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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A rally was planned for Thursday, which was meant to be the fourth day of a systemwide strike across all of the CSU’s 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late Monday night, the California Faculty Association announced that it had reached a deal with the university and that the strike was over. 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In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/israel-opt-us-made-munitions-killed-43-civilians-in-two-documented-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-new-investigation/\">December report from Amnesty International\u003c/a>, these weapons were linked to “two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians” in Gaza on Oct. 10 and Oct. 22 that killed 43 people, including 19 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Healthcare workers rally in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care workers rally in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joint direct attack munitions are essentially an upgrade that converts unguided “dumb” bombs into precision-guided “smart” bombs. Protesters said this technology is being used to target hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L3Harris did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jess Ghannam, clinical professor of psychiatry, UCSF\"]‘We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse. For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.’[/pullquote]“We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse,” said Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian American clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF who has worked in Gaza for decades. “For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, at least 300 health care workers have died as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-68\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. A shortage of medical supplies has left doctors to perform surgeries and amputations without anesthesia or adequate sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mothers in Gaza are being forced to choose between risking their lives going to an already overwhelmed health care system or giving birth in the streets amidst rubble,” said Dr. Saba Ali, a pediatrician at UCSF. “In hospitals, mothers are undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia, and at times without electricity. Some are being \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145677\">discharged as early as three hours after giving birth\u003c/a> because health care facilities don’t have enough beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of healthcare workers in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of health care workers in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In northern Gaza, seven out of 24 hospitals remain partially functional, and in southern Gaza, seven of 12 hospitals are partially functional, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside L3Harris, protesters painted the sidewalk with the words “war profiteer.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2023-12/LHX_InvestorDay_ExecutivePresentations_Final.pdf\">Dec. 12 report\u003c/a> for L3Harris investors stated that there was “increased demand for missiles driven by Ukraine (and) Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2,000-pound bomb, somehow smart, dropped in the most densely populated area on the planet,” Ghannam said. “L3Harris has blood on its hands, it’s complicit, it’s culpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Rally-goers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rallygoers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the entrance to the facility, protesters hung banners that read “Stop Bombing Hospitals” and “Genocide Manufactured Here.” On a clothesline hung light blue scrubs, each printed with the name of a health care worker who died in Gaza. Between protesters speaking, they played audio clips of doctors in Gaza that described hospital walls shaking from nearby bombardment, airstrikes on hospitals killing patients and doctors and an operating room ceiling collapsing after an explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said 200 employees left the facility by early afternoon, and operations were halted for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The names of healthcare workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The names of health care workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another protest on Wednesday, nearly 50 students rallied at a meeting of UC regents at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco, calling on the university system to divest from companies they say are profiting from the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11972100,news_11971593,forum_2010101904469\"]Yara Kaadan, political director for Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Davis, said her campus has financial contracts with RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want this academic institution to invest its money in the community and education, not through war or the occupation of anybody in the Global South or the Middle East,” Kaadan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaadan also said the coalition was protesting \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan24/jointacadaudit.pdf\">item J3 on the UC Board of Regents’ agenda\u003c/a>, which she said, “seeks to ban any department or organization under UC jurisdiction from releasing any political statements that quote-unquote, go against UC values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a huge violation of the First Amendment,” Kaadan said. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>People should be allowed to have political discourse within the system and have political agreements that don’t always align with the people who are in charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC regents did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Madi Bolaños contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse,” said Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian American clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF who has worked in Gaza for decades. “For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, at least 300 health care workers have died as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-68\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. A shortage of medical supplies has left doctors to perform surgeries and amputations without anesthesia or adequate sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mothers in Gaza are being forced to choose between risking their lives going to an already overwhelmed health care system or giving birth in the streets amidst rubble,” said Dr. Saba Ali, a pediatrician at UCSF. “In hospitals, mothers are undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia, and at times without electricity. Some are being \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145677\">discharged as early as three hours after giving birth\u003c/a> because health care facilities don’t have enough beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of healthcare workers in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of health care workers in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In northern Gaza, seven out of 24 hospitals remain partially functional, and in southern Gaza, seven of 12 hospitals are partially functional, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside L3Harris, protesters painted the sidewalk with the words “war profiteer.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2023-12/LHX_InvestorDay_ExecutivePresentations_Final.pdf\">Dec. 12 report\u003c/a> for L3Harris investors stated that there was “increased demand for missiles driven by Ukraine (and) Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2,000-pound bomb, somehow smart, dropped in the most densely populated area on the planet,” Ghannam said. “L3Harris has blood on its hands, it’s complicit, it’s culpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Rally-goers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rallygoers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the entrance to the facility, protesters hung banners that read “Stop Bombing Hospitals” and “Genocide Manufactured Here.” On a clothesline hung light blue scrubs, each printed with the name of a health care worker who died in Gaza. Between protesters speaking, they played audio clips of doctors in Gaza that described hospital walls shaking from nearby bombardment, airstrikes on hospitals killing patients and doctors and an operating room ceiling collapsing after an explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said 200 employees left the facility by early afternoon, and operations were halted for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The names of healthcare workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The names of health care workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another protest on Wednesday, nearly 50 students rallied at a meeting of UC regents at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco, calling on the university system to divest from companies they say are profiting from the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of protesters and activists rallied in downtown San Francisco Sunday in opposition to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apec.org/\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation\u003c/a> summit, which brings together heads of state and over a thousand CEOs from 21 APEC member states from\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965942/from-street-closures-to-security-checks-what-to-know-about-sf-apec-2023\"> Nov. 11-17\u003c/a>. The APEC summit has drawn an estimated 20,000 people and put San Francisco on the world stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “mass mobilization” on Sunday kicked off a week of protests organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/no2apec/\">No to APEC Coalition\u003c/a>. Here’s a guide to help you understand who the activists are, why they are protesting the APEC summit, and what they have planned in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who are the activists?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11965942,news_11966968,news_11966960\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The No to APEC Coalition is incredibly diverse and represents over \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VvZ_NCXd5sIS1N7F4QSbfmWKJOY5npGKbMeOg-Rpc9s/edit\">100 grassroots community action organizations\u003c/a> nationwide, active in the fields of migrant and immigration rights, indigenous rights, human rights, labor rights, climate and environmental justice groups, women’s rights groups and more. Activists are also protesting the Israel-Hamas war, joining the growing international calls for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area climate organizer Nik Evasco describes it as “a very broad intersectional coalition that touches on diaspora peoples from the Global South, labor and the climate bloc … anti-militarist groups … and people who are really focused on certain opposition to certain particular world leaders like Xi Jinping or [Bongbong Marcos].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967111 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg\" alt='A young woman holds a sign that says \"your missiles will never be stronger than our spirit\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zayna Elkarra protests alongside thousands of demonstrators in downtown San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2023, in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali from the Palestinian Youth Movement took part in the action Sunday to protest the Israel-Hamas war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gather to declare to the U.S. government and to the whole world that the masses here and the masses all over the world stand on the side of justice, of dignity, of liberation, and on the side of Palestinian people,” Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwezi Odom, a member of the African People’s Socialist Party, said APEC represents colonialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we say ‘shut down APEC,’ we mean shut down colonialism,” Odom said. “Because colonialism takes on all these different forms, and we begin to lose sight of what was the root cause of the oppression of the people of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967103 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg\" alt='An older woman uses a walker with a sign that says \"free Palestine\" in a large crowd.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovinia Alfaris marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Brandon Lee was among the protesters on Sunday who were concerned about environmental issues and workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I spent nine years working with the Igorot indigenous people of northern Luzon [in the Philippines], and they protested APEC because APEC’s policies, like the Mining Act of 1995, opened up the mining industry,” said Lee. “That mining industry really exploited the indigenous people’s land and destroyed the environment, displacing the indigenous people. And when the indigenous people protested, they’re met with violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are they protesting at APEC?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/00b4b06d1eac/wfblockparty-15106304?e=4d32bf2590\">media advisory\u003c/a>, the coalition said that companies sponsoring the summit, such as Amazon and Microsoft, have a legacy of causing environmental harm and that APEC’s free trade agenda harms millions of workers, women, and migrants in the U.S. and across the Asia-Pacific. Spokesperson Rhonda Ramiro said the coalition aims to “expose APEC’s false solutions and build a movement to address the very real crises of climate change, economic crisis, and militarization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967098 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"People holding flags and signs face a stage with people standing in front of microphones behind a large sign.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speakers kick off a rally at the Embarcadero Plaza in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the summit, the coalition and other activists have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-asia-pacific-conference-18442936.php\">protesting the attendance of heads of state\u003c/a> whom they consider responsible for human rights abuses, including China’s Xi Jinping, Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Peru’s Dina Boluarte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the media advisory, Brandon Lee of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines describes APEC as“ a tool of big business and the ruling elite to increase their profits at the expense of people and the planet,” adding that “APEC will not be epic. It will be a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, and it will only result in further worker exploitation and environmental destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APEC leaders have been promoting the organization — along with President Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-launches-new-trade-deal-with-indo-pacific-nations-warns-long-haul-for-inflation-recovery\">Indo-Pacific Economic Framework\u003c/a> — as a better way to connect global economies and peoples and to create clean and green economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman wearing a red and white head covering and a black shirt raises her arm in the air among a crowd of people holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaani Cassim marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But climate activist Nik Evasco said what they’ve seen happening is “giveaways to corporations, deregulation of countries, particularly in the global South, and the opening up of natural resources for exploitation … resources that tend to often be in lands that are in indigenous communities or in environmentally precious areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have world leaders representing a huge portion of the global economy and of the world population meeting with CEOs from ExxonMobil to Lockheed Martin to big tech and security, it doesn’t take a cynic to think that maybe the trade that’s being negotiated really isn’t in the best interest of the people,” Evasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What protests and actions are planned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition started with a counter-summit at San Francisco State University on Saturday, Nov. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the “mass mobilization” began at Harry Bridges Plaza in the Embarcadero and made its way to Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators gave speeches that lasted nearly three hours at the plaza before the crowd headed down Market Street. The protesters shut down Howard and Fifth streets in the afternoon near the security perimeter set up by law enforcement near the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967114 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people hold signs behind a barrier in the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators march on Market Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests are expected to continue throughout the week, including at the APEC CEO Summit on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and more protests planned for the CEO meetings from Nov. 14-16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Evasco said they would focus particularly on the CEO summit, which he referred to as “one of the biggest causes for concern of the entire negotiations,” and said they would plan street protests to “shut down the CEO summit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the people like the CEO of ExxonMobil have literally direct access … to people like Joe Biden or [Bongbong] Marcos from the Philippines or [Xi] Jinping,” Evasco said. “That type of unfettered access to world leaders when they’re negotiating a framework that could dictate how trade is done for decades to come is just unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit, Annelise Finney, Dana Cronin, Rachael Vasquez, and Spencer Whitney contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of protesters and activists rallied in downtown San Francisco Sunday in opposition to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apec.org/\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation\u003c/a> summit, which brings together heads of state and over a thousand CEOs from 21 APEC member states from\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965942/from-street-closures-to-security-checks-what-to-know-about-sf-apec-2023\"> Nov. 11-17\u003c/a>. The APEC summit has drawn an estimated 20,000 people and put San Francisco on the world stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “mass mobilization” on Sunday kicked off a week of protests organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/no2apec/\">No to APEC Coalition\u003c/a>. Here’s a guide to help you understand who the activists are, why they are protesting the APEC summit, and what they have planned in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who are the activists?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The No to APEC Coalition is incredibly diverse and represents over \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VvZ_NCXd5sIS1N7F4QSbfmWKJOY5npGKbMeOg-Rpc9s/edit\">100 grassroots community action organizations\u003c/a> nationwide, active in the fields of migrant and immigration rights, indigenous rights, human rights, labor rights, climate and environmental justice groups, women’s rights groups and more. Activists are also protesting the Israel-Hamas war, joining the growing international calls for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area climate organizer Nik Evasco describes it as “a very broad intersectional coalition that touches on diaspora peoples from the Global South, labor and the climate bloc … anti-militarist groups … and people who are really focused on certain opposition to certain particular world leaders like Xi Jinping or [Bongbong Marcos].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967111 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg\" alt='A young woman holds a sign that says \"your missiles will never be stronger than our spirit\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zayna Elkarra protests alongside thousands of demonstrators in downtown San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2023, in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali from the Palestinian Youth Movement took part in the action Sunday to protest the Israel-Hamas war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gather to declare to the U.S. government and to the whole world that the masses here and the masses all over the world stand on the side of justice, of dignity, of liberation, and on the side of Palestinian people,” Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwezi Odom, a member of the African People’s Socialist Party, said APEC represents colonialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we say ‘shut down APEC,’ we mean shut down colonialism,” Odom said. “Because colonialism takes on all these different forms, and we begin to lose sight of what was the root cause of the oppression of the people of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967103 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg\" alt='An older woman uses a walker with a sign that says \"free Palestine\" in a large crowd.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-54-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovinia Alfaris marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Brandon Lee was among the protesters on Sunday who were concerned about environmental issues and workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I spent nine years working with the Igorot indigenous people of northern Luzon [in the Philippines], and they protested APEC because APEC’s policies, like the Mining Act of 1995, opened up the mining industry,” said Lee. “That mining industry really exploited the indigenous people’s land and destroyed the environment, displacing the indigenous people. And when the indigenous people protested, they’re met with violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are they protesting at APEC?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/00b4b06d1eac/wfblockparty-15106304?e=4d32bf2590\">media advisory\u003c/a>, the coalition said that companies sponsoring the summit, such as Amazon and Microsoft, have a legacy of causing environmental harm and that APEC’s free trade agenda harms millions of workers, women, and migrants in the U.S. and across the Asia-Pacific. Spokesperson Rhonda Ramiro said the coalition aims to “expose APEC’s false solutions and build a movement to address the very real crises of climate change, economic crisis, and militarization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967098 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"People holding flags and signs face a stage with people standing in front of microphones behind a large sign.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speakers kick off a rally at the Embarcadero Plaza in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the summit, the coalition and other activists have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-asia-pacific-conference-18442936.php\">protesting the attendance of heads of state\u003c/a> whom they consider responsible for human rights abuses, including China’s Xi Jinping, Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Peru’s Dina Boluarte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the media advisory, Brandon Lee of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines describes APEC as“ a tool of big business and the ruling elite to increase their profits at the expense of people and the planet,” adding that “APEC will not be epic. It will be a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, and it will only result in further worker exploitation and environmental destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APEC leaders have been promoting the organization — along with President Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-launches-new-trade-deal-with-indo-pacific-nations-warns-long-haul-for-inflation-recovery\">Indo-Pacific Economic Framework\u003c/a> — as a better way to connect global economies and peoples and to create clean and green economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman wearing a red and white head covering and a black shirt raises her arm in the air among a crowd of people holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaani Cassim marches in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But climate activist Nik Evasco said what they’ve seen happening is “giveaways to corporations, deregulation of countries, particularly in the global South, and the opening up of natural resources for exploitation … resources that tend to often be in lands that are in indigenous communities or in environmentally precious areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have world leaders representing a huge portion of the global economy and of the world population meeting with CEOs from ExxonMobil to Lockheed Martin to big tech and security, it doesn’t take a cynic to think that maybe the trade that’s being negotiated really isn’t in the best interest of the people,” Evasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What protests and actions are planned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition started with a counter-summit at San Francisco State University on Saturday, Nov. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the “mass mobilization” began at Harry Bridges Plaza in the Embarcadero and made its way to Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators gave speeches that lasted nearly three hours at the plaza before the crowd headed down Market Street. The protesters shut down Howard and Fifth streets in the afternoon near the security perimeter set up by law enforcement near the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967114 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people hold signs behind a barrier in the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231112-APECProtest-66-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators march on Market Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests are expected to continue throughout the week, including at the APEC CEO Summit on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and more protests planned for the CEO meetings from Nov. 14-16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Evasco said they would focus particularly on the CEO summit, which he referred to as “one of the biggest causes for concern of the entire negotiations,” and said they would plan street protests to “shut down the CEO summit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the people like the CEO of ExxonMobil have literally direct access … to people like Joe Biden or [Bongbong] Marcos from the Philippines or [Xi] Jinping,” Evasco said. “That type of unfettered access to world leaders when they’re negotiating a framework that could dictate how trade is done for decades to come is just unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of workers and labor organizers rallied outside Felton Institute’s Family Development Center in San Francisco today to demand the nonprofit listen to health and safety concerns raised by workers following a gas leak inside one of the nonprofit’s classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felton staff say they complained for more than a year about a foul smell inside the classroom for children — ages 18 to 36 months — before officials finally discovered and fixed the gas leak in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felton has sites across the Bay Area and provides a range of services, including comprehensive early care and education programs.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jacqueline Murdocca, preschool speech therapist, Felton’s Early Care and Education Program\"]‘I think change is already happening. However, I’m just left wondering why my team, the members on my team, my colleagues at other sites, why aren’t we able to form a union to help us advocate for this?’[/pullquote]During the rally, a contingent of workers, some of whom are represented by SEIU Local 1021, chanted, “Sí se puede!” and “Stand up, fight back!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding a megaphone, Margarita Garcia, a teacher with Felton, told the crowd that staff deserve to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We work hard for our kids,” she said. “We want Felton to listen to us, take us into consideration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After rallying, the group went inside the building to present a petition to Felton management, calling for the nonprofit to immediately investigate concerns, keep a public log of reported incidents, and immediately email staff, clients and parents when health and safety issues are reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people holding inflated purple devices stands together outdoors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67768_230810-Felton-Institute-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felton Institute employees and union members listen to speakers during the rally outside of Felton’s Sunshine Community Center in San Francisco’s Mission District. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers have also filed a complaint with the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, alleging Felton failed to use engineering controls to prevent harmful exposures to gas in the room, exposing employees to health hazards. Felton, however, has disputed the characterization of how the nonprofit responded to the gas leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to Felton staff, clients and families and shared with KQED, Felton’s president and CEO, Al Gilbert, wrote that the nonprofit had immediately contacted PG&E and the San Francisco Unified School District after reports of the odor. They said that the smell was inspected multiple times, but that it was not until this May that the school district identified a leak.[aside postID=\"news_11940014,news_11928262,news_11926218\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“It seems that SEIU 1021 feels that making inflammatory, unfounded allegations about the health and safety of those who work at and visit Felton Institute will provide them with leverage in our negotiations. That is deeply troubling,” Gilbert wrote. “We strongly believe that SEIU 1021 making these outrageous allegations against Felton Institute undermines the good work we perform for our clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with San Francisco Unified wrote that the district worked to resolve the issue last school year, and that the issue was resolved with Felton several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamar Sarkissian, a spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement that PG&E gas service representatives responded to each call at the site and conducted thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our gas experts consistently received reads showing no gas present,” Sarkissian wrote. “However, we did advise the customer to work with a licensed contractor, their own maintenance department or schedule an additional PG&E inspection to further investigate their houseline, which is not PG&E property and is the customer’s responsibility to maintain. PG&E was not contacted by the customer with this request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several records of work orders with SFUSD also provide a window into the history of efforts to address the gas leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told by some children staff members that they smell gas in the playground area near a storage hut,” reads a request from December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another from February last year reads, “Staff and family say there is ongoing smell coming from the heater in classroom 132. The smell is now causing headaches to staff members in childcare. Pls come out asap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Pedroza had worked in that classroom — which is called the Butterflies room — for years and said she first reported the smell to a supervisor in 2021 after returning from COVID-19 lockdowns. Pedroza, an infant and toddler head teacher, said the odor worsened toward the end of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people holding inflated purple devices stands together outdoors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felton Institute employees and union members listen to speakers during the rally outside of Felton’s Sunshine Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had a parent who came in and she almost vomited because the smell was so bad,” Pedroza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children started getting sick, and parents began to complain, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For several months we have been bringing this to everyone’s attention,” Pedroza wrote in an October email to a supervisor that was shared with KQED. “We open the doors to ventilate our classroom, but most of the time we end up having headaches at the end of the day because of the smell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedroza, who had been pregnant at the time, said she felt like vomiting when she walked into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other teachers were feeling the same symptoms as me, they felt like nausea, they felt like vomiting, they felt headaches at the end of the day,” Pedroza remembered. “And I’m like, ‘Well, we’re not all pregnant here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she decided to leave Felton in part because she’s tired of not feeling heard or valued. Her last day was on July 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the gas concerns, workers also want to see more comprehensive active shooter response training, better communication from management when incidents do occur and working phones and speaker systems in all Felton workspaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those demands come in response to an incident in May where — according to a memo sent out by Felton management to families — police attempted to apprehend suspects in a van parked near Felton’s Solmar Learning Center in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline Murdocca, a preschool speech therapist at Felton’s early care and education sites, said she wished Felton had communicated more effectively with staff because so many people were worried for their safety that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said some parents were unable to drop their kids off at the site because police had blocked off the street, but without clear communication from management, staff inside remained worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand near together in an indoor hallway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felton Institute employees and union members deliver their health and safety demands to Chief Operations Officer Yohana Quiróz (center) during a rally to bring attention to a gas leak employees say went unaddressed for more than a year. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I played with the kids as if nothing was happening, terrified,” Murdocca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the statement sent by Gilbert, the Felton Institute CEO, he wrote that the people apprehended by police were not targeting their facilities, and that the program supervisor immediately informed each classroom to stay indoors and prepare for lockdown. He noted that as family members picked up their kids that day, the supervisor informed them of the incident and what the center had done to keep the children safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These latest concerns from workers come years after staff at Felton first launched an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940014/inside-the-long-uphill-battle-to-unionize-workers-at-one-bay-area-nonprofit\">unionize the entire workforce.\u003c/a> The nonprofit currently has eight unfair labor practice allegations against it with the National Labor Relations Board, including claims of retaliation against workers. Felton has denied those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 10% of workers who are members of SEIU 1021 are in the process of bargaining for a new contract and say years of short staffing, low pay and bullying from management have led to high turnover. Meanwhile, some workers have pushed for years to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdocca is not a member of the union and says she’s speaking up now despite the risks to her employment. She said recent communication from management, including details about how they responded to the gas leak, is an improvement in transparency workers have been asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think change is already happening,” she said. “However, I’m just left wondering why my team, the members on my team, my colleagues at other sites, why aren’t we able to form a union to help us advocate for this? What’s taking so long?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It seems that SEIU 1021 feels that making inflammatory, unfounded allegations about the health and safety of those who work at and visit Felton Institute will provide them with leverage in our negotiations. That is deeply troubling,” Gilbert wrote. “We strongly believe that SEIU 1021 making these outrageous allegations against Felton Institute undermines the good work we perform for our clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with San Francisco Unified wrote that the district worked to resolve the issue last school year, and that the issue was resolved with Felton several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamar Sarkissian, a spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement that PG&E gas service representatives responded to each call at the site and conducted thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our gas experts consistently received reads showing no gas present,” Sarkissian wrote. “However, we did advise the customer to work with a licensed contractor, their own maintenance department or schedule an additional PG&E inspection to further investigate their houseline, which is not PG&E property and is the customer’s responsibility to maintain. PG&E was not contacted by the customer with this request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several records of work orders with SFUSD also provide a window into the history of efforts to address the gas leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told by some children staff members that they smell gas in the playground area near a storage hut,” reads a request from December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another from February last year reads, “Staff and family say there is ongoing smell coming from the heater in classroom 132. The smell is now causing headaches to staff members in childcare. Pls come out asap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Pedroza had worked in that classroom — which is called the Butterflies room — for years and said she first reported the smell to a supervisor in 2021 after returning from COVID-19 lockdowns. Pedroza, an infant and toddler head teacher, said the odor worsened toward the end of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people holding inflated purple devices stands together outdoors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67767_230810-Felton-Institute-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felton Institute employees and union members listen to speakers during the rally outside of Felton’s Sunshine Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had a parent who came in and she almost vomited because the smell was so bad,” Pedroza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children started getting sick, and parents began to complain, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For several months we have been bringing this to everyone’s attention,” Pedroza wrote in an October email to a supervisor that was shared with KQED. “We open the doors to ventilate our classroom, but most of the time we end up having headaches at the end of the day because of the smell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedroza, who had been pregnant at the time, said she felt like vomiting when she walked into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other teachers were feeling the same symptoms as me, they felt like nausea, they felt like vomiting, they felt headaches at the end of the day,” Pedroza remembered. “And I’m like, ‘Well, we’re not all pregnant here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she decided to leave Felton in part because she’s tired of not feeling heard or valued. Her last day was on July 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the gas concerns, workers also want to see more comprehensive active shooter response training, better communication from management when incidents do occur and working phones and speaker systems in all Felton workspaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those demands come in response to an incident in May where — according to a memo sent out by Felton management to families — police attempted to apprehend suspects in a van parked near Felton’s Solmar Learning Center in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline Murdocca, a preschool speech therapist at Felton’s early care and education sites, said she wished Felton had communicated more effectively with staff because so many people were worried for their safety that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said some parents were unable to drop their kids off at the site because police had blocked off the street, but without clear communication from management, staff inside remained worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand near together in an indoor hallway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67773_230810-Felton-Institute-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felton Institute employees and union members deliver their health and safety demands to Chief Operations Officer Yohana Quiróz (center) during a rally to bring attention to a gas leak employees say went unaddressed for more than a year. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I played with the kids as if nothing was happening, terrified,” Murdocca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the statement sent by Gilbert, the Felton Institute CEO, he wrote that the people apprehended by police were not targeting their facilities, and that the program supervisor immediately informed each classroom to stay indoors and prepare for lockdown. He noted that as family members picked up their kids that day, the supervisor informed them of the incident and what the center had done to keep the children safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These latest concerns from workers come years after staff at Felton first launched an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940014/inside-the-long-uphill-battle-to-unionize-workers-at-one-bay-area-nonprofit\">unionize the entire workforce.\u003c/a> The nonprofit currently has eight unfair labor practice allegations against it with the National Labor Relations Board, including claims of retaliation against workers. Felton has denied those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 10% of workers who are members of SEIU 1021 are in the process of bargaining for a new contract and say years of short staffing, low pay and bullying from management have led to high turnover. Meanwhile, some workers have pushed for years to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdocca is not a member of the union and says she’s speaking up now despite the risks to her employment. She said recent communication from management, including details about how they responded to the gas leak, is an improvement in transparency workers have been asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think change is already happening,” she said. “However, I’m just left wondering why my team, the members on my team, my colleagues at other sites, why aren’t we able to form a union to help us advocate for this? What’s taking so long?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Was Rose Pak a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Rose-Pak-the-ultimate-power-broker-9233068.php\">power broker\u003c/a>? Demonstrably yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was she also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201303211000/first-person-rose-pak\">kingmaker\u003c/a>? Arguably so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Pak’s last days before her death, was she a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-gravely-ill-Rose-Pak-on-life-death-and-her-6456189.php\">lion in winter\u003c/a>,” as \u003cem>San Francisco Magazine\u003c/em> dubbed her, leading a pride of politicos she had long mentored through a final campaign struggle? Perhaps inspiringly, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the film about her life, \u003cem>Rally\u003c/em>, which premiered Friday at the 2023 San Francisco International Film Festival, manages to show the thread that binds all of those efforts, and the motivation behind the decades Pak spent shaping San Francisco political life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, everything she did, every person she talked to, it was about enhancing the community and making the community better, and she was very vocal about that,” San Francisco Police Department Commander Paul Yep told me, standing among Pak’s friends at an after-party celebrating the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1403px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947386 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally1.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinese woman wearing large, '80s-style glasses, a bright blue dress, and a long strand of pearls, with chin-length black hair, smiles broadly, while others around her, all white, also smile, in a government office in front of a bank of microphones.\" width=\"1403\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally1.jpg 1403w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally1-800x395.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally1-1020x503.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally1-160x79.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1403px) 100vw, 1403px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos and Rose Pak at a press conference in a screenshot from the film ‘Rally.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rally)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pak, who was born in China, came to San Francisco in the 1960s to work for the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. She would eventually become one of the city’s most influential political figures, channeling the Chinese community to lift people into power, who would in turn fulfill promises to Pak to help Chinese San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep remembers Pak’s care for Chinatown well. At their first meeting, Pak told him, “If you’re about the community, then I’m there for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lesson that’s obvious to her friends, many of whom were in attendance for \u003cem>Rally\u003c/em>’s premiere at the CGV San Francisco 14 cinema on 1000 Van Ness Avenue on Friday night. Yet somehow it was a message lost on many San Franciscans over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, news clips spanning decades repeatedly describe Pak as a “powerful influencer” behind the scenes, a “shadowy figure” pulling the puppet strings of San Francisco’s power structure. She would often describe the term “power broker” as racist, musing, If she were white, wouldn’t they say “civic leader”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, those news clips never talked about \u003cem>why \u003c/em>she pulled those strings. But seeing Pak’s accomplishments all in the span of an hour and a half (give or take), the missing \u003cem>why \u003c/em>is as blindingly obvious as the idea that the Golden Gate Bridge ain’t golden:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pak saved Chinese Hospital from closure. Pak defended access to Chinatown businesses by fighting the Embarcadero Freeway closure, and after she lost that fight, she advocated for the Central Subway to ensure people had access to Chinatown. She helped elect Mayor Art Agnos, who, at Pak’s urging, went on to appoint Chinese people into the upper echelons of City Hall for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2011, she applied pressure to the Board of Supervisors to appoint Ed Lee interim mayor, later propelling him to victory in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdd_Fasz0k\">campaign to become San Francisco’s first Chinese mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pak wasn’t a saintly figure, and it’s a strength of the film that it doesn’t shy away from showing her as crass, rude and loud, in all the ways that made her charming. The movie also showcases her losses, like the teardown of the Embarcadero Freeway, and Ed Lee’s eventual shifting allegiance toward San Francisco’s tech elite, like “Godfather of Silicon Valley” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ron-conway-big-tech-drop-thousands-into-sleepy-sf-election/article_00342725-0356-5f79-a4c4-9e4a025a5d35.html\">Ron Conway\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cmdr. Paul Yep, San Francisco Police Department\"]‘At the end of the day, everything she did, every person she talked to, it was about enhancing the community and making the community better, and she was very vocal about that.’[/pullquote]The movie even \u003cem>begins \u003c/em>with accusations that she was an operative of the Chinese Communist Party — that’s gutsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Showing Pak in an honest way, warts and all, was by design, the film’s director Rooth Tang told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of Rose’s story, I think, is a universal one, is that change is messy,” Tang said. Even in a city that’s dominated by Democrats, change takes a fight and “it’s not going to be simple or clean,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But showing Pak’s imperfections had another importance, Tang said, because the Asian American community, in his experience, struggles with the concept of, “How much should you do to fit in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s another thing I really admired about Rose,” he said. “She didn’t worry about fitting in, ever. It was more of, ‘Hey, I’m here. You guys got to make room.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pak exemplified that even when faced with racism early on in her tenure at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. She tells the tale in an old interview unearthed for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They think, you hired a Chinese, so we’ve covered all our Asians. That’s the mentality they had. They always asked me, ‘Rose, you tell us, what is the difference between the Koreans, the Chinese, and the Japanese?’ I was so fed up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1901px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947390 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinese woman, a white man and a white woman walk together in the middle of a crowd in the middle of a street, the women talking to each other across the man, in a black-and-white photo.\" width=\"1901\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4.jpg 1901w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4-800x292.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4-1020x372.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rally4-1536x560.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Pak with Dianne Feinstein in a snippet from ‘Rally.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rally)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Guys, you listen once and for all.’ And they all kept quiet. ‘Just remember, the Koreans, their eyes slant down.’ And you can see all their faces trying to remember, ‘Koreans eyes slant down.’ ‘And the Japanese, their eyes slant up.’ And then they’re all thinking, ‘Right?’ ‘And the Chinese, one go each way.’ And then I just left. It was so insulting, you know, but that was the mentality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mechanics of how she achieved these feats is showcased in the film. But in a soft critique, one has to read between the lines a bit to see how her wins were truly achieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the theater just after the film, Jane Kim, a former protégé of Pak’s and now director of the state Working Families Party, spelled out Pak’s power a bit more directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think of a power broker, you think of someone who’s wielding that power, at least a little bit, for themselves,” Kim said. “And part of Rose’s power was actually that she didn’t want anything, so she never had anything to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film reveals this in a particularly touching moment, just after her death, when loved ones gather outside her small apartment next to Chinese Hospital. It’s not the kind of building you’d imagine a true “power broker” to live in — a far cry from the tony neighborhoods some San Francisco politicos call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that was part of why she was so difficult to take down,” Kim said. “There was nothing to take away from her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Politicians, law enforcement officials, police unions and protesters are not just condemning the Memphis police officers who were involved, but also drawing attention to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/\">systemic violence in law enforcement across the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man holds a sign that says \"Love to Tyre\" in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Johnson marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, a city with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/07/24/oaklandside-east-bay-yesterday-police-violence-oakland/\">a long history of deadly confrontations involving law enforcement\u003c/a>, a rally and march was held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> (APTP), with hundreds of people in attendance on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza — named in honor of yet another unarmed Black man who was killed as a result of police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman holding a sign that says \"Say their names!\" in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sloane Noel-Johnson, with the Black Organizing Project, marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These things are all too familiar and they happen all the time,” said Dayton Andrews, an Oakland resident. “I’m from Los Angeles originally and this is a carbon copy of what happened to Rodney King 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red hat and holding a microphone with red gloves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community really has to respond and show that this is unacceptable,” said Lisa Eugene, a San Leandro resident. “This is an unacceptable standard of behavior for the police, for police everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a red hat and red hoodie holds a microphone at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cephus Johnson, aka Uncle Bobby X, founder of the Oscar Grant Foundation, speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need a place to grieve and to rage … people have a right to be angry,” said Cat Brooks, APTP co-founder, in an interview with KQED. “And I wish people would start saying they’re sorry before they tell us to be peaceful. I don’t know how I’m not angry watching a grown man scream for his mother as he is pummeled to death by law enforcement. And I don’t know how people like me who do this work aren’t angry, because this is one of several deaths that we’ve responded to this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a microphone and a picture of a man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taun Hall, the mother of Miles Hall, who was killed by Walnut Creek police in 2019, speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It could be me,” said Neena Joiner, an Oakland resident and business owner. “As a masculine-of-center person, presenting as masculine-of-center at night, in the daytime, I could be pulled out of my car. It’s been a couple times that I’ve been stopped myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APTP describes itself as “a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color, supporting families of victims of police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emotional and shaken Cat Brooks told KQED that this was not about “a few bad actors” but is about “the whole institution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hat and orange bag stands in a crowd of people at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Women’s Center CEO Mahagany Gillam listens to speakers during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we want to tie it locally to why this matters in Oakland, the Oakland Police Department pull over Black people at a rate of 5.3 times higher than their white counterparts. That’s a fact that happens in Oakland every single year,” Brooks said. “We’ve got cops engaging in ghost chases that end up with dead civilians. That’s the type of rogue mentality we have of the Oakland Police Department. We are just one stop away from a Tyre Nichols inside of Oakland … Stop f—-ing killing us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people holding signs walk down a street at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao released a statement Friday saying “it is traumatic and it is understandable that Americans all over our nation are angry and disgusted. I hope that the serious charges against the officers who killed him will bring a measure of justice to his family and I know all of Oakland stands with them today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Say their names!\" is held by a person in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers on 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023, for a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rallies and protests were held across the U.S. over the weekend, as demonstrators chanted slogans and marched in Memphis, New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, at times blocking traffic. In Washington, D.C., protesters gathered across the street from the White House and near Black Lives Matter Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued a statement on Friday, saying, “Public trust is the foundation of public safety, and there are still too many places in America today where the bonds of trust are frayed or broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following the release of the police video Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, expressed their “deepest condolences” to the family and friends of Tyre Nichols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black beanie hat has his fist raised in the air.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tyre Nichols should be alive today. The video released shows abhorrent behavior and these officers must be held accountable for their deadly actions and clear abuse of power,” said Newsom. “Today, we are a country in mourning, and must continue our work nationwide to push reforms to prevent excessive use of force and save lives,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Dana Cronin, Beth LaBerge and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the nation — and the world — reels following the public release of the Memphis Police Department’s shockingly brutal body camera footage showing five officers savagely beating Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries, rallies, marches and vigils have been held across the country. Politicians, law enforcement officials, police unions and protesters are not just condemning the Memphis police officers who were involved, but also drawing attention to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/\">systemic violence in law enforcement across the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man holds a sign that says \"Love to Tyre\" in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/021_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Johnson marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, a city with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/07/24/oaklandside-east-bay-yesterday-police-violence-oakland/\">a long history of deadly confrontations involving law enforcement\u003c/a>, a rally and march was held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> (APTP), with hundreds of people in attendance on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza — named in honor of yet another unarmed Black man who was killed as a result of police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman holding a sign that says \"Say their names!\" in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/016_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sloane Noel-Johnson, with the Black Organizing Project, marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These things are all too familiar and they happen all the time,” said Dayton Andrews, an Oakland resident. “I’m from Los Angeles originally and this is a carbon copy of what happened to Rodney King 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red hat and holding a microphone with red gloves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/007_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community really has to respond and show that this is unacceptable,” said Lisa Eugene, a San Leandro resident. “This is an unacceptable standard of behavior for the police, for police everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a red hat and red hoodie holds a microphone at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cephus Johnson, aka Uncle Bobby X, founder of the Oscar Grant Foundation, speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need a place to grieve and to rage … people have a right to be angry,” said Cat Brooks, APTP co-founder, in an interview with KQED. “And I wish people would start saying they’re sorry before they tell us to be peaceful. I don’t know how I’m not angry watching a grown man scream for his mother as he is pummeled to death by law enforcement. And I don’t know how people like me who do this work aren’t angry, because this is one of several deaths that we’ve responded to this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a microphone and a picture of a man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/006_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taun Hall, the mother of Miles Hall, who was killed by Walnut Creek police in 2019, speaks during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It could be me,” said Neena Joiner, an Oakland resident and business owner. “As a masculine-of-center person, presenting as masculine-of-center at night, in the daytime, I could be pulled out of my car. It’s been a couple times that I’ve been stopped myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APTP describes itself as “a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color, supporting families of victims of police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emotional and shaken Cat Brooks told KQED that this was not about “a few bad actors” but is about “the whole institution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hat and orange bag stands in a crowd of people at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/011_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Women’s Center CEO Mahagany Gillam listens to speakers during a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we want to tie it locally to why this matters in Oakland, the Oakland Police Department pull over Black people at a rate of 5.3 times higher than their white counterparts. That’s a fact that happens in Oakland every single year,” Brooks said. “We’ve got cops engaging in ghost chases that end up with dead civilians. That’s the type of rogue mentality we have of the Oakland Police Department. We are just one stop away from a Tyre Nichols inside of Oakland … Stop f—-ing killing us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people holding signs walk down a street at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/022_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao released a statement Friday saying “it is traumatic and it is understandable that Americans all over our nation are angry and disgusted. I hope that the serious charges against the officers who killed him will bring a measure of justice to his family and I know all of Oakland stands with them today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Say their names!\" is held by a person in a crowd of people holding signs.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers on 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023, for a rally to protest the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rallies and protests were held across the U.S. over the weekend, as demonstrators chanted slogans and marched in Memphis, New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, at times blocking traffic. In Washington, D.C., protesters gathered across the street from the White House and near Black Lives Matter Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued a statement on Friday, saying, “Public trust is the foundation of public safety, and there are still too many places in America today where the bonds of trust are frayed or broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following the release of the police video Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, expressed their “deepest condolences” to the family and friends of Tyre Nichols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black beanie hat has his fist raised in the air.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/017_KQED_OaklandTyreNicholsRally_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tyre Nichols should be alive today. The video released shows abhorrent behavior and these officers must be held accountable for their deadly actions and clear abuse of power,” said Newsom. “Today, we are a country in mourning, and must continue our work nationwide to push reforms to prevent excessive use of force and save lives,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Dana Cronin, Beth LaBerge and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We’ve seen people scream, screaming people from the buildings. And there’s no, basically no way for them to escape,” said one protester in San Francisco, who spoke under condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protester is a student from China living in the Bay Area and said she joined the Portsmouth Square vigil because people “need to do something, as a human with sanity, to not just spread the truth, but also penetrate the lies the government has been telling everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also feared for her own family, who remain in China and could be swept up not only in the government’s strict COVID quarantine methods, but in the Chinese government’s backlash against protesters, should she use her name publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be anyone. It could be my parents. It could be my uncle. It could be my friend’s parents. If I don’t feel for them now, that could be me. It’s just horrifying,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen of the people KQED reporters spoke to declined to be interviewed, for fear of family, friends and loved ones who might face punishment from government actors back home in China. Even those who did agree to an interview did not wish to be identified by name, and will be quoted anonymously in keeping with KQED’s policy on granting anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-800x602.