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Throughout the 2025-26 school year, the organization has also built up at least nine smaller department unions, which aim to engage a wider swath of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of students in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts launched a \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ncPsxmp99mU4e7SOPGnyq\">podcast\u003c/a> that ran six episodes last year, amplifying the Student Union and its departments’ platforms. Students also chat and share updates on a Substack page and Slack channel.[aside postID=news_12002307 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011-1020x680.jpg']“We have our student government, and I think that functions kind of like the government. 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Other courses have more limited availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are going to first fall through the cracks are the people who already didn’t feel at home in the math department,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math union meets weekly, and in addition to the Mathematistas’ former community building and department-specific events, it now also “practices classroom conversations, how to explain to our classmates about these issues, and what the Student Union is doing, how we’re fighting back,” Klop-Packel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student demands are displayed on a banner while a student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the first public negotiation session in 2024, representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment urged changes to the university’s endowment investment policy and asked administrators to declare a genocide in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That August, the campus announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">would divest from four companies\u003c/a>: weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar. In December, it adopted a new investment policy with limitations on companies that profit from weapons manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Student Union launched its second major negotiating campaign with a series of general assemblies. That led to the list of five demands, including increased budget transparency, that students sent to administrators in March and discussed with Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vi Lee, another member of the Student Union’s leadership team, said the focus on campus finances was a “logical next step” for the group, which formed the year before the pro-Palestinian protest movement in response to tuition hikes across the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079190 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU Provost Amy Sueyoshi speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those issues had not gone away, they’d only gotten worse,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2019 and 2024, the campus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">cut more than 1,000 course sections\u003c/a> and let go of 155 lecturers whose positions rely on those classes. In December, it offered buyouts to tenured and tenure-track faculty who have worked at the school for at least five years in the face of a $20 million budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/114511/news/campus/sfsu-offers-buyouts-to-all-tenure-track-and-tenured-faculty/\">according to the \u003cem>Golden Gate Xpress\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a student news outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2027, SF State plans to discontinue or suspend a dozen undergraduate degree programs as well as a handful of master’s programs and minors. University spokesperson Bobby King said those cuts are meant to realign resources with enrollment demand and aren’t related to the budget. A decade ago, enrollment hovered just under 30,000 students, down to just over 20,700 this year, according to campus data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk through the San Francisco State University campus on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students have asked for the university to halt future class and program cuts and provide transparency around the budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also brought forward four other wide-ranging demands: changes to the school’s policies surrounding AI, a public statement affirming that the school won’t hand over to the federal government the names of students and faculty who participate in political actions, new protections for students against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and improved conditions in dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the list represents students’ “collective working and educational issues on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hourlong session, no campus policy changes were made. Afterward, however, Mahoney said she believed some of the students’ demands would bring about changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079187 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we do need to set rules for AI, and I think students and faculty and staff have to participate in those rules. I also think we need to continue to work really closely with our undocumented students and their allies to do the best we can for them at a hard moment,” she told KQED. “I think that there’s a lot of agreement. There will not be full agreement, but hopefully enough that the students continue what they’ve always done here, which is work really hard to leave San Francisco State better than they found it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Union plans to hold another general assembly to debrief the negotiations and determine next steps next week. But, Yan said, the Wednesday session had already accomplished at least one of the group’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single student can see what administrators say, and hold them to account when they do make proposals … when they lie, when they make up excuses, and see when they’re not providing enough for their students,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Mahoney again sat across from a panel of five students to negotiate on a package of broader demands, including protections for undocumented students, transparency around campus funding cuts and improvements to dorm conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFSU Student Union won the session, one of the advocacy groups that led the university’s pro-Palestinian protest movement in 2024. Since the organization has evolved, applying the lessons learned two years ago to their continued push to represent students before campus administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have learned from the encampment, and learned how to win,” said Brian Yan, a media liaison for the Student Union. Last semester, he said, more than 180 students, graduate students and workers gathered for a Student Union “general assembly” to begin discussing the demands they negotiated this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079189 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU President Lynn Mahoney speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that we need as many students as we can possibly get,” he said. “When you see almost 200 people sitting right outside your building, saying, ‘If we don’t get [a negotiating session] we will escalate,’ I think that compels administrators to come out and bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the group has focused on broadening campus support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At weekly general meetings, leaders share updates, host trainings and discuss relevant news and articles. Throughout the 2025-26 school year, the organization has also built up at least nine smaller department unions, which aim to engage a wider swath of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of students in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts launched a \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ncPsxmp99mU4e7SOPGnyq\">podcast\u003c/a> that ran six episodes last year, amplifying the Student Union and its departments’ platforms. Students also chat and share updates on a Substack page and Slack channel.