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Hines-Foster is also a student delegate for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all keep coddling this raggedy-ass school. Ya’ll need to stop now,” Hines-Foster said at the meeting. “It’s really the fact that students feel more comfortable coming to me to deal with this situation than administrators. That shows you a lot … This has gone on for too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Student Union at Lowell has been demanding changes at the school for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yulanda Williams, SFPD officer and Lowell '73 alumna\"]‘When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulanda Williams graduated from Lowell in 1973. She’s now a San Francisco police officer and the president of Officers for Justice, an association of Black SFPD officers. She still remembers how it felt arriving on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could feel the tension just starting to rise and the pressure starting to rise,” Williams said. She still remembers the offensive song her classmates used to sing to her: “They used to sing something that went like this: ‘Dark Girl in the Night.’ Why would you do that to me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there were about 300 Black students at Lowell at the time, and they organized. Williams became a member of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare with everyone there,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yulanda William is now a San Francisco police officer. This is her yearbook photo from her time at Lowell High School. \u003ccite>(Yulanda Williams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Williams said the real reason students fought for a Black Student Union was because she and her classmates wanted the support of Black mentors. The union also made several demands to administrators. They asked for more Black teachers, tutoring services and a day where they could celebrate and express Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about current Lowell students raising similar issues after last month’s racist posts incident – over 40 years after her own experiences at Lowell – Williams said she became emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found myself crying in tears,” she said. “I could hardly get my words out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsia Blacksher was co-president of Lowell’s Black Student Union in 2016. She led a walkout after a student put up a derogatory poster on the window of the school library during Black History Month. The poster showed photos of rappers and a meme of President Barack Obama and read, “Happy Black History Month #Gang.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blacksher said the walkout wasn’t just about the poster. 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Williams became a member of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare with everyone there,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yulanda William is now a San Francisco police officer. This is her yearbook photo from her time at Lowell High School. \u003ccite>(Yulanda Williams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Williams said the real reason students fought for a Black Student Union was because she and her classmates wanted the support of Black mentors. The union also made several demands to administrators. They asked for more Black teachers, tutoring services and a day where they could celebrate and express Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about current Lowell students raising similar issues after last month’s racist posts incident – over 40 years after her own experiences at Lowell – Williams said she became emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found myself crying in tears,” she said. “I could hardly get my words out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsia Blacksher was co-president of Lowell’s Black Student Union in 2016. She led a walkout after a student put up a derogatory poster on the window of the school library during Black History Month. The poster showed photos of rappers and a meme of President Barack Obama and read, “Happy Black History Month #Gang.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blacksher said the walkout wasn’t just about the poster. Her time at Lowell was probably the worst four years of her life, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tsia-Blacksher-City-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tsia-Blacksher-City-Hall.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tsia-Blacksher-City-Hall-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsia Blacksher speaks during a rally at San Francisco City Hall following a walkout at Lowell High School in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tsia Blacksher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In middle school, Blacksher had excelled academically, and being accepted into such an elite high school made her feel like she’d proved the adults who doubted her wrong. But once at Lowell, she said she felt isolated. She remembers having to read from a script and play the role of a slave girl during one of her history classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to force the school to change as a student there was exhausting, she said. Now a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, Blacksher was back home in San Francisco when she learned about the racist posts incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of broke me down,” she said, adding that it felt like little had changed since she led the walkout five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did I go through this stuff in high school? Why wasn’t I sleeping? Why wasn’t I eating? 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Black Student Union members like Snit Tecle, a sophomore at Lowell, will be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she doesn’t plan to end her advocacy there either. When she graduates, she plans to return to Lowell one day as a guidance counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Breed launched a campaign in 2018, called \u003ca href=\"https://risingupsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rising Up\u003c/a>, to raise $35 million that will provide rental assistance and other support to youth after they leave the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11858492 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed at Wednesday’s unveiling ceremony for the Lower Polk TAY Navigation Center, the first in the city to serve homeless young adults. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is hope for a better future for young folks here in SF,” Breed said. “If you want an opportunity, you should be able to have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homeless-youth\"]According to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey of homeless residents\u003c/a>, there were 1,091 18-to-24-year-olds experiencing homelessness in San Francisco on any given night in 2019. That’s nearly 14% of the city’s total homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those young people who were homeless, about 83% spent their nights outdoors, in tents, cars or RVs, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 15% of San Francisco’s general population is Latinx, 27% of its homeless youth identify as such, according to the survey. Similarly, it found that 24% of all homeless youth are Black, even though Black residents make up less than 6% of the city’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also found that nearly half of all homeless youth identified as LGBTQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new navigation center “prioritizes improving outcomes for the city’s most vulnerable youth,” Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of San Francisco’s Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11858521 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/KQED_SF_NavCenter_02032021-2-1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new navigation center will open its doors to as many as 43 young adults starting next week.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic will manage the new navigation center, providing health services and help with accessing public benefits, mentoring, paid career training and housing assistance. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Want to share your own story?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It was hectic at the Singh-Sidibe house as they watched the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday: Diapers had to be changed, granola vacuumed up from the floor, and the kids added some impromptu harmonica solos as the trumpets blared from the television. But seeing Kamala Harris get sworn in was something this family wasn’t going to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She was awesome because it felt great to have another Black and Asian person. 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Sidibe hopes Sumaya and her 2-year-old sister, Jaleela, will take heart from seeing someone in high office who looks like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep telling them, ‘You know, she’s just like you. She’s Black and Indian,’ ” he said. “That gives the little ones more hope that they can do something like that. I mean, when you look at the history of the United States. There’s never been a woman as a vice president and especially, a woman of color. That’s a big, big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">What’s something that only mixed kids truly understand about growing up mixed? We want to hear from you\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Are those happy tears or sad tears?” Sumaya asked her mom as they watched the ceremony together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856692\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration-800x969.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration-1020x1235.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration-160x194.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration-1268x1536.jpg 1268w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Daughters-watch-inauguration-1691x2048.jpg 1691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumaya and Jaleela watch the inauguration at their home in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Singh-Sidibe Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Happy tears,” Singh sniffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crying a little bit, too,” said Sumaya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ time in law enforcement has left some California progressives like Sidibe and Singh feeling conflicted, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find her role in [law enforcement] problematic,” said Singh. “She was responsible for a lot of people going to jail. At the same time, I know representation is important. And I didn’t even have any teachers who looked like me when I was growing up, much less a vice president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh hopes that Harris’ visibility as both a South Asian and a Black woman will bring about change, especially within communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“South Asians really want to claim her now,” said Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that it will bring up a lot more conversations in South Asian communities around anti-Black racism. I really hope that South Asians are forced to reflect on that more and to do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said she knew her kids’ lives would be different, growing up in California, than hers was in Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But before they were born, I don’t know how much I was thinking about structural racism in law enforcement, schools and health care, and how it would affect their lives, no matter where they went in this country,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11856615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190824162713427_COVER-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe and their two daughters. 