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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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The brass and woodwind instruments played by members of the Oakland Second Line Project in front of City Hall on a balmy Wednesday evening sounded jubilant — but this performance wasn’t about revelry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the people gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza were there to eulogize the 10 people killed by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-15/buffalo-shooter-new-generation-white-supremacists\">white supremacist gunman\u003c/a> in the May 14 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099028397/buffalo-shooting-what-we-know\">racist massacre\u003c/a> in Buffalo, New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 13 people were shot, almost all of them Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Yi Huang, who is Chinese, felt it was important for her 3-year-old daughter, K’mara, who she said is a mix of Chinese, Samoan and Black, to be at the vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter represents so much of the hope that I have,” said Huang, co-director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, an environmental justice organization whose primary focus is creating healthy living environments for Asian immigrant and refugee communities. “I feel like it’s so important for her to be in a space where people are really celebrating the dignity and the worthiness and value of all of us that’s inherent in us as human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a community need to continue fighting white supremacy to make that real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"masked woman with smiling eyes holds her young daughter also wearing a mask outside, with other attendees in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian Yi Huang and her daughter, K’mara, listen to an Oakland Second Line Project band performance during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second line, with its chest-rattling bass drum, is the triumphant sound of Blackness, a sound that originated in West Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sound that survived the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sound that mourns and “celebrates the lives of Black people,” Cat Brooks, Oakland activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, the vigil’s organizer, told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Line of Black men playing trombones, trumpet and tuba walk down a street on a sunlit evening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Second Line Project make their way toward a healing circle and vigil organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been 30 years since the uprising in Los Angeles after the police officers who mercilessly beat Rodney King — the first viral video of police brutality — were acquitted. We’re 13 years since the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer, the first viral video of a police killing of a Black man captured by cellphone cameras and spread on social media. We’re almost two years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, his death shared widely on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting in Buffalo is yet another reminder that Black life in America is as fragile now as it was when the enslaved were emancipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black man speaks at a microphone with a shirt reading 'kill racism not me'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby X’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, speaks during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Politicians across the country are moving to disenfranchise Black voters by rolling back voting rights and drawing redistricting maps that dilute Black voting power. In California, Black and brown voters organized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11912468/activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi\">create the Bay Area’s most diverse congressional district\u003c/a> to ensure better representation only to see a 77-year-old white man endorsed as the incumbent by the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reproductive rights are on the precipice of being overturned by the Supreme Court, and political capital in some corners of America is gained by denying the truth about the 2020 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an undeniable truth: An 18-year-old white man, armed with a high-powered rifle and racist, anti-immigrant views and the belief that white Americans are being replaced by people of color, drove 200 miles to a Black neighborhood to kill Black people shopping in a grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"sign reading 'say their names' has pink hearts with names of shooting victims listed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a vigil and healing circle held in downtown Oakland on Wednesday displays the names of the 10 people killed on May 14, 2022, in a racist massacre in Buffalo, New York. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As my colleagues Alex Hall and Julie Small reported earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">domestic extremism is on the rise in California and America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s clear is we can’t keep treating acts of white supremacy as one-off crimes committed by supposed lone wolves suffering from mental health problems,” Erika Smith, a Los Angeles Times columnist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-15/buffalo-shooting-california-roots-great-replacement-theory?utm_id=55646&sfmc_id=4422305\">recently wrote\u003c/a>. “We also can’t keep giving a pass to conservative pundits and Republican politicians who directly or indirectly encourage adherence to the ‘Great Replacement’ theory or any other tenet of racism or extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akhi Nu (center) holds her hand over her heart while listening to speakers during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vigil, I followed the second-line processional down Broadway, but stopped at Oakstop, a co-working space, where Dieudonné Brou was preparing for a meeting of the DetermiNation Black Men’s Group, a cultural healing and social justice program for young Black men. I asked Brou, who works for Urban Peace Movement, what he felt after he heard about the massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will go to great lengths to cause terror on Black folks, on Black bodies, on Black spaces — more importantly on the Black mind,” said Brou, referring to symbolic violence, a term sociologists use to describe the hierarchical leverage that groups exert over others deemed inferior. “This man drove 200 miles, killed 10 people, but think about the effects it’s gonna have on millions of Black folks. It’s gonna stick with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a movie that never ends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, at the corner of Broadway and Thomas L. Berkley Way, there was a labor protest. People held cardboard signs demanding higher wages as a man in a yellow vest handed out bottles of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned the protest was fake. I’d walked onto the set of “I Am Virgo,” an absurdist comedy from Boots Riley, the artist who gave us the brilliant 2018 film “Sorry to Bother You.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were almost as many people there as were at the vigil, a fact some might deem absurd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The brass and woodwind instruments played by members of the Oakland Second Line Project in front of City Hall on a balmy Wednesday evening sounded jubilant — but this performance wasn’t about revelry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the people gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza were there to eulogize the 10 people killed by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-15/buffalo-shooter-new-generation-white-supremacists\">white supremacist gunman\u003c/a> in the May 14 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099028397/buffalo-shooting-what-we-know\">racist massacre\u003c/a> in Buffalo, New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 13 people were shot, almost all of them Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Yi Huang, who is Chinese, felt it was important for her 3-year-old daughter, K’mara, who she said is a mix of Chinese, Samoan and Black, to be at the vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter represents so much of the hope that I have,” said Huang, co-director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, an environmental justice organization whose primary focus is creating healthy living environments for Asian immigrant and refugee communities. “I feel like it’s so important for her to be in a space where people are really celebrating the dignity and the worthiness and value of all of us that’s inherent in us as human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a community need to continue fighting white supremacy to make that real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"masked woman with smiling eyes holds her young daughter also wearing a mask outside, with other attendees in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56083_014_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian Yi Huang and her daughter, K’mara, listen to an Oakland Second Line Project band performance during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second line, with its chest-rattling bass drum, is the triumphant sound of Blackness, a sound that originated in West Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sound that survived the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sound that mourns and “celebrates the lives of Black people,” Cat Brooks, Oakland activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, the vigil’s organizer, told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Line of Black men playing trombones, trumpet and tuba walk down a street on a sunlit evening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56071_004_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Second Line Project make their way toward a healing circle and vigil organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been 30 years since the uprising in Los Angeles after the police officers who mercilessly beat Rodney King — the first viral video of police brutality — were acquitted. We’re 13 years since the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer, the first viral video of a police killing of a Black man captured by cellphone cameras and spread on social media. We’re almost two years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, his death shared widely on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting in Buffalo is yet another reminder that Black life in America is as fragile now as it was when the enslaved were emancipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black man speaks at a microphone with a shirt reading 'kill racism not me'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56103_036_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby X’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, speaks during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Politicians across the country are moving to disenfranchise Black voters by rolling back voting rights and drawing redistricting maps that dilute Black voting power. In California, Black and brown voters organized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11912468/activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi\">create the Bay Area’s most diverse congressional district\u003c/a> to ensure better representation only to see a 77-year-old white man endorsed as the incumbent by the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reproductive rights are on the precipice of being overturned by the Supreme Court, and political capital in some corners of America is gained by denying the truth about the 2020 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an undeniable truth: An 18-year-old white man, armed with a high-powered rifle and racist, anti-immigrant views and the belief that white Americans are being replaced by people of color, drove 200 miles to a Black neighborhood to kill Black people shopping in a grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"sign reading 'say their names' has pink hearts with names of shooting victims listed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56092_023_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a vigil and healing circle held in downtown Oakland on Wednesday displays the names of the 10 people killed on May 14, 2022, in a racist massacre in Buffalo, New York. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As my colleagues Alex Hall and Julie Small reported earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">domestic extremism is on the rise in California and America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s clear is we can’t keep treating acts of white supremacy as one-off crimes committed by supposed lone wolves suffering from mental health problems,” Erika Smith, a Los Angeles Times columnist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-15/buffalo-shooting-california-roots-great-replacement-theory?utm_id=55646&sfmc_id=4422305\">recently wrote\u003c/a>. “We also can’t keep giving a pass to conservative pundits and Republican politicians who directly or indirectly encourage adherence to the ‘Great Replacement’ theory or any other tenet of racism or extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11914608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/019_KQED_BuffaloSolidarityVigil_05182022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akhi Nu (center) holds her hand over her heart while listening to speakers during a healing circle and vigil outside Oakland City Hall on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vigil, I followed the second-line processional down Broadway, but stopped at Oakstop, a co-working space, where Dieudonné Brou was preparing for a meeting of the DetermiNation Black Men’s Group, a cultural healing and social justice program for young Black men. I asked Brou, who works for Urban Peace Movement, what he felt after he heard about the massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will go to great lengths to cause terror on Black folks, on Black bodies, on Black spaces — more importantly on the Black mind,” said Brou, referring to symbolic violence, a term sociologists use to describe the hierarchical leverage that groups exert over others deemed inferior. “This man drove 200 miles, killed 10 people, but think about the effects it’s gonna have on millions of Black folks. It’s gonna stick with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a movie that never ends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Neda Toloui-Semnani is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer who’s written for Vice News and The Washington Post. She’s just released her first book, a memoir, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nedasemnani.com/book\">They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s pieced together from interviews, diaries and archives, and dives deep into her family’s history, both in the U.S. and Iran, starting with her grandfather’s decision in the 1920s to choose a surname for his family, and tracing her parents’ return to Iran to support the revolution after they were radicalized as Marxists in the leftist climate of Berkeley in the late 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toloui-Semnani spoke with The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha. Excerpts of this interview have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11908364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Iranian students and radical 1960s Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s immigration, or even something as simple as where you go to college, the moment that you touch down someplace can set you on your course. It’s one of the reasons why I spent so much time researching the time and the place, digging into what Berkeley was like in 1969 versus 1965 versus 1972 to get a sense of how Berkeley was changing — how the students within the university, but also the people within the city, were changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian students [like my parents] were becoming more political and certainly more militant, looking around at groups like the Black Panthers to see how they were doing it. They were very aware of SDS [\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-protest-group-students-democratic-society-five-questions-answered-180963138/\">Students for a Democratic Society\u003c/a>]. In fact, some of them were members of both SDS and the Iranian student movement. So these weren’t separate groups. The Iranian students very much influenced those groups and were influenced by them in return. For young people who were feeling that drive to change, there was one part of the spectrum that was drawn to the more militant, radical side of political activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908091 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-800x764.png\" alt=\"A man and a woman are sitting on grass outside. The man is wearing a black shirt and jeans and the woman is wearing a light colored shirt and jeans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents, Farahnaz Ebrahimi and Faramarz Toloui-Semnani, at Tilden Park, circa 1973.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On that first day in Berkeley, she walked hurriedly down Telegraph Avenue. She had a quick, funny gait: heels in and toes out. It pitched her hips back and forth in a way that was a little tomboyish and a little suggestive. She found the sublet, which belonged to a young couple who were visiting Iran for a few months. The apartment was essentially a small room, but my mother took it to share with another Iranian girl I’ll call Naz, who was a few years younger than she, the little sister of a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls moved into the studio with a love seat, milk crates, a phone, and a turntable. They slapped fat psychedelic-flower decals on the wall and pulled down the Murphy bed to share. That summer, their apartment was where everyone gathered on their way to the Iran house, the meeting place for all the ISA \u003cem>[\u003c/em>\u003cem>Iranian Student Association]\u003c/em> chapters in Northern California, a couple of blocks away.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>My mother and my father were part of the Iranian student movement, which was an anti-Shah movement. There were various different factions of that. The one thing that really unified them is that they didn’t want the Shah of Iran to be in power anymore. My parents were on the left. They started as Marxist-Leninists, and as Berkeley tracked towards Maoism, which it was wont to do in the early 1970s, so [did] my parents also go further and further to the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Iranian student movement, the anti-Shah movement, was really becoming established — after the \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/238287\">takeover of the Iranian consulate\u003c/a> [in San Francisco in 1970], for example — it became illegal to be part of what they call “the confederation,” the Iranian student movement. So then people were starting to cover their faces [at protests]. Looking at old newspaper clippings and \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189745\">video from protests\u003c/a>, you’ll see that often they’re wearing masks or hats and sunglasses. And as the ’70s went on, these became full-face coverings. They were very aware that they were being watched [by both the Shah’s secret police and, potentially, the FBI].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the promise of the revolution failing for her parents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The planes going back into Iran [after the revolution] were filled with these young, idealistic activists who had been working for so long towards this revolution. One of the stories that people told me was that people filling these planes were singing revolutionary anthems. Both the leftists and, obviously, the Islamists, who were also part of this revolutionary fervor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, this group of the leftist student movement joined up with the Ayatollah and the Islamic wing trying to overthrow the Shah. This was a coalition movement, really. It was a pragmatic choice, one might say. As soon as the goal [of deposing the Shah] was achieved, then questions were brought to the fore, like, “How do we govern?” “Who gets to govern?” “Who takes power?” It became clear that the revolution wasn’t going to pan out the way that the students certainly had hoped, or my parents had hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908354 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-800x733.jpg\" alt=\"Four people are seen in a family photo with two women, a man and a small child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-800x733.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-1020x934.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-1536x1406.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s mother, aunt and uncle packing as they prepare to escape Iran, a harrowing journey that would take them by horseback into Turkey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Neda Toloui-Semnani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On her harrowing escape from Iran on horseback as a toddler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I have very vague memories of Iran. I remember feeling part of a family. My mother was heavily pregnant with my brother when we escaped. When you’re a kid and you’re preverbal, it’s like all of your memories are trapped in your body somehow there, and feelings or sensations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-800x930.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a small child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-800x930.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1020x1186.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-160x186.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1321x1536.jpg 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1761x2048.jpg 1761w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s passport photo, taken in Istanbul, 1982.