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have our student government, and I think that functions kind of like the government. Our job is to really try to talk to the students on campus and figure out what issues they’re actually facing and how we can address them in a way that a union might, with a mass movement,” said Kenna Klop-Packel, a member of the Student Union’s leadership team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klop-Packel said she was already part of a student group called Mathematistas, which focused on community-building and gender equity in the math department. In the fall, the organization added the broader interests of the Student Union to its focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw, and I think the people around me also saw that this is one way that we could support equity in mathematics,” Klop-Packel said, adding that many of the organizations’ goals aligned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the math department, Klop-Packel said calculus class sizes have tripled in recent years. Other courses have more limited availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are going to first fall through the cracks are the people who already didn’t feel at home in the math department,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math union meets weekly, and in addition to the Mathematistas’ former community building and department-specific events, it now also “practices classroom conversations, how to explain to our classmates about these issues, and what the Student Union is doing, how we’re fighting back,” Klop-Packel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student demands are displayed on a banner while a student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the first public negotiation session in 2024, representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment urged changes to the university’s endowment investment policy and asked administrators to declare a genocide in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That August, the campus announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">would divest from four companies\u003c/a>: weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar. In December, it adopted a new investment policy with limitations on companies that profit from weapons manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Student Union launched its second major negotiating campaign with a series of general assemblies. That led to the list of five demands, including increased budget transparency, that students sent to administrators in March and discussed with Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vi Lee, another member of the Student Union’s leadership team, said the focus on campus finances was a “logical next step” for the group, which formed the year before the pro-Palestinian protest movement in response to tuition hikes across the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079190 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU Provost Amy Sueyoshi speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those issues had not gone away, they’d only gotten worse,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2019 and 2024, the campus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">cut more than 1,000 course sections\u003c/a> and let go of 155 lecturers whose positions rely on those classes. In December, it offered buyouts to tenured and tenure-track faculty who have worked at the school for at least five years in the face of a $20 million budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/114511/news/campus/sfsu-offers-buyouts-to-all-tenure-track-and-tenured-faculty/\">according to the \u003cem>Golden Gate Xpress\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a student news outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2027, SF State plans to discontinue or suspend a dozen undergraduate degree programs as well as a handful of master’s programs and minors. University spokesperson Bobby King said those cuts are meant to realign resources with enrollment demand and aren’t related to the budget. A decade ago, enrollment hovered just under 30,000 students, down to just over 20,700 this year, according to campus data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk through the San Francisco State University campus on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students have asked for the university to halt future class and program cuts and provide transparency around the budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also brought forward four other wide-ranging demands: changes to the school’s policies surrounding AI, a public statement affirming that the school won’t hand over to the federal government the names of students and faculty who participate in political actions, new protections for students against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and improved conditions in dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the list represents students’ “collective working and educational issues on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hourlong session, no campus policy changes were made. 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"content": "\u003cp>Max Kirkeberg, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> professor known for his famed walking-tour classes and extensive archive of the city’s architecture, died this week. He was 93.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg came to San Francisco in 1965 while writing his doctoral thesis on the impact of oral history in preserving a region’s story. He began a decadeslong career as a professor at San Francisco State, where for more than 40 years, he taught local geography and history to rapt cohorts of undergraduate students and, later, older adults by taking to the city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His well-known “San Francisco on Foot” course launched in the early ’70s, leading students on hourslong excursions through the city’s neighborhoods and sharing the lesser-known history of famous sites like the Painted Ladies. On a 2003 tour of the homes on Alamo Square’s Postcard Row — covered in \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.sfsu.edu/archive/archive/sp_sum_03/kirkeberg.html\">a \u003cem>San Francisco State Magazine \u003c/em>article\u003c/a> about the course — he told his class that in 1894, a famed Victorian on the street sold for just $4,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Cunningham, an alumna of the university’s Geography Department, said Kirkeberg roamed the halls “like a magical geography fairy godmother,” handing out free pastries and donning a different necktie each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of each semester, he was known to pin up the ties he’d worn to class — he never wore one of his 600 twice in one session — and ask students to vote for their favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His joy and care was contagious, and every day that I saw Max, I knew was going to be a good day,” Cunningham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Nancy Wilkinson, who shared an office with Kirkeberg for more than 10 years, said watching him work shaped her teaching style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg founded and led the St. Francis Lutheran Church and SFSU Geography Department AIDS Walk team. The group competed in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for decades, raising more than $1 million for AIDS research and care. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrea Dransfield Kraus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After every class that he taught, Max would come back to the office, and he’d pull out a little notebook, and he would start writing down, ‘This was the class today, this was a topic and this is what went well and this what I would change next time,’” she said. “Seeing somebody that was still both that excited and that devoted to teaching after all those years was just the coolest inspiration for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described Kirkeberg’s class as a “cult classic.” “Once people had heard about it, they really sought out and tried to take [it],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was also always willing to lead a neighborhood tour outside of class for visiting alumni, or a colleague — like Wilkinson — whose in-laws were in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was my witness at my wedding at City Hall; Max held the baby shower for my first kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1933 in a small town in southern Iowa, Kirkeberg attended Augustana College in Illinois, where he majored in geography, history and political science. After being drafted into the Army, he went on to get a graduate degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/max-kirkeberg-scholarship\">biography on San Francisco State’s website\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12061272 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg']Once he was in San Francisco, according to his bio, Kirkeberg came out as a gay man. And at SF State, he found a family of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Max in the courtyard at SFSU,” said Kirkeberg’s husband, Gabriel Proo, who was celebrating the graduation of a former student of Kirkeberg’s at the time. “She would complain about him, because he’d make fun of her for arriving late … and I said, ‘Joan, you never told me he was gay.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proo said the two realized they had much in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both had this great passion for San Francisco — the freedom, the architecture, the history … the beauty of the city, the climate,” Proo said. “He was just so in love with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg could often be found spending long days in the College of Health and Social Sciences building, digitizing his massive archive of photographs documenting San Francisco’s ever-shifting landscape. Nearly 60,000 slides of his work, collected through his field classes, walking tours and related lectures, are cataloged through SF State as \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg\">the Max Kirkeberg Collection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive includes collections dedicated to different parts of the Mission District and Bernal Heights, various city neighborhoods, as well as the Castro Theatre and Alcatraz Island. It’s listed on the San Francisco Public Library site and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190818194309/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/alemanyislais.jpg\">has been used\u003c/a> for smaller \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190718181152/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/montcalmperalta93.jpg\">neighborhood history projects\u003c/a>, like one by residents of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190325215116/https:/www.bernalhistoryproject.org/\">Bernal Heights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/11363?vpage=1\">his former home\u003c/a> — that began in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As he toured San Francisco’s many neighborhoods repeatedly, he became aware that the city, like most cities, was changing,” an introduction to the collection reads. “Gentrification, ethnic succession, industrial abandonment or conversion, the shift in workforce demographics, the rise and decline of the hippy era, the growth of gay San Francisco, and countless other socio-economic factors and events contributed to this change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg officially retired as a professor in 2002 but continued to teach “San Francisco on Foot” and a series of shorter, neighborhood-specific walking tour courses for adults through SF State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg 1392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north at the east side of the Castro; Note the laundromat at the middle of the scene. As Castro gentrifies, laundromats on the main streets disappear. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaqcueline Proctor, one of his OLLI students, said she began taking classes at the university specifically to enroll in one of Kirkeberg’s courses in the late 2000s. She took nearly every one he offered in the ensuing years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just extraordinary,” Proctor told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her favorites were a course chronicling the redevelopment of Moscone Center and the surrounding area, and another on the commercial corridor of Valencia Street. Now lined with upscale consignment shops and trendy wine bars and restaurants, the street was home to a number of mortuaries 100 years ago, when a streetcar ran down the common funeral procession route to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg’s six-week OLLI sessions usually focused on a single city district, Proctor said, during which he would alternate between classroom lectures featuring his tens of thousands of photos of the city and adventures to those places, sprinkling in little-known history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the fun things I really learned living in the city and doing all the walking is that all the commercial streets are in the valleys,” she said. “I live by West Portal, and it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, West Portal’s pretty flat, but everything around it is uphill.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SF State magazine story, Kirkeberg taught that people don’t like to shop — or tour — uphill. The magazine said he had a rule against inclines in his courses’ routes, though Proctor remembers a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg, left, with St. Francis Lutheran Pastor Jim DeLange. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Wagner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Easygoing, warm and funny, Kirkeberg created a community among his students, Proctor said. A group of about five of them still meet for walks weekly, years after he retired fully and moved to Oregon in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much everybody in the class did all his classes,” Porter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Scalf, another former OLLI student, said that even after Kirkeberg moved away, he and “a bunch of us ‘Max groupies’” would gather for lunch in the Castro when he visited San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy is also still felt across the San Francisco State campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he and Proo \u003ca href=\"https://develop.sfsu.edu/news/angela-tafur-first-kirkeberg-scholar-leads-with-purpose\">established the Max Kirkeberg Scholarship\u003c/a>, an annual grant awarded to a School of the Environment student whose work aligns “with the dedication to the lived and changing environment of the Bay Area,” according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1415px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1415\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg 1415w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1415px) 100vw, 1415px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penitentiary sign at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1981. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation college student, Max’s scholarship has helped me fund my last semesters of college, leading me closer to my goal in being the first in my family to graduate,” said Angela Tafur, who was the inaugural recipient of the scholarship last spring. “I cannot wait to see how future SFSU students will benefit. … His legacy and passion for geography lives on in this department in many wonderful ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg also founded and led a team in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for 40 years, merging two of his communities: the SF State Geography Department and his congregation at St. Francis Lutheran Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said that the young people at the university would walk, and the old people had money,” Proo said. “That was a good combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, the team raised more than a million dollars, about a third of which Proo said Kirkeberg solicited himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1518px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1518\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg 1518w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1979 telephoto from the 20th floor of 100 Van Ness of the Alamo Square area, east of Alamo Square. The street running along the left side is Hayes Street. Trees in the upper middle are from Alamo Square. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Max was truly a larger-than-life figure whose presence could be felt across campus, in the church, and throughout the broader community,” said Andrea Dransfield Kraus, an SF State Geography Department alumna and the team’s co-captain for many years. “Max’s commitment to community, remembrance, and collective action touched countless lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kirkeberg, the AIDS crisis was personal; he lost his former partner and multiple friends to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max made our AIDS Walk team as large as possible, raising tens of thousands of dollars each year,” said Valerie Wagner, the St. Francis congregation’s president. She noted that the team often finished among the likes of Chevron and Bank of America in the walk’s top fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was a devoted member of the church and a weekly volunteer at its Sunday morning free breakfast program, Wagner said, adding that he “once organized a bus tour for the congregation so he could show us notable sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was Lutheran to the core, as a Norwegian-Swede from Iowa but also a very cool San Franciscan,” she said on behalf of the congregation. “We will all miss Max very much and are deeply grateful for his leadership and witness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>April 16: A previous version of this story misidentified SFSU professor Nancy Wilkinson as Laura Wilkinson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once he was in San Francisco, according to his bio, Kirkeberg came out as a gay man. And at SF State, he found a family of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Max in the courtyard at SFSU,” said Kirkeberg’s husband, Gabriel Proo, who was celebrating the graduation of a former student of Kirkeberg’s at the time. “She would complain about him, because he’d make fun of her for arriving late … and I said, ‘Joan, you never told me he was gay.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proo said the two realized they had much in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both had this great passion for San Francisco — the freedom, the architecture, the history … the beauty of the city, the climate,” Proo said. “He was just so in love with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg could often be found spending long days in the College of Health and Social Sciences building, digitizing his massive archive of photographs documenting San Francisco’s ever-shifting landscape. Nearly 60,000 slides of his work, collected through his field classes, walking tours and related lectures, are cataloged through SF State as \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg\">the Max Kirkeberg Collection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive includes collections dedicated to different parts of the Mission District and Bernal Heights, various city neighborhoods, as well as the Castro Theatre and Alcatraz Island. It’s listed on the San Francisco Public Library site and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190818194309/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/alemanyislais.jpg\">has been used\u003c/a> for smaller \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190718181152/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/montcalmperalta93.jpg\">neighborhood history projects\u003c/a>, like one by residents of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190325215116/https:/www.bernalhistoryproject.org/\">Bernal Heights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/11363?vpage=1\">his former home\u003c/a> — that began in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As he toured San Francisco’s many neighborhoods repeatedly, he became aware that the city, like most cities, was changing,” an introduction to the collection reads. “Gentrification, ethnic succession, industrial abandonment or conversion, the shift in workforce demographics, the rise and decline of the hippy era, the growth of gay San Francisco, and countless other socio-economic factors and events contributed to this change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg officially retired as a professor in 2002 but continued to teach “San Francisco on Foot” and a series of shorter, neighborhood-specific walking tour courses for adults through SF State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg 1392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north at the east side of the Castro; Note the laundromat at the middle of the scene. As Castro gentrifies, laundromats on the main streets disappear. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaqcueline Proctor, one of his OLLI students, said she began taking classes at the university specifically to enroll in one of Kirkeberg’s courses in the late 2000s. She took nearly every one he offered in the ensuing years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just extraordinary,” Proctor told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her favorites were a course chronicling the redevelopment of Moscone Center and the surrounding area, and another on the commercial corridor of Valencia Street. Now lined with upscale consignment shops and trendy wine bars and restaurants, the street was home to a number of mortuaries 100 years ago, when a streetcar ran down the common funeral procession route to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg’s six-week OLLI sessions usually focused on a single city district, Proctor said, during which he would alternate between classroom lectures featuring his tens of thousands of photos of the city and adventures to those places, sprinkling in little-known history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the fun things I really learned living in the city and doing all the walking is that all the commercial streets are in the valleys,” she said. “I live by West Portal, and it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, West Portal’s pretty flat, but everything around it is uphill.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SF State magazine story, Kirkeberg taught that people don’t like to shop — or tour — uphill. The magazine said he had a rule against inclines in his courses’ routes, though Proctor remembers a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg, left, with St. Francis Lutheran Pastor Jim DeLange. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Wagner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Easygoing, warm and funny, Kirkeberg created a community among his students, Proctor said. A group of about five of them still meet for walks weekly, years after he retired fully and moved to Oregon in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much everybody in the class did all his classes,” Porter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Scalf, another former OLLI student, said that even after Kirkeberg moved away, he and “a bunch of us ‘Max groupies’” would gather for lunch in the Castro when he visited San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy is also still felt across the San Francisco State campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he and Proo \u003ca href=\"https://develop.sfsu.edu/news/angela-tafur-first-kirkeberg-scholar-leads-with-purpose\">established the Max Kirkeberg Scholarship\u003c/a>, an annual grant awarded to a School of the Environment student whose work aligns “with the dedication to the lived and changing environment of the Bay Area,” according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1415px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1415\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg 1415w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1415px) 100vw, 1415px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penitentiary sign at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1981. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation college student, Max’s scholarship has helped me fund my last semesters of college, leading me closer to my goal in being the first in my family to graduate,” said Angela Tafur, who was the inaugural recipient of the scholarship last spring. “I cannot wait to see how future SFSU students will benefit. … His legacy and passion for geography lives on in this department in many wonderful ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg also founded and led a team in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for 40 years, merging two of his communities: the SF State Geography Department and his congregation at St. Francis Lutheran Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said that the young people at the university would walk, and the old people had money,” Proo said. “That was a good combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, the team raised more than a million dollars, about a third of which Proo said Kirkeberg solicited himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1518px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1518\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg 1518w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1979 telephoto from the 20th floor of 100 Van Ness of the Alamo Square area, east of Alamo Square. The street running along the left side is Hayes Street. Trees in the upper middle are from Alamo Square. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Max was truly a larger-than-life figure whose presence could be felt across campus, in the church, and throughout the broader community,” said Andrea Dransfield Kraus, an SF State Geography Department alumna and the team’s co-captain for many years. “Max’s commitment to community, remembrance, and collective action touched countless lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kirkeberg, the AIDS crisis was personal; he lost his former partner and multiple friends to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max made our AIDS Walk team as large as possible, raising tens of thousands of dollars each year,” said Valerie Wagner, the St. Francis congregation’s president. 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"content": "\u003cp>Four months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056113/charlie-kirks-assassination-and-the-rise-of-political-violence\">before he was assassinated\u003c/a> at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk staged one of his trademark “American Comeback” tour stops at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a white tent, with a stack of MAGA hats at his side and a raucous student crowd in front of him, the scene looked eerily like the one where he would later be killed. The video of that day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\">posted on YouTube\u003c/a>, is titled “Charlie Kirk & Riley Gaines Take on Freaky San Francisco.” In it, Kirk sipped tea from a Peet’s Coffee cup as he debated students. He folded his arms and looked down as he listened to each new question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question about why America is so politically divided, Kirk said, “The left is the one dividing this country,” adding, “We heal this country by defeating the left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since Kirk’s killing, President Donald Trump and his administration have seized on the moment to justify a broader crackdown on political dissent. Trump officials have launched investigations, pressured universities to hand over student information and promised to target what they call a left-wing domestic terror network — raising fears that the free speech movement Kirk claimed to defend is now being undermined in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think they’re seeing an opportunity here to do something they’ve wanted to do for quite some time, which is silence criticisms of their movement, get rid of some of their political enemies and send a chilling effect that silences critics or potential protesters,” said Nolan Higdon, a political and media analyst at UC Santa Cruz. He pointed in a \u003ca href=\"https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/p/charlie-kirks-death\">blog post\u003c/a> to the recent firing of MSNBC pundit Matthew Dowd and a Florida reporter for their observations while covering Kirk’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057240\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers surround a framed photo of Charlie Kirk at a vigil hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show last week after a Sept. 15 monologue, following FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s podcast comments that called Kimmel’s remarks as “the sickest conduct possible” and warned the network could face regulatory consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimmel, who returned Tuesday night, had said that Trump’s supporters were eager to characterize Kirk’s accused assassin “as anything other than one of them.”[aside postID=news_12055470 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CharlieKirkAP2.jpg']On Tuesday, Kimmel said “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man” and used most of his monologue to accuse the Trump administration of attacking the First Amendment. Trump has also called for the termination of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and we have to stand up for it,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses, in 2012. TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. Last Friday, a federal judge dismissed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Sugawara, center, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, leads a prayer with his fellow members before starting a vigil for Charlie Kirk at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, where Kirk spoke in 2022 and had reportedly planned to return later this year, is one target of a sprawling antisemitism investigation launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two days after Kirk’s death, on Sept. 12, the university announced it had turned over\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\"> information of more than 160 students and faculty\u003c/a> to administration officials after a request by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ As long as you’re not inciting violence or directly threatening someone, all speeches are protected,” Sugawara said, adding that he has seen an increased interest from people wanting to join SFSU’s TPUSA chapter meetings. “I truly believe that as long as I have the right to speak my mind, you get to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, during an emotional opening monologue, Kimmel urged his audience to speak out against the Trump administration. Trump criticized the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, saying it amounted to an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats, and threatened legal action against ABC and its parent company, Disney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday, Kimmel said “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man” and used most of his monologue to accuse the Trump administration of attacking the First Amendment. Trump has also called for the termination of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and we have to stand up for