plans to address potential civil unrest, but a spokesperson said the department is unaware of any specific threats or large-scale events related to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the police department said its stations are fully staffed and prepared to respond to emergencies on the day and night of Tuesday’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are welcome to exercise their First Amendment rights. 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It Helped Define Her Career\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the fall of 2011, and the American housing market was in freefall — California was ground zero. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hundreds of thousands of Californians had already lost their homes to foreclosure, and millions more were underwater on their mortgages, owing more than their homes were worth. Many were facing exploding mortgage payments as adjustable-rate loans skyrocketed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s newly elected attorney general, Kamala Harris took office as policymakers were grappling with the worst economic crisis in decades, and Californians were suffering: In 2009, as the subprime mortgage crisis began to peak, more than 3.5 million California households were delinquent on their mortgages; Florida was the next highest state with 3.1 million families behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Harris assumed her role, other state attorneys general were negotiating as a group with the five largest banks over their outsize responsibility for the foreclosure crisis. But California wasn’t initially part of that group. In her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold,” Harris recounts instructing her staff on her first day to join those multi-state settlement talks. By the fall, however, she made the risky decision \u003ca href=\"https://documents.latimes.com/harris-letter-housing-investigation/\">to pull out\u003c/a>, convinced that the banks were gunning for a deal that wouldn’t offer homeowners enough money or new protections — and would shield the banks from future probes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decision would prove pivotal in shaping Harris’ political career and public image, becoming a frequent reference point in her campaign narratives — including during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">her speech this summer\u003c/a> at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2024-10-09/riverside-rejects-proposed-law-banning-items-at-protests\">\u003cstrong>Riverside Rejects Proposed Law Banning Face Coverings And Other Items At Protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Riverside’s city council has rejected a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://riversideca.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13336283&GUID=8825352C-A3DE-4857-94B5-77AAD2BB0283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>proposal\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from the city attorney and police department to ban items like flag poles, wooden sticks and other potential weapons at protests, as well as restrict face coverings except for medical or religious reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 5-2 decision on Tuesday, council members raised concerns that the ordinance could infringe on constitutional rights and lead to potential legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://riversideca.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13336210&GUID=4A11E679-D376-43E0-85C7-EF7FAE519725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>ordinance\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, proposed by Police Chief Larry Gonzalez and City Attorney Jack Liu, was modeled after similar policies at the University of California and California State University aimed at curbing violent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s1009-human-case-bird-flu.html\">\u003cstrong>Third Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed In Central Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s1009-human-case-bird-flu.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has confirmed a third case \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">of human bird flu in the Central Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State health officials say\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007854/california-bird-flu-2-more-human-cases-confirmed-in-central-valley-cattle-farms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like the previous two cases\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the person had contact with infected dairy cattle. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anti-war activists accused of participating in a protest that shut down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> in April pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges ranging from conspiracy to false imprisonment in San Francisco on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocked the bridge on Tax Day\u003c/a> to decry U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza and to demand a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of supporters packed the hallways at the Hall of Justice to rally for the defendants, known as the Golden Gate 26. Eight face felony conspiracy charges and 18 have been charged with misdemeanors. Collectively, the entire group faces more than 1,000 charges of false imprisonment linked to people who were caught in the traffic jam on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Wozniak, an attorney representing the protesters facing felony charges, has called this an “unprecedented charging decision” by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to preempt future protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the type of case that people should be in jail for,” Wozniak said. “The community recognizes the long history of political activism in the Bay Area and recognizes that this is an utterly ridiculous waste of resources on behalf of D.A. Jenkins and clearly an attempt to chill political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal team of the defendants facing felony charges plan to argue that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000881/attorneys-for-golden-gate-bridge-protesters-demand-das-recusal-alleging-pro-israel-bias\">district attorney should have recused\u003c/a> herself from the case based on what they have called a “pro-Israel bias.” They demanded more information about the content of two private meetings she held with the Israeli Consulate and about gifts she received during those meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol officers ask for people to disperse after demonstrators shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 on the morning of April 15, 2024, in West Oakland. The protesters, engaging in a multi-city ‘economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine,’ marched from the West Oakland BART station to the 7th Street on-ramp and onto the freeway. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, the district attorney’s office said the charges were not political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Charging decisions are made based on the facts, evidence and the law,” the office said in a statement. “We do not pursue political prosecutions under any circumstances at any time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office also said Jenkins would recuse herself in the case of a conflict of interest and that it is not unusual for her to conduct meetings with foreign officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has previously said that the Golden Gate Bridge protest compromised public safety and caused “extreme threats” to those trapped on the bridge during the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal defense attorneys and legal experts have questioned her approach to prosecuting the protesters, especially the controversial\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\"> false imprisonment charges,\u003c/a> which defined delayed motorists as victims. In past mass prosecutions, protesters have typically faced misdemeanor charges for blocking a roadway and for disobeying the orders of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in the days after the Golden Gate Bridge protest, the district attorney put out a call on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BrookeJenkinsSF/status/1780616603954204930\">social media\u003c/a> to anyone trapped on the bridge on April 15, saying that they may be entitled to financial compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We depend on prosecutors to be reliable, fair, and equitable in their charging decisions,” Wozniak said. “And if you have two similar actions, they should be charged the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, a group of 78 pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to call for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza. The so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970376/demonstrators-pack-the-court-to-support-activists-arrested-for-blocking-bay-bridge-last-month\">Bay Bridge 78\u003c/a> were charged with five misdemeanors each — including false imprisonment — and reached an agreement to avoid jail time in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, who represented the Bay Bridge 78, said there was no difference in conduct between the two cases and that claims of false imprisonment are “far-fetched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lederman, in the Bay Bridge case, one motorist did receive a “small amount” of restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone who was trapped on the Bay Bridge became ill and required an ambulance. The costs were then divided among the 78 Bay Bridge protesters before their cases were dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the case of the Golden Gate 26, the D.A. seems to be seeking some large amount of restitution,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\">initially surrendered to police\u003c/a> in early August after a warrant was issued for their arrest by the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The felony defendants will return to court on Sept. 30, and those facing misdemeanors will return to court at the end of October. If found guilty of criminal charges, the protesters would face years of jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wozniak said that after their hearing on Monday morning, his clients “feel empowered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know that they’re on the right side of justice, on the right side of history,” he said. “And as we see across this country — week in, week out — the people are willing to put their bodies on the line to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the type of case that people should be in jail for,” Wozniak said. “The community recognizes the long history of political activism in the Bay Area and recognizes that this is an utterly ridiculous waste of resources on behalf of D.A. Jenkins and clearly an attempt to chill political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal team of the defendants facing felony charges plan to argue that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000881/attorneys-for-golden-gate-bridge-protesters-demand-das-recusal-alleging-pro-israel-bias\">district attorney should have recused\u003c/a> herself from the case based on what they have called a “pro-Israel bias.” They demanded more information about the content of two private meetings she held with the Israeli Consulate and about gifts she received during those meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol officers ask for people to disperse after demonstrators shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 on the morning of April 15, 2024, in West Oakland. The protesters, engaging in a multi-city ‘economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine,’ marched from the West Oakland BART station to the 7th Street on-ramp and onto the freeway. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, the district attorney’s office said the charges were not political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Charging decisions are made based on the facts, evidence and the law,” the office said in a statement. “We do not pursue political prosecutions under any circumstances at any time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office also said Jenkins would recuse herself in the case of a conflict of interest and that it is not unusual for her to conduct meetings with foreign officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has previously said that the Golden Gate Bridge protest compromised public safety and caused “extreme threats” to those trapped on the bridge during the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal defense attorneys and legal experts have questioned her approach to prosecuting the protesters, especially the controversial\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\"> false imprisonment charges,\u003c/a> which defined delayed motorists as victims. In past mass prosecutions, protesters have typically faced misdemeanor charges for blocking a roadway and for disobeying the orders of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Throughout the night, she said police surrounded and squeezed in on them and eventually arrested and detained 112 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were released, many were told they were temporarily banned from campus and could face a misdemeanor charge if they did not comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit filed by Lederman and the protesters’ legal team claims that UCSC officials illegally imposed a California penal code that allows the school to “withdraw permission for a person to be on campus.” The statute limits these temporary bans to 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the California Supreme Court has limited the scope of the legal code so that a ban without a hearing can only be imposed if a person’s presence on campus constitutes a “substantial and material threat of significant injury to persons or property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t present any such threat,” Lederman told KQED. “There was no violence or disruption caused by this protest. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a morning just days before the New Year, Kiran Thakkar received a worrying phone call. A friend had found anti-India graffiti overnight on the Newark Hindu temple he co-founded. Someone sprayed \u003ca href=\"https://indicanews.com/swaminarayan-temple-in-newark-defaced-with-anti-modi-khalistan-graffiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">phrases disparaging\u003c/a> India’s prime minister and hailing a secessionist movement for the country’s Sikh minority\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support rushed in from Indian American community leaders and politicians. But Thakkar and the rest of the quaint suburban temple’s board had little disagreement about how to move forward. They didn’t want to make a fuss. They painted over the vandalism within the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want to politicize,” said Thakkar, who’s called the Bay Area home for more than a decade. “So we were clear from day one that, yes, it was a hate crime or fringe incident, and let’s just move on from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newark Shri Swaminarayan Temple was one of three California Hindu houses of worship desecrated in 2023, when a record eight anti-Hindu hate crimes were reported in California, according to data \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data#:~:text=Hate%20Crime,CSV%2C%205.9%20MB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released by the Department of Justice \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lakeconews.com/news/79035-state-attorney-general-releases-2023-hate-crime-report\">in June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a white dress shirt clasps his hands in a prayer pose inside a Hindu temple.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiran Thakkar, a volunteer at SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple at the Newark temple on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Separately, California is collecting more anecdotal reports of hate incidents through a new civil rights hotline that’s intended to connect people with resources that could help them. A disproportionate number of incidents involving Hindus were reported in its first year, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hindus aren’t the only ones in California’s Indian community who are seeing a rise in hate crimes and bias against them. Sikhs, members of the ethno-religious minority whose separatist slogans appeared on the Newark temple, reported six hate crimes against them — the highest number since the state justice department began displaying that data in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Sikhs are on edge because of several recent high-profile attacks across the nation. The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sikh-leader-killed-canada-india-court-nijjar-7611e393e50324e1337637ec986fdec3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slaying of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar \u003c/a>in June 2023, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+pannu+foiled&oq=new+york+pannu+foiled&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDIzNThqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subsequent foiled plot in New York\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBRqx3U2K0\">an August shooting outside Sacramento\u003c/a> have revived fears among Sikh activists that they’re being targeted by India for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-khalistan-movement-why-is-it-fuelling-india-canada-rift-2023-09-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their advocacy in North America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for escalation has left Thakkar, a key figure in the local Hindu community who moved from India to the Bay Area in 2012, feeling a responsibility to avoid stoking tensions. While there were a few devotees who expressed fear after the attack, by and large, he said, his temple members were ready to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not personally experienced anything,” he says when asked if he’s ever faced discrimination in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Hindus are not willing to forget the temple vandalism. Instead, they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/HAF/Campaigns/117408/Respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petitioned the Legislature\u003c/a> to recognize that Hindu Californians are the subject of “pro-Khalistan extremism.” That’s a reference to the name of an independent state that some Sikhs want to carve out of India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also opposed two bills in the California Legislature over the past year that they believed would have discriminated against them. One would have explicitly prohibited \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/caste-discrimination-california/\">caste discrimination\u003c/a> in California, and the other would have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/08/transnational-repression-caste-discrimination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">named India as a sponsor\u003c/a> of international political repression. Neither proposal became law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003630\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing blue t-shirts celebrate outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd celebrates after SB 403 passes at the Assembly Judiciary Hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nearly all documented anti-Hindu hate in California comes from pro-Khalistan activists who employ violence and harassment to advocate for an independent theocracy in India,” wrote the Hindu American Foundation in a letter opposing the political repression bill, citing the temple vandalizations as an example of such harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National and local groups for Sikhs supported both measures and have \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sikhcoalition/reel/C-qOOjwI7SH/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roundly\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-08/khalistan-sikh-india-stockton#:~:text=California%20Sikhs%20are%20driving%20a,nation%20in%20India's%20Punjab%20state.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disputed\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/28/1201733505/india-sikh-separatism-khalistan-canada-crisis-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characterization of the modern separatist movement\u003c/a>. They had hoped the Legislature would stand with them, given Sikhs’ over-a-century-long presence in California, and some \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/10/india-the-disinfo-lab-discredit-critics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">felt the hand of India’s government in the opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003632\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people hold up various colorful signs with messages like \"Vote Yes\" and \"Clean Water for California.