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I remember nearly nothing from the journey. I do remember wanting my mother that night. I remember that when she told me I couldn’t be with her, I was confused and wondered if I were in trouble. I didn’t understand that there wasn’t enough room for me on her horse. I didn’t understand that she was too big, the horse too small, and the trail too dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now I also wonder if the last thing my mother would have wanted just then was a child pressed up against her. To be strong for me, she needed space for me. I was given my own horse and my own mustachioed smuggler. He scared me […]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It grew later still. The horse swayed beneath me. I fell asleep against the smuggler. In my sleep, my fingers loosen their grip on my windbreaker. I woke up when it fell from my hand, floating down the mountainside. I begged the smugglers, my mother, aunts, and uncle to stop the horses and go back and find it. My smuggler went back and tried, but he didn’t see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know where it is, I told him. I can find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was dark and late. We had to keep moving. The moment they stopped looking for my jacket, I filled up with a fear so profound, the rest of me shrank to nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world is unfair and I am washed away. I remember that feeling clearly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>On trying to learn who her father was, after he was executed by the Ayatollah in 1983\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[When I was reporting this book,] people would give me these little kind of crumbs of [who] my father [was]. He would bite part of his hand when he was thinking, or he would click a pen when he was talking, or his voice when he would laugh, or how he would respond when he got annoyed. All of a sudden, there was a texture to him that had been missing before. Someone even recently sent me a picture where my dad’s laughing. I had never seen a picture of him laughing before. The only image I’d ever seen of my father speaking was in his trial, which I found online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was these kinds of ways that I was able to patchwork him together from an idea into something that was more textured, more human and flawed, and kind of beautiful. When I was reflecting on it, I realized that’s actually how we get to know who people are. We feel like we know the fullness of them. I started working on this book after my mother had passed away. So there was a lot of comfort in feeling like I was able to spend time with my father.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On hearing a \u003ca href=\"https://storycorps.org/the-unedited-interview-farah-ebrahimi-and-rose-elizabeth-gorman/\">StoryCorps interview\u003c/a> with her mother, three years after her death from cancer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was kind of frozen in place. I hadn’t heard my mother’s voice for so many years at that point, and she and I were really close. All of a sudden, it was actually a really beautiful moment of being parented. She just showed me that she had seen me all those years growing up. When I thought no one understood, my mom had seen what was happening, how lost I had felt, and how much I was grieving my dad, and how I was trying to make sense of everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way I took that moment was that she had given me space all these years, to take my time and find my way through this story and make my own peace with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On what she hopes this story will mean for her son someday\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I hope that this is where my son could go when he needs his mom. I wanted to be able to be with him. Anytime he needs me. You know, I started writing this book many years before he was born, so I didn’t start this project with him in mind. After he was born, it changed what the project meant to me. I hope my son has something to hold on to after I’m gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Neda Toloui-Semnani will talk with The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-03-23/neda-toloui-semnani-they-said-they-wanted-revolution-memoir-my-iranian-parents\">free, virtual conversation with the Commonwealth Club\u003c/a> on March 23.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Neda Toloui-Semnani is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer who’s written for Vice News and The Washington Post. She’s just released her first book, a memoir, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nedasemnani.com/book\">They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s pieced together from interviews, diaries and archives, and dives deep into her family’s history, both in the U.S. and Iran, starting with her grandfather’s decision in the 1920s to choose a surname for his family, and tracing her parents’ return to Iran to support the revolution after they were radicalized as Marxists in the leftist climate of Berkeley in the late 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toloui-Semnani spoke with The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha. Excerpts of this interview have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11908364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Book-Cover.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Iranian students and radical 1960s Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s immigration, or even something as simple as where you go to college, the moment that you touch down someplace can set you on your course. It’s one of the reasons why I spent so much time researching the time and the place, digging into what Berkeley was like in 1969 versus 1965 versus 1972 to get a sense of how Berkeley was changing — how the students within the university, but also the people within the city, were changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian students [like my parents] were becoming more political and certainly more militant, looking around at groups like the Black Panthers to see how they were doing it. They were very aware of SDS [\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-protest-group-students-democratic-society-five-questions-answered-180963138/\">Students for a Democratic Society\u003c/a>]. In fact, some of them were members of both SDS and the Iranian student movement. So these weren’t separate groups. The Iranian students very much influenced those groups and were influenced by them in return. For young people who were feeling that drive to change, there was one part of the spectrum that was drawn to the more militant, radical side of political activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908091 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-800x764.png\" alt=\"A man and a woman are sitting on grass outside. The man is wearing a black shirt and jeans and the woman is wearing a light colored shirt and jeans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Parents.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents, Farahnaz Ebrahimi and Faramarz Toloui-Semnani, at Tilden Park, circa 1973.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On that first day in Berkeley, she walked hurriedly down Telegraph Avenue. She had a quick, funny gait: heels in and toes out. It pitched her hips back and forth in a way that was a little tomboyish and a little suggestive. She found the sublet, which belonged to a young couple who were visiting Iran for a few months. The apartment was essentially a small room, but my mother took it to share with another Iranian girl I’ll call Naz, who was a few years younger than she, the little sister of a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls moved into the studio with a love seat, milk crates, a phone, and a turntable. They slapped fat psychedelic-flower decals on the wall and pulled down the Murphy bed to share. That summer, their apartment was where everyone gathered on their way to the Iran house, the meeting place for all the ISA \u003cem>[\u003c/em>\u003cem>Iranian Student Association]\u003c/em> chapters in Northern California, a couple of blocks away.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>My mother and my father were part of the Iranian student movement, which was an anti-Shah movement. There were various different factions of that. The one thing that really unified them is that they didn’t want the Shah of Iran to be in power anymore. My parents were on the left. They started as Marxist-Leninists, and as Berkeley tracked towards Maoism, which it was wont to do in the early 1970s, so [did] my parents also go further and further to the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Iranian student movement, the anti-Shah movement, was really becoming established — after the \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/238287\">takeover of the Iranian consulate\u003c/a> [in San Francisco in 1970], for example — it became illegal to be part of what they call “the confederation,” the Iranian student movement. So then people were starting to cover their faces [at protests]. Looking at old newspaper clippings and \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189745\">video from protests\u003c/a>, you’ll see that often they’re wearing masks or hats and sunglasses. And as the ’70s went on, these became full-face coverings. They were very aware that they were being watched [by both the Shah’s secret police and, potentially, the FBI].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the promise of the revolution failing for her parents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The planes going back into Iran [after the revolution] were filled with these young, idealistic activists who had been working for so long towards this revolution. One of the stories that people told me was that people filling these planes were singing revolutionary anthems. Both the leftists and, obviously, the Islamists, who were also part of this revolutionary fervor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, this group of the leftist student movement joined up with the Ayatollah and the Islamic wing trying to overthrow the Shah. This was a coalition movement, really. It was a pragmatic choice, one might say. As soon as the goal [of deposing the Shah] was achieved, then questions were brought to the fore, like, “How do we govern?” “Who gets to govern?” “Who takes power?” It became clear that the revolution wasn’t going to pan out the way that the students certainly had hoped, or my parents had hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908354 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-800x733.jpg\" alt=\"Four people are seen in a family photo with two women, a man and a small child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-800x733.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-1020x934.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit-1536x1406.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Family-Edit.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s mother, aunt and uncle packing as they prepare to escape Iran, a harrowing journey that would take them by horseback into Turkey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Neda Toloui-Semnani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On her harrowing escape from Iran on horseback as a toddler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I have very vague memories of Iran. I remember feeling part of a family. My mother was heavily pregnant with my brother when we escaped. When you’re a kid and you’re preverbal, it’s like all of your memories are trapped in your body somehow there, and feelings or sensations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11908114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-800x930.