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Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Once I’m inside the bar, gym or movie theater, can I finally take this mask off?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, if you’re vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s public health officials confirmed Wednesday that along with relaxed social distancing, the state will also drop its mask mandate on June 15 and instead adopt the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, Health and Human Services Secretary\"]‘We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this.’[/pullquote]That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association\"]‘We can’t be the mask police. This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.’[/pullquote]Wednesday night, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Board agreed to take the new state public health mask guidance into account and vote on new workplace rules on June 17. If affirmed, those rules wouldn’t ordinarily become official policy until June 28. But on Monday, Newsom vowed to sign an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board unanimously voted to revoke a vote last week to adopt new workplace rules that would let workers go without a mask, but only so long as they and all their colleagues are vaccinated. Employers would have also been required to provide N95 masks to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea did not go over well with the state’s business interests. How, they asked, is an employer supposed to find out which workers are not vaccinated? What if vaccinated employees, chafing at their masks, begin harassing their unvaccinated colleagues? How expensive are all these masks going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Stracener, California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley\"]‘Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale … A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.’[/pullquote]While the California Emergency Services Act does give the governor exceptionally broad powers to govern by fiat during a period of crisis, in practice the governor has evoked that power during the pandemic to administer various public health and economic relief programs and to collect federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale,” said Brandon Stracener, research fellow at the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley. “A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With executive orders empowered by the proclamation, Newsom has loosened regulations to allow more people to administer vaccines, banned water shut-offs on homes with delinquent utility bills, given cities the ability to freeze commercial evictions, allowed local governments and courts to conduct public hearings over Zoom and given businesses on state roads the freedom to set up parklets and other street-side services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is hoping to extend some of the programs long past June 15 — either as long as the effects of the pandemic coursing through the state last, or until the Legislature can make it permanent by statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, for example, the governor’s office assured local governments that they would still be allowed to hold meetings remotely. “The Governor recognizes,” Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos wrote in an open letter, “the importance of an orderly return to the ordinary conduct of public meetings of state and local agencies and boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local governments are deciding to return somewhat to normal; San Francisco Mayor London Breed presided over four weddings at City Hall to mark its reopening Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature have long bristled at the governor’s unprecedented use of executive power during the pandemic, and are now attacking him leading up to an all-but-certain recall election this fall. On Monday, Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley of Rocklin and James Gallagher of Yuba City and state Sen. Melissa Melendez from Riverside County demanded that the administration explain what justified the continued proclamation of the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some emergencies from recent wildfires and past droughts are still active, Newsom’s office notes. State law does give the Legislature the ultimate check on the governor’s emergency powers. All they need to do is pass a resolution declaring the emergency to be over. But they haven’t. And with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, they aren’t likely to anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol in Sacramento\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence lines the perimeter of the state Capitol building in Sacramento on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about the state Capitol?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The halls of state government will be reopening on June 15, too. But befitting a deliberative body, it’ll be doing so at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, the building will be open to a maximum of 500 members of the public. Masks will still be required and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect. After that, the rules committees in both the Assembly and Senate will “continue to assess increasing capacity to a total of 1,000 members of the public as soon as the week of June 21st,” according to a statement released Friday by legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, lobbyists, reporters and the general public have been permitted to enter the Capitol only under very limited and supervised conditions.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878067/la-gran-reapertura-de-california-que-ha-cambiado-y-que-no-el-15-de-junio\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grand reopening day is finally here, but it comes with a few asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Tuesday, our 15-month-long ordeal of public health restrictions, mandates, bans and color-coded tiers to stem the COVID-19 pandemic will finally come to an end. As Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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"content": "\u003cp>Researchers with UCSF say a safe return to schools in-person this fall depends a lot on how well those schools stick to an array of COVID-19 mitigation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/06/09/peds.2021-051438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a study \u003c/a>published in the journal Pediatrics on Thursday, researchers cited new evidence from looking at how staff from San Francisco’s learning hubs kept kids ages 5 to 12 safe while they were gathering inside makeshift classrooms over the winter months when the city was experiencing high rates of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, UCSF pediatrician\"]‘The studies that have been done to date haven’t really honed in on those most disadvantaged neighborhoods. And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided.’