it,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses, in 2012. TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\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/oH4BhA2UY08'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oH4BhA2UY08'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. Last Friday, a federal judge dismissed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Sugawara, center, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, leads a prayer with his fellow members before starting a vigil for Charlie Kirk at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, where Kirk spoke in 2022 and had reportedly planned to return later this year, is one target of a sprawling antisemitism investigation launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two days after Kirk’s death, on Sept. 12, the university announced it had turned over\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\"> information of more than 160 students and faculty\u003c/a> to administration officials after a request by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ As long as you’re not inciting violence or directly threatening someone, all speeches are protected,” Sugawara said, adding that he has seen an increased interest from people wanting to join SFSU’s TPUSA chapter meetings. “I truly believe that as long as I have the right to speak my mind, you get to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, during an emotional opening monologue, Kimmel urged his audience to speak out against the Trump administration. Trump criticized the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, saying it amounted to an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats, and threatened legal action against ABC and its parent company, Disney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>An \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">El Tecolote investigation\u003c/a> reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind closed doors, staff warned the crackdown would likely fail and destabilize vulnerable residents. But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dozen pro-Palestinian student activists are on a hunger strike calling for California State University to follow its San Francisco and Sacramento campuses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">divesting from companies\u003c/a> that supply weapons and surveillance technology to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic deal between activists and officials at San Francisco State University, which came as a result of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up on campus last spring\u003c/a>, pulled investments from weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five hunger strikers at the Cal State campuses in San Francisco, Sacramento, San José and Long Beach are calling on San José and Long Beach to follow suit, along with the entire university system. The hunger strike includes seven students at San José State and six in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they are striving to raise awareness of Palestinians’ increasing risk of starvation more than two months into an Israeli blockade that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5386511/israel-gaza-food-supplies-hamas-palestinians\">banned food and aid from entering Gaza\u003c/a>, a year and a half after Israel launched its offensive following Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California State University system remains complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people through millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers,” said Max Flynt, a member of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State University. “This act of solidarity aims to shed light on what exactly the people of Gaza are facing, and make it inescapable for the administrations of these universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Flynt, an SF State student, makes a public comment during the SF State Foundation Board meeting to discuss investment in weapons manufacturing companies at the Seven Hills Conference Center on campus in San Francisco on Dec. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement between student activists and the SF State Foundation, an organization that supports the school by investing donations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">investments are screened\u003c/a> to identify companies that earn more than 5% of their revenue from weapons manufacturing on an ongoing basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential investment targets that surpass the threshold would not be added to the foundation’s portfolio, and any existing holdings whose revenues change to cross the limit would be screened out, according to university spokesperson Bobby King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy does not apply only to companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to Israel. It says the foundation will “strive not to invest in companies that consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitate or enable severe violations of international law and human rights.”[aside postID=news_12038385 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dozen pro-Palestinian student activists are on a hunger strike calling for California State University to follow its San Francisco and Sacramento campuses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">divesting from companies\u003c/a> that supply weapons and surveillance technology to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic deal between activists and officials at San Francisco State University, which came as a result of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up on campus last spring\u003c/a>, pulled investments from weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five hunger strikers at the Cal State campuses in San Francisco, Sacramento, San José and Long Beach are calling on San José and Long Beach to follow suit, along with the entire university system. The hunger strike includes seven students at San José State and six in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they are striving to raise awareness of Palestinians’ increasing risk of starvation more than two months into an Israeli blockade that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5386511/israel-gaza-food-supplies-hamas-palestinians\">banned food and aid from entering Gaza\u003c/a>, a year and a half after Israel launched its offensive following Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California State University system remains complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people through millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers,” said Max Flynt, a member of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State University. “This act of solidarity aims to shed light on what exactly the people of Gaza are facing, and make it inescapable for the administrations of these universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Flynt, an SF State student, makes a public comment during the SF State Foundation Board meeting to discuss investment in weapons manufacturing companies at the Seven Hills Conference Center on campus in San Francisco on Dec. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement between student activists and the SF State Foundation, an organization that supports the school by investing donations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">investments are screened\u003c/a> to identify companies that earn more than 5% of their revenue from weapons manufacturing on an ongoing basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential investment targets that surpass the threshold would not be added to the foundation’s portfolio, and any existing holdings whose revenues change to cross the limit would be screened out, according to university spokesperson Bobby King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy does not apply only to companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to Israel. It says the foundation will “strive not to invest in companies that consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitate or enable severe violations of international law and human rights.