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"disqusTitle": "'Support Is the Force': At Family-Led Mission Meals Coalition, Serving the Community Runs Deep",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854353/el-apoyo-es-la-fuerza-la-ayuda-mutua-impulsa-a-la-coalicion-de-alimentos-de-la-mision\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]F[/dropcap]\u003c/span>or Gabriela Alemán, much of her life's work can be traced back to her mom's shop on the corner of 20th and Mission streets in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been around 90% of my life,” Alemán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Gabriela Ramírez, has owned this small chair and table rental business since 2005. “We started this so small. There we were walking around, placing flyers in laundromats,” Ramírez remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls walking through the Mission District in those early days, bringing along her three small daughters, to let residents know about her business. And as Ramírez’s business grew, more and more friends and neighbors in the community began to seek her out when someone close was in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Alemán — now 26 — and Ramírez are now united in their work for Mission Meals Coalition, a mutual aid group that \u003ca href=\"https://missionmealscoalition.org/faq\">partners with community volunteers and small businesses\u003c/a> to provide warm meals and fresh ingredients to families, seniors and other food justice organizations across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ramírez’s shop is now home to one of MMC's offerings to residents fighting to get through the pandemic: a community fridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/hcINqeLO6B4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing Out La Refri\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables, milk, eggs and flour, this single fridge — about the size of one you might find in somebody's home — has fed hundreds of residents since it \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/08/a-free-fridge-opens-in-the-mission/\">first showed up\u003c/a> in the streets of the Mission last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://missionmealscoalition.org/\">\u003cstrong>Information about how to access Mission Meals Coalition's services, or support their work yourself\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Initially placed outside of \u003ca href=\"http://www.adobebooks.com/\">Adobe Books\u003c/a> on 24th Street, the fridge was later transferred to Ramírez’s business — after weeks of bad air quality during the fall and the start of the rainy season convinced Alemán to move the fridge indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can pass by and take what they need during the day, seven days a week. There's no limit on how much food someone can take, and anyone can come in, regardless of where they live or immigration status, to the fridge's home at 2390 Mission St.[aside postID=\"news_11847203\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alemán and her MMC co-founders — her sister Xiomara and friend María Castro Noboa — maintain the fridge. But the fridge, known as la refri to the community, is just one service offered by MMC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Meals Coalition began as a grocery and hot meal delivery service back in March 2020 as a response to the start of the pandemic. Each week, between 400 to 700 people still receive groceries from MMC — which recipients can either pick up in boxes from Ramírez’s shop or have them delivered to their home. On the weekends, the coalition delivers between 100 to 200 hot meals, all prepared by small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11854075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00449-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Ramírez, mother of Gabriela Alemán, forms part of MMC and has served as the link between MMC and the immigrant community in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it came to adding the fridge to MMC's services, Alemán knew it wasn't as simple as making it just \u003cem>appear\u003c/em> one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would you do if you saw a random fridge in the community? What would your community members and friends say about that?” said Alemán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer these questions, Alemán sought out her mom’s advice, who suggested they return to the places where she formed her own network: laundromats and WhatsApp groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really because we have our elders, our anchors, who drive community engagement and who drive the cultural humility that we are able to do this work in a way that people don’t feel like they’re asking for food or that they’re begging for anything,” Alemán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not charity,” she added. “We treat them just like we would treat any other neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11854068 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/20201220-DSC00377-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the 27 years she's lived in San Francisco, Gabriela Ramírez has kept a close relationship with her family and friends back in El Salvador, her country of origin. Whenever she can, she sends boxes with food or clothing back to them, something that motivated her daughters to set up MMC. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'A Small Seed'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Alemán saw how Ramírez would use her shop as a space to gather support for her family and friends from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started to make a little bit of money and from this, I would set aside a small amount to buy many things to send to El Salvador, to my family’s community,\" Ramírez explains. \"And they would share what I sent with other people, based on what they needed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramírez sent her deliveries through one of the several businesses up and down Mission Street that offer a way to send boxes full of clothes, toys or dry food to a migrant’s community back in their country of origin. Bits and pieces of a new life in the U.S., moving across oceans and national borders.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Gabriela Alemán, co-founder of Mission Meals Coalition\"]'It’s not charity. We treat them just like we would treat any other neighbor.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These boxes wouldn’t just go to her family in El Salvador, Ramírez notes. Friends, neighbors and even people she hadn’t met would get a bit of what she sent. She was happy that she could help her loved ones even when she had very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11854178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1309\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2-800x545.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2-1020x695.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2-160x109.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/mission-meals2-1536x1047.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Ramírez gives a bag of Mission Meals Coalition food supplies to a community member. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This gave light to more ideas, the same way that one plants a small seed, many more come after,” Ramírez said, referencing the MMC community fridge standing next to her in her shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Cultural Competency Isn’t Just Something We Say'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the Mission Meals Coalition buys some of the groceries it gives away, most of what comes in are donations. Alemán and other MMC members inspect every item that comes in, making sure that it’s not just safe to eat but also something that will be recognized and welcomed by the recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Latinx diaspora is so nuanced. We have South American, Central American and North American community members together,” Alemán points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serving a community as expansive as the Mission requires awareness and knowledge of the multiple palates and culinary ingredients present across Latin America.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Gabriela Alemán\"]'Cultural competency isn’t just something we say but something that we do.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the bean for example. Alemán explained that growing up in a Central American household, she grew accustomed to a specific set of beans in her cuisine. While similar, these beans, and the way they are cooked, are distinct from those used in Mexican and South American kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Respecting each culinary tradition forms part of what Alemán refers to as the 'cultural competency' of MMC's work. “We do a really strong, centralized effort to ensure that cultural competency isn’t just something we say but something that we do consistently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11854061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136489745_116326796944130_1507411534381827309_n-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since its inception in March of 2020, the Mission Meals Coalition has fed hundreds of families throughout the Bay Area, relying on a model of mutual aid to support their work. One of the founders of MMC, Xiomara Alemán prepares for a food distribution at her mother's shop in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'If You Want It, You Can Do It'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the impact of Mission Meals Coalition grows, Alemán finds herself faced with decisions over how to use one of the coalition’s most precious resources: time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to serve more groceries, she’s had to cut back on the hours to receive donations. “We used to be seven days a week. We’ve now minimized it to two, or sometimes to one day, so we have enough time to source enough food because the line [for groceries] will sometimes be ... from 50 to 200 people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also become more selective with her own time, making sure to carefully ration her energy. Like so many others, she had no idea that the pandemic would last this long.[aside postID=\"news_11847820\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In doing work that is so collective, finding times to be an individual is so important,” Alemán explained. “Finding times to read and literally to just nap, to have structure for myself has been the most helpful to take care of myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Alemán describes the challenges that come with doing food work, her mom listens next to her. Ramírez knows well the feeling of not knowing whether she’ll have something to give her family when dinner time rolls around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before starting her business, Ramírez struggled to make enough money, even when she worked several jobs at the same time, to cover rent and have enough left over to bring food home. Yet, “I always, always have had a certain strength,\" she said. \"And I tell them, my daughters, that sometimes you may think something is hard. If you want it, you can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramírez also knows that without the support of her friends, family and community organizations that provided mentoring, Ramírez’s business would not have taken off, she said. “Support is the force needed to do anything, to help oneself,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To any woman, I give her strength and I tell her, 'You can do it. If you want to, you can go as far as you want to.' Because God has given both men and women the same two hands. One can do it,” Ramírez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854078\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11854078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/136676434_132569911931782_5086078437904190575_n-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'We do a really strong, centralized effort to ensure that cultural competency isn’t just something we say but something that we do consistently,' Gabriela Alemán says. During its food distributions, MMC allows recipients to choose what they would like to receive from a menu of options. Xiomara Alemán, shown, explains to a recipient what is available at the moment. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Mutual Aid Is How We’ve Been Able to Survive'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the probability for a Latino resident to contract COVID-19 is five times higher than non-Latino residents, according to data compiled by \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/12/covid-19-san-franciscos-latinos-are-infected-at-higher-rates-than-latinos-in-even-harder-hit-cities/\">Mission Local\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number is even more stark when you compare Latinos with white people who are not Latinos. There have been 8,665 recorded COVID-19 cases in San Francisco per 100,000 Latino residents. While there have been 1,463 recorded COVID-19 cases per 100,000 white, non-Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep hearing how this has been the worst year of so many people’s lives. And for our communities it’s more like every year sucks,” Alemán asserts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In so many ways when you’re dealing with poverty and you’re dealing with food insecurity, housing instability, no access to health care. It’s not new in any other way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like the challenges to her community are not new, neither are the solutions. After all, as Alemán said, \"Mutual aid isn’t new.