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proponents and opponents of SB 403 battle for a spot to get their voices heard outside the state Capitol in Sacramento before the Assembly Judiciary Hearing on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re using these broad terms, like Hindu Americans, to justify killing a bill against transnational repression,” said Karam Singh, advocacy director for the California Sikh Youth Alliance, which supported both bills. “I think most Americans of all stripes would be clearly in favor of having protections for Californians to not be intimidated, harassed and targeted by a foreign government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-is-anti-hindu-animus-on-the-rise-in-california\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is anti-Hindu animus on the rise in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California is especially equipped to track incidents of hate and bias because of the hotline that Gov. Gavin Newsom launched in 2023. The so-called “CA vs. Hate” hotline reported receiving over 2,000 calls in its first year, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/05/2024.05-CA-vs-Hate-Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">May 2024 report from the California Department of Civil Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period, hotline researchers \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/05/2024.05-CA-vs-Hate-Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said they\u003c/a> documented \u003ca href=\"https://religionnews.com/2024/05/24/as-hate-crimes-grow-religious-minorities-look-to-fbi-to-increase-reporting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">24 acts of verified anti-Hindu bias\u003c/a>, around 23% of all acts of religious hate that investigators verified. Nearly 37% were anti-Jewish and 15% were anti-Muslim. No anti-Sikh figures were listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers jolted \u003ca href=\"https://religionnews.com/2024/05/24/as-hate-crimes-grow-religious-minorities-look-to-fbi-to-increase-reporting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Hindus\u003c/a> across the political spectrum. Extremist and hate-motivated acts are not new for Sikh and Muslim Americans, who have endured decades of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/combating-post-911-discriminatory-backlash-6\">hate crimes in the United States since 9/11\u003c/a>. There have \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/usahate/usa1102-04.htm#P448_75143:~:text=and%20Hindu%20temples%20were%20also%20objects%20of%20backlash%20violence\">been isolated\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-man-pushed-to-death-at-a-new-york-subway-to-be-cremated-today-508947\">cases\u003c/a>, but Hindu Americans have largely not been disproportionate targets of such crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushpita Prasad, a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"https://cohna.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coalition of Hindus of North America\u003c/a>, is no fan of the state’s civil rights department. The department holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.cavshate.org/about#:~:text=California%20vs%20Hate%20Contracted%20Partners\">anti-hate partnerships\u003c/a> with major Sikh, Jewish and Muslim organizations, but no Hindu groups. Her organization opposed last year’s caste bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she called the hotline data “one more validation” of the “experience of Hinduphobia.” Her group encouraged Hindus to use the hotline during debates over the caste discrimination bill, she said. They also told people to use it after temple vandalizations in Newark and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-India issues are constantly conflated with Hinduism,” she told CalMatters. More non-Hindus are becoming aware of \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/one-issue-proved-key-to-the-oppositions-stunning-success-in-indias-election-caste-politics-231588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caste and Indian politics\u003c/a>, and “there’s a double standard in play that we all subscribe to, and some of us push back, but most of us don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts with the state offered few details on the anti-Hindu incidents. They are not necessarily criminal acts; some of the incidents could allege workplace discrimination or other kids of bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure there is too much more I can add on the specific questions regarding anti-Hindu acts,” Arvind Krishnamurthy, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, wrote in an email. “Any data on reports to CA vs Hate should not be used to make generalizations about the extent of any particular kind of hate across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five Indian American lawmakers, meanwhile, have cautiously attempted to address the fears of both communities. None are Sikh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, they requested a briefing from \u003ca href=\"https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/krishnamoorthi.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024.03.29%20KRISHN_DOJ_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the federal justice department\u003c/a> concerning attacks on Hindu temples and anti-Hindu hate. They also, in December, called federal prosecutors’ allegations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foiled plot against\u003c/a> a Sikh activist in New York “\u003ca href=\"http://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/indian-american-members-congress-release-statement-following-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deeply concerning\u003c/a>” and welcomed an India-led investigation into the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was slammed as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sikh_coalition/status/1735749931573330055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insufficient to ensure accountability\u003c/a>” by a major Sikh civil rights group, which wants \u003ca href=\"https://www.sikhcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNR-Hearing-Statement-The-Sikh-Coalition.pdf\">an independent review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be other actors,” said Sangay Mishra, an associate professor of political science at Drew University who studies South Asian Americans. “Not necessarily government agencies, but other kinds of nonprofit or civil rights groups who are willing to invest in this and make sense of what’s happening so that it doesn’t become such a deeply partisan, polarizing issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/us-senate-race-ro-khanna-barbara-lee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/a>, who signed onto both letters and represents Newark in Congress, declined an interview request and did not respond to written questions. He condemned the vandalism \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/1738594801514123496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the time on social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-anti-hindu-incidents-are-taken-very-seriously-authorities-say\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anti-Hindu incidents are ‘taken very seriously,’ authorities say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thakkar said elected officials did everything right at the Newark temple. He never had to call a hotline from the state to get help from the local community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-condemns-vandalism-of-hindu-temple-in-california-2479789-2023-12-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://a24.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240119-assemblymember-lee-responds-attacks-against-hindu-temples\">three \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Ash_Kalra/status/1738654649253863791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Ash_Kalra/status/1738654649253863791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenAishaWahab/status/1748398875197768122\"> lawmakers\u003c/a> denounced the incident. Local authorities said they moved swiftly to provide the house of worship with the resources necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temple vandalisms were taken very seriously,” wrote Newark Police Capt. Jolice Macias, in a statement. A similar vandalism took place at a Hindu temple in Hayward a few weeks later, and investigators combed through security footage from nearby businesses for leads. Officials from the FBI and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/readout-justice-departments-civil-rights-divisions-meeting-muslim-arab-sikh-south-asian-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Justice\u003c/a> were in attendance. “Every possible investigative lead was followed up on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg\" alt=\"A decorated run, statue and ornate designs on a wall in a room. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple in Newark on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the bills that some Hindu groups opposed would have given law enforcement agencies more training on how to combat and respond to incidents of foreign governments harassing American citizens, a trend that is known as transnational repression. Some Hindu leaders opposed it because it listed India alongside Russia, Iran and China as states of particular concern for law enforcement. It died in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-laws-legislature-suspense-file/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Senate Appropriations Committee in August\u003c/a> amid the opposition and a price tag of over $600,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg\" alt=\"A Ring camera device outside a door.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Ring camera outside one of the SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple doors in Newark on July 31, 2024. After a vandalism incident in 2023, the temple community installed additional cameras around the property. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In opposition letters to Assembly Bill 3027, the transnational repression bill, the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/HinduAmerican/status/1824224292722315679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hindu American Foundation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LpX5D2U4yp7TWrEjcIBL_-JmvZuZQ8_L/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coalition of Hindus of North America\u003c/a> argued that the legislation would usurp federal law and give police officers further leeway to ignore acts of violence from the separatist movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a Democrat from Bakersfield, is the Legislature’s only Sikh. She has said that California is a safe haven for immigrants that should take more steps to make good on that promise. She has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/some-us-sikhs-fear-modi-government-is-threatening-surveilling-doxxing-them-2024-08-12/\">reported threats and intimidation\u003c/a> at her office, similar to Sen. Aisha Wahab, the Democrat from Hayward who sponsored \u003ca href=\"https://sd10.senate.ca.gov/news/death-threats-recalls-and-discrimination-sen-aisha-wahab-isnt-here-waste-any-time\">the caste discrimination bill last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit looks off camera with a woman's head in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a Delano Democrat on the Assembly Floor during session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on July 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been clear from where the threats and violence are coming. In fact, the graffiti on the Newark temple \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@suminderpal_singh/bhindrawala-vs-bhindranwale-what-is-in-the-name-5329606f6152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misspelled the name\u003c/a> of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khalistan\">infamous Sikh leader\u003c/a> from India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sikh media group \u003ca href=\"https://www.sikhpa.com/anti-sikh-hate-crimes-breakout-across-usa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested in October\u003c/a> that a man who stormed a Fremont gurdwara and tore down \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Sikh/comments/17dhoho/update_from_gurdwara_sahib_fremont/\">a poster devoted to Nijjar\u003c/a> was an “Indian nationalist extremist” and Hindu. In fact, his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Sikh/comments/17c2zo5/extremist_attack_at_fremont_gurdwara_sahib/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the house of worship\u003c/a> he was experiencing mental health issues. And in June, federal authorities \u003ca href=\"https://indiacurrents.com/justice-department-muslim-sikh-south-asian-hindu-hate-crimes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged a Hindu man from Dallas\u003c/a> for sending threats to a Sikh nonprofit group about separatist activism while often using anti-Muslim language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The citizens themselves are in some sense all victims of this phenomenon, whether Sikh, Muslim or Hindu or any other religious tradition,” said Nirvikar Singh, co-author of “\u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/34828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Other One Percent: Indians in America\u003c/a>,” and a professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz. “Democracy allows us to work through differences in nonviolent and equalizing ways, but we’re seeing a lot of disruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions in politics or online, though, are far less palpable on the ground in California. The Bay Area defacings did not spark direct or immediate protest. Rallies led by Sikh separatists in California have, by and large, avoided counter-protests and violent clashes. That’s a contrast from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=gaza+violent+clash+protest+calfiornia+&sca_esv=c9a915b7e2353e00&sca_upv=1&ei=TKTYZumfMLjGkPIP7M3YyAI&ved=0ahUKEwjp9ZKI86mIAxU4I0QIHewmFikQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=gaza+violent+clash+protest+calfiornia+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJmdhemEgdmlvbGVudCBjbGFzaCBwcm90ZXN0IGNhbGZpb3JuaWEgMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRgKGKsCSKUIUPEBWJoHcAF4AJABAJgBYKAB0QeqAQIxMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDKAC3AfCAgUQIRigAcICBRAhGKsCwgIFECEYnwXCAgQQIRgKmAMAiAYBkgcEMTEuMaAH2jw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrations over the war in Gaza\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, which saw a subsequent spike in Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes. [aside postID=\"news_12001384,news_11999847,news_11985061\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thakkar, nowadays, is less concerned with the temple vandalism and can often be seen preparing the temple for dozens of attendees to come pray and eat on weekends. Just a quick drive away from Newark, local Sikh leaders came from a Fremont house of worship and helped paint over the graffiti, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he’s planning on applying for the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/76-million-to-help-bolster-security-at-california-houses-of-worship-non-profits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next round of security funding for vulnerable houses of worship\u003c/a>. The only other remnants of the attack are the new security cameras all around the perimeter and splotches of off-white paint covering the front sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We informed the regular devotees that we have taken some measures. We are careful,” he recalls. “We are working with the police department to get immediate attention if anything were to happen again. So we are safe, secure, and you shouldn’t be worried.