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco State University has completed a new campus project featuring affordable housing for more than 700 students. It’s the first to be completed through a state grant program aimed at tackling the housing crunch for California college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://cpdc.sfsu.edu/wcg\">West Grove Commons, located on the west side of campus,\u003c/a> also includes a health center and dining hall. California’s Higher Education Student Housing Grant program funded about 65% of the $170 million project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t have done it otherwise,” said Lynn Mahoney, president of the university. “The state has not traditionally funded student housing, so this is a really historic first step to what California needs to do to make sure that its public higher education remains affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, almost 4,000 people in the California State University system were on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/government/Advocacy-and-State-Relations/legislativereports1/CSU%20Student%20Housing%20Data%20Collection%20%E2%80%93%20Annual%20Report%20-%202024.pdf\">waiting list for student housing\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/state-of-crisis/\">2020 UCLA report\u003c/a> found that 1 out of 10 CSU students experience homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, lawmakers introduced a bill that established grants to fund affordable housing for students. Apart from the 750 beds at San Francisco State, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/government/Advocacy-and-State-Relations/legislativereports1/Higher%20Education%20Student%20Housing%20Grant%20Program%20-%202024.pdf\">almost 3,000\u003c/a> more are being added to the California State University system, according to a 2024 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-01-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney speaks during a dedication ceremony for the West Grove Commons on April 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the state’s community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/general/cccco-college-map-round-1-and-2.pdf\">almost 5,000 beds\u003c/a> for low-income students are set to become available in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the West Grove Commons, students have access to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.sfsu.edu/reduced-rate-student-housing-program\">reduced-rate housing\u003c/a>, meaning they can pay 25% less than the traditional rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rylissa Aquino Javier, a senior at the university, served as a resident assistant in the new dorm this year. When she started at San Francisco State four years ago, she commuted almost two hours from Fairfield twice a week because she couldn’t afford to live on campus.[aside postID=news_11997949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-serramontedelrey-1-RETAIL-CROPPED-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“Even on campus, the housing is just really expensive and we do have to take out a good amount of loans to be able to afford to live here,” she said. “It’s kind of rare to find a good housing situation for an affordable price as a college student here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her year living at the West Grove commons, she found it welcoming and filled with spaces for students to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a big living room downstairs with a communal kitchen and I’ve seen a lot of residents cooking with each other, cooking for each other,” she said. “There’s a lot of opportunities for them to study, relax and just hang out with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne Riesselman, principal architect with EHDD Architecture, which designed the new buildings, said she wanted students to have easy access to the health center, a need that became clear after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of the West Grove Commons. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-16-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The on-campus residence hall provides shared spaces for more than 700 students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s sort of a raised awareness around the importance of mental and physical health,” she said. “And so combining those pieces into a prominent building where students are used to coming on a day-to-day basis where they’re really familiar with it, I think really elevates those services and increases student comfort with using them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project was completed just 25 months after the state provided the grant, far less than the\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html\"> four years\u003c/a> that housing projects often take to be permitted and completed in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the state allocated that funding, they didn’t want it to take 10 years — you had to have a shovel-ready project and commit to getting it done,” she said. “The state funding was there, our team in capital planning was ready. They literally had a project ready, if ever we could get the funding. And the architects and the construction company — everybody rode in the same direction as fast as they could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ecologist Katharyn Boyer must shutter the beloved marine research center she manages on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-bay\">San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>’s shores — unless she can raise millions of dollars by next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists, conservationists and community members statewide have \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsofeosc.org/\">rallied\u003c/a> to save the \u003ca href=\"https://eoscenter.sfsu.edu/\">Estuary and Ocean Science Center\u003c/a> since San Francisco State University announced earlier this year that it could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">no longer afford\u003c/a> to keep the doors open on its 53-acre Tiburon campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University representatives told KQED this week that $10 million would allow them to keep the lab open at least in the short term. Boyer, the center’s interim executive director, is still scrambling to convince donors to pledge the money before the start of May. Otherwise, San Francisco State will start phasing out the center’s operations over the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very little time and a lot of money, and I am starting to lose hope,” Boyer said. “There are some folks that are interested in supporting us. Whether that can happen fast enough is a really big question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s turmoil is a result of San Francisco State’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">deep financial troubles\u003c/a>. With dropping enrollment and new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">reductions\u003c/a> to state university funding, San Francisco State is facing a budget shortfall of $23 million to $28 million. The university put the Estuary and Ocean Science Center on the chopping block in February, after years of uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebastian Garcia, a research technician, looks and sorts through amphipods, shrimp-like invertebrate, at San Francisco State’s Estuary and Ocean Science center, in Tiburon, on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ten million is what we’re hoping for, though of course we’ll still consider a multimillion-dollar gift that’s less,” said Carmen Domingo, dean of the College of Science and Engineering. “My hope is that those who have the resources, believe in climate change and understand the good work that the center is doing will help us during this interim time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university began research at the bayside property, once a U.S. Navy base, in 1978. Although many of the defunct military structures are in disrepair, the university’s main lab buildings serve as a regional science hub. The site is also home to the \u003ca href=\"https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/reserves/san-francisco-bay.html\">San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://serc.