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a small child.\" width=\"800\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-800x930.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1020x1186.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-160x186.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1321x1536.jpg 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby-1761x2048.jpg 1761w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Neda-Toloui-Semnani-Baby.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neda Toloui-Semnani’s passport photo, taken in Istanbul, 1982.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I remember nearly nothing from the journey. I do remember wanting my mother that night. I remember that when she told me I couldn’t be with her, I was confused and wondered if I were in trouble. I didn’t understand that there wasn’t enough room for me on her horse. I didn’t understand that she was too big, the horse too small, and the trail too dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now I also wonder if the last thing my mother would have wanted just then was a child pressed up against her. To be strong for me, she needed space for me. I was given my own horse and my own mustachioed smuggler. He scared me […]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It grew later still. The horse swayed beneath me. I fell asleep against the smuggler. In my sleep, my fingers loosen their grip on my windbreaker. I woke up when it fell from my hand, floating down the mountainside. I begged the smugglers, my mother, aunts, and uncle to stop the horses and go back and find it. My smuggler went back and tried, but he didn’t see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know where it is, I told him. I can find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was dark and late. We had to keep moving. The moment they stopped looking for my jacket, I filled up with a fear so profound, the rest of me shrank to nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world is unfair and I am washed away. I remember that feeling clearly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>On trying to learn who her father was, after he was executed by the Ayatollah in 1983\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[When I was reporting this book,] people would give me these little kind of crumbs of [who] my father [was]. He would bite part of his hand when he was thinking, or he would click a pen when he was talking, or his voice when he would laugh, or how he would respond when he got annoyed. All of a sudden, there was a texture to him that had been missing before. Someone even recently sent me a picture where my dad’s laughing. I had never seen a picture of him laughing before. The only image I’d ever seen of my father speaking was in his trial, which I found online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was these kinds of ways that I was able to patchwork him together from an idea into something that was more textured, more human and flawed, and kind of beautiful. When I was reflecting on it, I realized that’s actually how we get to know who people are. We feel like we know the fullness of them. I started working on this book after my mother had passed away. So there was a lot of comfort in feeling like I was able to spend time with my father.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On hearing a \u003ca href=\"https://storycorps.org/the-unedited-interview-farah-ebrahimi-and-rose-elizabeth-gorman/\">StoryCorps interview\u003c/a> with her mother, three years after her death from cancer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was kind of frozen in place. I hadn’t heard my mother’s voice for so many years at that point, and she and I were really close. All of a sudden, it was actually a really beautiful moment of being parented. She just showed me that she had seen me all those years growing up. When I thought no one understood, my mom had seen what was happening, how lost I had felt, and how much I was grieving my dad, and how I was trying to make sense of everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way I took that moment was that she had given me space all these years, to take my time and find my way through this story and make my own peace with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On what she hopes this story will mean for her son someday\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I hope that this is where my son could go when he needs his mom. I wanted to be able to be with him. Anytime he needs me. You know, I started writing this book many years before he was born, so I didn’t start this project with him in mind. After he was born, it changed what the project meant to me. I hope my son has something to hold on to after I’m gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Neda Toloui-Semnani will talk with The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-03-23/neda-toloui-semnani-they-said-they-wanted-revolution-memoir-my-iranian-parents\">free, virtual conversation with the Commonwealth Club\u003c/a> on March 23.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that’s too much to ask when you’re an Afghan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla’s office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>George Floyd’s presence can still be felt in downtown Oakland, where murals bearing his likeness remain, along with numerous signs saying his name in large yellow letters, covering some business windows along Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly one year ago, Floyd went out to buy cigarettes at a grocery store in Minneapolis. A store employee called the police, thinking Floyd had used counterfeit currency. The officers confronted Floyd and one of them, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes even as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder, for which Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">convicted\u003c/a> in April, sparked hundreds of protests across the country led by organizers who demanded accountability for Floyd’s death, an end to police brutality and major structural reform in the nation’s policing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Burch from Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) speaks to a crowd in Oakland on May 25, 2021.\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not too far from Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland – the site of dozens of such demonstrations – organizers from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Defund Police Coalition on Tuesday held a press conference to honor George Floyd on the anniversary of his murder. Despite pressure put on city officials and a promise to reinvest dollars spent on policing into communities, advocates said change still hasn’t come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the height of the George Floyd uprising, there was an intense political pressure put on the City Council and the mayor,” said James Burch, APTP policy director. “They committed to a pathway to reimagine public safety, and [to] reinvest 50% of the dollars spent on policing … That’s where we were last summer. And between then and now, some members of city government have retreated and retrenched themselves into the status quo.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Barbara Doss, mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2018\"]‘There is no justice … If I do get justice, what is the justice?.’[/pullquote]Among those attending the event was Barbara Doss, the mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/us-police-shootings-george-floyd-press-releases-reports\">lost his life in Santa Rita Jail\u003c/a> in Dublin on June 23, 2018. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6396888-Dujuan-Armstrong2018-02007.html\">coroner’s report\u003c/a>, officers in the jail immobilized Armstrong using a full-body restraining device called a WRAP and covered his head with a hood, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe and resulting in his death by asphyxiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doss still bears the pain of the death of both her son, and of Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to demand justice for my son … and not just for Dejuan but we got more people out here that no one even hears about,” she said. “I’m not going to let it lie down. I’m not letting it die down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, Armstrong’s family \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/04/family-of-inmate-who-died-in-death-trap-device-sues-for-wrongful-death/\">sued Alameda County\u003c/a>. And while Doss continues to demand accountability from the county, she questions what more this will give her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no justice,” she said. “If I do get justice, what is the justice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, whose grandson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Steven-Taylor-s-grandmother-I-m-hurt-but-15542028.php\">Steven Taylor\u003c/a> was shot and killed by a police officer in a San Leandro Walmart last year while experiencing a mental health crisis, also indicated the magnitude of change that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks to a crowd in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People have asked me how I feel about the conviction of Chauvin for Floyd’s murder,” Kitchen said at the press conference. “And I keep telling them it’s a pebble in the ocean. It doesn’t even make a ripple. There is so much more that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> died in the hands of the Alameda city police on April 19, 2021, one year and one day after her grandson’s death. That incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871887/alameda-leaders-weigh-police-reforms-after-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">spurred police reform proposals\u003c/a> such as requiring a non-police response to certain types of 911 calls, including those related to potential mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are still the same. We need changes. We need the politicians and leaders to do their job. We’re asking for protection from law enforcement,” Kitchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']APTP and its coalition members have been critical of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for the 2021-2023 budget cycle, which would increase total police spending from about $317 million to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some organizers, that move felt like a contradiction of what Schaaf had promised last year: to invest more in community-driven public safety mechanisms like mental health and gender-based violence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Libby Schaaf continues to fund more police,” said Marlene Sanchez of the Ella Baker Center, a civil rights and organizing group. “If you’re going to talk the talk, then walk the walk. We want to see a budget that really reflects our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Tuesday, the Oakland NAACP and other groups hosted a separate George Floyd remembrance event in East Oakland, where speakers included Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and newly minted California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person dances wearing a facemask.