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a morning just days before the New Year, Kiran Thakkar received a worrying phone call. A friend had found anti-India graffiti overnight on the Newark Hindu temple he co-founded. Someone sprayed \u003ca href=\"https://indicanews.com/swaminarayan-temple-in-newark-defaced-with-anti-modi-khalistan-graffiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">phrases disparaging\u003c/a> India’s prime minister and hailing a secessionist movement for the country’s Sikh minority\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support rushed in from Indian American community leaders and politicians. But Thakkar and the rest of the quaint suburban temple’s board had little disagreement about how to move forward. They didn’t want to make a fuss. They painted over the vandalism within the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want to politicize,” said Thakkar, who’s called the Bay Area home for more than a decade. “So we were clear from day one that, yes, it was a hate crime or fringe incident, and let’s just move on from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newark Shri Swaminarayan Temple was one of three California Hindu houses of worship desecrated in 2023, when a record eight anti-Hindu hate crimes were reported in California, according to data \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data#:~:text=Hate%20Crime,CSV%2C%205.9%20MB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released by the Department of Justice \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lakeconews.com/news/79035-state-attorney-general-releases-2023-hate-crime-report\">in June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a white dress shirt clasps his hands in a prayer pose inside a Hindu temple.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_13-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiran Thakkar, a volunteer at SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple at the Newark temple on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Separately, California is collecting more anecdotal reports of hate incidents through a new civil rights hotline that’s intended to connect people with resources that could help them. A disproportionate number of incidents involving Hindus were reported in its first year, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hindus aren’t the only ones in California’s Indian community who are seeing a rise in hate crimes and bias against them. Sikhs, members of the ethno-religious minority whose separatist slogans appeared on the Newark temple, reported six hate crimes against them — the highest number since the state justice department began displaying that data in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Sikhs are on edge because of several recent high-profile attacks across the nation. The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sikh-leader-killed-canada-india-court-nijjar-7611e393e50324e1337637ec986fdec3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slaying of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar \u003c/a>in June 2023, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+pannu+foiled&oq=new+york+pannu+foiled&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDIzNThqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subsequent foiled plot in New York\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBRqx3U2K0\">an August shooting outside Sacramento\u003c/a> have revived fears among Sikh activists that they’re being targeted by India for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-khalistan-movement-why-is-it-fuelling-india-canada-rift-2023-09-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their advocacy in North America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for escalation has left Thakkar, a key figure in the local Hindu community who moved from India to the Bay Area in 2012, feeling a responsibility to avoid stoking tensions. While there were a few devotees who expressed fear after the attack, by and large, he said, his temple members were ready to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not personally experienced anything,” he says when asked if he’s ever faced discrimination in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Hindus are not willing to forget the temple vandalism. Instead, they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/HAF/Campaigns/117408/Respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petitioned the Legislature\u003c/a> to recognize that Hindu Californians are the subject of “pro-Khalistan extremism.” That’s a reference to the name of an independent state that some Sikhs want to carve out of India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also opposed two bills in the California Legislature over the past year that they believed would have discriminated against them. One would have explicitly prohibited \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/caste-discrimination-california/\">caste discrimination\u003c/a> in California, and the other would have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/08/transnational-repression-caste-discrimination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">named India as a sponsor\u003c/a> of international political repression. Neither proposal became law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003630\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing blue t-shirts celebrate outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd celebrates after SB 403 passes at the Assembly Judiciary Hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nearly all documented anti-Hindu hate in California comes from pro-Khalistan activists who employ violence and harassment to advocate for an independent theocracy in India,” wrote the Hindu American Foundation in a letter opposing the political repression bill, citing the temple vandalizations as an example of such harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National and local groups for Sikhs supported both measures and have \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sikhcoalition/reel/C-qOOjwI7SH/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roundly\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-08/khalistan-sikh-india-stockton#:~:text=California%20Sikhs%20are%20driving%20a,nation%20in%20India's%20Punjab%20state.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disputed\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/28/1201733505/india-sikh-separatism-khalistan-canada-crisis-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characterization of the modern separatist movement\u003c/a>. They had hoped the Legislature would stand with them, given Sikhs’ over-a-century-long presence in California, and some \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/10/india-the-disinfo-lab-discredit-critics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">felt the hand of India’s government in the opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003632\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people hold up various colorful signs with messages like \"Vote Yes\" and \"Clean Water for California.