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a mask holds a sign reading \"China lies, people die\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/FFCC0C2F-169F-4585-9052-3281CAF47D95-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester holds a sign reading ‘China Lies, People Die’ at a vigil for 10 people killed in Xinjiang, China, earlier in the month, in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Nov. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people that I know, or I don’t know, are still in jail for the time being for dissatisfaction with the current regime,” said John, a protester who would identify himself only by his first name when speaking to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the risk, protesters in the Bay Area rallied in solidarity vigils from \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/Katherineli_/status/1597499901231136768\">Berkeley\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/YifanYuNews/status/1597800507451445248\">San José\u003c/a> and San Francisco, joining \u003ca href=\"https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-students-take-aim-at-beijing-during-seoul-solidarity-protest/6856522.html\">a global call for China to ease its zero-COVID policy\u003c/a> that has placed millions under lockdown and quarantine, limiting their access to food and medicine while ravaging the nation’s economy and severely restricting travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those lockdowns have affected people in the Bay Area as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Siu, who has owned a travel agency in Chinatown since 1981, said he lost 80% of his business giving tours in China amid the lockdowns. Federal and local funding has helped him keep the business open, but he’s burned through his savings, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have been hurting a lot of business for us, for the travel business, on the airline business, too,” Siu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce Lam is an organizer with the Chinese Progressive Association. 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Your family, your entire building, essentially the community that you live in might be in quarantine when one person gets infected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests in China are notable for even existing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/china-and-tibet\">a country that arrests those practicing civil disobedience\u003c/a>. Those China-based rallies have vocally mocked the government’s ever-changing line of reasoning, as well as claims that “hostile outside foreign forces” were stirring the wave of anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was echoed in signage seen in the San Francisco protests. 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And there’s no, basically no way for them to escape,” said one protester in San Francisco, who spoke under condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protester is a student from China living in the Bay Area and said she joined the Portsmouth Square vigil because people “need to do something, as a human with sanity, to not just spread the truth, but also penetrate the lies the government has been telling everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also feared for her own family, who remain in China and could be swept up not only in the government’s strict COVID quarantine methods, but in the Chinese government’s backlash against protesters, should she use her name publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be anyone. It could be my parents. It could be my uncle. It could be my friend’s parents. If I don’t feel for them now, that could be me. 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Federal and local funding has helped him keep the business open, but he’s burned through his savings, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have been hurting a lot of business for us, for the travel business, on the airline business, too,” Siu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce Lam is an organizer with the Chinese Progressive Association. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the strike of nearly 48,000 University of California graduate student academic workers enters its third day Wednesday and many classes remain canceled, undergraduates appear divided in their reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are worried about the impact on their grades and studies as the current term draws to a close and have continued attending any classes that haven’t been canceled. Others have skipped class and joined the picket line in solidarity with the strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students milling around midday at UC Davis seemed aware of the strike even if they were not participating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the busy Coffee House, third-year human development student Noura Sabbagh said, “I want to support the grad students. UC Davis might be good academically but not at supporting students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sabbagh said she was unable to join the strikers’ call to skip all classes because she cannot miss classes at this point in the quarter. She said she’s sharing resources with other students to help them understand what the strike is about.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Life California, undergraduate student, UC Berkeley\"]‘To me, striking with the union for fair working wages and a better contract is vital for the sustainability of the institution.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how her classes have been affected, Sabbagh said, “My professors have not been supportive. I had an exam today, and they [first] said, ‘We’ll let you know if it’s postponed.’ Then it wasn’t.” She felt like the original consideration to postpone the test was about logistics rather than potentially showing support for striking graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley on Tuesday, the loud cheers from the large crowd of students on strike resonated across the school’s main entrances and around the bell tower as they marched across campus. Dozens of students lingered around the crowds, either joining in the chants or taking photos of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life California, a first-year undergraduate student, was at the rally at noon Tuesday at a time when she would typically have been in class. But her professor for that class was one of several who had canceled classes and instead encouraged students to attend the strike event.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101891301,news_11932147,forum_2010101876230\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“To me, striking with the union for fair working wages and a better contract is vital for the sustainability of the institution,” said California, who is double majoring in African American studies and political science with a minor in global public health. “Specifically, this is for the graduate student instructors who are living paycheck to paycheck, the graduate student instructors who are Black, the ones who are disabled, who are genuinely most at risk of all that comes with not having fair living wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in other parts of campus, students continued about their days. Some students were doing schoolwork on their laptops as if it were a normal day. Inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building, where students can often be found studying for hours at a time, not a single table was vacant on the first two floors around noon Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students across campus, whether on the picket line or not, were either wearing T-shirts or carrying signs in support of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, which began Monday morning, involves postdoctoral scholars, academic student employees such as teaching assistants, graduate student researchers and academic researchers in California’s preeminent public research university system. They teach many undergraduate classes and often lead discussion sections in courses. Strikers, who are members of the United Auto Workers union, are seeking higher pay, more benefits and job security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how many classes on the Berkeley campus and others were either canceled or affected by the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have data points. All info is anecdotal,” said Janet Gilmore, UC Berkeley’s senior director of strategic communications. “We are hoping to have a better sense of the general observations by the end of the week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of California disrupted as 48,000 academic workers continue strike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/TNwQL5HZiiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system has insisted that their leaders have negotiated “in good faith” and have proposed that the UC and union enter mediation to resolve several of the issues on the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael V. Drake, speaking Wednesday during a meeting of the system’s board of regents, reiterated UC’s position that it continues to negotiate in good faith and considers its offers “generous and fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the current university’s offer were accepted, our graduate student support would exceed that available to other top public research universities across the country and keep us on par with the top private research universities as well,” Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We offer this kind of support not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we want to continue to attract and retain the top students from across California and around the world to our graduate programs. We’re committed to listening to the union carefully with an open mind and a genuine willingness to compromise, and I’m confident that we can achieve a fair and equitable contract soon. I look forward to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 564px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png\" alt=\"A woman standing outside wearing a striped scarf and neon green vest.\" width=\"564\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png 564w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM-160x155.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-year physics doctoral student Hadley Santana Queiroz was one of the students on strike Tuesday at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First-year physics doctoral student Hadley Santana Queiroz was one of the students on strike Tuesday. Her department pays an additional amount above base salary that not all departments at UC Berkeley receive, but “it’s still barely enough to live in the area,” she said. She added that she spends more than half her earnings on rent alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the demands for higher pay, Santana Queiroz is also on strike for stronger mediation procedures for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solan Castro, a first-year undergraduate student, was also on the picket line instead of attending class. Even with upcoming finals, he’s not worried about how the strike might affect his grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of professors have opened up more office hours, also in solidarity with the graduate student instructors,” said Castro, who is studying both public health and molecular cell biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few months into his time as a UC Berkeley student, he said he’s learned that graduate students are often key to undergraduate students’ success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Castro took a break from the picket line, he shared that he recently learned about a class on campus that some students had failed at least three times. Those students were finally able to pass the class once a graduate student instructor stepped in and offered additional office hours for students who needed extra support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifth-year history major Carlos Martinez also supports the workers on strike. “I like what they’re doing, I understand why it’s a good thing,” he said. He expressed regret that he did not join the protest on the UC Davis campus, adding, “It’s good that people are stepping up to advocate for their rights. Props to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to class today,” Martinez continued, “because I myself am getting to the end. I don’t have room to slip up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A common thread among many of the students interviewed by EdSource was the wish to return to the classroom and continue working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t love my program,” said Santana Queiroz. “I hope that this strike shows we wouldn’t be here if we didn’t genuinely care about this place and care about each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>EdSource reporter Michael Burke and California Student Journalism Corps coordinator Tanya Perez contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/uc-undergraduate-students-divided-in-reaction-to-strike/681364\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building, where students can often be found studying for hours at a time, not a single table was vacant on the first two floors around noon Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students across campus, whether on the picket line or not, were either wearing T-shirts or carrying signs in support of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, which began Monday morning, involves postdoctoral scholars, academic student employees such as teaching assistants, graduate student researchers and academic researchers in California’s preeminent public research university system. They teach many undergraduate classes and often lead discussion sections in courses. Strikers, who are members of the United Auto Workers union, are seeking higher pay, more benefits and job security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how many classes on the Berkeley campus and others were either canceled or affected by the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have data points. All info is anecdotal,” said Janet Gilmore, UC Berkeley’s senior director of strategic communications. “We are hoping to have a better sense of the general observations by the end of the week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of California disrupted as 48,000 academic workers continue strike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/TNwQL5HZiiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system has insisted that their leaders have negotiated “in good faith” and have proposed that the UC and union enter mediation to resolve several of the issues on the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael V. Drake, speaking Wednesday during a meeting of the system’s board of regents, reiterated UC’s position that it continues to negotiate in good faith and considers its offers “generous and fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the current university’s offer were accepted, our graduate student support would exceed that available to other top public research universities across the country and keep us on par with the top private research universities as well,” Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We offer this kind of support not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we want to continue to attract and retain the top students from across California and around the world to our graduate programs. We’re committed to listening to the union carefully with an open mind and a genuine willingness to compromise, and I’m confident that we can achieve a fair and equitable contract soon. I look forward to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 564px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png\" alt=\"A woman standing outside wearing a striped scarf and neon green vest.\" width=\"564\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM.png 564w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.45.04-PM-160x155.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-year physics doctoral student Hadley Santana Queiroz was one of the students on strike Tuesday at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First-year physics doctoral student Hadley Santana Queiroz was one of the students on strike Tuesday. Her department pays an additional amount above base salary that not all departments at UC Berkeley receive, but “it’s still barely enough to live in the area,” she said. She added that she spends more than half her earnings on rent alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the demands for higher pay, Santana Queiroz is also on strike for stronger mediation procedures for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solan Castro, a first-year undergraduate student, was also on the picket line instead of attending class. Even with upcoming finals, he’s not worried about how the strike might affect his grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of professors have opened up more office hours, also in solidarity with the graduate student instructors,” said Castro, who is studying both public health and molecular cell biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few months into his time as a UC Berkeley student, he said he’s learned that graduate students are often key to undergraduate students’ success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Castro took a break from the picket line, he shared that he recently learned about a class on campus that some students had failed at least three times. Those students were finally able to pass the class once a graduate student instructor stepped in and offered additional office hours for students who needed extra support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifth-year history major Carlos Martinez also supports the workers on strike. “I like what they’re doing, I understand why it’s a good thing,” he said. He expressed regret that he did not join the protest on the UC Davis campus, adding, “It’s good that people are stepping up to advocate for their rights. Props to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to class today,” Martinez continued, “because I myself am getting to the end. 