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Zoei Brown dances during a community remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021to pay tribute to George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The doors to accountability, well they’ve been cracked open,” Lee said. “But until we realize a world in which Mr. Floyd and so many others were never ever killed in the first place, our fight must continue … We’re here to do just that today, once again to demand justice, to demand respect and to demand Black lives matter in these United States of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, also one of the speakers, said law enforcement reform is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,” Armstrong said. “It has to be centered around getting rid of those that should no longer wear badges. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>George Floyd’s presence can still be felt in downtown Oakland, where murals bearing his likeness remain, along with numerous signs saying his name in large yellow letters, covering some business windows along Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly one year ago, Floyd went out to buy cigarettes at a grocery store in Minneapolis. A store employee called the police, thinking Floyd had used counterfeit currency. The officers confronted Floyd and one of them, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes even as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder, for which Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">convicted\u003c/a> in April, sparked hundreds of protests across the country led by organizers who demanded accountability for Floyd’s death, an end to police brutality and major structural reform in the nation’s policing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Burch from Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) speaks to a crowd in Oakland on May 25, 2021.\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not too far from Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland – the site of dozens of such demonstrations – organizers from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Defund Police Coalition on Tuesday held a press conference to honor George Floyd on the anniversary of his murder. Despite pressure put on city officials and a promise to reinvest dollars spent on policing into communities, advocates said change still hasn’t come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the height of the George Floyd uprising, there was an intense political pressure put on the City Council and the mayor,” said James Burch, APTP policy director. “They committed to a pathway to reimagine public safety, and [to] reinvest 50% of the dollars spent on policing … That’s where we were last summer. And between then and now, some members of city government have retreated and retrenched themselves into the status quo.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "‘There is no justice … If I do get justice, what is the justice?.’",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Among those attending the event was Barbara Doss, the mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/us-police-shootings-george-floyd-press-releases-reports\">lost his life in Santa Rita Jail\u003c/a> in Dublin on June 23, 2018. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6396888-Dujuan-Armstrong2018-02007.html\">coroner’s report\u003c/a>, officers in the jail immobilized Armstrong using a full-body restraining device called a WRAP and covered his head with a hood, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe and resulting in his death by asphyxiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doss still bears the pain of the death of both her son, and of Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to demand justice for my son … and not just for Dejuan but we got more people out here that no one even hears about,” she said. “I’m not going to let it lie down. I’m not letting it die down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, Armstrong’s family \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/04/family-of-inmate-who-died-in-death-trap-device-sues-for-wrongful-death/\">sued Alameda County\u003c/a>. And while Doss continues to demand accountability from the county, she questions what more this will give her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no justice,” she said. “If I do get justice, what is the justice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, whose grandson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Steven-Taylor-s-grandmother-I-m-hurt-but-15542028.php\">Steven Taylor\u003c/a> was shot and killed by a police officer in a San Leandro Walmart last year while experiencing a mental health crisis, also indicated the magnitude of change that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks to a crowd in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People have asked me how I feel about the conviction of Chauvin for Floyd’s murder,” Kitchen said at the press conference. “And I keep telling them it’s a pebble in the ocean. It doesn’t even make a ripple. There is so much more that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> died in the hands of the Alameda city police on April 19, 2021, one year and one day after her grandson’s death. That incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871887/alameda-leaders-weigh-police-reforms-after-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">spurred police reform proposals\u003c/a> such as requiring a non-police response to certain types of 911 calls, including those related to potential mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are still the same. We need changes. We need the politicians and leaders to do their job. We’re asking for protection from law enforcement,” Kitchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>APTP and its coalition members have been critical of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for the 2021-2023 budget cycle, which would increase total police spending from about $317 million to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some organizers, that move felt like a contradiction of what Schaaf had promised last year: to invest more in community-driven public safety mechanisms like mental health and gender-based violence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Libby Schaaf continues to fund more police,” said Marlene Sanchez of the Ella Baker Center, a civil rights and organizing group. “If you’re going to talk the talk, then walk the walk. We want to see a budget that really reflects our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Tuesday, the Oakland NAACP and other groups hosted a separate George Floyd remembrance event in East Oakland, where speakers included Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and newly minted California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person dances wearing a facemask.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Zoei Brown dances during a community remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021to pay tribute to George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The doors to accountability, well they’ve been cracked open,” Lee said. “But until we realize a world in which Mr. Floyd and so many others were never ever killed in the first place, our fight must continue … We’re here to do just that today, once again to demand justice, to demand respect and to demand Black lives matter in these United States of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, also one of the speakers, said law enforcement reform is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,” Armstrong said. “It has to be centered around getting rid of those that should no longer wear badges. So holding people accountable is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event to pay tribute to George Floyd.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021 to pay tribute to George Floyd. ‘When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,’ Armstrong said. He became chief on February 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 29-year-old Leo Mercer, an Oakland-based activist who attended the East Oakland remembrance event, what the past year has taught him is how important care – for others and for himself – is for organizing work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to move with a little more strategy … to think about my own public safety,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Oakland but now lives in Hayward because of how high his rent became. But Oakland is still his home and his hope is that anyone, regardless of their color, can live in the city without having to fear for their lives. He also wants to remind people that Black people are not the enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could say anything to the community it would be, ‘look up,” he said. “I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to be hurt. It ain’t us doing it to each other.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times. Last year, the city agreed to pay the man’s mother $250,000 as part of a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, a longtime community activist who leads the Anti Police-Terror Project, said Gonzalez’s death once again painfully underscores the urgent need to defund police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defund is about taking money out of bloated police budgets and putting that into the community in the form of resources, programs and supports,” she told event attendees on Tuesday. “And it’s about not calling the cops anymore when there’s a mental-health crisis. … It’s about not calling the cops when someone is in the middle of a substance-abuse crisis. We got folks that can handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenn said he agrees it’s time to reexamine which types of professionals are best suited to respond to different kinds of situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s going to be a really important question going forward. And that’s really the question that we’ve been having, not just in Alameda, but in police departments across the state and across the country even before this incident,” he said. “Who are the appropriate responders?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, Fenn added, noting that Gonzalez may have been experiencing a mental health issue or may have been under the influence, or possibly both, making him potentially unpredictable and possibly dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,” he said. “Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. So do you have a mix of a social worker with a police officer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “And I think each community is trying right now to figure out what’s that look like and what’s the best model for Alameda?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Beth LaBerge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>During a vigil Wednesday evening in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in the death this week of a 26-year-old Oakland man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody on Monday after what police termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, the Alameda Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">said in a statement\u003c/a> Tuesday. Gonzalez, who police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">claimed\u003c/a> “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” suffered an unspecified “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back, according to the police statement. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a hospital where he later died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family,” Gonzalez’s mother, Edith Arenales, said in a statement in Spanish. The police, she said, have not provided any clear information about what happened to her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a noble and decent man who didn’t deserve to have his life ended in this way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, she added, has a 4-year-old son and was the devoted caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His brother can’t eat. He can’t sleep. He keeps asking where Mario is,” Arenales told the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening, just a day after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking near a large memorial crowded with photos of Gonzalez, flowers and candles, George Galvis of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice told attendees that the police report for Gonzalez looks “almost identical” to the one for George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Edith Arenales, Mario Gonzalez's mother\"]‘We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you take a healthy person in custody who has no health problems and then they mysteriously die? There’s not an uncanny correlation. It’s obvious he was murdered by Alameda police,” he said. “The city of Alameda has a pattern of not holding police officers accountable. And so we’re saying, ‘Ya basta,’ we’re saying, ‘That’s enough, that’s not happening today. That’s not happening in this case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvis accused police of already trying to craft a negative image of Gonzalez by saying he was a suspect in a “possible” theft, part of a pattern, he said, of trying to criminalize people killed in custody to limit public support and empathy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that if they could drag up an old incident report from middle school [of him] smoking weed when he was 12 years old, they’d bring it up. If he had any outstanding traffic tickets, they would have brought it up,” he said. “The best thing that they can do is say that he was a suspect, as a way of trying to somehow lend credibility to once again rationalize the irrational.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith Arenales, the mother of Mario Gonzalez, and her son Gerardo Gonzalez speak during a vigil on April 21, 2021, demanding answers from Alameda police about Mario’s death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Addressing the crowd, Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest brother, demanded that authorities release his brother’s body so the family can arrange for an independent autopsy and properly lay him to rest. He also demanded all available footage of the incident – including video from police body-worn cameras – as well as the names of the three officers involved, and said an independent investigation was necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not explained to our family why they killed Mario,” he said. “The Alameda Police Department needs to explain why a perfectly healthy man who was never charged with a crime was killed in their custody. … We need answers, and we cannot trust their version of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office have both begun investigations into the incident, and the city of Alameda will contract with an outside investigator “to conduct a separate, parallel investigation,” according to Tuesday’s statement from the Alameda Police Department. The department also anticipates releasing the body-worn camera video to the public by the end of next week after all parties involved have been interviewed by the investigating agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three officers involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection of human life is our primary duty as police officers,” interim Police Chief Randy Fenn said in the statement. “The loss of Mr. Gonzalez is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Melissa Nold said police should be transparent and release any footage of the incident as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nobody did anything wrong, then releasing footage isn’t problematic,” she said. “If they release it, and we see a man with his face down on the ground, and there are people on top of him, obviously struggling, then there are concerns about whether those things were within policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft underscored the importance of due process in the investigation, and said the family should have a chance to view the footage before the public does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very much holding them in my heart, and we will move forward as best as we can to do the right thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Majail-Blanco, sister of Erik Salgado, places her hand on the shoulder of Gerardo Gonzalez during a vigil for his brother Mario Gonzalez in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video showing officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/police-detain-black-man-who-was-dancing-in-the-street-in-alameda\">pinning a middle-aged Black man to the ground\u003c/a> and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, announced his retirement several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers at Wednesday’s vigil was Amanda Majail-Blanco, whose brother Erik Salgado was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823531/protesters-demand-answers-in-chp-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado\">shot and killed in Oakland\u003c/a> last June by California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want justice. We are tired. I am tired,” she said. “I am tired of continuously having to go through stuff like this at the hands of police and police are still not held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here we are again with another mourning family,” she added. “We’re here sharing the same story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a passionate and exasperated address, Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project told attendees she was “fed up” with needing to consistently have these vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only time we see each other, is when the state terrorizes our communities,” she said. “They just keep killing us, they just keep raping us, they just keep tormenting us, they just keep profiling us, they just keep incarcerating us. It’s an avalanche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48715_028_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Ortiz lights a candle in honor of Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in Alameda on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in police custody on Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the rally, Brooks told reporters that this latest incident is yet another indication that America’s law enforcement system is broken. She said to hear about this on the heels of the Chauvin verdict and the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, “shows us once again that the institution of policing in this country cannot be reformed. It’s time to end policing as we know it and it’s beyond time to hold people accountable who callously harm our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-mario-gonzalez-family\">A GoFundMe fundraising campaign\u003c/a> set up Wednesday by Gerardo Gonzalez had already raised nearly than $36,000 as of Thursday afternoon toward a $180,000 goal. Money raised will go primarily to funeral costs and supporting Gonzalez’s family, according to the campaign site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Beth LaBerge and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During a vigil Wednesday evening in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in the death this week of a 26-year-old Oakland man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody on Monday after what police termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, the Alameda Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">said in a statement\u003c/a> Tuesday. Gonzalez, who police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">claimed\u003c/a> “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” suffered an unspecified “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back, according to the police statement. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a hospital where he later died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family,” Gonzalez’s mother, Edith Arenales, said in a statement in Spanish. The police, she said, have not provided any clear information about what happened to her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a noble and decent man who didn’t deserve to have his life ended in this way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, she added, has a 4-year-old son and was the devoted caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His brother can’t eat. He can’t sleep. He keeps asking where Mario is,” Arenales told the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening, just a day after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking near a large memorial crowded with photos of Gonzalez, flowers and candles, George Galvis of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice told attendees that the police report for Gonzalez looks “almost identical” to the one for George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you take a healthy person in custody who has no health problems and then they mysteriously die? There’s not an uncanny correlation. It’s obvious he was murdered by Alameda police,” he said. “The city of Alameda has a pattern of not holding police officers accountable. And so we’re saying, ‘Ya basta,’ we’re saying, ‘That’s enough, that’s not happening today. That’s not happening in this case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvis accused police of already trying to craft a negative image of Gonzalez by saying he was a suspect in a “possible” theft, part of a pattern, he said, of trying to criminalize people killed in custody to limit public support and empathy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that if they could drag up an old incident report from middle school [of him] smoking weed when he was 12 years old, they’d bring it up. If he had any outstanding traffic tickets, they would have brought it up,” he said. “The best thing that they can do is say that he was a suspect, as a way of trying to somehow lend credibility to once again rationalize the irrational.