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term has become more mainstream during the pandemic, but Alemán reminds us that mutual aid is just a new term for a tradition of solidarity within immigrant populations that has existed for decades. “Mutual aid exists outside of the English language,” she adds, and references the circles of support her mother and other immigrants organize to help those that have just arrived in the U.S.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Gabriela Alemán\"]'In our community’s experiences in this country, mutual aid is how we’ve been able to survive throughout our time here and experiences here.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our community’s experiences in this country, mutual aid is how we’ve been able to survive throughout our time here and experiences here,\" Alemán said. \"It’s been an integral part of that, although it is new in using this language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the phrase may not fully acknowledge the historical roots of this type of social work, it can, however, lend itself to Alemán and other organizers as a recognizable term when asking local and state authorities to finance this type of organizing. Which isn't to say that obtaining this kind of support is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11849488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pop-up COVID-19 testing site near the BART station on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. The site is part of the Unidos En Salud initiative, a collaboration between UCSF and the city's Latino Task Force, in response to the city's rapidly rising case rates. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Getting our local officials to listen to us, as mutual aid groups, has been incredibly difficult,” Alemán said. “Mainly because on paper, it’s great to say that you have mutual aid groups in your community, district or neighborhood. But when it comes to putting funding and support into that, it’s really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, Mayor London Breed announced $28.5 million to improve testing access and alleviate the economic impacts of the pandemic for the city’s Latino population. And $3.6 million was originally \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-over-28-million-expanded-covid-19-support-san-franciscos-latino\">designated to go to food banks and hubs operating in predominantly Latino neighborhoods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the city reports that it allocated a separate fund of approximately $2 million between the \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionfoodhub.org/\">Mission Food Hub\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.homey-sf.org/\">HOMEY\u003c/a>, two other Mission-based organizations that carry out weekly food distributions. (HOMEY received $98,800, and $1.9 million went to the Mission Food Hub.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Meals Coalition has not received any part of this $2 million. And Alemán worries that city authorities are overlooking smaller collectives that don’t attract a lot of media attention, but still do a lot of the heavy lifting in providing food to residents.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Gabriela Ramírez\"]'Support is the force needed to do anything, to help oneself.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing that the city, in particular, and other larger agencies are just funneling a lot of resources into ... the same spaces,” Alemán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that while MMC has built a network of community support throughout the pandemic, those who are making and routing donations face their own financial difficulties, which trickles down to the organizations they receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But throughout it all, the need for food doesn’t stop. And both Alemán and Ramírez predict it will continue far into the future, even after the COVID-19 vaccine has been made widely available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We plan to continue this work. We are currently slowly outgrowing this space so we hope to have a permanent home one day here in the Mission,” Alemán said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the objectives she and her mom share is to firmly establish the relationship between MMC and the community it serves so that it outlasts the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be strong, regardless of other things. Each of the girls has to keep looking for support or ways we can make this happen. But we have to keep helping the people,” Ramírez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Want to find out how you or a loved one can access the services of the Mission Meals Coalition, or want to support their work yourself? Find information on \u003ca href=\"https://missionmealscoalition.org/\">their website\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The crowd standing around the Cliff House started booing just as the “C” was removed, as if joy itself was yanked straight off that rooftop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/1344737479363067904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because — to many in the Bay Area — the restaurant is an institution, a beacon of our local history for more than 150 years. For those of an older generation, the Cliff House recalls a bygone time when the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/playland.php\">Playland at the Beach\u003c/a> saw rollercoaster cars roar above Ocean Beach, and where Laffing Sal delighted (and terrified) kids aplenty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to see that sign, in that signature art deco style, finally removed — on New Year’s Eve, of all days — is quite the capper to 2020. 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Since then, the restaurant had been operating under a series of short-term contracts, with the most recent one set to expire today, Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future, the building may no longer house any restaurant at all, the Hountalas family alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Julian Espinoza, National Park Service spokesperson']‘The rumor that the National Park Service is considering turning the Cliff House building into office space is completely false.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hountalas family \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhouse.com/\">wrote in a statement\u003c/a> that they were told the building may be used as an office in the future. 