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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this week, after a brief rain in San Francisco’s Mission District, the sun appeared on Clarion Alley where a small team of women were brushing green paint on the top of a “Women, Life, Freedom” mural. The green, red and white of Iran’s flag served as the backdrop to the drawing of a woman cutting her ponytail with scissors — one of the many iconic images emerging from Iran in the past several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second of at least three planned murals in solidarity with Iran. The first was completed in Albany at the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first mural in Albany shows a woman who is burning her headscarf, which is a symbol of oppression in Iran,” said Leva Zand, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.artogether.org/iranmurals/\">ARTogether\u003c/a>, a Bay Area nonprofit that uses arts for community building. Zand clarifies that when Iranian women burn their headscarves, they are not necessarily opposing the religious aspect, but rather what they see as an oppressive government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Iranian people are calling for regime change following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iran after being arrested by Iranian morality police in mid-September for not properly wearing the hijab. Security forces, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-577c596775fb9a78d78107004d29d0f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including paramilitary volunteers with the Revolutionary Guard\u003c/a>, have violently cracked down on demonstrations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iranian-protestors-clash-with-police-near-capital-more-deaths-reported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killing over 300 people and arresting more than 14,000\u003c/a>, according to human rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists in Iran also are under fire. Recently, family members of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi expressed concern for his health \u003ca href=\"https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-rapper-health-concerns-arrest-prison-torture/32112464.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after he was arrested during ongoing protests\u003c/a>. Salehi’s lyrics speak against corruption, poverty and the killing of protesters in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clarion Alley mural was finished earlier this week, and at least one more mural is planned for Oakland. The Oakland mural will take up a larger wall; be a collaboration between Iranian and non-Iranian artists; and require additional fundraising — so far, ARTogether has raised $1,500 of their goal of $15,000 for the final mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand says the mural series has two main goals: raising awareness about what’s happening in Iran, and showing solidarity with Iranians inside the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just heartwarming to me that my family and friends know that they are not alone and [that] we are thinking about them,” she said. Zand is a refugee from Iran, having left in 2003. She is also a scholar in feminist studies, so the fact that the current revolution is woman-led is important to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in [the] healing aspect of art and also [in the] community-building aspects of art,” she said. ARTogether programs support refugee and immigrant artists in different stages of their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand sent pictures of the first mural to family in Iran, and received multiple messages from different people expressing thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931263\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women paint a wall in Clarion Alley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists Roshanak Rahimi (left) and Farnaz Zabetian paint a mural in solidarity with the Iranian people on Clarion Alley, in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The murals are already serving as a point of discussion and collaboration in San Francisco. On a recent morning, a school group walked by and took photos. Keyvan Behnia, who lives in the area, stopped by after seeing posts on Instagram and brought grapes for the artists. A few minutes later, Sahba Aminikia, a local Iranian American musician and composer based in SOMA, stopped by on his morning run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel proud,” he said, seeing the mural on Clarion Alley. “I feel proud of the women in Iran and how democracy is evolving in Iran into something far more better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behnia said one way of keeping what’s happening in Iran in everybody’s consciousness is through art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There's a new mural on Solano Ave in Albany created in solidarity with the people of Iran. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mural art by Farnaz Zabetian\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/IranProtests2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coordinated by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ARTogetherCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ARTogetherCA\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/DTKOQC7XWa\">pic.twitter.com/DTKOQC7XWa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— KQED News (@KQEDnews) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1583901176340570112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painter Farnaz Zabetian, lead artist on the project, was born in Tehran. Her art is inspired by poetry, colors and everyday women. In her online artist statement, she says she is invested in finding a “shared space” between poetry and colors to illustrate her work. Zabetian left Iran for Paris in 2012 and moved to San Francisco shortly thereafter. In addition to murals, she has had solo exhibitions in the Bay Area and a book of poetry published in Iran in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabetian said she hopes her work supports the women and people of Iran, “to be the voice that has been taken from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand also said in addition to supporting the murals, she has been calling senators to let them know what’s happening and to make sure attention continues to be kept on Iran. Anytime she feels tired, she reminds herself that this moment is about something larger than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not in a place to be tired, while people inside Iran are in front of the bullet,” she said. “I think this is the least we can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Earlier this week, after a brief rain in San Francisco’s Mission District, the sun appeared on Clarion Alley where a small team of women were brushing green paint on the top of a “Women, Life, Freedom” mural. The green, red and white of Iran’s flag served as the backdrop to the drawing of a woman cutting her ponytail with scissors — one of the many iconic images emerging from Iran in the past several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second of at least three planned murals in solidarity with Iran. The first was completed in Albany at the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first mural in Albany shows a woman who is burning her headscarf, which is a symbol of oppression in Iran,” said Leva Zand, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.artogether.org/iranmurals/\">ARTogether\u003c/a>, a Bay Area nonprofit that uses arts for community building. Zand clarifies that when Iranian women burn their headscarves, they are not necessarily opposing the religious aspect, but rather what they see as an oppressive government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Iranian people are calling for regime change following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iran after being arrested by Iranian morality police in mid-September for not properly wearing the hijab. Security forces, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-577c596775fb9a78d78107004d29d0f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including paramilitary volunteers with the Revolutionary Guard\u003c/a>, have violently cracked down on demonstrations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iranian-protestors-clash-with-police-near-capital-more-deaths-reported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killing over 300 people and arresting more than 14,000\u003c/a>, according to human rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists in Iran also are under fire. Recently, family members of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi expressed concern for his health \u003ca href=\"https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-rapper-health-concerns-arrest-prison-torture/32112464.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after he was arrested during ongoing protests\u003c/a>. Salehi’s lyrics speak against corruption, poverty and the killing of protesters in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clarion Alley mural was finished earlier this week, and at least one more mural is planned for Oakland. The Oakland mural will take up a larger wall; be a collaboration between Iranian and non-Iranian artists; and require additional fundraising — so far, ARTogether has raised $1,500 of their goal of $15,000 for the final mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand says the mural series has two main goals: raising awareness about what’s happening in Iran, and showing solidarity with Iranians inside the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just heartwarming to me that my family and friends know that they are not alone and [that] we are thinking about them,” she said. Zand is a refugee from Iran, having left in 2003. She is also a scholar in feminist studies, so the fact that the current revolution is woman-led is important to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in [the] healing aspect of art and also [in the] community-building aspects of art,” she said. ARTogether programs support refugee and immigrant artists in different stages of their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand sent pictures of the first mural to family in Iran, and received multiple messages from different people expressing thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931263\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women paint a wall in Clarion Alley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59787_001_KQED_IranMuralClarionAlley_11022022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists Roshanak Rahimi (left) and Farnaz Zabetian paint a mural in solidarity with the Iranian people on Clarion Alley, in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The murals are already serving as a point of discussion and collaboration in San Francisco. On a recent morning, a school group walked by and took photos. Keyvan Behnia, who lives in the area, stopped by after seeing posts on Instagram and brought grapes for the artists. A few minutes later, Sahba Aminikia, a local Iranian American musician and composer based in SOMA, stopped by on his morning run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel proud,” he said, seeing the mural on Clarion Alley. “I feel proud of the women in Iran and how democracy is evolving in Iran into something far more better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behnia said one way of keeping what’s happening in Iran in everybody’s consciousness is through art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There's a new mural on Solano Ave in Albany created in solidarity with the people of Iran. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mural art by Farnaz Zabetian\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/IranProtests2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coordinated by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ARTogetherCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ARTogetherCA\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/DTKOQC7XWa\">pic.twitter.com/DTKOQC7XWa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— KQED News (@KQEDnews) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1583901176340570112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painter Farnaz Zabetian, lead artist on the project, was born in Tehran. Her art is inspired by poetry, colors and everyday women. In her online artist statement, she says she is invested in finding a “shared space” between poetry and colors to illustrate her work. Zabetian left Iran for Paris in 2012 and moved to San Francisco shortly thereafter. In addition to murals, she has had solo exhibitions in the Bay Area and a book of poetry published in Iran in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabetian said she hopes her work supports the women and people of Iran, “to be the voice that has been taken from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zand also said in addition to supporting the murals, she has been calling senators to let them know what’s happening and to make sure attention continues to be kept on Iran. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been nearly a month since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iranian morality police, sparking protests around the world — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926636/women-life-freedom-a-weekend-of-bay-area-protests-in-solidarity-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including here in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, events in Iran took a different turn as students protesting at one of Iran’s most prestigious universities, Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, were attacked. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/middleeast/iran-protests-sharif-university-masha-amini.html\">Several people were wounded and many more were arrested\u003c/a>, according to The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sjoEv1o_gB2mSCCX0_cXoxLoRzlRTU40dyALxt0UsGA/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement condemning the attacks\u003c/a> was signed by over 700 academics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nima Rahimi, a first-generation Iranian immigrant based in San Francisco, said that he and many others in the Iranian diaspora received direct reports from student protesters who were inside the university and surrounded by government forces. Professors and students were shot at with rubber bullets as well as live ammunition. [aside postID=news_11926636,news_2010101890736]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish the world could witness it,” said Persis Karim, speaking on the current moment in Iran. Karim is a San Francisco State University professor and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. She feels anguish and fear regarding what’s happening in Iran, as well as a sense of inspiration and pride for the people rising up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karim was in regular contact with her cousin, who lives in Iran, until just days ago. Her cousin said security forces were shooting rubber bullets at girls who were not wearing a hijab in the streets. Human Rights Watch documented many incidents of security forces \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/05/iran-security-forces-fire-kill-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlawfully using excessive force against protesters in multiple cities across Iran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24HfWshV8HU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karim, the daughter of Iranian immigrants, said two other members of her family were imprisoned as young women in Iran because they were protesting the veil — over 40 years ago. Now, she says she feels the resonance of those earlier events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people fly Iranian flags and homemade signs in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters fly Iranian flags and homemade signs in front of San Francisco City Hall during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, around \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2,000 Iranian Americans joined a host of local politicians outside San Francisco’s City Hall in support of the ongoing woman-led uprising in Iran.