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Environmental Research Center\u003c/a>.[aside postID=science_1996664 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/04/20250422_EARTHDAYRALLY_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Making use of the spot’s deep-water port and ample space, the San Francisco State center works on eelgrass restoration, water quality monitoring, endangered species rehabilitation, sea-level rise adaptation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only marine biology center in San Francisco Bay, and it’s leading the innovation of how to use nature for sea-level rise resilience,” said Evyan Borgnis Sloane, deputy executive officer of the California State Coastal Conservancy and a San Francisco State alum who studied at the center. “If you don’t want to see the bay shoreline where you kayak, walk and swim be transformed over time to concrete sea walls, then you should care about this center closing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, if the center closes, Boyer might have to return millions of dollars in research funding, including out of a recent \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/news/eos-center-aims-expand-workforce-empowerment-increase-local-coastal-resiliency\">$4.3 million grant\u003c/a> from the California State Coastal Conservancy for climate change adaptation and education projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyer said she would also have to give back $5.8 million awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a new aquatic research facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oyster shells collected and bagged are used for a living shorelines project at San Francisco State’s Estuary and Ocean Science center, in Tiburon on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders from across California have joined the Friends of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center, reaching out to their representatives and the university to voice their strong support for the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the agencies responsible for managing California’s coasts and oceans owe a lot to the studies, education and leadership of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center,” said Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg, the president of consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastalpolicysolutions.com/about\">Coastal Policy Solutions\u003c/a>, who organized the coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the fundraising and advocacy fail, Boyer, two other tenured faculty and their graduate students will move back to the university’s main campus. Additional adjunct faculty and employees who are not funded through the university could be displaced, Boyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so sad that we might not have the will to keep the one marine lab on San Francisco Bay,” Boyer said. “How can that be in a place where people care so much about the environment? It’s mind-boggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Faculty and students at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State rallied on Thursday as part of a national day of action “to defend higher education,” amid the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The faculty-organized demonstrations come as the Trump administration, which has already slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for academic research programs across the country, threatens to withhold billions more from some of the nation’s top universities that refuse to comply with its political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came together because we felt like the administration needed both to be pressured and encouraged and supported … to stand up for the ongoing need for academic freedom,” Leslie Salzinger, chair of UC Berkeley’s Gender and Women’s Studies department, told KQED, as she stood among hundreds of colleagues and students at Sproul Plaza for the midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means the freedom to speak, to teach, to learn and to do research … without fear of reprisals,” said Salzinger, who helped organize Thursday’s action. “So our goal is to continue making sure that that’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has not yet directly threatened to withhold federal funding from the University of California system, as it has with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Harvard\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Columbia\u003c/a> and a growing number of other prestigious universities around the country. Unlike Columbia, Harvard rejected the administration’s demands to overhaul its hiring, admissions and curriculum policies, walking away from $2.2 billion in federal funding — with the Internal Revenue Service now reportedly considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">revoking the university’s tax-exempt status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">currently investigating claims\u003c/a> of antisemitism at at least 17 colleges in the state — including UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salzinger thinks it won’t be long until UC Berkeley also finds itself at risk of losing its federal funding, and said this rally is intended to pressure university officials to strengthen their resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are many people who are frightened, especially for our many non-citizen colleagues and students,” she said, referring to the administration’s ongoing efforts to revoke the visas of immigrant students across the country who have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-13-BL-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many things [the UC Berkeley administration] could do better. Like, they should commit to funding students that get their visas revoked,” she said. “But I feel like they’re going in the right direction. So we just want them to keep that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley English professor Poulomi Saha said they have already self-censored some of their teachings as a result of the Trump administration’s actions, and attended Thursday’s rally to form a united front against its onslaught of attacks on higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saha had recently been preparing a classroom presentation that referenced the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but ended up deleting the slides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time in my career, I stopped not just because I was worried about my students’ experience or discomfort around the material, but because I was worried about the surveillance of the federal government on what I do and teach,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, at San Francisco State University, about 100 faculty and students gathered for a teach-in and demonstration on the campus’ Malcolm X Plaza. Part of the same day of action, the rally centered on recent state funding cuts to the university and other California State University schools, which have gutted various programs and departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An SF State spokesperson said the school would likely have to make \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/110863/campus/sfsu-braces-for-budget-cuts-plans-for-less-severe-impact/\">nearly $25 million in reductions\u003c/a> next year due to declining enrollment and the prospect of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/02/cal-state-budget-3/\">nearly 8% cut to the CSU budget\u003c/a> — roughly $375 million — if state lawmakers approve Gov. 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