[/pullquote]“The children and families that were served by the hubs represented the highest risk that San Francisco as a city experienced,” said Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, a UCSF pediatrician and the study’s lead author. “The delightful surprise was the shockingly low level of in-hub COVID transmission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the study is important because many parents from parts of the Bay Area that were most devastated by the coronavirus have expressed fear over returning their unvaccinated children to school campuses this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study comes at a time when Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870787/will-california-lawmakers-allow-distance-learning-to-continue-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been pushing\u003c/a> for all schools to fully reopen in-person this fall. 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The 85 hubs served a total of 1,738 students with 295 supervising adults, and offered services from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The study focused on 54 of the hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the hubs were established after schools shuttered last year, Kaiser saw it as an opportunity to fill a gap in the body of research on in-school transmission. Two large studies out of \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wisconsin\u003c/a> found low rates of in-school transmission, but neither study had focused exclusively on an urban school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The studies that have been done to date haven’t really honed in on those most disadvantaged neighborhoods. And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided,” Kaiser said. “Their goal was to support those kids that were really getting left behind in the remote learning environment that just weren’t showing up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s team observed how well staff were able to get children to follow protocols such as keeping 6 feet apart and keeping masks on, especially after eating together. And they noted what worked, such as staff using hula hoops to help kids understand the radius of safety or using pool noodles when children would play tag to prevent kids from touching one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also collected data on hand washing, symptom screening and what ventilation measures were in place. What struck Kaiser about the relative lack of in-hub transmission is that this happened despite the fact that a lot of kids weren’t always wearing masks or staying properly distanced and vaccinations had yet to fully be available to adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Naomi Bardach, head of California’s Safe Schools for All\"]‘It’s nerve-wracking for families to send their kids back to school when they’ve been so personally affected by COVID, [but] there are also some families who’ve gone through most of the year doing distance learning [and] they actually have some system that works really well.’[/pullquote]What worked, she said, is that enough of these protocols were being followed that they created a sort of layering effect; if one piece of prevention isn’t perfect, that’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we show is that when they are trying on all fronts,” like symptom screening, having adequate masks and hand hygiene supplies and maximizing ventilation, then in-person learning “can be done safely,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message to parents hesitating to return their young, unvaccinated children to school buildings full time this fall, Kaiser said, is that it is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take masks for example, Kaiser said. “There’s times that we’re going to have to take them off for eating. But if we do it in that same stable cohort of kids, then we’re not mixing multiple groups together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"distance-learning\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The study’s findings are information both parents and schools can use, said Dr. Naomi Bardach, a co-author of the report. Bardach also heads the \u003ca href=\"https://schools.covid19.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s Safe Schools for All initiative\u003c/a>, the state’s framework to support schools’ return to in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nerve-wracking for families to send their kids back to school when they’ve been so personally affected by COVID,” Bardach said. 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Executive Director Terry Beswick says the rainbow flag’s design is iconic and internationally known because it represents hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist, we have the right to love who we want to love and to participate as full members of society,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original 1978 Rainbow Flag returned to San Francisco on June 4, 2021. It’s being housed at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rainbow flag isn’t just colorful lines on a sheet. The eight rows of fabric — \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red, hot pink\u003c/a> — are the brain child of gay activist and artist \u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker\u003c/a> who passed away in 2017. He and a crew of more than 30 people created the first rainbow flag in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea came to Baker after gay activist and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a> told Baker the community needed a new symbol that exudes affirmation, Beswick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400895410365886465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were probably some drugs involved when Gilbert was on a dance floor [when] he had an epiphany about a rainbow,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Terry Beswick, GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive executive director\"]‘People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist.’[/pullquote]A year after flying in the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day celebrations, the flag was found in storage to be badly mildewed. Part of it was salvaged and it remained in Baker’s care for decades. When he died in 2017, the remainder was among the boxes given to his sister. It was later passed on to his friend Charles Beal to carry in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871889/san-francisco-and-lgbtq-pride-before-and-after-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stonewall 50\u003c/a> Parade in New York City, but at that point it wasn’t known that it was the original rainbow flag. Then in 2020, the flag was authenticated by a flag expert. The flag is now part of the Gilbert Baker Collection at the museum and is the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/performance-protest-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Performance, Protest and Politics: The art of Gilbert Baker.