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48696_007_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith Arenales, the mother of Mario Gonzalez, and her son Gerardo Gonzalez speak during a vigil on April 21, 2021, demanding answers from Alameda police about Mario’s death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Addressing the crowd, Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest brother, demanded that authorities release his brother’s body so the family can arrange for an independent autopsy and properly lay him to rest. He also demanded all available footage of the incident – including video from police body-worn cameras – as well as the names of the three officers involved, and said an independent investigation was necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not explained to our family why they killed Mario,” he said. “The Alameda Police Department needs to explain why a perfectly healthy man who was never charged with a crime was killed in their custody. … We need answers, and we cannot trust their version of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office have both begun investigations into the incident, and the city of Alameda will contract with an outside investigator “to conduct a separate, parallel investigation,” according to Tuesday’s statement from the Alameda Police Department. The department also anticipates releasing the body-worn camera video to the public by the end of next week after all parties involved have been interviewed by the investigating agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three officers involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection of human life is our primary duty as police officers,” interim Police Chief Randy Fenn said in the statement. “The loss of Mr. Gonzalez is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Melissa Nold said police should be transparent and release any footage of the incident as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nobody did anything wrong, then releasing footage isn’t problematic,” she said. “If they release it, and we see a man with his face down on the ground, and there are people on top of him, obviously struggling, then there are concerns about whether those things were within policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft underscored the importance of due process in the investigation, and said the family should have a chance to view the footage before the public does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very much holding them in my heart, and we will move forward as best as we can to do the right thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Majail-Blanco, sister of Erik Salgado, places her hand on the shoulder of Gerardo Gonzalez during a vigil for his brother Mario Gonzalez in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video showing officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/police-detain-black-man-who-was-dancing-in-the-street-in-alameda\">pinning a middle-aged Black man to the ground\u003c/a> and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, announced his retirement several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers at Wednesday’s vigil was Amanda Majail-Blanco, whose brother Erik Salgado was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823531/protesters-demand-answers-in-chp-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado\">shot and killed in Oakland\u003c/a> last June by California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want justice. We are tired. I am tired,” she said. “I am tired of continuously having to go through stuff like this at the hands of police and police are still not held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here we are again with another mourning family,” she added. “We’re here sharing the same story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of people demonstrated at the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday to show solidarity with farmers in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of farmers have been camped out at the edges of India’s capital of New Delhi for more than four months now — more recently drawing attention from the likes of celebrities such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55931894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rihanna\u003c/a> and more local figures, like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/meenaharris/status/1357376550803369986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meena Harris,\u003c/a> the niece of Vice President Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many protesting in solidarity, the issues are personal. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mandee Banga, from San Francisco\"]‘Those people out on the borders of New Delhi are actually our grandparents, our grandmothers, our uncles, our aunts, our mothers … We want to show them we’re here for them because those are the same hands that feed us.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people out on the borders of New Delhi are actually our grandparents, our grandmothers, our uncles, our aunts, our mothers,” said Mandee Banga, who is from San Francisco. “We want to show them we’re here for them because those are the same hands that feed us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar Singh, who is from San Jose, said he also has aunts and uncles protesting in India. The people are protesting on local highways there for miles and miles, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s equivalent of 101 from the San Francisco airport to San Jose … full of farmers, that’s what’s been going on for the past four months,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These recent protests in India initially began over a set of farm bills that critics say would make it harder for farmers to earn a living wage. As author Mallika Kaur \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849926/why-farmers-drove-a-tractor-to-protest-at-the-indian-consulate-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told KQED in December\u003c/a>, “The spark might be the new laws, but the pain and outrage is decades old and due to devastating policies that have taken too many lives the [Indian] state considers expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because many have traveled several miles to reach the protest, Singh said many on the front lines in New Delhi have been returning home to do fieldwork, and are then going back to the protests — rotating to continue protesting and farming. [aside postID=news_11850784,news_11849926]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I remember what they’re going through, it just really energizes me, gives me that much more motivation,” Singh said. “If they’re being suppressed, I’ll be the voice.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/world/asia/india-modi-farmer-protest-censorship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized for blocking the internet to quell the protests and for using a heavy hand when it comes to punishing dissent and journalists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the crowd, Harbir K. Bhatia encouraged people to keep the conversation alive. She called on both American leadership and Indian leadership to listen and understand the perspective of those protesting in India. Bhatia reminded the crowd of the importance of the bills passed by India’s Modi government, as well as the more recent history of farmer suicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dying because they cannot make ends meet, they cannot pay back their loans,” she said, adding that “more than 65% of India’s population are dealing with farming either as workers or farm owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatia also brought it back to something tangible. “If anybody here opens up their cabinet, there is a spice that’s from India,” she said, connecting the global spice trade to the importance of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the largest democracy does not follow democratic principles … it will affect this nation [U.S.],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatia finished her speech by asking the audience what they would be doing to support farmers in India. “Are you telling your local officials, are you calling your city council members? … What are you doing to help this movement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Kaur is a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencedbysikhi.com/our-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Sikh Initiative\u003c/a> advocating for inclusivity for Black, Dalit and other marginalized voices. ‘It doesn’t have to directly affect you or your community in order for you to care,’ she said. ‘It’s more important to physically show up. I am Black and Sikh — there’s no where else I’d want to be,’ she said on April 10, 2021. ‘We’re going to continue to show up until the farmers bill is thrown out completely.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868973\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/03_RS48453_020_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign saying ‘330 deaths, 136 days, repeal 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/06_RS48470_042_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/06_RS48470_042_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators listen to speakers before marching on the Golden Gate Bridge during a rally on April 10, 2021 in solidarity with farmers in India. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/07_RS48474_046_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neha Jammu wears a face mask that says, ‘I Stand with Farmers,’ during a rally in solidarity with farmers in India on April 10, 2021 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I remember what they’re going through, it just really energizes me, gives me that much more motivation,” Singh said. “If they’re being suppressed, I’ll be the voice.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/world/asia/india-modi-farmer-protest-censorship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized for blocking the internet to quell the protests and for using a heavy hand when it comes to punishing dissent and journalists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the crowd, Harbir K. Bhatia encouraged people to keep the conversation alive. She called on both American leadership and Indian leadership to listen and understand the perspective of those protesting in India. Bhatia reminded the crowd of the importance of the bills passed by India’s Modi government, as well as the more recent history of farmer suicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dying because they cannot make ends meet, they cannot pay back their loans,” she said, adding that “more than 65% of India’s population are dealing with farming either as workers or farm owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatia also brought it back to something tangible. “If anybody here opens up their cabinet, there is a spice that’s from India,” she said, connecting the global spice trade to the importance of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the largest democracy does not follow democratic principles … it will affect this nation [U.S.],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatia finished her speech by asking the audience what they would be doing to support farmers in India. “Are you telling your local officials, are you calling your city council members? … What are you doing to help this movement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/01_RS48444_008_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Kaur is a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencedbysikhi.com/our-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Sikh Initiative\u003c/a> advocating for inclusivity for Black, Dalit and other marginalized voices. ‘It doesn’t have to directly affect you or your community in order for you to care,’ she said. ‘It’s more important to physically show up. I am Black and Sikh — there’s no where else I’d want to be,’ she said on April 10, 2021. ‘We’re going to continue to show up until the farmers bill is thrown out completely.