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is happening in Iran now is a lesson to the world of what happens when you let religious extremists take control,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” said state Sen. Scott Wiener at the protest. “\u003c/span>We have to demand our leaders and our media, that we shed a light on this and that the entire world rally with the women of Iran to put an end to this regime.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed in a business suit stands in front of a microphone with a large sign behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59200_DSC09553-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu gives a spirited speech during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu spoke next and acknowledged the Iranian diaspora in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us who are not your federal electeds do not speak up when things happen outside our border, but this is not politics as usual,” said Chiu. “We are here because Mahsa Amini was our sister. She was our cousin. She was our daughter. And it could have happened to any one of the 40 million women who live in Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazy Amjadi has lived in the U.S. for eight years and still has family in Iran. She says she’s worried about them and calls frequently.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nima Rahimi, first-generation Iranian immigrant\"]‘It’s a movement about liberty. It’s not about not wanting to wear the headscarf, but being able to have the choice of whether to wear the headscarf.’[/pullquote]“All of us have a lot of anxiety and stress at the moment because we love our country no matter what,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you are a citizen here or another country. Iran is our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shahin Toutounchi has lived in the U.S. for 42 years and said misogyny is “the core root” of Iran’s regime and has produced the current movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not accidental that the women have taken the lead against a misogynist regime,” he said. “And in doing that, they’re changing Iran, not just for women, but for all Iranians, men and women together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many people in the crowd on Sunday said they wanted to keep in the limelight the popular resistance against clerical rule that’s ensued in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of morality police.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman dressed in green, holds an Iranian flag with a sign that says \"Human Rights for Iran\" in a crowd.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Ashrafi is one of hundreds of women who showed up to protest the Iranian government’s treatment of Iranian women, at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While not everyone in the diaspora agreed with the idea of more sanctions against Iran, several people were supportive of targeted, new U.S. restrictions on the morality police and Canada’s bans on Iran’s elite intelligence force and its business empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us are experts on what the sanctions actually do,” said Roya Pourmand, a first-generation Iranian American living in the San Francisco Bay Area. “Do they hurt the average Iranian? Do they hurt the regime more? I think we all have the same end goal. And we want our elected officials and our government to speak up like Canada did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi organized Sunday’s protest and solidarity rally “Woman Life Freedom Solidarity Rally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brave young women in Iran were out there burning their headscarves, chanting, ‘Women! Life! Freedom!’ And cutting their hair as a symbolic demonstration of protest and mourning and have been putting their bodies in front of batons, rubber bullets, live ammunition,” said Rahimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests have spanned at least 80 cities in Iran and many other countries around the world. Notably, Rahimi said, there is a wide range of ages, ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also growing sentiment in the Iranian diaspora that the government should be ousted, but Rahimi and Karim both say the future needs to be decided by the people of Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a movement about liberty,” Rahimi said. “It’s not about not wanting to wear the headscarf, but being able to have the choice of whether to wear the headscarf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s next? Rahimi doesn’t think the protests will stop anytime soon. “The Iranian diaspora is organizing already for next weekend and the weekend after,” he said. “This time it’s different. It’s a turning point and there’s no going back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing sunglasses holds a sign that says \"Regime Change in Iran by the People of Iran\" in a crowd.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shahin Toutounchi stands with a sign saying ‘Regime Change in Iran by the People of Iran.’ He joined thousands to protest the Iranian government’s violence against the people of Iran, at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How might people in the Bay Area get involved and stand in solidarity with the people of Iran? Here are a few suggestions from those in the local Iranian American community:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Ongoing Protests in Iran and Locally Call for Women’s Rights and Justice\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/0wI4KY6iih9wCP75gPhD1S?si=plsmPCfZSW6k6JcuN7qKnw&utm_source=oembed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Share news from Iran\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karim says experts who have lived in Iran should be asked to write opinion pieces and contribute meaningfully to local and national press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The silence is just painful,” she said of the lack of comprehensive media coverage. “This is part of the general frustration and anger that people feel … it’s painful for people to not see the media address the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi echoed Karim, emphasizing the importance of sharing stories on social media. “Keep the stories alive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Attend a protest or teach-in\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Staying involved in protests and taking to the streets, the bridges and the candlelight vigils is an ongoing way to make your opinion known. Teach-ins, film screenings and other educational events serve as community meeting points to continue involvement and sharing of news and knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Support human rights organizations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karim suggests donating money and support to human rights organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/iran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amnesty International\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/north-africa/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://iranhumanrights.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Human Rights in Iran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press tally shows there have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-government-and-politics-f3165108c5a3ef02a5d6b7b961bbe435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 1,900 arrests connected to the protests\u003c/a>. As of September 24, an Oslo, Norway-based group called \u003ca href=\"https://iranhr.net/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iran Human Rights\u003c/a> estimates at least 154 people have been killed. Without a reliable government source of information and limited journalism allowed in the country, human rights organizations serve an important role of documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Pressure universities to support academics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Given the recent attacks at Sharif University, Karim emphasized the importance of bringing attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult to get a visa to come here [to the U.S.]. Waive the admission fee,” suggested Karim. She’d also like to see individual universities work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says universities should also fast-track applications for Iranians. “Why do we need to start thinking about this? This is the future,” she said. “They’re killing girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi also said Iranian Americans and the Iranian diaspora around the globe have gone to their own universities to advocate for statements against violence by the Iranian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Daphne Young contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Human Rights Watch documented many incidents of security forces \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/05/iran-security-forces-fire-kill-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlawfully using excessive force against protesters in multiple cities across Iran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/24HfWshV8HU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/24HfWshV8HU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Karim, the daughter of Iranian immigrants, said two other members of her family were imprisoned as young women in Iran because they were protesting the veil — over 40 years ago. Now, she says she feels the resonance of those earlier events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people fly Iranian flags and homemade signs in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59194_DSC09533-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters fly Iranian flags and homemade signs in front of San Francisco City Hall during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, around \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2,000 Iranian Americans joined a host of local politicians outside San Francisco’s City Hall in support of the ongoing woman-led uprising in Iran.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is happening in Iran now is a lesson to the world of what happens when you let religious extremists take control,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” said state Sen. 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She was our cousin. She was our daughter. And it could have happened to any one of the 40 million women who live in Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazy Amjadi has lived in the U.S. for eight years and still has family in Iran. She says she’s worried about them and calls frequently.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“All of us have a lot of anxiety and stress at the moment because we love our country no matter what,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you are a citizen here or another country. Iran is our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shahin Toutounchi has lived in the U.S. for 42 years and said misogyny is “the core root” of Iran’s regime and has produced the current movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not accidental that the women have taken the lead against a misogynist regime,” he said. “And in doing that, they’re changing Iran, not just for women, but for all Iranians, men and women together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many people in the crowd on Sunday said they wanted to keep in the limelight the popular resistance against clerical rule that’s ensued in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of morality police.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman dressed in green, holds an Iranian flag with a sign that says \"Human Rights for Iran\" in a crowd.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59169_DSC02040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Ashrafi is one of hundreds of women who showed up to protest the Iranian government’s treatment of Iranian women, at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While not everyone in the diaspora agreed with the idea of more sanctions against Iran, several people were supportive of targeted, new U.S. restrictions on the morality police and Canada’s bans on Iran’s elite intelligence force and its business empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us are experts on what the sanctions actually do,” said Roya Pourmand, a first-generation Iranian American living in the San Francisco Bay Area. “Do they hurt the average Iranian? Do they hurt the regime more? I think we all have the same end goal. And we want our elected officials and our government to speak up like Canada did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi organized Sunday’s protest and solidarity rally “Woman Life Freedom Solidarity Rally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brave young women in Iran were out there burning their headscarves, chanting, ‘Women! Life! Freedom!’ And cutting their hair as a symbolic demonstration of protest and mourning and have been putting their bodies in front of batons, rubber bullets, live ammunition,” said Rahimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests have spanned at least 80 cities in Iran and many other countries around the world. Notably, Rahimi said, there is a wide range of ages, ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also growing sentiment in the Iranian diaspora that the government should be ousted, but Rahimi and Karim both say the future needs to be decided by the people of Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a movement about liberty,” Rahimi said. “It’s not about not wanting to wear the headscarf, but being able to have the choice of whether to wear the headscarf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s next? Rahimi doesn’t think the protests will stop anytime soon. “The Iranian diaspora is organizing already for next weekend and the weekend after,” he said. “This time it’s different. It’s a turning point and there’s no going back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing sunglasses holds a sign that says \"Regime Change in Iran by the People of Iran\" in a crowd.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59217_DSC02020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shahin Toutounchi stands with a sign saying ‘Regime Change in Iran by the People of Iran.’ He joined thousands to protest the Iranian government’s violence against the people of Iran, at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How might people in the Bay Area get involved and stand in solidarity with the people of Iran? Here are a few suggestions from those in the local Iranian American community:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Ongoing Protests in Iran and Locally Call for Women’s Rights and Justice\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/0wI4KY6iih9wCP75gPhD1S?si=plsmPCfZSW6k6JcuN7qKnw&utm_source=oembed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Share news from Iran\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karim says experts who have lived in Iran should be asked to write opinion pieces and contribute meaningfully to local and national press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The silence is just painful,” she said of the lack of comprehensive media coverage. “This is part of the general frustration and anger that people feel … it’s painful for people to not see the media address the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi echoed Karim, emphasizing the importance of sharing stories on social media. “Keep the stories alive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Attend a protest or teach-in\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Staying involved in protests and taking to the streets, the bridges and the candlelight vigils is an ongoing way to make your opinion known. Teach-ins, film screenings and other educational events serve as community meeting points to continue involvement and sharing of news and knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Support human rights organizations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karim suggests donating money and support to human rights organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/iran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amnesty International\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/north-africa/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://iranhumanrights.