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/070523_SB-403-Caste_SN_CM_28-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proponents and opponents of SB 403 battle for a spot to get their voices heard outside the state Capitol in Sacramento before the Assembly Judiciary Hearing on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re using these broad terms, like Hindu Americans, to justify killing a bill against transnational repression,” said Karam Singh, advocacy director for the California Sikh Youth Alliance, which supported both bills. “I think most Americans of all stripes would be clearly in favor of having protections for Californians to not be intimidated, harassed and targeted by a foreign government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-is-anti-hindu-animus-on-the-rise-in-california\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is anti-Hindu animus on the rise in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California is especially equipped to track incidents of hate and bias because of the hotline that Gov. Gavin Newsom launched in 2023. The so-called “CA vs. Hate” hotline reported receiving over 2,000 calls in its first year, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/05/2024.05-CA-vs-Hate-Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">May 2024 report from the California Department of Civil Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period, hotline researchers \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/05/2024.05-CA-vs-Hate-Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said they\u003c/a> documented \u003ca href=\"https://religionnews.com/2024/05/24/as-hate-crimes-grow-religious-minorities-look-to-fbi-to-increase-reporting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">24 acts of verified anti-Hindu bias\u003c/a>, around 23% of all acts of religious hate that investigators verified. Nearly 37% were anti-Jewish and 15% were anti-Muslim. No anti-Sikh figures were listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers jolted \u003ca href=\"https://religionnews.com/2024/05/24/as-hate-crimes-grow-religious-minorities-look-to-fbi-to-increase-reporting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Hindus\u003c/a> across the political spectrum. Extremist and hate-motivated acts are not new for Sikh and Muslim Americans, who have endured decades of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/combating-post-911-discriminatory-backlash-6\">hate crimes in the United States since 9/11\u003c/a>. There have \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/usahate/usa1102-04.htm#P448_75143:~:text=and%20Hindu%20temples%20were%20also%20objects%20of%20backlash%20violence\">been isolated\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-man-pushed-to-death-at-a-new-york-subway-to-be-cremated-today-508947\">cases\u003c/a>, but Hindu Americans have largely not been disproportionate targets of such crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushpita Prasad, a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"https://cohna.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coalition of Hindus of North America\u003c/a>, is no fan of the state’s civil rights department. The department holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.cavshate.org/about#:~:text=California%20vs%20Hate%20Contracted%20Partners\">anti-hate partnerships\u003c/a> with major Sikh, Jewish and Muslim organizations, but no Hindu groups. Her organization opposed last year’s caste bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she called the hotline data “one more validation” of the “experience of Hinduphobia.” Her group encouraged Hindus to use the hotline during debates over the caste discrimination bill, she said. They also told people to use it after temple vandalizations in Newark and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-India issues are constantly conflated with Hinduism,” she told CalMatters. More non-Hindus are becoming aware of \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/one-issue-proved-key-to-the-oppositions-stunning-success-in-indias-election-caste-politics-231588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caste and Indian politics\u003c/a>, and “there’s a double standard in play that we all subscribe to, and some of us push back, but most of us don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts with the state offered few details on the anti-Hindu incidents. They are not necessarily criminal acts; some of the incidents could allege workplace discrimination or other kids of bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure there is too much more I can add on the specific questions regarding anti-Hindu acts,” Arvind Krishnamurthy, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, wrote in an email. “Any data on reports to CA vs Hate should not be used to make generalizations about the extent of any particular kind of hate across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five Indian American lawmakers, meanwhile, have cautiously attempted to address the fears of both communities. None are Sikh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, they requested a briefing from \u003ca href=\"https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/krishnamoorthi.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024.03.29%20KRISHN_DOJ_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the federal justice department\u003c/a> concerning attacks on Hindu temples and anti-Hindu hate. They also, in December, called federal prosecutors’ allegations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foiled plot against\u003c/a> a Sikh activist in New York “\u003ca href=\"http://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/indian-american-members-congress-release-statement-following-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deeply concerning\u003c/a>” and welcomed an India-led investigation into the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was slammed as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sikh_coalition/status/1735749931573330055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insufficient to ensure accountability\u003c/a>” by a major Sikh civil rights group, which wants \u003ca href=\"https://www.sikhcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNR-Hearing-Statement-The-Sikh-Coalition.pdf\">an independent review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be other actors,” said Sangay Mishra, an associate professor of political science at Drew University who studies South Asian Americans. “Not necessarily government agencies, but other kinds of nonprofit or civil rights groups who are willing to invest in this and make sense of what’s happening so that it doesn’t become such a deeply partisan, polarizing issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/us-senate-race-ro-khanna-barbara-lee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/a>, who signed onto both letters and represents Newark in Congress, declined an interview request and did not respond to written questions. He condemned the vandalism \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/1738594801514123496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the time on social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-anti-hindu-incidents-are-taken-very-seriously-authorities-say\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anti-Hindu incidents are ‘taken very seriously,’ authorities say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thakkar said elected officials did everything right at the Newark temple. He never had to call a hotline from the state to get help from the local community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-condemns-vandalism-of-hindu-temple-in-california-2479789-2023-12-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://a24.