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"content": "\u003cp>For more than a week, hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/943082236/indias-farmers-man-barricades-in-delhi-protesting-new-agriculture-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of farmers\u003c/a> have been protesting outside India’s capital of New Delhi. Support for the farmers extended worldwide, including the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Dec. 5, a solidarity protest rolled through the Bay Area — first to Oakland, and then across the Bay Bridge to rally in front of the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, and then back to Oakland. Organized in part by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jakara.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakara Movement\u003c/a>, people riding in the car caravan waved flags, honked horns and held signs in solidarity with farmers in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a tractor as well — one featured in social media posts and photos from the protest, drawing curious looks from many. Bay Area dwellers are used to seeing protests, but the tractor was an unusual sight for most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mallika Kaur, author\"]‘The spark might be the new laws, but the pain and outrage is decades old and due to devastating policies that have taken too many lives the [Indian] state considers expendable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Californians may be unclear on what this is all about, but as Mallika Kaur explains, the roots of solidarity run deep. Kaur is a lawyer and author of “\u003ca href=\"https://punjabconflict.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper\u003c/a>,” and teaches at UC Berkeley School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kaur said, Sikh Americans — often quickly identified by men who wear turbans, “have been an active part of California’s economy and culture for more than 125 years, and many of the 500,000 Sikhs who reside in the United States can trace their immediate families back to one state in India: Punjab … many to conflict-era roots, which led to asylees and migrants in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Hardeep and Sukhpreet Gill holds a sign that from their car during a caravan rally in front of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020, in solidarity with Indian farmers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Sikh Californians were on the Bay Bridge Saturday, delaying your commute for sure, said Kaur, but they were doing so “in solidarity with millions sleeping on cold concrete outside New Delhi, worried that their farms, their lives will soon become even more desperate than before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Kaur to explain more about what this movement means for farmers in India, and Sikh Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah: For a Bay Area audience who may not have an understanding of what’s going on in India, what is happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mallika Kaur:\u003c/strong> The protest outside India’s capital, New Delhi, is a protest against new farmer laws passed by the central, think federal, government in India. These laws privatize agriculture in unprecedented ways. They are seen as an existential threat to marginal and small farmers — the majority of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers are now living on the roads, camping behind barbed wires and trenches set up by the government, to block the farmers from entering Delhi. At first, they were met with brute force; tear-gassed, water-cannoned in frigid November; beaten — but these images and videos went viral soon, and the state has stalled use of force. For now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The farmer caravan started in the Indian state of Punjab, and swelled while traveling through the neighboring state of Haryana, and is now at the Haryana-Delhi border. It’s been growing over the course of the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young woman protestor and student, Harpreet Kaur, told me on the phone yesterday that the camp at one of the five entry points to Delhi is now 20 kilometers long (over 12 miles), across a four-lane highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the new laws, the farmers faced dire ecological and economic circumstances due to long-standing Indian government policies. But farming is their only source of livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balraj Singh speaks during a rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this important to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a dangerous and deeply sad truth: The farmers are protesting to return to a status quo in which thousands of them kill themselves out of desperation already. One expert I have worked with estimates 5,000 farmer suicides in Punjab a year. That was without the pandemic pressures or the new laws. I’ve followed the lives of widows of such farmers for a while now, over a decade. Back home in Punjab, in many of these villages, women tell the story of the life, the depression levels, the high rates of addiction, the domestic violence, that come with the farming plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four men from Fresno stand outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The men may keep a stoic front, the stereotype required of them, but I’ve witnessed countless of them cry on being asked about their situation and hopes for the future. Those desperate tears fuel these protests in fact. As much as the collective sense of solidarity and strength does right now. The nuances of the new laws aside, for economists to debate, the protests find synergy with non-farming Indian citizens, too, because of the way these laws have been passed — in the midst of the pandemic; the way in which the stakeholders most affected, farmers, were never consulted; and in the way their protests, since September, but in their home state of Punjab, away from New Delhi, have been entirely ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Modi government has easily shrugged, saying farmers are resisting needed changes for the often touted “development” in Modi’s story of India. But what the government is not saying is that the changes are only pro-business, and are too drastic and too high-handed to be pro-farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve written a book, so you are very knowledgeable on these topics, but why in the Bay Area and why now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 10,000 Sikh Americans traveling from as far as Yuba City to Los Angeles converged on the Bay Area for an in-vehicle, socially distanced caravan protest to bring national attention to the ongoing human rights crisis playing out in Delhi. Organized largely by youth — \u003ca href=\"https://www.jakara.