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Human Rights in Iran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press tally shows there have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-government-and-politics-f3165108c5a3ef02a5d6b7b961bbe435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 1,900 arrests connected to the protests\u003c/a>. As of September 24, an Oslo, Norway-based group called \u003ca href=\"https://iranhr.net/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iran Human Rights\u003c/a> estimates at least 154 people have been killed. Without a reliable government source of information and limited journalism allowed in the country, human rights organizations serve an important role of documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Pressure universities to support academics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Given the recent attacks at Sharif University, Karim emphasized the importance of bringing attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult to get a visa to come here [to the U.S.]. Waive the admission fee,” suggested Karim. She’d also like to see individual universities work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says universities should also fast-track applications for Iranians. “Why do we need to start thinking about this? This is the future,” she said. “They’re killing girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi also said Iranian Americans and the Iranian diaspora around the globe have gone to their own universities to advocate for statements against violence by the Iranian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Daphne Young contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday morning, more than 2,000 people from the Bay Area’s Iranian community and their allies gathered on the Golden Gate Bridge to form a human chain across the entire span — 4,200 feet across. Organizers hope the symbolic bridging will bring greater attention to protests in Iran and around the world following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in police custody September 16 after being arrested for not wearing a proper hijab, or headscarf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about Iranians. It’s about the freedom of people and humanity,” said Sepehr Khosravi, a college student from Hayward who came to the U.S. from Iran at age 7, escaping religious persecution. “If we don’t come together to build that cohesive love and unity, our world will become a mess, just like how it is right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1574089699974475776\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khosravi attended the event with his older sister, Sanaz Khosravi, an artist based in San Francisco. Sanaz stressed the importance of showing images of what’s happening in Iran to the rest of the world to avoid a repeat of the events of 2019, when Iranian authorities shut down the internet during mass protests in response to a hike in gas prices, in part due to harsher U.S.-imposed sanctions on the country. Fifteen-hundred people died during this time, according to Reuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday event on the bridge came after smaller gatherings, rallies and candlelight vigils throughout the week, including Friday evening in front of UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall and Saturday in front of San Francisco City Hall. In Berkeley, hundreds of people showed up, some holding signs written in English, Persian and Kurdish — calling for women’s liberation, justice for Amini and the end of Islamic rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AnaOphLin/status/1573875682521665536\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amini was visiting Tehran from the Kurdistan province in Iran when she was stopped by the capital’s Gasht-e Ershad, otherwise known as the “morality police” — a group of law enforcement whose main purpose is to enforce Iran’s strict dress code. The group is a notorious and powerful one, known for their white patrol vans and access to detainment and “reeducation” centers, where women and men accused of improper attire are held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of her arrest, Amini was accused of wearing an improper hijab, or headscarf, a mandatory part of the nation’s dress code for all women. While still in police custody on September 16, three days later, she died. Iranian authorities say Amini died of a heart attack, due to preexisting conditions, but Amini’s family and supporters say she had no history of health problems, and that her death is the result of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outrage, from Iran to the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since Amini’s death, protests have erupted in the streets of Iran, igniting outrage over ongoing issues for the nation’s citizens, including women’s rights, the strict dress code and restrictions on personal freedoms, and a suffering economy that’s been made worse under years of international sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/world/middleeast/iran-protests.html\">the largest anti-government demonstration since Iran’s elections in 2009\u003c/a>, protestors are calling for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/03/tens-of-thousands-of-people-protested-in-iran-this-week-heres-why/\">major change in the country\u003c/a>. And clashes between security forces and demonstrators have left more than a dozen dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/alexshams_/status/1571984532064112641\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel helpless and you feel so angry that the government is treating its people, people that I’m connected to by blood and history, in a way that is unfathomable to me,” said Nima Rahimi, an Iranian American attorney and community organizer who lives in the Bay Area and one of the organizers of Saturday’s demonstrations at San Francisco City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It breaks my heart that my community on the other side of the world is living under such harsh conditions every day. And a woman who was just at the beginning of her life was killed for such a stupid reason,” Rahimi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421.jpg\" alt=\"a person draped in an Iranian flag stands outside San Francisco City Hall\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243484421-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered outside San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 24, 2022, to protest the Iranian government after the death of a 22-year-old woman under police custody in Tehran. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rahimi is one of many Iranian Americans and allies who took part in solidarity protests over the weekend, taking to the streets shouting, “Zan! Zendegi! Azadi!,” or “Women! Life! Freedom!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its original form, the Kurdish slogan “Jin! Jiyan! Azadi!” is from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party; it’s a cry for liberation from patriarchy — specifically the combination of the patriarchy, capitalism and the state. It’s since become a central slogan in the global protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sepehr Khosravi, protestor\"]‘It’s not just about Iranians. It’s about the freedom of people and humanity.’[/pullquote]Rahimi recognizes the bravery of Iranians protesting right now. “I see things like this unfold in the country and see the willingness of the population to put their bodies on the line for their freedoms, basic freedoms, to decide whether you’re going to put a headscarf on your head or not, to have the ability to make that decision,” he said. That bravery, he said, motivates him to use whatever influence he has to raise local awareness so that elected leaders can engage in better, more effective foreign policy with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctions on Iran have been ongoing for decades, limiting international trade and, according to the U.N., exacerbating economic and humanitarian hardships, especially for vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we’ve got a foreign policy that keeps Iran isolated,” Rahimi said. “There’s a lot of nuances around that, but isolation only empowers the extremists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping all eyes on Iran\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many, raising awareness about what’s been going on in Iran goes well beyond the weekend’s protests. Torange Yeghiazarian, who immigrated from Iran right before the \u003ca href=\"https://institute.global/policy/ideology-and-irans-revolution-how-1979-changed-world\">Islamic Revolution in 1979\u003c/a>, says it’s been her life’s work since she settled here in the Bay Area in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lack of understanding or a misunderstanding of Iran,” she said. “Its history, the history of its relationship with the U.S., and the place of women in Iranian society.” Yeghiazarian is the founding director of \u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Thread Productions\u003c/a>, a theater company that features plays from or about the Middle East to celebrate the people, history and culture of the region while challenging stereotypes and misunderstandings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926720\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"people hold signs during a protest in solidarity with Iran at UC Berkeley\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest in solidarity with Iran at UC Berkeley on Sept. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Persis Karim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s ongoing work that Yeghiazarian says does not always get the visibility it needs. “This is just another moment where we’ve become visible, briefly, and have an opportunity to talk about who we are and where we come from. And how strong the Iranian women are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet also plays a key role: It’s super valuable, Yeghiazarian says, when it comes to sharing information — and specifically for spreading the word about what’s going on in Iran, and where people can take action and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing a lot of compassion and a lot of messages of solidarity from various communities,” Yeghiazarian said. “You realize that you’re part of a global community, that you are not alone, that you’re part of a global solidarity movement for women all around the world to gain their freedom and to gain their respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a moment where keeping the momentum going and maintaining international attention is essential, said Hasti, who recently moved to the U.S. from Iran, and prefers to keep her last name anonymous for safety purposes. This includes news coverage and social media mentions — even something as simple as sharing a hashtag, she says, can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that [social media] momentum dies, that could directly mean more people dying on the streets of Iran, innocent civilians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the protests erupted, Iranian authorities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/iran-blocks-capitals-internet-access-as-amini-protests-grow\">cut off the internet in certain regions and blocked access to services such as Instagram and WhatsApp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic, Hasti says, to limit the information that gets out of Iran. And for her, it always marks a dangerous time. “The last time this happened, I was back in Iran,” she said, referring to the 2019 shutdowns. “Both times it was the feeling of just maddening frustration, because you know that people are getting killed and there’s nothing you can do about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"an alter with a woman's face in a hijab and flowers and candles\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/35BA3EAC-93D7-4A61-9880-CA95B7563187-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar at a protest at UC Berkeley in solidarity with Iran. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Persis Karim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many people living in the Bay Area with family and loved ones in Iran, the internet shutdowns invoke a lot of fear and deep worry. It creates a void of silence, Hasti says: With no internet and a lack of international eyes on the situation, the loss of something as simple as a hashtag can correlate to the loss of human life. “They basically violate every human right possible and they will get a free pass to do whatever they want to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the images and messages that continue to come from the streets of Iran — as well as the weekend solidarity demonstrations that occurred around the world— also make some hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a time of change,” said Yeghiazarian. “We have an opportunity to work together and create lasting change, and to realize that women everywhere in the U.S. [and] in Iran are not only equal but, that without women’s rights and without women leading fulfilling lives, society as a whole is paralyzed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Anaïs-Ophelia Lin and Lakshmi Sarah contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rahimi recognizes the bravery of Iranians protesting right now. “I see things like this unfold in the country and see the willingness of the population to put their bodies on the line for their freedoms, basic freedoms, to decide whether you’re going to put a headscarf on your head or not, to have the ability to make that decision,” he said. That bravery, he said, motivates him to use whatever influence he has to raise local awareness so that elected leaders can engage in better, more effective foreign policy with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctions on Iran have been ongoing for decades, limiting international trade and, according to the U.N., exacerbating economic and humanitarian hardships, especially for vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we’ve got a foreign policy that keeps Iran isolated,” Rahimi said. “There’s a lot of nuances around that, but isolation only empowers the extremists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping all eyes on Iran\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many, raising awareness about what’s been going on in Iran goes well beyond the weekend’s protests. Torange Yeghiazarian, who immigrated from Iran right before the \u003ca href=\"https://institute.global/policy/ideology-and-irans-revolution-how-1979-changed-world\">Islamic Revolution in 1979\u003c/a>, says it’s been her life’s work since she settled here in the Bay Area in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lack of understanding or a misunderstanding of Iran,” she said. “Its history, the history of its relationship with the U.S., and the place of women in Iranian society.” Yeghiazarian is the founding director of \u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Thread Productions\u003c/a>, a theater company that features plays from or about the Middle East to celebrate the people, history and culture of the region while challenging stereotypes and misunderstandings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926720\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"people hold signs during a protest in solidarity with Iran at UC Berkeley\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/1B1DE15D-B418-4550-AAC3-5DEA241445BC-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest in solidarity with Iran at UC Berkeley on Sept. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Persis Karim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s ongoing work that Yeghiazarian says does not always get the visibility it needs. “This is just another moment where we’ve become visible, briefly, and have an opportunity to talk about who we are and where we come from. And how strong the Iranian women are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet also plays a key role: It’s super valuable, Yeghiazarian says, when it comes to sharing information — and specifically for spreading the word about what’s going on in Iran, and where people can take action and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing a lot of compassion and a lot of messages of solidarity from various communities,” Yeghiazarian said. “You realize that you’re part of a global community, that you are not alone, that you’re part of a global solidarity movement for women all around the world to gain their freedom and to gain their respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a moment where keeping the momentum going and maintaining international attention is essential, said Hasti, who recently moved to the U.S. from Iran, and prefers to keep her last name anonymous for safety purposes. This includes news coverage and social media mentions — even something as simple as sharing a hashtag, she says, can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that [social media] momentum dies, that could directly mean more people dying on the streets of Iran, innocent civilians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the protests erupted, Iranian authorities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/iran-blocks-capitals-internet-access-as-amini-protests-grow\">cut off the internet in certain regions and blocked access to services such as Instagram and WhatsApp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic, Hasti says, to limit the information that gets out of Iran. 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