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868973\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/02_RS48447_011_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_04102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin sisters Mehakk Kaur and Meharr Kaur Natt rap about the struggle of farmers in India during a rally near the Gate Bridge in San Francisco on April 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868974\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868974\" 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"content": "\u003cp>On Feb. 1, a military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma) toppled the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent some 15 years under house arrest before leading the country’s first democratically elected government after decades of military rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suu Kyi — who held the title of state counselor and was the country’s de facto leader – was removed from power after elections in November handed her National League for Democracy a resounding victory. Those same elections resulted in an embarrassing defeat for the military, which immediately labeled the results fraudulent. The coup’s leaders have now leveled \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968350007/myanmars-coup-leaders-level-more-charges-against-ousted-leader-suu-kyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new charges against Suu Kyi\u003c/a>, which could result in her being held indefinitely without a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As thousands of protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/13/967714349/myanmar-protests-continue-in-wake-of-military-takeover\">continue to take to the streets in Myanmar\u003c/a> to demand Suu Kyi’s release and that power be handed back to civilian control, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/asia/myanmar-military-coup-people-intl-hnk/index.html\">told CNN this week he was “terrified”\u003c/a> of the potential for violence if continuing mass protests and military troops converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ko Ko Lay, former 1988 student leader and Free Burma Action Committee member\"]‘I’m so upset, and so angry, and so worried for our new generation. But we have no choice — we have to fight for our freedom.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FBACSF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Free Burma Action Committee — San Francisco\u003c/a> has coordinated three rallies at UN Plaza in the past two weeks, and plans to continue until Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint – who was also arrested after the coup – are released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the rallies drew over 800 people, according to organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another rally “against China’s enabling Policy on Burma” is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/432827808037471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planned for this Saturday\u003c/a> at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. On Feb. 2, the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on a joint statement condemning the military coup \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55913947\">after China did not support it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MinThan16901630/status/1358328109456523265\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so upset, and so angry, and so worried for our new generation,” said Ko Ko Lay. “But we have no choice — we have to fight for our freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay, who is in his early 60s, left Burma in 1988 after participating in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06gsyrz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8888 Uprising\u003c/a> as a student leader. The military killed hundreds of protesters during that uprising. Speaking with KQED on Sunday, Lay said he’d been awake until 7 a.m. trying to communicate with those in Myanmar during one of the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/17/myanmars-internet-shutdown-whats-going-on-and-it-crush-dissent\">internet shutdowns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1361505276382359553\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay helped form the Free Burma Action Committee — San Francisco on Feb. 1 in an effort to share information and to call on U.S. officials to act. He said the Burmese community across the U.S. cannot do all the work by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the help of all American people,” he said, emphasizing the importance of fighting the military through “peaceful means, and peaceful protest.” The Free Burma Action Committee is demanding the Myanmar military respect peaceful assembly, recognize the 2020 election and restore civilian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lay said the Myanmar military is more brutal than in North Korea. “[It’s] a regime that will kill and destroy our life, and our future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/1920_IMG_0013-scaled-e1613610829711.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrator's at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860525\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally against the military takeover of Myanmar at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Free Burma Action Committee – San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/asia/myanmar-burma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">figures cited by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>, at least 326 people have been arrested since the coup in Myanmar, and more than 300 are still detained, though the real number could be much higher. They also report that police \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used lethal force, shooting at least one protester\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Maw Aung, who was born and raised in Myanmar and has been in the Bay Area for the past 18 years, the story of that protester – Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a young university student peacefully protesting when she was shot – is the most disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students weren’t doing anything … it was just a peaceful protest,” Aung said. “Those kind of things like that really scare me. It’s just not acceptable and it’s just not humane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A doctor \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/myanmar-lethal-force-used-against-protesters\">Human Rights Watch spoke with\u003c/a> said Mya Thwe Thwe Khine had a projectile consistent with live ammunition lodged in her head, that she remained in critical condition on Feb. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aung, who now lives in the East Bay, said some people in the Bay Area may not realize the things they take for granted, like water and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over here, for the people who live and grew up here, we do take these things for granted,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t want to see Myanmar return to how it was when she was young — with a lack of access to basic necessities under a military dictatorship. She wants the world to see what is happening in Myanmar — so she’s been attending the protests in San Francisco with the hope that others will speak up and take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Economic Sanctions by the Biden Administration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the national level, the Biden administration has imposed sanctions on 10 current and retired top-ranking leaders in Myanmar’s military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0024\">statement\u003c/a> issued Feb. 11, the Treasury Department announced it was freezing U.S.-based assets belonging to the sanctioned individuals. The list includes six members of the newly installed junta, including its head, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and his deputy, Soe Win. Hlaing was already on a U.S. sanctions list from 2019, when he was targeted for the army’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962758188/myanmar-coup-military-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-plans-new-election-in-2022\">Feb. 1 coup\u003c/a> came in response to elections that easily returned Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy to power — defeating the military. After taking power, Min Aung Hlaing ordered the arrest of Suu Kyi, who held the title of state counselor, as well as President U Win Myint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that President Biden had called the coup “a direct assault on Burma’s transition to democracy and the rule of law,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement that the department “stands with the people of Burma — and we are doing what we must to help them in their effort to secure freedom and democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also prepared to take additional action should Burma’s military not change course,” Yellen said. “If there is more violence against peaceful protestors, the Burmese military will find that today’s sanctions are just the first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the U.S. Agency for International Development \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/feb-11-2021-usaid-immediately-redirects-42-million-response-military-coup-burma\">announced \u003c/a>that it was “immediately redirecting $42.4 million of assistance away from work that would have benefited the Government of Burma. Rather than supporting the military, we will redirect these funds to support and strengthen civil society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of Burma are making their voices heard, and the world is watching,” Biden said. “We’ll be ready to impose additional measures, and we’ll continue to work with our international partners to urge other nations to join us in these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military takeover has sparked the biggest protests in Myanmar since the 2007 “Saffron Revolution” that helped lay the groundwork for Suu Kyi’s eventual 2015 election victory after spending 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a previous junta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/designating-officials-and-entities-in-connection-with-the-military-coup-in-burma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> on Feb. 11, the State Department said the sanctions “specifically target current or former members of the military who played a leading role in the overthrow of Burma’s democratically-elected government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do not target the economy or people of Burma, and we have gone to great lengths to ensure we do not add to the humanitarian plight of the Burmese people,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR’s Scott Neuman.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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