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakara\u003c/a> and Sikh student organizations in California — the caravan attracted people of all walks, including people who resonate deeply with (Black Lives Matter) caravans they were part of just months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46195_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh speaks during a rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These protests are reflecting long pent-up traumas and desperation. My book released last year, on the human rights defenders through the bloody Punjab conflict of the ’80s and ’90s, that unfolded worst for Sikhs in rural Punjab, is subtitled “The Wheat Fields Still Whisper.” Many of those whispers, the inter-generational traumas, are being loudly heard now, even by the youngest protesters camping outside New Delhi today. The spark might be the new laws, but the pain and outrage is decades old and due to devastating policies that have taken too many lives the state considers expendable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new laws have poked at a deep trust deficit. They allow big corporations to be unfettered buyers against whom small farmers believe, for very good reason, that they’ll have very little negotiating power. But on top of that, the laws introduce a dispute resolution system that bypasses civil courts. So this new legalized impunity is perceived as a very cruel joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46234_060_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How you suggest people get involved or educate themselves further?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very telling, (is how) photos and videos of the protests at the doorsteps of New Delhi show how peaceful it is, yet how the protesters are in a precarious position. Share their stories, their voices on social media and with your local government representatives. And keep pressure to ensure there is actual discourse and not retribution against protesters, whether now or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Karan_Singhs/status/1303288309628768257\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen too often how protests can turn sideways, with disastrous consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can put to good use what you’ve learned this year about the importance of preserving the right to protest and conscientious citizen-activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46225_046_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasroop Gill holds a flag that says ‘Farmers Protest’ during a car caravan rally in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020, in support of farmers in India. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Californians may be unclear on what this is all about, but as Mallika Kaur explains, the roots of solidarity run deep. Kaur is a lawyer and author of “\u003ca href=\"https://punjabconflict.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper\u003c/a>,” and teaches at UC Berkeley School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kaur said, Sikh Americans — often quickly identified by men who wear turbans, “have been an active part of California’s economy and culture for more than 125 years, and many of the 500,000 Sikhs who reside in the United States can trace their immediate families back to one state in India: Punjab … many to conflict-era roots, which led to asylees and migrants in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46228_050_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Hardeep and Sukhpreet Gill holds a sign that from their car during a caravan rally in front of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020, in solidarity with Indian farmers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Sikh Californians were on the Bay Bridge Saturday, delaying your commute for sure, said Kaur, but they were doing so “in solidarity with millions sleeping on cold concrete outside New Delhi, worried that their farms, their lives will soon become even more desperate than before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Kaur to explain more about what this movement means for farmers in India, and Sikh Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46194_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah: For a Bay Area audience who may not have an understanding of what’s going on in India, what is happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mallika Kaur:\u003c/strong> The protest outside India’s capital, New Delhi, is a protest against new farmer laws passed by the central, think federal, government in India. These laws privatize agriculture in unprecedented ways. They are seen as an existential threat to marginal and small farmers — the majority of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers are now living on the roads, camping behind barbed wires and trenches set up by the government, to block the farmers from entering Delhi. At first, they were met with brute force; tear-gassed, water-cannoned in frigid November; beaten — but these images and videos went viral soon, and the state has stalled use of force. For now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46189_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The farmer caravan started in the Indian state of Punjab, and swelled while traveling through the neighboring state of Haryana, and is now at the Haryana-Delhi border. It’s been growing over the course of the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young woman protestor and student, Harpreet Kaur, told me on the phone yesterday that the camp at one of the five entry points to Delhi is now 20 kilometers long (over 12 miles), across a four-lane highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the new laws, the farmers faced dire ecological and economic circumstances due to long-standing Indian government policies. But farming is their only source of livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46202_020_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balraj Singh speaks during a rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this important to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a dangerous and deeply sad truth: The farmers are protesting to return to a status quo in