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beswick travelled to New York a few weeks ago to pick the flag up and brought it to San Francisco in a lavender suitcase. He cracked open the case surrounded by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone had the idea that the rainbow, which comes from nature, just like LGBTQ people come from nature, would be a great symbol,” he said. “We take it for granted a little bit . . . but it’s had these amazing consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials admire the original 1978 Rainbow Flag held in a glass casing at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flag has elevated LGBTQ voices and is universally understood to represent the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community. San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke at the unveiling saying she wants San Francisco to remain a refuge for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about LGBTQ history, and it’s not just about San Francisco history,” she said. “This is American history. It’s important to recognize it in a way that elevates the conversation that provides the room and the space to spread out and to see the different messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400893354557153284\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker Foundation\u003c/a> president and friend of the flag-maker Charles Beal said he wished Baker could have witnessed Friday’s homecoming event, but that the flag continues to provide a sense of home, safety and peace for LGBTQ people around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"lgbtq\" label=\"More LGBTQ coverage\"]“It means something to a lot of people around the world and we got to never forget that,” he said. “Today in Tehran, people are running out in the streets with rainbow flags and running because they’re afraid to be caught. But they’re out there in his honor trying to change the planet and trying to do things that we take advantage of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A block away from museum at Castro and Market Streets flies the modern rainbow flag, which is an everlasting reminder of both the pain and joy queer people live through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baker was alive he said “never fly it at half staff, never take it down,” Beal explained. “It means too much to too many people who don’t have what we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It has been a turbulent year for the San Francisco school board in ways that its two student delegates could never have foreseen. As both delegates graduate this week, they leave behind a legacy of activism their peers say sets the bar for what it means to be a student leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior, fought fiercely for Black students and called on administrators to do a better job confronting racism.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster, Lowell senior and San Francisco school board delegate\"]'No one who looked like me had been on the seat in the past few years. People put faith in me to lead with strength and compassion.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleague, Kathya Correa Almanza, is graduating from June Jordan School for Equity. 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This year’s enrollment figures show that the policy change has made a difference. A greater percentage of Black and Hispanic students have been accepted into Lowell for the upcoming school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, really, man, I hope these numbers come out good, because if [they don't], I'm probably going to get roasted by my whole school,\" Hines-Foster said. \"Like, 'You took away admissions and it didn't even work!' So I was like, 'Please, please, let something change.' So when the numbers came out, I was really happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster is also proud of her advocacy around bringing a Black studies curriculum to the district. She and Correa Almanza co-sponsored a Black studies resolution that gives every student in the district the chance to participate in Black studies by the school year 2022-2023. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on Tuesday in solidarity with a general strike staged by Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel in response to ongoing attacks by the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local action, among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998191383/u-s-scenes-of-protest-over-the-violence-in-gaza-and-israel\">scores of similar demonstrations\u003c/a> across the United States, comes as pressure grew on President Biden to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group fighting from Gaza.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leiya Kadah, Bay Area high school student\"]‘My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it.’[/pullquote]On Wednesday, Biden purportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">unleashed another wave\u003c/a> of airstrikes across Gaza early Thursday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others, while Hamas continued firing rockets into Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, the Israeli Cabinet \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998644377/israels-cabinet-announces-unilateral-cease-fire-in-gaza-conflict\">said they have voted for a cease-fire plan\u003c/a> after 11 days of fighting. Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. And \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-demands-biden-hard-171958106.html\">Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>, an independent from Vermont, this week urged Biden to take a “hard look” at U.S. military aid to Israel, suggesting that it be conditional on the country’s human rights record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"palestine\"]Israel, however, has long been one of America’s strongest allies, prompting Biden to proceed cautiously on the issue, with his administration this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-17-2021/\">reiterating its position\u003c/a> that Israel has the right to defend itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on May 10, coalitions of Palestinian advocacy groups in dozens of cities across the U.S. have organized rallies, raised funds for displaced Palestinians and pushed for a boycott of Israeli commerce. Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. For her, organizing has become a space in which multiple generations can learn from each other, while expressing care and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to call the Jewish community in. We understand what’s been handed down, the trauma,” she said. “It takes time, it takes patience. It also takes principles. It takes a lot of organizing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Sara Hossaini, NPR’s Merrit Kennedy and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. And \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-demands-biden-hard-171958106.html\">Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>, an independent from Vermont, this week urged Biden to take a “hard look” at U.S. military aid to Israel, suggesting that it be conditional on the country’s human rights record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Israel, however, has long been one of America’s strongest allies, prompting Biden to proceed cautiously on the issue, with his administration this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-17-2021/\">reiterating its position\u003c/a> that Israel has the right to defend itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on May 10, coalitions of Palestinian advocacy groups in dozens of cities across the U.S. have organized rallies, raised funds for displaced Palestinians and pushed for a boycott of Israeli commerce. Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. For her, organizing has become a space in which multiple generations can learn from each other, while expressing care and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to call the Jewish community in. We understand what’s been handed down, the trauma,” she said. “It takes time, it takes patience. It also takes principles. It takes a lot of organizing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Sara Hossaini, NPR’s Merrit Kennedy and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sabreen Imtair rallied in San Francisco for her people’s freedom more than 7,000 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imtair said she was born in Palestine. Her mother and siblings first lived in the Kalandia refugee camp in East Jerusalem, a place rife with overcrowding, unemployment and “frequent incursions by Israeli Forces,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank/kalandia-camp\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Her grandmother has often spoken reverently of caring for the land, like the olive trees her grandfather used to nurture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, as Imtair joined several thousand others at a rally and march in the city, violence continued in Israel and Gaza, disproportionally hurting Palestinian lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am worried about them,” Imtair said of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march in the Mission District took place in solidarity \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world/middleeast/nakba-day.html\">with similar demonstrations around the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Imtair, many at the demonstration in San Francisco were from across the Bay Area and other parts of the state, but trace roots back to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Many of them called on President Biden to reduce aid to Israel because of its military assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873866 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49048_017_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands march in solidarity with Palestinians in San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beginning with speakers and poetry at 16th and Valencia streets, the swelling crowd later marched down Mission Street, shouting “free, free Palestine!” and waving Palestinian flags, blanketing the street in red, black, white and green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days, Israeli airstrikes have leveled buildings in Gaza, and Hamas rockets have rained down on Israeli cities. Violence has erupted in mixed communities where Jews and Palestinians live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After close to a week of violence, 188 people in Gaza have been killed, and eight Israelis killed, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-gaza-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-7974cc0c03897b8b21e5fc2f8c7d8a79\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a> as of Sunday morning. More than 900 have reportedly been wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally’s date, May 15, also marked the Nakba, which to Palestinians means disaster or catastrophe, and refers to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees\">according to estimates from the United Nations\u003c/a>, shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentkessinger/status/1393701688112943106\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thousands marched in the Free Palestine protest in San Francisco on Saturday, as seen in the citizen video footage above. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Eman Ghaith, a Tracy resident, said she marched to push for the liberation of her people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaith says her family lives in a small village just 10 minutes away from Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protests-aqsa-palestinians.html\">which saw Israeli police raids\u003c/a> last week that left hundreds of Palestinians wounded. She says her family is under constant police surveillance and it can take two hours for them to cross through barricades to reach the mosque to pray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873867 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49049_018_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands march in solidarity with Palestinians in San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ghaith’s father was pushed from his home in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2007/06/04/10619929/six-day-war-shaping-the-modern-middle-east\">the Six-Day War of 1967\u003c/a> and came to the United States, she said. Laws regarding who is allowed to return home — and who is not — after other such battles partly sparked the latest violence, as Palestinians living in areas settled afterward \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-15/palestinian-families-living-in-sheikh-jarrah/100133672\">say they’re victims of discriminatory housing laws that favor Israelis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaith said just who has power, and who doesn’t, makes a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like calling it conflict. It’s not a conflict. It’s a colonized apartheid that has been going on since the ’40s,” Ghaith said. “You can’t call that conflict when one person is the oppressing class and one person is an oppressor. And we all know the rest is history.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmoud Shaqqour was also at the rally. He traces his mother’s roots back to Ramallah and his father’s to Nablus, both cities in the West Bank. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some San Francisco high school seniors are urging the school district to expand its plan to allow only a fraction of them to return to in-person classes for the last three weeks of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of some 4,000 seniors set to graduate in June, the San Francisco Unified School District plans to bring back 565 into actual classrooms beginning Friday. Those students will start a hybrid schedule and \"most will participate in at least three days of in-person learning before the school year ends on June 2,\" the district said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/more-sfusd-high-school-seniors-returning-school-campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release \u003c/a>Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan will give students \"the opportunity to connect with peers in person at schools with a focus on end of school year activities related to their well-being, academic support, and preparing for college and careers,\" the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a slide presentation on the plan shown at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting said students would return for \"at least one day.\" Deputy Superintendent of Instruction Enikia Ford-Morthel said at the meeting that, \"Planning is happening\" at \"about\" three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfusd\"]Seniors at eight campuses can come back to their own schools; others will go to \"host sites\" they don't normally attend, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some students say they missed a district survey in which they could choose to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t realize it was mandatory,\" said Francheska Privalova, speaking at Tuesday night's board meeting. \"I don’t understand how I can't have an extension or there’s not something I can do. How am I unable to say goodbye just because I missed a survey deadline?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Orgel, a senior at Lowell High School, said she only found information about the chance to physically attend school on social media, but never saw the actual survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders say they won't be able to open in-person school to more seniors because they're still trying to figure out how to accommodate the ones already slated to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents at Tuesday night's board meeting opined that the district is offering only a token number of in-school days for the sole purpose of qualifying for state funds meant to incentivize reopening. The district's slideshow presentation made reference to the extra money and the criteria for receiving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/S-F-seniors-might-go-back-to-school-for-only-one-16166684.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> put it this way on Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what some are calling a blatant money grab, the deal between the district and teachers union will bring seniors back “for at least one day before the end of the school year,” so the city’s public schools could qualify for $12 million in state reopening funds. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no effort until recent weeks to bring back another secondary grade, given that the district had already set a reopening plan prior to the state announcing requirements for the grant funding, said district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with $12 million on the line, district officials and the union scrambled to find a way to get the cash.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also not impressed with the plan, which was first announced by the San Francisco teachers union, is state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1392506634904080388\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing Wiener's concern was state Assemblymember Phil Ting, another Democrat, who represents a good chunk of the city:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhilTing/status/1392170982329053185\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district has yet to reply for a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n",
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Instead, state leaders want to see the college change who it focuses on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be very candid, we heard very clearly from our federal leaders, our state leaders, that they want to see that structural change at our college,” she said. “They were not really receptive to providing funding in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract’s approval also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the community rallied for last week to see preserved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were particularly fearful to lose Cantonese-language courses, vital to train the local workforce to communicate with monolingual Chinese communities at a time of rising racist violence and COVID-19 concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872868\" label=\"CCSF Teachers Threatened With Layoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Lauren Chinn told the trustees that taking Cantonese at City College helped her get Cantonese speakers counted in the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty pay cuts were approved by teachers themselves in a vote earlier Monday afternoon by CCSF members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121. Out of 732 faculty who voted, 603 said yes to the pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layoff notices were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent to 163 faculty by college administrators in March\u003c/a> as the school faced a $33 million budget shortfall amid historic declining enrollment. Failing to meet its financial needs may lead to a state takeover of the school, the trustees have warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are forcing a fork-in-the-road moment, the union and San Francisco leaders say: Should the college focus its dwindling dollars on younger two-year transfer students who are bound to universities? Or maintain its historic broader mission of serving older and returning students, workforce training and English as second language courses aimed at newcomer immigrants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the college’s hand has been guided to the former choice by the state under a funding scheme called the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>” first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including “student success” as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vote Monday saved jobs, for now, the state funding formula is a structural issue the college still needs to solve, trustee Alan Wong told the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lauren Chinn, CCSF student\"]‘Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,” Wong said. “Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders aren’t receptive to funding the vision some locally have for CCSF, San Francisco elected officials are working behind the scenes to find new funding to pay for classes that California government won’t foot the bill for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF Supes Support Stepping in for CCSF\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Gordon Mar and Hillary Ronen view