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240119-assemblymember-lee-responds-attacks-against-hindu-temples\">three \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Ash_Kalra/status/1738654649253863791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Ash_Kalra/status/1738654649253863791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenAishaWahab/status/1748398875197768122\"> lawmakers\u003c/a> denounced the incident. Local authorities said they moved swiftly to provide the house of worship with the resources necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temple vandalisms were taken very seriously,” wrote Newark Police Capt. Jolice Macias, in a statement. A similar vandalism took place at a Hindu temple in Hayward a few weeks later, and investigators combed through security footage from nearby businesses for leads. Officials from the FBI and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/readout-justice-departments-civil-rights-divisions-meeting-muslim-arab-sikh-south-asian-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Justice\u003c/a> were in attendance. “Every possible investigative lead was followed up on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg\" alt=\"A decorated run, statue and ornate designs on a wall in a room. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM-17-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple in Newark on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the bills that some Hindu groups opposed would have given law enforcement agencies more training on how to combat and respond to incidents of foreign governments harassing American citizens, a trend that is known as transnational repression. Some Hindu leaders opposed it because it listed India alongside Russia, Iran and China as states of particular concern for law enforcement. It died in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-laws-legislature-suspense-file/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Senate Appropriations Committee in August\u003c/a> amid the opposition and a price tag of over $600,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg\" alt=\"A Ring camera device outside a door.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/073124_TransnationalHate_FM_CM_15-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Ring camera outside one of the SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple doors in Newark on July 31, 2024. After a vandalism incident in 2023, the temple community installed additional cameras around the property. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In opposition letters to Assembly Bill 3027, the transnational repression bill, the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/HinduAmerican/status/1824224292722315679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hindu American Foundation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LpX5D2U4yp7TWrEjcIBL_-JmvZuZQ8_L/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coalition of Hindus of North America\u003c/a> argued that the legislation would usurp federal law and give police officers further leeway to ignore acts of violence from the separatist movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a Democrat from Bakersfield, is the Legislature’s only Sikh. She has said that California is a safe haven for immigrants that should take more steps to make good on that promise. She has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/some-us-sikhs-fear-modi-government-is-threatening-surveilling-doxxing-them-2024-08-12/\">reported threats and intimidation\u003c/a> at her office, similar to Sen. Aisha Wahab, the Democrat from Hayward who sponsored \u003ca href=\"https://sd10.senate.ca.gov/news/death-threats-recalls-and-discrimination-sen-aisha-wahab-isnt-here-waste-any-time\">the caste discrimination bill last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit looks off camera with a woman's head in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a Delano Democrat on the Assembly Floor during session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on July 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been clear from where the threats and violence are coming. In fact, the graffiti on the Newark temple \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@suminderpal_singh/bhindrawala-vs-bhindranwale-what-is-in-the-name-5329606f6152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misspelled the name\u003c/a> of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khalistan\">infamous Sikh leader\u003c/a> from India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sikh media group \u003ca href=\"https://www.sikhpa.com/anti-sikh-hate-crimes-breakout-across-usa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested in October\u003c/a> that a man who stormed a Fremont gurdwara and tore down \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Sikh/comments/17dhoho/update_from_gurdwara_sahib_fremont/\">a poster devoted to Nijjar\u003c/a> was an “Indian nationalist extremist” and Hindu. In fact, his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Sikh/comments/17c2zo5/extremist_attack_at_fremont_gurdwara_sahib/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the house of worship\u003c/a> he was experiencing mental health issues. And in June, federal authorities \u003ca href=\"https://indiacurrents.com/justice-department-muslim-sikh-south-asian-hindu-hate-crimes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged a Hindu man from Dallas\u003c/a> for sending threats to a Sikh nonprofit group about separatist activism while often using anti-Muslim language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The citizens themselves are in some sense all victims of this phenomenon, whether Sikh, Muslim or Hindu or any other religious tradition,” said Nirvikar Singh, co-author of “\u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/34828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Other One Percent: Indians in America\u003c/a>,” and a professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz. “Democracy allows us to work through differences in nonviolent and equalizing ways, but we’re seeing a lot of disruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions in politics or online, though, are far less palpable on the ground in California. The Bay Area defacings did not spark direct or immediate protest. Rallies led by Sikh separatists in California have, by and large, avoided counter-protests and violent clashes. That’s a contrast from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=gaza+violent+clash+protest+calfiornia+&sca_esv=c9a915b7e2353e00&sca_upv=1&ei=TKTYZumfMLjGkPIP7M3YyAI&ved=0ahUKEwjp9ZKI86mIAxU4I0QIHewmFikQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=gaza+violent+clash+protest+calfiornia+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJmdhemEgdmlvbGVudCBjbGFzaCBwcm90ZXN0IGNhbGZpb3JuaWEgMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRigARgKMgcQIRgKGKsCSKUIUPEBWJoHcAF4AJABAJgBYKAB0QeqAQIxMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDKAC3AfCAgUQIRigAcICBRAhGKsCwgIFECEYnwXCAgQQIRgKmAMAiAYBkgcEMTEuMaAH2jw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrations over the war in Gaza\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, which saw a subsequent spike in Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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