which thousands of them kill themselves out of desperation already. One expert I have worked with estimates 5,000 farmer suicides in Punjab a year. That was without the pandemic pressures or the new laws. I’ve followed the lives of widows of such farmers for a while now, over a decade. Back home in Punjab, in many of these villages, women tell the story of the life, the depression levels, the high rates of addiction, the domestic violence, that come with the farming plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46208_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four men from Fresno stand outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The men may keep a stoic front, the stereotype required of them, but I’ve witnessed countless of them cry on being asked about their situation and hopes for the future. Those desperate tears fuel these protests in fact. As much as the collective sense of solidarity and strength does right now. The nuances of the new laws aside, for economists to debate, the protests find synergy with non-farming Indian citizens, too, because of the way these laws have been passed — in the midst of the pandemic; the way in which the stakeholders most affected, farmers, were never consulted; and in the way their protests, since September, but in their home state of Punjab, away from New Delhi, have been entirely ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Modi government has easily shrugged, saying farmers are resisting needed changes for the often touted “development” in Modi’s story of India. But what the government is not saying is that the changes are only pro-business, and are too drastic and too high-handed to be pro-farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46213_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_IndiaFarmerProtest_12052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally in support of farmer protests in India outside of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve written a book, so you are very knowledgeable on these topics, but why in the Bay Area and why now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 10,000 Sikh Americans traveling from as far as Yuba City to Los Angeles converged on the Bay Area for an in-vehicle, socially distanced caravan protest to bring national attention to the ongoing human rights crisis playing out in Delhi. 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My book released last year, on the human rights defenders through the bloody Punjab conflict of the ’80s and ’90s, that unfolded worst for Sikhs in rural Punjab, is subtitled “The Wheat Fields Still Whisper.” Many of those whispers, the inter-generational traumas, are being loudly heard now, even by the youngest protesters camping outside New Delhi today. The spark might be the new laws, but the pain and outrage is decades old and due to devastating policies that have taken too many lives the state considers expendable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new laws have poked at a deep trust deficit. They allow big corporations to be unfettered buyers against whom small farmers believe, for very good reason, that they’ll have very little negotiating power. But on top of that, the laws introduce a dispute resolution system that bypasses civil courts. 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It is painful for me to end a 35-year career as a result of false allegations, but it is simply not possible for me to do my job to the best of my ability while also defending myself. I know that stepping aside now is in the best interests of the City, the SFPUC, and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news follows the indictment of former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/lefty-odouls-charity-used-city-contractor-donations-to-pay-for-public-works-party/\">who was also charged in relation to a bribery scheme\u003c/a>. Another department head, Department of Building Inspection Director Tom Hui, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826653/bad-policies-and-practices-report-highlights-weak-sf-laws-that-enable-public-corruption\">resigned this year\u003c/a> after his own violation of city ethics laws were revealed in connection to a city attorney’s office investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s three San Francisco department heads, with three alleged schemes, all revealed just this year. The thread that binds them all is Walter Wong, a permit expediting consultant and construction company executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1333516775627976704\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the U.S. attorney’s office and FBI characterized Kelly’s relationship with Wong as a “long-running bribery scheme and corrupt partnership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that Kelly took international trips paid for, or subsidized by, Wong, made cash exchanges with Wong and accepted free meals from him, all detailed in coded text messages on an encrypted text messaging app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harlan Kelly, former manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission\"]“It is painful for me to end a 35-year career as a result of false allegations.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the trips in question was a March 2016 Hong Kong trip to visit the late Rose Pak, a San Francisco community activist. The complaint says investigators reviewed bank records and found Kelly and his wife, City Administrator Naomi Kelly, “incurred almost no significant expenses” on their known debit or credit cards on that trip, which “corroborates WONG’s statements” to the FBI that he paid of thousands of dollars in incidental expenses for the Kellys during their trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those exchanges took place while Wong sought a multimillion-dollar contract from the SFPUC, which Kelly oversaw as general manager, for a citywide LED lighting contract. Wong’s son ran Green Source Trading, LLC, which was bidding to convert thousands of San Francisco streetlights to smart LED technology.[aside postID=\"news_11821145\" label=\"A pushback on SF corruption\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly “used his official position to assist WONG’s efforts,” the complaint alleges, including postponing the deadline on the LED contract to benefit Wong, while he readied his bid contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point Kelly texted to Wong, “You told me [t]hat you had everything? I don’t know what to do? 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