the binary of serving younger students and the broader workforce as a false choice. They’re seeking city funding to pay for classes they think buttress the city’s economy and its culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said the funding will likely come from his previous legislation, the Workforce Education and Recovery Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful my colleagues and Mayor [London] Breed will support a significant expansion of WERF as an investment in City College and economic opportunity for residents and communities impacted by the pandemic,” Mar told KQED in a statement. “I continue to discuss the best way to accomplish this with City College leadership and other City officials and hope to bring a proposal forward in the coming weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office said they are in conversations with the college’s administration to “better understand the long-term health and needs” of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen framed her support for City College as sorely needed for San Francisco’s economic recovery from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the city prepares for a long road to recovery ahead, our city government, our local businesses, and our residents alike will rely on City College’s workforce training and professional development programs more than ever before,” she said in a statement. “It is in the City’s own best interest to preserve these programs in order to fill our most urgent workforce needs and provide thousands of marginally employed San Franciscans with reliable pathways to job opportunities and financial stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There seems to be broad support at the Board of Supervisors to aid City College. Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Connie Chan and Matt Haney all told KQED they support funding CCSF to maintain classes to some degree, though all mentioned a need to suss out either particular funding sources, or to what degree they’d fund CCSF classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get down to brass tacks. What do we need City College to do that the state doesn’t? And how much do we need to pay for that?” Mandelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that unlike the state, San Francisco believes City College should be a place for older and returning students, and that maintaining a large number of campuses across San Francisco’s many diverse neighborhoods (another frequent target of state officials’ desire to slash CCSF resources) may also be a need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Mandelman said, “Somebody’s gotta pay for it,” and the city needs to “expect more from City College” in terms of managing its resources better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said it’s \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/06/breaking-state-will-not-retroactively-claw-back-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-san-francisco-other-counties/\">possible future tax windfalls\u003c/a> could help pay for City College classes San Francisco wants to maintain. A property transfer tax earmarked for City College may need to be better put to use to maintain classes as well, he said. “City College has not received most of that money,” Haney said. “It just goes into the city general fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Peskin said he feels the state needs to change its tune on its priorities for City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872330\" label=\"Students Worry for Cantonese Classes\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m willing to spend some city money, but the state needs to step up to the plate, too,” he said, specifically calling for San Francisco Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu, as well as state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to continue advocacy on behalf of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One supervisor who has a \u003cem>conditional\u003c/em> stance on City College is Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wants assurances that a new campus will be built in the southeast side of the city before he’ll commit any funds to CCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to support them getting millions of dollars from the city and county of San Francisco if they’re going to rip off the southeast sector,” Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">told The San Francisco Examiner a week ago\u003c/a>. Walton told KQED his comments stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar joined Walton in that feeling. She told KQED, of a CCSF funding effort, “I would vote for it if there is a solid plan” for accountability, and also “for promises kept to the Bayview for investments in that campus from the bond approved last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hiccup aside, the number of city leaders indicating support for CCSF may mean San Francisco will put its money where its mouth is and fund the classes its city leaders have said for years its residents need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Erika Kelly contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Classes and jobs are on the chopping block at City College of San Francisco, as nearly 200 faculty and staff members may be laid off pending an upcoming vote of the college's Board of Trustees slated for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent preliminary layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators\u003c/a> in early March. Monday's vote by the trustees could begin the process of sending finalized layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">have said the cuts are necessary to stave off a state takeover\u003c/a> should City College not meet its fiscal responsibilities. In a time of financial uncertainty, they've argued publicly, the college must focus its mission on who it can best serve. According to the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty, the cuts could also affect hundreds of additional part-time workers, which would bring total layoffs to between 500 and 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes in nearly every subject the school teaches may be affected, from auto repair to astronomy, LGBT studies, photography, aircraft maintenance, health education and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Quon, health worker and CCSF student\"]'When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped. Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. The City Attorney's Office successfully won against those accreditors in court in 2014, ensuring the college's survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, circumstances may have led the college to commit those same cuts itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has also faced declining enrollment, said Rosie Zepeda, a City College spokesperson. Its population peaked around 2009 at 100,000 students, but a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands, Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shrinking groups is the number of San Franciscans who said, in the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey, that they speak English \"less than very well,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2020/document/Multi-Year-Budget-and-Enrollment-Plan-Draft-2020-10-25-ADA.pdf\">according to a report by the college in November last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been operating with an overblown schedule which eventually led to over-expenditures in faculty salaries,\" Zepeda said. \"And so given the number of students that we have now, which has been going down so drastically, so greatly impacted by the pandemic ... We have to operate within that headcount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has tried the \"build it and they will come\" approach, Zepeda said, after San Francisco began offering Free City College. They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. And now the college may shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed layoffs could reduce the number of ethnic studies and ESL classes being offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a 'Fight for City College' sign during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faculty like Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza, who is among those who received layoff notices in March, are worried about the long-term impact on certain departments. She chairs the Philippine Studies Department, whose classes, she says, offer more than academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the conversations that we have students who are struggling with their identities, who are trying to find their space,” she said during a May 3 news conference organized by AFT 2121. “I get the privilege of hearing students tell me, you know what, I feel better about who I am and where I’m going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was borne out at Thursday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino American student at CCSF, the Philippine Studies department has given me an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with my Filipino roots... And has given me more reason and purpose to serve my community,\" said Joemar Olit, CCSF student and member of Anakbayan SF, a student organization for democracy in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino who was born in America, I did not know much about my Filipino background. Taking the classes offered by the Philippine Studies department has given me a better understanding of who I am. As a Filipino. As a Filipino American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other concerns is the future of ESL classes, which typically serve as a lifeline for many folks who are starting a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ESL program is critical for immigrants who need our support acquiring language skills,” said Fanny Law, an ESL instructor who also received a layoff notice in March, during the May 3 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rivera benefited from that program. An immigrant from El Salvador, she said taking English courses at City College’s Mission campus launched her path in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the departments that helped me a lot — ESL, Transitional Studies and Latino Services — they were key to my success,” she said during the May 3 news conference. “ESL classes are important because immigrants, we need to speak the language of the city to be able to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said City College staff guided her as she worked to earn her high school degree and complete the requirements to transfer to a four-year institution. She’s now studying math at UC Berkeley to become a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to fund these classes,” Rivera said, urging city officials and City College trustees against making the proposed cuts. “If you educate parents and the community, the future generations are gonna be educated, and that’s where the future of the city is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shrinking groups is the number of San Franciscans who said, in the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey, that they speak English \"less than very well,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2020/document/Multi-Year-Budget-and-Enrollment-Plan-Draft-2020-10-25-ADA.pdf\">according to a report by the college in November last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been operating with an overblown schedule which eventually led to over-expenditures in faculty salaries,\" Zepeda said. \"And so given the number of students that we have now, which has been going down so drastically, so greatly impacted by the pandemic ... We have to operate within that headcount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has tried the \"build it and they will come\" approach, Zepeda said, after San Francisco began offering Free City College. They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. And now the college may shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed layoffs could reduce the number of ethnic studies and ESL classes being offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a 'Fight for City College' sign during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faculty like Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza, who is among those who received layoff notices in March, are worried about the long-term impact on certain departments. She chairs the Philippine Studies Department, whose classes, she says, offer more than academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the conversations that we have students who are struggling with their identities, who are trying to find their space,” she said during a May 3 news conference organized by AFT 2121. “I get the privilege of hearing students tell me, you know what, I feel better about who I am and where I’m going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was borne out at Thursday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino American student at CCSF, the Philippine Studies department has given me an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with my Filipino roots... And has given me more reason and purpose to serve my community,\" said Joemar Olit, CCSF student and member of Anakbayan SF, a student organization for democracy in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino who was born in America, I did not know much about my Filipino background. Taking the classes offered by the Philippine Studies department has given me a better understanding of who I am. As a Filipino. As a Filipino American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other concerns is the future of ESL classes, which typically serve as a lifeline for many folks who are starting a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ESL program is critical for immigrants who need our support acquiring language skills,” said Fanny Law, an ESL instructor who also received a layoff notice in March, during the May 3 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rivera benefited from that program. An immigrant from El Salvador, she said taking English courses at City College’s Mission campus launched her path in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the departments that helped me a lot — ESL, Transitional Studies and Latino Services — they were key to my success,” she said during the May 3 news conference. “ESL classes are important because immigrants, we need to speak the language of the city to be able to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said City College staff guided her as she worked to earn her high school degree and complete the requirements to transfer to a four-year institution. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Thursday afternoon announced charges against a man suspected of stabbing two elderly Asian women on Market Street earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Thompson, a 54-year-old San Francisco resident, is being charged with two counts of premeditated attempted murder, along with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse, the San Francisco DA's office said in a statement Thursday. The charges carry a potential life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin will personally represent the prosecution at the arraignment Friday and ask that Thompson be held in jail until his trial, according to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The strength and courage of these women is inspiring,\" Boudin said in the statement. \"Their pain was tangible and will serve as a constant reminder of the importance of our work to make San Francisco safer for all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anti-asian-attacks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stabbing incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop close to 4th and Stockton Streets, near the Powell Street BART station. San Francisco police found two women, one in her 60s, the other in her 80s, suffering from stab wounds, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. One of the victims had a punctured lung and required extensive surgery, the DA said. Both were treated at a local hospital and are reportedly in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What happened is a devastating tragedy, and we will use the full force of our office’s resources to prosecute this case,\" DA spokesperson Rachel Marshall said in the statement, calling it a \"brutal attack.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is among a growing number of recent anti-Asian attacks that have rattled the region and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the stabbing, police arrested Thompson, who officers recognized \"from prior police contacts,\" the SFPD said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/san-francisco-police-make-arrest-tenderloin-stabbing-21-087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers also obtained surveillance footage of the attack and said in an email to KQED that it showed \"without provocation or warning the suspect began stabbing the victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police booked Thompson on suspicion of attempted murder and elder abuse. The DA's office said it is now working with police to investigate any evidence of a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1390457675276644352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson has been intermittently involved in the city’s criminal justice and mental health systems for several years, the DA's office said. Nearly four years ago, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery, according to court records reviewed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Suspect-in-S-F-double-stabbing-faced-assault-16154864.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. A judge at the time found him incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to receive mental health treatment at a state hospital in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson returned to San Francisco in 2018, he entered a mental health diversion program in lieu of detention. Thompson’s defense attorney last year sought his exit from the program, which a judge granted, the DA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members of one of the victims, the woman in her mid-80s, whose status was changed on Wednesday from threatening to non-life threatening, have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account to cover her medical expenses. The campaign has already raised nearly $100,000 as of Thursday evening, almost twice its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While she was waiting at the bus stop, she was stabbed with a long knife in her right arm and entered into her chest,\" Drew Eng, the victim's grandson, wrote on the GoFundMe page. \"San Francisco is my home and my grandma's home. We need to feel safe where we live and not in constant fear. Please keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, following a mass shooting in Georgia that killed six Asian women and two others, Mayor London Breed directed the SFPD to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865171/enough-is-enough-asian-american-community-leaders-and-bay-area-officials-react-to-atlanta-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramp up foot patrols\u003c/a> in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Asian American residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the district where the attack took place, said he supports investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen these types of deliberate, intentional, targeted attacks on Asian people so often that I don't think it's just a coincidence. I think that they're being targeted,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added that such violence has ripple effects across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has huge impacts on our city when people are afraid to go outside, they're afraid to go onto public transit — our city can't operate and our city is failing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of anti-Asian hate crimes, some loosely linked to the coronavirus pandemic, have spiked in recent months in a number of cities across the country, including San Francisco, where 12 attacks were reported in the first quarter of 2021. That's up from five during the same period the year before, marking a 140% increase, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/sites/default/files/Report%20to%20the%20Nation%20-%20Anti-Asian%20Hate%202020%20Final%20Draft%20-%20As%20of%20Apr%2030%202021%206%20PM%20corrected.pdf\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new report released this week, \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>, a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism, said there's been a 64% increase in reports of physical assault against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation over the past year. 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